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LIGHTS, CAMERA, DEVASTATION!

LIFE use to be one big action adventure, travelling the world and performing feat after daredevil feat for some of the movie world’s biggest stars. But everything changed in a heartbeat five years ago when a stunt went catastrophically wrong – and Olivia Jackson has the scars and the loss of an arm to show for it.

What she doesn’t have – yet – is any compensation for her near-death experience.

She tried for years to get some kind of settlement, starting legal proceedings in South Africa, as well as in the USA, but due to jurisdiction laws the matter had to be dealt with in SA.

And now finally it seems she’ll have a measure of justice. A judge

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