How can the organisors of an international rugby test match allow for a stoned reggae singer to completely disrespect the South African national anthem? Surely when you select a person to sing the anthem you need to have seen them sing it before or at least let them rehearse it for you.

I am a huge rugby fan – a 100% fan of the Sprinboks, but I must say with a rendition of the anthem that was turned into a laughing stock, I can hardly blame them for playing so poorly on Friday evening in Toulouse.

What confuses me is that this reggae dude is from South Africa. I don’t know a South African that is able to stuff up the national anthem that badly – it is a true disgrace!

For those that did miss the messed up national anthem you can view it below:

Apparantly the name of the stoned rasta dude is Ras Dumisani, a reggae singer from Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, in South Africa. Ok that is even more scary – I never thought that any self-respecting South African could do that to the national anthem.

Sources later revealed that he had actually did have a rehearsal before the match that was fine – so “pot,” I mean what went wrong? Something seriously changed between the rehearsal and the actual rendition – I suspect it was a banned green substance that was the  culprit.

Ras, along with the French have issued apologies to South Africa, but fans and citizens alike still have a bad taste in their mouth.

Ras has now become the butt of many jokes, one shown below is based on the classic Windhoek Lager adverts.

For those who don’t know the words to the South African national anthem, Ras you’re included, here they are:

Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw’ uphondo lwayo,
Yizwa imithandazo yethu,
Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo.

Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso,
O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeho,
O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso,
Setjhaba sa South Afrika

South Afrika.

Uit die blou van onse hemel,
Uit die diepte van ons see,
Oor ons ewige gebergtes,
Waar die kranse antwoord gee,

Sounds the call to come together,
And united we shall stand,
Let us live and strive for freedom,
In South Africa our land.

Here the phoentetic version to help you to learn it:

Some more jokes related to the butchered South African national anthem:

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