Johannesburg – An urgent investigation is needed into abuse of the national anthem by artists and businesses, the Western Cape ANC said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile was responding to reports that a Cape Town man buying chicken at take-away outlet KFC was shocked when a \u201cvulgar, profane\u201d version of the national anthem blasted out over the music system.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch blatant racism is untenable,\u201d Mjongile said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ANC calls on all South Africans to distance themselves from this kind of intolerance and to unite on the side of non-sexism and non-racism.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cape Times reported that Tariq Mellett was waiting in the queue at the KFC in Buitenkant street, Gardens, when he heard what sounded like the national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounded like parts of the national anthem, but I was surprised when the song started in Afrikaans with: Nkosi Sikelel’… Nkosi is ‘n doos, Mandela is ‘n f****n kaffir… and so on, at full blast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo other customers and I were flabbergasted by the vulgarity, profanity and racism being belted out in a popular family restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mellett said they shouted at the staff to switch it off, but this was done only after some time.<\/p>\n
KFC’s provincial manager Craig Davids told the newspaper it had referred the query to franchisor Yum Restaurants.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in the process of looking into the matter, I can’t comment until we have checked it out,\u201d he said. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Johannesburg – An urgent investigation is needed into abuse of the national anthem by artists and businesses, the Western Cape ANC said on Thursday. Provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile was responding to reports that a Cape Town man buying chicken at take-away outlet KFC was shocked when a \u201cvulgar, profane\u201d version of the national anthem blasted … Continue reading “Kentucky Fried Nkosi Sikelel’, ANC wants racism probe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,484,485,327,157,12250],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-anthem","tag-kentucky-fried-chicken","tag-mandela","tag-racism","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}