History Summarized: South Africa

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In the past few centuries, few corners of the African Continent were quite as busy as the south. It's a winding river from the first migrations and waves of colonists in the Cape Colonies to the Rainbow Nation we know today, so let's dive in and see how it all played out!
SOURCES & Further Reading for Black History Month:
- "The African Experience From 'Lucy' to Mandela" From the Great Courses Plus, lectures 15-18 "South Africa: The Dutch Cape Colony & The Zulu Kingdom & Frontier and Unification & Diamonds and Gold", 26 "Segregation and Apartheid in South Africa", and 32 "The South African Miracle"
- "Born A Crime" by Trevor Noah: bookshop.org/b...
- Home Team History is a RU-vid channel covering all corners of the African continent. They have several videos about Southern Africa, such as "A History of Stone Architecture in Southern Africa" ( • A History of Stone Arc... ) and "Southern Africa: The Birthplace of Iron Mining" ( • Southern Africa: The B... ), and "A history of the Xhosa People" ( • Video )
- Lastly, looking to modern times, it's important to recognize how the COVID crisis has exacerbated massive preexisting disparities between healthcare for Black and minority communities and that of white Americans. It's not enough to just acknowledge history, we all have a responsibility to understand modern problems and work on solutions. Read more: (www.scientific...) and please consider Donating to support the NAACP's COVID relief programs: (naacp.org/coro...)
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@epickabelo 3 года назад

I am a simple South African, I see a video mentioning my country, I watch it.

@RaraZeCat 3 года назад

Yep, same here... I really want our country to be noticed for reasons other than Nelson Mandela.

@jaredweldrick185 3 года назад

Same here

@sous1618 3 года назад

Same

@PrimeAct 3 года назад

Hape the name of the page is something something sarcastic.. so I thought it was funny

@palesaneo3817 3 года назад

Meeeee

@miliesingh6460 3 года назад

in the immortal words of bill wurtz, south africa might need another minute to think about it.

@gingiebread1584 3 года назад

Indeed indeed.

@Real_Tower_Pizza 3 года назад

4:35 was these states colonies?

@dominaiscna 3 года назад

A CULTURED BEING I SEE!

@simonschnedl 3 года назад

Did you mean 60 seconds?

@taylorstorm4685 3 года назад

Or, as we'd say in SA, "we"ll talk about it just now."

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 года назад

It's important to remember South Africa's history is more than Apartheid. Thank you blue.

@mullerpotgieter 3 года назад

Shhhhhh. Don't let the government find out you're telling people that. They need the scapegoat

@rook8822 3 года назад

Thank you sir (or miss)

@luthientinuviel3883 3 года назад

Yeah, I really hope to learn more about it soon!

@carlosroo5460 3 года назад

A nice appetizer before lunch.

@henkbarnard1553 3 года назад

@@mullerpotgieter Someone needs to tell the govement that the scapegoat died 10 years ago. (it drowed in a swimming pool)

@obusisayo 3 года назад

as a South African watching this, i can genuinely say i really did enjoy this😌 it was a great summary of our complex history and it’s amazing to see other people taking interest!💕

@christopher9727 Месяц назад

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@bradfordmax8372 3 года назад

Im honestly really proud of Blue for his pronunciation, it’s actually much more accurate than most people I’ve heard!

@whatevermate8241 3 года назад

Its really cool because you can see how he tried where alot of people just don't care

@ThisCharmlessMan 3 года назад

@@AxxLAfriku what?

@richardnixon2445 3 года назад

@@AxxLAfriku what

@philipehret2442 3 года назад

@@AxxLAfriku huh?

@ietsbram 3 года назад

Which parts tho? He absolutely butchered the dutch stuff

@unkulunkulu1494 3 года назад

The best thing about South Africa is the unquestionably superior version of Beef Jerky that is Biltong

@jackkhail7833 3 года назад

I miss Bar-one bars

@david_aug_1017 3 года назад

This is objectively correct

@david_aug_1017 3 года назад

@Stained Glass Window Shit you have a point

@fullmetaltheorist 3 года назад

God is that you?

@unkulunkulu1494 3 года назад

@@fullmetaltheorist yes my child

@sabineellis9527 3 года назад

Not going to lie, as a South African watching this video I was nervous, but you managed to pronounce things well and included the history of our people very respectfully. I'm actually really impressed.

@thoughtswithzuks 3 года назад

The Nguni pronunciations need some work a bit but good effort on him

@Tokolosh4363 3 года назад

Ek ook

@Tokolosh4363 3 года назад

Ek ook

@ayo9002 2 года назад

Me too

@ayo9002 2 года назад

Ek ook Wie is Afrikaans

@achilles4625 3 года назад

The fact that this has more South African history than the South African school system

@axixngolola4845 3 года назад

Bruh

@simatra306 3 года назад

I am sitting here thinking the exact same thing

@politicswithluca5780 3 года назад

Exactly

@mgnchase849 3 года назад

The ANC want to keep the population stupid so they can keep voting for them. Because fact is only an uneducated person incapable of critical thinking would vote for them.

@politicswithluca5780 3 года назад

@@mgnchase849 so true

@riptidesatyr7736 3 года назад

Blue: “The accidental importation of smallpox.” The UPS driver: “Oh sorry I was supposed to drop this off to America.”

@sechran 3 года назад

[History of European Colonization] "You get smallpox!!! You get smallpox! And you get smallpox! And you get smallpox! EVERYBODY GETS SMALLPOX!!!"

@twoscarabsintheswarm9055 3 года назад

@@sechran not really but pop off sis

@nameofthename 3 года назад

"eh, you guys can keep it anyways, i'll just give america a replacement."

@mercce6750 3 года назад

@@sechran also yellow fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, mumps, typhus, and typhoid fever.

@Real_Tower_Pizza 3 года назад

4:35 was these states colonies?

@whoiskwanda 3 года назад

AHHH IM SCREAMING SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE SOUTH AFRICANS WHO HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS CHANNEL FOR YEARS

@kryptonianguest1903 3 года назад

I'm a little surprised how many of us there are.

@kokos_antics 3 года назад

It's so nice to see

@johnaucamp7106 3 года назад

*waves*

@Hessed3712 3 года назад

😊

@carlinkag2525 3 года назад

It's so cool that theres so many of us here! More than I was expecting!

@treve.mp3 3 года назад

This video meant a lot. I’m not even South African, I’m Zimbabwean. It just feels so good to see more Southern African history. I also love that you addressed the pre-colonial history cause I feel that a lot of African histories focus solely on colonialism which for me at least has slightly fueled a weird cultural identity crisis where I feel like I have no history, even though I know that’s ridiculous. Your video was a delightful breath of fresh air. Thank you so much blue

@georgethompson1460 3 года назад

How's the dictatorship going?

@hiselbii5326 3 года назад

It's kind of sad you sometimes feel like you don't have any history, but I do understand why feel that way. I hate that I learn next to nothing about the history of african countries in school. The whole continet is often just treated like one gigantic country...

@banjotiki3910 3 года назад

Don't worry, most countries' history is a lot more boring than this.

@slimy6316 3 года назад

The "history" was only two minutes. Without colonialism you'd guys would still be fighting each other with sticks and stones

@hiselbii5326 3 года назад

@@slimy6316 Did you really have say that and hurt people, just so you can feel better about yourself? Because what you wrote is horribly racist, but I'm pretty sure you are aware of that.

@mr.jgentleman5550 3 года назад

South African from Cape Town here.....this was good. Its funny how diverse South Africa is. For instance I'm a Cape Town born coloured(colour with a u) We use British culture, spelling system, slang(sometimes), foods and other things. Some of our meals are sometimes based off of Indian meals, Chinese, Portuguese, etc. We have a mix between Australian and British accents with the differences being the pronunciation of the letter 'R' and even then there are different accents South Africa is developing kinda fast but the only problem stopping us is the government(South Africans know why) I feel like if we had a good government we'd be a fully developed country by the time every 15year old turns 30.

@meandyourmom3083 Год назад

Food lol no? Since the country is predominantly most East African food

@lexcriss3084 3 года назад

Africa in the 90's looks like a confusing game of DnD

@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 3 года назад

so a regular game of DnD

@lexcriss3084 3 года назад

@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 eh close enough

@famoladejo3655 3 года назад

@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 Yeah pretty much

@whispergleam3576 3 года назад

Good grief! 😂

@jackobrien3574 3 года назад

Africa... roll a constitution saving throw. Nat1 Dammit

@savageantelope3306 3 года назад

“So Britain did the shooty-shoot and grabby-grab” Easily summing British expansion all up

@eruantien9932 3 года назад

Yeah, we did do that quite a bit, didn't we... Though, I will never not be amused by the fact that diamonds were only discovered in SA because some Afrikaners got pissed off that we'd banned slavery and ran away. Unexpected consequences of banning slavery - unethical diamond mining!

@tylerdurden3722 3 года назад

The biggest irony is that they discovered more than half the world's reserves. Of both gold and diamons.😅 At first they didn't mine the gold and diamonds, because they knew what would happen if the British found out. But the stuff was just lying around on the ground like rocks...the temptation was too much😅. So, they started mining secretly. Then they let foreigners mine, "secretly".

@cecilrhodes1057 3 года назад

except that they bought the land but you know why be historically accurate when you can propagandize.

@yosephbuitrago897 3 года назад

Cecil Rhodes ok

@martinmuller3244 3 года назад

Well, know a bit of the grabby-grab. My great grandparents were German immigrants. Because my greatgrandfather was working for the Boer railway, SASM, he was banished. My greatgrandmother was heavily pregnant and had to stay. When the brits took Jhb, two british soldiers wanted to plunder her home. She took a giant frying pan and they woke up with a very big headache ...

@neospeed4960 3 года назад

me: *thinks I am the only South African who watches OSP* the comments: Think again naaier

@QuinnyxFae 3 года назад

this is a mood haha

@thingonometry-1460 3 года назад

Eyy lekker

@stanleycolene 3 года назад

Bwhahaha

@friendlydango 3 года назад

Oof haha

@Biomatrix2000 3 года назад

Nou gaan ons braai

@kalebbruwer 3 года назад

"There's still plenty of work to be done" Well the current administration doesn't seem keen on "doing work" so... I mean they literally can't even keep the lights on.

@arendvandermerwe3309 3 года назад

Chilling with candels rn. You know whats up

@zoobieloobie3646 3 года назад

The corruption is overwhelming. This country had so much potential.

@thomasafrica9724 3 года назад

@@zoobieloobie3646 _Has_ so much potential. We're not doing great, but we're still in the process of changing. You are right about the corruption though, it's a disgrace and it's embarrassing tbh.

@zoobieloobie3646 3 года назад

@@thomasafrica9724 the amount of parliament videos on RU-vid is too much aswell. It's comedy show.

@zoobieloobie3646 3 года назад

@@thomasafrica9724 I still love my country though and I'm sure you do too.

@puff6396 3 года назад

As a person who lives here, saying “it can’t get worse” is always false

@kaibaby6335 3 года назад

Damn that's kinda fucked up

@squid5523 3 года назад

It do be true do

@leahs8254 3 года назад

It always gets worse

@0019329077 3 года назад

There's a lot of Boers in my state. They tell so many horror stories.

@frenchbreadstupidity7054 3 года назад

@@0019329077 They lie. They fled when black people got the right to vote because they thought it would mean a white genocide. Still they claim it will happen any day now. Still not happening.

@janpiorko3809 3 года назад

"one legacy that nearly all of Africa shares is colonialsm" *laughs in Ethiopian*

@abthedragon4921 3 года назад

Ha! Nice.

@popelite9926 3 года назад

*italian clear throat*: mi scusi

@OverlySarcasticProductions 3 года назад

BIG asterisk on "nearly" :) -B

@janpiorko3809 3 года назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions OMG I have been noticed.

@twoscarabsintheswarm9055 3 года назад

@@janpiorko3809 put that one of your CV man

@PopRocksOTP 3 года назад

I'm glad my country is recognized in history

@mistylilith7585 3 года назад

Yeah but just wait until they find out what the government has done to this country :)

@VossieVoster 3 года назад

Same brother

@jockesfi6408 3 года назад

This country's going down and fast

@013aanikhfds 3 года назад

@@KedousY I think he’s white

@VanillaVillain8 3 года назад

@@013aanikhfds how do you know?

@menzidlamini2646 3 года назад

As a Zulu South African, I find this video very informative and well produced 👌

@EKWEETREGTIGNIE 5 месяцев назад

ONCE A STRONG NATION GOT DEFEATED but not the hopes off their people

@ethanhoward2486 3 года назад

Blue: There's still a lot of works to be done Me: **cries in Zondo Commission and State Capture** You have no fookin' idea mate

@fullmetaltheorist 3 года назад

Too much to be done.

@thapelomaraisane8705 3 года назад

Brooooo.

@maseratifittipaldi 2 года назад

The ANC is CREATING the "work to be done" . The hole they are digging gets deeper and steeper by the day.

@hannahschreiber1100 3 года назад

Me, a South African, checking the pronunciation: Blue: Boars Edit: Just for reference for non-South Africans it's something along the lines of Boo-er It was such a weird experience seeing someone talk about our country and its history. We love to see it

@ThisCharmlessMan 3 года назад

My friends south african, and he said that Boer is pronounced like boar and not boa.

@oomreni5820 3 года назад

it hurts xD

@Tijnob 3 года назад

me, a dutch person, wondering if that was the right way of saying it in afrikaans.

@arrenthil 3 года назад

And the Drakensberg XD I think its the rolling of the r that people struggle with

@oomreni5820 3 года назад

@@ThisCharmlessMan Sounds like an englishman xD the pronunciation is the sound a ghost makes + an R. And the plural adds an E not an S.

@coffeeringtales1368 3 года назад

As an Afrikaans speaker, I'm impressed with your pronunciations. Greate video Blue

@arendvandermerwe3309 3 года назад

Found it more funny tbh. He butchered the "R" and the "G" but i really appreciate him taking an interest.

@neilvolschenk1550 3 года назад

im not lol

@KM-kf4qf 3 года назад

Yes, we like being called "boars"

@jdsgaming3216 3 года назад

Nee man hy kan nie boers se nie😂

@kipchickensout 3 года назад

@@KM-kf4qf I was looking for this comment

@coolbeans5911 3 года назад

What a lovely surprise!!! Love to all my fellow South Africans in the comment section!!😊❤🇿🇦 Baie liefde en gesondheid julle kant toe!!!

@dogboy5307 3 года назад

Jy ook koud-bone

@coolbeans5911 3 года назад

@@dogboy5307 baie dankie, Hondseun530🐶🌸

@dogboy5307 3 года назад

@@coolbeans5911 plesier

@tiro0oO5 3 года назад

Greetings from Germany. I honestly know not much about sa, only heard about its beauty. How is the current Situation? Do people get along (different ethnic groups)

@lintree 3 года назад

I'm not from South Africa and I don't speak pretty much any of the languages of the region, although I wish I did. What surprised me is that I could still understand what you said because wow that sounds more like Dutch than I expected

@E11imist 3 года назад

Missed opportunity to point out that the British not only used tons of troops during the second Anglo-Boer War but also built concentration camps for the women and kids

@ulyssesdenice5071 3 года назад

Yep. We still hate the Brits for that one. Losing more than 28,000 people to that, most of whom were our children, ain't exactly something we can forgive easily.

@Zypheit 3 года назад

@@ulyssesdenice5071 Would you have expected better from any other occupying power of the time?

@KafkaExMachina 3 года назад

@@Zypheit Just because an action was common doesn't make it any more forgivable.

@teadrinkinglegninja1520 3 года назад

British/Afrikaans hatred for eachother is why my mum (English heritage South African) got disowned when she got pregnant with me by my Afrikaans dad

@spiko1755 3 года назад

Can’t believe that they didn’t talk about rorkes drift

@miomio6890 3 года назад

That you're doing history of South Africa, makes me hopeful that you'll one day do history of the Balkans :')

@tomasjakovac7950 3 года назад

Ragusa/Dubrovnik in particular would be right up his alley!

@dorktriogamer2865 3 года назад

He'd have to be crazy to just do "BALKANS"

@miomio6890 3 года назад

@@tomasjakovac7950 though he'd have a HELL of a time understanding the wars. but hey, if he needs anything translated...I volunteer as tribute XD

@miomio6890 3 года назад

@@dorktriogamer2865 I think separate history for each individual country is too much to ask for :')

@tomasjakovac7950 3 года назад

@@miomio6890 I mean, he managed to understand the Wars of the League of Cambrai in one of the Pope Fights videos so anything in the Balkans should be easy after that lol

@invertin 3 года назад

We did the Boer Wars in my history class, but I wish I got some more of the context at the time. Funfact, the Second Boer War is the first instance of the british empire's military employing camoflage in their uniforms, they switched from the redcoats to tan to try to blend in because the Boer were kicking their ass through guerella warfare. Unfortunately for the soldiers, the design of the first camoflage uniform was lacking: specifically it still had a big line of golden buttons and two pockets, forming a perfect reflective + shape directly in the center of every soldier's chest if any light was remotely pointed at them, for example, the sun.

@adrianmcbride1666 3 года назад

Same

@yammoto148 3 года назад

Yup, and De Le Rey still handed their asses to them because of it.

@theturkanabus3610 3 года назад

Plus they pioneered the use of concentration camps as a military strategy

@andypotgieter231 3 года назад

"oi thes a rockspoider round ere"

@blootooth2543 3 года назад

Blue's African pronunciations is actually on point. It made me realize what a hybrid language Afrikaans is. The fact I can understand Dutch loosely is proof of that

@char_chan1 3 года назад

well Afrikaans is actually born from Dutch

@deanholderde5959 3 года назад

@@char_chan1 these words are technically true, as the largest inspiration for the language is Dutch.

@bn_is-in-need-of-therapy 2 года назад

Bruh same

@RepubliconCelebrityPresidents Год назад

@Blootooth yeah Afrikaans isn't a real African language. Of course there's influence from African languages and loanwords, but Afrikaans is like America. 70% white(Dutch) and calls itself a melting pot.

@5801160052086 5 месяцев назад

Take a look at Flemish, its even more understandable than durch

@Thiccremoch162 3 года назад

Ey, we just so happen to be learning about this in my ap world history class, convenient!

@Talia_Arts 3 года назад

Ah the unholy hell of ap world history. I give you luck on studying and passing all the tests you only have a vague idea of what they are on (No, I don’t have a problem with the class you do)

@coletteo1792 3 года назад

Hey! Same! Extremely convenient

@quantum_leaf 3 года назад

how convenient im learning this too holy shit

@user-me5fh3yu1j 3 года назад

Wow these are actually useful to people’s education? I just watch these because I’m weird

@comradewindowsill4253 3 года назад

i’m taking ap european history, so the side i’ve gotten mostly has been the dutch golden age and the constant contests of imperialism between britain and france... taking an ap class is madness tbh. there’s 19 kings louis of france, and every prussian kaiser is either friedrich or friedrich wilhelm. woe, woe, woe is me

@DiasThiago100 3 года назад

Just a quick feedback: don't know if it's my display, but the colors used for the Zulu and Bantu kingdom (brown and black) don't have a good contrast with the map, so it's a little hard to see where they begin and end

@DeltaEntropy 3 года назад

Just like the actual borders

@LarryGarfieldCrell 3 года назад

That... seems accurate.

@andypotgieter231 3 года назад

Funny you should mention this, it's still a very heated debate to this day

@joshuaswart8211 3 года назад

For those interested about when you use the term "Apartheid": racial discrimination and segregation has a long history in both the Union of South Africa, and the four entities that formed it. However, "Apartheid" specifically refers to the policy of the National Party (NP) from 1948 to 1994. The NP was very direct when it came to racial discrimination and segregation. It was really woven into the law.

@TheOraReport 3 года назад

Like the USA in the Jim Crow laws and the One Drop Law which were really racist supremacist racism woven into law.

@melktert1763 3 года назад

During apartheid everyone had food

@joshuaswart8211 3 года назад

@@melktert1763 1. This is demonstrably false. 2. Don’t defend Apartheid. Your white supremacy is showing.

@ajliebenberg6125 3 года назад

So I didn't hear you mention how the woman and children of the boers were kept in concentration camps. Always so interesting to see what people include and exclude

@joshuaswart8211 3 года назад

@@ajliebenberg6125 What the fuck? My comment was about Apartheid. The concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War have nothing to do with Apartheid. But you are right about one thing. Seeing how people like you will reference the concentration camps as if that somehow makes Apartheid okay is indeed very interesting.

@xnlac 3 года назад

Crazy how a YT video taught me more about my country's history than my schooling ever did. Thanks

@Stormkrow280 2 года назад

Same here.

@mkthedj1006 2 года назад

Bro

@dude9318 2 года назад

School only teaches small parts of the the most important parts of history

@worldgoesround9 3 года назад

As a South African, I'm always so chuffed when South Africa is mentioned

@TheMedicalDemon 3 года назад

As South African can confirm

@worldgoesround9 3 года назад

@@TheMedicalDemon As a South African, I appreciate your confirmation 😝

@Hessed3712 3 года назад

What does “chuffed” mean?

@AspienPadda 3 года назад

It's difficult to explain @@Hessed3712 but it's sort of like impressed or happy or proud of yourself or mildly amazed. (Edit Google says: chuffed /tʃʌft/ adjective INFORMAL•BRITISH very pleased. "I'm dead chuffed to have won" So yea... It's actually a word who knew)

@kaponkie05 3 года назад

Ja my bru

@glimpsee7941 3 года назад

This is the first time in over 10 years I've heard our country called the Rainbow Nation. Thank you for giving me some pride in my country.

@dansmith1661 3 года назад

After murdering the people who actually look more than one color. Diversity means White genocide.

@glimpsee7941 3 года назад

@@dansmith1661 What are you smoking? Its bad for your soul.

@carlinkag2525 3 года назад

Yo, we talk about the Rainbow nation all the time?

@Instabram108 3 года назад

@Glimpsee Hell ya bro the Rainbow Nations badass, and even though the history might be tough and the modern day still holds some challenges yall will always be an awesome country! :)

@carlinkag2525 3 года назад

@@dansmith1661 Nooooo, that is so not a thing dude, please chill

@InfoGuyGaming 3 года назад

As a person living here, I've noticed a lot of negativity from fellow South Africans (it's our default status, wish it wasn't) regardless of how much progress has been made. It's not perfect, and there are a LOT of problems but it is better than it was.

@frenchbreadstupidity7054 3 года назад

Definitely, even for white people. Employment rates and college graduation has gone up. I think people just form echo chamber societies where they only let in bad stuff that happens. Toxic braai circles is what I call them.

@InfoGuyGaming 3 года назад

@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 Yeah pretty much, had to sit through too many of those types of braai's

@blufyre1423 3 года назад

Love the words 'toxic braai circles'. It basically never happens when I'm near cuz they don't wanna talk about how bad the country is in front of a coloured guy

@carlinkag2525 3 года назад

Yeah, our country isn't in a great space, but it is in a better space than 40 years ago. So I'm counting the current climate as "not so bad"😄

@Patches2212 3 года назад

The worst for me is not the complaining as much as it's the "everything was better during Apartheid" discussions. I have gotten in countless arguments with my family about this (to the point where I once had to walk home for an hour because I got out of the car from frustration), because it's just so narrow-minded and actually abhorrent that they think a system of institutional racism and oppression is good in any way

@sdjacobs9628 2 года назад

As a South African, I applaud your depiction of our history. Accurate and respectful. Thank you very much, as lots of historical documentaries tell a skewed tale of our very complex history

@gloweye 3 года назад

Footnote: "Boer" is the dutch word for "Farmer".

@kaponkie05 3 года назад

Same for Afrikaans

@jneedle92 3 года назад

Cognate with English "boor," if I'm not mistaken. Took a bit of a downward turn there

@bernd_das_brot6911 3 года назад

@@kaponkie05 *cough* *cough* afrikaans is just broken dutch *cough* *cough* And how it literally comes from the dutch word Thats like saying bed means the same in england and America like of course

@fienevandijk7224 3 года назад

@@bernd_das_brot6911 what is the African plural though? Do they say boers or boeren?

@ItsRubenMorris 3 года назад

@@bernd_das_brot6911 Afrikaans is like Dutch except the chef was missing like a third of the recipe

@idkanymore12 3 года назад

I’m not South African, I’m actually Mozambican, but I greatly appreciate this video. Southern Africa, really Africa in general, tends to get ignored or greatly glossed over except when discussing colonialism, so seeing it get the spotlight, even if minor, is quite refreshing.

@doomdrake123 3 года назад

It's shame that it's glossed over, Africa is the birthplace of our species, and the stories and culture of our elder cousins should be known.

@Jocelina_but_not_really 3 года назад

🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿

@davidjoelsson4929 2 года назад

@@doomdrake123 nope its not

@doomdrake123 2 года назад

@@davidjoelsson4929 it's not what?

@KM-vl2cs 3 года назад

Tswana girl here lol There's a story I was told by my grandmother about her tribes people (Basotho ) So in those days most Sotho and some Tswana people would live in mountain regions. When the zulus went to conquer more tribal lands, apparently Tswana people would just yeet themselves over a cliff😂🤣🤣

@rugbymandan5207 3 года назад

Moshweshwe was a great tactician and an even better diplomat. He is the major reason why the Basotho people in modern day Lesotho have their own independent country.

@FByrde 3 года назад

I don't know why "yeet" is making me cry-laugh right now, but here I am trying to breath from laughing so hard. Thank you!

@pred7949 3 года назад

the way you rickrolled us with that last sentence hahahah

@AFROPOLYMATH 3 года назад

That is somewhat true. Check this video out if you're interested in the summary of SA by Motswana...

@netomaape2557 3 года назад

This video didn't show pre-coloniak Tswana history properly but he did apologize in the end of the video. It would have had to be long. My biggest surprise is how this comment thread has not yet been taken over by racist right wingers going on about the empty land myth or being aparthied apologists referencing the white genocide myth or discussing how BEE is reverse aparthied or other nonsense they spew here.

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@Linda-gy2zq 2 года назад

I can even say she's the most sincere broker I have known.

@vicente8165 2 года назад

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@catalinagunter8779 2 года назад

All thanks to my aunty who introduced her to me.

@manon1875 2 года назад

Mr ALBERT is obviously the best.

@83ayodele 3 года назад

As a Nigerian American I appreciate your channels’ content when it comes our history and myths giving it the respect it deserves.

@wesleyclark5146 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. As a South African, it was awesome to see some of my country's vast history discussed and explained. I know you were pressed for time, but you missed a few key events that fuelled Apartheid: - The Battle of Blood River - Kroonstad Boer War Concentration Camp - The Siege of Ladysmith - Battle of Rorke's Drift - The massacre of Piet Retief and his delegation by the Zulu King Dingane Currently, our country is striving to be the Rainbow Nation Tata Madiba (Nelson Mandela) envisioned, however, our country is full of different cultural groups that have been pushed together and we are all fighting to find our identities and heritage. Most of which have been rewritten or anglicised due to colonisation and Apartheid. Because of these factors, today the opposite is happening with ANC ruling party having imposed their own political culture unto the nation, we have had nothing but a steady decline after president Jacob Zuma took up office, and now after nearly 20 years, we are STRUGGLING to come together as a nation. The ghosts of the past, are used to control the future nation, be it as an excuse for infrastructure failure (or lack thereof) and 25 years of broken promises, such as building houses, free education, Black Economic Empowerment. All of which are reasons why South Africa is now experiencing its 4th wave of intellectual emigration OUT of the country... which worsens our ability to improve or build on what we have, instead it goes to waste, or destroyed in protests as there is no one left who cares enough to maintain them. Thank you once again!

@maxdavis7722 2 года назад

How did those events fuel the apartheid?

@GAl3li0 2 года назад

Another one telling us to get over it, its in the past, its not that deep.

@helenmokoena5357 2 года назад

You are literally trying to make it seem apartheid was necessary and justified. You are shameless. “Afrikaaners” are not Africans, they are lost Europeans with no identity so you want to steal our land instead because you belong no where.

@damianr9667 3 года назад

hey, south africa here, thanks for actually pronouncing our words right and talking about older history, feel free to ask us anything most of us like our history

@darshanpadayachee4383 11 месяцев назад

As an Indian South African I'm annoyed we never got mentioned lol. But for how short this video was you did a great job. I also appreciate how you mentioned the parallels between South African and American history. It's something I've personally found fascinating!

@mullerpotgieter 3 года назад

Speaking as a citizen of the country: Its all just terrible

@neolord1215 3 года назад

If this ain't the biggest South African mood I've ever heard idk what is.

@granite8236 3 года назад

Agreed

@cosmic_za8075 3 года назад

As citizen also -speak your truth

@lalaisdead 3 года назад

as citizen as well, I can confirm :')

@sadiqjulius4482 3 года назад

Truly i agree

@itsdodger1176 3 года назад

As a South African I can not tell you how many times I've had to learn South african history

@kokos_antics 3 года назад

It's never ending tbh

@banathinkehli9875 3 года назад

Lol I majored in history at Tuks and I will make it very apparent, that what you learn at school is just the tip of the Iceberg. Blue was not kidding when he said that this subject is complicated. XD lol. Most South Africans have a poor understanding of their history. In fact, I think what we cover in schools is 20% of the full story of many of these things that Blue touched on. Blue kinda skipped out on the impact of the cold war on Apartheid, he didn' t go into the reasons why the Union was formed and even more things. Trust me an understanding of these core things will make you realize just how little ordinary people know about south african history

@jojotank4559 3 года назад

Blue started talking about apartheid and I had flashbacks to history essays that left my hand sore for days

@noelstar1456 3 года назад

@@banathinkehli9875 Lol, here I was being proud of what I knew bc we did 2 terms worth of Apartheid in high school (Botswana) and now you're making me feel dumb 😅

@Sapphic_girlie 3 года назад

Bro every year. None stop. I've probably heard the word apartheid more in history then I've heard like plus in maths or something

@marissabones 3 года назад

As a South African when I saw South Africa in the thumbnail, I immediately had to click.

@pmolapo 3 года назад

As early as 1200 to 1400, "South Africa " was already highly occupied by over twenty different and distinct nations,....who were later grouped by colonial Europeans as one nation,....example, the Pondo, Fengu, Baca, Hlubi et.c, would all be classified as one nation( Xhosa),....which would be like saying the Irish, Scottish, Welsch etc,... are all English.

@jeanvandermerwe8485 3 года назад

technically they are because they are all part of the united kingdom

@pmolapo 3 года назад

Jean van der Merwe .....so I suppose you'd say the boers, the coloureds and the Oorlam Bantu are the same people, simply because they all speak Afrikaans ? The Irish speak Irish among themselves, the scots speak Scottish among themselves, different cultures, different traditions, different everything, the fact that we share one thing, and differ in 99 other aspects, does NOT make us one people, ....simply because we are both citizens of the UK. That's a feeble attempt at clutching at straws,....pathetic argument.

@resegomathibe1029 3 года назад

@@pmolapo jonga 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽uyiqgibile

@pmolapo 3 года назад

Resego Mathibe 😜 enkosi mntakababa !

@janmelantu7490 3 года назад

Afrikaners: G E K O L O N I S E E R D Brits: that sounds like a lovely idea, chums Afrikaners: Nee! Wag!

@Sapphic_girlie 3 года назад

Hmmm yess funny afrikaans people. This does fill me with joy

@rachelmoore3418 3 года назад

You did it! You condensed South Africa's colonial expansion down to its bare essentials!

@dirkbrand9859 3 года назад

@@mekhane.broken9678 That is oddly quite fitting.

@_The_Moustash_ 3 года назад

Busted! It's actually gekoloniseer in Afrikaans. You must be Dutch.

@janmelantu7490 3 года назад

@@_The_Moustash_ ja i just forgot what the spelling differences were between Dutch & Afrikaans. I checked wacht/wag, but not gekoloniseerd for the meme

@zandrivanrhyn3178 3 года назад

4:00 how you pronounced Afrikaners was utterly adorable! Thank you for trying! We appreciate it! And thank you for finally doing South Africa!

@antoniedekoning9436 3 года назад

As a South African Citizen and an avid watcher of your and red's videos, I thank you for educating people about our country's troubled history. Also I think we need to start writing Boer as Bür so english speaking countries know it's pronounced like über

@kryptonianguest1903 3 года назад

South Africa is a largely english-speaking country :P Source: I'm an english-speaking South African.

@adrianmcbride1666 3 года назад

@@kryptonianguest1903 true, but even English speaking South Africans (my phone tried to autocorrect to South Afrikaans?) typically get a fair deal of exposure to how Afrikaans is actually pronounced. Granted my mother (an English teacher) grew up speaking Afrikaans. Me, I can barely speak or understand the language.

@kryptonianguest1903 3 года назад

@@adrianmcbride1666 Yeah, it's just the way you wrote English-speaking countries made it sound like we don't speak it here.

@adrianmcbride1666 3 года назад

@@kryptonianguest1903 I did not notice that 😅 which is funny because it is one of two of our national languages that seem to typically actually be treated as such.

@antoniedekoning9436 3 года назад

@@kryptonianguest1903 I obviously meant countries like England and America. We're a multi-lingual country

@chrilantechnologylyt-softp9655 3 года назад

As a South African I think this was a reasonably fair representation, with a few points I don't agree with but for an American this was amazing

@roelofsonneveld1049 3 года назад

Here we have the sharpest knife in the caesar, explaining more history!

@martins.4240 3 года назад

Oof, too soon bro.

@roelofsonneveld1049 3 года назад

@@martins.4240 too soon? He’s been dead for some odd 2000 years

@skoomaaddict1010 3 года назад

@@roelofsonneveld1049 still..... Too soon

@chrisbrown8640 3 года назад

@Tin Watchman" This was the unkindest cut of all ! "

@zachritz1506 3 года назад

last time i was this early constantinople was still standing

@slayingtobetheslay 3 года назад

Me too

@danielduvernay3207 3 года назад

this hurts

@Mic-bu8wb 3 года назад

How did he fall, did he trip or something

@MegaGun2000 3 года назад

I know right 🤣

@dansmith1661 3 года назад

Last time, it was Istanbul.

@Emily-tv1iz 3 года назад

Kinda like how "plague" has a set image/sound effect on OSP now, we need like a "looming specter of colonization" that's just like a generic merchant ship with stock dramatic "reveal" sting in the background. I'm thinking of one sting in particular but I'm blanking on where I've heard it from

@Weyird 3 года назад

As a South African, I'm really glad about the attention our country is getting lately. This was a really good summary. Basically everything I learned at school.

@josie5056 3 года назад

Loved this one!!! As a South African, it was nice to see the focus shifted more towards precolonial black history than what our schools tend to do.

@thomasofastora_3358 3 года назад

As someone how had the opportunity to live there for two years it’s nice to see SA getting the OSP treatment, also if you plan on visiting don’t let the taxis tailgate you they tend to use cardboard as brake pads also “now now”

@Mugs_ 3 года назад

I can't tell how many times I nearly got a heart attack from those taxis

@k9fangamvs53 3 года назад

You won't know the real struggle until you ride one of the taxis, It feels like an extreme sport

@SJokes 3 года назад

“Now now” is one of our best inventions if I’m being honest

@paddaboi_ 3 года назад

First time hearing about the cardboard brake pads thing but taking a taxi in SA would be frightening for a non poor white person or other non poor foreigners , the rest of us are used to the dangers of public transportation

@veenabakker5093 3 года назад

As a Dutch person I'm very proud of Blue for trying to pronounce Dutch words. It's a very hard language to learn, and you did great!

@arendvandermerwe3309 3 года назад

For refrence to foreigners Imagine watching Romeo and Juliet the original play but all the actors are drunk, thats what Dutch sounds like to an Africaans speaker

@benanas09 3 года назад

Institutional racism is actually still a thing in RSA. It’s called broad-based-black-economic-empowerment (BBBEE).

@jayskay1972 3 года назад

Its even more racist than apartheid

@nellasquare2092 3 года назад

How deeply embarrassing for you to say that. So what would you have done to equal the Plainfield?

@TheKnowledgeMan101 2 месяца назад

@@jayskay1972 how is it more racist than apartheid? Apartheid didn't allow any black people to enter any jobs, whereas BBBEE or BEE allows whites to apply for any job but that it puts black people on the first on the list to get a job.

@jockesfi6408 3 года назад

Hi I'm a South African from the Zulu Clan amd i have to say hearing someone accurately tell our history is amazing thank you blue

@jockesfi6408 3 года назад

Sorry i mis spelled and so sorry 🙏🙏

@thenomad47 3 года назад

As an Afrikaner, huge respect for sticking it to the British and kicking their Asses

@nikkik635 3 года назад

Hi Zulu brother 👋

@jockesfi6408 Месяц назад

Hello my Zulu brother@nikkik635

@jockesfi6408 Месяц назад

@nikkik635 Hello my Zulu Sister, sorry I'm not sure if you are a guy or girl , HELLO ANYWAY

@owlbeno297 3 года назад

Wouldn't it be fun if as a country we decided "Things don't have to be this way"... again? Food for thought.

@mourninggrey2186 3 года назад

As a South African and fan of this channel thank you blue

@HappyDay-mm3iz 3 года назад

You should cover the Indian and Colored history in South Africa, not many people talk about, I’m South African Indian and wasn’t even taught it in school

@zeenbean2135 3 года назад

They always talk about our history like it was black vs white meanwhile we've been here the whole time. The only South African-Indian history I've learned was from my parents who grew up during apartheid.

@HappyDay-mm3iz 3 года назад

@@zeenbean2135 so true! Could not have said it better

@KedousY 3 года назад

As a South African, I really appreciate this video 🇿🇦 🙏🏿

@NickHoad 3 года назад

"They adopted the not uncommon strategy of running away from Britain" OSP always comes out with the best sentences.

@anwenm 3 года назад

It has capitals in the subtitles: Running Away From Britain 😂

@thatdude1853 3 года назад

I love how many "how did that happen" questions can be answered with "because Napoleon."

@KM-vl2cs 3 года назад

You know what would make this video perfect! If Blue said EISH hahahaha

@whatdadogdoin6178 3 года назад

Eish

@lianabotha0355 3 года назад

Or johhh and obviously AWE

@disaster_runner5030 3 года назад

'controlled the diamond mines to keep the prices high' Oh so like the modern times?

@OverlySarcasticProductions 3 года назад

And done by the very same company! De Beers has been at it for a very long time. -B

@disaster_runner5030 3 года назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Monopolies, just love how they get away with doing the same thing

@commisaryarreck3974 3 года назад

Shhh...We don't speak of that Or the Luxembourgian diamond cartels...

@marcostrydom5445 3 года назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions If you do the Boer Wars remember to talk about the camps which caused the Anglophobias that largely but not exclusively defined Afrikaans nationalism in the 20th century.

@MariusVanDeventer 3 года назад

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Yep thank Cecil John Rhodes for that one.

@thomasdalrymple1016 3 года назад

As a South African I feel pain every time someone mispronounces an Afrikaans word (don't worry it's tough and almost impossible to get any good pronunciation tips)

@johnoosthuizen4129 3 года назад

With you there fellow South African(not the president) . Blue gave a good first Everett but it as hurting my ears. I don't blame him because Afrikaans is made out of many languages.

@argr4sh 3 года назад

As a Dutchman, I can understand your pain in this regard. At this point, I just accepted that I will never hear an foreigner speak any Dutch (or Afrikaans for that matter) word in the right way.

@AceTaxiaGaming 3 года назад

At least he said Khoekhoe correct

@tulukakala763 3 года назад

I'm not even Dutch but I felt this

@insertnamehere2941 3 года назад

Fun fact: J. R. R. Tolkien was born in modern-day South Africa

@davidioanhedges 3 года назад

Yes in what was then the Orange Free State and he lived there a grand total of 3 years

@deanvanderwesthuizen3953 3 года назад

@@davidioanhedges maybe if he lived there a couple more he wouldn't have written Tom Bombadil

@leavesinautumn5959 3 года назад

@@davidioanhedges Let him have his moment ..

@turinturambar1688 3 года назад

@@davidioanhedges he still had vivid memories of his time there despite his age, the Tolkien family was also notably kind and generous, treating the hired staff (south Africans) of their home as part of the family.

@yammoto148 3 года назад

Also he got inspiration for the Spider in Lotr from the spiders here. She would have been bigger if he was born in Australia tho XD

@MichaelZesty 3 года назад

"institutional racism no longer an official policy" *cries in B.E.E* :'(

@MantraMan2077 3 года назад

Whispers: **They never got Ethiopia**

@TermiNation_45669. 3 года назад

they never got Thailand

@Firegen1 3 года назад

Well that's Mussolini for you..

@nerdamongus9629 3 года назад

*italian clears throat*: mi scusi

@realism_logic 3 года назад

There's a video on that!

@lindaeriksson1208 3 года назад

And Ethipoia is still has the same problems as the resto of Africa. Poverty, crime famins and so on. Almost like the presents of Europeans didn´t matter in the end.

@jlp13musiclover 3 года назад

As a cool but sad source to this video, go read Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime”. He talks not only about the systems of apartheid but also the difficulties of the different tribes after apartheid fell, such as the Zulu and the Xebosa

@leavesinautumn5959 3 года назад

I'm not familiar with the Xebosa, I might be missing something (always a possibility with me), but do you mean Xhosa by any chance?

@JMSginoclave 3 года назад

Are the Xebosa the Xhosa? Google doesn't help.

@typacsk 3 года назад

Adding to this, "Why Nations Fail" by Acemoglu and Robinson has some really interesting discussion of the country's politics and economy pre-apartheid, and "Chaka" by Thomas Mofolo is a (somewhat mythologized) retelling of the history of the Zulu and their neighbors.

@jlp13musiclover 3 года назад

Sorry I may not have spelled it correctly!!

@leavesinautumn5959 3 года назад

@@JMSginoclave I'm unsure, since I'd never heard of the Xebosa I just thought it might have been a misspelling of Xhosa since they are a large population group from the same part of South Africa as the Zulu. Since OP mentioned the groups together I thought it was probable.

@amiscellaneoushuman3516 3 года назад

Honestly "shooty shoot, grabby grab" is possibly the best summation of colonialism.

@jrussell428 2 года назад

As a South African I'm so glad you covered more than Apartheid, many foreigners don't realise South African history is more complex than that. Also you did pronounce most things right, you did struggle a bit with Afrikaans words but at least you tried lol

@keyara365 3 года назад

I feel like this was a summary of a summary of SA's history 🤣🤣

@RaraZeCat 3 года назад

It is.

@im550keyy4 3 года назад

Bro, it's literally called History Summarized: South Africa

@dionemoolman 3 года назад

When you only have ten minutes even a summary is insufficient.

@Emily-tv1iz 3 года назад

Boers: "We've done it! We've conquered this land and it's ours now" Britain: *~uno reverse card~* Boers: "Oh no! My land!" Khoekhoe: "Welcome to the pain of being a 'native'" Edit: in defense of the quotation marks, this line is being said by the original natives

@TheKinzeng 3 года назад

Well at that point we can certainly certainly say that Boers were natives, without the quotation mark

@nuralibolataev4474 3 года назад

Why did you put quotation marks on the word native? At that point, the Boers lived there for over a century. It's kinda insulting considering that the British even put the Boers into concentration camps. I don't think that you did this with malus, however, it's still inconsiderate

@Fordmister 3 года назад

I mean at that point you are dealing with people who were born there, people aren't exactly going to call themselves coloniser or invader when living on the only land they've ever known, is it really a surprise they considered themselves native by that point?

@socialismandrevolution8299 3 года назад

The Boers definitely cannot be considered "natives" on the same level as the other native groups. They were a white, slave-holding population with the support of a European country. And historically, they certainly can't be considered a particularly oppressed group, since they ruled the country all the way through the 20th Century.

@Fordmister 3 года назад

@@socialismandrevolution8299 that wasn't my suggestion, of course looking back you wouldn't call them native, I'm saying it's not a surprise that someone born in on the most southern point of Africa and has lived their there entirely life considered themselves to be native to the area rather than a northern European country that they had never even seen. Especially when the British showed up saying "give me all your stuff"

@TheMI169 3 года назад

As a South African I loved this 🇿🇦 Super cool to see our history from a different nation’s perspective :)

@pitsolekhethe9406 3 года назад

This the first video on South African history I've seen on RU-vid, that doesn't skip the slavery portion of South African history! A little bit of slavery is still SLAVERY! So, Thank you blue.

@lostastronaut5865 3 года назад

The building shown at 6:01 is the voortrekker monument between centurion and the Pretoria.

@natetwehues2428 3 года назад

Last time I was this early, Achilles was still chilling in his tent.

@comradewindowsill4253 3 года назад

*a-chillin’

@brynhildr6981 3 года назад

@@comradewindowsill4253 i cannot express how much i want to be able to slap someone through the internet

@comradewindowsill4253 3 года назад

@@brynhildr6981 ...thank you?

@BungheeGumHxH 3 года назад

@@comradewindowsill4253 lmfao

@glowcat5691 3 года назад

@@comradewindowsill4253 I- idkhowtorespondtothis help

@pidgeonpatrol861 3 года назад

South Africa is definitely one of my favorite places I’ve ever photographed. There’s something so great about being able to photograph mosques across the street from churches, a traditional wedding wedged between another mosque and a temple.

@rachelmarcy1966 3 года назад

I love learning about Africa! So much fascinating history that so often gets skipped over!

@sauce116 3 года назад

You genuinely made my day, I live in south Africa and you did an amazing job

@quintenvannunen7830 3 года назад

2:30 I love that blue probably researched the dutch word for money for no real reason

@slayingtobetheslay 3 года назад

You know... you guys are basically putting a comedic spin in history lessons. You would be awesome history teachers.

@ToxicWaffle183 3 года назад

He is a history teacher, his classroom is youtube

@simeonwashington9995 3 года назад

@@ToxicWaffle183 Love these classes then!

@thedukeofchutney468 3 года назад

NGL I liked for the PJO profile pic.

@HimitsuHunter 3 года назад

The first step in a good history lesson is getting people to be interested in your history lesson. Blue's got that covered.

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

If not for his anti-european bias that is.

@shade.44 3 года назад

So we're not going to talk about the Xhosa people who were the first people to oppose colonialism and waged war against the British for 100 years? Bet.

@rhemiekekana9253 3 года назад

Well to be fair he did mention that there was just so much going on and he regrets that he can't mention every tribe's involvement. There's a lot he left out especially around Difaqane but you must also admit he did a pretty good job of summarising it

@nellasquare2092 3 года назад

So true!!!!

@mrs.albertcamus7930 3 года назад

oh stfu

@kwezicanca3698 3 месяца назад

You always get that one person shame

@lumaleelumabop 3 года назад

Indian South African here! I have been watching this channel's videos for half a year now?? As an artist and aspiring storyteller I love your myths videos and trope talks!! But I was quite surprised and intrigued when this video popped up in my recommendations. I was born only less than a decade after the democratic election, and yeah, as I got to older school grades we would learn about this stuff. A good amount in this video I did know, some info which was quite depressing when you brought it up and I remembered the pages in textbooks and lectures we'd learn in class about it. But there was some stuff that I didn't know and I was quite impressed! Granted, I wasn't alive during the Apartheid era, and I'm not the best at history, but because of how recent the democracy happened before my birth, I and many other kids of generation still felt the aftermath and rebuilding of it, and were being told our very recent history. It's fascinating to hear someone from another country take the time to research things about us! I'm happy to maybe take a bit of pride in this place even if all we've been known for is our ridiculous complex history. It's been a while since I've heard 'The Rainbow Nation" being used to describe us, since folks here have even forgotten about it. But it was nice to hear it again and I'm really glad you guys did this video! Really well researched as always and even taught me a few things!! I always enjoy your videos and sense of humour and I look forward to see what you tackle next, whether through myths, legends, or history or the next trope talk! Cheers!!

@lumaleelumabop 3 года назад

@Justin Jonker ???????

@jstevinik3261 2 года назад

@@lumaleelumabop I know that Indians were above "coloureds" in Apartheid but were Indian required to use passes, banned from inter-racial s*x, and not allowed join managerial & union jobs?

@yammoto148 Год назад

@@jstevinik3261 It depends, unions didn't largely exist in Apartheid, there were Unions but they were usually government controlled and not independent so working conditions for a lot of people just was terrible. As for Indians they had the same restrictions as anyone, no interracial marriage, they needed passes, white people needed them too. And I believe a lot of them were allowed to manage independent or privatised businesses as there have been plenty of indian businesses in South Africa since the 1950's. The same sort of goes for Coloureds as I believed they owned many fishing businesses in the cape as well. I think the only bias comes with management positions is concerning bigger companies, like DPG (Who were attorneys) who would only promote white people.

@jstevinik3261 Год назад

@@yammoto148 The thing with unions is that supposedly blacks were not allowed to even be in ones, which worked great for industries that almost exclusively employ balck people, e.g. mining (cough, cough, Elon Musk's family).

@yammoto148 Год назад

@@jstevinik3261 Yes that is true, but it was something across the board very few people has access to unions. My Grandfather was a security guard at a mine and had to quit because it was damaging his lungs and had nobody to complain to about it.

@Theif0 3 года назад

Certainly worth noting that the architects of apartheid studied the US South and used Jim Crow laws as a basis for legal segregation

@agrid2608 3 года назад

True: look up the "Carnegie Commission of Investigation on the Poor White Question in South Africa (1932) Its recommendations were one of the building blocks of formalized Apartheid. In large numbers Blacks and Boere had urbanized around roughly the same time at the turn of the century and this meant competition for skilled jobs. Afterwards *on paper* it technically became illegal for a black man to even lay a brick in a formalized professional setting in urban centers, the result being that of course they did *even more* and ended up building everything because now under some euphemistically named menial job title they were even cheaper to hire.

@dude9318 2 года назад

Well I wished apartheid never happened .I did loads of damage to our country. I think if the apartheid never happened the tensions between our races would be less of a problem .

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 года назад

Colonizers: *THIS TIME FOR AFRICA*

@Ellebeeby 3 года назад

Waka waka

@fullmetaltheorist 3 года назад

@@Ellebeeby Ey ey

@muse5633 3 года назад

😂😂

@rinzaghi2057 3 года назад

Tsamina mina zangalewa!!

@lunariousmoon 3 года назад

Eyhoop sangena sangena

@samanthasangqu7187 3 года назад

This was a beautifully honest and informed video you’ve made. It makes me so happy to see people from other parts of the world appreciate our South African history ❤️

@lycheemoth6024 3 года назад

I’m South African someone know we exist

@shridharbiju7370 3 года назад

Almost everyone knows about South Africa but no one knows about Botswana.

@electricangel4488 3 года назад

@@shridharbiju7370 i know they exist and doing quite well.

@Firegen1 3 года назад

Half Zimbabwean girl. Hey neighbour! You too Botswana

@sophierobinson2738 3 года назад

I have read Trevor Noah's book "Born a Crime". It made me angry and I cried for him and the people.

@AceTaxiaGaming 3 года назад

@@sophierobinson2738 Trevor is a good man, lucky bastard for leaving though cause South Africa is noooot doing well

@colemanscollard2207 3 года назад

"A fierce defeat" actually their greatest defeat by an indigenous population.

@Lokster71 3 года назад

I don't know. There's a couple of times in Afghanistan - the destruction of Elphinstone's army springs to mind - that are probably a match. The British set out a lesson that the Russian and then the Americans failed to learn. You can occupy Afghanistan, but it is very difficult to conquor.

@cecilrhodes1057 3 года назад

Eh, the zulus ambushed the british in the middle of the night so you know more like a fierce surprise attack.

@colemanscollard2207 3 года назад

@@cecilrhodes1057 No they didn't. Isandlwana occurred around midday and lasted 3ish hours. They were surprised however, their leader Lord Chelmsford believed the Zulu has disbanded their massive force, and ignored the reports of a Zulu army until they were already charging (thinking they were diversionary forces).

@colemanscollard2207 3 года назад

@@Lokster71 That is cool as hell

@davidhouseman4328 3 года назад

@@colemanscollard2207 that just underlines how little indigenous success there was as it was a defeat of a small army followed by British victory.

@worldgoesround9 3 года назад

Blue can you please try do a pre-colonial history episode. Even as a South African, it wasn't really taught to us.

@adrianmcbride1666 3 года назад

Yep, that would be better than hearing about Apartheid for the umpteenth time. Granted it was fun to hear OSP go over it.

@dirkbrand9859 3 года назад

@@adrianmcbride1666 I know right? There is so much interesting history in South Africa that is just always ignored because everyone is so fixated on just talking about Apartheid the entire time, no wonder it still haven't left the mindset of many South Africans.

@tonyheather-noon5291 3 года назад

@@dirkbrand9859 the problem is apartheid was massively publicised all over the world while the nature of the government then was kind of secretive with a lot of things, that coupled with it being very recent history plays a big part of it. For the most part people from overseas don't know anything else of our country, shit a lot of people from this country don't really know anything else about our history.

@andypotgieter231 3 года назад

Mandela had always been a hero to me. As a South African I never got to meet him but when I was in the 4th grade, he got sick as all old people do. Our principal came around handing everyone a piece of paper and told us all to write him a letter. I remember drawing a picture as well as wishing him well. We were told later on that they delivered the box of letters to the Union building and the government made sure he got it. He apparently spent a whole month reading ever letter my school sent him. Back in the apartheid days, he was locked up for ordering assassinations on anyone opposing the ANC. Spent all those years locked up for murder alone in his cell. Then realized what was wrong in the country and set out to make things right. He realized that compassion was the solution, not violence and realized that the main reason there was so much hate in South Africa wasn't because of a thirst for power or greed. It was because the races feared each other. Hence the segregation. There's a quote from a popular video game. When a dragon asks you:"Is it better to be born good, or to overcome your evil?" Mandela is to us, what that dragon is to the people that played skyrim. And that is why he was my hero.

@oni-linkle4880 3 года назад

How do you manage to be consistently amazing over the years

@lenax9798 3 года назад

As a Dutch person I laughed at the English pronounsiasion of the Dutch words. Other than that, good video. Love it

@teadrinkinglegninja1520 3 года назад

As a South African with Dutch friends, our languages are only the same in writing, the pronunciation is SO different 🤣

@leavesinautumn5959 3 года назад

@@teadrinkinglegninja1520 Even in writing the differences can, at times, be stark. Sentence construction, wording and grammar in Afrikaans is often different, not to the extent that it can't be understood but just different. That said it's mostly easy to follow from the dutch perspective, but seemingly more difficult from the Afrikaans perspective.

@tylerdurden3722 3 года назад

@@leavesinautumn5959 Imagine two years old speaking English. It still sounds like English except English spoken by two year olds usually contain very simplified grammar, pronunciation, etc. Now imagine intoxicated two years olds speaking English. That's what Afrikaans sounds like to Dutch speakers.😅 Blue's attempt at pronouncing those words sounds like if a random American were told those are English words, and then attempted to read them like it's regular english words.

@luckywithpaint7773 3 года назад

Thank you sooo much for covering south africa. We are soo sad sometimes that we dont have castles and other things dating back to provide story scapes for The Author. As a south african myself, history is painted by the people in charge which is demonstrated by the reform in how things were taught. So little of our history is noted and even less is coherently spliced together in a narative or story moral. There are too many different oppinions on different figures in history from zulu defectors that changed their language and culture name to escape being killed. To mandela's work while in prison glossed over or even if his imprisonment and label as a terrorist, to other countries, were justified or not. Out of all things mentioned it stands to reason that you kinda want to pick apart what each cultures history was. From the enslaved muslims. To the korean and even many international people that now call this place home. Some things that stand out for me in all this is how due to all the different cultures in the mining operations a new language was established called funigalo so all cultures could understand each other. We also have 11 official languages and other languages that arent. It is strange that as the years have gone by we now have zenophobia, which is litteraly ,other countries in africa's, people, that come here for work because our curency is stronger and get beaten by people because of an impression of these foreigners are taking the local peoples available jobs. I have met someone from malawi that came here for work in order to send back cash to their families in malawi. That is an insane trek. Look up the distance from malawi to pretoria and please note while most roads are made of tar and there are cities in every country, that there are still some dirt roads in africa. Thank you again for looking at south africa and i wouldnt mind you bringing out a part 2.