Mothers and fathers of South Africa

We are the voices of your children

Those who live and those yet to be born

We are the undernourished, the undereducated

The homeless and the naked

The voiceless victims of the infant mortality plague

That has seen so many of us young ones

Buried before reaching the age of one

We are your children

We call upon you today, on our knees

We implore you to please create for us

A new day, a new beginning, a new South Africa

In your hands lies our future

In your hands lies our destiny

We are your children

We are your children

We are your children

People all over South Africa

Let's work together every day

Unity is what we need

To build a nation big and strong

Unity is what we need

To build a nation big and strong

If every family, large and small

Could make love its guiding strength

Then our nation strong will stand

Bound together by a love supreme

People all over South Africa

Let's work together every day

Unity is what we need

To build a nation big and strong

Love your neighbour, love your children

Love your country, love the nation

Teach your children self-reliance

They are the future of a people truly free

South Africa, motherland

For you the future is bright as the sun

We've got to work hard to build you up

With the blood and sweat of our hands

For nothing is more precious in life

Than a people truly free

So let the earth and the heavens above

Resound with a song for you

People all over South Africa

Let's work together every day

Unity is what we need

To build a nation big and strong

People all over South Africa

Let's work together every day

Unity is what we need

To build a nation big and strong

In your hands lies our future

In your hands lies our destiny

We are your children

We are your children