Fokofpolisiekar

Calling their band "F*ck Off Police Car" and their big single "Burn South Africa" meant they were never going to be mainstream, but that was never a priority for this South African post-hardcore band formed in Bellville, near Cape Town, in August 2003. The simple act of forming an Afrikaner punk rock band at a time when the language was both deeply unfashionable and suffering from all-time low prestige owing to its associations with the old apartheid regime speaks volumes for the chutzpah of its members. In the early 2000s, young Afrikaners found themselves in a similar position to that faced by young Germans after the end of the Second World War. Saddled with the guilt of their parents and feeling oppressed by a conservative religious establishment, they longed for something that would once more give them pride and point a way towards a new kind of Afrikaner identity