SA to blame for ‘anthemgate’
According to Jo Maso the South African embassy chose the singer of South Africa’s national anthem in Toulouse on Friday night.
‘Every time we welcome a foreign side, we ask the embassy to propose people for the national anthems,’ said French team manager Maso.
‘It’s the South African Embassy that put forward this man and we respected their choice.’
Durban local Ras Dumisani, who now records out of Paris, sang the anthem and was astounded when told players and coach Peter de Villiers were unhappy at his performance, saying ‘everyone at the stadium told me I sang well, even after the match’.
‘The Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika has been my tune since a baby’ he added. ‘How can I not know the words?
‘There are four languages: Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans, English. It’s just four bars, always saying the same thing.’
‘I am the biggest reggae man in South Africa and the Springboks are my team.
‘Everyone has their own tastes and you can’t always account for that but most people find my music so beautiful.’
November 15th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
If you call yourself a singer then you should be able to do more than just ‘hit a few right notes’.
Let’s call it for was it is. Disgraceful.
I’ll tell you what’s even more disgraceful, many people’s reaction after the incident. Blaming france for everything in the world, but then again we tend to be a shift-the-blame country so that should be expected I guess.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
#51 Die_Valk:
what
November 16th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I didn’t hear the anthem and for the sounds of everything i am glad i didn’t but in all honesty where were the springboks why didn’t they front up? and putting a specialist tighthead on as a loosehead what were they trying to prove?
November 16th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Holyshit, that was the most surreal, nightmarish thing. It was straight from a Leon Schuster candid camera prank. I was expecting him to whip off his wig at the end, laugh and point us in the direction of the camera.
Kurt Darren couldn’t have fcked it up more than that, and he’s capable of a real mess (e.g. the Mandela concert in London where he sang Joanna with Eddy Grant, falling about between Menlopark English and pretend Caribbean).
The worst is that last week Boots ‘n All showed Supersport reporters, Xola Ntshinga and Matthew Pearce, singing Requiem in perfect two part harmony in a Toulouse cathedral. They were right there, next to the field – surely they must have thought, “that should have been us”.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Ras Dumisani is lucky the anthem ended when it did ‘cos Schalk Burger was getting ready to moer him.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hee hee, see the reply I got from our tone deaf friend made the Cape Times..
November 16th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I honestly thought it was a wig wearing Johnny Walker blued Julius Malema singing for his dinner.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
The little dreadlocked man had some serious pitch and memory problems. But then so did our front row. Where are the young ferocious props? Are we making new ones? Should we re-examine our coaching on the scrum?