View Full Version : RIP Lucky Dube
ShaSha
10-19-2007, 12:35 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101900591.html?hpid=entnew
sophisticated sissy
10-19-2007, 12:49 PM
Oh, no! What a heartbreaker. I loved Lucky Dube.
ShaSha
10-19-2007, 01:13 PM
Yeah, I was pretty shocked to see this article today. :( He will be missed.
tangledupinblue
10-19-2007, 01:48 PM
Terrible. We loved him as well!!!
dank_bass
10-19-2007, 01:55 PM
What a shitty story ... South Africa averages 50 murders a day? but we dont care about that ... why do we only care about the issues that are stylish to care about or what the media tells us to be concerned with?
mightyradgumbo
10-19-2007, 03:24 PM
RIP Indeed...a terrible loss....Prayers to his peeps
Michelino
10-19-2007, 03:50 PM
That's terrible news....he was an example of an artist that we got to hear and like very much because of Jazz Fest.
Congo Square: 2004
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i193/Michelino/NOJHF/LuckyDube.jpg
festivalgirl
10-19-2007, 05:11 PM
:( :mad: Only 43, wife, 7 kids.
How lost and angry have we become that we're willing to kill over a car. Especially in front of a kid.
ShaSha
10-22-2007, 11:52 AM
An update:
Five held for murder of S. African reggae star
10/22/2007 4:44 AM, Reuters
Five people have been arrested in connection with the murder last week of reggae star Lucky Dube, South African police said on Monday.
Dube, 43, was shot three times in front of his two children on Thursday, in what police said was an attempted carjacking.
Police spokesman Superintendent Eugene Opperman said five men were arrested in an early morning raid on a house east of Johannesburg on Sunday and would appear in court on Tuesday.
"They will be appearing at the magistrate court to face various charges which will be specified later," he said.
Police said the suspects were aged between 31 and 35 and most of them were Mozambican.
Suspected stolen goods were found in the house, police said.
"The investigation is still going on and we hope to arrest more people," Opperman added.
The high-profile murder prompted new calls for a crackdown on violent crime in South Africa, which has one of the highest crime rates in the world.
Police figures showed the murder rate in rose 2.4 percent between April 1, 2006, and March 31, 2007, with 19,202 murders recorded. The number of rapes, carjackings and assaults also remained high.