Brilliant Edit Has Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema Other Politicians Singing Mariah Carey’s Christmas Song

Brilliant Edit Has Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema Other Politicians Singing Mariah Carey’s Christmas Song

  • Just in time for Christmas, a TikTok account shared an edited video of South African politicians singing a Christmas carol
  • The clip included political big names such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema, Mmusi Maimane and more to recreate Mariah Carey's hit song All I Want for Christmas
  • Online users were in awe of the content creators who made the video using multiple clips put together

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A video of South African politicians singing together on TikTok went viral. The cleverly edited compilation of politicians' speeches managed to make the hit song All I Want for Christmas.

Cyril Ramaphosa, Julius Malema, Mmusi Maimane
A video was edited by News24 to make it look like popular politicians were singing a Christmas carol for the festive season. Image: TikTok/@mzansisgreatestfamily
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South African peeps couldn't stop raving about the funny edit. Many people were in awe of the effort it must have taken to create it.

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Video of South African politicians singing 'All I want for Christmas' has people amused

A TikTok shows an expertly edited video of South African political names singing a popular Christmas song by Mariah Carey. In the video by News24 , the publication's editors made it look like several politicians including Mmusi Maimamane, Julius Malema, Cyril Ramaphosa and other members of Parliament were singing All I want for Christmas.

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Online users commented on the creative video, with many marvelling at how long it must have taken. People also joked about the loadshedding crisis and said they thought the lyrics in the song would end with, "All I want for Christmas is electricity."

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user8677348360008 commented:

"The effort that went into making this."

Marylin commented:

"Brilliant editing, all we want for Christmas is electricity"

Avril Albetti commented:

"Editing, I take my hat off."

Ethiano69 commented:

"It's the "Baby" for me lmao."

Tokelo M commented:

"The sip of water."

Kelly commented:

"Why did I think it was going to say Electricity."

Nita Erasmus77 commented:

"Doesn't matter how bad SA gets, SA is just something else taking bad times and turning them into a laugh."

andreasheldon640 commented:

"Thought they would say electricity."

Clay commented:

"All I want for Christmas, sips water, is You."

Diririn commented:

"Brilliant.... Merry Christmas fellow South Africans."

iam.jaygee commented:

"Well done! Super funny!"

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Bathabile Dlamini and some of SA's most popular politicians, such as Carl Niehaus, Ace Magashule, Nomvula Mokonyane, Zweli Mkhize, and Faith Muthambi gathered to party.

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Rutendo Masasi (Human-Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 2 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za