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Squinting into his binoculars, William Fowlds scans a vast, grassy plane where a busy dairy once stood. The cattle and sheep have given way to herds of grazing antelope. Out of a knot of thorny bushes, a family of elephants emerges. For more than two centuries, farmers like Fowlds have forged a living from the rugged and arid land of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.