South Africans were not impressed with Kurt Darren's rendition of Nkosi Sikelel'iAfrika. Picture: Screenshot.Pop star Kurt Darren was given the honour of singing the South African national anthem on Monday night, at the Varsity Cup final between Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch.hitmaker got the lyrics ofwrong, to the point that one black Twitter user joked that “even his white counter parts heard that mess”.
After a faithful and accurate rendition of the line “Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso”, Darren did not manage the next line, the Sesotho “O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeh”, leaving it out entirely and instead replacing it with a line from the end of the verse, “Yizwa imithandazo, yethu”. While Darren managed to finish the anthem without incident, South Africans in general and particularly on the mean streets of Twitter were not about to let the mistake slide, slamming the singer for his error.Ard Matthews, once lead singer of popular local band Just Jinjer,The benchmark for terrible renditions of the anthem, however, was set by a little known reggae singer called
, who infamously left the Springboks and their fans speechless and angered after his hideous butchering of the anthem at a match in France in 2009.when 702’s Xolani Gwala invited him to sing the anthem on air. He blamed “sabotage” for his infamous off-key rendition in 2009 and then sang the anthem … only to butcher it again.
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