Johnny Clegg wasn't begging to be black. He simply was

Clegg died on Wednesday after long battle with cancer
Clegg died on Wednesday after long battle with cancer

In the hours after his passing, as tributes poured in, one started getting a sense of just how loved and admired Clegg truly was – across the political spectrum and across the world.  JUDITH FEBRUARY* writes

Not that we didn’t have a sense of it during his lifetime, of course. He was known across continents, recipient of an OBE, Le Zoulou Blanc to the French and so much more.

Johnny Clegg’s music and band went through many iterations from the curious 15-year-old white boy on the streets of Johannesburg who befriended Sipho Mchunu to form the band Juluka in 1978, to recreating it into Savuka in the turbulent 1980s and culminating in his Final Journey tour in January 2018.

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