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Sara-Jayne King is a South African journalist, radio presenter (Cape Talk) and now author, whose career spans more than a decade and has taken her across the globe in search of extraordinary people with remarkable stories.

The result of an illegal affair between a white British woman and black South African man during apartheid, King’s own story as a transracial adoptee, moved out of South Africa to England in the early eighties, forms the basis for her debut book, a memoir, Killing Karoline.

She is passionate about issues relating to identity, race, adoption, mental health and addiction.

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