In 2016, South African movie audiences have been mesmerised via the movie Noem My Skollie, which used to be written through – and in response to the lifetime of – John W. Fredericks. during this ebook Fredericks tells the entire tale on which the movie was once established. growing to be up in a dusty township at the Cape apartments, Fredericks shaped a gang together with his acquaintances, and on the age of seventeen he was once arrested for theft and sentenced to 2 years in Pollsmoor criminal. a host gangs vied to begin him into their ranks, yet he resisted their advances, providing as an alternative to aid them push their time by means of telling tales. And so he turned the legal ‘cinema’, drawing on his storytelling skills and cementing his ambition to develop into a author. existence after felony turned a nightmare whilst he was once arrested for a homicide he hadn’t dedicated, his early life associates have been sentenced to die at the gallows, and a gang boss attempted to kill him. Slowly he grew to become his existence round, getting a role and development a kinfolk, yet society stored judging him as a gangster. suffering to accommodate his previous, he became to storytelling back, and painstakingly learnt the paintings of scriptwriting. the outcome used to be Noem My Skollie, which used to be watched by way of nearly ninety 000 humans and received a variety of awards. Written in a robust and real voice, Skollie is a gripping memoir of lifestyles at the Cape residences, of criminal and gangs, and of 1 man’s fight to outlive all this via telling stories.