SWEDEN has won the 2023 Eurovision song contest and will host in 2024. That co-inside with the 50th anniversary of them winning in 1974 with ABBA.

For around 50 to 60 days ESC Covers will post one song a day which is a Swedish song, either an actual entry, a selection song, or a song by a Eurovision artist covered in South Africa, either in Afrikaans or English.

For the next 4 posts, we deviate slightly from the norm and bring you 4 Swedish selection songs that were covered in Afrikaans and the featured image is different as these images were made for ESC Covers for this four songs.

Song 20 is HOPE AND GLORY by MANS ZELMERLOW. Mans tried twice to represent Sweden at the Eurovision song contest unsuccessfully but won the ticket in 2015 on his third attempt with Hero. Hope and glory took part in 2009.

KOBUS MULLER covered it in Afrikaans as EK VOEL SOUT.