South Africa hip hop star faces angry crowd in court
JOHANNESBURG — Pandemonium has begun at a court hearing for a South African hip hop star alleged to have killed four students in a car racing.
Inspector Kay Makhubela said victims’ family members screamed in court Friday and threatened to assault the hip hop star known as Jub Jub after his case was postponed.
Authorities managed to protect him and escort him out of the court.
The South African Press Association reported that the grandmother of one of the students who died said: “We will kill him … He must come and apologize.”
Jub Jub and a co-defendant, who are both out on bail, are facing charges of murder, reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol following the crash in March. Two others were critically injured.
Biography of Nigeria's International Soul Artiste: Sade
Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[2] Her middle name, Folasade, means honour confers your crown.[3] Her parents, Bisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.[2] Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old [4] Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents.[2] When Sade was 11, she moved to live at Clacton-on-Sea with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[2]
While at college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.[2] Her solo performances of the song Smooth Operator attracted the attention of record companies and in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic Records taking three members of the band, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, with her.[2] Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums, the debut album Diamond Life, in 1984, and have subsequently sold over 50 million albums.[2] She is the most successful solo female artist in British history.[2]
A marriage to Spanish film director Carlos Pliego ended in 1995 after six years.[2] She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1996 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician.[2] She was made a member of the Order of th
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