This post has been updated. See note below for details. Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader and longtime political prisoner who became president of South Africa after the dismantling ...

South African musician Johnny Clegg, who saluted Nelson Mandela in his 1987 song “Asimbonanga” while Mandela was still serving prison time for fighting the nation’s apartheid system, released the ...

Johnny Clegg's new album, Human, is his first to be released in the U.S. in 17 years. Long before Paul Simon teamed up with South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo, there was Johnny Clegg. As a ...

AKRON, Ohio – Music has two basic forms, regardless of genre: the kind you hear and the kind that makes you listen. Ladysmith Black Mambazo and singer-songwriter-activist Johnny Clegg treated a near ...

Johnny Clegg, a South African musician who performed in defiance of racial barriers imposed under the country's apartheid system decades ago and celebrated its new democracy under Nelson Mandela, died ...

The pioneering South African singer, songwriter and activist died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. One of the most celebrated voices in modern South African music has died. Singer, ...

Long before Paul Simon teamed up with South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo, there was Johnny Clegg. As a teenager in Johannesburg, Clegg sought out Zulu migrant workers and learned their traditional ...

Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition at a hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid legend and former president is being treated for a respiratory infection.

Long before Paul Simon teamed up with South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo, there was Johnny Clegg. As a teenager in Johannesburg, Clegg sought out Zulu migrant workers and learned their traditional ...