Shosholoza, a Traditional Southern African Folk song, although generally sung by work gangs, has been recorded by a variety of artists. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, PJ Powers and Peter Gabriel amongst them. Each artist recorded their own version so the lyrics might be different but what follows are the basic lyrics the way I remeber singing them after the winning celerbrations of the Rugby World Cup in 1995. The word 'Shosholoza' means 'Go forward' or 'Make way for the next man'.

"'Chocholoza!' Chocholoza is the song that South African blacks sing under hardship. Especially by long-term convicts when engaged in hard labour. Chocholoza is like a child with no parents. Nobody knows when or where it originated from, but what everyone knows is that when there is some kind of deep-rooted ache in the heart, the first thing to visit the lips will be 'Chocholoza'. The song with no beginning and no end, as old as misery itself." Boetie, Dugmore (Barney Simon, ed.), "Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost" (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1969)

Shosholoza
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphuma eSouth Africa
Wen u ya baleka
Wen u ya baleka
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphuma eSouth Africa

(Note, South Africa can be/is substituted with the home country of choice, eg Stimela siPhuma Zimbabwe...)