National symbols? What happened to the giraffe?

What you need to know:

Never mind that the national anthem was copied/borrowed/stolen from the 1897 hymn composition ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ (Xhosa lingo for ‘God Bless Africa) by Enoch Sentonga, a teacher at a Methodist Mission School in Johannesburg.

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