Unlucky


I would love to go to South Africa, especially Cape Town, but this is another piece of scary news...

JOHANNESBURG: A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube, an international reggae star and one of South Africa's best-known musicians, in an apparent carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here.
Dube, 43, what shot by three hijackers in Rosettenville, just south of downtown Johannesburg, as he dropped off his teenage son at his brother's house. Another child, a 16-year-old daughter, was in the car at the time, the police said.
The hijackers fled after Dube crashed his car into a tree. He died at the scene.

Lucky Dube isn't one of the AfroPop reggae stars that I discovered when I was in college -- I was more into Alpha Blondy. But what I have heard of him, I love.
I wonder if the thieves stopped when they realized what they had done and shed a tear. Anybody killed for a VW Polo is pathetic, but especially when you think of his voice and the thousands who loved him...

Posted: Sat - October 20, 2007 at 02:14 PM        

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