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Die Antwoord: Scala, London

Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 16 November 2010

IF DIE Antwoord are a joke, they're a painfully acute one. This over-the-top South African rap-rave trio, comprising rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser and a hulking DJ called Hi-Tek, purport to represent "zef", a strain of working-class/underclass Boer culture that perhaps most closely equates to our own pejorative term "chav".

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