Friends and family gathered together to celebrate the life of the late jazz diva Dorothy.
Dorothy Masuka's friends and family celebrated the musical icon at the Bethesda Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
Masuka died on Saturday last week at the age of 83 following complications related to hypertension, after suffering a mild stroke last year. The members of the family defined her as a colourful person and a diva. Biatar Masuka, who lives in Zambia, said Masuka might have been a musician to the public but to them she was a mother, aunt and a father- figure.
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