Tag: Cynthia Shange obituary
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Cynthia Shange, South Africa’s first Black beauty queen who broke apartheid barriers at Miss World 1972, has died at 76. Honored for inspiring generations worldwide as an actress in ‘Udeliwe’ and ‘Shaka Zulu.’
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