Rasta Butchers South African Anthem before Boks lose in Toulouse

"Every time you go out on the field and sing the national anthem, it's very important for us and that's something that fires you up because it really fires you up because you know you're playing for your country.

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"It was a joke out there. The guys couldn't sing along to it and even the crowd were starting to laugh. It was very disappointing."

SHOOT: Click on the link here to watch and listen to the video. He sounds like a teenager with a broken voice at one point. In the end the French played with more intensity, particularly in the second half, when the Boks weren't able to add a single point to the scoreboard. Sebastian Chaval added crunching momentum to the bruising final 20 minutes.

clipped from www.iol.co.za Toulouse, France - The reggae singer the Springboks accused of butchering the anthem before the 20-13 Test match defeat to France said Saturday that he thought he had "sung beautifully". Ras Dumisani, sporting dreadlocks tucked into a huge red, green and white Rastafarian cap, was adamant that his performance - which made large parts of the Toulouse crowd burst into laughter - had been a good one. "No one told me they were upset with the singing," the Durban native said. "In fact, someone just came up to me and told me how beautifully I had sung." The South African anthem was sung before France's stirring "Marseillaise" and the singer, backed by two drummers of his Afrikhaya Band, made a mess of the four-language homage to the Rainbow Nation. At the anthem's conclusion, large parts of the crowd were left openly laughing and several Bok players looked over angrily as the singer made his muted departure from the field.