Tongai Moyo, Zimbabwean musician, died from non Hodgkin's lymphoma he was 43.

Tongai Moyowas a contemporary Zimbabwean musician, often referred to as Dhewa.

(12 March 1968 – 15 October 2011) 

Born and raised in Kwekwe, Dhewa rose to fame in the late 1990s as a solo-artist with the Utakataka express.^[1] Smash hits such as Samanyemba, Naye, Muchina Muhombe and many others catapulted Dhewa to national, regional and international fame; he produced 14 albums in a career spanning over two decades.^[2] Tongai Moyo succumbed to non Hodgkin's lymphoma at St Anne's Hospital on the evening of Saturday 15 October in Harare. Close to 15 000 people came to pay their last respects to the sungura superstar at Mbizo Stadium in Kwekwe.^[3]


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