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In the year before his death, Channel24 interviewed Johnny Clegg and learnt about his autobiography, what kept his spirits up and what he thought of the world.

About his autobiography the musical icon said

:"I'm about 150 pages in and it's about halfway done. I've had to wait at times because I've done interviews with my old bandmates.""…having to struggle through apartheid, through the Group Areas Act, through the global segregation and not being able to perform in public ."If I'm ever feeling down and missing people or my home or my animals out, I just go to my computer and look at some of the videos and pictures.

 

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