Obituary

ZB Molefe: Revered 'jazz cat' and formidable journalist

16 June 2019 - 00:00 By Bongani Madondo

Pimville-born-and-bred journalist Zuluboy 'ZB' Molefe was a quiet man, with his professorial look and low-voltage voice. But his send-off at the Protea Community Hall last week evoked memories of holy rollers, the sort of mobile evangelical tents that in the 1970s and '80s were wheeled from place to place, pastors whipping the poor and the infirm into trances as the main attraction...

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