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Chessalee 
Thank you for posting this video. I had never heard of the band before. “The Road” starts off a bit like a romantic 1960ies American folk song and then gains momentum, a bit like Mumford & Sons. Have you ever listened to “Sal oorlog vir jou maak” by South African band “Adam”? It’s a bit in that vein too, though of course sung in Afrikaans. But I have now checked out a few more of the Coffee Snobs’ YT videos, thanks for drawing my attention to them! “Eie Land” is beautiful and catchy and “Sonder om te groet” is nice too – I found the “Briels” song ghastly, but with the Coffe Snobs it loses its schmaltz. I can’t say much about the lyrics because my Afrikaans is so sketchy – I can read it it quite well with the occasional help of Coetzee or van Schaik’s dictionary (or Google Translator), but listening to spoken Afrikaans is harder. But I’ve always had a weak spot for Afrikaans – the only Germanic language that came into being thousands of miles away from Europe.
Quite frankly, I haven’t got the faintest interest in chess – to me it’s always been “boredom with rules” 🙂 (Sorry!) But I do appreciate your various articles on anything South African, be it cuisine or indeed literature and history. And now music too. I am German and I spent a few months in SA as a young student – more than 30 years ago, but it surely left a lasting impact. To this day I enjoy Lawrence G. Green’s travel books – and my absolute literary favourite is Herman Charles Bosman. Such a shame he is virtually unknown in Europe, indeed like so many SA authors.
So thanks again for running this blog – I am well aware how much time and effort go into it.
Kind regards from Germany. And enjoy your holiday.
Hi Carl! Welcome to my blog and thank you for your interesting though kind message. It seems that you do know something about blogging too. 🙂
I’ve never heard of the song, ‘Sal oorlog vir jou maak’ and I did take a listen and I love it. Thanks for sharing. I’m glad I could share something ‘new’ with you too.
I disagree totally with your comment about chess! lol – my brother taught me chess when I was about 10 and I’ve never felt that way. Chess can be really interesting – if you know more about it and if you know all the ‘tricks’ – I so wish I was so good at it to be a full time professional player – but sadly, I’m not that good. I would love to play chess for most of the day! hehe…
It’s so very true you say about the South African writers/poets etc. and I agree with Herman Charles Bosman. We studied ‘Mafeking Road’ when I was in lower Secondary and I still read from time to time online his stories – or on youtube. 🙂 You were lucky to spend time in South Africa, especially the time you were there. The country is now in a mess and you enjoyed the ‘beauty’ of it the time you were there.
It was nice meeting you and when you feel like doing so, please pop in again. I’m just almost next door – in the UK, so not very far away. Germany is on my list to visit one day – due my interest in WW2 History. Have a good day and take care.