What a rendition of “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika”
Ok, so you’re a South African professional Rugby player. You get selected for South Africa, you run out onto the pitch in front of thousands of fans packed within the stadium cheering for you. TV cameras fix on you and beam the pictures far and wide across the earth.
Here’s you moment, to sing your national anthem, to unite with your nation and team mates and get quite patriotic. It’s a chance for you to get fired up for the game. So you line up on the half way line and you begin to sing “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika”(God Bless Africa).
Well that’s how it should go down anyway. But there has been heavy criticism of the rendition that Reggae singer, Ras Dumisani blasted out on Friday night infront of the French crowd.
I honestly believe that Jedward could have done a better job of this. I have heard the South African national anthem at Twickenham and (when sung properly) it is a very emotional anthem. However this version (below) is utterly appalling at its very very best. It’s sung out of tune out of time and the South African team quite rightly feels insulted and disrespected by it.
Have a listen for yourself…………
Unbelievably Dumisani was under the impression he sang ‘beautifully.’ Let’s be fair to him he did sound like an angel….being strangled.
"No one told me they were upset with the singing," the Durban native said. "In fact, someone just came up to me and told me how beautifully I had sung."
(They were probably drunk)
“Everyone at the stadium told me I sang well, even after the match. The Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika has been my tune since a baby," he said. "How can I not know the words?
(Okay fair enough he did know the words, his problem was putting them in the right places)
"There are four languages: Zulu, Sesontho, Afrikaans, English. It's just four bars, always saying the same thing," said Dumisani, now based in Paris where he currently records is music and from where he is about to embark on a tour.
"I am the biggest reggae man in South Africa and the Springboks are my team.
"Everyone has their own tastes and you can't always account for that but most people find my music so beautiful."
Sorry mate, just give up music, that was awful!
Now some of the South Africans have came up with the excuse, that the terrible anthem, resulted in them loosing 20-13 to France. Okay lads steady on I wouldn't go that far!
What are some of the best excuses you have heard in sport?
Ok, so you’re a South African professional Rugby player. You get selected for South Africa, you run out onto the pitch in front of thousands of fans packed within the stadium cheering for you. TV cameras fix on you and beam the pictures far and wide across the earth.
Here’s you moment, to sing your national anthem, to unite with your nation and team mates and get quite patriotic. It’s a chance for you to get fired up for the game. So you line up on the half way line and you begin to sing “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika”(God Bless Africa).
Well that’s how it should go down anyway. But there has been heavy criticism of the rendition that Reggae singer, Ras Dumisani blasted out on Friday night infront of the French crowd.
I honestly believe that Jedward could have done a better job of this. I have heard the South African national anthem at Twickenham and (when sung properly) it is a very emotional anthem. However this version (below) is utterly appalling at its very very best. It’s sung out of tune out of time and the South African team quite rightly feels insulted and disrespected by it.
Have a listen for yourself…………
Unbelievably Dumisani was under the impression he sang ‘beautifully.’ Let’s be fair to him he did sound like an angel….being strangled.
"No one told me they were upset with the singing," the Durban native said. "In fact, someone just came up to me and told me how beautifully I had sung."
(They were probably drunk)
“Everyone at the stadium told me I sang well, even after the match. The Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika has been my tune since a baby," he said. "How can I not know the words?
(Okay fair enough he did know the words, his problem was putting them in the right places)
"There are four languages: Zulu, Sesontho, Afrikaans, English. It's just four bars, always saying the same thing," said Dumisani, now based in Paris where he currently records is music and from where he is about to embark on a tour.
"I am the biggest reggae man in South Africa and the Springboks are my team.
"Everyone has their own tastes and you can't always account for that but most people find my music so beautiful."
Sorry mate, just give up music, that was awful!
Now some of the South Africans have came up with the excuse, that the terrible anthem, resulted in them loosing 20-13 to France. Okay lads steady on I wouldn't go that far!
What are some of the best excuses you have heard in sport?
I haven't laughed so much for ages!! Sadly the singer can't see the problem - has he listened to that?
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