Introduction: Constructing the wild in southern Africa -- "The world's greatest animal kingdom" : making the Great Limpopo -- "No one could think of anything better" : social ecology in [and near] the Kruger National Park -- "How can you have an election when you don't know what you're electing?": putting a participatory face on the Limpopo National Park -- First questions, then beatings : enforcing the rules of conservation -- "This place no longer belongs to us, it belongs to Great Limpopo" : past and future resettlement -- Speaking Shangaan across borders : the language of land and leaving it -- The coming after.