Hello and welcome to the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Jill

Kursley.

Do you recognise this sound?

It's the Vuvazella, the brightly coloured horn that can be seen and heard in abundance

at sporting events in South Africa.

It's usually about 65 centimetres long, but some can be up to a metre.

The Vuvazella was notorious during the 2010 Football World Cup and became the subject

of debate when it was labelled as the world's most annoying instrument by many sports fans.

It was discussed on BBC Breakfast TV in the UK.

Now everyone's very enthusiastic about the Vuvazella at the beginning of the World Cup and

I think lots of people turn their radios and televisions on that very, very first match

and thought that noise is going to drive us all bonkers by the end.

And it did become tiresome for some fans whilst others loved it.

To find out more about its history, we're going to hear from the man who claims to have

invented it, Freddie Saddam Marquet, known as Saddam.

He spoke to me from a studio in Johannesburg where he'd taken along different versions

of his Vuvazella for us to hear.

This is my country, I'm proud of my country.

So that's why I said, it was nice for me to see everybody blog over there.

I mean the kids, even everybody.

When they see me walking on the street, they say,

it's a Vuvazella here.

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