A bunch of over 3000 Afrikaners who marched to the US Embassy in South Africa to thank President Donald Trump had been seen belting out Die Stem, which was the nation’s nationwide anthem through the Apartheid period.

This, after the controversial statesman issued an govt order granting Afrikaners asylum or refugee standing in America.

The big crowd handed over a memorandum thanking the controversial president for talking out about SA’s “racist legal guidelines.”

THOUSANDS OF AFRIKANERS SING ‘DIE STEM’

In movies posted on social media, a big crowd of Afrikaners had been seen exterior the US Embassy to SA in Pretoria on Saturday, 15 February.

Members of the group held up posters thanking US President Donald Trump for his criticism of the SA authorities over what he believes is “racial discrimination” in opposition to white South Africans.

Most of the posters learn: “Make South Africa Nice Once more”. 

At one level, the gang started singing Die Stem, which was the Afrikaans nationwide anthem throughout Apartheid.

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‘DIE STEM’ IN DEMOCRACY

Over thirty years in the past, the primary democratic president of South Africa – the late Nelson Mandela – dominated that Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and Die Stem each be sung as nationwide anthems. This later emerged as a shorter model, which we sing at present.

Mandela welcomed that each Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika – a Christian hymn first penned by Enoch Sontonga in 1987 – and Die Stem, a poem written by CJ Langenhoven in 1918, be sung collectively as a gesture to respect all races and cultures in South Africa’s all-inclusive new period dawning of democracy.

Three years later, the Structure adopted a shortened model of the songs, now together with different official languages like Zulu, Sesotho, and English.

US EMBASSY ACKNOWLEDGES MEMORANDUM

In the meantime, the US Embassy to SA has acknowledged the memorandum handed over by the group of Afrikaners.

In it, the group known as on Donald Trump to assist “change insurance policies and legal guidelines affecting the Afrikaner group in South Africa.”

The Embassy pledged to move on the memorandum to Trump and the US Secretary of State for “speedy motion.”

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