His death may have passed quietly outside South Africa last week, but musician Jonas Gwangwa was one of the most influential musicians that the continent has produced in the course of a career spanning more than 60 years.
His death from what his family described as cardiac complications on January 23, came exactly three years to the day his contemporary and friend Hugh Masekela passed on, and just two weeks after the passing of his wife Violet. (Incidentally, another African music icon Oliver Mtukudzi also died on January 23 two years ago).
