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Thread #80738   Message #3030680
Posted By: GUEST,Org Potgieter
12-Nov-10 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Marching to Pretoria
Subject: RE: Origins: Marching to Pretoria
The Blue Bulls rugby union team (HQ Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria) plays 'Marching to Pretoria' at their venue from time to time.

BTW Josef Marais was the nom de plume of Josef Pezach.
I never realised that he translated so many Afrikaans songs into English.
Check the right hand side of this link for more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgyus4J67_g&feature=related

It seems the recordings were just about all made in 1939.
You will also find SARIE MARAIS the "Afrikaner anthem" (like Waltzing Mathilda for the Aussies)there in English.
This song originated in the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902).