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Struggle hero Albie Sachs on how a surprise meeting with Amal and George Clooney led to them launching an award in his honour

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Albie Sachs and his wife, Vanessa September, with Amal and George Clooney in New York in 2018. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Albie Sachs and his wife, Vanessa September, with Amal and George Clooney in New York in 2018. (PHOTO: Supplied)

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.

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