Thursday's are usually reggae/dancehall nights for the youth of Joburg with the formidable team of Oscar "Appleseed" (of the Bongo Maffin fame) and Andy "The Admiral" Kasrils (the son of SA's intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils) at the Horror Cafe.
This Thursday afternoon, while the two where spinning away old and new tunes, a few kilometres away from the venue, police had cordoned off a botched hijacking where one of the greatest reggae artists of all time had just been shot.
Lucky Dube, it is reported, had taken his young son and daughter to their uncle's house when he was accosted by a gang of men. In the fracas that ensued, he was shot and died from his wounds.
The country is in a state of shock and there's no doubt that in the coming days more will be revealed as investigations are underway. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=lucky+dube&btnG=Search+News
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You certainly know your music. A loss of any great artist is a terrible shame. Especially one that worked for social justice. My heart goes out to all those that loved Lucky Dube and his music.
This killing will definitely wake the authorities up. Sadly, it takes a big name like Lucky Dube to go down before authorities do something. I have SA friends who say categorically that the deal struck in 1994 did not address the root causes of social problems in SA. Gun crime is one of them. Rape is another. I do not have the solutions but I couldn't help remembering those things when I heard of this senseless murder. Peace to Africa!
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