Dolly Rathebe commemorated in stone

Eleven years after the death of singer and Drum Magazine cover-girl Dolly Rathebe, a tombstone has finally been erected for her.

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Johannesburg - Family members and friends, veteran musicians, political figures and admirers turned up at the unveiling ceremony of the tombstone of singer and Drum Magazine cover-girl Dolly Rathebe, held at the Roodepoort Cemetery on Saturday morning. Rathebe died in 2004 at the age of 75.

The celebrities joined Rathebe’s family at the unveiling ceremony of the tombstone, said to have cost R150 000, because of a special QR code fitted on it.

The QR code allows visitors to the gravesite to use smart phones to access, and interact with, content related to Rathebe’s life and times, and to share their memories with the family.

Shown from left are Mara Louw, Thandi Klaasen, Abigail Kubeka and Taynita Harilal‚ the Grade 12 student from Parktown High School for Girls who raised the funds to have the memorial erected.

The Sunday Independent