His motivation for sticking around was "Saffer accents sound really awesome on vent, and I have an insane hatred for Yank accents". For context, he used to work in a tech support call centre that catered primarily to the American market. Fast forward a few years, and my husband and Stercus both discovered a mutual interest in military history. Stercus started investigating the Canadian Special Forces in the Second World War. This lead him onto Winston Churchhill, who had learnt a lot of what he knew about special forces watching the Boers fight during the Boer war. In fact, Churchhill was captured by future president Louis Botha, who let him go. That led on to researching the famous General's. Which is how he got to General de la Rey and his influence on the South African military.
Searching Youtube, he found this song:
So that's how a South African got introduced to an Afrikaans artist (South African)singing about the Angola war by a Canadian they met online :)