Popcru’s plan will be debated when 3,000 delegates attend the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) national congress in Midrand. They argue that the two versions of Afrikaans and English of Die Stem were included as a compromise when the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) gathered before the 1994 elections.
“The current national anthem was a compromise out of the deliberations of Codesa between 1992 and 1993 during the political engagement which led to the new Constitution. The combination with Die Stem is the direct opposite of what Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika entails or what it means to the Africans,” reads the Popcru statement.
“The original Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika must be the only South African national anthem, as composed by Enoch Sontonga.”
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