Flash mob – Port Elizabeth

Ja well, this is credited to the NMMU (Nelson Mandela Metro University, most here call it the No More Money University, but when I knew it it was simply U.P.E.  University of Port Elizabeth)

This flash mob video is so cool because I go to this centre once a week, and the African harmonies at the beginning are typical of what I hear regularly.

I enjoyed it and thought that I’d share

9 thoughts on “Flash mob – Port Elizabeth”

  1. Woo hooo!

    Hairs on the back of my neck…. standing up!
    Such lovely spontaneous smiles. Love it.

  2. Morning Pseu

    Hee hee 🙂

    I thought that having them arrive as labourers, window washers and such was very clever, as for starting the whole thing off up the ladder, well that I thought a stroke of genius!

    Well done to the lot of them.

  3. Brilliant, Soutie, just brillilant – I love these flashmob thingies and I agree, the opening number was a standout 🙂

  4. Oh yeessss! 🙂

    I always liked Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ and then I heard it again one evening whilst sitting in a friend’s garden in downtowm Jo’burg. Completely different and absolutely magical.

    OZ

  6. Great stuff, Soutie. You know I always thought that Shosholoza was a song that had been written by Johnny Clegg. I remember hearing him sing it in the Market Theatre in 1988. Anyway, I looked it up and discovered that it was originally sung by the Ndebele people coming from Rhodesia to work on the mines in Joburg. It has been adopted by South Africa and is like a second national anthem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosholoza

    But then I did not know of Clegg’s Rhodesian connections either.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Clegg

  7. Hi Soutie,

    I saw this group on the Water Front in Cape Town last year. They were good at the African harmonies. The star attraction though was the group of school kids that you can see. They knew all the words and the blond girl in the front led the singing and the choreography for their dancing.

    I did notice that some in the crowd on your clip were wearing the same tops.

  8. Morning all

    I’m pleased that you all enjoyed it and that it brought back memories.

    As for the Shosholoza song being ‘almost a second anthem’ we were encouraged to sing it during the 95 RWC, remember the days of the African Renaissance, Rainbow Nation etc?

    It’s sort of stuck with rugby ever since.

  9. I too enjoyed Graceland. For Mrs J it revives memories of Africa as an architecture student.

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