How 'amazing' Steve Kekana crossed musical, racial boundaries

Steve Kekana was an artist of wide virtuosity, writes Patrick Bulger. A singer, songwriter and lawyer, he was also an activist for the rights of artists and for the disabled

04 July 2021 - 00:03 By Patrick Bulger

Music lovers with a keen interest in SA's strange and unusual history mourned the death this week of singer and songwriter Tebogo "Steve" Kekana, "SA's Stevie Wonder", who died of Covid-19 complications just short of 63...

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