Last night, we went to a rugby match at Loftus Versfeld Stadium here in Pretoria.
The Springboks pretty much killed the French. I won’t mention the score, because that would just be mean.
South Africa has three main sports; rugby, soccer, and cricket. And they take all three very seriously. But it seems to me that rugby reigns supreme in this country. Rugby and meat. Don’t mess with South African’s rugby and don’t mess with their meat.
My favorite part of the evening, however, wasn’t the actual rugby match. My favorite moment came before the match, when the whole stadium belted out the South African National Anthem. I love national anthems, and I especially love South Africa’s national anthem, Nkosi Sikelei’ iAfrika.
South Africa has eleven national languages; more than any other nation on earth. Their national anthem includes five of their languages. It starts in Xhosa, then Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans and it ends in English.
So for your listening pleasure, here it is; not from the match we watched last night, but from a South Africa vs. New Zealand match from 2014. Enjoy!
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