Obituary
John Fredericks: 'Noem my Skollie' storyteller and ex-gangster
Life of crime and hardship turned into a hit movie and a bestselling memoir
14 July 2019 - 00:00
John Fredericks, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 73, became famous when a film he scripted about his life as a gangster, Noem My Skollie, became a box-office hit in 2016 and was SA’s entry for the foreign-language Oscar awards in 2017...
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