Broken Hallelujah

Lucky Dube, South African Reggae Star, is Killed in Carjacking

Lucky Dube (born: Ermelo Dube) (pronounced: Doo bay) was one of South Africa's best selling artists and one of its most outspoken performers. He was named Lucky because he was born in poor health, and the doctors thought he would die but he survived.

JOHANNESBURG: A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube, an international reggae star and one of South Africa's best-known musicians, in an apparent carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here.

Dube, 43, what shot by three hijackers in Rosettenville, just south of downtown Johannesburg, as he dropped off his teenage son at his brother's house. Another child, a 16-year-old daughter, was in the car at the time, the police said.

The hijackers fled after Dube crashed his car into a tree. He died at the scene.

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