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iowasocialist

(84 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2012, 12:43 AM Mar 2012

Hello, any South Africans here?

Hello, I need help from any South Africans out there.

I am in a mens' chorus here in the States.

Is "We are Marching to Pretoria" a problematic song these days?

We would certainly not want inadvertently to sing a pro-apartheid song.

Thank you.

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Hello, any South Africans here? (Original Post) iowasocialist Mar 2012 OP

Not Sith Ifrican dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #1

I'm a former South African DavidDvorkin Mar 2012 #2

dipsydoodle

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1. Not Sith Ifrican

Reply to iowasocialist (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 12:58 PM

Mar 2012

as the Afrikaans would call it but to the best of my knowledge that was sung by the British against the Boers. As such I don't really see what apartheid has to do with it.

Anti - German/Dutch maybe but thats a different matter

DavidDvorkin

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2. I'm a former South African

Reply to iowasocialist (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 01:24 PM

Mar 2012

and I always thought it was a British soldier's song dating from the Boer War. It's nothing to do with Apartheid.

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