The Springboks will face the All Blacks in their 2023 Rugby World Cup semi-final at the Stade de France on Saturday, 28 October.
Image: SARU Image: SARUSouth Africa’s national anthem combines new English lyrics with extracts from the 19th-century hymn ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ and the Afrikaans song ‘Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’.
‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika ’ is the official anthem of the African National Congress, while ‘Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ’ was the country’s national anthem during apartheid.The powers-that-be at the time decided to acknowledge both songs as national anthems.Today, South Africa’s anthem is the only neo-modal national anthem in the world, meaning it is the only one that starts in one key and finishes in another.
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