You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

In 2001 Miriam Makeba was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding". After the death of her daughter Bongi in 1985 Miriam Makeba decided to move to Brussels. As the apartheid system crumbled Miriam Makeba returned home for the first time in 1990.

She is best known for the song "Pata Pata" first recorded in 1957 and released in the U. Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania. Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid.