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Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world loves South Africa’s biggest house music star.
Kwaito music star Mandoza was an important symbolic figure in the post-apartheid cultural scene. His success and his refusal to relinquish his tsotsi identity redefined what kind of man could be respected in a free South African.
