From Our Archives: Lala ngoxolo Johnny Clegg

The 66-year-old music legend was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015 but, despite it, still continued to perform until early last year with The Final Journey tour.

Clegg was also an anthropologist and had lecturing stints at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Natal respectively.Johnny Clegg It was also arguably the most popular song about Mandela during the cultural boycott that gripped South Africa under apartheid.Clegg was awarded with a Knight of Arts and Letters by France in 1991 and in 2015 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

“I’m more than a Zulu. I’m a South African. The Zulu experience helped me develop an African identity,” he said at the time, constantly regailing us with one great story after another.Last year City Press took a look at South Africa’s most iconic album art and #Trending rated Clegg and Mchunu’s 1979 album Juluka: Universal Man as one of those covers that shaped our audio landscape.

In 2016 one of his performances was a special unplugged concert at Lebone II College outside Rustenburg, where all funds raised went to an education fund. This was also the first time he performed with a school choir and had just returned from a 40-date United States tour.In keeping with this spirit, Clegg’s family has asked “that donations be made to The Click Foundation instead of sending or laying flowers”.

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