"Shock at SA reggae star shooting"

John Lennon was shot in New York in 1980, Peter Tosh was shot in Jamaica in 1987.

Musical greats, a shock to us all, a loss to music. Well, that goes for Peter Tosh at least. I could never stand The Beatles.

Then some rapper we've never heard of gets shot in South Africa, the most murderous country in the world, with about 20,000 murders every year against a population of just under 50 million, which makes it only marginally less dangerous than Iraq, where about 20,000 people get killed by their Brother Arabs (or Iranians, Al Qaeda, whatever) each year, against a population of just under 27 million.

So not really a shock then, eh?