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The Africa Union flag All South African school goers will have to learn the African Union anthem, President Jacob Zuma announced at Africa Day celebrations in Pretoria on Sunday.
“Starting today every school, church or community, choirs and individuals must practice the African Union anthem, so that we can sing it at all our important gatherings and celebrations,” Zuma told the crowd at the Africa Day celebrations, which took place at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi campus.
“If we start with our generation now that they sing it and understand it in schools, we have begun to plant a patriotism that will never go away to our citizens.”
Zuma urged South African institutions and companies to begin flying the African Union flag together with the South African flag.
Africa Day falls on May 25 each year and marks the day the Organisation of African Unity, known today as the African Union, was founded in 1963.
This is the anthem lyrics and also how to sing it.
English Version
- Let us all unite and celebrate together
- The victories won for our liberation
- Let us dedicate ourselves to rise together
- To defend our liberty and unity
- O Sons and Daughters of Africa
- Flesh of the Sun and Flesh of the Sky
- Let us make Africa the Tree of Life
- Let us all unite and sing together
- To uphold the bonds that frame our destiny
- Let us dedicate ourselves to fight together
- For lasting peace and justice on earth
- O Sons and Daughters of Africa
- Flesh of the Sun and Flesh of the Sky
- Let us make Africa the Tree of Life
- Let us all unite and toil together
- To give the best we have to Africa
- The cradle of mankind and fount of culture
- Our pride and hope at break of dawn.
- O Sons and Daughters of Africa
- Flesh of the Sun and Flesh of the Sky
- Let us make Africa the Tree of Life
