Dorothy Masuka (3 September 1935, in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) – 23 February 2019, in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a Zimbabwe-born South African jazz singer. On the 23rd of February 2019, she succumbed to stroke in South Africa

She was born in Bulawayo, the fourth of seven children, and her mother was a Zulu woman while her father was a Zambian hotel chef. Still, she attended a Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed to black people. Her family moved to South Africa when she was 12 due to her health. By the time she was 19 she was touring in South Africa with singers she had admired as a girl.