9 South African celebrities who died broke

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2. Brown Dash

Brown Dash

Brown Dash passed away in May of 2012. He was a Kwaito musician who was said to be living in Melville, west of Johannesburg, in a commune. Brown Dash died as a pedestrian and as a poor man with only the clothes on his back. When he died, fellow musicians came to help raise funds for a proper funeral.