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Lucky Dube — driving a Chrysler sedan — was shot three times on Thursday night after dropping his two teenage children, Nonkululeko and Thokozani, at his brother’s house in the Rosettenville area of Johannesburg.
Friends and relatives said they believed the attack was an assassination, but police discounted that theory following the arrest of the five suspects on Sunday morning. Police say Dube was murdered in a botched hijack.
Dube’s murder sparked an international outcry, and highlighted South Africa’s growing gun culture.
Dube, who was 43, is survived by wife, Zanele, and seven children — Bongi, Nonkululeko, Thokozani, Laura, Siyanda, Philani and three-month-old Melokuhle. He recorded over 20 albums in a career spanning over two decades, and won a hatful of local and international awards.
Dube’s family and friends said the circumstances surrounding his murder pointed to a hit, and not a hijacking as police had suggested.
“If you hijack a peaceful someone like Lucky Dube, you don’t pump three bullets into his body. You simply scare him off and take the car,” said poet and activist Mzwakhe Mbuli, who arrived at the scene shortly after Dube’s murder.
“No cellphone, money or any other item was taken. No car was taken. So how do you come to that conclusion and tell the masses it is a hijacking?” asked Mbuli. “He was murdered in cold blood. They can call it a hijacking but I maintain it was a premeditated murder.”
Mbuli told a Sunday newspaper that his suspicions were corroborated by an account of a neighbour who saw a VW Polo which had been in the street, driving up and down slowly on three occasions.
He said Dube was gunned down when the car returned for the third time. But police spokesman Opperman said detectives believed Dube’s murder was the result of a botched hijack.
South African citizens fall prey to around 13 000 hijackings per year, the highest per capita rate in the world by some distance. You are more than ten times more likely to be hijacked outside your house than at your place of business, according to a recently published survey by the national real estate network RE/MAX.
Eerily, Dube addressed the fear of being killed by hijackers in the lyrics of his 2001 song Crime and Corruption:
“Is it the bodyguards around you
Is it the high walls where you live
Or is it the men with the guns around you
Twenty-four hours a day
That make you ignore the crying of the people
Farmers get killed every day
And you say it is not that bad
Policemen get killed every day
And you say it is not that bad
Maybe if you see it through the eyes
Of the victims
You will join us and fight this
Crime and corruption
Do you ever worry
About your house being broken into
Do you ever worry
About your car being taken away from you
In broad daylight
Down Highway 54
Do you ever worry
About your wife becoming
The woman in black
Do you ever worry
About leaving home and
Coming back in a coffin
With a bullet through your head
So join us and fight this
Crime and corruption”
(This piece was adapted from news originally published on newzimbabwe.com)
Here is one of our favorite Lucky Dube’s music:
“Mama Africa”
[audio:http://makodef.com/audio/Lucky Dube - Mama Africa.mp3]
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Lucky Dube was i #1, my trace, his song has inspired me everyday, everynight, every munite and every seconde in my life.lucky i just cant delieve u gone.i love you and i will be missing you.
R.I.P SAVE ME A PLACE
YOU WILL NEVER FORGATTEN