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His whole business model, practised and perfected over decades, has had to change.

"For a marriage to be perfected under Zulu custom, there has to be a public gathering, with song and dance," Prof Xulu said.

"To communicate, the Africans borrowed some vocabulary from the British and incorporated their own pronunciation and syntax to form a pidgin thing. Over the generations, it became perfected and developed structure and grammar."

He perfected his craft as a two-way player in a fashion the sport hadn’t witnessed since Babe Ruth.

But it was Lynch's belief in American beauty and horror being two sides of the same coin, perfected in his TV project Twin Peaks released the same year, that came to define him.