The Most Beautiful of National Anthems

[gamba]

-also the most sad.

This short film ' gets to me ,' as my heavy metal guitar playing son would say. This is music for everyone & always brings tears to my eyes. I visited the country , from what was Southern Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe, ) many times during the war. They deserve better, but who is going to give it to them.
If it didn't happen under Mandela, then how, when & with whom ?

Interestingly, the anthem is in two parts, one follows another.

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N'Kosi Sikeleli ( Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo )

I keep it on my ' favourites ' list in order ' to remember .'

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[Serial_Apologist]

My father was in S Africa during WW2, convalescing from polio which he had contracted while in "Persia", working on the Anglo-Iranian oil refinery. He always claimed to be looking forward to the ending of apartheid so that he could start buying the fine wines of that country!

If I had a favourite national anthem, I think it would have to be Stockhausen's cut-up of "Deutschland Uber Alles", a short way into Region II of "Hymnen".

[Petrushka]

My late father was in the RAF during the Second World War and spent quite a bit of time in Rhodesia and South Africa. Rummaging through his photographs following his death last November it's clear that he had an interesting time, certainly with a better life expectancy than the lads flying over Germany. He was in the same squadron as Tony Benn (though TB came in later).

I know there are those who pronounce our own National Anthem to be a dirge but it really is a splendid tune, the Benjamin Britten arrangement making the most of it.

[EdgeleyRob]

I know there are those who pronounce our own National Anthem to be a dirge but it really is a splendid tune,

I prefer the Liechtenstein National Anthem Pet.

[amateur51]

My late father was in the RAF during the Second World War and spent quite a bit of time in Rhodesia and South Africa. Rummaging through his photographs following his death last November it's clear that he had an interesting time, certainly with a better life expectancy than the lads flying over Germany. He was in the same squadron as Tony Benn (though TB came in later).

I know there are those who pronounce our own National Anthem to be a dirge but it really is a splendid tune, the Benjamin Britten arrangement making the most of it.

What nation is that then?