South African music great Ngema killed in car crash

JOHANNESBURG---Mbongeni Ngema, writer of the acclaimed musical "Sarafina" about student riots in apartheid Soweto, was killed in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 68. Ngema died just as the 1992 movie, developed with legendary jazz musician Hugh Masekela, was making a return with a screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival classic section and a streaming release."It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our beloved brother, father, husband and a patriot, Mbongeni Ngema," the family said in a statement. "Ngema was killed in a head-on car accident, while returning from attending a funeral" in Eastern Cape province, the statement added. He was a passenger ...

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