Photo: ReutersSouth African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg, one of the few white artists to openly confront the apartheid government in the late 1970s and 1980s, has died aged 66, his agent said. A Grammy nominee and Billboard music award winner, British-born Clegg was known by many South Africans as "umlungu omnyama", or "the black white person". Clegg formed the band Juluka in 1969 with the black guitarist Sipho Mchunu at a time when mixing among races was still illegal under South Africa's institutional segregation. He went on to perform the song for Mandela on stage in South Africa at the popular Aids awareness concerts that Mandela organised. Clegg was born in England, the child of an Englishman and a jazz singer from Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia).

Source: Otago Daily Times July 16, 2019 21:43 UTC