Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika (God Bless Africa) - Stellenbosch University Choir
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2019
- The Stellenbosch University Choir, South Africa
Conducted by André van der Merwe
Music: Improvised by students of Zimbabwe & South Africa
Arrangement: André van der Merwe
Sheet music: vox@telkomsa.net (André van der Merwe)
More information about the choir: thundafund.com/project/suchoi...
Contact for the Choir: Ulrike Vorndran (Woordfees): ulrikev@sun.ac.za
Sound Engineer: Dr Gerhard Roux, Stellenbosch
Video: Homebrew Films (Ben Heyns)
Recorded: Endler Hall, Department of Music, Stellenbosch University, Sunday 6 October 2019
LYRICS:
isiZulu text:
Nkosi sikelela iAfrika.
Maluphakanyisw’u phondo lwayo.
Yizwa imithandazo yethu
sibe moya munye.
Noma sekunzima emhlabeni.
Sihlukunyezwa kabuhlungu.
Nkosi siph’amandla okunqoba
silwe nosathane.
English Translation:
God bless Africa.
Raise high her glory.
Hear our prayers
to be united in one spirit.
Even through hard times in this world.
When we are painfully abused.
Lord, give us strength for victory
to fight the devil. - เพลง
Raise your hand if you still here in 2024😂😂 🙋🙋
I’m trying to get this on Spotify but I can’t find it
🙋
🙋🏽♀️
🙋🙋
❤2024
Whose here 2024😁❤
❤We are here
Honey, I never left 😊❤.
*Who's - is a contraction of the words "who is" or "who has". "Whose" refers to the ownership of an object by a particular person.
Silapha
not English lessons here
Likes for the conductor anyone??
W conductor!!
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Enoch Sontonga has to be one of the greatest composers in the history of Africa
Yes brother. I would just like them to give him credit!
@@sipiwemutemwa4733 Isn’t his composition quite different from the arrangement presented here?
@@CaroAbebe it is, it's deeper and spiritual ( there's parts speaking about the Holy spirit etc) they removed some parts to not make it seem accomodative of Christianity only
Existe il une partition de cette version ??
If you are PROUD to be African make the button blue ❤
Even if I am not an African, I am proud to say that I love this choir and keep on making music like this.
I am proud to be one of those who are blessed to hear these kind of voices.
Proud to be a human on Planet Earth in love with African music, and loving the Stellenbosch University Choir.
We ALL come from Africa in the beginning.
Not an African. But I ask God to bless Africa anyway. _/\_
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When a national anthem turns into a heartfelt prayer and worship! Absolute masterpiece of beauty!
Nkosi sikelela Africa was first composed as anthem/prayer for all African nations and then certain countries incorporated it into their anthems. In Zimbabwe we sing it as well, in Shona.
Agreed.
Technically it is not the anthem
If ZA, isn’t it?
But it is a chilling rendition of the song!
@@janrudolph9106 no I don't think so but I know there are parts of it in the national anthem
As a South African living abroad... This prayer unravels me completely. Like someone pulling on a thread of a garment. It pulls me right back. Right back to a Nation with such character, passion and warmth. Despite unrelenting darkness. God bless South Africa.
I’m undone
Amen brother - listening from Belgium
God bless Africa 😍😍😍😍
❤️
Fellow expat. It calls me home
Our beautiful son 00:41 (red beard) . This choir was the best part of his life the past 3 years.
Wow!God bless him and all his choirmates for this unforgettable and stunning rendition of this powerful song.It carried many through the darkest days of our country's history 💓🇿🇦.
🥰 awww
Very handsome 😍
Awwwn.... you are so blessed, what a handsome man. 😍
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Im a white Afrikaans speaking South African and I'm Proud to say im a South African. It doesn't matter if my fellow citizens are black, white, Indian, coulered, pink, red, orange etc. I love and respect them all. "Nkosi sikelel iAfrika" I am proud to be from Africa. 🌍 ❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
As South Africans we are always required to swim upstream. God be with us during these trying times.
You are a real South African, our blood is green 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Uyathandwa, sisonke ❤
@Declan. I'm a xhosa woman and I'm also so proud of out beautiful rainbow nation. our economy might not be great , but our people are beautiful
Wow thats great to know man,.. Well people when they think of Afrikaaner they automatically think of horrible people in sa... But I know that not all of them are the same... So I am glad to hear that..
So when we put black, Colored, Indians and white people together we GET glimpse of HEAVEN 😍 thank you guys your music is unexplainable
Dude this is beautiful.
If this is a glimpse of what we can do together then I cannot wait to see the full picture!
At the end of it we are all humans. We feel pain,feel happy,feel sad and we all die. Love your comment
Thanks for putting to words what I was feeling!
When a group of like minded young people with a love for beautiful sound get together, this is the result. Always my home. My beautiful South Africa🇿🇦
The choir master brought me here. Who is with me 2024 . Mega love from German Poland and Zimbabwe
Still here. Still in love with my country and its people despite all the hardships.
Still here too
I'm Egyptian, proud to be African, but still I love South Africa, Ughanda and all Africa. Very kind people
We love EGYPT too, from RSA♥
Imagine hating on this beautiful act coz of the color of your skin? The same skin that will rot and wear off once you die. Humanity needs unity!!
wooow
Woooow
Well said broh🤗💓🇿🇦
😭😭 you make me cry more
@@simphiwejonas4959 Bukela le yase Wits u will literally cry
This is the only prayer Africa needs right now amid the rising Covid-19 cases.
Literally. Came here to cry, God bless Africa 💕
May God bless you and may God bless South Africa.🇿🇦💚
Concordo plenamente... Oração para nação africana
NO! the WHOLE WORLD needs it.... not only Africa.... love too all
And isn't this the SA National Anthem?
I'm not even a South African. I'm a Nigerian always coming here every month. Now it's May 2024, I'm here again. I wish I could get an interpretation of the song.
this is 🇿🇦our national anthem is a praying song that Combines all African was writers ✍️ by Solomon platjie a poet a songwriter who took a leap by saying even on our worst struggles Nkosi sikelela African god bless Africa 🌍
isiZulu text (First stanza)
Nkosi sikelela iAfrika.
Maluphakanyisw’u phondo lwayo.
Yizwa imithandazo yethu sibe moya munye.
Noma sekunzima emhlabeni.
Sihlukunyezwa kabuhlungu.
Nkosi siph’amandla okunqoba silwe nosathane.
English Translation (First stanza)
God bless Africa.
Raise high her glory.
Hear our prayers to be united in one spirit.
Even through hard times in this world.
When we are painfully abused.
Lord, give us strength for victory to fight evil.
As a Nigerian you ought to be touched by this song (Prayer) because Solomon wrote about Africa. It was during Apartheid when we were struggling with illtreatment in so many ways, but it extends too soo many areas of our beautiful continent bring exploited and her children left in misery. It was indeed her beauty that caused us so much misery. "God bless Africa"
I'm here after the Rugby World Cup....what a moment to be an African
We played this as a farewell to my 92 year old father, at his funeral recently. It was such a wonderful and fitting farewell to a man who had spent the best years of his life in Southern Africa. He passed away in England but his ashes will be interred back in South Africa, where his own father is buried. I can't thank you enough for giving this beautiful rendition of Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika. You have given me a gift that will stay with me for all the days of my life! Thank you.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
How are you holding up though
@@vimbaimutomba1408 Thank you Vimbai for your kind thoughts. I have nothing but happy memories!
I cried reading this...may his precious soul continue resting on peace🙏
My innige meegevoel
Sorry for your loss and thank you for your testimony. I wish you well.
Everytime i hear this song i just have tears in my eyes. I was arrested for 3 weeks during the Fees must fall protests. I didn't kill anyone, i didn't steal from anyone nor rape anyone but i was assaulted and abused in any form in the prison. for fighting for free Decolonised Education. This song kept me alive and made me strong through those times✊🏿 It gave me hope amd courage to continue to fight for what is ryt. May God be with us and help us through the struggles that we facing everyday. Nkosi Sikelel" i Africa (God bless Africa) and the whole world✌🏿😉
Young Biko askies. Dear. And thank you for fighting. Proud of you saan
Bro it's impossible for free education...
It's not colonised. You do realize they still pay for education in most first world countries and u expect an economically struggling country like South Africa to subsidize education. Think please!
Thank you for offering yourself to fight for free education... we appreciate you❤
@@ryanthegooch5952 racist.
Thank you for taking a stand
I've listened to this rendition countless times now since I found it a couple of weeks ago. Really hauntingly beautiful. Having lived in SA for a few years, I feel such a connection with the country and people there! This makes me want to visit again soon.
Where are you from?
I really like your channel 👌
Aw that's nice of you. I love your channel! Xo...a subbie
Best performance of this I have ever heard. But it is also a unique arrangement by a great
arranger. And of course sung by the greatest choir in the world.
@@ThatdudeSA Stellenbosch, South Africa
They aren't making noise, they sound united, they're that good
I'm not South African ((I'm British, having lived in Australia for many years), and I've never been to South Africa. Like many people of my age group (70s), I have been very aware of the struggle against apartheid, and of the problems that South Africa still faces - and will no doubt face for many years to come. Whenever I hear Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika it never fails to move me to tears - but this version?? It's from another world - absolutely stunning in every way! These singers gives one faith and hope for the future of South Africa.
❤️❤️❤️ bless you Ed
Absolutely. This was the prayer of our forefathers. The pain is palatable! What a time they endured.
There are Zimbabweans in there too. Which speaks the hurt they've endured too
Amen. And Amen.
👍Amen! We certainly have hope here in South Africa
The choir is ranked number 1 in the interkultur world rankings
You watched their video, "Always a matie" didn't you. =)
And for damn good reasons. Keep singimg to the world. Pray that they pay attention.
They deserve that!! They are amazing. So is the director.
RIghtfully so
Women in South Africa are going through a lot right now. Fear of being killed, kidnapped or raped by men has escalated. Coming here and listen to this just lift my soul and made me believe that we gonna be alright. God will bless us and we gonna be okay very soon.
This is such a fitting song for what we are going through as a nation, we must qin againstvthe devil, we must win against GBV
There are many issues in South Africa, gbv being one of the most soul-aching. I'm not sure if you remember after Lloyiso won SA Idol he wrote "Madoda Sabelani" a song about the horrors of gbv and the responsibility that men have in ending it. The choir is working on recording a truly beautiful arrangement of the haunting piece this year and I hope it will soon be available for us to listen
This is a prayer Enoch Sontonga made wen south africa was battling with racial segregation and an unjust government. This is a prayer that is relevant and all the more significant today while we as a world battle with covid 19. God bless us all even in the future, whatever it has in store for us. Such melodic harmony...I touched God as I sang along and let the choir carry me into his presence❤
I agree. Though he borrowed it from a Xhosa Church Hymn. We literally sing this song in many churches. I was surprised knowing that it's a part in our national anthem. Beautiful prayer indeed
I shed a tear as I read this while listening to this song for the 50th time. Last sentence ❤️🫶🏽
Who else is proud to be rooted in this beautiful country🇿🇦💓😭
Let us stay united and forget about the past🙏💓 plz
Not forget but forgive bcs if we forget how can we learn we move forward with a sense of unity learning from past mistakes and forgiving✨ 🙏🏾
If this doesn't give you hope for this country and its future, I don't know what will 🇿🇦 honoured to have been part of this choir!
Proud to have heard these amazing voices. Thanks.
Really?? Thanks for contributing to this 😊😊😭
Which one are you in the choir?
@@maseengmasitha6212 the one dressed in black suit and shirt
@@sonofsoweto ...
This needs to be on Apple Music cause I can’t keep coming here every hour 😻😻
I have lost count of how the number of times I came back here, in the past 24 hours.
We not the best nation we got our flaws but I know deep down we love each other. You can Go anywhere but you will Miss that Sawbona unjani with a Smile . All we have is each other. We are South Africans.
Listening to this choir as a US citizen living abroad, trying to process the outpouring of grief and trauma taking place in my own country. This prayer has helped me feel a bit of hope. Thank you
also the black girl at 2:53 is so pretty 😚
I am Canada. I too am looking at this video and sharing it with others to encourage hope!
Daniel brother....there is hope...we will have a beautiful story to tell...cling to where you hope and faith lies I know where my mine come from Heaven above...God Bless the USA....from your brother from South Africa
Be blessed brother, for your own corner of the world
God bless all my African brothers all over the world. My name is Phetogo. Its hard but we'll fight till to my last breath. As they shoot, shoot through my African heart. I'm going nowhere. Hierdie Suid Afrikan nerens sal gaan. Asijiki
"Nkosi siphe amandla okunqoba silwe no sathane" eey my God!!! what a powerful plea to our loving almighty God. Hallelujah 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾😭😭😭😭😭🙏🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Listening to this now 7 Dec 2023 in Australia. I can't even describe how this is making me feel and missing home so much. It's drawing out the tears from a deep place. Its been 2yrs since I've been back home.
As a South African this song gives me both sadness and joy all at once. 😢
The only choir in the world that has the power to move me to tears. EVERY.DAMN.TIME!
That girl with the Afro at the end 😭 she’s so beautiful, her voice , her hair, everything.
All vote, this should be our national anthem.
By show of hands ✋
I'm South African, also half american. I have always dug deeper into my South African roots, our rich history, and diversity. Proudly South African!!!
♥️🇿🇦✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾.
I am so proud of my family. It was an absolute privilege to have sung this with you in 2019 .USK you have my heart !!! WE DID IT
I'm speechless
Please i need the score of this song urgently,please where can i get it?
Thank you so much for making us proud to be Africans and human beings. thank you so much.
Please do you have the score of this arrangement?
please @nadia visser score of the music 🎶
There is only ONE race ... the Human Race.
Why do we hate each other so much?
This is what will heal our land. God bless these souls.
Except in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. Only in Africa is there ONE race.
@@nqobiledewa1398 singing songs? Let's see how far that gets us.
@daniel sabum since the beginning
I'm Zambian but this National Anthem speaks to me!🥺❤️🙌
God bless Africa!
Oh I long for the day South Africa unites...no one in the world would bare the ability to hinder the greatness we will achieve
So proud to be an alumni member of this choir. Doe zoo voort, USK!
Who's the girl on the left at 1:11? Great choir btw
I respect you good people, what a wonderful song.....may God The Almighty bless you! 🙏
please @aidan Garth lewis score of the music 🎶
Goosebumps all over my body 😭❤
Every each
That " noma sekunzima "part wow pure talent ...Africa is already blessed having you all
I agree
Eish knowing vele where we come from who would've thought....siya bonga to every South African who thought peace was the answer.
People abroad will never understand what being South African means to South Africans. This is home. God bless Africa, noba sekunzima emhlabeni.
😭😭😭😭😭
🇿🇦.
Did you say that other people do not understand "home"?
@@irgendwieanders2121 Unless their home is SA then they'll never understand 🇿🇦.
@@sthe_zar6341 And your answer fits my question how?
This is far the most heart-warming rendition of our South African Anthem, it's our sincere prayer to our Heavenly Father as we battle with the Conoravirus. God Help us🙌
Those who disliked this beautiful song with excellent vocals, is everything okay at home🤔?
What....who disliked this masterpiece? They have issues beyond repair. Such powerful words. Sung by such amazing talents. Angels are crying!
Every single one of you beautiful souls made me cry today. Not of sadness but the profound feeling every one brings together with such a wonderful Music Conductor.
World Class Absolute!
This is what music makes with us, not a single dislike or negative comment. People from all over the world united in peace and harmony.
Wonderful! ❤️
I’m from Nigeria and I haven’t seen anything more beautiful... I’m going to download all of their songs now.💜💜💜💜
Honestly! I love these guys! Good to meet a Nigerian here too
Okay the third Nigerian lol. I grew up in the choir and I literally feel these sounds in my bloodstream.
Nigerian here 😂
I wish to visit your beautiful country one day. God bless Africa.
Im not South African but this is a very beautiful anthem
I teared up
It's hard to hold them back hey....
Same here. It just sends chills throughout the body.
Love from South Africa 🇿🇦❤
This is sickening, Stellenbosch can not perform the National Anthem and think people won’t cry! Beautiful 🇿🇦❤️🌞
I'm still listening 21 March 2023❤❤ humans rights Day, God bless Africa, God bless South Africa 🇿🇦
They should play this in parliament some time. Will help those working there to remember their charge and duty. By far the most beautiful rendition of our anthem I've ever heard.
I am proud that our anthem is a prayer to God.
In full support. My heart is sore when listening to this because now I feel like we're being tortured (sihlunyzwa) by our political leaders
So blessed to have seen this live....When you sit there...your soul goes quiet...it connects with the flow and the melody...and then you tear up...You dont know why...u just do...magic
What a lovely description.
Oh man
Awwww I can just imagine
i get chills watching it all the time, the words the way they i wish i had been there to see it live
@Pheladi Matlala I surprised myself when I tried summing up this choir...Because one should write essays
Hi, I from Poland and love Afrika ❤ God bless Afrika
Enoch Sontonga was a breed of his own, God sent🙏🙏😭😭 how to compose such a masterpiece
And the choir did justice to it 😭😭😭
I don' t live in Africa, nor have heard the anthem before, but this was astoundingly beautiful. In Heaven, there will be no division, and we will worship God the Father and Jesus our Lord as brothers and sisters no matter where we come from. We are all ONE in Christ Jesus!
Amen ❤❤
In 1966 I went to Capetown on a ship and was beaten up badly by the SA police because I had given a bag of children’s clothes to a Zulu man called Gabriel whom I had met on previous visits. It was such a sad place back then and I never went back. So seeing this is just great, something I could have never imagined. Good luck SA I hope you make it work and look after each other.........what a great choir. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I'm sorry you went thru that hell those pigs will never rest peaceful for wat they put ppl thru but God nous best we are trying as a country to move forward but one has to remember the wound was covered up and has not healed properly but one day all will be good
Yes, the song, if they could've known, it was created for that, the struggle that black people went to, in their country during apartheid days, being touched, killed by white people,, the song was all about that.
From Nigeria I am so much in love with this rendition despite not understanding the lyrics. So much love from here.
I’m convinced heaven sounds something like this shuuu🙌🏼 that soprano is angelic 👏🏽👏🏽
My friend from Germany once said here in South Africa, we have the best National Anthem ever,I was very astonished and it made me to be proud of where I come from no matter what's going on out there❤😊
True.
In Quarantine 😭😭😭, this gives me hope. The planet needed break from all of us guys.
I am proud of my home south africa❤❤❤
No one anywhere has ever sung love of their country more beautifully or convincingly than this. No one.
Tried my best to translate for non Zulu speakers. Enjoy
Nkosi Nkosi sikelela iAfrica (Lord Lord bless Africa)
Maluphakhanyis' uphondo lwayo (May you lift her glory)
Yizwai imithandazo yethu (Hear our prayers)
Siphe moya umunye (Give us one spirit)
Noma sekhunzima emhlabeni (Even though its tough in this world)
Sihlukunyezwa kabuhlungu (We are troubled with so much pain)
Nkosi siphamandla wokhumqoba (Lord give us strength to overcome)
Silwe nosatane (So as to fight the devil/satan)
Tululu tululu
Repeats from Noma sekhunzima
Thank you!
Thanks so much
Thanks so much for sharing this translation!
@Edward Thatch Some do and some don't.
Lol, it is funny how people assume this part is Zulu when in fact it is Xhosa. The best thing about this views by people is that it shows how isiXhosa, isiZulu and the rest of the related speeches are really one language and should be treated as such, as a language of instruction, of communication. People can speak their own varieties sure, but officially they should standardise isiNdebele, Siswati, isiXhosa and isiZulu, isiMpondo, Siphuthi, etc., into one language called isiNguni
Is it fair that South Africa has the greatest choirs in the world -- AND the most beautiful music !?
Fair.
You’ve become my favorite choir to listen to. Greetings from America 🇺🇸!!!!
They literally are the best choir in the world 🇿🇦.
Everytime I hear this song, it hits my spirit and I start praying in tongues. I pray we become one regardless of skin colour or race. God bless Africa indeed 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
God bless South Africa, infact God bless the whole world. Lord we need you.
Most beautiful national anthem. Proud to be South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
This is a superb reditionibg of Nkosi Sikele Aftica.
I am proud to call myself African and although I have been in South Africa for 50 years, this is also the tune for the Zambian anthem.
This is sublime
Praying for the Republic of South Africa in July 2021 🇿🇦
The expressions on the faces of the singers (and conductor) say it all. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
the last solo bit, I felt that (Shout out to Shaen & Karabo) ❤
Luthando! ❤️
Who is the girl on the far left at 1:11? She's in all the performances. She's great.
I am from Angola and honestly this is the most amazing rendition from an African Choir that I've ever watched. It is undoubtful that the Holy Spirit inspired your voices. This is heaven on earth...left me tearful.
This fervent prayer is so beautiful and soothing, and these angelic voices are able to present our pleas to the highest throne.. Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika.
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
By far the best version of Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika i've heard. Love from Zimbabwe ❤
This is my country, my pride, my joy and it can only be South Africans who can make such a prayer. We may be divided but we are unified in one heart.
We do don't ask God to take away the battles and wars. We only ask for strength to overcome😅❤🎉
i mean, you guys do in the south african anthem, no?
Their diction is flawless. For a choir that large to sound like one person is just REALLY impressive.
When they said "phondo lwayooo" I got goosebumps hawemah 😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭
Same 😭🥺🥺
No where on this earth are there a choir that can sing anything with so much emotion and passion... I LOVE IT!!!
to be honest this is 2023 and am ugandan listening to this just calms my mind and reminds me that we came from somewhere and God was with us. no matter what we went through we still survived
During this tough time as a country .....nkosi sikelela I Africa
When i watch this video, i can sooooo see the potential this beautiful country has....when all people of different ethnicities, colors, gender, sing in perfect harmony, creating passionate soulful sound. Perhaps we just need a great conductor!
Definately not Ace Magushule lol....
This has to be the greatest choir in the world. Period!!!
Whoever wrote this song did an outstanding job. ❤this Is a masterpiece
Enoch Sontonga
This used to be a national anthem for many African countries when unity was the key.
what happened
@@jprozaymurungi5870 Politics, greed, war.... That's what happened.
@@dirkhoekstra727 and it is still happening to us,,, through our leaders and external forces.. i love africa
Nkosi Sikelela is still part of the anthems of Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. Namibia and Zimbabwe replaced their version with new compositions.
Enoch’s masterpiece will always be somehow used in most Southern African countries and as a Zambian, we changed the words but the melody is the same.
This is so amazing..so soothing...Africa is home.. I'm From Kenya And I really love the Zulu language and it's culture... Thumbs up..
its actually IsiXhosa very similar to IsiZulu. It was written by Rev Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
@@chizboy5 what is Xhosa there
@@Lindaaaaaaa2 ukuba awausazi isiXhosa and the history of our national anthem vala umlomo wakho.
"Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" was originally composed as a hymn in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga who was Xhosa. The words of the first stanza and chorus were originally written in Xhosa as a hymn.
@@sonasipho_8087 suth ngval umlomo wan pho you should've told me I'm better manner....at
@@sonasipho_8087 manje ulwelani wena? Ey nine anger kule country
“Unity in diversity” the Africa our forefathers fought for and died for.
3 years later...and uhm still here❤️😭the high note on 03:05 gives me goosebumps all the time
This right here is an Indodana moment. Wow
yes!
I forever enjoy Stellenbosch Choir music. This one is so greeeaaaaaat! Bravo from Kenya!
A prayer for our country right now🇿🇦😭
In August this year I visited South Africa! It's beautiful, breathtaking Nature, a hard life for the citizens. But I have hope and pray that this Nation will overcome the difficulties and grow together. There is so much potential in this colourful Nation. God bless South Africa❣May be I have the chance for another visit also to Stellenbosch. Your are doing a wonderful job!Thank you for the video!
A proud South African living in Qatar, I always feel blessed and proud when i listen to this rendition of our national anthem. What a people we we are!.
What I love about this video (besides the beautiful choir) are the hugely positive comments and vibes from all walks of life. South Africa is truly blessed and she will get through the bad times just like in the past...
You are listening to the greatest choir in the world. Every single one of the members is not only extremely talented, but committed to the highest level of excellence, and fully engaged emotionally in what they are doing (look at all of their faces). And their conductor is not just brilliant in that role, but one of the best arrangers (along with a few other South Africans btw) of choral music in the world.
This the second of your comments that I am reading on this performance. You were moved, indeed. So was I.
@@ikhandlelatertiaryaccessso1214 We are hearing in the beauty of this music, and seeing in this beauiful rainbow of young people,, how great the promise of South Africa can be.
I dreamt singing Nkosi Sikelela and I looked for the song when I woke up. When I found this version I had it on repeat all day. The best version by far. What a prayer for our continent. Thank you for such excellence, inspiration, unity and the love. May such excellence arise in all beautiful areas of life in our African continent❤