Afrikanerhart [English translation]

In fire and blood I find myself now 1

Like every Boer, child and woman

A superior force is drooling over our land

So stand armed to the teeth

Its shadow falls a dark cloud

Over the future of our nation

And if we won't fight we'll disappear

At Magersfontein 2, at Magersfontein,

at Magersfontein we draw the line

Come boer warriors, be heroes now

The day of reckoning is here

The enemy is running over our fields

Stand your ground against cannon fire

The Khakis 3 want to defeat our nation

They promise pain and sorrow

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through my Afrikaner heart 4

If you ask me, I will tell you

How deep the roots of my heart lie

If you ask me, I will show you

This is my soil, here in my fist

Come boer warriors, be heroes now

The day of reckoning is here

The enemy is running over our fields

Stand your ground against cannon fire

The Khakis want to defeat our nation

They promise pain and sorrow

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through my Afrikaner heart

Even if hell breaks loose behind us

And even if heaven falls down on us

Keep the line and stand your man

It is here where we can stop them

Stand firm, Stand firm (South Africa)

Stand firm, Stand firm (South Africa)

Come boer warriors, be heroes now

The day of reckoning is here

The enemy is running over our fields

Stand your ground against cannon fire

The Khakis want to defeat our nation

They promise pain and sorrow

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through my Afrikaner heart

But if you shoot, shoot me through

But if you shoot, shoot me through my Afrikaner heart

1. Afrikanerhart song is about the Boer war (1899-1902) - the Boer War lasted three years and was very bloody. The British fought directly against the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (Boere). The bloodshed that was seen during the war was alarming.2. Battle of Magersfontein was fought on 11 December 1899, at Magersfontein near Kimberley on the borders of the Cape Colony and the independent republic of the Orange Free State. British forces under Lieutenant General Lord Methuen were advancing north along the railway line from the Cape in order to relieve the Siege of Kimberley, but their path was blocked at Magersfontein by a Boer force that was entrenched in the surrounding hills. Eventually, General Piet Cronje and General De la Rey's Boer troops defeated the British troops.3. British soldiers4. Jopie Fourie(Boer Hero) was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout during the Boer War, and was wounded and captured in action north of Pretoria.

After the war he became a captain in the Active Citizen Force, and in 1914 decided to join the rebellion in protest against Prime Minister Louis Botha's decision to invade German South West Africa as part of the international war effort against Germany. He was captured in the Rustenburg area on 16 December 1914 and was court-martialled. On 20 December of the same year he was executed by firing squad. Before the execution he asked that they shoot him threw his Heart

• Artist:Bok Van Blerk