What Westerners Don't Understand About Afrikaners - Ernst Van Zyl | Existential Delight #13 

Thank you for inviting me on your show for this great conversation, Dylan.

My family emmigrated from SA in 1986 to New Zealand and then later Australia... you asked about the costs of emmigration. Well, we no longer regret this as my family now enjoys comfort and safety... BUT it took me about 20 years to really settle and adopt this country as home. Emmigration was HARD on us all. I was only 12 years old and had to later work through trauma of leaving my homeland. There most certainly are costs, especially psychological, because you lose one of the deepest parts fo your identity and sense of belonging. I wish all South Africans so much love and blessings...

Ernst makes me more hopeful than anyone else on RU-vid!

You're not alone, lots of us are doing our part to build. South Africa does have a future, because we are here.

My grandfather set up a business in East Africa in 1923 and grew it to a large enterprise employing 50,000+ local indigenous people. He used to say that without the settlers bringing civilization to Africa, it would still be a Third World country. Sadly nobody talks about this as it's not politically correct, but in reality, it's the main cause of all of the problems in South Africa and other African countries.

This is very interesting. Thank y'all.

As I am getting older there is a hunger of wanting to go back to my Afrikaans roots. Great interview, thanks.

Thanks to Dylan for hosting this. Putting these conversations out there are great. I'd like to emphasize identity, it's critical. "Hierarchy of identity" is new to me, beautiful way of stating it, I understand. What you identify as 1st, should be the highest and your foundation.

Your discussion reminded me of Siener Van Rensburg. After one of his visions which upset him deeply, he opened his Bible and his eye caught Exodus 14:14: The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Really enjoyed this thought provoking discussion between two great young thinking minds. People need to figure out who and what they are otherwise somebody else will do that for you.

In the Americas, the colonizers kept their own languages. The fact that the Afrikaner/Boer, made a new language, is proof that they are an African tribe, not a European nation grafted onto another continent. Their roots are in Africa.

Two of my favourite South African content creators. Thanks for an interesting discussion

Fascinating watch, thank you gentlemen. You touched on a fair few points that I have been giving long thought to. Especially as a recent immigrant from RSA to the UK. You have a new viewer of your content and information, I will be digging into your body of work. Thank you

Yes Ernst, the English do not run with the Afrikaners perspective of it all. Good explanation

Great interview thank you

I am a Boer. An Afrikaner is a European living in the Cape colony! My ancestors were citizens of Boer republics- not Afrikaner republics. They fought the British in two Boer wars, not Afrikaner wars. Since unification, Boere and Afrikaners have mixed to the extent that they are now one. But I am still a Boer in my heart. Not a Afrikaner from the pragmatic side of our people.

I think the afrikaners are the greatest ever They came and brought light to africa..when africa was covered in darkness

As an Afrikaans actor I feel I have to face reality in a metropolis like Johannesburg to be able to interpret the characters I portray against the realpolitik of the day.

It is very interesting. Thanks for the information. I just want to mention something I am hearing so much lately. The word “boer” that is pronounced in a very wrong way. “boer” pronounced as “boor” has a very different meaning as “farmer”. boor definition: 1. a person who is rude and does not consider other people's feelings 2. a person who is rude. It gets confused with “boer” - farmer. Pronunciation: [ou] as in “you”. There is only the Afrikaans pronunciation that is correct. It gives people the wrong idea that the white SA-cans are boorish, stupid, and backwards!!! How very different from the truth! A true farmer is actually very intelligent, hardworking, and up to date with new inventions and ideas.

Good discussion! But I think the talk trivialised the English speaking SA position! In fact, English speaking South Africans and Afrikaaners have inter married for the past 2 centuries hence English speaking South Africans with Afrikaans names and vice versa so I don't think "emigration to the Anglo world is that simple for English speaking SAns we struggle in Anglo countries in as much as Afrikaaners who have emigrated " but everything else I agree with, the Afrikaaners are a unique cultural racial group in Africa! Great talk!

Loved this interview. Thank you 😊

Many many jobs cannot be done from home

Yes the Boer war was a terrible tragedy. But the Afrikaners were the victors, SA was effectively granted independence in 1931 and being the majority the Afrikaners were to take control over not just OFS and Tvl but the entire country. Another thing worth noting is that every developed country was very critical of what Britain was doing. One half Afrikaner half English speaker (not “English”) here.

The diamonds in the British crown was stolen from South Africa

Een van die grootste irritasies vir my ook - as Afrikaanse akteur en skrywer: Iemand wat my in 'n blik wil druk met 'n etiket op. My voorvader aan vaderskant Harmen Jansz Potgieter het in 1795 uit Wesfale Duitsland hier gearriveer.

If South Africa isn't a colony than the land should be equally owned right? Black land ownership is the same as white land ownership there? There's no discrepancy?

Do westerners think ? Do they think of Afrikaners ? Why should they think about Afrikaners ? Is there anything for them to exploit ? I emigrated to the UK 30+ years ago : in that time I have been fortunate to have lived and worked in Asia for 20+ years.... Say no more ....

This dude's "world view" is highly accurate ... politics based on pure stupidity.

Afrikaaners need to pick a region to flock to. Concentration politics essential. Only point he missed.

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A nice whitewashed story of the Afrikaners. I love it.

You guys only got caught. Others Europeans and America did the same things.

I have also heard that the great trek started during the days under the Dutch East India Company and what they were imposing on the Burgers. It started under the Dutch to get away from the corruption and authorianism of the Dutch East India Company. It didn’t just start with the British. Also the motivation of the great trek of being mostly because of language doesn’t hold water for me because there was at one time more Germans in the colony than Dutch and the Germans had to integrate language wise even though the Germans out numbered the Dutch at one time. The same goes for the French Huguenot also we’re forced to speak Dutch in public spaces.Many Huguenots who refused then left the colony to trek to later what became Rhodesia because the Huguenots did not want to adhere to the Dutch authoritarianism.

Honestly ernsts" tswana friend " story sounds like BS . concidering that tswana donts live near any coast.so how could they see any ships. And how could can this " tswana friends" speak for the whole tswana ethnic group. This whole story just sounds like BS.how could native Africans differentiate between white groups who did the same thing.

What Mr Van Zyl and his sort dont understand about us natives is our people-centric civilisation & his ancestors failure to usurp it. He arrogantly mispronounces Setswana le Batswana and then puts words into our Oral history. "I've got a tswana friend............"Ba neye lefatshe"(give them some land to work on ) is what he meant to say. Ja but my Chinese neighbour who came five years ago can even call our Setswana poems & totems for clan names. Now he goes through wave after wave of virtue-signalling about history whilst practising some plausible-deniability in this interview. Afrikaans was spoken by mostly-black people at the Cape as Kombuis-taal. These people called themselves Afrikanders. It Mr Van zyl must also note these are the same people who guided their ancestors into the hinterland. The betrayal obviously came swiftly as predicted by the ancient Khoi-khoi & Khe ancestors who they now arrogantly lump into 'khoisan". Afrikaans was a language of trade for the common man at the cape. Some were already fluent in dutch before 1652. Die gennotskaap van regte Afrikaaners made it a white language in 1875 after the genocide of our Khoi-khoi & khe ancestors. Remnants of that group trekked to the land of rivers (middeveld a,ka. central South Africa to avoid the scourge of whitemen.. That is how the language moved into the interior. The great trek came after the Smallpox & polio epidemichad decimated us in Camissa. STOP white washing history... Accept and move on.