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| The Late Albert Mangwea |
By FATUMA ABDU, Tanzania Daily News
Tanzania Music Federation (TMF) in collaboration with a committee
coordinating the burial of the late Albert Mangwea, has asked Tanzanian
to contribute funds in order to transport the body of the artist from
South Africa.
TMF and the committee leaders told reporters in Dar es Salaam
on Thursday Mangwea’s body is expected to arrive in the country from
Johannesburg on Saturday. The committee spokesman Adam Juma said that
Tanzanians are aware of the deceased’s contribution towards developing
Bongo flava and urged them to participate in his burial.
For his part, TMF President Addo
Mwasongwe asked Tanzanians to be patient as they wait for Mangwea’s body
to arrive. Some of the artists who attended the press conference talked
about how they were shocked by the late musician’s sudden death.
TID, Juma Mchopanga (popularly known as
as Jay Moe), Professor J, Noora, Mez B, and producer P. Funk described
the deceased as being generous and a man of the people. The late Mangwea
is expected to be buried in Morogoro on Monday.
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AUTOPSY REPORT
The Medical report from Helen Joseph hospital, Dr Shirley Radcliffe
confirming that Albert Mangwair died from “alcohol toxicity” after
drinking too much,Over-exhaustion and drugs overdose....The inquest heard
that Albert 28, collapsed in the his friends home had been more
than five-times the legal S.A drink-drive limit with 416mgof alcohol per
100 millilitres of blood in his system....Radcliffe described the mreasons
for ICU admission included hypoxemia and one of his friend found “two
empty vodka bottles[found] on the Car” and he had been suffering from the
eating disorder Bulimia for several months before his death and endless
partying session with little or no resting...sample taken from his
stomach showed poly-drug cocktail and he overdosed Heroin,Cocaine
'crack' and cannabis 0.08gms was also found in his blood...and his death
was caused by massive heart attack and respiratory failure followed by
sudden Heart stop...and end up dead within seconds! R.I.P Mangwear!
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