South Africa AFRO-POP singer Thandiswa Mazwai sparked controversy on Youth Day when she told friends on the social networking site Facebook that she “hates the national anthem”.The singer refused to sing the Afrikaans anthem Die Stem during Tuesday’s Big Read campaign launch in Newtown, Johannesburg, which was also attended by actress Rosie Motene, writer Mandla Langa, education policy analyst Salim Vally and children from Soweto and Alexandra. Soon after the event, Mazwai wrote on Facebook that she was “put on the spot” by a friend who asked her to sing the Afrikaans part of the national anthem at the event.
Mazwai wrote : “I hate this f***ing national anthem. How can it be that the anthem and prayer for Africa is now so blatantly joined with the anthem which systematically raped this land and its people of all its value and pride? How do we join these two songs and then sing them with such fake pride in this supposed new South Africa? I can’t.”
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