#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Sixto Rodriguez has passed away
Updated | By East Coast Breakfast / Lilitha Bodlani
Legendary 'Sugar Man' singer Rodriguez has passed away, Wayde van Niekerk to lead SA's charge at World Championships, and much more...
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Good morning, KZN.
Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Thursday morning...
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1.
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the legendary singer-songwriter known only by his surname, has died at 81.
Read more: Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez is dead
2.
A one-year-old has been removed from his mother's custody in Johannesburg after a video of a woman kicking and trampling over him went viral.
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3.
Wayde van Niekerk has been named as arguably the biggest drawcard for Team South Africa at the upcoming World Championships in Hungary.
Read more: Van Niekerk out of Tokyo 2020
![Wayde van Niekerk 200m Pretoria](https://turntable.kagiso.io/images/Wayde_1.original.jpg)
4.
Evacuations are underway across Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui as wildfires have damaged structures, prompted rescues, and even spurred some to jump into the ocean to escape danger.
Read more: 13,000 evacuated in Germany after WWII bomb found
5.
A Texas woman mowing her lawn was attacked by a snake and hawk... at the same time! A snake was dropped from the grasp of a hawk in the sky and wrapped itself around the woman’s arm, then the bird tried to retrieve it.
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