SOUTH AFRICA will be hoping they can defend their Rugby World Cup title against old rivals New Zealand on Saturday. And they will be sure to belt out their rousing national anthem before the game gets ...

South Africa's "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" has been voted the world's best national anthem in a poll created by The Economist magazine. The anthem, which pieces together lyrics in Afrikaans‚ English‚ ...

Dame Prue Leith has revealed that her favourite song of all time is Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, a hymn that was banned under South Africa’s apartheid regime due to its association with the African ...

The EFF on Tuesday called for Die Stem to be removed from the national anthem, in celebration of Enoch Sontonga who composed Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika. Tuesday marks the 120th anniversary of Sontonga's ...

"Too many national anthems suffer from dreary harmonies and dull platitudes‚" The Economist wrote‚ as it published a poll of the best anthems in the world - choosing South Africa's Enoch Sontonga's ...

"When you are on stage, it is like you are in a different world." "Hope is very important. But hope is also difficult, unlike cynicism," said legendary South African artist Vusi Mahlasela in an ...

Writer and composer Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was 24 years of age when he wrote the national anthem Nkosi Sikelel’ IAfrica. There were uncertainties around the exact year of his death, but it was finally ...

Cape Town - South Africans might be united on many fronts - but divided they stand on the words of the national anthem. Teaching children the words to Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika at school is apparently ...

Mbabane - A senior Swazi police officer stunned the Mbabane magistrate's court on Tuesday when he told a trial of six trade unionists charged with staging a strike that the anthem Nkosi Sikelel' ...

Articles dealing with Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and claims by various parties that they hold copyright in it and are entitled to claim, and have claimed, royalties for its use and public performance ...

God bless Africa. What has happened to our beautiful South Africa, people? Before we started hating each other after 1994, we were an united nation for a short while. The world looked up to us and ...