Comments on: MIRIAM MAKEBA CONSPIRACY THEORY… http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Tue, 22 May 2012 22:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Gar http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68864 Gar Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:13:44 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68864 Getting away from the sad passing of Miriam Makeba briefly I'll add a few other great products of South African culture: a) Outspan oranges, which I dared not buy during the apartheid boycott years, b) Cape grapes, ditto, c) Nederburg wine, ditto, d) the Springbok rugger team, e) boerworst (a strong-flavoured beef sausage they roast on a charcoal grill at a breivleis barbecue) which I liked eating during the boycott years (because imitations are produced in neighbouring countries in southern Africa), and finally 'biltong', dehydrated smoked slices of beef vacuum packed which you can chew slowly on when trekking through the African bush, also produced outside South Africa. They've also exported a favourite rugby song that begins as a chant: "I zigga zumba zumba zumba I zigga zumba zumba zay. I zigga zumba zumba zumba I zigga zumba zumba zay. Hold 'em down, you Zulu warriors. Hold 'em down, you Zulu Chief, Chief, Chief, Chief....." This is also chanted and sung at scouting campfires in the English-speaking world in the summer. Getting away from the sad passing of Miriam Makeba briefly I’ll add a few other great products of South African culture: a) Outspan oranges, which I dared not buy during the apartheid boycott years, b) Cape grapes, ditto, c) Nederburg wine, ditto, d) the Springbok rugger team, e) boerworst (a strong-flavoured beef sausage they roast on a charcoal grill at a breivleis barbecue) which I liked eating during the boycott years (because imitations are produced in neighbouring countries in southern Africa), and finally ‘biltong’, dehydrated smoked slices of beef vacuum packed which you can chew slowly on when trekking through the African bush, also produced outside South Africa. They’ve also exported a favourite rugby song that begins as a chant: “I zigga zumba zumba zumba I zigga zumba zumba zay. I zigga zumba zumba zumba I zigga zumba zumba zay.
Hold ‘em down, you Zulu warriors. Hold ‘em down, you Zulu Chief, Chief, Chief, Chief…..” This is also chanted and sung at scouting campfires in the English-speaking world in the summer.

]]> By: Sean Baite http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68861 Sean Baite Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:25:57 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68861 True enough, Gar, I think the Click Song comes up fairly prominently in the You tube 'related' links. Thanks for the further detail on the Italian benefit gig, Bartholemew - hadn't done enough research to see there was a direct African connection. Murky bloody waters down there, definitely. And Conor, was yer Great Grandad not in the Dublin Fusiliers down there in the Boer war ?? That'd explain why she was such a fine-looking slip of a cailín in the 60s.... :-> Watch out for that bloody Neapolitan ice cream from henceforth... True enough, Gar, I think the Click Song comes up fairly prominently in the You tube ‘related’ links.
Thanks for the further detail on the Italian benefit gig, Bartholemew - hadn’t done enough research to see there was a direct African connection. Murky bloody waters down there, definitely.
And Conor, was yer Great Grandad not in the Dublin Fusiliers down there in the Boer war ?? That’d explain why she was such a fine-looking slip of a cailín in the 60s…. :->
Watch out for that bloody Neapolitan ice cream from henceforth…

]]> By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68854 Conor McCabe Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:13:12 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68854 No. Fucking. Way. Seriously? No. Fucking. Way. Seriously?

]]> By: bartholomew http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68852 bartholomew Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:58:04 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68852 Actually not so far-fetched. The concert was in Castel Volturno, near Naples, chosen because the Comorra had murdered some Ghanaians there. The organisers were threatened, and much fewer people showed up than expected. The other conspiracy theory is that she’s on this blog because her real name was Miriam McCabe. Actually not so far-fetched. The concert was in Castel Volturno, near Naples, chosen because the Comorra had murdered some Ghanaians there. The organisers were threatened, and much fewer people showed up than expected.

The other conspiracy theory is that she’s on this blog because her real name was Miriam McCabe.

]]> By: Gar http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68847 Gar Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:28:40 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68847 The Click Song by Miriam Makeba is one of South Africa's great cultural exports. R.I.P. The Click Song by Miriam Makeba is one of South Africa’s great cultural exports. R.I.P.

]]> By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68844 Conor McCabe Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:36:34 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/10/miriam-makeba-conspiracy-theory/#comment-68844 Elbow away Sean! what a wonderful voice. Elbow away Sean! what a wonderful voice.

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