Thandiwe “Thandie” Klassen born in 1931 in Johannesburg , South Africa died at the age of 86. From a modest family of the Mpambanes, Thandi grew up in Sophiatown a well-known township of that time. She went to a nearby St Cyprian School. The Sophia town of her time was multi-racial although composed of, mainly, black. It was later to be turned into an all-white suburb and non- whites were forcibly removed and relocated somewhere.

In ‘Celebrating A Legend’, we celebrate the life of a South African musical legend, who defied a personal tragedy to become one of the greatest exports in the music industry in the continent and beyond. Will her death erase the memories of this great daughter of the soil?

Has Africa done enough to honour her legends?