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Family Statement
23rd January 2018
A loving father, brother, grandfather and friend, our hearts beat with profound loss.
It is with profound sorrow that the family of Ramapolo Hugh Masekela announce his passing. [Read more]
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The World Celebrates Hugh Masekela
24th January 2018
Messages from friends and colleagues, including the media, around the world [Read more]
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National Civil Rights Museum unveils Freedom Award winners
17th August 2017
"When we identified these three honorees, we didn't know what was going to happen last weekend"
South African jazz artist and freedom fighter Hugh Masekela (who had a No. 1 hit in 1968 with "Grazing in the Grass"), second-generation activist Bernice A. King (youngest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s four children), and Southern Poverty Law Center co-founder Morris Dees (who won a $7 million judgment in a lynching case that bankrupted one of America's largest Ku Klux Klan organizations) will be [Read more]
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No Borders Picks Up SAMA
27th May 2017
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“I Don’t Bite My Tongue in this Book”
28th July 2015
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Fifth Annual International Jazz Day
18th April 2016
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Be Pioneers of African Heritage Restoration
12th July 2017
"Go out there and kick some booty"
Wits University today conferred on honorary Doctor of Music degree on Bra Hugh Masekela in the Great Hall... [Read more]
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Best Of MTVMAMA 2016
23rd October 2016
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Old Favourites in Thrilling New Guises
24th November 2016
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“Then give up colonial lifestyles”
10th April 2015