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BRITISH-BORN singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg was known throughout South Africa as the “White Zulu.”
The dedicated fighter against the obscene apartheid regime has died of pancreatic cancer aged 66.
Clegg’s mixed-race bands brought the wrath of the racist South African authorities down on his head, yet his 1987 tribute to Nelson Mandela and the other jailed ANC leaders — Asimbonanga (We have not seen him) became an anthem of the worldwide anti-apartheid struggle.
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