On August 3, 1964, at the age of 43, Lucky Dube passed away. On the evening of October 2007, carjackers in Johannesburg, South Africa, killed Lucky Dube. The Rastafarian had already recorded 22 albums in Afrikaans, Zulu, and English before the untimely passing of his partner. His mother named him Lucky after she struggled to conceive him before they divorced before he was born.

What happened the night he was murdered

On October 18, 2007, armed robbers killed the African king of reggae in Rosettenville Johannesburg, South Africa. It happened soon after he dropped off the kids at their uncle’s.South African law enforcement, then stated that the thieves targeted his vehicle. When the robbers didn’t recognize him, they took a wild guess and shot him to death, assuming he was Nigerian. After being shot at close range, Lucky Dube attempted to drive away, but crashed into a parked car and then a tree.

The police department of SA tried all they could to make sure that they get to root of the assassination of this great legend. After the long run, 5 people were arrested for persecution of this crime but later on, 3 people among them where find guilty and was convicted in 31 March 2009, they trio where all sentenced to life imprisonment.

But Lucky Dude took the bullet and yet drove off till he got exhausted and crashes the cars on a tree in a road side.In court hearings, the killers claimed they had been after the vehicle. They claimed they thought a Nigerian was driving the vehicle and did not know the legendary Lucky Dube was inside it.