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I saw this vid a few years ago, not one has come close to the honesty shown. (except Benjamin Freedman and Miko Peled) While not specified in the vid I go by 1815 as whrn the Dutch Bankers gained control of the Bank of England so from moment on the military actions by the UK were orders coming from their new owners, the Dutch. The hill where the number killed still stands would not be European Royals but the first blacks invited to join the British Military and the Dutch and English plotted the fake battle to kill all of them. Both as a record that still stands today and as a message to all the blacks in Africa. Slaves do not ever elevate above being slaves.
@Cro Magnon They are the best of friends, neither cared that the money to fight a religious war against the RCC came from Dutch slave traders and black market items. Look up how Denmark and Sweden were the ones against the Christians if the 30 years war. Even worse was the Bohemian Reforms
@Cro Magnon That is Germany after the Norman invasion in 1000AD. France gave then the area now known as Belgium. England let them establish banks that sent money back to the Netherlands. When a rich German marries a virgin Jewish bride, all the children are Jewish, they inherit the wealth when he dies. In other cases, a Jewish man marries a rich Gentile woman and all the children are raised as Catholics (still controlled by the fathers people but without the benefits of being Jewish.. (not the Vatican kind) and that is who was used to push the Reforms that went on between 1300 and 1800? All geared towards exterminating the RCC and the honest Christians in that group. Want the vids that show the 30 Years War?
As a black South African, I am always blown away to hear the different parts of our history. This was well done, I have learnt so much. Thank you so much! My hope and prayer is that South Africa would have leaders that have a vision to build something more lasting that than what we have right now. As tragic as this history was for the Boers and British, and the many more black South Africans, may God help us find a way to wade through the hurts, tragic past and injustices, the shed blood, and the multitude of many other differences in order to build a better South Africa for all.
Thank you Lwazi for your response, glad that you found it interesting and informative. Have you seen our documentary : The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts - South African 20th Century History Documentary? ua-cam.com/video/4qaZR4vRHY0/v-deo.html
A black South African 18 years of age and I appreciate this part of history sir . Sadly we are not taught history in such detail in modern South Africa . We are tired of being taught about Mandela and apartheid every year.
Jung man learn the history of south Africa DOINT fall for the EFF and the ANC lies and DOINT fall for the 30% pass rate at school learn and you will have a great future
You are amazing! Well done for seeking truth for yourself. I encourage you to watch Peter Hammond's interview with Mandela and to totally break free from propaganda. We all have been lied to. Even us Afrikaners. Our leaders were also infiltrated by Freemasons (by the way Mandela was also one).
By far the best format documentary I've ever seen. 1) A charismatic storyteller doing the narrating. 2) Just enough eye-candy in the form of reenactors and period drawings and photographs. 3) NO ANNOYING MUSIC. 4) A gripping narrative stringing it all together. 5) NO ANNOYING MUSIC. Well done.
@@nkosinathi7645 what are you talking about? The voortrekkers were the only people to actually damage the empires' forces...yet you are still crying about everything and once you had the leadership, they have not given the power to none of you?!
Very insightful, as a white South-African I find the history lesson very interesting, much sadness for everyone in some shape or form, black, white, British, Xhoi etc. Everyone has suffered pain and loss in our beautiful country South-Africa. May God help us to learn from history and learn to appreciate and love each other.
Watched this before, but just had to watch it again. It's one of the greatest independent documentary of SA history that I have ever watched. This is better than the history channel. Thank you sir. You are a really great story teller. Much respect for you sir.
ALL GIVEN DECEIT AND LIES HISTORICAL GIVEN HISTORY. THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. The profound thing is that in 1410 European Tartarians were living in Port Elizabeth. This was long before your Black Invaders arrived in 1850 at the ORANGE RIVER. Do prove me wrong!
Thank you! This was by far the best history lesson for me about my own country. Every single person in SA should watch this so we can better understand our complicated and still very new country. Profound. And an excellent presenter.
The profound thing is that in 1410 European Tartarians were living in Port Elizabeth. This was long before your Black Invaders arrived in 1850 at the ORANGE RIVER. Do prove me wrong!
A well told story of South African history. Tragic. War never brings anything but despair and loss of life to the average man in the street, yet we continue to fight. Neither the victor or or the loser wins when wars are fought. The loss of life, the loss of ones possessions and the loss of dignity, one wonders if it is all worth it. But yet we dont learn from it. Thank you so very much for your time in producing this film.
If any one have the change to go to the Women's Memorial in Bloemfontein you Will notice that their are memorial plates next to the paving off all the consentration- camps that was built for cildren, Mothers and Grandparents and who was taken to the camp by the English soldiers during third part of the Anglo-Boerwar 2. You will see that Black people who was in the same camp as the white people were remove by the soldiers to their own camp and 26000 was died in the camps and 27000 white people was died in their own camps. In other words they started Apartheid and all the people was mistreated and reseaved bad food and water. 😢😢😢
I am from India and I wanted to know more about the Boer conflict, this video has satisfied my interest. A very well made documentary specifically the person who is explaining the entire episode has done a great job, I also love his tone of speech.
Brliant synopsis of the days of SA since JAN VAN RIEBEECK and to the end of the second ANGLO BOER WAR.THE narration exceedingly well done without emotion but factly
This makes me incredibly humble, honoured and proud of my heritage. To learn what my forefathers had to go through is a humbling experience . I would love to see more videos like this!
My great grandfather David Petrus Botha 1883-1973 took part in the Siege of Ladysmith against the British, He told my uncle when he was a boy while giving him a bedtime story, that the thundering of the British cavalry horses hooves was terrifying. He was still a young teenager at the time he fought.
I know you posted this comment over 3 years ago. I'd just like to know how you could validate your answer, in terms of a number or perhaps a percentage of Caucasian individuals that received free land from the Apartheid government. The truth is that white South Africans got preferential treatment in public spaces and so forth. However, only the elite got the privileges that you assume all whites did. As far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of South Africans have purchased their land in a democratic South Africa. Furthermore, other than through the land claims process, how do we determine the inheriters of land? How do we distribute land? Is all white owned land considered stolen? Government are the largest owners of land. They have no intention of sharing it with anyone. More and more parties seem to want to nationalize everything. Why? Because it strips citizens of their basic rights, especially with regards to property. To a lot of the more impoverished sectors of society, this may sound appealing. Why? Because it sounds like instant gratification, which is just not possible, these things take time. When you vote for the state to control everything (communism), it's just about impossible to leave.
Ok, So this guy, whoever he is, needs to do more videos. Urgently! One of the best narrated documentaries I've seen as political scientist (Copenhagen Univercity). Greetings from Scandinavia.
I don't know where I was during history lessons in South Africa during the 70s, but I sure knew that I had no real understanding of what was being taught. Maybe I realized there was such a spin put on it that it was not worth paying attention? This one hour video taught me more than 10'years of schooling! Very well done and thank you! I'm subscribed and look forward to watching all your content.
Blame your teacher, blame yourself. I grew up in the 1970's and enjoyed history. My typical mark was 100%. I read a lot and didn't waste time on social exploits. Always discerning fact over opinion.
A few mistakes: The Nguni people did not arrive in South Africa around the same time that Westerners did. There are diaries by Portuguese sailors mentioning well established Zulu settlements in Natal more than a 100 years before Jan van Riebeeck arrived in the Cape. Also, only a fraction of Afrikaners left the Cape to join the Great Trek. And 'life expectancy' is mostly determined by the ratio of infant mortality to adult deaths. In other words the more babies that die, the lower a population's average life expectancy. Other than that, great video and thank you!
Its my understanding that about 40% of Afrikaners left the cape to live in the interior. Not everyone was part of the "Great Trek" - there were other expansions
@@MrRugbylane there were several treks in 20 years and between 10% to 20% of the Afrikaners left the Cape. The second notable migration to the interior happened due to the diamond rush followed closely by the gold rush. My own family (I am Afrikaans) moved to the then Transvaal around a 100 years ago (I was born there), but many of us have since moved back to the Cape
@vee kay.you saying that now because you an adult and know better now but back in school when you had to sit through this lesson of something you were totally not Interested in where you not board.
Before that video, I knew a bit about the history of South Africa from the films, and a bit from the internet. As the history of every other land of the European settlement - it is a history of violence and switching the power from one to another. Thank you, Sir, for the most valuable lesson of the history of South Africa I have ever had !!!! My only son (European/Canadian) got married to a lovely white girl from South Africa and he permanently moved there on the East Coast .... living somewhere out there.
Like others say take the story as a backbone and build others differing opinion into the time/place framework. You'll enjoy how the complex and often secret polarised opinions mesh and maintain... lovely place.
Brilliant Video professionally presented thanking you! I am a mechanical engineer but was high schooled in a technical college thus only had history until grade seven, in my day standard five, but studied history especially military history on my own from the age of six years old and that is why I can see and hear the hard work this presenter put in to go give us the finite detail of these events-thanking you AGAIN!
loved this history lesson. am from zim and i fell in love with history particularly southern african history thanx to Wilbur Smith, even though his books are fictional, they still have a bit of history that led me to learn more of our very rich and colourful past.
@@anwjuice It depended on the color of the American. American blacks who visited SA during apartheid were considered "honorary whites " while they were in-country. The trick was to have your US passport with you- at all times.....
Brilliantly done! I was that one particular and proud nerd at school that actually enjoyed all subjects and loved going to school. My favourite subject, then and now, was history. My mother gave me sound advice one night whilst studying for a history final exam. She said to read everything first as though it was a story, which essentially it is, and to forget about learning the names and dates and places at first. First read the story and then read it again to learn everything else but once you know the story, everything else falls into place. That helped me a lot. I recently found out that to boost the morale of her soldiers, Queen Victoria, who I am sure had been shielded from most of the horrors of war, sent tins of chocolate treats she commissioned from various companies, including Cadbury, to the soldiers. I have this sad vision of them enjoying their treats on one side of the fence while on the other side of it there is a child looking at them eat while starving to death themselves. That being said, if we are going to remain upset about what happened in history and keep one foot in the past the whole time, we are going to remain angry unnecessarily and run the risk of repeating history instead of embracing a better future. Again, very well done. If you are not a historian or a history teacher of some sorts, you should be.
Fascinating! In my youth I was a Wilbur Smith's novels avid reader and now, in a very few minutes, I can remember them and put them in the real historical context. Thank you, from Italy.
Thank you so much! This was wonderful. I thought you were respectful of both viewpoints and having you explain where they are coming from is very helpful to understanding the long running tensions. I never knew about the Calvinist outlook and similar to settlers in the American West, the difficulty and resiliency required to homestead connects them to the land in a way others are not. It makes a great deal of sense why they fought so hard to control it-both with the tribes and the British.
It is so sad that wherever white people go thru have to FIGHT to KEEP what was not theirs to begin with! My ancestors have them parcels of land here in the Cape, but this was not enough for them and because of greed they then set out to completely disposes my forefathers of their land and livestock. This is a blight that the white Afrikaners have against them to this very day. Most of them to this day are still fighting to retain what was not theirs to begin with, with a sense of entitlement that puts them at loggerheads with everyone in the country. I have said many times that a humble acknowledgement of what they did wrong, together with a relinquishing of what they have usurped will go a long way. But until then, their fight and struggle will sadly continue...
@@warrenpieterse6002 That is true it was not theirs but they took it. Similar to lots of other places, the land was taken, however it seems far fetched to assume they will give it back. Current generations are not going to pay that price for what their ancestors did. So minus a total return of land, what could they do to move forward?
@@warrenpieterse6002and yet.... you still sit with your silver spoon buried deep in your gat and enjoy the rewards. You are welcome to give it away at any point. 🙄
Thank you for a very interesting video. As a long range rifle competitor, I have always been interested in the history of South Africa because of the Anglo-Boer Wars.
Thank you for making this video. At school, in kzn, we never touched upon this side of history nor the battles and wars that defined the previous two centuries in our country. It is weirdly enough only from moving to the UK and seeing so much emphasis placed on remembering war stories, including those that the Brits fought in SA, that I shamefully realised how little I actually know about the wars fought on my native soil. So thank you so much for providing such helpful material to educate myself
Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to compile and present. Historical data is important and must stay documented in every possible form.
Brilliant video. Some would say not enough was covered others would say it was covered in a biased view. I say it was covered enough to give a clear picture as fast as possible. Few would have been able to get so much history and history of importance into an hour as this gentleman was able to. Thank you for a brilliant video.
I thought there had been a siege of the Zulus at one point, since you hear about Zulus starving . . .but I guess they were starving simply because they had lost their land?
They say history does not tell itself, and whoever narrates it does so from a certain standpoint. The Dingani-Retief story sounds one-sided. Zulus tell it differently.
Which one is the gorvenment narrative?I studied history in a gorvenment school.the same history being talled by this gentleman.which one are you talking about?
Good watch, the more history we pay attention to, the better chances we have of reconciling to make for a better future... I wish we could be the generation that learns our lessons
@@johannox4161 I'm not a content creator bud. If you stopped being an internet troll and did a 5 minute Google search you wouldn't be overly thankful for an hour long general knowledge video 🙂
Fascinating to get such perspective and insight. Great presentation Sir, you grasped my interest at the beginning and held it all the way. I'll be tuning in to more of the history of South Africa. Best Wishes from Scotland. McIntyre
Thank you sir. This country has been thru alot ! It is such a pitty that we have so much devision and lies. Thank you for clarifying our situation. We are actually one. God bless our country.
I love documentaries and have recently stumbled upon the Boer Wars. I must say not only is this documentary very well made from a historical perspective but also that Mr. Hero's points of consideration are so well verbalize! Well done Sir!
Im so happy that this gentleman has explained the history in such a clear manner as well, im very disappointed in the nation we live in today where we could have grown so much in twenty years of realistic democracy that should have being. Due to greed/power/corruption/racism even xenophobia is our downfall, also our educational system can be made top of the world again if its not an one sided decision.
You are Mr Kriel the problem with where our country finds itself today lies in the agreements that were bargained for a "peaceful" transition to democracy! The National Party and African National Congress made a pact that has led us down a rabbit hole. What many non-white South Africans were hoping for was a return of their land which would return economic power where it was stolen, but this did not happen! And so after more than 20 years of "democracy" the wealth of the country is still in the control of the former colonisers and oppressors, when the majority of native inhabitants descendants live in poverty. This is a recipe for disaster! Now white people in general are not to blame for this, nor can the response from noon-whites be criticised, but those who brokered this "deal" should be held to account for how they robbed our country of true democracy! There is enough here for all of us to live in peace with one another, but we need to acknowledge the wrongs that were done, and make an earnest effort to rectify it. Only then can we say that we are a rainbow nation.
@@nkosinathi7645 Ai. We stand together now. We have all suffered. Let us never forget our history, no matter who we are. Learn from it. The common enemy was Britain, who mislead us more than once. But we forgive them too.
Thank you for your historical lecture. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of South Africans are immigrating to NZ and I have befriended some of them and after hearing many stories, wanted to brush up on the history of the place. Thanks for this video.
Ive heard of some of us immigrating there? I must ask are they happy there? Do they miss theyre homeland and do they plan on coming back to fight for it? The afrikaans ones obviously
@@VayN95 secession is a pipe dream. Africa for Africa, Europe for Europe. Unless you are willing to support a place like California to be a Latin country based on your logic.
What an awesome video. I love the narration with accompanying pictures and video without loads of music and other production. Just excellent story telling. I'd love to see Ray speak in person. I had the privilege of seeing David Rattray speak on Isandlwana during school. South Africa has many amazing (if sad) stories to be told and they deserve good story tellers. Speaking of school, is that a Michaelhouse badge I see over his left shoulder?
Thanks Gerard for the positive response on the video, not sure about the Michaelhouse badge. We too had the privilege of recording legendary Anglo-Zulu War expert David Rattray at Isandlwana : ua-cam.com/video/pcxShXTbTJc/v-deo.html
As an American who loves world history, most of the courses I have taken pretty much always skip this part of the world. This is a great informational documentary. Thanks for the upload.
@@chiyenyumba7135 It is hard to find sources and documentaries that don't have a spin in a certain way. I recognize that this is one-sided, it covers the Afrikaaner people and what was the Dutch colonization (and genocide) Every world history course I have taken mostly only covers Egypt when it comes to the African continent (and only Ancient Egypt and the time of the pyramids, nothing more modern). It is just nice to see something different than what they mostly teach in the States which is watered down to make Western Europe look good to attempt to make us blind patriots who think America can do no wrong and that minorities are complaining for no reason when in reality they are still being oppressed by a system that was built to keep them that way. I recognize that this is likely watered down as well, but still nice to at least learn something about this part of the world and the colonization of it.
@@chiyenyumba7135 but the truth, unlike the ANC government who like to make up their own history, probably because most of them have little to no education.
@@chiyenyumba7135 the truth according to those who were there, please go to school and ask your teacher to explain what a fact is. It is not an opinion or perspective, as the idiots running the SA government now would have you believe.
There were some foreign soldiers who fought with the Boers in the Anglo Boer War. For instance Irish, Americans, Germans, French, Dutch, and the most were Russians. But, they never had their own units, and the Boers were mistrustful of them. Also, as it was the turn of the century, a whole lot of new weaponry was coming out, which they wanted to test in combat. Can read about it in 'The Russians and the Anglo Boer War' by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova.
If only they'd played a video like this in our history lessons in school I may have learnt so much then. It was just facts and dates, no lessons and emotions, but I'm glad to be learning it now. Thank you sir and your team. This should be included in SA school curriculum.
A correction: at 4:50 the narrator mentions that Khoi and San started taking domesticated animals from those who measured their wealth by possessions. The KhoiKhoi had their own cattle when the Dutch came and settled at the Cape, it was in retaliation for the theft of our lands and livestock that various raids were made on the white settlers. It is from the KhoiKhoi that the Voortrekkers got the, now named, Afrikaner breed of cattle, a strong ox that could survive on the sparse vegetation of the land.
nope. the lands were NOT stolen. NOR was the livestock. they were initially TRADED for and the khoi leader gave his permission for them to settle on the land they built the castle on. a massive piece of land from franchoek to the cape was also bought and the document STILL exists to this day. the wars started when the ships passing the cape traded with the dutch instead of with the khoi as they did prior to the dutch arrival., and the khoi leader became upset. they killed a dutch animal herder and stole the animals and so doing started the trouble.
Warren , cattle don't come from Africa , where do you think they got cattle from , cattle came from Europe , get your facts straight before you flap your lips .
@@meh3731 Please share these "documents" that still exist with us? It is interesting to note that the narrative is often controlled by those who wish to conceal the truth. You are correct in stating that there was INITIAL trade, but you incorrect in your assumption of the extent of the trade. When more and more free burghers were being brought in and land given to them, which the Dutch had no legal right to give, it is then that the Khoi and San started retaliating at the injustice of having their lands taken and livestock taken. We were forced to be tenants on our own land. Systematically we were disenfranchised from what is ours and laws were passed, to which we had no say, that stripped us of all ownership.
This is so interesting. I'm English and this makes so much sense to me (with side bits like my neurosurgeon coming from WitWatersrand and...I'm in my early 30s...my great grandfather fought in the second Boer war and then off to WW1....He had my grandfather late and this is really more interesting for me for it). Really well done.
I really enjoyed this video, it was very well narrated and was made interesting. I read a lot of books, fiction, that take place in S Africa and although they are fictional, the stories fit in with real characters and history from the mid 1800's to the turn of the century. This documentary cleared up the confusion and put things in perspective. Thank you very much for this highly interesting and enjoyable video.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this error yet but Hopetown still exists and is south of Kimberley. Hopetown was not renamed as Kimberley. Kimberley was known as Vooruitzigt and New Rush by the wave of prospectors that descended in the area. The area was officially named Kimberley on 5th July 1873. Edit: The first diamond discovered in South Africa was named Eureka in 1867 and then the Star of Africa was found in 1869. The Hope Diamond is from India not South Africa
I can only say, in my dreams I have the heart of a boer. You fought like men, like titans, and you won't be forgotten. The boer wars, when the british invented the concentration camps.
There is simething about war that you dont understand...simply because you were never part of any war.There are no rules in war....there are no winners or losers in any war...only survivors !!SA is a country rich in wars....any winners??? Any losers??? No ! Survivors??? Many !!
@@truth-Hurts375 it served no purpose in military objective. However it turned out to be one of the best case studies for aristocratic invaders trying to enforce their will onto free cultures. This is a study of God vs Satan.
Ruan De Kock From A Short Guide to the History of South Africa: One of the roots of the National Party’s success lay in the memories of the Boer war. Despite the fact that the Boers were comprehensively beaten by the British, many of them could not bring themselves to accept this and from this feeling emerged a ‘stab in the back’ myth like the one created by the Nazis to explain the equally comprehensive defeat of the German army by the British and French in 1918. (The same thing happened after the Second World War as German veterans of their comprehensive defeat in Normandy complained that they only lost because the British and Americans unfairly deployed better artillery and ground attack aircraft in bigger numbers. N.B. It’s a General’s job to work out how to defeat an enemy).[ 135] De Wet claimed in his memoirs that the Boers were only beaten when the National Scouts-Boers in British service-were employed, which was palpable nonsense; others railed against the unfairness of the ‘overwhelming force’ brought against them, as though war was really only to be conducted on joustingRiver had been a Boer victory that left 3000 Tommies dead on the field and that at Colenso, 5000 more had been slain-the reality was that Modder River was a British victory with 72 killed and at Colenso, which was indeed a Boer victory, 147 had been killed.[ 136] (In 1901, the editor of Ons Land was jailed for libel after accusing Sir John French of war crimes).[ 137] This was all helped along by Leo Amery’s Times History and Maurice’s History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 both of which provided plenty of material, if selectively read, to ‘prove’ that the Boers might have actually lost the war but really won it by showing themselves better at everything than the British. Conan-Doyle and Kipling did their bit too when they displayed the traditional British regard for the underdog. The generosity displayed by the British establishment towards Botha and Smuts in paying tribute to a defeated enemy and deliberately playing down their own successes in pursuit of reconciliation, plus allowing full military honours for Kruger’s posthumous return to South Africa, all contributed to the salving of Boer military pride. During the 1920s, commemorative medals were handed out to veterans of the war and in 1930 a War Museum at Bloemfontein was begun. How quickly seized upon and how deeply ingrained these ideas of Boer military prowess became can be ascertained by the lengths that H.C. Bosman, whose father had fought against the Boers, went to satirise them. In Mafeking Road, the Boers who ‘know the land’The question of the concentration camps was also seized on by the Nationalists and exploited for their own ends. This was, of course, a traumatic issue. The British had established the camps initially as places of refuge for families made destitute by the usual depredations and destruction of war and had then developed them as part of the scorched earth policy aimed at removing the Boer intelligence and logistic network. Many of the inmates went to the camps voluntarily or, in the case of the many black people, because they needed protection from predatory Bitter-enders and by and large, the inmates enjoyed good, if sometimes Spartan, conditions, adequate rations, decent medical care, employment opportunities, education and humane treatment. Unfortunately what could not be catered for with the resources immediately to hand were the outbreaks of disease brought on by the primitive sanitary practices of the mainly poor bywoners, their sometimes bizarre folk remedies, the generally poor state of contemporary medical knowledge in the face of common diseases and the Boer preference for what Sol Plaatje called ‘native bonethrowers’ and ‘Malay charmers’ rather than actual doctors.[ 139] The big killers were measles and typhoid and though the numbers are shocking to 21st Century eyes, the death rates were in line with peace time mortality rates; European and mixed-race infant mortality in the Cape at the turn of the century meant that 30-40% of children would not see their first birthday; even as late as 1930, infant mortality rates for black children were in the 10-20% range.[ 140] Much the same can be said of the troops; roughly 14,000 British soldiers died of disease-twice as many as were killed-and another 66,000 were invalided home. In the event, it is thought that there were around 12,000 non-white deaths in the camps but the question of just exactly how many whites died was to give the Nationalists their opening-not least because there were more than a few guilty consciences among those Bitter-enders who had consigned their families into British care so as not to be encumbered by them in the field. In 1906, Louis Botha gave his private secretary P.L.A. Goldman the task of finding out just how many people had died during the war including those who died in the camps and for the next eight years he toiled away at what was a mammoth task. What resulted was a mountainous dog’s breakfast of bad research: and I just can’t resist quoting the following conclusion from an article written by sociologists in 2009, just so you can thank your lucky stars that you never became one. …Like I said, it was a dog’s breakfast. And Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier both deserve a medal for going through it all. What was happening across the country already was the bringing in of bodies that had been buried where they had fallen and re-interring them in cemeteries with suitable memorials along with the establishment of women’s committees to do the same for the children who had died in the camps. It was on this that ex-President Steyn pounced, seeing the political potential inherent in the building of a big monument which would effectively accuse the British of being the murderers of women and children and from that point on he mobilised the resources of the Free State-particularly the Veldtcornets and the Predikants-to achieve just that end. What was more, the proto-political party Het Volk got involved in a deliberate attempt to skew the findings to show that the whole manhood of the two republics had been mobilised against the British and bury the notion that rather a lot of them were either fighting on the British side or skulking in the camps. To this end, Steyn, himself, made sure that the number of men who died in the camps was going to be kept off the monument which was due to be unveiled in 1913 at Bloemfontein as the Women’s Monument; and an indication of how much he gave a fig for those who did actually die can be ascertained by understanding that had the men been included, the total number of those who died in the camps would have been substantially higher. By just having women and children counted, the impression would be created that Britain had deliberately tried to kill women and children, which was simply not true. Steyn was interested in secession from the British Empire and both History and the dead were to be sacrificed to this aim; and here’s one for the conspiracy theorists-Steyn’s own records of the Women’s Monument Committee went missing and have never since been found. Continued.....
Excellent, thank you. Many of my ancestors originated from the Netherlands and Germany. One of my ancestors, whose parents were murdered, descended from Arabian royalty and became one of the first slaves in South Africa. She, along with her sister and brother, were given to Jan van Riebeeck's wife.
This was a very thorough - and compassionate - history of South Africa, with a special focus on the Boer Wars and the Battle of Spien Kop. This is the way History should be done. Aloha 😊🤙🏼👏🏼
The Xhoisan are indigenous Africans as are the Nguni ( Bantu - speakers). Whether one group settle before the other in South Africa, they are all Africans through and through.
@@nkosinathi7645 and yet here you are watching the history and making a comment…. Make a video to persuade us that this is wrong or are you just a bag full of wind or one of those looting type.
@@heinrichschoeman4919 Firstly I didn't watch this nonsense video it was somehow recommend by UA-cam. Secondly I won't waste my time trying to conscientise you, with your room temperature IQ.
@@nkosinathi7645 hahahahahaha So you telling someone he or she is unintelligent by going around like a little schoolboy and commenting no this isn’t true but can’t come up with any intelligent argument…..hahahahaha…..Got to love the dribble you guys spew.Somehow I don’t think you are going to be known for splitting the atom or inventing anything humanity can use…..ok Einstein…..hahahaha
I always loved history in school and this was very well told. South African history for all different races tells a story of determination and hard times which is very sad. After everything it has been through, I hope this land and it's people can find a way to work together and reach it's full potential 🙏🏻
Bertram Mitford (1855-1914, a great uncle of mine) wrote 44 books covering South African history (1881-1913). A contemporary of Rider Haggard who wrote popular romance much favored by the British establishment, Bertram ventured into areas to challenge Britain’s role in Africa and to reveal the truth behind the scenes, presenting a more rustic, true life account than other writers on South Africa. At the heart of many of his books lie the politics and relations between the Boers, British and African tribes. His heroes include settlers, slave traders, renegade whites and savage tribesmen. His heroines court physical danger and rescue endangered men folk. He shows a liberal, progressive and humane attitude through his work and stories. For example, like statements in his book entitled “The Curse of Clement Waynflete”, when news of the British defeat at Isandlwana is reported at a family dinner table, and a heated dialogue follows when one of the ladies present simply asks - “Surely even the Zulu’s can’t be blamed for defending their country?” Her father replies “What’s the girl talking about, defending their fiddlesticks? They’ve no business fighting against the British flag.” “But I was always under the impression that we invaded their country” she persisted. Her father then turns to another person at the dinner table “Royston, do you know anything about this affair - why are we at war with the Zulus?” His reply follows “I’ll be hanged if I do know exactly - I suppose the long and the short of it is that we want their country….”
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I kept learning and learning, and just before the twenty minute mark, I learned some more. This is stunning. Do bother.
I saw this vid a few years ago, not one has come close to the honesty shown. (except Benjamin Freedman and Miko Peled)
While not specified in the vid I go by 1815 as whrn the Dutch Bankers gained control of the Bank of England so from moment on the military actions by the UK were orders coming from their new owners, the Dutch.
The hill where the number killed still stands would not be European Royals but the first blacks invited to join the British Military and the Dutch and English plotted the fake battle to kill all of them. Both as a record that still stands today and as a message to all the blacks in Africa. Slaves do not ever elevate above being slaves.
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@Cro Magnon They are the best of friends, neither cared that the money to fight a religious war against the RCC came from Dutch slave traders and black market items. Look up how Denmark and Sweden were the ones against the Christians if the 30 years war. Even worse was the Bohemian Reforms
@Cro Magnon That is Germany after the Norman invasion in 1000AD. France gave then the area now known as Belgium. England let them establish banks that sent money back to the Netherlands. When a rich German marries a virgin Jewish bride, all the children are Jewish, they inherit the wealth when he dies.
In other cases, a Jewish man marries a rich Gentile woman and all the children are raised as Catholics (still controlled by the fathers people but without the benefits of being Jewish.. (not the Vatican kind) and that is who was used to push the Reforms that went on between 1300 and 1800? All geared towards exterminating the RCC and the honest Christians in that group. Want the vids that show the 30 Years War?
As a black South African, I am always blown away to hear the different parts of our history. This was well done, I have learnt so much. Thank you so much! My hope and prayer is that South Africa would have leaders that have a vision to build something more lasting that than what we have right now. As tragic as this history was for the Boers and British, and the many more black South Africans, may God help us find a way to wade through the hurts, tragic past and injustices, the shed blood, and the multitude of many other differences in order to build a better South Africa for all.
Thank you Lwazi for your response, glad that you found it interesting and informative. Have you seen our documentary : The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts - South African 20th Century History Documentary? ua-cam.com/video/4qaZR4vRHY0/v-deo.html
Yeah…I love what your people have done to the place. So much improvement
Hi start with reading The scrabble for Africa
Thomas pakeham
I agree with you 100%
Amen 🙏
A black South African 18 years of age and I appreciate this part of history sir . Sadly we are not taught history in such detail in modern South Africa . We are tired of being taught about Mandela and apartheid every year.
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u must be ashamed of yourself!
Research Dr Lwazi lushaba if you want to know what a white devil is to black people how they think and do things
Jung man learn the history of south Africa DOINT fall for the EFF and the ANC lies and DOINT fall for the 30% pass rate at school learn and you will have a great future
You are amazing! Well done for seeking truth for yourself. I encourage you to watch Peter Hammond's interview with Mandela and to totally break free from propaganda. We all have been lied to. Even us Afrikaners. Our leaders were also infiltrated by Freemasons (by the way Mandela was also one).
By far the best format documentary I've ever seen. 1) A charismatic storyteller doing the narrating. 2) Just enough eye-candy in the form of reenactors and period drawings and photographs. 3) NO ANNOYING MUSIC. 4) A gripping narrative stringing it all together. 5) NO ANNOYING MUSIC. Well done.
Influencers and reviewers especially in the make up beauty community.. take notes please?
It's misleading
@@nkosinathi7645 how?
@@Tosh2001 Visit your local library or any book store and study. This old man is regurgitating the miseducation they taught us back in high school.
@@nkosinathi7645 what are you talking about? The voortrekkers were the only people to actually damage the empires' forces...yet you are still crying about everything and once you had the leadership, they have not given the power to none of you?!
Very insightful, as a white South-African I find the history lesson very interesting, much sadness for everyone in some shape or form, black, white, British, Xhoi etc. Everyone has suffered pain and loss in our beautiful country South-Africa. May God help us to learn from history and learn to appreciate and love each other.
Watched this before, but just had to watch it again. It's one of the greatest independent documentary of SA history that I have ever watched. This is better than the history channel. Thank you sir. You are a really great story teller. Much respect for you sir.
ALL GIVEN DECEIT AND LIES HISTORICAL GIVEN HISTORY. THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. The profound thing is that in 1410 European Tartarians were living in Port Elizabeth. This was long before your Black Invaders arrived in 1850 at the ORANGE RIVER. Do prove me wrong!
Thank you! This was by far the best history lesson for me about my own country. Every single person in SA should watch this so we can better understand our complicated and still very new country. Profound. And an excellent presenter.
The profound thing is that in 1410 European Tartarians were living in Port Elizabeth. This was long before your Black Invaders arrived in 1850 at the ORANGE RIVER. Do prove me wrong!
I’m so happy to be here!!! I want to learn more about my country 🇿🇦 I have hope that things will turn around.
Me too. I'm Irish but I really feel for the plight of the SA people. What a mess due to the brits.
@@legitbeans9078 well, you Irish know it very well!
You at wrong channel
A well told story of South African history. Tragic. War never brings anything but despair and loss of life to the average man in the street, yet we continue to fight. Neither the victor or or the loser wins when wars are fought. The loss of life, the loss of ones possessions and the loss of dignity, one wonders if it is all worth it. But yet we dont learn from it. Thank you so very much for your time in producing this film.
If any one have the change to go to the Women's Memorial in Bloemfontein you Will notice that their are memorial plates next to the paving off all the consentration- camps that was built for cildren, Mothers and Grandparents and who was taken to the camp by the English soldiers during third part of the Anglo-Boerwar 2. You will see that Black people who was in the same camp as the white people were remove by the soldiers to their own camp and 26000 was died in the camps and 27000 white people was died in their own camps. In other words they started Apartheid and all the people was mistreated and reseaved bad food and water. 😢😢😢
I am from India and I wanted to know more about the Boer conflict, this video has satisfied my interest.
A very well made documentary specifically the person who is explaining the entire episode has done a great job, I also love his tone of speech.
I am sure all nations with the least respect for themselves will fight for their sovereignty
Brliant synopsis of the days of SA since JAN VAN RIEBEECK and to the end of the second ANGLO BOER WAR.THE narration exceedingly well done without emotion but factly
Raciss!💉✊🏿💪🏿🇨🇳
You do not know the truth until you read what I placed about this invasion of Black Races fro central Africa after 1850.
One of THE BEST narrations and gratitude towards all those who fought wars to bring peace to us. May this earth see no more wars.
Hopefully one day we get there. At least today there are less wars today than any other period of history
This makes me incredibly humble, honoured and proud of my heritage. To learn what my forefathers had to go through is a humbling experience . I would love to see more videos like this!
My great grandfather David Petrus Botha 1883-1973 took part in the Siege of Ladysmith against the British, He told my uncle when he was a boy while giving him a bedtime story, that the thundering of the British cavalry horses hooves was terrifying. He was still a young teenager at the time he fought.
Was he related to Louis Botha or the Mathys Andries Botha Family by any chance?
Wow thanks for the interesting history! ❤
I always picked the side of the Boers when learning about the wars here in the USA. Botha is cool surname to have indeed.
🤣🤣🤣scared of a pony!? 😭😢🤣he prolly got the vaxxx and wears a mask, too!🤣💉✊🏿💪🏿
@fenderGreg you picked wrong
one of the best narrated, informed and clear clips I have seen on the subject. Absolutely great work
This man deserves more land in Africa , he has a balanced and fair narration of what happened ..he is not biased..he tells it as it was...
Apartheid is over. He'll have to earn and buy that land today. No more free bees.
Deserves more land? What a strange thing to say.
No, the permanently disadvantaged decendants of the Bantu invaders are entiteld to get it for free. s@@stikupartist3698
I know you posted this comment over 3 years ago.
I'd just like to know how you could validate your answer, in terms of a number or perhaps a percentage of Caucasian individuals that received free land from the Apartheid government.
The truth is that white South Africans got preferential treatment in public spaces and so forth.
However, only the elite got the privileges that you assume all whites did.
As far as I'm concerned, the vast majority of South Africans have purchased their land in a democratic South Africa.
Furthermore, other than through the land claims process, how do we determine the inheriters of land?
How do we distribute land?
Is all white owned land considered stolen?
Government are the largest owners of land.
They have no intention of sharing it with anyone.
More and more parties seem to want to nationalize everything.
Why? Because it strips citizens of their basic rights, especially with regards to property.
To a lot of the more impoverished sectors of society, this may sound appealing.
Why?
Because it sounds like instant gratification, which is just not possible, these things take time.
When you vote for the state to control everything (communism), it's just about impossible to leave.
Ok, So this guy, whoever he is, needs to do more videos. Urgently!
One of the best narrated documentaries I've seen as political scientist (Copenhagen Univercity).
Greetings from Scandinavia.
He is South African Military Historian, Ray Heron. from Spion Kop Lodge
@@carlahlers4149 ..... as in YNWA Liverpool ?
What a twist of wording to liberate history.
@@nicolelochren9560 exactly,that’s where The Kop got its name
Ray heron excellent his accent sounds more Rhodesian than South African. He’s an excellent storyteller
I don't know where I was during history lessons in South Africa during the 70s, but I sure knew that I had no real understanding of what was being taught. Maybe I realized there was such a spin put on it that it was not worth paying attention? This one hour video taught me more than 10'years of schooling! Very well done and thank you! I'm subscribed and look forward to watching all your content.
Blame your teacher, blame yourself. I grew up in the 1970's and enjoyed history. My typical mark was 100%. I read a lot and didn't waste time on social exploits. Always discerning fact over opinion.
A few mistakes: The Nguni people did not arrive in South Africa around the same time that Westerners did. There are diaries by Portuguese sailors mentioning well established Zulu settlements in Natal more than a 100 years before Jan van Riebeeck arrived in the Cape. Also, only a fraction of Afrikaners left the Cape to join the Great Trek. And 'life expectancy' is mostly determined by the ratio of infant mortality to adult deaths. In other words the more babies that die, the lower a population's average life expectancy. Other than that, great video and thank you!
Its my understanding that about 40% of Afrikaners left the cape to live in the interior. Not everyone was part of the "Great Trek" - there were other expansions
@@MrRugbylane there were several treks in 20 years and between 10% to 20% of the Afrikaners left the Cape. The second notable migration to the interior happened due to the diamond rush followed closely by the gold rush. My own family (I am Afrikaans) moved to the then Transvaal around a 100 years ago (I was born there), but many of us have since moved back to the Cape
I imagine sitting down for a drink with this guy would mean hours of fascinating stories. Great story-teller.
Well done on that lesson Sir this is the first history lesson I’ve had and not been bored.
Boredom is YOUR state of mind. No one but you is responsible for your entertainment.
Agreed.. Very informative
@vee kay.you saying that now because you an adult and know better now but back in school when you had to sit through this lesson of something you were totally not Interested in where you not board.
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@@TheVeek192 Oh so you NEVER get bored then huh? Ok.
Before that video, I knew a bit about the history of South Africa from the films, and a bit from the internet. As the history of every other land of the European settlement - it is a history of violence and switching the power from one to another. Thank you, Sir, for the most valuable lesson of the history of South Africa I have ever had !!!! My only son (European/Canadian) got married to a lovely white girl from South Africa and he permanently moved there on the East Coast .... living somewhere out there.
Like others say take the story as a backbone and build others differing opinion into the time/place framework.
You'll enjoy how the complex and often secret polarised opinions mesh and maintain...
lovely place.
This is so so well narrated, well documented and well visualized. I rarely comment on UA-cam, but yaaei😀, you tell it like you lived it. Keep it up👌
Incredible history lesson. Much respect from Ireland.
Back atcha. We will never forget the help we got from foreign volunteers.
There's no history here, it's pure nonsense
Brilliant Video professionally presented thanking you! I am a mechanical engineer but was high schooled in a technical college thus only had history until grade seven, in my day standard five, but studied history especially military history on my own from the age of six years old and that is why I can see and hear the hard work this presenter put in to go give us the finite detail of these events-thanking you AGAIN!
Uitstekend, geniet dit baie. Dankie
We will not & cant forget our past! Thank you for sharing, God bless
absolutely enjoyed this. always wanted to know more about South Africa, thank you
It's nonsense
This is the best documentary ever. Thank you for the information
Absolutely Top-Notch Stuff.... Greetings from Bradford West Yorkshire England
Thank you
loved this history lesson. am from zim and i fell in love with history particularly southern african history thanx to Wilbur Smith, even though his books are fictional, they still have a bit of history that led me to learn more of our very rich and colourful past.
I love wilbur Smith especially his books Assegai and A time to die
Beautifully done. Thank you.
Couldn't stop watching till the end. If only my history teacher was like you
As soon as the documentary started, I knew he was a great story teller and a passionate historian! You would think he was there... like literally.
I'm an American living in South Africa. Thanks for creating this documentary for all of us...who care about the history of this great country.
I hope you fill in the gaps because there's way too much information missing in this video
So are you viewed as an american there or just considered white?
@@anwjuice It depended on the color of the American. American blacks who visited
SA during apartheid were considered "honorary whites " while they were in-country.
The trick was to have your US passport with you- at all times.....
@@Frank-mm2yp how about today? Are you American or white?
@@stikupartist3698 Reel American are not white .
What a fantastic description and detailed piece of information explained in absolute truth!!!!
Thanks for the information!!!!
Had me enthralled from start to finish. Thank you.
Brilliantly done! I was that one particular and proud nerd at school that actually enjoyed all subjects and loved going to school. My favourite subject, then and now, was history. My mother gave me sound advice one night whilst studying for a history final exam. She said to read everything first as though it was a story, which essentially it is, and to forget about learning the names and dates and places at first. First read the story and then read it again to learn everything else but once you know the story, everything else falls into place. That helped me a lot. I recently found out that to boost the morale of her soldiers, Queen Victoria, who I am sure had been shielded from most of the horrors of war, sent tins of chocolate treats she commissioned from various companies, including Cadbury, to the soldiers. I have this sad vision of them enjoying their treats on one side of the fence while on the other side of it there is a child looking at them eat while starving to death themselves. That being said, if we are going to remain upset about what happened in history and keep one foot in the past the whole time, we are going to remain angry unnecessarily and run the risk of repeating history instead of embracing a better future. Again, very well done. If you are not a historian or a history teacher of some sorts, you should be.
Fascinating! In my youth I was a Wilbur Smith's novels avid reader and now, in a very few minutes, I can remember them and put them in the real historical context. Thank you, from Italy.
The narration is so precise and lively, one can almost smell the gun fire and the events of the day. Wonderful!
Impartial, factual and well narrated. Really enjoyed this.
Impartial?😂😂
man I like this guy ...he is so calm and he is explaining it all without hate or judgement ....Best white guy ever
@Sizzil'n sausagebooi You're goddamn right.
@Just Another Pleb hot take (for a white guy)
He's not white
@@johnlee5423is he black then?
Thanks for a very clear explanation of a very complex part of a war.
Thank You for uploading this.
I sat and listened to this man with my husband at Isandlwana lodge. A magnificent historian
Thank you so much! This was wonderful. I thought you were respectful of both viewpoints and having you explain where they are coming from is very helpful to understanding the long running tensions. I never knew about the Calvinist outlook and similar to settlers in the American West, the difficulty and resiliency required to homestead connects them to the land in a way others are not. It makes a great deal of sense why they fought so hard to control it-both with the tribes and the British.
It is so sad that wherever white people go thru have to FIGHT to KEEP what was not theirs to begin with! My ancestors have them parcels of land here in the Cape, but this was not enough for them and because of greed they then set out to completely disposes my forefathers of their land and livestock.
This is a blight that the white Afrikaners have against them to this very day. Most of them to this day are still fighting to retain what was not theirs to begin with, with a sense of entitlement that puts them at loggerheads with everyone in the country. I have said many times that a humble acknowledgement of what they did wrong, together with a relinquishing of what they have usurped will go a long way. But until then, their fight and struggle will sadly continue...
@@warrenpieterse6002 That is true it was not theirs but they took it. Similar to lots of other places, the land was taken, however it seems far fetched to assume they will give it back. Current generations are not going to pay that price for what their ancestors did. So minus a total return of land, what could they do to move forward?
@@warrenpieterse6002and yet.... you still sit with your silver spoon buried deep in your gat and enjoy the rewards.
You are welcome to give it away at any point. 🙄
Hello from southern Ireland.thank you for making this most interesting well put together and explained piece of history
Thank you for a very interesting video. As a long range rifle competitor, I have always been interested in the history of South Africa because of the Anglo-Boer Wars.
Thank you for making this video. At school, in kzn, we never touched upon this side of history nor the battles and wars that defined the previous two centuries in our country. It is weirdly enough only from moving to the UK and seeing so much emphasis placed on remembering war stories, including those that the Brits fought in SA, that I shamefully realised how little I actually know about the wars fought on my native soil. So thank you so much for providing such helpful material to educate myself
Afternoon Sir, where I can get the document (s) from, I'm at Vereeniging currently, it's so interesting please.
That was really interesting. Thank you.
Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to compile and present. Historical data is important and must stay documented in every possible form.
Brilliant video. Some would say not enough was covered others would say it was covered in a biased view. I say it was covered enough to give a clear picture as fast as possible. Few would have been able to get so much history and history of importance into an hour as this gentleman was able to. Thank you for a brilliant video.
I thought there had been a siege of the Zulus at one point, since you hear about Zulus starving . . .but I guess they were starving simply because they had lost their land?
He skipped over the 180 years of Afrikaner VOC slavery and oppression in the Cape, where they made their money of the backs of the Coloured community.
They say history does not tell itself, and whoever narrates it does so from a certain standpoint. The Dingani-Retief story sounds one-sided. Zulus tell it differently.
@@melusikubheka3312 I completely agree, the narrative is controlled and the truth concealed by the the narrator, which makes it completely one sided
Danky really history I have learn a lot proudly South African
... Greetings and Good Wishes from Bradford West Yorkshire 🏴
I wish I had this man as my history teacher, thank you.
Agreed, today kids are being taught the government's narrative and not the truth.
Which one is the gorvenment narrative?I studied history in a gorvenment school.the same history being talled by this gentleman.which one are you talking about?
@Kennedy Mogomotsi It's "Government"
You wouldnt be learning history. You would be learning his Anglophile opinions.
@@ruandekock6367 🤣🤣🤣is it the truth
Good watch, the more history we pay attention to, the better chances we have of reconciling to make for a better future... I wish we could be the generation that learns our lessons
I live in indiana in usa. I very much enjoyed this. Seemed like a very smart fellow narrating, and Africa seems so beautiful.
I'm an American living here, and yes...it is a very beautiful land.
Its only a part. Africa is the second largest continent. And not all natives want you.
Fantastic comprehensive brief of South African history the World know little about, thank you!!
It's not about "the world."
@@TheVeek192 He's saying the world knows little about this history.
Excellent, thank you! I'm a history teacher, and you kept it simple and interesting all the way!
How educational and interesting. I am South African and never knew these stories. Thank you.
Inspirerend. En kyk waar is ons nou.
Magnificent documentary thank you.
Please do more videos like! It is unbiased, informative and straight to the point. Thank you, baie dankie
Coming from the sincerest place. This is veeeeeery biased history. Do your research. Too many gaps in this story that you need to fill in
@@pulemolefe6104 oky will you please be so kind and educate us with the gaps that he missed? Make a video and post the link. Cant wait to see😁
@@johannox4161 I'm not a content creator bud. If you stopped being an internet troll and did a 5 minute Google search you wouldn't be overly thankful for an hour long general knowledge video 🙂
@@pulemolefe6104 This vid is about the Boer/ Afrikaaner people...
I learned a lot from this video.
You learned nonsense, this thing is lying
Fascinating to get such perspective and insight. Great presentation Sir, you grasped my interest at the beginning and held it all the way. I'll be tuning in to more of the history of South Africa. Best Wishes from Scotland. McIntyre
Thank you sir. This country has been thru alot !
It is such a pitty that we have so much devision and lies.
Thank you for clarifying our situation.
We are actually one.
God bless our country.
I love documentaries and have recently stumbled upon the Boer Wars. I must say not only is this documentary very well made from a historical perspective but also that Mr. Hero's points of consideration are so well verbalize! Well done Sir!
Brilliant video, thoroughly captivating and enjoyable, very informative. Thank you
Thank you
Im so happy that this gentleman has explained the history in such a clear manner as well, im very disappointed in the nation we live in today where we could have grown so much in twenty years of realistic democracy that should have being. Due to greed/power/corruption/racism even xenophobia is our downfall, also our educational system can be made top of the world again if its not an one sided decision.
@Daydreaming Synergy DEA you are a very angry man shame
@Daydreaming Synergy DEA i can see you are a kleva 1
You are Mr Kriel the problem with where our country finds itself today lies in the agreements that were bargained for a "peaceful" transition to democracy! The National Party and African National Congress made a pact that has led us down a rabbit hole. What many non-white South Africans were hoping for was a return of their land which would return economic power where it was stolen, but this did not happen! And so after more than 20 years of "democracy" the wealth of the country is still in the control of the former colonisers and oppressors, when the majority of native inhabitants descendants live in poverty. This is a recipe for disaster!
Now white people in general are not to blame for this, nor can the response from noon-whites be criticised, but those who brokered this "deal" should be held to account for how they robbed our country of true democracy! There is enough here for all of us to live in peace with one another, but we need to acknowledge the wrongs that were done, and make an earnest effort to rectify it. Only then can we say that we are a rainbow nation.
This is the only channel that has done history on my homeland ,and I respect that.
Excellent. Thanks very much.
You are welcome!
Beautifully written and narrated . Thank you
Great to see an intellectual and balanced view of the neo colonial history of Africa. Good effort.
this was a great presentation, thank you for sharing!
@Daydreaming Synergy DEA Why are you? You're not an African, stay out of it.
Loved my history lesson (all of which I was familiar with - it's just good to be reminded....) Liefde and Dankie!
Your history is full of misleading lies
@@nkosinathi7645 your anc lies
Ai. We stand together now. Finally. Well deserved by us all. Let us never forget where each of us come from. Let us all respect 16 December.
@@nkosinathi7645 Ai. We stand together now. We have all suffered. Let us never forget our history, no matter who we are. Learn from it. The common enemy was Britain, who mislead us more than once. But we forgive them too.
Well Narrated.
Thank you for your historical lecture. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of South Africans are immigrating to NZ and I have befriended some of them and after hearing many stories, wanted to brush up on the history of the place. Thanks for this video.
Ive heard of some of us immigrating there? I must ask are they happy there? Do they miss theyre homeland and do they plan on coming back to fight for it? The afrikaans ones obviously
@@VayN95 secession is a pipe dream. Africa for Africa, Europe for Europe. Unless you are willing to support a place like California to be a Latin country based on your logic.
@@boerepompie8244 If they are there they obviously don't intend to fight. If you want to fight you stay you don't flee.
@@tecumsehtoccoa553 Europe for Europe? Don't make me laugh. Africa for Africans, but Europe must embrace diversity
Thank you for sharing the history of South Africa
Rude Boy 77 I’m interested in the history of South Africa. Tell me your history.
What an awesome video. I love the narration with accompanying pictures and video without loads of music and other production. Just excellent story telling. I'd love to see Ray speak in person.
I had the privilege of seeing David Rattray speak on Isandlwana during school. South Africa has many amazing (if sad) stories to be told and they deserve good story tellers. Speaking of school, is that a Michaelhouse badge I see over his left shoulder?
Thanks Gerard for the positive response on the video, not sure about the Michaelhouse badge. We too had the privilege of recording legendary Anglo-Zulu War expert David Rattray at Isandlwana : ua-cam.com/video/pcxShXTbTJc/v-deo.html
Thank you Mr. you are one of the best history tellers i have seen until now. You did a good job and are appreciated.
Excellent video. Very informative.
As an American who loves world history, most of the courses I have taken pretty much always skip this part of the world. This is a great informational documentary. Thanks for the upload.
One sided narrative
@@chiyenyumba7135 It is hard to find sources and documentaries that don't have a spin in a certain way. I recognize that this is one-sided, it covers the Afrikaaner people and what was the Dutch colonization (and genocide) Every world history course I have taken mostly only covers Egypt when it comes to the African continent (and only Ancient Egypt and the time of the pyramids, nothing more modern). It is just nice to see something different than what they mostly teach in the States which is watered down to make Western Europe look good to attempt to make us blind patriots who think America can do no wrong and that minorities are complaining for no reason when in reality they are still being oppressed by a system that was built to keep them that way. I recognize that this is likely watered down as well, but still nice to at least learn something about this part of the world and the colonization of it.
@@chiyenyumba7135 but the truth, unlike the ANC government who like to make up their own history, probably because most of them have little to no education.
@@Bullbotha the truth according to whom. No truths just perspectives.... Let's get on and live our lives
@@chiyenyumba7135 the truth according to those who were there, please go to school and ask your teacher to explain what a fact is. It is not an opinion or perspective, as the idiots running the SA government now would have you believe.
There were some foreign soldiers who fought with the Boers in the Anglo Boer War. For instance Irish, Americans, Germans, French, Dutch, and the most were Russians. But, they never had their own units, and the Boers were mistrustful of them. Also, as it was the turn of the century, a whole lot of new weaponry was coming out, which they wanted to test in combat. Can read about it in 'The Russians and the Anglo Boer War' by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova.
There was also a Polish man on the side of the Boers on Spion Kop.
I wish this man had been my History Teacher. I really was fascinated by this and I have never been to South Africa.
Nice work Raymond!
incredibly well narrated !!!!!!!!!!!!
If only they'd played a video like this in our history lessons in school I may have learnt so much then. It was just facts and dates, no lessons and emotions, but I'm glad to be learning it now. Thank you sir and your team. This should be included in SA school curriculum.
it used to be. then it was removed and a twisted version of history is now taught.
What a wise man. I enjoyed listening.
A correction: at 4:50 the narrator mentions that Khoi and San started taking domesticated animals from those who measured their wealth by possessions. The KhoiKhoi had their own cattle when the Dutch came and settled at the Cape, it was in retaliation for the theft of our lands and livestock that various raids were made on the white settlers. It is from the KhoiKhoi that the Voortrekkers got the, now named, Afrikaner breed of cattle, a strong ox that could survive on the sparse vegetation of the land.
nope. the lands were NOT stolen. NOR was the livestock. they were initially TRADED for and the khoi leader gave his permission for them to settle on the land they built the castle on. a massive piece of land from franchoek to the cape was also bought and the document STILL exists to this day. the wars started when the ships passing the cape traded with the dutch instead of with the khoi as they did prior to the dutch arrival., and the khoi leader became upset. they killed a dutch animal herder and stole the animals and so doing started the trouble.
Warren , cattle don't come from Africa , where do you think they got cattle from , cattle came from Europe , get your facts straight before you flap your lips .
That's false, there are documents and evidence that suggest otherwise unless you have evidence to prove this.
@@meh3731 Please share these "documents" that still exist with us? It is interesting to note that the narrative is often controlled by those who wish to conceal the truth. You are correct in stating that there was INITIAL trade, but you incorrect in your assumption of the extent of the trade. When more and more free burghers were being brought in and land given to them, which the Dutch had no legal right to give, it is then that the Khoi and San started retaliating at the injustice of having their lands taken and livestock taken. We were forced to be tenants on our own land. Systematically we were disenfranchised from what is ours and laws were passed, to which we had no say, that stripped us of all ownership.
Jy het jou feite verkeerd.
Baie dankie vir die video. Dit het my baie gehelp verstaan.
This is so interesting. I'm English and this makes so much sense to me (with side bits like my neurosurgeon coming from WitWatersrand and...I'm in my early 30s...my great grandfather fought in the second Boer war and then off to WW1....He had my grandfather late and this is really more interesting for me for it). Really well done.
I really enjoyed this video, it was very well narrated and was made interesting. I read a lot of books, fiction, that take place in S Africa and although they are fictional, the stories fit in with real characters and history from the mid 1800's to the turn of the century.
This documentary cleared up the confusion and put things in perspective. Thank you very much for this highly interesting and enjoyable video.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this error yet but Hopetown still exists and is south of Kimberley. Hopetown was not renamed as Kimberley. Kimberley was known as Vooruitzigt and New Rush by the wave of prospectors that descended in the area. The area was officially named Kimberley on 5th July 1873.
Edit: The first diamond discovered in South Africa was named Eureka in 1867 and then the Star of Africa was found in 1869.
The Hope Diamond is from India not South Africa
I can only say, in my dreams I have the heart of a boer. You fought like men, like titans, and you won't be forgotten. The boer wars, when the british invented the concentration camps.
Henrik G
Because the Spanish and Americans hade never used concentration camps before eh?
There is simething about war that you dont understand...simply because you were never part of any war.There are no rules in war....there are no winners or losers in any war...only survivors !!SA is a country rich in wars....any winners??? Any losers??? No ! Survivors??? Many !!
@@giovannipierre5309 the British were the first to do it. It was the only way for them to win the war. Torture and kill woman and children...
@@truth-Hurts375 it served no purpose in military objective. However it turned out to be one of the best case studies for aristocratic invaders trying to enforce their will onto free cultures. This is a study of God vs Satan.
Ruan De Kock
From A Short Guide to the History of South Africa:
One of the roots of the National Party’s success lay in the memories of the Boer war. Despite the fact that the Boers were comprehensively beaten by the British, many of them could not bring themselves to accept this and from this feeling emerged a ‘stab in the back’ myth like the one created by the Nazis to explain the equally comprehensive defeat of the German army by the British and French in 1918. (The same thing happened after the Second World War as German veterans of their comprehensive defeat in Normandy complained that they only lost because the British and Americans unfairly deployed better artillery and ground attack aircraft in bigger numbers. N.B. It’s a General’s job to work out how to defeat an enemy).[ 135] De Wet claimed in his memoirs that the Boers were only beaten when the National Scouts-Boers in British service-were employed, which was palpable nonsense; others railed against the unfairness of the ‘overwhelming force’ brought against them, as though war was really only to be conducted on joustingRiver had been a Boer victory that left 3000 Tommies dead on the field and that at Colenso, 5000 more had been slain-the reality was that Modder River was a British victory with 72 killed and at Colenso, which was indeed a Boer victory, 147 had been killed.[ 136] (In 1901, the editor of Ons Land was jailed for libel after accusing Sir John French of war crimes).[ 137] This was all helped along by Leo Amery’s Times History and Maurice’s History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 both of which provided plenty of material, if selectively read, to ‘prove’ that the Boers might have actually lost the war but really won it by showing themselves better at everything than the British.
Conan-Doyle and Kipling did their bit too when they displayed the traditional British regard for the underdog. The generosity displayed by the British establishment towards Botha and Smuts in paying tribute to a defeated enemy and deliberately playing down their own successes in pursuit of reconciliation, plus allowing full military honours for Kruger’s posthumous return to South Africa, all contributed to the salving of Boer military pride. During the 1920s, commemorative medals were handed out to veterans of the war and in 1930 a War Museum at Bloemfontein was begun. How quickly seized upon and how deeply ingrained these ideas of Boer military prowess became can be ascertained by the lengths that H.C. Bosman, whose father had fought against the Boers, went to satirise them. In Mafeking Road, the Boers who ‘know the land’The question of the concentration camps was also seized on by the Nationalists and exploited for their own ends. This was, of course, a traumatic issue.
The British had established the camps initially as places of refuge for families made destitute by the usual depredations and destruction of war and had then developed them as part of the scorched earth policy aimed at removing the Boer intelligence and logistic network. Many of the inmates went to the camps voluntarily or, in the case of the many black people, because they needed protection from predatory Bitter-enders and by and large, the inmates enjoyed good, if sometimes Spartan, conditions, adequate rations, decent medical care, employment opportunities, education and humane treatment. Unfortunately what could not be catered for with the resources immediately to hand were the outbreaks of disease brought on by the primitive sanitary practices of the mainly poor bywoners, their sometimes bizarre folk remedies, the generally poor state of contemporary medical knowledge in the face of common diseases and the Boer preference for what Sol Plaatje called ‘native bonethrowers’ and ‘Malay charmers’ rather than actual doctors.[ 139] The big killers were measles and typhoid and though the numbers are shocking to 21st Century eyes, the death rates were in line with peace time mortality rates; European and mixed-race infant mortality in the Cape at the turn of the century meant that 30-40% of children would not see their first birthday; even as late as 1930, infant mortality rates for black children were in the 10-20% range.[ 140] Much the same can be said of the troops; roughly 14,000 British soldiers died of disease-twice as many as were killed-and another 66,000 were invalided home. In the event, it is thought that there were around 12,000 non-white deaths in the camps but the question of just exactly how many whites died was to give the Nationalists their opening-not least because there were more than a few guilty consciences among those Bitter-enders who had consigned their families into British care so as not to be encumbered by them in the field.
In 1906, Louis Botha gave his private secretary P.L.A. Goldman the task of finding out just how many people had died during the war including those who died in the camps and for the next eight years he toiled away at what was a mammoth task. What resulted was a mountainous dog’s breakfast of bad research: and I just can’t resist quoting the following conclusion from an article written by sociologists in 2009, just so you can thank your lucky stars that you never became one. …Like I said, it was a dog’s breakfast. And Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier both deserve a medal for going through it all. What was happening across the country already was the bringing in of bodies that had been buried where they had fallen and re-interring them in cemeteries with suitable memorials along with the establishment of women’s committees to do the same for the children who had died in the camps. It was on this that ex-President Steyn pounced, seeing the political potential inherent in the building of a big monument which would effectively accuse the British of being the murderers of women and children and from that point on he mobilised the resources of the Free State-particularly the Veldtcornets and the Predikants-to achieve just that end. What was more, the proto-political party Het Volk got involved in a deliberate attempt to skew the findings to show that the whole manhood of the two republics had been mobilised against the British and bury the notion that rather a lot of them were either fighting on the British side or skulking in the camps. To this end, Steyn, himself, made sure that the number of men who died in the camps was going to be kept off the monument which was due to be unveiled in 1913 at Bloemfontein as the Women’s Monument; and an indication of how much he gave a fig for those who did actually die can be ascertained by understanding that had the men been included, the total number of those who died in the camps would have been substantially higher.
By just having women and children counted, the impression would be created that Britain had deliberately tried to kill women and children, which was simply not true. Steyn was interested in secession from the British Empire and both History and the dead were to be sacrificed to this aim; and here’s one for the conspiracy theorists-Steyn’s own records of the Women’s Monument Committee went missing and have never since been found. Continued.....
I am totally impressed with the honesty, especially about what really happened in the first few minutes of the vid.
Excellent, thank you. Many of my ancestors originated from the Netherlands and Germany. One of my ancestors, whose parents were murdered, descended from Arabian royalty and became one of the first slaves in South Africa. She, along with her sister and brother, were given to Jan van Riebeeck's wife.
This was a very thorough - and compassionate - history of South Africa, with a special focus on the Boer Wars and the Battle of Spien Kop.
This is the way History should be done.
Aloha 😊🤙🏼👏🏼
The Xhoisan are indigenous Africans as are the Nguni ( Bantu - speakers). Whether one group settle before the other in South Africa, they are all Africans through and through.
But not South africans
There was no such thing as "South Africa" until the Berlin conference so not even the Twa (Khoi and San) were South African..
@@gurshwinsmit4837 the was no such thing as South Africa....
@@gurshwinsmit4837 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 what is South Africa Berlin conference Europe. Africa is Africa it comes with the little inconvenience of the African
@@gurshwinsmit4837 Africa is Africa nana
A great interesting piece of history,
Well told.
There's no history here, it's just lies
@@nkosinathi7645 and yet here you are watching the history and making a comment….
Make a video to persuade us that this is wrong or are you just a bag full of wind or one of those looting type.
@@heinrichschoeman4919 Firstly I didn't watch this nonsense video it was somehow recommend by UA-cam. Secondly I won't waste my time trying to conscientise you, with your room temperature IQ.
@@nkosinathi7645 hahahahahaha
So you telling someone he or she is unintelligent by going around like a little schoolboy and commenting no this isn’t true but can’t come up with any intelligent argument…..hahahahaha…..Got to love the dribble you guys spew.Somehow I don’t think you are going to be known for splitting the atom or inventing anything humanity can use…..ok Einstein…..hahahaha
@@heinrichschoeman4919 you just proved my point 🤦🏾♂️ room temperature IQ
I always loved history in school and this was very well told. South African history for all different races tells a story of determination and hard times which is very sad. After everything it has been through, I hope this land and it's people can find a way to work together and reach it's full potential 🙏🏻
That was amazing!! Thank you.
Bertram Mitford (1855-1914, a great uncle of mine) wrote 44 books covering South African history (1881-1913). A contemporary of Rider Haggard who wrote popular romance much favored by the British establishment, Bertram ventured into areas to challenge Britain’s role in Africa and to reveal the truth behind the scenes, presenting a more rustic, true life account than other writers on South Africa. At the heart of many of his books lie the politics and relations between the Boers, British and African tribes. His heroes include settlers, slave traders, renegade whites and savage tribesmen. His heroines court physical danger and rescue endangered men folk. He shows a liberal, progressive and humane attitude through his work and stories.
For example, like statements in his book entitled “The Curse of Clement Waynflete”, when news of the British defeat at Isandlwana is reported at a family dinner table, and a heated dialogue follows when one of the ladies present simply asks - “Surely even the Zulu’s can’t be blamed for defending their country?” Her father replies “What’s the girl talking about, defending their fiddlesticks? They’ve no business fighting against the British flag.” “But I was always under the impression that we invaded their country” she persisted. Her father then turns to another person at the dinner table “Royston, do you know anything about this affair - why are we at war with the Zulus?” His reply follows “I’ll be hanged if I do know exactly - I suppose the long and the short of it is that we want their country….”
That's interesting you are fortunate to have such access to special records