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COSAT students sing national anthem.

Can you create a national anthem from a mashup? Here’s why South Africa did it

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When South Africa ended apartheid and held free elections nearly 20 years ago, it needed a song that would heal the rift created by segregation. Its choice, the country’s new national anthem, is part-hymn, part-march, and all mashup. Instead of rejecting the past, it embraced both parts of it.

A tale of two Russian anthems

Arts, Culture & Media

Norwegians Defy Mass Killer Breivik With Peace Song

Conflict & Justice
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Redesigning the national anthem

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World in Words – poet Sergei Mikhalkov

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German national anthem mix-up

Arts, Culture & Media

Swiss TV has played the wrong version of the German national anthem – the wartime version, as The BBC’s Imogen Foulkes reports.

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