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In the videos studied by Amnesty, the soldiers speak Portuguese and Shangaan, a language from southern Mozambique.

The Shangaan tribal people, who live near the trust, revere the white lions and believe they came from the stars, Barrett said.

Shimuwini is Shangaan for “home of the baobab” and refers to the huge 3,000-year-old trees that line the Letaba river.

“There was a Shangaan, a Zulu and a Coloured family living in the back and we lived happily together,” recalled Jane Dakile, a teacher in Sophiatown.

“I grew up in a house where my mother was Xhosa, my dad was Swiss, my stepdad was Shangaan, my friends were Zulu. I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion of ‘people’.