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Frederick Charles Fripp, known in his professional capacity as Charlie, is a South African journalist, photographer and entertainment writer.
Although he started writing as a professional journalist for a variety of small community newspapers in 2006, he soon took up a position as a professional photographer, and eventually went on the write entertainment pieces for one of South Africa's largest entertainment portals. [1]
Early Life
Born in 1981 in Cape Town, Charlie lived in the sleepy town of Melkbosstrand until he was about one year old. His father, a construction engineer, was working on the Koeberg Power station at the time, and when the project finished, took over several building sites in the then-Transvaal, prompting his family to move to the small coal-mining town of Witbank.
Here Charlie attended Taalfees Primary School, where after he started his high school career at Hoër Tegniese Skool Witbank. He had a mediocre academic record, participated in few sports and took up higher grade Building Construction and Technical Drawing as his prescribed technical subjects.