Johnny Clegg gave South Africa reason to believe | By Raymond Joseph for CNNOpinion
Raymond Joseph is a journalist who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
I still remember that night back in the early 1970s. It was one of those rare moments at the height of apartheid, when I saw tangible proof that there was hope for a democratic South Africa in which all of us could live together as equals. The occasion was a concert by Juluka -- Zulu for sweat -- a rare multiracial band led by singer and social anthropologist Johnny Clegg and his friend Sipho Mchunu, who were closely associated with the mass movement against apartheid.Raymond JosephThis memory came flooding back to me on Tuesday after learning of the death of Clegg, 66, from pancreatic cancer.
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