National Anthem of South Africa
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Note to avoid confusion :
The South African national anthem is often referred to by its incipit of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", but this has never been its official title, which is simply "National anthem of South Africa".
The national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the 19th century hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" and the Afrikaans song "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", which was formerly used as the South African national anthem from the late 1930s to the mid-1990s. The committee responsible for this new composition included Anna Bender, Elize Botha, Richard Cock, Dolf Havemann (Secretary), Mzilikazi Khumalo (Chairman), Masizi Kunene, John Lenake, Fatima Meer, Khabi Mngoma, Wally Serote, Johan de Villiers, and Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph.
Lyrics
First verse, first two lines in Xhosa
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo,
First verse, last two lines in Zulu
Yizwa imithandazo yethu,
Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho Iwayo.
Second verse in Sesotho
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso,
O fedise dintwa le matshwenyeho,
O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso,
Setjhaba sa, South Afrika, South Afrika.
Third verse in Afrikaans
Uit die blou van onse hemel,
Uit die diepte van ons see,
Oor ons ewige gebergtes,
Waar die kranse antwoord gee,
Fourth verse in English
Sounds the call to come together,
And united we shall stand,
Let us live and strive for freedom,
In South Africa our land.
English translation
(Xhosa)
Lord bless Africa
May her glory be lifted high,
(Zulu)
Hear our prayers
Lord bless us, your children
(Sesotho)
Lord we ask You to protect our nation,
Intervene and end all conflicts,
Protect us, protect our nation,
Protect South Africa, South Africa
(Afrikaans)
From the blue of our skies,
From the depths of our seas,
Over our everlasting mountains,
Where the echoing crags resound - เพลง
I'm from Korea. I like the harmony of diverse people. It's not the thing that my country has. So I was interested in South African history and culture even before. And I got to have more chance of speaking and writting English by a South African professor. And yesterday I found this anthem by chance. And I really like this song. 5 languages are in one song, 2 songs are mixed like it used to be 1. Now I can understand Nelson Mandela's dream. Long live South Africa.🇿🇦💞🇰🇷
I also like South Korea and it's people.
May the sisters of the North and South of Korea unite in harmony and define the next chapter of civilisation
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The idea was that Die Stem, beloved by many Afrikaners and British South Africans, and Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika, a famous song by other African natives, were united in one. Because Afrikaners are the kinders of South Africa but Xhosa, Zulu and the many other peoples too. Mandela respected both Die Stem and Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika. Especially because Die Stem is a beautiful song, just cursed with Apartheid politics. Also, South Africa was made by five people in general. President Botha, who started with abolishing Apartheid, F.W. De Klerk, who succeeded Botha and completely abolished Apartheid, and co- vice president together with Mbeki and Mandela. De Klerk, Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki build the new South Africa. De Klerk and Mandela got the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. De Klerk sacrificed his reputation among his own people for South Africa. Since 1994, the most right wingers call De Klerk a traitor, while Malema and his EFF, as well as the racist party BLF, call De Klerk a murderer.
you are amazing.
We sincerely thank you!!!
I am a Ghanaian but this south African anthem is top-notch. A prayer anthem. Well done I ❤️ 💖 ❣️ it
Ghana 🇬🇭 still has the death penalty
Honestly South Africa 🇿🇦 is a blessed country , PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN 🇿🇦
Love this.. even I don't understand the language
R HD gdi🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
HFC
Bnkkh
Jnkjm kolkpoilklljkn
Koikkkl
Iloijljjjji
@@elviskamenge7142 jy hoef nie jy voel die krag
Love your country from the UK
Proudly South African!! From Johannesburg ❤️🇿🇦
Mpumulanga
Same
@@Craftycrafter. Jo'burg is a HUGE city, so it doesn't matter.
Cape Town/Pretoria!
Same xx
Canadian here! Will be visiting South Africa in a few days. Awesome anthem!
I live in South Africa and at school we always sing this song at assembly and I love this song so much I sing it at home all the time. South Africa is our beautiful land.
Are you in doornpoort primary school
Same here we also sing it in assembly at our school
everytime i hear this now i small tear comes to my ears while I'm smiling. It reminds me that maybe just maybe there`s still hope for this country
I'm from Cameroon 🇨🇲 and for me this Anthem is the second best one in the world after our Anthem.
Bravo
My Favourite National Anthem 100%
Greetings from Nelspruit
Whoop whoop🙌🏼
(Come visit Mbombela Every Nation church 🙏🏼💞)
Proudly South African❤🇿🇦❤
The most beautiful anthem in the world
I am from Namibia, I love our Africa, I hope to make South African friends
And I hope to make to make friends in Namibia
I hope that Namibia rejoins South Africa
@@bruhz_089 oof why would they do that
You are part of SADC, friend. We welcome you with open arms. Come and work with us to make our country better than it is.
You are a very kind man, Ysaehi.
Proudly South African 🇿🇦
Proudly South African 🇿🇦 and I will stand for our country
Hi tell me is cricket popular in South Africa
@@CART00N.STORIES ask Google..
Yes❤
@CAwe win ruby RT00N.STORIES
I AM FROM "INDIA".....WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG, I LIKE THE HERMONY.......GREAT..🙏🙏🙏
Huge respect from India...🇮🇳🇮🇳
Goosebumps When I hear your Anthem ❤️❤️❤️ greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭
Every word and tone in this song carries a message so profound not just to South Africans but to all Africans as a race. Every time I feel bad I come back to this anthem. Couldn't be any more prouder to be African!
I’m Russian and I love South African national anthem! 🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦
I love your Russian anthem especially after president putin shout" huraaaa"
Tysm!
I am south African I love south African I love Russian anthem also
Great Russia and our Beloved South Africa shall stand strong together in all of the following years! 🇿🇦❤🇷🇺, an unbreakable team!
Слава русский🇷🇺, glory to South Africa 🇿🇦
Divided by continents. United by Gandhi.
Long live South Africa.
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We teach our students (Primary School) about leaders and their impact on society and the world. Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi are the 2 leaders featured in our textbooks. 🇮🇳 🇿🇦 😊😊
@@eldee3669 Ghandi was a disgusting person shut your mouth how dare you compare him to nelson Mandela disgusting
Indians should leave SA
@@ghostfantom5370RIP
We were forced to learn and sing this song during my secondary school days☺️😊 we sang it off hand but never knew the meaning 🤤🤤 from Nigeria!!! I'm just reading the English subtitle for the first time
Proudly South African 🇿🇦❤
Thank u
Same here
I'M FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH
Congratulations for your national holiday on 27th April Sout Africa from your friends in Germany
I am from South Africa I love it
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Nmeipenda Sana haijapishan na mungu ibariki ya Tanzania my country!!!
Proud to be a south African
Proudly South African proudly South African
Beautiful National Anthem.
Love from India ❤️❤️❤️🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Not me learning the meaning to the afrikaans part for the first time. All the parts are so beautiful though. We are truly a blessed country
Proud to be South African 🇿🇦🔥💕💪
South Africa like if you from South Africa i am and famous there
My tears rolled the first time I understood what message was on the National Anthem!🥺
I remember when I was in primary school and they would make us sing this every morning.
The first part of the melody is used in a Psalm in Finnish. That's how I was acquainted with the melody, and was positively surprised to hear it was also used in South Africa's national anthem
Proudly South African
SAMEEEEEEEEE❤
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Wonderful anthem, maybe the best in the world, combing, bringing together dfferent traditions, a prayer for unity and freedom in diversity. I can listen to it over and over again.
Love from Poland 🇵🇱 ♥ 🇿🇦
Loving it from Kenya, it connects the S.A people to their soil
I am from India, long live south africa
More love from Nairobi, Kenya
im from Brazil and i love South Africa
Long live South Africa!! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
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💖💖💖💖💖❤️👍
Amen God
THANKS FOR SAYING IT
Proudly South African🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
🇿🇦AS A SOUTH AFRICAN I APPROVE🇿🇦
Greetings from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇿🇦.
We support South Africa forever.
South 🇿🇦 I'm proud
I’m from Panamá, but what a beautiful anthem!
Goosebumps 😭😭😭😭🇬🇭
Why are you crying?
@@bajalife4everThis anthem is very beautiful!
mungu ibariki Africa
mungu ibariki Tanzania
Wow guys this arrangement is amazing, just listen to this harmony and chords!!! Yoh what you did to our National Anthem is superb!
Maravilhoso. From Brasil! ❤️🇿🇦
Fantástico! From Italy.
Proud South African 🇿🇦
My favourite National Anthem worldwide. Keep it up Mzansi 🎷👌🤌
My daughter is learning this
Just Beautiful!!
Thanks guys teaching my sister and brother
Proudly South African❤️🇿🇦
Best anthem on earth
Greetings from Italy
While so many of us have left, I just can't bring myself to do so. I love my country to the point where I would violently defend it. Call me old-fashioned, but even if you perceive me to be too white - my family's been here for hundreds of years. We know no other loyalty. We keep no second passports. We'll defend this place tooth and nail even if the current ANC government bids us to do so. It is a matter of pride for us. We just want to be included. To work as compatriots together. God Bless South Africa. We love you despite all the despair. Be proud again. That should be our modern motto.
"Be Proud Again" That brings me to tears, brother
Your comment makes me to feel more proudly South African... God bless!!
@@paulmpho5762 We have a lot to be proud of. Me and my family love our country. I will take up arms if the government of the day wishes us to do so. We made a Vow ... "We for you, South Africa". I fully intend to uphold it. And so does my family. After everything, our love for this place and Its people won't fade. Strongs, brother. We beginning to see the light. And it will be brilliant 🇿🇦
woah. im surprised. This comment is so refreshing. It's so amazing to finally see a white south African admitting their loyalty to SA so much so as to never leave. I rarely see this is with whites in this country smh. It annoys me when many whites complain that SA is not "good for them" and then migrate oversees thinking the grass is greener on the other side or that somehow UK, Australia, europe and america are "better"
Not a South African but want to see south Africa growing.
Longlive South Africa
I did some investigation the national anthem of South Africa 🇿🇦 it the same with the national anthem of Tanzania 🇹🇿 this two countries they relates until national anthem that it is good🥰🥰🥰🥰😍🤩
Useful piece of info. Thanks.
I love Tanzania. Your country is equally as beautiful as ours. Come visit if you can.
Zambia too, Zambia anthem is same to South Africa anthem and Tanzania anthem.
My home, South Africa.
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Also my home
I am fro South Africa jahanasburg love and true African 🇿🇦
This is defo the best version yet
Im proud to be South African!
From Sri Lanka
Very satisfying national anthem ❤️
I am truly proud to be south africa
I will pray that God always blessed our nation
the rest of africa congratulates you for defeating apartheid. for many africans from the rest of the continent, this song is a sad one but also a mark of victory. you were not alone
There is far MORE apartheid now, than there ever was ... along with dire poverty, and way more violence, murder and sadness.
I am south african love this
We have different cultures here there over 50 languages used In this song
What a beautiful language ❤
languages*
There are 5 in the whole thing. Each stanza is a different language
Just like the lyrics and learned it like lovely anthem
From Pakistan
Dude, this anthem is sang in several languages; that's sick
Thx for not hating on our contry ant some ppl dont know but no all South Africans are black ther is black and white ppl i love this song and i am from South Africa
Proudly South African.
Proud South Africa 🇿🇦✊✊✊✊
Beautiful, beautiful South Africa
Proudly South African!!!!!! Western Cape 🇿🇦
I am a proudly south african
I got chills from listening :)
You should listen Die Stem (the Afrikaans and English part of this anthem. Die Stem is the anthem used during and before apartheid. But other then that it has nothing to do with it
@@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748 sorry but modern south Africa is Better
Love this anthem
This will become pur Anthem when Africa becomes a country
@RishabhHarripersadh how?
Thank you
Wow
Thanks my country South Africa is great
Never in my life have i been more proud to be sout African.
Like NewZealand national anthem first half is their traditional language second half is English and this is a prayer to God like that so both are familiar
Love from 🇳🇬
I'm so blessed to be the South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🌀🌀🌀🌁🌀⛰️⛰️⛰️
Tanzania 🇹🇿 be like we going to sample this but we will sing it in Swahili 😂😂
Tumepata Uhuru kabla yao ,,wao wametuiga😂😂
@@Amraj743 The song was composed by a South African, Enoch Sontonga. The ANC and other liberation movements sang it and Tanzania got it's hands on it through that.
Big up to you our kings and queens from 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Our kings and queens from 🇿🇦their national anthem is so sweet and soulful
God bless mama Africa and Make us great and strong 💪❤️❤️
i love respect ful song
United we shall stand by coming together- beautiful thanks. Regards Dineo Jeanette Chaka Kutumela with Tebogo Mpholo Kutumela and Thato Mpho Jamilla Kutumela
This I the one my school uses in assembly 😂
Mentioning my Past will be the biggest mistake you’ll ever make.
I am a Ghana my teacher taught us this in JHS
I'm a Ghanaian.
I was born on the day Nelson Mandela died and I'm an south african
My fravit song