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MUSIC star Johnny Clegg is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, three weeks after he becomes the first South African music act to present his own show at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, and a month after he gives his first theatrical performances in Durban in more than two decades. <\/p>\n
The UKZN Honorary Doctor of Music degree, to be presented on the Durban campus on April 16, is in recognition of a music career that \u201cdemonstrates pride in the African heritage\u201d, and for \u201cpioneering scholarly research (that has) delved into the most contentious issues of Zulu cultural adaption, including adaptive social performance practices and indigenous forms of conflict resolution\u201d. <\/p>\n
It won\u2019t be the first doctorate awarded to Clegg \u2013 he received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College in the US last June, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law degree from City University of New York in 2011. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt least I will have something to fall back on one day,\u201d he jokes. <\/p>\n
Clegg was last in Durban in May, when he broke attendance records for a concert at the Botanic Gardens, attracting 7 000 fans. <\/p>\n
He will perform A South African Story<\/em>, a two-act production chronicling his life and success, with his six-member band at The Playhouse Opera from March 13 to 16. <\/p>\n The show highlights the best elements of two similarly titled productions that Clegg staged pre-democracy and immediately post-democracy, he says. <\/p>\n Tickets range from R171 to R315 at Computicket. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is an intimate show with me sharing stories, anecdotes, funny moments and a lot of history, and cobbling together hits and interesting songs from my 22 albums. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is unscripted and has a rather loose format which could change from night to night,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n On March 27, Clegg takes the same show to London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, where 2 300 of 4 000 available tickets have sold in less than than two weeks of going on sale. <\/p>\n \u201cI am really excited. There has been some serious media attention in the UK about it, and I have landed an in-depth interview on BBC TV\u2019s Hard Talk<\/em> which reaches an audience of about 300 million viewers,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n \u201cPerforming at the Royal Albert Hall will be a high-water mark for me. I was last there in 1998, when we had four shows with Savuka as a support act for Steve Winwood.\u201d <\/p>\n After the London date Clegg returns to South Africa for a variety of engagements, the first being a private function in Limpopo. <\/p>\n \u201cDirect from the Royal Albert Hall to Limpopo,\u201d he laughs. <\/p>\n He will spend October on a concert tour of France, and is considering a July\/August tour of America and also Canada, where his musician son, Jesse, is now based, and has recorded a second album. <\/p>\n Clegg and his wife, Jenny, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Valentine\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Billy Suter MUSIC star Johnny Clegg is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, three weeks after he becomes the first South African music act to present his own show at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, and a month after he gives his first theatrical performances in Durban in more than two decades. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-18130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}