Boom Shaka's first album, About Time, was an instant hit, but they ran into controversy with their last album when they infused and remixed a version of the South African national anthem, "Nkosi Sikelela".
The first part of the hymn has appeared in the hymnbook of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland since 1985 with lyrics by Jaakko Löytty.
For the 1995 Rugby World Cup, Morné du Plessis suggested that the Springboks learn all the words of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, and "they did so with great feeling", according to their instructor Anne Munnik.