more on Die Antwoord

Now in the video 'straight from the horse's piel' (which apparently is afrikaans or somesuch for penis), the lead from Die Antwoord, called Ninja, is wearing a 'Greenman' t-shirt. The Greenman being another symbol for the old Wildman, another indication that they are at least aware of the Wildman stories that are out there and are incorporating them. Also, in that video, you have a couple of new 'associates', a couple of guys wearing knit caps, but they're wearing them like little elf/gnome hats, and gnomes/elves are part of this 'Wildman' story.

Even in some of their lyrics you have some of these Wildman references.In "Wat Pomp' you have the female lead, called Yo-Landi Visser, saying 'you can hear me coming from a distance', which is certainly in keeping with the 'merrymaking' hooting and hollering NightBand running through the streets on halloween/christmas.

As far as what it all 'means', or at least from what I can tell, the group is a 'joke', in the sense that they seem to be pointing out some of the worst parts of their country in parody, but at the same time the music's great, so really, its just all good, its funny AND the music is good. As far as the wildman stuff, one of the roles that the wildman supposedly assumes as his ancient ritual parade becomes a crazy Carnival, is that of the Harlequin and clown. And the Harlequin/Clown's special domain is that he's allowed to point out the faults of society. It seems like Die Antwoord is filling that role, but the clown/Harlequin, he doesn't point out faults by simply stating them, he criticizes without openly stating the criticism.