Flashmobs performing protest routines accompanied by South African hit ‘Jerusalema’ has become the main medium in the fight against the destruction of Indian region of Goa. This UNESCO protected area is under threat of infrastructure expansion, and ‘Jerusalema’, a 2019 track by Master KG and Nocembo Zikode, has become the unofficial hymn of the ecology movement. Gal Dem shares a pretty story of good against the machine.

Nomcebo Zikode released 'Jerusalema' at the end of 2019 in South Africa, soon becoming one of the biggest local songs of the summer there. The song has since reached the top five on music charts in Belgium, France, Hungary, Netherlands and Switzerland. It has been streamed almost 55m times on Spotify, the music video has been watched more than 170m times on YouTube and 385m on TikTok. In September 'Jerusalema' became the most Shazammed song in history. Guardian tells the story of the birth of the song.