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Steve Hofmeyr sings “Die Stem” to Australian fans

Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr, who recently caused a controversy by singing the old national anthem at a music festival in Mbombela, has repeated his actions by again singing Die Stem at the Afrikaans Club in Australia.

Steve Hofmeyr included “Die Stem” in a recent show at the Afrikaans Club in Australia.

 Beeld reported on Monday that around 400 people stood up and sang along during his 90-minute performance of Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations (FAK) songs, which included “Die Stem”, in Adelaide on Friday, according to Arno Nel, the organiser of Hofmeyr and his son Armand’s tour to Australia and New Zealand.

People “hung onto his lips”, said Nel.

After the show Hofmeyr’s facebook page included the message about what he called the “Die Stem Dilemma” saying: “…With pride and homesickness. As one. Without warning.”

Hofmeyr was recently criticised by some after he sang the old anthem, originally composed by Afrikaans poet CJ Langenhoven at the Innibos arts festival.

The Economic Freedom Fighters also reportedly called on Parliament for the “Die Stem” portion of the current national anthem, which combines “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika”, first composed by Enoch Sontonga and later used at political meetings, and “Die Stem/The Call of South Africa”, to be scrapped.

Group tries to get Hofmeyr into politics

  Afrikaans singer and controversial figure Steve Hofmeyr might go into politics if a Facebook group succeeds in getting one million members.
The group, called 'Miljoen stemme vir Steve' (A million votes for Steve), was created by Sakkie van de Skyf with Hofmeyr's permission, Eyewitness News reported.
Created last week, it now has over 111,000 members.
The group was created after Hofmeyr told Van De Skyf on radio earlier this year that he would start a career in politics if he received a million votes.
"Let's show him [Hofmeyr] that we stand behind him," the group's description says in Afrikaans.
"If you become a member it's automatically a vote."
Another group has been created called 'Miljoen Stemme Teen Steve' (A million votes against Steve), but it has not received much support.

Afrikaans singer chains herself to statue to protest defacing

South African singer and Afrikaner activist, Sunette Bridges, chains herself to the statue of Afrikaner hero Paul Kruger in central Pretoria, South Africa, 08 April 2015. (EPA/KIM LUDBROOK)

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As South Africans debate the removal of colonial statues and symbols, some Afrikaans citizens are pushing back.

On Wednesday, a group of Afrikaans protesters gathered in Pretoria to rally against the defacing  of a statue of former president Paul Kruger, which was splattered  with green paint earlier in the week. South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters later said  some if its members took part in the defacing.

The demonstrators, led by Afrikaans singers Sunette Bridges and Steve Hofmeyer, accused the South African government of failing to protect key historical monuments. Bridges also called the vandalism an attack on Afrikaner heritage.

The Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa’s second-biggest opposition party, said its members were among people who defaced statues in protest over symbols that remain from the country’s colonial and apartheid past.
The statue of Paul Kruger, a president of the Afrikaner-led Transvaal Republic before the Anglo-Boer war, and four figures of townspeople around him, were splashed with green paint in Pretoria’s Church Square on April 5. Statues of Britain’s King George V in Durban and Queen Victoria and the Horse Memorial in the coastal town of Port Elizabeth were also vandalized over the Easter holiday weekend. In March, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town was smeared with human excrement.
The “statues should be taken down,” Moafrika Mabongwana, EFF deputy chairman for Tshwane, the municipal area that covers the capital Pretoria, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “We don’t agree that these statues should be put in public places. We aren’t saying that history should be erased. All the statues should be identified and taken down.”
In the 17th century Dutch and French settlers arrived in what is now South Africa’s Western Cape province. Later the British arrived and Rhodes helped to expand the U.K.’s influence as head of the provincial government and by funding an expedition that led to the colonization of what is now Zimbabwe. The government that created apartheid laws came into power in 1948 and the country’s first all-race elections were held in 1994.
While some towns and street names commemorating apartheid and colonial-era leaders have since been changed, many historical symbols have remained.

Building Resistance

“If you want to change these statues, defacing them is exactly the wrong way to go about it because it builds resistance,” JP Landman, a Johannesburg-based independent political and economic analyst, said in a phone interview.
After paint was thrown on Paul Kruger’s figure, the Star newspaper pictured three members of AfriForum, an organization focused on protecting the rights of Afrikaners, protesting at the base of the statue with a sign that read “Ons gaan nerens,” which means “We are not going anywhere.”
Kruger’s statue is now being guarded by police and any further damage to the figure may result in prosecution, Blessing Manale, Tshwane’s mayoral spokesman, said in a phone interview. There’s also a team of people cleaning the statue, he said.

‘Painful History’

“As a government that promotes a transformative national agenda we also accept that the past cannot, and should not, be completely wiped off,” Nathi Mtethwa, South Africa’s culture minister, said, according to Business Day newspaper.
The main political opposition party to the ruling African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance, condemned the EFF’s “senseless” destruction of statues in a statement on Monday.
The University of Cape Town met for a second day on Wednesday to decide on whether or not to move the statue of Rhodes, who donated the land that the university’s main campus sits on. University Vice Chancellor Max Price has said he believes the statue should be moved.
“The calls for Rhodes and other statues to fall are a symptom of the underlying problem of a lack of transformation in the institutions and in society in general,” Zizi Kodwa, national spokesman for the ANC, said in an e-mailed statement. “South Africa must continue to engage on how best we preserve this painful history so that we never forget in support of our young democracy. We must also debate the meaning our different people attach to these symbols.”

Many Monuments

The ANC doesn’t support the destruction of property and feels that future generations need a reference to history, Kodwa said in an interview.
South Africa has other memorials and statues that may face being renamed or being removed. There is Rhodes Memorial, just above the University of Cape Town, and there’s Kruger National Park, named for Paul Kruger, with another statue of him at one of the park gates. In Franschoek, about an hour from Cape Town, there is the Huguenot Monument, dedicated to the French immigrants, and close by in Paarl there is a monument to the Afrikaans language, and in Pretoria there’s the Voortrekker Monument that commemorates the Afrikaners who fled from the British in the Western Cape, trekking north in ox-wagons.
“I do not like the idea of wiping out history and destroying or removing a statue,” Adam Habib, the vice chancellor of Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, said in an e-mailed response to questions. “Instead, I would have preferred to build a new statue commemorating the victims next to the Rhodes statue with a plaque telling their story.”

Legal Issues

Many of South Africa’s memorials, monuments and statues are protected by the National Heritage Resources Act. While students at UCT want Rhodes’ statue moved as soon as possible, and the university’s vice chancellor has said he also wants it to be moved, the heritage laws will have to be considered.
“The mistake made is that more layers of history and statues and memorials weren’t added after apartheid ended,” Alana Bailey, deputy chief executive officer of Pretoria-based AfriForum, said in a phone interview. “We feel a national debate is needed before expenses are incurred and changes are made. I feel political leadership is lacking on all sides.”

Sunette Bridges protests over Paul Kruger statue

Pretoria - Controversial Afrikaans singer Sunette Bridges says her protest action at the foot of the statue of Paul Kruger in Church Square, Pretoria was against the vandalism of all statues in the country.
Bridges threatened to chain herself to the statue if the mayor of the City of Tshwane Kgotsientso Ramakgopa did not collect a petition to protect heritage sites and symbols.
Bridges said a representative of the mayor's office obliged on Wednesday, which meant she would not have to spend the night with 'Oom Paul'.

(Ockert de Villiers, News24)
"We are here against the absolute vandalism and destruction of statues, monuments and heritage," Bridges said on Wednesday morning.
"This first started when Jacob Zuma got onto a podium and said all the problems in this country started when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the country."
She said this was part of an unyielding attack on Afrikaner heritage and the minority group.
Bridges said more than 12 000 people had signed the petition.

(Ockert de Villiers, News24)
The statue of Kruger and two bronze sentries in Pretoria was defaced with green paint over the Easter weekend.
The FF Plus laid charges against the EFF which admitted to being behind the defacing of the statue.
Close to a hundred people representing Afrikaner political parties including the Front Nasionaal Party, the Boer Vrou Liga and the Freedom Front Plus gathered from 09:00.
Some of the protesters held placards reading "Hands off our heritage. This is genocide!"  and "If colonial statues aren't safe. Are we?"

Henning Joubert
Henning Joubert - Solo and Group Musician - Cape Town Henning Joubert was born on the 22nd of July 1981 in Klerksdorp, between maize fields and mines in the heart of the old Western Transvaal (now North West Province). Henning started making music at the age of seven but the piano lessons were soon given up for cricket and rugby. Seeing that Henning’s father was a musician in his own right, coaching cadet bands of the highest quality and an organist in the church, there were always instruments around, so Henning could always experiment with a variety of instruments, from a trumpet to the church organ. At the age of 12 a teacher at Goudkop Primary School started a ‘boere-orkes' and Henning was asked to play the concertina, as the teacher caught Henning many times in the music room with his accordion. Henning got the concertina on the Friday and by Monday he played his first tune at the school concert. Due to the fact that Henning grew up in a folk music environment, he was exposed to a great variety of musical instruments like guitars, bass guitars and drums.
Henning Joubert After Henning matriculated at the Higher Technical School Klerksdorp, he decided to study music (guitar) at the Jazz Department of the Technikon of Pretoria where he obtained a scholarship. He had already received numerous awards ranging from ATKV, the Rock 'Guild - Best concertina player (17 years old - modern adult section), Eisteddfod and Guinness Book of Records for the largest concertina ensemble. While studying at the Technikon, Henning met a variety of artists and musicians, and appeared with many of them for a period of four years. Henning was a founding member of the Revolutionary Afrikaans Rock Band ‘Beeskraal’ and toured with the band regularly. Through these tours Henning met many more musicians and they approached him to play guitar for them. Later Henning broke away from Beeskraal and started playing on a freelance basis for artists such as William Blackrose, Steyn Fourie and a number of 'cover bands'.
Henning Joubert During a gig in London, Henning met Dozi and decided a month later to tour with his band on a permanent basis. After that Henning was a permanent member of the Robbie Wessels band for three years and then he became part of Bok van Blerk's band. In 2001, Henning won the Sakkie-Langarm-Boereorkes Competition on KykNet and the album that followed was awarded with a SAMA Award. Henning is a very capable 'session' artist and plays guitar, acoustic guitar, concertina, mandolin, bass guitar, blues harp, banjo, piano & accordion. At 29 years of age Henning already has 18 year’s experience in the music industry (seeing that his first paid performance was at the age of 12 years). Today Henning also works on his own projects, including ‘Joubert’, an Afrikaans solo album he plans to release during mid 2012. Henning Joubert can be booked as a solo artist, or with a full band (Joubert) to perform at just about any function covering any genre. He also does backing vocals for most artists with whom he works and is a very talented songwriter.

Karlien van Jaarsveld

Karlien van Jaarsveld - Afrikaans Singer - Pretoria Born on December 21st in Paarl, Western Cape, Karlien Van Jaarsveld started her singing career in her own rock band. She later decided to go out on her own, and her debute album, “As di gordyn val”, including tracks, “Jakkels trou met wolf se vrou” and “Beter as liefde”, made sure she captivated the Afrikaans market. Karlien’s powerful voice along with the pulsating rhythms and soulful ballads is what makes her music. Several of her songs have been written by herself, proving she is not just a pretty face but a very talented singer and song writer.

Karlien has many awards including best Afrikaans pop album (South African Music Awards) in 2014 and Popular Female artist and song of the year in the Huisgenoot Tempo awards.

Elvis se Seun

Elvis se Seun - Boere Rock Band - Johannesburg Elvis se Seun first released their song "My Lekker-bekkie" proving that the public likes the new sound and are eager to hear more about this band. With the release of their second song "Wil jy in my arms le vanaand" and the video to television an ever bigger reaction form the public showed that there is definitely something here. More than 30 years after Elvis left the building, a new voice has risen up to fill the void. Playing music similar to The King’s genre, Elvis se Seun is a new kind rock band. Playing old school rock and roll with a boere twist, this band is setting dance floors across South Africa on fire.

With an impressive repertoire of original Afrikaans songs and few Elvis covers in between, Elvis se Seun will have you tapping your blue suede shoes.

Anne Power
Anne Power - Cabaret, Solo & MC - Johannesburg Anne Power has been entertaining audiences from South Africa and beyond for over 25 years.  Anne was born in Gweru, Zimbabwe but relocated to Cape Town. On matriculating from Notre Dame Convent, she spent a year in the USA as a Rotary Exchange Student. She returned to study law and politics at Rhodes University. After a year she switched to her first love, drama. She finished her degree at the University of Cape Town. Anne graduated with an Associate Licentiate from Trinity College London as well as a Licentiate in Speech and Drama teaching from The University of South Africa.  Besides the traditional avenues of stage, television and film, Anne is an accomplished singer, well known on the Cabaret circuit and the corporate market for launches and specialised shows; she not only sings but can devise and direct any event using other well known artists to cater to the company's specific requirements.  Anne is also an accomplished Master of Ceremonies. Over the years has hosted her own Radio and TV shows as anchor and quiz master. Anne is also a top voice artist in the commercials/advertising industry. She now has her own production company called "African power projects" which specialises in utilizing the many talents of South African artists in corporate launches and other events.
Anne Power is a master cabaret artist, divine Master of Ceremonies and one of South Africa's most versatile female artists of all time. Born in Zimbabwe, moved to Cape Town, investing her time in drama studies, traveling extensively and a number of awards, albums and corporate functions and public performances must be the reason Anne is one of the most sort after entertainers. Brains, beauty and talent - who could ask for more! She played leading roles in productions such as "The Tempest", "The Cocktail Party", "Murder At The Vicarage" and "Best Little Whorehouse In Texas". In 1980 she appeared in Des and Dawn Lindberg's "Act". Anne married the whole known South African actor and entertainer, the late great Bill Flynn. She has featured in numerous television shows and plays.
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Bobby van Jaarsveld

Bobby van Jaarsveld - Afrikaans Singer - Pretoria Bobby van Jaarsveld, born on the 6th of march 1987, joined the music industry at the beginning of his Grade 12 year when his first solo album was released by Bler Music in South Africa. In November of 2006, Theuns Jordaan Productions offered van Jaarsveld a recording contract. His first album, 'n Duisend Ure redistributed with a new look and new sound. The albums sales reached gold status in March of 2008, and in May 2008, van Jaarsveld started performing with his own band.

Van Jaarsveld went on to release his second album, “net vir jou” in October 2013 and all the tracks were written and composed by himself. Album sales reached platinum status within 8 weeks, and since then have reached double platinum status. Van Jaarsveld has won many awards over the years including ‘best newcomer’ in 2006, ‘best male artist’ in 2010, ‘Song of the year’ in 2012 and 2013 and ‘best music video’ in 2014.