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The message from his family at the funeral was heartbreaking. “He felt too deeply and he loved too much.”
Rikhado Makhado, the rapper known as Riky Rick, has left a trail of shock and tears in his wake – the latest casualty in a grim parade of high-profile South African men to take their own lives.
Actors Patrick Shai and Jabu Christopher Kubheka and musician Jabulani Tsambo – better known as Hip Hop Pantsula or HHP – have all fallen prey to what former public protector Thuli Madonsela described as a “silent killer”. And the country is still reeling from the shock of Riky’s death.
