"You Don't Know What The South African Anthem Means!" - Trevor Noah - (Crazy Normal)

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Me, an American, watches this video, instantly googles lyrics and translation. No wonder the country has no disaster. Their anthem is a straight up prayer.

Trevor : No earthquakes not tsunamis no typhoons Me, a Japanese citizen: what kind of dream paradise do you live in

While I was schooling in SA, we would sing the national anthem at almost every assembly. Now there were Afrikaners, Tswanas, Coloreds, Zulus and immigrants. When the first stanza was sung, the Zulus and Xhosa would scream. When the Tswana part came, the Tswana and Pedi and Sotho students (including me) would scream. The same for the Afrikaans part...the Coloreds joined in. At the end, we would powerfully join hands and sing. It was magical and indescribable. BTW, Trevor, you are a national treasure. Modimo a go segofatse.

I am Nigerian, but I sometimes come on YouTube and listen to the beautiful anthem of South Africa, and every time I do, I swear I cry and I don't even know why because I don't understand the language you know... damn! Does this happen to anyone else?

The best Comedian who makes people laugh even without using dirty words. You gotta love him !!!❤️

I was the young white guy xD xD xD This was a long time ago, haha

"And the next?" "Bless it some more buddy" Trevor is a legend

Im from Ivory Coast and we were taught the South African anthem in music class. Without thelling us the meaning though ...

I'm an American, but after this I just had to know for myself...  "Lord bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our prayers Lord bless us, your children Lord we ask You to protect our nation, Intervene and end all conflicts, Protect us, protect our nation, Protect South Africa, South Africa From the blue of our skies, From the depths of our seas, Over our everlasting mountains, Where the echoing crags resound, Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land." -Wikipedea translation

Anyone else realise our South African National Anthem has the tune of "incy wincy spider"...?

I love how he includes politics and culture in his comedy and gives us a subtle but worthwhile message at the same time making our stomach ache with his jokes.

Never been to South Africa...but you made me fall in love with South Africa, Trevor 💕

This guy is an African treasure. Tremendously intelligent

Did this man really manage to make comedy out of a national anthem

SA national anthem will always be my favorite. It made me cry when I first heard it, and I feel it in my soul every time. My parents also grew up singing ‘nkosi sikelel’ iAfrica’ in boarding school in Nigeria when they were young, as did other ‘boomers’ across Africa that time so I’ve heard. It speaks sp beautifully to us all. Shout out to SA

Trevor: 99% of africans don't even know what their anthem means. 99% of K-pop fans: you're not alone guys. 🙈🙈🙈

Trevor Noah needs to be our national flower or something. 😭😂❤️

Strangely enough, I’m Ugandan 🇺🇬 and in my high school( Kings College Buddo, one of the oldest) I was in a House/ dormitory called South Africa and we used to sing the actual South African national anthem as our anthem so you’ll find us singing along to the SA anthem during rugby games which is a bit cool and strange for others 😎😎

The South African anthem was at some point adopted as the pan-African anthem! I learned it in primary school in Zimbabwe(Shona and ndebele) alongside our national anthem.