Gauteng Choristers performs Nongqawuse (Xhosa traditional song) composed by Bongani Magatyana

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

Комментарии • 131

  • @homemail9653
    @homemail9653 4 года назад +73

    I love the pace set by this choir, slow solemn reflecting the mood. Most choirs rush through this song in a celebratory manner when in fact this is more of a lament

    • @jeromelubabalojacobs8872
      @jeromelubabalojacobs8872 2 года назад +4

      The smiles disturb me still

    • @edwingng7973
      @edwingng7973 Год назад +4

      @@jeromelubabalojacobs8872 I agree
      The history of this song, the great cattle-killing and the following famine is heartbreaking

    • @nelsonnkabinde9691
      @nelsonnkabinde9691 Год назад +1

      Yes, I'm in total agreement with you on the slow tempo chosen by the Gauteng Choristers in their superb rendition of "uNonqhawuze". You've hit the nail on the head; it's a deep lamentation of the Xhosa nation upon realizing that t

  • @vangelidlamini825
    @vangelidlamini825 10 месяцев назад +9

    RIP Sphelele Madela. Watching you perform in this choir brings to me tears because I know how much you loved music. I hope you are resting well my dear friend ❤️🙏

  • @thamsangqamooi2555
    @thamsangqamooi2555 3 года назад +10

    One has to come back & view this at least once a year. Pure top notch

  • @michellejones71
    @michellejones71 4 года назад +69

    (Ilanga lizotshon' emini)
    Baphume bonke bengakholwa bo!
    (Ntombi kaMhlakaza)
    Ukuthi babulal' imfuyo bo!
    (Nongqawuse sik'thembe kanjani na?)
    Imfuyo bayixabisile bo!
    (Wathi zobuy' inkomo zoBawo)
    Nabaphantsi mabahlolelwe bo!
    (Ilanga lizotshon' emini)
    Zonke zatshiswa bo!
    (Izokhal' indod' ikhal' indod')
    Iinkomo zamadoda
    (Iinkomo ziphelile)
    Basale bebamb' ongezantsi bo!
    (Nabok' abantu bekhoth' amanxeba)
    Phupha ndini likaNongqawuse bo!

    • @tselengbotlhole750
      @tselengbotlhole750 3 года назад

      You are an angel 😇 thanks

    • @benlekale3503
      @benlekale3503 3 года назад

      You really helped with the lyrics🎀🎀🎀🙏

    • @mgk4908
      @mgk4908 2 года назад

      I thank you. God bless you. 🙏

    • @tozamilefunani
      @tozamilefunani 2 года назад +1

      Bavume banke bengakholwa!

    • @jeromelubabalojacobs8872
      @jeromelubabalojacobs8872 2 года назад +1

      "She said our fathers' cattle will return"
      "The ancestors are to be respected"
      Just had to clean up Google translation of the last two lines of the first paragraph

  • @zamam.7953
    @zamam.7953 4 года назад +17

    The energy here is on another level. Siyabonga.... That vebrato is from other realms.

  • @sakhilentshangase5187
    @sakhilentshangase5187 8 лет назад +41

    This just reminded me of how much I love choral music... I love choral music maaahhnnn :)

    • @ramaitemasipa6551
      @ramaitemasipa6551 7 лет назад

      Sakhile Ntshangase are you in one of the choirs? If so which one. I also love choral music. I'd love to listen to your choir

  • @afrocharmusic
    @afrocharmusic 8 лет назад +14

    One of Bongani Magatyana's brilliant and beautiful compositions!! Top notch GC!!

    • @sandilefakude1722
      @sandilefakude1722 8 лет назад

      Masibonge Mavusana

    • @mpumibikitsha6891
      @mpumibikitsha6891 2 года назад

      Thanks for this information. Only read about him today on the internet. 🙏🏽

  • @bongumusamkhungo3048
    @bongumusamkhungo3048 7 лет назад +5

    Now this is how i get to be reminded of my great days i had back than... Thats what i define as art.

  • @kwandamjwara3054
    @kwandamjwara3054 7 лет назад +1

    Thank you @Sidwell Njomane nethimba lakho...i'll forever enjoys your voices and Choral groups

  • @sandilefakude1722
    @sandilefakude1722 8 лет назад +13

    Version IV
    Ilanga lingatshon' emini - B
    (Baphume bonke bengakholwa bo?) - S, A, T.
    Ntombi kaMhlakaza
    (Ukuthi babulal' imfuyo bo!)
    Nongqawuse sethembe kanjani na?
    (Imfuyo bayixabisile bo!)
    Kaze zobuy' inkomo zoBawo?
    (Phupho ndini kaNonqawuse)
    Izokhal' indod' ikhal' indod'
    Inkomo ziphelil
    Sethembe kanjani na?
    Kaze zobuy' inkomo zoBawo?
    (Zonke zatshiswa bo!
    Inkomo zamadoda
    Basele bebambongezansi bo!
    Phupho ndini kaNonqawuse bo!)

  • @vusumzisojada3454
    @vusumzisojada3454 5 лет назад +6

    WOW THIS CHOIR AND REMIND ME OUR GREATEST QUEEN SEER IN XHOSA NATION.

  • @zakesmaphango4284
    @zakesmaphango4284 Год назад +6

    Who’s still here

  • @babsie3235
    @babsie3235 8 лет назад +37

    You guys are great but u should hear the prisons....they kill this song!

  • @ngcalikhanya8448
    @ngcalikhanya8448 2 года назад +6

    Why aren't we learning about this in our history classes😭

    • @thando425
      @thando425 Год назад +2

      Mna I did learn it in the class, that is one of the stories that recruited me into politics.

  • @khuselamadlanga5198
    @khuselamadlanga5198 2 года назад +2

    But why Africa ,you're moving my soul❤️❤️❤️

  • @mgk4908
    @mgk4908 2 года назад

    The maturity is on another level.👏

  • @khuselogqiba937
    @khuselogqiba937 4 месяца назад

    One has to love this rendition.

  • @sibonisiwemdlalose963
    @sibonisiwemdlalose963 8 лет назад +4

    Too beautiful for words!!!

  • @blackmazimotivation
    @blackmazimotivation 4 года назад +4

    I love this song ❤❤😭

  • @sbusisokhoza1745
    @sbusisokhoza1745 2 месяца назад +1

    Master piece 👌

  • @mojabengsebeela3419
    @mojabengsebeela3419 5 лет назад +3

    Still my number 1😍😍😍😍😍😍💞

  • @KhanyisaniZulu-ss3xj
    @KhanyisaniZulu-ss3xj Месяц назад

    Marvelous piece

  • @ramsmeso8273
    @ramsmeso8273 8 лет назад +2

    Simply Beautiful...

  • @onkengxesha277
    @onkengxesha277 9 лет назад +1

    It was a lovely evening !!!!

  • @geraldndashe
    @geraldndashe 4 года назад +1

    Wow , how I love this music

  • @Skara555
    @Skara555 9 лет назад +4

    brings out goosebumps!

  • @malebitsatimbuktu3352
    @malebitsatimbuktu3352 6 лет назад

    Ave Nongqawuse! The Girl Who Killed To Save - Nongqauwe The Liberator!

  • @NguBobozana_lo
    @NguBobozana_lo 3 года назад

    Need more of that bass 😎

  • @kamokb2272
    @kamokb2272 9 лет назад

    This is very nice and lovely indeed.. how to download the videos on youtube? any1 help out

  • @Lerumles
    @Lerumles 8 лет назад +8

    Beutiful melody! Sang by powerful voices! But painful lyrics. And a terrible story for Xhosa people at the false prophecy of Nongqawuse!

    • @teressaoatlhotse8547
      @teressaoatlhotse8547 8 лет назад

      what happened in the story?

    • @Lerumles
      @Lerumles 8 лет назад +11

      Teressa Oatlhotse Nongqawuse's community was sick and tired of being oppressed by white people. Nongqawuse then received a vision from the spirits of ancestors that the only way to get rid of the oppressor is to kill all the cattle and burn the fields of grain. When the oppressor sees this, they will be terrified and driven into the sea. Then the ancestors will return the killed cattle. The story continues to say that other your girls bore testimony to Nongqawuse's vision.
      They then killed the cattle and burnt the fields. The oppressor never left, the community has been impoverished ever since.
      The song then says "the men wept because the wealth of the community has been squandered and burnt at the words of Nongqawuse.
      It's painful when I hear an oppressor singing this song. EISH!😭😭😭

    • @soulbrosc
      @soulbrosc 8 лет назад +2

      Mpho Lerumo so why is this song so popular and seemingly sung with so much joy? now I'm wishing I had never read your explanation lol

    • @anelenkoyi1995
      @anelenkoyi1995 7 лет назад +5

      There is a lot that need to be uncovered on the story of Nongqawuse intombi kaMhlakaza. At her age, there is no way ikomkhulu would listen to the nonsensical story. Xhosa people at that time would discuss everything that has to do with the nation at the great place. Advisors and intellectuals would be called to analyze the story. We hear non of that happened regarding the story of Nongqawuse. We grew up being told that Nongqawuse saw White men along the coast who then related the most folsified story of the cattle killing. One thing interesting is that we are told that was the arrival of White people in the Cape, when we know that the cattle killing happened in the early 1800's not in the 1600s. There is a lot of inaccuracy in the story that we have been told. The reality of the matter is that there is a possibility that the cattle killing was done to eliminate live stock that was infected by a deseas that came through cattles that were brought deliberately by British settlers to spread it across the Cape.

    • @tetyanaphikolomzi6886
      @tetyanaphikolomzi6886 5 лет назад

      @@anelenkoyi1995 The status made the elders listen because she was a known traditional healer

  • @CynthiaManaiwa-xz2qh
    @CynthiaManaiwa-xz2qh 5 месяцев назад

    👌👌 voices well balance

  • @thapelomokgosi1382
    @thapelomokgosi1382 8 лет назад +2

    Can someone help with the first line Baritone is singing..Words the singing to lead the song

  • @mariakheswa9225
    @mariakheswa9225 8 лет назад

    wonderful voices keep it up guys

  • @rafarametse4932
    @rafarametse4932 6 лет назад +1

    Wow!!!!!le ya e shapa

  • @luyandamoses6811
    @luyandamoses6811 10 месяцев назад

    This choire wow

  • @mkdempisi
    @mkdempisi 6 лет назад +1

    These are legends

  • @sibonocebanto3764
    @sibonocebanto3764 8 лет назад +2

    Nice song. Could someone please post the lyrics:)

  • @ramsmeso8273
    @ramsmeso8273 8 лет назад +1

    Beautiful...

  • @Amahle361
    @Amahle361 3 месяца назад

    Wow! Wow! Wow! Choral. Music.

  • @errollegana8128
    @errollegana8128 6 лет назад +2

    Does any know if there's a full version of this song anywhere?

  • @gravellorde9347
    @gravellorde9347 8 лет назад +2

    Hay, iyasho.

  • @beingmokgadi9633
    @beingmokgadi9633 8 лет назад +1

    Guys, I need a proper edit of this song? Coz it dsnt play the sound towards the end!

  • @pridepristoedube7573
    @pridepristoedube7573 7 лет назад +1

    but your song is incomplete Mr Mhlongo , the sound ends at 4:03 sec

  • @akhatutu3238
    @akhatutu3238 9 лет назад

    Please, if there is anyone who downloaded the other two removed videos share the.

  • @maziziputsana1235
    @maziziputsana1235 9 лет назад +1

    wow nice song

  • @tlaly
    @tlaly 2 года назад +2

    Bavume bonke bengakholwa bo! (All agree they were in disbelief!)
    Ukuthi ba bulal'imfuyo bo! (That they killed their livestock!)
    Imfuyo bayixabisile bo! (Livestock they valued so much!)
    Nabaphantsi mebahlolelwe bo! (Even the ancestors were shocked-displeased!)
    Zonke zatshiswa bo! (All were burnt!)
    Iinkomo zamadoda bo! ( Men's cattle!)
    Basale bebambong'ezantsi bo! ( They were left amazed-negatively!)
    Phupha ndini likaNongqawuse bo! (Dream Nongqawuse you imbecile!)
    I tried😊, I'm in between beginner-intermediate level Xhosa speaking.

  • @prettymkhize9854
    @prettymkhize9854 9 лет назад +1

    Lovely

  • @sinazosinazo4561
    @sinazosinazo4561 4 года назад +1

    Wow wow

  • @patiencebambalele1508
    @patiencebambalele1508 7 лет назад +5

    You are not giving it your all. Listen to the prisoners killing the song.

    • @okaymea
      @okaymea 6 лет назад +1

      I listened to them and yeses bayayishaya!!!! They sing better than UJ choir!

    • @tselengbotlhole750
      @tselengbotlhole750 4 года назад

      Patience Bambalele nah
      I prefer this one

  • @nonhlanhlatlhogi5204
    @nonhlanhlatlhogi5204 5 лет назад

    Wish a full recovery to Mr Mhlongo .

  • @fundiswamtukushe1297
    @fundiswamtukushe1297 6 лет назад +1

    Wow

  • @phumlelathanda617
    @phumlelathanda617 8 лет назад +1

    Tshisa Base!!!!!!!!!!

    • @sandilefakude1722
      @sandilefakude1722 8 лет назад +1

      Besiy'bambile..... *Izokhal' indoda, ikhal' indod' inkomo ziphelile*

  • @kaoneevanaledi2067
    @kaoneevanaledi2067 9 лет назад

    nyc 1...but I cant hear the words, may someone translate it to Setswana language plis

    • @ulisango1543
      @ulisango1543 9 лет назад

      +Kaone Eva Naledi that's the hardest request ever ,I don't think its posible

    • @ulisango1543
      @ulisango1543 9 лет назад

      +Kaone Eva Naledi that's the hardest request ever ,I don't think its posible

    • @kaoneevanaledi2067
      @kaoneevanaledi2067 9 лет назад

      +Uli Sango can u please atleast send those lyrics with that language. please!!!!

    • @MATSEMELAMOLOI79
      @MATSEMELAMOLOI79 8 лет назад +1

      +Kaone Eva Naledi Will translate for you

    • @kaoneevanaledi2067
      @kaoneevanaledi2067 8 лет назад

      that will be my pleasure

  • @abongilesam346
    @abongilesam346 9 лет назад +2

    wow wat song

  • @ravenmokowe9863
    @ravenmokowe9863 7 лет назад +1

    nice

  • @sixolisemosuli8846
    @sixolisemosuli8846 8 лет назад +1

    woooooooooooooooow

  • @lholhophi7546
    @lholhophi7546 8 лет назад +2

    Wrong spelling Nongqawuse not Nonqgawuse!

  • @atlholangbaker9659
    @atlholangbaker9659 8 лет назад +1

    shuuu this song iyoo

  • @phakisomotaung1680
    @phakisomotaung1680 7 лет назад +1

    PHASHASH!!!!!!!!

  • @somelezemazwi7726
    @somelezemazwi7726 6 лет назад +2

    Ay sukani madoda

  • @TheCaiphus
    @TheCaiphus 5 лет назад

    Ayivakali kakuhle qha!

  • @josephinemwidya
    @josephinemwidya 6 лет назад

    what is this song saying? Someone please help

  • @vusikhumalo3036
    @vusikhumalo3036 7 лет назад

    nongqawuse

  • @yamkeladeyi5706
    @yamkeladeyi5706 7 лет назад +5

    lol the prisoners have killed this track

  • @zihlebebeza8432
    @zihlebebeza8432 8 лет назад +1

    lyrics anyone please

    • @sandilefakude1722
      @sandilefakude1722 8 лет назад +1

      Zonke zotshiswa bo! Inkomo zamadoda bo! Besala bebamb' ongezansi... phupho ndini lika NongqawuseBass- *Izokhal' indoda, ikhal' indod' inkomo ziphelile*

  • @jeromelubabalojacobs8872
    @jeromelubabalojacobs8872 2 года назад +1

    Shouldn't they be crying singing about one of the worst travesties to befall an African nation? The smiles I find disturbing considering this is a sad sad story.

    • @thando425
      @thando425 Год назад +1

      This is a sad song, as it is narrating a sad story. Why it is sung by happy faces always baffles me. But I guess even in funerals, there's laughter.

  • @mapaloramatsella4820
    @mapaloramatsella4820 3 года назад

    lea bina hle

  • @zoliswanjenje5974
    @zoliswanjenje5974 5 лет назад

    F b c f

  • @zinikomhlaba383
    @zinikomhlaba383 4 года назад +1

    These guys are butchering lyrics. They can’t say the words of this great song.

  • @nositababe
    @nositababe 2 года назад

    🔥🔥🔥🔥 this is the Real One

  • @sinovuyorabaza2736
    @sinovuyorabaza2736 8 лет назад +1

    woooooow