The new English lyrics were adapted from the last four lines of the first stanza of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" (English: "The Call of South Africa"), with the changes made to reflect hope in post-apartheid South African society. During the drafting of the new national anthem, it was requested by South African president Nelson Mandela that it be no more than 1 minute and 48 seconds in length (which was the average length of other countries anthems being used for reference). The new national anthem was performed at an opening of the South African parliament in February 1997, and was published in the South African Government Gazette on 10 October 1997. This was rectified when South Africa's dual national anthems were merged in abridged forms in early 1997 to form the current national anthem. The practice of having two national anthems proved to be a cumbersome arrangement as performing both of them took as much as five minutes. įor the 1995 Rugby World Cup, Morné du Plessis suggested that the Springboks learn all the words of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", and "they did so with great feeling", according to their instructor Anne Munnik. The South African government adopted both songs as dual national anthems in 1994, when they were performed at Nelson Mandela's inauguration. It was first sung as a church hymn but later became an act of political defiance against the apartheid regime. "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" was composed by a Methodist school teacher named Enoch Sontonga in 1897. It was ultimately retained as the national anthem, though " Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", a Xhosa language song that was used by the anti-apartheid movement, was also introduced and adopted as a second national anthem of equal standing. When apartheid came to an end in the early 1990s, the future of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" was called into question.
It was seldom sung in its entirety usually, the first stanza was the most widely known and sung sometimes followed by the last stanza. "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" (English: "The Voice of South Africa") was composed of eight stanzas (The original four in Afrikaans and four in English - a translation of the Afrikaans with a few modifications).
"Die Stem" (English: "The voice of South Africa") was the co-national anthem with " God Save the King" between 19, when it became the sole national anthem until 1994. Langenhoven in 1918 and was set to music by Marthinus Lourens de Villiers in 1921. During this period, South Africa's national anthem was " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", also known as "Die Stem", an Afrikaans language song that chronicled the Voortrekkers and their " Great Trek". History National anthems of South Africaįrom the late 1940s to the early 1990s, South Africa was governed by a system known as apartheid, a widely condemned system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was based on white supremacy and the repression of the black majority for the benefit of the politically and economically dominant Afrikaner minority and other whites. The fact that it shifts ( modulates) and ends in a different key (from G major to D major), a feature it shares with the Italian and the Philippine national anthems, makes it compositionally unusual. The first half was arranged by Mzilikazi Khumalo and the latter half of the song was arranged by Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph, who also wrote the final verse. The lyrics are sung in these languages regardless of the native language of the singer. The lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages – Xhosa (first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza).
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