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As South Africa celebrated Heritage Day on Thursday‚ the Economic Freedom Fighters called for the scrapping of Die Stem from the national anthem.
The EFF labelled Die Stem “a song of oppressors‚ racists and mass-murderers“‚ and said it was not in keeping with South Africa’s anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles.
The hybrid national anthem consisting of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika‚ Die Stem and its English equivalent came into being in 1997 to accommodate various groups in the newly inclusive country.