http://www.scouting.org.za/songs/southafrican.html

This page also includes lyrics for these {probably} non-folk genre songs:

ZULU WARRIOR
Sung as a round. Recorded in the 1950s by Josef Marais and Miranda, but it was sung earlier than that

AG PLEEZ DEDDY
Words and Music by Jeremy Taylor. This is a South African comedy classic from the 1960s, sung with a strong accent. The single sold more copies in South Africa than any of Elvis Presley's

JABULANI AFRICA
This is a South African gospel song, written in 1985 by Fini de Gersigny. Jabulani is a Zulu word meaning "Rejoice" or "Celebrate".

IN THE JUNGLE / WIMOWEH
This well-known song is based on a Zulu song, Mbube, recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda:

Mbube, uyimbube, uyimbube, uyimbube

The meaning is roughly "Lion, you are a lion...". Later the tune was copied, English verses were added, and the word "u-yi-mbu-be" was mistranslated as "a-wim-o-weh". This version became a worldwide hit, and even appeared in Disney's The Lion King. Solomon Linda died a poor man, but many years later, in 2004, the Disney corporation aged [sic; agreed]to pay his family the royalties they owed him.

GIMME HOPE JOANNA
Although this is not actually a South African song, it's a well-known anti-apartheid reggae song by Eddy Grant from the 1980s, before the end of apartheid, and it was also recorded by the South African Band, Dr Victor and the Rasta Rebels. Joanna is probably the city Johannesburg. Soweto is a black township near Johannesburg. The apartheid army was well-known for "sneaking across the neighbours borders" to fight in other countries. The archbishop is Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to apartheid.

KUM BA YAH
This well known song isn't actually South African, but there's an African collection so it is included on this page. Kum Ba Yah probably means "Come by here" in an African-American creole dialect called Gullah from South Carolina in the USA. Missionaries probably took the song to Africa in the 1930's, where it was later "rediscovered" in Angola in the 1950's, leading some to believe that the song had its origins in Angola. It became a popular peace song in the 1960s.