South Africa - Letta Mbulu - Amakhamandela - Not Yet Uhuru

[Puseletso12]

This song is divine melodically n the msg touches my soul. Sidebar:all those closet racists using youtube as a platform to vent ur misinformed opinions go create a political party or find one dat shares da same views as u. Like how special do u feel bout urself dat u called black ppl monkies?? I mean really... The human race wil NEVER reach its full potential coz ppl r too concerned wit others dwn to make themselves feel better bout themselves.

[nirbija]

"Not yet uhuru" is right, my African Lioness! lol

African Ancestral lands are still be be cleared of the invading pale pests and parasites, that have invaded UNPROVOKED from thousands of kilometers across the ocean in order to torment and terrorize Africans in their Ancestral lands.

[CensorbugbearReports]

DO YOU KNOW the words of the song: and how many times they sing 'Kill the Boers (whites)". And do you know that they still sing that song, and that thousands of white farmers are being killed NOW?'

[xbusika]

The 3 people that dislike this song/video are related to the colonizers...

[Zizo007able]

AFRICA FROM A-ZA: SOUTH AFRICA...what the hell is this suppose to mean? We have no business with you. Go and fix your countries.

Always imposing yourselves on South Africans.

[Zizo007able]

The song is about SA, sang by a Xhosa woman so why are you FOREIGNERS and boers bothered?

South Africa belonsg to BLACK South Africans and no one else get used to that. South Africa does not belong to balck from other African countries whose countries, history and heritage we dont claim and we do not want to claim.

As for you negroes, we dont need you to speak for us get off our backs we have no relations with you. SA has no history fo slavery.

[MyFerrucci]

There's nothing wrong with rigourous debate folks. Only, let your passion be founded on humility and lead by wisdom. Real, progressive and effective dialogue is thusly achieved. *peace sign*

[MyFerrucci]

@Levona...you'll never understand or even objectively debate a matter sensibly through a world-view founded on bigotry. Please check your heart. We (as a nation) will never reach a place of TRUE reconciliation or harmony until we let go of our our prejudices and sense of self-importance above the next person. In our lifetime we are afforded the opportunity to build something for our children and grandchildren. Be mindful of the thoughts, attitudes, words and actions you sow...they too have fruit

[MrNgefo]

FYI 'Not yet Uhuru' where Uhuru means independence in Swahili was the tittle of a book written by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (Kenyan) in 1966 - 3 years after Kenyan Independence. He was decrying the failed policies of the new african government led by Jomo Kenyatta in which he was the vice president. They later fell out and he was detained by Kenyatta.

[MrUtnab]

Levona you need help.may God save you from yourself!you need to mke your research because what you are saying is not valid.besides that you are just a sick racist human being our country is the way it is because of people like you!ive travelled the world and seen what the mess the world is because of people like you.you need jesus.racism is sickness and it is filthy

[auspry1]

I cannot speak Zulu, Ibo or African but I'm feeling everything coming from this video. Thanks South Africa

[ladymtv]

WOW WOW WOW ... I feel like I was there ... we've come too far as Blacks in SA

[Shadhiyi]

This song has suddenly been on my mind of late. I just had to YT it! Next imma dl the mp3... there used to be a time when when SAns came up with songs of real meaning. Listen to the instrumental, the lyrics, how everything just gels. But nowadays, eish, I think Kwaito ruined everything.

[LevonaDiedrich]

@Shadhiyi, I'd beg 2 differ with u a lil' bit. I don't think u can compare 1 musical genre 2 another when making such a statement. I'd maybe rephrase that 2 "the Kwaito of today". At the birth of Kwaito, the poineering artists did groundbreaking work in introducing a new genre that's 100% SA brew. Early Kwaito music (90's) was great & produced awesome talent. It's just sad that a few years into the new millenium, Kwaito has been reduced to the "pots 'n pans" music that it is today.

[MMashudu]

I love this lady!!!

[MrSenzywenzy]

I am an African n proud. I am black and beautiful



[tebogoful]

thumbds up 4 this 1. Im sure, i was pikinini

[mukadzi]

Not yet Uhuru :)

[teeninvader]

Believe what you want to believe ... Either way at that time white people were killing innocent black people all over SA...

This is a great song ... Freedom ... Song of hope ... It doesn't matter what was going to happen to get this freedom ... But time have shown that black people are not like the original oppressors who believed in killing and scare tactics ...

[TomDavid88]

"Uhuru" is the code-name given to the complete extermination of all white people in South Africa. A lot of the blacks say, "Wait until Mandela dies."

Tom David

Minneapolis

[LevonaDiedrich]

@TomDavid88 ... That is a blatant lie. Propoganda created by the former Apartheid to keep their white subjects in constant fear of the Black man, so that the white constituency will keep voting for the NATS. Many countries' governments have done that throughout history. Big Brother USA an example today still. Stop spreading malicious lies, bru... Spare sites like these with your poison and own personal hatred...

[TomDavid88]

@LevonaDiedrich Every day via Facebook I talk to South African whites who KNOW that "Uhuru", the complete extermination of the whites, just like in the rest of Africa, is coming.

Tom David

Minneapolis

[LevonaDiedrich]

@TomDavid88 Oh please Mr David... Then I'd be bold enough 2 say all those SA'ns you speak 2 are either maliciously spreading lies (& you their willing messenger), or they're just so ignorant of the reality & still believe the hype created by the NATS 20-odd years ago. IT IS A FALLACY. When black SA'ns hear this nonsense they either go "huhh??", or they laugh themselves silly at such gullibility from people who're supposed 2 be "superior in intellect" 2 them. I AM SA'n, so I'd know...

[TomDavid88]

@LevonaDiedrich I talk on Facebbok with Leon Peacock every day (google his name) and he, and many other S.A. whites KNOW that what has happened in the rest of Africa to the whites is about to happen in S.A. as well. Why should it be an different?

Tom David

Minneapolis

[LevonaDiedrich]

@TomDavid88 Many people in the world THINK they KNOW stuff but then they don't. And it's very frustrating 4 ones WHO DO KNOW. Just small proof of how far-fetched these stories of "Uhuru" is, is in your response now. I thought Uhuru was a codename by ANC operatives in SA. So where does "white extermination" & the rest of Africa fit in 2 prove that the SA'n Uhuru theory is true?? All you've done so far is commit hearsay & couldn't counter any facts I put on the table. I rest my case...

[TomDavid88]

@LevonaDiedrich Blacks now openly talk about "Uhuru" in S.A. They will often say "Wait until Mandeal dies." when they have a dispute with a white. And as it happened in all the rest of Afrika where whites were foolish enough to turn over power to the blacks, there is no doubt that it's just a matter of time before it happens in S.A. as well. History is on MY side- NOT YOURS!

Tom David

Minneapolis

[LevonaDiedrich]

@TomDavid88 Lies, hearsay, more lies, more hearsay! You cannot answer/counter any of what I put to you, so just stop. Let's rest this case. Yr statement, "as it happened in all the rest of Afrika where whites were foolish enough to turn over power to the blacks...", just made a lot clear. So, I'm sorry 4 wasting your & my time. I didn't know I was talking 2 a white supremist who still believes Africa belongs 2 white imperialists & support making blacks slaves in their own countries..

[TomDavid88]

@LevonaDiedrich First, I'm not a "white supremacist" but yoi feel you have to call me one in an attempt to stiffle debate. Second, S.A. was occupied by the Boers before it was by the Bantu tribes who now try to claim it as their own.

Tom David

Minneapolis

[xbusika]

@TomDavid88 You are incredibly stupid I must say. If the boers were the first ones here, how come the Bantu tribes are the majority? Surely if you're planning on bringing slaves into your territory you will not "bring" more than you necessarily need as they will then overpower you in a battle/war and take over. Pity they don't offer brains for sale. You really need one...

[TomDavid88]

@xbusika Most of the Bantus currently in South Africa have illegally entered the country or are descendents of people who did. South Africa used to have a heavily defended border to keep the starving Bantus out. They stupidly threw the whites out and created Communist governments where they were all starving and had to flee to S.A. just to get something to eat! Now they are busy creating the same type of Starvation-Communist system in S.A. as exists in the rest of Africa.

[nirbija]

@xbusika Try to not entertain the nonsense notion & DISTRACTION of 'whites first in ANY place in Africa'.

Truth is; the criminal white invaders have neither natural nor legal rights to ANYTHING African!

A criminal invader CAN NEVER be first in your home space; simply because he IS an invader to begin with

Africa IS for African!

China IS for Chinese!

India IS for Indians!

Europe for europeans

That is how Mother Nature designed things for the DIFFERENT HUMAN FORMS on the planet

[babacool81]

@nirbija so you mean that ll the different races living in France or England MUST go back where they came from??? Even if they were born in France or England or USA or anywhere else? That is not right!! First, you dont chose where you re born...second, what about the new generations that have nothing to do with what happened in history and who dont agree at all with the horrors that happened (and are still happening)? When we want to share cultures, you re saying we cant?

[babacool81]

@babacool81 I grew up with all races around me and i cannot imagine another way. I LOVE your music! as a musician i would love to come and visit and learn from you. But will i be in trouble for the love i feel for other cultures? Thats bad...

[babacool81]

@babacool81 thta was the second part as it was too long!

[nirbija]

@babacoo

Don't care about france, england, etc, especially since those lands WERE NOT CRIMINALLY INVADED by non-euros

Concern is about African Ancestral lands that has been invaded UNPROVOKED by the pale pests & plague from thousands of kilometer across the ocean

& we are sure that native people of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, etc wouldn't mind being relieved of the burden of the criminal invaders in their indigenous space

Blame your parents if you born in land of others

[Gpurscreepers]

@TomDavid88 There's has been a myth about a "Night of the Long Knives" for ages in SA. Threats about what they will do when Mandela dies. The truth is that as much as they'd like to believe it the majority are a bunch of chimpanzees who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. They made the same threats about what they would do after the football world cup. Ofcourse they do love to kill whites, but they kill them while they're sleeping, old people, children etc. Filthy little cowards.

[Zizo007able]

@TomDavid88

Whats wrong with the extermination of the white thrash that has no business being on my land? NO white or non SA black belong here.

We shall NEVER EVER stop killing whites, go back to Europe where you came from. Europe is the land of poverty, poverty drove you out and displaced you like the thrash you really are.

[Gpurscreepers]

@Zizo007able

You're right, you revolting kaffirs will never stop killing whites, because you just can't help yourselves. You're at the bottom of the food chain and you know it. It's just instinctive for you monkeys to stick a bone through your nose and rape and kill anything that moves. That's why you're treated like the shit flinging pavemunt monkeys that you are. Your ancestors all had the slow puncture and I hope when you get it it works a little faster.

[teeninvader]

@Springbok ... you are stupid and ignorant ... black people are not like your forefathers who oppressed and killed people ...

Uhuru means freedom, and that's what the song is about... these are the songs that gave us hope in the difficult times of that regime ...

You bloody agent ... if you don't have anything to say shut the f up ...

[ichrammsteinfan]

@teeninvader do you also know that the form of freedom to which they were refrerring, (after the dutch had colonized in africa) was the death of all boers? south africa is a shit hole full of black on white crime and is the rape and murder capital of the world, what good is being "free" when its the people with morals and dignity that would be leaving?

[springbokbullietjie]

@teeninvader i love black people..couldnt live without the spirit of black people. but lets be honest singing songs like shoot the boer, is oppressing. thats affirmitive. look you can ignore what i am saying only if you have looked into the matter yourself.

[teeninvader]

@springbokbullietjie I agree ... singing shoot the boer now ... is oppressing and pointless ...

Anyway the uhuru song seriously didn't mean shoot the boer ... actually if you would listen to the other Zulu lyrics of this song you would here its talking about freedom ... it talks about shacks etc ... not killing of anyone ...

[TheUtubejunkie09]

One of the best songs I have ever heard. Thank you Letta Mbulu.

[LevonaDiedrich]

I have 2 laugh at a stupid prick like @Springbokbulletjie calling people stupid pricks. Bwoy, you've been watching wayyy too many movies & stop that what you're smoking, please. You're a joke. Do YOU know what Uhuru means?? It means freedom in kiSwahili. And it (& this song) has got absolutely nothing to do with what you claim. Wonder how many more poor white souls there are in SA who believe that crap that you sell them by lip-service. If you're ill-informed, shut the eff up, for Pete's sake!

[springbokbullietjie]

@LevonaDiedrich mandela met with the kremlin in russia sometime before he became president....it has also appeared recently that he is a freemason. say what you want.....but sieners visions havent been proven wrong to date...the bible says in the last days young men will dream dreams, and your old men will see visions. in 1997 i was reported that mini bus taxis in s.a. had the message wait uhuru not yet......its gonna happen. luckily i have the bible and you cant prove it wrong.

[LevonaDiedrich]

@springbokbullietjie Jeez, you're something. Mandela a freemason? Haha ha ha! He met with the Kremlin (a building)? Haha ha ha! What're you trying to say? How many other world leaders have met with Russian leaders? What's so peculiar & shady about it? Since you don't wish to be enlightened & wish to continue believing the the "White-created propoganda"... leave sites & discussions like these for those who are & stop making yourself a laughing stock. Uhuru = White extermination?? Haha haha ha ha!

[springbokbullietjie]

@LevonaDiedrich hey buddy heres a jet start for you, bohemian grove, 322 skull and bones yale society, bilderberg, the church of satan. GEORGIA GUIDESTONES, the music industry. enlightenment is for the 33rd degree and then its too late you cant go back. all those stuff should sound crazy to you and thats how it always is.....ahhh that cant be true...just open your eyes and look into a few of those things...you see man are trying to be god just like the tower of babel.

[LevonaDiedrich]

@springbokbullietjie You drink 2 much of that jet fuel & watch 2 many conspiracy theory movies. Now you're talkin freemasonry. I thought we're debating the so-called Uhuru genocide? Just admit that THAT theory was created by the Apartheid regime to instill "Black-fear" into White folk, so they'll continue to vote 4 the Nats. 'Twas all Apartheid propoganda & you're still so bold & stupid to say, "go ask any Black, they know about it". Any Black goes "huh?" or laughs when asked this stupidity...

[K0K0drilla]

WE ARE NOT YET UHURU IN 2011.

[sthabile100]

can someone write out the chorus for me... please

[springbokbullietjie]

i wonder how many of you stupid pricks actually know what uhuru means. il give you a hint: operation white cleanup, operation iron eagle, operation night of the long knIves, operation white sweep. in 1997 something was was brewing between the blacks of this operation, but the time was not right and mini bus taxi's had the message "wait not yet uhuru" dont believe me, go ask any black what will happen when mandela dies. they all know about it.

[Elsizzle90]

you foreal though? @springbokbullietjie 

[springbokbullietjie]

@Elsizzle90 eh let me think no im just some idiot who has been researching the thing the last few years and looking at how the operation is practised in johannesburg every now and again by roadblocks caused by stones placed in the road and 40 blacks just by coincident waiting at the side of the road where the stones are placed traffic lights not working, street lights not working because of unpaid bills(which is quite a ridiculous reason to cut out the lights)

[Elsizzle90]

@springbokbullietjie lol okay okay gee i aint fighting

[springbokbullietjie]

@Elsizzle90 go check it out yourself theres too much fact to ignore it or say its rubbish, its even been seen by an old south african prophet where he received disturbing visions regarding this operation. he's not yet been proven wrong over his other visions concerning south africa.

[kaygee2012]

@springbokbullietjie dude i'm black and i have no idea what you're talking about

[Zizo007able]

@kaygee2012

You wish you were a black South African.

[kaygee2012]

@Zizo007able but i am i'm tswana.... what's ur problem?

[zestb114]

@springbokbullietjie err,your insecurities are killing you deep inside

[bethuelization]

@springbokbullietjie you are one stupid bastard this song has nothing to do with white people, do you even know what uhuru means, go take liguistics first and maybe will listen to your crap. f@(k you

[Zizo007able]

@springbokbullietjie

Go back to Europe unwanted thrash.

[ndazi07]

this song rocked me ever since i was 5 n still rocking....

[AficanQueenOriginal]

still one of my best songs!!!!

[24mpabanga]

I love this song to bits... i luv ur voice Letta &more importantly d msg in ur song

[mzimkhulunyeka]

Letta is singing about the elusive freedom. She says we are standing still. There is no difference in our lives. We are still in chains. Let's break the chains! Letta is singing in both Xhosa and Zulu. The two languages don't differ that much. Most South Afrikans do that. Letta is Xhosa. Indeed; "Not yet Uhuru" is English and Swahili!

[Zizo007able]

@mzimkhulunyeka

Most South Africans do what?

Talking rubbish on the internet to appear relevant.

[mandiandiaya]

i have loved this song since i was 11

[angelzw]

So glad I found this. Love it.

[angelzw]

So glad I found this. Love it.

[Nzawumbi]

Legends indeed!

[TheUtubejunkie09]

I love this song! I could listen to it all day!!!

It gets me thinking about the things that still need to be changed in South Africa

[chivarange]

this song rang in my ears as i walked in the streets of harare during my recent visit. you would think tsvangirai & mugabe coming together would have helped something but still democracy is nowhere to be found & what about poverty which has become the norm 4 zimbabweans.

I SAY IT'S NOT YET UHURU

[NkataM]

I am so glad I watched this video today... last time I saw it was over 15 years ago. It nearly brought a tear in my eye when I remember where South Africa and Africa in general comes from. We are a resilient people and Africa too shall be free, in the meantime the struggle is not yet Uhuru.

[tkchippsy]

im proud to b African

[aq2cool]

one day! just one day! Great number Letta, great contribution to da struggle.

[Myrlourah]

The most beautiful people of south Africa. proud to be an African descent.That s where we Haitians got our strong will from. Thank you mama Africa.

[vnayec01]

South Africa has come a long way. I was still at home in Zimbabwe when this was big and I was a child back then, but the sound is still as good as it was back then. This is the sort of flavour that I'll want to remember South Africa for, and not the burning of foreigners.

[WonderSevhen]

Thank u UTUBE!!! I finally found it... This is a Musical monument!

[MathsyMuller]

thina asinavoti ... we can't vote!

not yet uhuru ... 'uhuru' = freedom in swahili

Most of the song however is in Zulu

[hobo6006]

This song will forever live on in SA even though we can all vote now some of us will always feel the backlash of apartheid... which is why we NOT YET UHURU

[mshiny1987]

Is that Xhosa?

[Ngcebo1]

I love this song. Even the remix was nice. Very nice song indeed.

[Spin148]

beautiful, my late aunt used to love this song, thank you for the memories

[simohiwe]

food for the soul.

[Blaqrouz]

wow... thats all l cud let out, l have hunted for this song for as long as l can rememer, now l have found it..

[actioneer101]

great song. the remix was pretty good as well

[stimela03]

akukho mehluko kuleli lizwe ngoba namanje zimbabwe still has no recognised one man one vote so if your brother is still in bondage so are you

[Zizo007able]

@stimela03

Who cares about Zimbabwe? No one.

[jolikaqakeza]

this is one of the most beautful sogs ever made.i love letha,the message is still true even today.

[bvw50]

Can you tell me what these message means? I don't get teh words...

[Zizo007able]

@bvw50

You must be very stupid.

[arnoldus2006]

richie

This is a very nice song

[Inathi12]

This was my mom's song. I grew up listening to this song post Apartheid.