I love the part at 2:56 the most haha. this video is one of my favorites by Freshlygroung and has me more inspired to look at life more differently than I used to. :) by far Freshlyground is the best when it comes to music. :)
@mopaosaccie wow ur an ass its just a song and notice how not everybody in the band is black. freshlyground is one of the greatest and most respected bands in africa and if u have such a problem with it then what was the point of even watching the video
Ey, freshlyground, mind your own 'rainbow'nation business n stay out of ours. how dare u insult our great leader n fuhrer like that! l for one, think that he is more credible than your puppet Tata..look how u black oakes suffer in your country while we plunder our own natural wealth! sing about that..see if you git as many likes n views as these..Aluta continua viva RGM viva
@IgniteChris you are most likely to get if you understand the politics in Zimbabwe and what the 'chicken' means and the word 'change'....its a play on words
@everyone with the angry words please take your stupid bickering somewhere else, perhaps considering blogging about your or other peoples thoughts about politics. This is a great song, try just enjoying it. PS. FreshlyGround is spectacular!!
i fell in love with zolani after watching waka waka thts how i found the group and their other songs......their songs cheer me up and put me in a good mood...thanks freshly ground
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fuck off freshly ground . yu know nothing about politics and if yu can`t compose anything better , rather go and get that pussy fucked coz this is not yo game.... yu want to be like condom jus like yo bro tsvangirai .......fuck yu.......
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I hope people in zimbabwe all starve to death, because they had the choice but arrogance was just too cool....like we can do things better, so come on show us how to starve, its the price you pay for ridding your nation of whites.......he he
@Simba5124 Your maybe the stupidest person i've ever seen. Its there choice if they want to "rid their nation of whites" but the fact of the matter is your arrogant for even posting this saying there arrogant. Shut up and get off youtube and stop looking on wikipedia to get your information.
Look 6 ZanuPF ministers managed to bribe Z.E.S.A to get electricity to vote on youtube! Well done...now bribe them for every Zimbo cuz u have the money that belongs to them! Bob u should go and play chicken with Chuck Norris!
I lived in Zim for 7 years best years of my life and it breaks my heart what is going on, Bob is no longer human he is so devoid of sympathy and human understanding that it is sickening..
I really hope everything in Zimbabwe gets better. I really also hope things in the world will get better. It makes me think, why do hate each other so much, why do we have to kill each other for no reason, why do we start wars over a disagreement, why do we judge people on there skin color, sexuality, religion etc. Cant we for once get along as human beings. I mean if you want to make the world a better place, treat each other with love and kindness, even if they are mean to you.
@TheHabati I think that just proves your ignorance about the situation in Africa. For one, it's a direct result of colonization that Africa and much of the rest of the world (Central America, South America, and Asia) are so messed up. The Europeans came to their shores, exploited them of their resources, then left when they could no longer fund their oppression. But at the same time, no one blames Europe solely. There are a number of internal problems that must be solved as well. Read a book.
@TheHabati umm hardly. if you check out the nations counted as "third world nations", south america, most of asia (albeit china and parts of southeast asia) remain in extreme poverty. and i don't see how people's poverty and misfortune are "lawls" worthy especially since the majority of the world's impoverished and hungry are children who can't control their socioeconomic standing. your views are simply that of an ignorant westerner. i hope that one day you can enlighten yourself.
@TheHabati umm...except that i didn't. africa is also making strides. not as rapid as these other regions, but they're taking the steps necessary. and you can't just look at africa as a whole, each nation is different and each nation is at its own level of economic development. but does this argument matter? you'll never admit that you're just an ignoramus so...i'm sure you got that part.
Freshlyground, this is a catchy song...and very daring:).....i hope this song is not looking down on Zimbabweans, because it seems that is what everyone is doing......I love you guys to bits and Im sure you have good hearts...please can people start singing positive songs about Zimbabwe.....to give the people hope.....
the fact that FG were disallowed to perform in zim is a disgrace! siss! puh!
the Rooster's inability to laugh at himself and to allow others to laugh at him renders him simply unfit to rule (tell me sumthing i dont know...hehe)!
thank you FG tho, this brave and bold protest is probably the voice of many muted zimbos! tshintsha madala!!
@AnonymousElektron It's called survival Ms Insignificant Electron. Africans migrate for food and shelter. They have always done that since before your invading ancestors confined them in semi-arid reserves. If your grandmother told you the truth you should also know that Zimbabwean fled the country during Smith's reign of terror too. Your isolation strategies will not work on Zimbabwe because Zimbabweans are too educated to sit around and die when they know they can feed their mouths elsewhere.
@AnonymousElektron Now be sensible and dont let words just fall off your tounge. Zimbabweans are the most educated people in Africa. That is a fact. You obviously are gullible and stupid enough to think Zimbabweans in SA are 'refugees.' 95% of those that you call refugees make periodic tracks to-and-from Zim where their very safe roots, and most often their families, are. They are here because they have the brains to realise there is money to be made working, or off idiots like you.
@AnonymousElektron Hey Miss Animated Electron pea- brain. It's good to see that Rhodies are feeling the pinch. "Zimbabwe's fertile farmland lies barren", my aching arse. What is lying barren is Mr. Kneeless' truck that used to export grain to the rest of the world while hungry Black people survived on Kenya (Yellow) corn from dodgy donors. To hell with commercializing food stocks when there is not enough at home. We eat first then sell the surplus if need be. That's basic economics. Icho!
@Gospicnic what, is subsistence farming supposed to be an accomplishment??
They've been doing it for thousands of years, and on a larger scale it's devastating for the environment and can't feed everyone.
The west perfected farming in the last century, and Africa has taken two steps back, slash and burning state of the art farms so that everyone is poor and hungry together.
@AnonymousElektron It's called sharing and is a noble thing to do. Comercialization makes Mr Booyens rich while 13million Blacks starve. Subsistence farming brings food on every able bodied person's humble table. After the humble meal, they sing and dance. No need to queue at banks. That's communal lifestyle for you.
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabwe was not born in 1898 with the arrival of Cecil Rhodes. Before the cruel reserves, Africans would work on a land for a few years, migrate to another area to allow the bush to regenerate. Ever heard of sacred forests and rivers? These were African environmental conservation strategies. Then came the White man with his chainsaw and tractor and the word erosion and deforestation were created.
@AnonymousElektron well not exactly worse than white. white rule in Africa was and still is barbaric. But Mugabe is just as inhumane. My problem is , some people accept it because he came to power with a revolutionary ideology. Its unacceptable and should not be tolerated.
@AnonymousElektron Kikiki! Those "horror" stories are crafted. Evidence of hungry educated people. They strategize their way to the core where the money is. See how those "refugees" outperform locals everywhere in the world? Oops! I forgot you can't anything beyond Rhodesia.
Saying that all refugees from Zimbabwe are just liars is like saying that all holocaust survivors are just liars, you have no right, and it could be considered a form of blood-libel.
Go ahead, tell a survivor to her face, that her father (an unarmed farmer who's family has been there for generations) wasn't chopped to bits by ANC savages.
And the joke is on them, they have no idea how to run a country.
@AnonymousElektron The stories are consistent because that's what you want to hear. The bottomline truth is if anyone from Zimbabwe tells you they are refugees, they are lying in your face. ANC? Are we talking about South Africa now?
@Gospicnic so what about South Africa's huge problem with Zimbabwean refugees?
Are those hundereds of thousands of starving families flooding over the border, are they all liars?
Is it all a big publicity stunt to make Mugabe look bad? Is that really what you believe?
And now, in South Africa, you can smear your political opponent by accusing them of being like Mugabe and doing to South Africa what Mugabe did to Zimbabwe.
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabweans have been migrating to South Africa since the Witwaterand Gold mines days back in the 50s. Noone complained about their presence in the country until the Western media started crafting stories about it. If the truth be told, there are more Nigerians in South African than Zimbabweans. Freshlyground's guitarist is Mozambiquan; did he run away from Mugabe too?
@AnonymousElektron I already told you they told you lies. I grew up in one of them bloody farms. The only time we saw baas and his Mrs on the farm was when they brought their peanut wages to the desperate workers. The Mrs...she is whining about Mugabe now because in the UK where she now resides she has to wash her own underwear and make her own cup of tea. Lazy buggers.
@AnonymousElektron you have no idea what you are talking about......you are so fired up about something you know nothing of....how can you call Zimbabweans savages simply because you are mad at Mugabe....there are gr8 people in Zim....brilliant people!
you can talk until your lips go pink and blue....the fact remains, until u go to Zimbabwe, u wont know what it's really like..u must be such an awesome person if your opinion is based off of others people's opinions....way to think for yourself!
@xoxo7x7 the guy who runs the coffee shop on my street (181st st in Manhattan) is Rhodesian, he has some very nice photos of what Salisbury used to look like, before it got turned into an open sewer (literally, it's now an open sewer where human waste flows through the streets)
He was in the police and tried to protect people but eventually got kicked out of his own country.
I don't understand how you can defend the "improvements" that have been made.
@AnonymousElektron one sided opinion, have u not thought that maybe the place was suffering under the previous regime? and anyway i m having trouble believing that ur guy, the coffeeshopowningrhodesian, really gives a shi* about whats going on in zim... aweah dog
Sing songs about a dictator. Well done. Of course this will help the Zimbabwean cause greatly, while showing your quirky light hearted humour. Hilarious . Make the whole situation comical. Next time please waka waka back to the studio and do something worthwhile. Yeah , I said it!!!
Yeah, I actually have friends who were white farmers in Zimbabwe and forced to leave the country. Personally, I'm surprised Mugabe hasn't been assassinated.
@theanswriz42 Obviously your fleeing friends did not tell you the whole story, including how many people they and their "serving the queen" ancestors had to kill to get that farm. Mugabe has been good to these selfish white farmers and they should be thankful for that. If it wasn't for their big heads that fooled them to think that the stolen land they lived in had become "little Britains" they would be still enjoying Zimbabwe right now. Tell your children the truth. Blame Blair too.
@AnonymousElektron Whites NEVER farmed anything in Zim! Its the blacks who drive the tractors, pick the cotton/tobacco etc, under black farm managers. And all the whites did was get loans from white-owned banks. Where is the whites' farming in all that? Whites brought no resources to Zimbabwe. History records that they killed and plundered in Zim as in all of Africa. So deservedly, those whites who left Zim leave with NOTHING! Am glad this pains you and your kin. Your language says it all.
@AnonymousElektron Just so you know when some of us write here we are serious about what we are talking about, go and google "Literacy rates in Africa." The 2003 figures will show Seychelles above Zim. But Zim is now tops. Read! (Edited and reposted)
wow yu are ratther harsh man to my country no country is a paradise everything omes to pass man do you think south africa is gonna sit on a platinum mine forever man NO i think zimbos are more literate than our fellolw south africans check your statistics again my man before you harshly judge us we will get rid of our problem and watch us we will shine
@masimbaful I'm not trying to be cruel, and I do wish Zimbabwe the best, but we can't delude ourselves about the dire situation there, and we certainly can't hope for improvement until the corrupt Mugabe regime ends.
Also, I've never been to Africa, I live and grew up in New York City, but I know many South Africans and Zimbabwean expatriates, and this is what I've heard from them.
@AnonymousElektron Now this explains your woeful lack of knowledge! And you do your information gathering "from many South Africans and Zimbabwean expatriates" in New York!! Those of us who live in this neck of the woods are amazed at how the intensity of criticism usually has an uncanny inverse relationship to the distance of the critics from the percieved "hotspot". You, New Yorker, are an embodiment of that. Like I told you, look for literacy rates in Africa on the net. If you can read.
@TheGuruuswa I somehow don't think all of the people I have met are liars.
Are they all conspiring to lie to me?
I've hear horrible stories about hard-working people who had their blossoming farms stolen and handed over to illiterate savages who slashed-and-burnt it into wasteland.
Progress!
And everyone wonders why Zimbabwe, which used to export 3/4ths of it's agricultural output, is now starving.
@AnonymousElektron You have probably all along been fed half truths and downright lies by the people you have met. How many are they anyway? FACT: It is the whites that stole the land when they came to Zimbabwe. They put that in books for all to read. Zimbabweans took back what is rightfully theirs. FACT: Nobody is starving in Zimbabwe. Ask those that know. And you may wish to know that we dont use words such as "savage" in this part of the world.
@AnonymousElektron Have you ever been to Zimbabwe??....Have you lived there?!?!....you strong opinion is coming from hear say??...Im an American and I have lived in several countries, including Zimbabwe.....there are elderly folk in the US who buy DOG FOOD to survive....have you been to the hard hit areas in the US??.....Get real....dont comment until you have all the facts.....
yes, Zimbabwe is going thru a hard time, but what country hasnt........back off!!!
@AnonymousElektron To hell with your bloody KKK attitude. All you Westerners boast about as yours is what you stole from us. Ask your run-away mother how her ex-husband got rich, and she will thank hard working Africans and their rich resources. And we're saying it's time to get ours back. You can bang your head on the whole but there is no stopping us. We're not intending to export grain either; we've empty bellies to fill.
@Gospicnic this has nothing to do with race, you do know that, right?
This has everything to do with culture.
We value knowledge, we value hard work, we value taking responsibility.
The west has made mistakes, but so have Africans.
We can admit that Stalin and Hitler were despots, you can't admit that Mugabe is.
We'll be working on colonizing mars, you can continue to sit around your shack, defecating in the gutter, whining about how it's all the fault of someone else.
@AnonymousElektron The real despots are Bush and Blair. You only hate Hitler becaue he's non-English speaking competitor. Next time compare Nazism and the now defunct White Policy.
@AnonymousElektron To hell with your bloody KKK attitude. All you Westerners boast about as yours is what you stole from us. Ask your run-away mother how her ex-husband got rich, and she will thank hard working Africans and their rich resources. And we're saying it's time to get ours back. You can bang your head on the wall but there is no stopping us. We're not intending to export grain either; we've empty bellies to fill.
@AnonymousElektron Newsflash: Look behind your computer right now in case you did not know that it was made in Asia. Your car too, and the tractor you boast about. Whites never made anything excepts guns and ammunition... and toilet paper. They also invented theft. Globalization my arse.
@AnonymousElektron I was just pointing out to you that Asia does not necesarily mean China. Now stop throwing your dolls from the pram; it's OK - America invented the tractor and they invented Africa too. Kikikiki!
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabweans have two things the West wished they had - Black skin and Africa. Now what's with your tan? Afraid you would glow in the dark?
Ok he is a true story - Two men are traveling in one car. One smells - guess who it was?
Too true
xxXthegamecastXxx 16 hours ago
bad bad puppet 2:56
CaylaC456 3 days ago
what means "chicken to change" ?
extraguades 4 days ago
NIGGLETS.
jmwwd 5 days ago
ahhhhahahahha old zuma
MichaelRobertLaing 1 month ago
Super cool song frm durban
MrKhanProductionz 1 month ago
BEST SONG , YES ... HE IS A TRUE CHICKEN TO ROAST
ngachitsve 1 month ago
she is now old but her voice has not changed
Mthulisi3 1 month ago
I love the song, but I would NEVER do that to bob.. You freakin crazy... They just gon end up missing
Richbwoy43 2 months ago
I love Zolani. She's so, so beautiful.
thenevereverboy 2 months ago
What language is this, apart from English?
Demian10x 2 months ago
@Demian10x - not sure... 11 official languages + many more in SA... beautiful song.
CharLattie 2 months ago
Until when Rob? it is enoughooo!
MrMakungo 3 months ago
I love the part at 2:56 the most haha. this video is one of my favorites by Freshlygroung and has me more inspired to look at life more differently than I used to. :) by far Freshlyground is the best when it comes to music. :)
TheSmexiiBaby94 3 months ago in playlist My Faves
Amen to Freshlyground for this!
wandafulll 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Freshlyground
@mopaosaccie wow ur an ass its just a song and notice how not everybody in the band is black. freshlyground is one of the greatest and most respected bands in africa and if u have such a problem with it then what was the point of even watching the video
14evilmonkey 4 months ago
where can i get Bob newspaper??
BriggsdaleZIM 4 months ago
Ey, freshlyground, mind your own 'rainbow'nation business n stay out of ours. how dare u insult our great leader n fuhrer like that! l for one, think that he is more credible than your puppet Tata..look how u black oakes suffer in your country while we plunder our own natural wealth! sing about that..see if you git as many likes n views as these..Aluta continua viva RGM viva
mopaosaccie 4 months ago
@mopaosaccie you really think he is a great leader? really?
TheKekeli 3 months ago
@mopaosaccie So how's that inflation workin' out for you?
Blazhei 2 months ago in playlist Freshlyground
ugandan president museveni is the biggest most brutal dictator in the world but since he is in good terms with the west he is ignored
jean111ism 5 months ago
hehhe onnn sory mugabe
philiproid 7 months ago
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chinja!!! thankx for standing up for Zimbabweans Freshlygroung. i'm a zimbabwean andi love u. is your music on itune
habhurosi 8 months ago
chinja!!! thankx for standing up for Zimbabweans Freshlygroung. i'm a zimbabwean andi love u. is your music on itune
habhurosi 8 months ago
@habhurosi you are so so lost you seem not to like thinking hey
mampala81 7 months ago
me gusta este grupo. I like this group. greetings from Colombia south america.
JOAVARGAS612 8 months ago
I love Simon outfits!! <3
Nato89 8 months ago
i still love this video.... wakaka old desmond and helen zille =D
foKKEnGeniUsPAPA 8 months ago
What kind of shit is this? I love freshly ground but this is just sad.
IgniteChris 9 months ago
@IgniteChris you are most likely to get if you understand the politics in Zimbabwe and what the 'chicken' means and the word 'change'....its a play on words
nyariclaire 8 months ago
mhata dzenyu mese dzinenge amdora. pdn!!!
egtsango 9 months ago
OMG IM JUST LUVING HER HAIR!!!!!
mzgarfieldakalilkim 9 months ago
This is a brilliant song, absolutely love it.
Wharenpeace 10 months ago
Haha Great Video and song to poke fun at Blood thirsty Mugabe and his cronies.
lemigod 10 months ago
@lemigod vasiye vaita sei???lol they are just singing the truth
Kruise100 9 months ago
I love freshly ground and what a great song, reminds me of paul simon's graceland album :)
lucielaukitty 10 months ago
This video has been nominated for "Music Video of the Year" at the 17th Annual South African Music Awards (SAMA) sponsored by MTN.
ZANEWSTV 10 months ago 23
i think I'm in love, I love the lead singer.
devere300 10 months ago
i like Freshlyground, this guys are amazing
joecossa 11 months ago
@everyone with the angry words please take your stupid bickering somewhere else, perhaps considering blogging about your or other peoples thoughts about politics. This is a great song, try just enjoying it. PS. FreshlyGround is spectacular!!
careuhsaidit2 11 months ago
i fell in love with zolani after watching waka waka thts how i found the group and their other songs......their songs cheer me up and put me in a good mood...thanks freshly ground
sweetcake1711 11 months ago 2
Good Job Ladies & Gentlemen. Freshlyground give credit to our generation!! Love you guys;)
Luella1000 1 year ago
love this really
Thanks Freshlyground
Greetings from Germany
Me16060 1 year ago
Wow, Haha, LMFAO
amandababyyxoxo6 1 year ago
@kudzietich Dude, its ok, let it burn... u needa learn to appreciate good music!
missfrowz21 1 year ago
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fuck off freshly ground . yu know nothing about politics and if yu can`t compose anything better , rather go and get that pussy fucked coz this is not yo game.... yu want to be like condom jus like yo bro tsvangirai .......fuck yu.......
kudzietich 1 year ago
@kudzietich Dude, relax.. ^^
tsjaaaa 1 year ago
TATA & TUTU!
Love them, in life and in this video :)
bigforrap 1 year ago
(Oh congratulations, when will you ever change?) /
You are chicken to change! /
You are chicken to change!
Tshintsha! (Change!) /
Now / And ever Be one with our beauty /
Shine for all the world over /
An iridescent example of honour for the coming generation /
ameyaw 1 year ago 2
I m in love with that brunette violin girl.......she's hot...
Greetings from Greece!
FonikoPeponi 1 year ago
@FonikoPeponi shes ok she has a nice smile
1236james 1 year ago
The next Miriam Makeba?
Cloudhopper767 1 year ago
l love this song "tshintsha"
thejadenfan 1 year ago
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I hope people in zimbabwe all starve to death, because they had the choice but arrogance was just too cool....like we can do things better, so come on show us how to starve, its the price you pay for ridding your nation of whites.......he he
Simba5124 1 year ago
@Simba5124 there's a lot of so-called 'white-run' nations right now dat dun have it good either. its not people. its human nature.
spartan585 1 year ago
@Simba5124 Your maybe the stupidest person i've ever seen. Its there choice if they want to "rid their nation of whites" but the fact of the matter is your arrogant for even posting this saying there arrogant. Shut up and get off youtube and stop looking on wikipedia to get your information.
dirtboardin94 1 year ago
Is that Mandela? :)
ninosaisland 1 year ago
Look 6 ZanuPF ministers managed to bribe Z.E.S.A to get electricity to vote on youtube! Well done...now bribe them for every Zimbo cuz u have the money that belongs to them! Bob u should go and play chicken with Chuck Norris!
Aamon89 1 year ago 6
im mad that it took me this long to find a group like this, their music makes me feel happier
pm12charlier 1 year ago 5
diferente
mas legal :)
diih872 1 year ago
I lived in Zim for 7 years best years of my life and it breaks my heart what is going on, Bob is no longer human he is so devoid of sympathy and human understanding that it is sickening..
STILLCHIBS 1 year ago 5
they are so cool, this song is one of the best!!
marselsker 1 year ago
the guy behind the saxophone is ma one.
alois270 1 year ago
I really hope everything in Zimbabwe gets better. I really also hope things in the world will get better. It makes me think, why do hate each other so much, why do we have to kill each other for no reason, why do we start wars over a disagreement, why do we judge people on there skin color, sexuality, religion etc. Cant we for once get along as human beings. I mean if you want to make the world a better place, treat each other with love and kindness, even if they are mean to you.
multiyapples 1 year ago 74
@multiyapples greed
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@multiyapples
Meh in africa its more like "blame white men for everything and kill them and fuck up your own country"
TheHabati 9 months ago
@TheHabati That doesn't really change anything about his words, and I do think you might perhaps be simplifying things here.
Gonnakillyou 9 months ago
@TheHabati I think that just proves your ignorance about the situation in Africa. For one, it's a direct result of colonization that Africa and much of the rest of the world (Central America, South America, and Asia) are so messed up. The Europeans came to their shores, exploited them of their resources, then left when they could no longer fund their oppression. But at the same time, no one blames Europe solely. There are a number of internal problems that must be solved as well. Read a book.
smythe17 9 months ago
@smythe17
Sorry, but when you look at asia, central america, south america. They're all growing economically, and Africa?...lawl
TheHabati 9 months ago
@TheHabati umm hardly. if you check out the nations counted as "third world nations", south america, most of asia (albeit china and parts of southeast asia) remain in extreme poverty. and i don't see how people's poverty and misfortune are "lawls" worthy especially since the majority of the world's impoverished and hungry are children who can't control their socioeconomic standing. your views are simply that of an ignorant westerner. i hope that one day you can enlighten yourself.
smythe17 9 months ago
@smythe17
growing economically* <-- Missed that part?
TheHabati 9 months ago
@TheHabati umm...except that i didn't. africa is also making strides. not as rapid as these other regions, but they're taking the steps necessary. and you can't just look at africa as a whole, each nation is different and each nation is at its own level of economic development. but does this argument matter? you'll never admit that you're just an ignoramus so...i'm sure you got that part.
smythe17 9 months ago
@multiyapples Peace to you and to everyone who thinks like you, bro!
muchachamuylista 8 months ago in playlist RELAX
@muchachamuylista same to you and everyone who likes you
multiyapples 8 months ago
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rubbish!!!!
irenewadzie1 1 year ago
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what do you know apart from nothing
skhwabo 1 year ago 2
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this is rubbish!!
irenewadzie1 1 year ago
hahahaha chicken
efosuaah 1 year ago
Love this guys. u always come up with something nice and fresh
mashudus1 1 year ago
love it!!!!!
ToastHaHaTifferZ8 1 year ago
No improvements have been made for some time, hopefully Morgan can change that! Freshly ground are fantastic, good work guys!
RSAskew89 1 year ago
The lyrics are out of this world!!! The video is mad!!!! Forget about lady gaga
ezomculo64 1 year ago
@ezomculo64 Who's Lady Gaga? ;-) Freshlyground is AWESOME.
kittygurl212 1 year ago
political protests are all fine, but this is a lame song with little content...
valsterv 1 year ago
:-)
super track!!!
STPLevite 1 year ago
The beat takes me to sophiatown.
ushotee 1 year ago
chicken chinja
princelywear 1 year ago
Well done. May the truth set Zimbabwe and its people free.
timpit2007 1 year ago
Freshlyground, this is a catchy song...and very daring:).....i hope this song is not looking down on Zimbabweans, because it seems that is what everyone is doing......I love you guys to bits and Im sure you have good hearts...please can people start singing positive songs about Zimbabwe.....to give the people hope.....
xoxo7x7 1 year ago
Is the tin guitar the same one as Hot Water uses or did you also make one?
SirRexthefirst 1 year ago
Its funny how black South Africans forget about how MUGABE helped out so many of them during Apartheid! You people make me mad!
depth2009 1 year ago
cool video..great message
charieliciousz 1 year ago
love it!! made me giggle!! too true
Oppies001 1 year ago
Thanks Freshly ground. I was worried that the art of protest through music was lost in the 80's. THIS WORKS!
SuperTokkies 1 year ago 48
@SuperTokkies thank too this does work!!!!!!!!!
stanleydanielnoble 1 year ago
Like it a million times... We want Change...!!! We want Change!!!! We want Change!!!!!!
nehoreka10 1 year ago
the fact that FG were disallowed to perform in zim is a disgrace! siss! puh!
the Rooster's inability to laugh at himself and to allow others to laugh at him renders him simply unfit to rule (tell me sumthing i dont know...hehe)!
thank you FG tho, this brave and bold protest is probably the voice of many muted zimbos! tshintsha madala!!
matida09 1 year ago
Thank good Freshlyground was banned...otherwise I never would have discovered this great band :p Great song!
SierraNiteTide 1 year ago
Excellent song Freshly Ground! Speak the truth and the future will be bright for Africa!
baconator505 1 year ago 2
Rocks!!
martintar1 1 year ago
pwaahahahaaaa....eeiiish!this Video juz made my evening!
achieammah 1 year ago
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BRILLIANT! love it! well done!
jaimeniddrie 1 year ago
BRILLIANT!!!! love it!! well done!
jaimeniddrie 1 year ago 4
HAHAHAhaa I'm loving the caricatured puppets, keep up the good work and let the world see that humor cant be oppressed
rasmuslm 1 year ago
Now that is good music, and the video is hilarious!
Grubnar 1 year ago 2
It was better under Smith!
Just admit it, you know it to be true.
Does anyone want to move to Zimbabwe?
Even it's own people want desperately to leave.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron It's called survival Ms Insignificant Electron. Africans migrate for food and shelter. They have always done that since before your invading ancestors confined them in semi-arid reserves. If your grandmother told you the truth you should also know that Zimbabwean fled the country during Smith's reign of terror too. Your isolation strategies will not work on Zimbabwe because Zimbabweans are too educated to sit around and die when they know they can feed their mouths elsewhere.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic heh, "Zimbabweans" and "educated" in the same sentence, lol.
No, Zimbabwe leads the world in illiteracy and despotism, their biggest export is refugees.
Everyone in South Africa knows a Zimbabwean with horror stories of how much it sucks there.
And THERE IS NO CHOLERA OUTBREAK NOBODY IS DYING OF CHOLERA
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Now be sensible and dont let words just fall off your tounge. Zimbabweans are the most educated people in Africa. That is a fact. You obviously are gullible and stupid enough to think Zimbabweans in SA are 'refugees.' 95% of those that you call refugees make periodic tracks to-and-from Zim where their very safe roots, and most often their families, are. They are here because they have the brains to realise there is money to be made working, or off idiots like you.
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@TheGuruuswa These are just outright lies, and I'm not sure if you yourself are actually deluded enough to believe them.
Economists from around the world are studying Zimbabwe's hyperinflation, but I'm sure you think as Mr Mugabe that they're just "bookish economists"
5 Million dollars to ride the bus!
Zimbabwe's fertile farmland lies barren.
Stalinist tactics are used to deprive populations of food and block UN aid.
How you can defend these tactics I do not know.
Mugabe is worse than white
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron You are such a waste of time. Why dont you go throw stones in the ocean?
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Hey Miss Animated Electron pea- brain. It's good to see that Rhodies are feeling the pinch. "Zimbabwe's fertile farmland lies barren", my aching arse. What is lying barren is Mr. Kneeless' truck that used to export grain to the rest of the world while hungry Black people survived on Kenya (Yellow) corn from dodgy donors. To hell with commercializing food stocks when there is not enough at home. We eat first then sell the surplus if need be. That's basic economics. Icho!
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic what, is subsistence farming supposed to be an accomplishment??
They've been doing it for thousands of years, and on a larger scale it's devastating for the environment and can't feed everyone.
The west perfected farming in the last century, and Africa has taken two steps back, slash and burning state of the art farms so that everyone is poor and hungry together.
That kind of behavior is savage.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron It's called sharing and is a noble thing to do. Comercialization makes Mr Booyens rich while 13million Blacks starve. Subsistence farming brings food on every able bodied person's humble table. After the humble meal, they sing and dance. No need to queue at banks. That's communal lifestyle for you.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic and it's also an barbaric, obsolete, and antiquated tradition that deserves to be abandoned, like female genital mutilation.
After only a few seasons, slash and burn farming leaves land barren.
When the population is small, the land can survive, but now too many people are doing it at once, and it's turning once fertile land into desert.
It also requires far more work per each person, which is bad for your culture, because you don't have time to goto school.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabwe was not born in 1898 with the arrival of Cecil Rhodes. Before the cruel reserves, Africans would work on a land for a few years, migrate to another area to allow the bush to regenerate. Ever heard of sacred forests and rivers? These were African environmental conservation strategies. Then came the White man with his chainsaw and tractor and the word erosion and deforestation were created.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron well not exactly worse than white. white rule in Africa was and still is barbaric. But Mugabe is just as inhumane. My problem is , some people accept it because he came to power with a revolutionary ideology. Its unacceptable and should not be tolerated.
askido351 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Kikiki! Those "horror" stories are crafted. Evidence of hungry educated people. They strategize their way to the core where the money is. See how those "refugees" outperform locals everywhere in the world? Oops! I forgot you can't anything beyond Rhodesia.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic really?
Why are they so consistent then, the stories?
Saying that all refugees from Zimbabwe are just liars is like saying that all holocaust survivors are just liars, you have no right, and it could be considered a form of blood-libel.
Go ahead, tell a survivor to her face, that her father (an unarmed farmer who's family has been there for generations) wasn't chopped to bits by ANC savages.
And the joke is on them, they have no idea how to run a country.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron The stories are consistent because that's what you want to hear. The bottomline truth is if anyone from Zimbabwe tells you they are refugees, they are lying in your face. ANC? Are we talking about South Africa now?
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic so what about South Africa's huge problem with Zimbabwean refugees?
Are those hundereds of thousands of starving families flooding over the border, are they all liars?
Is it all a big publicity stunt to make Mugabe look bad? Is that really what you believe?
And now, in South Africa, you can smear your political opponent by accusing them of being like Mugabe and doing to South Africa what Mugabe did to Zimbabwe.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabweans have been migrating to South Africa since the Witwaterand Gold mines days back in the 50s. Noone complained about their presence in the country until the Western media started crafting stories about it. If the truth be told, there are more Nigerians in South African than Zimbabweans. Freshlyground's guitarist is Mozambiquan; did he run away from Mugabe too?
Gospicnic 1 year ago
Long Live Rhodesia!
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Yes, long live rhodesia: IN THE GRAVE!
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@TheGuruuswa Rhodesia was a great country and people miss actually having jobs and having a place.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron And who are the "people"? Mr Green and his teaboy? Ha!
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic hardly!
These are hard working people, made of tougher stuff than you or I.
They actually know how to wake up before dawn, and put in an honest days work, which is more than can be said of their farmhands, I'm told.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron I already told you they told you lies. I grew up in one of them bloody farms. The only time we saw baas and his Mrs on the farm was when they brought their peanut wages to the desperate workers. The Mrs...she is whining about Mugabe now because in the UK where she now resides she has to wash her own underwear and make her own cup of tea. Lazy buggers.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron you have no idea what you are talking about......you are so fired up about something you know nothing of....how can you call Zimbabweans savages simply because you are mad at Mugabe....there are gr8 people in Zim....brilliant people!
you can talk until your lips go pink and blue....the fact remains, until u go to Zimbabwe, u wont know what it's really like..u must be such an awesome person if your opinion is based off of others people's opinions....way to think for yourself!
xoxo7x7 1 year ago
@xoxo7x7 the guy who runs the coffee shop on my street (181st st in Manhattan) is Rhodesian, he has some very nice photos of what Salisbury used to look like, before it got turned into an open sewer (literally, it's now an open sewer where human waste flows through the streets)
He was in the police and tried to protect people but eventually got kicked out of his own country.
I don't understand how you can defend the "improvements" that have been made.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron one sided opinion, have u not thought that maybe the place was suffering under the previous regime? and anyway i m having trouble believing that ur guy, the coffeeshopowningrhodesian, really gives a shi* about whats going on in zim... aweah dog
TrolleywoodVideo 1 year ago
Great song!
amazing strategy ;)
never underestimate the power of ridicule.
Greetings from europe.
111oose 1 year ago
Those who think this is just a stupid video clearly do not understand the meaning of satire and the impact it can have! Super!!!
SiliBaga 1 year ago
Sing songs about a dictator. Well done. Of course this will help the Zimbabwean cause greatly, while showing your quirky light hearted humour. Hilarious . Make the whole situation comical. Next time please waka waka back to the studio and do something worthwhile. Yeah , I said it!!!
Anglozim 1 year ago
I love this videoo .. so nice
blogmrcaio 1 year ago
I heard about this on NPR last night. Absolutely brilliant!
theanswriz42 1 year ago
@theanswriz42
Mugabe has ALWAYS been a psychopathic murderer. Remember the 30 000 Northern Zulus(Ndebeles) he killed when he came to power in the 1980s.
I wonder why South African Presidents have not done anything to punish this murderous lunatic.
EElland1 1 year ago 14
@EElland1
Yeah, I actually have friends who were white farmers in Zimbabwe and forced to leave the country. Personally, I'm surprised Mugabe hasn't been assassinated.
theanswriz42 1 year ago
@theanswriz42 Obviously your fleeing friends did not tell you the whole story, including how many people they and their "serving the queen" ancestors had to kill to get that farm. Mugabe has been good to these selfish white farmers and they should be thankful for that. If it wasn't for their big heads that fooled them to think that the stolen land they lived in had become "little Britains" they would be still enjoying Zimbabwe right now. Tell your children the truth. Blame Blair too.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic Primitive savages that don't know how to properly farm land.
If it was up to them, they'd probably starve to death during the next drought.
Newsflash: You're all using technology and farming techniques invented elsewhere.
Without us you were savages, and you still kind of are.
When we hand profitable productive farms back to you monkeys you slash and burn and reduce them to wasteland.
Without white people to farm for you, you'd all starve.
As the child of farmers: YOU'RE WELCOME
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Whites NEVER farmed anything in Zim! Its the blacks who drive the tractors, pick the cotton/tobacco etc, under black farm managers. And all the whites did was get loans from white-owned banks. Where is the whites' farming in all that? Whites brought no resources to Zimbabwe. History records that they killed and plundered in Zim as in all of Africa. So deservedly, those whites who left Zim leave with NOTHING! Am glad this pains you and your kin. Your language says it all.
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@TheGuruuswa They have nothing to be proud of, their country is a disgrace to the world.
Are you seriously denying the skyrocketing illiteracy and starvation of Zimbabwe?
If they're so smart and such hard workers, why is their country such a hole?
Why aren't South Africans migrating to Zimbabwe to work?
Why aren't South Africans trying to move to Zimbabwe if it's such a paradise?
As the world can plainly see, they're nothing without white farmers.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
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TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@TheGuruuswa Ah, and so that's why Zimbabwe's keen academic community travels all over the world teaching!
Scholars from around the world flock to Zimbabwe to study!
Bwhahaha you must be kidding me.
Mugabe doesn't want literate people.
Children can barely eat, much less read.
You're so deluded.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Just so you know when some of us write here we are serious about what we are talking about, go and google "Literacy rates in Africa." The 2003 figures will show Seychelles above Zim. But Zim is now tops. Read! (Edited and reposted)
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron
wow yu are ratther harsh man to my country no country is a paradise everything omes to pass man do you think south africa is gonna sit on a platinum mine forever man NO i think zimbos are more literate than our fellolw south africans check your statistics again my man before you harshly judge us we will get rid of our problem and watch us we will shine
masimbaful 1 year ago
@masimbaful I'm not trying to be cruel, and I do wish Zimbabwe the best, but we can't delude ourselves about the dire situation there, and we certainly can't hope for improvement until the corrupt Mugabe regime ends.
Also, I've never been to Africa, I live and grew up in New York City, but I know many South Africans and Zimbabwean expatriates, and this is what I've heard from them.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Now this explains your woeful lack of knowledge! And you do your information gathering "from many South Africans and Zimbabwean expatriates" in New York!! Those of us who live in this neck of the woods are amazed at how the intensity of criticism usually has an uncanny inverse relationship to the distance of the critics from the percieved "hotspot". You, New Yorker, are an embodiment of that. Like I told you, look for literacy rates in Africa on the net. If you can read.
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@TheGuruuswa I somehow don't think all of the people I have met are liars.
Are they all conspiring to lie to me?
I've hear horrible stories about hard-working people who had their blossoming farms stolen and handed over to illiterate savages who slashed-and-burnt it into wasteland.
Progress!
And everyone wonders why Zimbabwe, which used to export 3/4ths of it's agricultural output, is now starving.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
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TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
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@AnonymousElektron You have probably all along been fed half truths and downright lies by the people you have met. How many are they anyway? FACT: It is the whites that stole the land when they came to Zimbabwe. They put that in books for all to read. Zimbabweans took back what is rightfully theirs. FACT: Nobody is starving in Zimbabwe. Ask those that know. And you may wish to know that we dont use words such as "savage" in this part of the world.
TheGuruuswa 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Have you ever been to Zimbabwe??....Have you lived there?!?!....you strong opinion is coming from hear say??...Im an American and I have lived in several countries, including Zimbabwe.....there are elderly folk in the US who buy DOG FOOD to survive....have you been to the hard hit areas in the US??.....Get real....dont comment until you have all the facts.....
yes, Zimbabwe is going thru a hard time, but what country hasnt........back off!!!
xoxo7x7 1 year ago
@xoxo7x7 my strong opinion comes from people who got kicked out of there, people who saw their neighbors hacked to death with machetes.
People who saw their once great country reduced to a Stalinist wasteland.
Get back on track, boy, the rest of the world sees Zimbabwe for the embarrassment that it is.
If it's so great, then why does everyone want to leave?
And dog food would be a luxury for people starving to death, they would queue up around the corner for dog food in Zimbabwe.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron To hell with your bloody KKK attitude. All you Westerners boast about as yours is what you stole from us. Ask your run-away mother how her ex-husband got rich, and she will thank hard working Africans and their rich resources. And we're saying it's time to get ours back. You can bang your head on the whole but there is no stopping us. We're not intending to export grain either; we've empty bellies to fill.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic this has nothing to do with race, you do know that, right?
This has everything to do with culture.
We value knowledge, we value hard work, we value taking responsibility.
The west has made mistakes, but so have Africans.
We can admit that Stalin and Hitler were despots, you can't admit that Mugabe is.
We'll be working on colonizing mars, you can continue to sit around your shack, defecating in the gutter, whining about how it's all the fault of someone else.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron The real despots are Bush and Blair. You only hate Hitler becaue he's non-English speaking competitor. Next time compare Nazism and the now defunct White Policy.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
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@AnonymousElektron To hell with your bloody KKK attitude. All you Westerners boast about as yours is what you stole from us. Ask your run-away mother how her ex-husband got rich, and she will thank hard working Africans and their rich resources. And we're saying it's time to get ours back. You can bang your head on the wall but there is no stopping us. We're not intending to export grain either; we've empty bellies to fill.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Newsflash: Look behind your computer right now in case you did not know that it was made in Asia. Your car too, and the tractor you boast about. Whites never made anything excepts guns and ammunition... and toilet paper. They also invented theft. Globalization my arse.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic yeah, MADE in Asia.
Invented and designed here in America, by engineers trained in America.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that the tractor was invented in China?
Tractors were used in farms in America since the 1930s... what were the Chinese doing in the 1930s?
Most of them were illiterate farmers.
Go ahead, keep deluding yourself.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Typical jelly brain. Ever heard of a country called Japan? Now go search.
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic I respect Japan.
But no, while they were industrialized by the 1930s, they were not inventing things, they were mostly just trading with the west.
Stop with your politically correct touch-feely "every culture has something to contribute"; they don't!
All Zimbabwe has contributed to the world is: suffering, aids, refugees, and body lice.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron I was just pointing out to you that Asia does not necesarily mean China. Now stop throwing your dolls from the pram; it's OK - America invented the tractor and they invented Africa too. Kikikiki!
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@Gospicnic oh, and also illiteracy.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
@AnonymousElektron Zimbabweans have two things the West wished they had - Black skin and Africa. Now what's with your tan? Afraid you would glow in the dark?
Ok he is a true story - Two men are traveling in one car. One smells - guess who it was?
Gospicnic 1 year ago
@EElland1 Well, it's ok, see, because he's black.
You can't criticize his policies, that would be racist!
More recently, he's embraced Stalinist controlled starvation as a political punishment on those who disagree with him.
Entire populations are being starved to death.
AnonymousElektron 1 year ago
Loved Freshly Ground from day one.. and the love only grows.. you guys and girlz are almost out of this world.. keep it up.. !!!
Rick Meijer - Cape Town
RickMeijercpt 1 year ago
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LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! - Fantastic song and awesome video. Thanks guys - definitely going to have this song in my head for a while.
zimgal4 1 year ago
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LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! - Fantastic song and awesome video. Thanks guys - definitely going to have this song in my head for a while.
zimgal4 1 year ago