ray

Shocking – an insult to the South African Anthem! Alternative versions are all very fine but one should never mess with a country’s anthem on such an occasion.

Ta-Ndo

Y’all don’t pretend to be annoyed now, go on express y’all real attitude: this ****’s funny, there’s no two ways about it. We all know Ras messed up blah blah blah… but right now this is not about rationalising stuff, you know this, The Times knows this, let’s laugh our lungs out, this is entertainment, for free.

Wilhelm

How can one let a daggakop like that near a stage, let alone a microphone, let alone at a prestigious event? It really shows what happens when people don’t care – the symbolism of it all. The fatalistic cynicism that is infesting SA is reflected in Dumisani’s rendering of the national anthem.

Gerri

Disgusting. He sounds drunk and does not even know the words. Very bad image for South Africa. Amazing what goes these days for acceptable in this country. We really need to look at the image that we’re presenting to the world, no matter what the occassion.

Harry

How can you expect the boks to lift their game and play to their potential, when the evening starts off with that sham and mockery of the anthem, I watch the Bok games with my kids (aged 6 and 4) and they sing better than that, in fact my 4 year old aked me “dad what is that man shouting”.

Go Boks!!!

elona

always have been and always will be proudly south african but this idiot has now made us the laughing stock of the world. could you, even for a second imagine the usa, england, australia or ANY other country that would allow that to happen? he should have his citizenship taken away and stay in france permanently. i suppose i’ll now be called a racist. just imagine if i witou did that…..

James Rawlings

There are other versions of Nkosi Sikeleli which are not our National Anthem, but when the National Anthem is announced at an event, it MUST be sung in the proper version!

Werner

In the past people got shot for treason. This is treason!

Zwile

WOW! Has it come down to this? This is embarrassing. Surely, the SA embassy in France should have asked this muppet to sing the national anthem prior to the event. Aren’t there other South Africans with good voices who can sing the national anthem? You can even google the lyrics from the net?!! Really, this is embarrassing. No wonder the Boks went down. Such an uninspiring rendition of our anthem!!! Please, powers that be! No more embarrassing choices. What an option!!!

Somnandi

Hahaha..What an embarassment and he’s got the guts to blame it on the mic…I blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol…where did they get this guy??

nadene

my 9 year old does a better job! If he’s trying to get a record deal he difinetly won’t get one now.

Jojo

I AM MORTIFIED AND DISGUSTED!!!!! ONCE AGAIN WE ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD!! HOW DARE THEY? WHO IS THIS GUY RELATED TO AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY???? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE ACCUSATIONS IF IT WAS A WHITE GUY WHO MADE SUCH A MOCKERY OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM>?????? FYI- I AM A BLACK SA FEMALE!

Cheryl

You go Jojo – I agree with you 100%.

John

He must be banned out of the country! Let him sing the anthem in the moon!

Ntombi

Embarrassing!! I don’t even have words to express this embarrassment that i’m feeling right noe, yet the guy is claiming that he sanfg well, even my child can sing it better than this and with respect, whhat exepectation did he have after singing that, that the Boks shoul be happy and have a positive spirit. There is one thing that i respect about Springbok that is how they value and respect the national anthem and to them this was ahuge blow to their spirit a bad start and yet this guy is calling himself a South African what is wrong with him!!

nathi

This guy must just remain in France and not come back here!

french in SA

I first thought it was a shame on the French side to hire a guy that i thought was not south african (considering the singing in SA languages…moreover with the rasta cliché, which is not representative of SA) to sing what is supposed to be one of the most beautiful anthems in the world.
then i read in the papers that the singer IS South African, so even if its still someone’s fault on the french side to have hired him (without verifying the singing ability???), the guy is in trouble for sure by now ,BUT i think it is the artist’s responsability to provide the service he is hired for.

He should have been proud to sing for his country on such an occasion, properly, not like some raggae version of whatever, and knowing the lyrics and the pronounciation.
he accepted to be paid for this job, then he accepts by this action that he is accountable for the service he provides, this is called a contract.
HE is a laughing stock, not South Africa
French people knowing rugby well know this wasnt right, they probably regretted to hear such a version too.

french in SA

as some of my friends here said,

there are probably a lot of South Africans in France that would have been honoured to come and sing the anthem at the stadium, just for two tickets and the pride of having done it and been at the game AND knowing all of the SA languages of the anthem!

Jim

I read his comments in the Sunday Times, where he stated that people congratulated him on his rendition of our preciois anthem. This was a disgrace, and the fact that the SA Emabassy in France have not made any comment, makes matters worse. Our Boks need to be fireed up after hearing and singing our athem. I live in the US and everytime I hear the anthem, it brings tears to my eyes. The French RFU should get their money back and our Goverment should insist that the athem is sung without any reggae or any other style added to it. This is the South African anthem and give it the respect it deserves.

Lungiswa Yalezo

This guy he better remain in France, its clear that he have NO respect for this country BHUTI PLS YOU BETTER STAY IN FRANCE.

Don

This chap must be skinned on arrival in the country!

Aiyaiyaaaaa

@Don: he shouldn’t even set foot here. He had long lost his heritage upon arrival in France.

This is actually the perfect example of not to do drugs….holy ‘erb, wa-eva.

Aiyaiyaaaaa

MY WORD….what a mockery. Our national pride dragged down the mud just like that???? This guy shouldn’t even sing in the shower…period!!!! I wonder what Julius Malema has got to say about this…since he ALWAYS has something to say. Errrr, Comrade Malema….ur 5 cents into this saga????

Jill

What a disgrace! Let us hang our heads in shame.
Who wanted to disgrace our country again to the whole world? It’s bad enough what goes on inside RSA and now outside too.

Tutu Mfanafuthi

He needed this chance but miss used it.He must stop smoking the weed,because he becomes too brave to notice embarrasment.

Ian

Another step on the road to the eradication of anything white and sacred in South Africa.

Cheryl

Loved Jojo’s comment…….

Cheryl

Alas….LOL I missed the “live” version of this absolute butchering of our national Anthem – have just heard it now for the first time. Who the heck hired this dude? I cannot believe that they actually allowed some unknown drunk, weed-head twit to slaughter our beautiful anthem, Shame on them and shame on him. Hope he never sets foot in our wonderful country ever again. Stay away you rasta rookie. You’e a disgrace – our Bokke deserved better than that cr*p you dished up…..

Aiyaiyaaaaa

@Cheryl: Couldn’t agree with you more. They should have just let our Bokke sing…at least they know the words.

No more Swazi 4 this dude….period!!! Dammat

Who

There was nothing bad about the how he sang the National anthem. According to me he was just good and the nation should adopt he’s style of singing when in an event that would require national anthem .He was good really good. He is starting to doubt him self and blaming the mic no he should not do that He must just let the people to do the talking and he do the singing .

Cheryl

Ha ha. Your’e not serious, are you??!!

Cheryl

You’ve got to be kidding me!!!! Maybe you should have turned your hearing aid up a notch, or maybe you’re just as tone-deaf as the “butcher”…..

Tiny

Can you sing a national anthem in the first place? because your comment sounds like you are a foreigner in this country. This is a Host City that we talking about.

Kholofelo Moloisane

was he drunk, that’s totally hilarious. Surely he knows the correct version it’s been 15 years after all!

Tumi

Yho! Enoch Sontanga must have flipped in his grave!!!! WTF guy. No. The mic is not a magic wand, it cannot turn kak into cake! Mic was just FINE, dude was soooo WRONG!

Ngxabane

Yeah Mon! Airy Mon! Aireee! Let me light up to that airy, airy rendition! Where’s my Spliffff!

Chief

Guy was an embarrsement and must be banished

chris

no wonder we all want to flee to down under…….

Gavin

I love Rasta, but now I am totaly confused.

Rhoda Kemp

Sounded three year old creche babies with tummy cramps groaing and crying for relief.

Estelle

At last people are waking up to a sense of national pride!!
Question 1: How many S Africans can in fact sing the whole anthem?
Question 2: How many “loyal” fans happily fly the flag upside down, thereby conceding surrender? (The one fan in the video footage even has the flag upside down on his face.)
I don’t blame the French for being confused …

MACDONALD

if they don’t know the best way is to keep quite, not to insult us.

Cheryl

Estelle, you beauty!!! You’ve actaullay raised a very valid point about “how many of us actually know the words to our Anthem”, and as for the flag; ignorance is bliss, but I suppose we can be thankful that it wasn’t that tired old orange, white and blue thing!!! I’ve seen that been waved about at a few games in Australia! Now THAT is a disgrace and hugely embarrassing…..

Vuyani

The guy was definitely on ‘holly herb!’ He was flying with the birds!

letebele

Ras Dumisani should stripped of South African citizenship! He must never come home or we will hang, draw and quarter him. He should be ashamed of himself.

Cheryl

Dude, if you can’t sing our anthem and do it justice, please stay at home. We love our country, man. We have one of the most beautiful anthems in the world and you go and do that to it?? We need an apology.

jsavo

Not bad !

MACDONALD

It’s an insult to our country, those people out there don’t want to see us moving forward. Tell them that forward we go even if they can do whatever. We fought against apartheid , now ba a thoma le a re rumula batho ba Modimo. Leave us alone!

Altas Minnaar

This is a serious insult to all South Africans.
I think one should find the person who chose this freak and he should apologise to the Sprinboks and all South Africans and he can tell the world that he is not fit to do his job.

Negus

I think he was very off key…thats just it. Don’t blame the man for the Boks mess up. It seems to me the whole nation is putting their blame on him and thats wrong. So you know what…Ras me still got Respek for you. Besides, the whole national anthem isn’t South African its African and has european nationalism fused in it. What kind of a nameless country do we define ourself as. Its like giving birth to a child and calling the child North West. Please…

billy

sure! Ras Dumisani is a legend and he was sabotaged. how come the announcer was clear just before him. that mic really had a problem. keep your head up my brother.

thandi

I doubt very much if this guy is a South African.

MasFiri

Oh my word this is really embarrasing and very funny i cudnt stop laughing was this guy serious does he really think he can sing..this should be posted on some funnies show

P and J

If this this how proffessionals sing, then maybe we should be getting the guy on the street to sing because the guy on the street will do it with pride.

Bonga

This guy is a joke man he is not proudly SA as he doesn’t even remember when was the last time he visited SA and his family. He must be expelled from SA or he must also cut his dread locks and must not associate himself with the rastas because they are known to have respect if he is e real rasta. He must not again mention the name of the late Lucky Dube who is the legend of rastas now. This rasta must not be allowed to put his mconjwana in AFRICA.

GURU

Thanks bonga for your comment this man must not be allowed in AFRICA

P and J

can’t help but laugh though!

khusi

he didn’t sing the Afrikaans part ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

E'MOUP

it’s so unfortunate dat i ddn’t watch it, but if d whole of ‘Mzansi’ is ‘fo-sho’ dat d Anthem wazn’t IRIE!, i wudn’t Object on it….

Thabo Seete

What was Ras thinking when he agreed to sing if he did not know the Sotho and Afrikkans lyrics.
In normal circumstances real artists would rehearse before the actual performance and i doubt if this was done, not by Ras! Now he is blaming it on the “old” sound equipment(s) given to him..is this really the case???? Worse still NO one wants to take the blame for appointing Ras. Not the SA Embassy nor the hosts. This was and still is an embarrasment to SA and all its patriotic people.

Luyanda

I don’t know what happened to this guy.O my goodness. I feel sorry for the bokke and the nation. What an embrassment. Luyanda.

Mpho Mathelemusa

Yayayayaya…
I am not a singer, but I cud hv done better dan that. I think we start teaching our children the national anthem

bob

but then we do not have a national anthem.

bob

let us stop being judgemental, the brother is an african trhough and through.

bafana

I think the guy does not have pride, this is the worst rendetion of our national anthem, if one could call it, the man must be hanged.