The South African National anthem has much history behind it.
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was composed in 1897 by a teacher at a Methodist mission school. He wrote about the struggles and suffering he observed of African people in Johannesburg. For a long time, the hymn was sung by the oppressed black population as an act of defiance at all anti-apartheid rallies and gatherings.
Die Stem was a poem written in 1918 and was widely used among the Afrikaan speaking population. The anthem speaks of commitment to the father land and to God. It was generally disliked by black South Africans, who saw it as associated with the apartheid regime, especially where one verse shows dedication to Afrikaaners.
On 20 April 1994, the State President declared that both Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem would be the national anthems of South Africa. In 1996, a combined version of the two anthems was released as the new South African National Anthem as we know it today.
The national anthem is sung in 5 different languages to symbolize the uniting of many different languages, tribes and people. The first stanza is sung in Xhosa and Zulu, second stanza in Sesotho, third stanza is Afrikaans and the final stanza in English.
One day as we were playing outside on the soccer field I asked some of our girls from Girls Club to sing the anthem for us. For your viewing pleasure...
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I love how it started out with 2 girls and then people just kept joining in
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