Die Stem van Suid-Afrika

In May 1918 C. J. Langenhoven wrote an Afrikaans poem called "Die Stem" ("The Voice"). The Reverend Marthinus Lourens de Villiers set it to music in 1921; the tune that was accepted was his second, since the first did not satisfy Langenhoven. In the 1920s the South African Broadcasting Corporation played it at the close of each day's broadcasts, together with "God Save the King".