Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Tupac’s ashes to be buried in Soweto

The ashes of the American rapper Tupac Shakur are to be buried in Soweto next week on the 10th anniversary of his murder at the height of the US “rap wars”. The rapper’s mother, Afeni Shakur, will carry her son’s ashes to the “birthplace of his ancestors” on Wednesday and hold a memorial service in the best known of South Africa’s townships.

She said Soweto had been chosen as the “birthplace of the South African struggle for democracy and against apartheid”…..