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‘THEY’D TRIED TO KILL ME AND I’D ONLY LOST AN ARM. I’D SURVIVED’
IT’S a beautiful day in Cape Town but Albie Sachs hardly seems to notice the crash of the waves or the cry of the gulls as he sits in the lounge of his beach bungalow.
In his mind he’s thousands of kilometres away, in New York.
He’s telling us about the surprising night in 2018 when he was having coffee with US Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor at her apartment and, next thing, in walked Amal and George Clooney.
When Sonia had extended the invitation to the anti-apartheid hero and his wife, Vanessa September, she said they’d
