That Fire LA, August 17, 2020
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*Some YouTube videos about South African high school war cries (including one of these videos that are showcased in this post) include clips of high school students from Zimbabwe performing war cries.
In addition, there are several comments in the Showcase discussion thread for the video given as #1 in this pancocojams post written by people from Kenya, East Africa and Ghana, West Africa, and other Southern African nations which indicate that they have similar high school singing traditions.
Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/south-africans-explaining-game-of-rugby.html for the related pancocojams post entitled "South Africans Explaining The Game Of Rugby to People From The United States".
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A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN TERM "COLLEGE" [added to this pancocojams post on Nov. 23, 2022]
Here's a comment that I came across which succinctly explains the South African use of the term "college":
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rty_vv09Pho&t=3s&ab_channel=MansaMayne Top school war-cries in South Africa 🇿🇦 (MadeinTyo, Sheck Wes, French Montana...) published by Mansa Mayne, Sept 1, 2020
"Howzit Mansa from Port Elizabeth,South Africa we wear school uniforms in high school and casual clothes at university. So when you see uniforms it's high school. Grade 8-12."
DEFINITION OF THE TERM "WAR CRY" (also known as "BATTLE CRY")
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_cry
"A battle cry or war cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same combatant group. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they often aim to invoke patriotic or religious sentiment. Their purpose is a combination of arousing aggression and esprit de corps on one's own side and causing intimidation on the hostile side..... In order to overstate one's potential for aggression, battle cries need to be as loud as possible, and have historically often been amplified by acoustic devices such as horns, drums, conches, carnyxes, bagpipes, bugles, etc."....
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Here's a comment about South African war cries from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7u70rgqgw&t=207s Top school war-cries in South Africa 🇿🇦 (MadeinTyo, Sheck Wes, French Montana...), published by Mansa Mayne, [added to this pancocojams post on Nov. 23, 2022]
"Zodwa Mbuyazi, 2021
"These war cries are usually sung in rugby matches"
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2: SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH SCHOOL WAR-CRIES ARE LIT!!, Part 2
That Fire LA, Oct. 27, 2022
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From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PNxduzYdw
[This is the discussion thread for the reaction video given as #2 in this post.
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
2020
1.deadlitch3p0
"these be sung before, during, and after every sports game to hype up our teams"
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2. k maart
"A lot of schools have war cries to cheer their 1st team rugby in derby games on Saterdays. But S.A all boy schools take a lot of pride in who has the best war cries, which is normally led by boy cheerleaders like those you saw dressed in weird blazers.
Only recently were full on bands involved in war cries. I don't know what school started it, but it's changed the level of school war cries for the best for sure🏆its Lit🔥"
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3. Ghostie
"The two schools that started the warcries trend are Queens College Boys High & Dale College Boys High, schools in the EasternCape"
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4. Amber Angel
"In South Africa we have have compulsory sports events at High School at which generally not only are you competing on the field but you also compete with the Spirit. Sometimes they actually award teams for the spirit trophy. So we learn a whole bunch of war cries which we then perform before, during and after the event. Spirit is very competitive in SA so we get really hyped up during war cries."
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"Let me explain: In South Africa, high school kids are expected to come to school on Saturday and support their school sports teams dressed in full school uniform (almost all South African high schools wear uniforms). Sometimes it's optional but often it's mandatory."
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6.Karim Zolani
"6:47 those songs are called amagwijo... speaking under correction those songs are usually sang when a boy is about to become a man in the xhosa culture and is about to go to the mountain for about a month for initiation and this usually happens around 18yrs... the songs have been included in our rugby culture in recent years...ululating is what women usually do when the boy comes back from the mountain as they are happy and celebrating that their son has become a man."
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7. Courtney Viljoen
""As someone from Durban, single gendered schools are very common especially in high school. War cries are part of the ethos of a school and are taught to grade 8s as they enter the school. South Africans are extremely proud people and we are proud of our sports and schools. Hence we partake in war cries at rugby games, galas, festivals etc. The guys in two tone blazers are generally Spirit or War Cry Captains and lead the war cries. Being at events with war cries like these hypes everyone up so much and acts as a means to show school spirit in a phenomenal way. Some schools stay after school to practice for major inter school games, festivals and tournaments."
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8. Jan Hendrik Niemand
"90% of our schools in South-Africa wear uniform and in all our school we trie to keep the spirit up to keep the pupils positive and bonded it is called "Gees Vang" in Afrikaans. SA stick together. The different couler Blazers is Headboy and Headgirl with there team of 2-4 headleaders with them it happens when we want to get a positive vibe and at all our school sport events."
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9. Palesa Ngubeni
"sometimes the singing happens spontaneously too, during lunch breaks or if the teacher steps out of the class (we'd get in trouble when the teacher came back though. lol)"
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10. Jade vT
"My school would do this every as hype for athletics when competing against different schools or when competing against other teams in our school. Since it's compulsory to participate it wasn't really a positive thing for me till I saw this video. One year they gave us a choice about participating and half the school skipped it... I didn't realize it wasn't done everywhere."
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11. Thabo Mosenogi
"This is what we do during free periods"
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12. Sihle Siba
"I dont think every school has those but my school has a 1 hour sport period every Friday right before after school and if you finish practice early or if you not in a sport we chill by the quad and moshpit/dance or just flex our entertaining talents
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"School spirit in South Africa is massive which is why we also wear school uniforms in most schools here, amongst other reasons! War cries are choreographies that the seniors either pass down to the school or create to hype their schools up when they go to "war" with another school - much like New Zealand with the HAKKA! Our schools are very competitive in sports and culture as much as we are academically. These war cries are also to orientate the juniors as they get into high school. This is the best thing ever when you have sports festivals where multiple schools compete and the whole school rallies behind them by each performing these war cries to show their support and school spirit 😃"
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I believe that "juniors" in this comment refers to students who are in what the United States would refer to as 8th grade.
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14. Kwanele Sosibo
"The dudes with the different color suits are warcry leaders and this is done by all boys schools and some co-Ed schools it’s something we practice almost every day and do this every Saturday when the 1st team Rugby or Soccer mostly Rugby plays a game.
It’s tradition among SA boys schools to compete on and off the field so basically this is happening on both sides of the field as the players duke it out on the field.
At halftime some schools do blazer performance (Durban High School)"
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"Blazer performances" are called "flashes" and/or "spellings". Click the link for Part III in this pancocojams post for information about and videos of South African "flashes"/"spellings".
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15. Nokwanda Khoza
"Some schools in SA are usually separated between “boys” & “girls” high schools. So when ever a big rugby game or tournament happens the whole school will rally out in support of the players & sing war cries. The people holding the sticks and wearing different coloured blazers are usually prefects or head boys/ girls. They’re main role is to is to basically direct & manage the students. Its really interesting to watch particularly because the boys schools become so competitive. I was in an all girls school & we’d go watch rugby games & war cries.... probably some of the most memorable moments in high school"
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16. Luke Horwood
"At most of the top sporting schools in South Africa Saturday is a compulsory day where you have to watch all the first teams play so the entire school is always there.These are just war crys that take part before.during and after the event has taken place especially rugby"
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17. Thashil M
"We don't have cheerleaders like in the US so the students would all just get together and song our war cries to make "pep" and inspire our players on the field"
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18. Brendan Dally
"YOOOO! I’m from south africa and went to a boys school in Johannesburg, the guys with the two colour blazers are the WAKA MEN, they lead the war cries 😍 man i miss this, and i’m living in the states now"
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19. oae
"This is the only thing i miss about high school 😂. We usually did this before and when we compete with another school in sport but we sometimes did it during school events or just to vibe out. It's to hype the teams up and intimidate the competition. The entire school is apart of it. The guys in the two coloured blazers are like hypemen/cheerleaders. They are incharge of conducting the war cries. The boys schools usually do it better😂😂 that's why there's so many boys schools in the video.
That sound you heard is ululating. We do it when we are celebrating something to show excitement and joy
props to whoever suggested this"
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The last part of this comment probaly refers to the person who suggested that the African American vlogger That Fire LA showcases a video about South African flashes on his vlog.
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"We do this to encourage school spirit at beginning of every school year during sports days. It's called Gees at Afrikaans schools"
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21. lu Dlwathi
"Half the time we don't even watch the games 😂😂we literally hype the whole time"
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22. Jodi_Leigh
"I had no interest in sport. I was there to siiiiiing 🔥 🔥 🔥"
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23. a s h l y n
"sooo true😂"
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24. Linda M
"Lmaoooo during the game was snack time and ‘hit on kids from other schools’ time 😂😂😂"
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"War cries are usually done before, during and after school sports events. All public schools in SA wear blazers, ties etc. Lots of old school private schools also choose to wear school uniforms."
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26. Laura Maclagan
"Sometimes we have events against other school, in sports and academics and culture. So the high school students will come together (usually lead by matric prefects, grade 12s) and will create a few minutes worth of a war cry to perform against the other school to create a vibe and excitement "
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27. Rene Laurings
"This is show of school spirit. Sometimes done as a part of assembly, or school opening ceremony (start of the new school year) after welcoming the new students and before entering into competition against other schools... And yes, it is done to get spirit, enthusiasm, excitement built up to almost frenzied levels... to drive their competitors to win at whatever competition it may be although mostly sporting events..."
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28. Philile Mabaso
"The War Cry was designed for rugby games and each school cheering against each other. Its big games, mostly weekends and spectators can also cheer which makes it more lit. War cries are also done in Hockey and Swimming tournaments."
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29. Chad Davies
"Who remembers being in grade 8 during breaks on the stands in summer with their blazer on doing warcrys😂"
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30. Elrico Quantavae
"@Chad Davies worst thing ever bro😂😂"
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31. Matthias Mouton
"Nah mine was mandatory but i would just not show up. Or in the middle of it i would just walk home😂😂"
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32. Nonz Segole
"@Chad Davies the pain when the matrices fetched you from the tuckshop line 😭"
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"@Chad Davies omg the memories"
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34. Ahlumile Kungwayo
"@Chad Davies bruh... being forced by the Matrics to sing louder 😔"
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I believe that "seniors" and "upper classmen" are comparable termsin the United States for the South African term "matrics".
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35. Adriaan Minnee
"not true anymore. it's mandatory if you want the people in the school to like you. you need to be your own person though"
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36. Zandile Funeka
"Now i’m starting to think that I didn’t go to a south African school😂"
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37. Noreal Nonyana
"@zee SA me too🤔😁 I never knew about this till today😂😅🙄"
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38. Zandile Funeka
"Noreal Nonyana honestly I feel left out 😂"
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39.Shwetha's Life
"hahah same"
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40. Zipho Masuku
"broo...but in boarding schools we usually got hyped on Fridays after school"
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41. Armaan
"If you guys didn't do this during athletics then you didn't go to SA school."
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42. Zandile Funeka
"Armaan Yare i guess I’ve been imagining being a South African all this time😂"
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43. official depac
"@Zandile Funeka you and I both😕"
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44. Tania Meko
"Same 🤣🤣"
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45.Santhuri
"It’s like the big sport schools that do this 😂"
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46. Austin Soks
"Lol ,you should have went to Boarding School or those Roman high schools you were going to Experience this .😂This a vibe bro it reminds of my high school days .🔥🔥🔥"
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47. Zandile Funeka
"Austin Soks unfortunately my parents couldn’t afford the luxury bro😂😂sad"
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48. Bonnie M
"I go to a German South African school so i dont experience it like all the others do😭"
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49. sparky squishypaws
"It be those kasi schools that don't do things like this.... Dude I didn't even wanna believe this was south African cause we never did this in my school😂"
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"Kasi" is a South African slang term that means "hood", "ghetto" https://rekord.co.za/learn-local-lingo/#:~:text=Kasi%20%E2%80%93%20'hood%20or%20ghetto.
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50. Tiego Maja
"I went to St Albans College in South Afica. Goodness me- i just got taken aback with memories from my high school years.
To answer your questions:
1. These are war cries that we practiced on a weekly basis (as an entire school at head boys assembly).
2. The guys in the two tone jackets are typically the leaders (their role was to teach us all the war cries).
3. The war cries are sang at sport games and also serve as a tool to keep the camaraderie spirit alive"
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51. Antoinette Myburgh
"Fellow SA here, basic in school we compete against other schools. We would do athletics like high jump or sprints, etc. And when we compete the rest of the school that doesn’t compete in the athletics we sing songs to hype our athletes as well as win the spirit cup ( which is the school with the most school spirit) and its always so much fun. Most schools do it but because we wear uniforms in most schools not just private schools it looks real good. React to “MTBS flashes” for another form of “singing” we do but we use our uniforms to form pictures"
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Click Part II of this pancocojams series for examples of MTBS flashes.
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52. AngelMehl
"We absolutely have war cries and it's not limited to rugby! It's with every sport especially athletics!! When I was not on the track or the field, I was ON that stand, shouting the loudest!! Best school days ever!!!!"
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53. Mordo Bro
"We usually do this when we are about to play against our rival school, like rugby hockey and netball but rugby is the only thing that actually matters in South Africa🙏"
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54. Michael
"When we have major sports days. It’s called inter school, it’s when 2 schools come to battle it out for the last game of the season. We have war cries and school songs we sing to cheer on our teams."
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55. ThylerJoan Strydom
"The war cries are for any sporting events, to support our school. Sometimes even for 'inter-house' sports events where separate houses in the school verses each other. Sometimes we even sing at end of our school assembly and then the national anthem."
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56. Trusenz 100
"Let me break it down for you bro. So at sporting events and/or inter-school gathering the biggest sign of pride you can have is called "School Spirit". Its crazy because we practise these over and over, recreate new ones and compose new ones in order to hype us the teams. There are competitions between grandstands/bleachers to blow the other teams spirit out like a candle. AND IT GETS SUPER LIT!!!!"
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57. Pieter van der Merwe
"This is what we do like for a week or two before athetic meets and rugby matches and just to hype up the school and the teams and get the school fam to stand together; it’s an awesome team building exercise 👌🏻💪🏼🤘🏼
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58. Amahle Gumede
"At every South African school (both co-ed/single sex) around the country there is an energy called GEES (spirit) u feel it when supporting ur school team
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59. LexStaysLiquid: The Conscious Divergent
"The navy/white blazers are for the War Cry/Spirit Leaders at a high school in Johannesburg called Saint Stithians Boys' College (I was one in '09) to keep the energy & support hyped for the 1st Rugby team, mainly. We had some really sick ones back then which were banned for being too LIT!"
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60. Alichea Coetzee
"This reminds me of primary school. We had an athletics event (think it spanned over like a week or 2 maybe?). The entire school would be split up into 3 teams of colours, I remember I was red. And we'd have the day off - you had to dress in your colour and you would sing the entire day. Each team would be spaced out over the entire school's playground and the teachers would decide who sang the loudest and the team who won, would get the "spirit cup". There was an actual athletic cup also, based on the scores of the teams (like mini Olympics) and I unfortunately can't even remember the third cup, was so long ago haha! Brings back a lot of fun memories."
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61.Alfreda Cornelius
"That is how South African schools get hyped for a game. It can go on for weeks leading to the game. It is to get the players hyped and to encourage them"
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62. 18montyJ
"War cries are common here. Schools usually have a actual school song and an official war cry. At sporting events and usually during assembly.
These new kids are killing it though with their improvisations with singing popular songs."
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DISCUSSION THREAD #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhYwtymfE_Q
[This is the video that is given as Showcase video #3 in this pancocojams post.]
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
2020
1.Uthimna Nape
"It's really hard to say which school has the best war cries, because many different languages and different war cries are done in SA, it's hard to compare them. Others are traditional, other are more in the trap genre and are for turning up.
Queens College is in Eastern Cape, where the language IsiXhosa(the one famous for the clicks) is mostly spoken. Hence most of their war cries are in the language."
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2. THE NERVE
"I'm from South Africa and if you travel by train you will hear this in the morning and it just lift your spirit in the early hours of the morning going to work or school"
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3. Frog named Jog
"This vid really made me miss singing war cries in school... May start attending soccer matches to feel that vibe again"
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4. Nametso Menyatsoe
"War cry’s happen in almost every school in South Africa doesn’t matter which part in South Africa .. because we sing the same songs almost every part of South Africa"
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5. Clantis
"Having gone to an all boys high school, war cries was our life. I miss high school😢"
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6. Nabo Mfundisi
"If you were to actually react on “Mgidi” videos you would actually learn where these songs originated from. Cause these songs are called amagwijo which are sang by men to welcome a boy into manhood. But over the years, black boys started introducing these songs to their white peers in school. But they are originally sang during initiation."
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7. Gabriel Mkhonza
"Too much irrelevant information.🙆♂️"
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8. Nabo Mfundisi
"@gabriel Mkhonza how is it irrelevant? Ayikho lento uyithethayo!!"
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Google translate from Xhosa to English - "You have nothing to say!!"
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9. Nancy Nyandega
" @Gabriel Mkhonza how is it irrelevant??????we just learnt that they are initiation songs when some of us who are not SAcan assumed they were sports chants mostly"
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10. Liberty Sibanyoni
"These are songs which are sang when black people are gathered, not just at initiation. Isizwe sakwa Zulu do not go to the mountain yet they also sing such songs and they call them indlamu if I'm not mistaken (I stand to be corrected). This is why you'll find amagwijo that are in different languages."
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"@Liberty Sibanyoni not amagwijo, do your research. Amagwijo originate from Xhosa people, they are sang by men during the initiation period. But over the years they managed to spread out into other activities such as sport. I am specifically speaking about amagwijo, not other songs. In this particular video these kids are singing amagwijo. You get Zulu traditional songs but they are not necessarily amagwijo"
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12. The Paige
"Boy, nothing is irrelevant over here. These songs have an origin and meaning. Boys do not just go to the mountain with a huge risk of not making it for people like you to call it irrelevant. If your tribe does not practice such rituals, just say so (no one is judging that btw).
A lot of our culture is going to be lost in the next coming decades because of this generation and that is just sad.
And btw Amagwijo (Xhosa) and Indlamu (Zulu) are way way different."
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13. The Paige
"@Liberty Sibanyoni Indlamu and Amagwijo are very different. Did you hear any of these boys singing in Zulu or are you just yearning to be included? The Zulu culture is very beautiful, yes but stop forcing it everywhere. The Xhosa and Zulu languages might sound similar but please do not try to compare my Xhosa culture to something that it isn't."
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14. Liberty Sibanyoni
"@The Paige why are you so emotional though? And I'm not even Zulu. I was just stating that the gift of song is an African thing, not just a Xhosa thing. Amagwijo are in every language. And "gwijo" is a Xhosa word. Other tribes also have their own words to describe these songs."
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15. The Paige
"@Liberty Sibanyoni You cannot disregard a whole culture. Only 2 native songs were sung in this compilation and they were in 1 language. Both were amgwijo. So YOU need to relax and wait for a relevant video to talk about other tribes or cultures. Like...bro...do not come to a video that reps Xhosa culture and claim that amagwijo i.e Xhosa songs belong to any culture. Zulus have their songs, other tribes have their songs. They are very different."
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16. The Paige
" @Liberty Sibanyoni Amagwijo are Xhosa songs. Zulu songs have their own name and Sotho songs have their own so take a seat. Uyabhuda"
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Google translate from Zulu to English= Uyabhuda = "He's a fool"
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ADDENDUM
The South African high schools that are shown in numerous YouTube video compilations performing war cries at sports events is just one small glimpse of South African high schools.
It's important to recognize that every contemporary South African high school doesn't perform war cries or doesn't perform them in this way. Read comments #37 to#49 in Discussion Thread #1 below. These comments are from South African commenters from South Africa who didn't attend these types of private or public "sports" high schools, but instead attended "kasi" ["ghetto"] schools. To corroborate those comments, read https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/02/south-africa-broken-and-unequal-education-perpetuating-poverty-and-inequality/ February 11, 2020 " South Africa: Broken and unequal education perpetuating poverty and inequality". Here's an excerpt of that article:
Broken and Unequal: The State of Education in South Africa calls on the government to urgently address a number of endemic failings in the system in order to guarantee the right to a decent education for every child in South Africa.
[…]
The report details how the education system continues to be dogged by stark inequalities and chronic underperformance that have deep roots in the legacy of apartheid, but which are also not being effectively tackled by the current government.
For example, it brings to the fore that many schools and the communities they serve continue to live with the consequences of the political and economic decisions made during the apartheid era where people were segregated according to their skin colour, with schools serving white communities properly resourced. The result of this modern-day South Africa is that a child’s experience of education still very much depends on where they are born, how wealthy they are, and the colour of their skin.
[…]
Amnesty International visited numerous schools that had insufficient resources to meet the requirements for a decent education and this is borne out by the Department of Basic Education’s own statistics.
According to the Department’s own statistics for 2018, out of 23,471 public schools, 20,071 have no laboratory. Furthermore, 18,019 have no library, while 16,897 have no internet.
Almost 1,000 schools have no sports facilities, while 4,358 have only illegal plain pit latrines for sanitation; 1,027 have no perimeter fencing, essential for teacher and pupil safety, while 239 have no electricity, and 37 have no sanitation facilities at all.”…
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE #2: LEARNING ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA FROM SOUTH AFRICANS COMMENTING ON AMERICAN BASED MUSIC VLOGS
It also should be noted that these reaction vlog discussion threads also provide opportunities for South Africans and others to share information and explanations about their country with people from their home nation and other people throughout the world. These conversations are also learning experiences for people who aren't actively participating in the discussion threads, but are merely "listening in". Furthermore, these discussion threads provide historical and sociological information and therefore are worthy of archiving, sharing, and studying.
Thanks to all South African commenters and others for taking the opportunities that YouTube discussion threads provide to share this cultural information that isn't readily found elsewhere online.
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*Most South African based YouTube videos of South African high school war cries and/or flashes that I've come across have no comments , very few comments, or comments aren't allowed. Usually, the few comments that are posted to those discussion threads read praise the school and/or the war cry or flash that is showcased, and/or brags about their school being the best. One discussion thread that is an exception to this description is
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Here's the difference between chants and cheers (as given in an American based cheerleading website https://teens.lovetoknow.com/cheerleading/cheers-chants-and-songs
ReplyDelete" Chants
A chant is much shorter than a cheer. A chant tends to be two to four lines repeated over and over. A chant is quick and makes a point.
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chants tend to be easy to remember….
Cheers
Cheers tend to be longer than your typical one or two line chant."...
It seems to me that a lot of people refer to a cheer as a chant and vice versa.
DeleteAlso, many sports chants and sports cheers are lines from (once popular songs -or songs that are still popular- from various music genres. The lyrics that are chanted in the sports version either remains the same or are modified with basically the same pattern as that particular song that serves as its model. The sport chant usually retains the same tune of that song, but the tempo may not be the same.
Here's a comment from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7u70rgqgw&t=207sTop school war-cries in South Africa 🇿🇦 (MadeinTyo, Sheck Wes, French Montana...), published by Mansa Mayne, June 3, 2019. This comment is given for background general information about South African high schools.
DeleteWesley Beere. 2022
"So here in SA in high school we have different house we get put in like some Harry Potter shit for sports and sh-t* then we hype every one up by doing are war crys kinda like you guys got bleachers and cheerleaders"
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*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
A number of YouTube videos of South African high school war cries showcase students from Hilton College. Here's a comment about that college fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7u70rgqgw&t=207s Top school war-cries in South Africa 🇿🇦 (MadeinTyo, Sheck Wes, French Montana...), published by Mansa Mayne, June 3, 2019.
ReplyDeletejen, 2022
"Hilton is one of the top private schools in the world, in a Province of top private schools. Well worth the money if you are fortunate
enough to attend."
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Here's information about that South African high school from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_College_(South_Africa)
"Hilton College, more commonly referred to as Hilton, is a South African private boarding school for boys located near the town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and is situated on a 1,762 ha (4,350 acre) estate that includes a 550 ha (1,400 acre) wildlife reserve.
Hilton College was founded in 1872 by Gould Arthur Lucas and Reverend William Orde Newnham as a non-denominational Christian boys school. It follows English public school tradition and is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and is one of only two such remaining single-sex boys' schools (the other being Michaelhouse) to continue this practice in South Africa.
Hilton's 500 pupils each have access to a personal tutor and have a bespoke academic plan, it has consistently maintained its position as the most expensive school in South Africa.[1][2][3]"...