Mbongeni Ngema, a play writer, actor, choreographer, composer and singer is dead
Ngema the writer of the acclaimed musical Sarafina about student riots in apartheid Soweto, was k!lled in a car crash on Wednesday at the age of 68, his family announced.
Ngema died just as the 1992 movie, developed with legendary jazz musician Hugh Masekela, was making a return with a screening at this year’s Cannes film festival classic section and a streaming release.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our beloved brother, father, husband and a patriot, Mbongeni Ngema,” the family said in a statement. “Ngema was killed in a head-on car accident whilst returning from attending a funeral” in Eastern Cape province, the statement added. He was a passenger in the vehicle.
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