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Can i please have the books you are reading from

I'm a Xhosa guy from South Africa & its amazing to find all these videos about the history of my country 🔥👊🏿 Thank you for taking the time to record them.... Just a few notes, or rather extra details. The Pedi people in Limpopo have a history of women taking multiple husbands, i could be wrong but i believe The Rain Queen, Queen Modjadji, had multiple husbands... When it comes to Lebollo, other groups within South Africa refer to it as Koma, ingoma, eSuthwini or entabeni... Lebollo and Lobola is still a common practice but its definitely not practiced exactly the way it was practiced 200 or 300 years ago.... Thanks again 👊🏿

I know we shouldn’t praise fish for swimming but thank you for your effort and masterful pronounciation of “Xhosa” 👌🏽 there are some of the 1820 Settlers who’ve lived on that land for centuries but don’t know how to pronounce it nevermind speaking the language.

Dude, the yawning! At least try to seem interested in what you're saying. Otherwise students won't be.

Really informative. Quick question. You aren't just making this lecture for yourself are you? You actually want students to watch it? I've watched several of your videos so have a good idea of your teaching style. Friendly suggestion from one teacher to another. The constant yawning during your lectures doesn't enhance the video in any way. As teachers, our job is education but it's also getting students interested in the topic. For better or worse, a good teacher is also a good entertainer. If you aren't interested in the topic, why should students be?

The Africans attacked the Border Settlers first & stole their cattle/burnt their homesteads...the Wars that followed pursued by the Settler Kommandos were almost always in retaliation & punitive in nature. I don't buy the starvation methodology by the Settlers, as the African tribes had loads of cattle, always, during good and hard times, except once when a 16 year female Prophet/medicine woman had visions and prophesized the Xhosa tribes to slaughter their own cattle.

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Your reporting on Dingane and the murder of Piet Retief is inaccurate.

Mzilikazi which means (great road or the road of blood, mzila wide road, gazi blood) was a Khumalo and he took the Ndewenis and others with him, he collected others on the way to the Marico river where he settled, mainly by killing the men and capturing the women and younger boys, leaving the older people to die without support. He was named Matabele by the Sotho people which means people who disappear behind their shields, intimating the size of their shields which are very long, much longer than other tribes shields.

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The local Black tribes were reluctant and/or not willing to cut sugarcane and thus initially, Coolies (Chinese labourers) were meant to be brought in as they had experience at cutting cane. This plan fell through however and so Indian workers were brought in their place (experienced cane cutters) on the SS Truro. This was the start of Indian migration into Natal, now known as Kwa Zulu Natal.

The Boers had never attacked the Zulus up until the assassination of Piet Retief and some of his men, who had been invited into Dingane's Royal kraal. They had made a deal with Dingane (Dingaan) for land by capturing back cattle that had been stolen from him by another tribe. When the came back to the kraal, Dingane asked that they leave their weapons outside as this was their custom. When the Boers entered the kraal, they were all butchered by Dingane's men. The Zulus then sent out their armies to slaughter all the Boer settlements. This culminated in the Weenen massacre where all the men, women and children, including their servants were massacred. Not sure where you get this idea of slaves being taken by the Boers. The English annexed Natal for their own reasons (slavery was the excuse).

The Ndebele (Matabele) under Mzilikazi went West and then North into Botswana before heading east again into what is now Zimbabwe. They did not go directly North across the Limpopo River and into Zimbabwe directly.

Underrated part of SA history

Quite impressed how you pronounce xhosa words especially dealing with the clicks

What is the name of the book you are referencing? That Eastern Cape map is not an easy find here in South Africa

Illuminating video , hopefully you can be able to cover the Invasion of the Cape Colony and Battle of Muizenberg separately

Loved the big yawn about 9 minutes in. As a fellow teacher that made me laugh out loud. Students have no idea how difficult it is to record lectures like this. You feel like you're talking to yourself and wonder if anybody is really listening. Keep the faith man

You can check out information on King Nyabela (Ndebele king) , King Mamphuru war with Voortreekers in Transvaal . We know the actual places, Graves and dates. Facts.

Ndebele were lead by King Musi ,King Mhlanga. The Ndebele in Bulawayo are not Ndebele they are Zulu but calls themselves Ndebele because Mzilikazi identified as Ndebele because the King Magodongo accommodated him when He was running away from Shaka. For information reach out to Ndundza Mabokho Royal Kraal under the reign of King Makhosonke Mahlangu. Thank you for presentation. Mzilikazi was a very dishonest, cruel man. He had no honor, He messed up every person he help him .

Thanks for the presentation . Correction on Mzilikazi, He is not a Ndebele . There is Ndebele who is not Mzilikazi who was born by Nguni. The late King of the Ndebele kingdom in South Africa . Mzilikazi identified himself as Ndebele because he was running away from Shaka. Mzilikazi approach King Magodongo of Ndebele Ndunza and King Silamba of Ndebele Manala asking for Regiments to fight Zulu. Both Kings refused and said to Mzilikazi "we will kill one of our own" meaning that we originate from Nguni. Mzilikazi was not happy . He tricked both Kings by asking them to accompany him as he tracked towards Mashonaland with understanding that both Kings will turn back and come back. He asked they should take a big number Regiments to come along since they understood that they are not at war. Mzilikazi killed both Kings . I am a Mahlangu Mhrabuli, Ndudza Phungusha Royal Kraal. You are welcome to reach out to the Ndundza Maboko , Ndundza Litho for more accurate history records.

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John - John - where did you source your information from. Clearly, it is misrepresenting what really happened. Yes, there were Apartheid laws. I bet you cannot name any actual example of any of the injustices, corruptions, etc, you refer to. For Pete's sake - the leaders were the royalty of their tribes. Yes, Mandela was also royalty. I dare you to do a direct compare APARTHEID - years vs that of ANC. Even better, please add British rule up till independence in 1961. How many official languages do South Africa have again? Stange the same number of homelands exist - wow. Have you looked at where the homelands were located - Ciskei, Transkei, and KwaZulu had direct access to the sea. Have you made an effort to look at maps before the Boer War? Remember, the British created South Africa, disregarding the various cultures that exist.

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Watching from 2022: the "Khoi" in "Khoisan" doesn't have a click. "Khoisan" is also not a language- it's a umbrella term that was used for many different languages using click-consonants. The pop-gen commentary is also off. Otherwise, this is probably the most informative series of lectures on South African history on here by a Anglo North American.

10:47 "eventually some even from parts of Asia" After the first two ships from West Africa, most people taken to the Cape in 1600s and enslaved were South Asian. The VOC shifted to trafficking slaves out of Madagascar and then Mozambique/East Africa going into the mid 1700s. Overall, from settlement to abolition, the percentage of enslaved Africans and enslaved Asians was close to 50/50- East Africans did make up the large majority from the back end of the 1700s. Among Free Blacks, creole slaves made up a majority (especially enslaved women) made up the majority, while enslaved Indians and Indonesians seemed to have a higher rate of manumission than Malagasy and other Africans. The Griqua represent a particular group of Christianised creole community (of ex-slave and indigenous Khoekhoe descent) who founded their own church and use a system of kapteins modelled in part on Khoekhoe traditional leadership, I believe. It's not a general name or alternative for all people considered Coloured. Besides these niggling little details, the Khoekhoe-Dutch wars and commando persecution of Bushman bands probably deserved a mention in this video.

It’s so interesting to hear you mention the idea of cohesion. Europeans got on ships with the express purpose of annihilating native Africans. They had the same goal that was fueled by a desire for African resources but a distaste for African people. Had Africans known that Europeans had not come to become “neighbors” but had come to displace and murderer then there would have been more inter tribal unity. Had Xhosa chiefs known that they would have their children taken from them and turned into ‘refined’ British subjects they could have unified.

Ahh I should've known Europeans had something to do with it

Great video, growing up I always wondered why people had an unexplained disdain for Zulus. I always thought it was just because of our strong personalities but now I see where it all comes from lol💀

They only won because they had better weapons, not because of so called "cohesion". These wars had a huge human cost that can't be casually explained by an American teacher

100/100 on the research and presentation 👌 👏

This channel is a blessing 🙌 🙏 ✨️

Thank you. That's very helpful for my presentation

Every group fought every other group, eventually Zulus killed the other tribes, Afrikaners then beat the Zulus, and eventually the Brits took sovereignty over the Afrikaners. How did the myth of white wrongdoing start?

Amazing how the facts completely destroy the myth that Europeans cruelly displaced peaceful indigenous people. European ethnics, African for centuries, moved into areas where African conquerors had already genocided anyone indigenous

Nice video.. very balanced for a change

The Europeans understate the fact that they arrived at a time our nation was in termoil. They never acknowledged that we were at war with eachother and they came and this greatly assisted their military ambition.. Europeans always act like their military prowess is the reason they won or superior military weapons. A very important African saying comes to mind: ''when two brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their wealth''

About the feather. It isn't a European thing. Zulu kings tend to wear this sort of headdress. It wasn't imagination. The late KING ZWELITHINI also wore that long feather on his head. It wasn't the artist's imagination

This is amazing. Thank you for the content

Its great thing we are a rainbow nation now , no more blood.

I know the guy on the right.

I know the kid in the red shirt.

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Thank you for uploading these lectures. It helps me learn so much about my country

This was great! Thank you!

Super helpful perspective! I’m a South African finally doing research into my country’s complex history.

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Thank you for this presentation do you have references for the information?

Thanks for this lecture! just what I needed to begin my response paper.