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RING MASTERS!

TWO boys aimlessly wander the streets of Cape Town. By day they beg for food and get themselves into all kinds of trouble and at night they sleep on the pavement because there’s nowhere else to go.

Their future seems totally hopeless but then one day, out of the blue, they’re given the chance to escape their desperate circumstances – and they grab it with both hands. Next thing they’re jetting around the world as the stars of a travelling circus, performing for the likes of former US president Barack Obama and tennis ace Roger Federer.

Jacobus “Trompie” Claassen (27) and Phelelani “Ree” Ndakrokra (25) are living proof that lucky

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