Being the Same and Being Different

Albie Sachs

1990

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Oh shit. Everything has abruptly gone dark, I am feeling strange and cannot see anything. The beach, I am going to the beach, I packed a frosty beer for after my run, something is wrong. Oh shit, I must have banged my head, like I used to do when climbing Table Mountain in Cape Town, dreaming of the struggle, and cracking my cranium against an…

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Albie Sachs

b. 1935

South African–born Albie Sachs served as a justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, appointed by President Nelson Mandela in 1994. Sachs previously worked as an attorney for anti-apartheid causes, and had been in exile in England and Mozambique.

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