Zim DJ Snagga T was among those who died in Albert Street fire
The August blaze in Joburg’s Albert Street claimed the life of dancehall DJ and MC, Nkosinathi ‘Snagga T’ Masuku and his fiancée, Blessing Chihera Musonza.
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The August blaze in Joburg’s Albert Street claimed the life of dancehall DJ and MC, Nkosinathi ‘Snagga T’ Masuku and his fiancée, Blessing Chihera Musonza.
Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing Wailers, died of a stroke at the age of 73 last week. He and his childhood friend Bob Marley formed a vocal trio with a young Peter Tosh in 1963, a year after Jamaica’s independence. Their harmonious singing style was typical of the ska music genre — upbeat music that defined the cultural mood of a new freedom, similar to the way Kwaito music articulated the new spirit of 90s South Africa. Ska’s time was a world at the height of the cold war, the atomic age, national liberation struggles and victories, the US civil rights movement and Vietn...