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Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo, Yizwa imithandazo yethu, Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo. Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso, Uit die blou van onse hemel, Sounds the call to come together,
The South African national anthem is a combination of Xhosa, Zullu, Sesotho, Afrikaanse and english, translated it reads as follows: Lord, bless Africa Lord, bless Africa Ringing out from our blue heavens Sounds the call to come together, History of the South African National Anthem The South African national anthem is a combination of two anthems, Die Stem, the official anthem in the apartheid era and Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, the unofficial anthem of the supressed. Die Stem was a poem, written by CJ Langenhoven in 1918, the music was composed by the Reverend ML de Villiers in 1921. Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Methodist mission school teacher.
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