My afrikaans is rubish and today i heard angry mitterings about it all over. I do not understand what is going on? What is it with this song?
2007-01-30 05:53:01 · 7 answers · asked by lucy_goose 3 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
This song is basically about the war between the English and the Boere. I can't understand what the uproar is all about, because it is a lovely song about how the Afrikaners stood together in the Boereoorlog (boerewar)
2007-01-30 06:25:28 · answer #1 · answered by stevieboy69 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It represents something that has gone missnig from th eafrikaans community in south africa a long time ago.
It represents patriotism, the love for our country, and the fact that the afrikaner played a big role in south african history to bring the country as far as it has come.
There were mistakes made along the way, as with any other country on earth, but in comparison with the rest of africa, south africa is a little paridise in a desert of fear, dismay and corruption!
So it will be a crime if we were not allowed to sing about our history, as it was that history that the country was built on!!!
2007-02-01 02:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by Saffa_Boy_83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi, just want to repeat my answer of a week ago on the same topic to inform those who don't know anything about the song...
Few interesting links...
Delarey Music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHqKJyo3GQ
Editor of Rapport's (prominent Afrikaans Sunday newspaper) reaction:
http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2265116
Koos Kombuis's reaction: http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=6473&cat_id=163
English lyric:
On a hill in the night
We lie in wait in the dark
In the mud and the blood I lie cold,
Pack and rain clinging to me
And my home and my farm burned to the ground so they can catch us
But those flames and that fire now burn deep, deep within me
De La Rey, De La Rey, will you come to lead the Boers?
De La Rey, De La Rey
General, general as one man we shall fall about you
General De La Rey.
Against the Kakies* who laugh
A handful of us against a whole great army
And the crags at our backs,
They think it's all over.
But the heart of a Boer lies deeper and wider, they shall see it yet
On a horse he is coming, the Lion of the West Transvaal.
Because my wife and my child lie wasting away in a camp*
and the Kakies' marrow runs over a nation which shall rise again.
*The Boere called the English soldiers Kakies, as in khaki, due to their uniforms. Another term is "Rooinek", literally "redneck", because the English burned so easily in the sun.
*British concentration camp
PS. I love this song! It's however misinterpreted by many people. On the other hand it's evident of the fact that Afrikaners are getting restless. More than 100 000 CD's has already been sold... And his sales continue to climb in its thousands each month... and to think the Afrikaner population is only 2.5 million big. Amazing.
2007-01-30 15:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Malan 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is ruffling the ANC feathers as they are interpreting it as a call to Afrikaaners to unite against them. Maybe this time they got it right and they have every reason to be afraid - very afraid.
2007-01-30 15:58:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Its a good song that wants to wake up the awareness in people about where they come from and to be pariotic about their country....
It obviosly gets misinterpreted as racist...but i dont see the connection at all
2007-01-30 19:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by §§ André §§ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
False hope to some, false fear to others. It's a good song, but it is only a song.
2007-01-31 12:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Vango 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The uproar is that the song is my new anthem!!!
2007-01-31 07:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋