History of South Africa - Episode I: The Beginning!

South Africa has been a place of great importance, great tragedy, and global consequence from the moment the outside world began to set itself upon it. Episode I tells us how Europe first came upon it, and how they just couldn't get themselves to leave it alone.

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  • @tsndrene4rl
    @tsndrene4rl3 жыл бұрын

    This man: "South Africa first started in Portugal" Me: clicks off

  • @lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593

    @lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes that is europeans for you . so stupid

  • @tsndrene4rl

    @tsndrene4rl

    3 жыл бұрын

    @GDemonatorWillpower

  • @tsndrene4rl

    @tsndrene4rl

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pvtcit9711 there are some facets of history that you just can't revise friend and that south africa first started in portugal is just that

  • @n83able
    @n83able4 жыл бұрын

    "So South Africa really all begins with Portugal in 1415." I am out with that one!

  • @nonkululekontuli4497

    @nonkululekontuli4497

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol that's stupid

  • @ralphjansen9205

    @ralphjansen9205

    3 жыл бұрын

    What happend before 1415. Dont be Koi with your answer.

  • @ruthsehume6048

    @ruthsehume6048

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y didn't Portugal concur?

  • @dominicdoherty7208

    @dominicdoherty7208

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ralphjansen9205 the native africans

  • @dawiejansen22

    @dawiejansen22

    3 жыл бұрын

    No !! I don’t understand why your spending so much time explaining Portugal part in this Video -- AS OTHER countries plays a much bigger part! South Africa was made by the Dutch and the British! Get your facts right and spend more time planning your videos!

  • @haddadth
    @haddadth5 жыл бұрын

    In the.. be-nin-ging

  • @charlielucai-woodsboro2167

    @charlielucai-woodsboro2167

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂 Mshini wam

  • @Banjomute
    @Banjomute5 жыл бұрын

    Awaiting Episode 2. Well done!

  • @peopledaddy
    @peopledaddy5 жыл бұрын

    Very well done! Thanks for posting

  • @lmc4355
    @lmc43552 жыл бұрын

    I don't think I've ever been put off by a documentary in the very first sentence before. "the history of South Africa actually begins in Portugal."

  • @nonickname8938

    @nonickname8938

    Жыл бұрын

    He doesn't know history of South Africa this one, this is exactly what Hunt Davis was talking about. These people think African history began from Europe!😒

  • @andrewdutoit9571

    @andrewdutoit9571

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@nonickname8938Sadly the only people here when the Portuguese past here were the Koi and San. So this history sounds good to me as you can't create a history if there wasn't.

  • @yangasidziya3245

    @yangasidziya3245

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@andrewdutoit9571 Are you still peddling the empty land theory in 2023? Are you serious

  • @andrewdutoit9571

    @andrewdutoit9571

    7 ай бұрын

    @@yangasidziya3245 Not at all. When South Africa's History was first written there wasn't any alterior motives included. Today, the narrative will be that Jan Van Riebeek landed at the Cape and booked into the Holiday Inns and Simon van der Stel won all the wine farms in a crooked poker game from a drunk Koi whose drink was spiked by some dishonest White trash hooker.

  • @ayandasperanza530

    @ayandasperanza530

    6 ай бұрын

    The history of south Africa starts with the! Khwe and Xham

  • @darrylkeith7612
    @darrylkeith76124 жыл бұрын

    *European's History of South Africa

  • @nunyabeeswax554

    @nunyabeeswax554

    4 жыл бұрын

    How can you start with Portugal? 😂

  • @Raheem-Braveheart

    @Raheem-Braveheart

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nunyabeeswax554 Because he knows damn well whites are from Europe and not Africa.

  • @SoniaJbrt

    @SoniaJbrt

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nunyabeeswax554 because Vasco da Gama was the first European to "discover" the Cape, Not Jan van Riebeeck. And Google the real face of Jan van Riebeeck, he was blonde and chubby! Too much lies if yoy ask me.

  • @icu4life240

    @icu4life240

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Boer will never admit that there were Black Africans in South Africa when they arrived.

  • @icu4life240

    @icu4life240

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SoniaJbrt It doesn't matter who discovered the Cape what matters is Africans were already there and their lans was taken away.

  • @ChefOrelleYoung
    @ChefOrelleYoung5 жыл бұрын

    The Dubai video brought me here, I truly love this channel. I’m planning on visiting South Africa in August.

  • @ChefOrelleYoung

    @ChefOrelleYoung

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lazer Person bringing my own portable desalination system lol. Living in Dubai taught me well.

  • @sirrichter5336

    @sirrichter5336

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wouldnt go there ever. They are about to have a civil war where they slaughter every white person within the borders. From your profile picture i assume you are black, but the country is still extremely dangerous.

  • @ChefOrelleYoung

    @ChefOrelleYoung

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sir Richter Dangerous and Cape Town don’t belong in the same sentence. Most of my friends here in Dubai are from Cape Town and seem to move in and out with ease and tend to their properties with no conflict. Maybe you need a break from KZread 🤣.

  • @darcey6392

    @darcey6392

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ChefOrelleYoung I'm in Cape Town right now and it's as safe as can be 😊 I'm a 103lb white girl and have never felt threatened or unsafe, you'll be totally fine

  • @ChefOrelleYoung

    @ChefOrelleYoung

    5 жыл бұрын

    sardonic I totally believe this.

  • @MalkaMoon
    @MalkaMoon Жыл бұрын

    They dont even teach this part of history in the school of my country anymore. This is a great video. Much love, from South Africa!

  • @ayandasperanza530

    @ayandasperanza530

    6 ай бұрын

    Say your school's history programme was deficient, we learn it at school.

  • @Belugacrip

    @Belugacrip

    3 ай бұрын

    They can’t reach you lies at school, there was never a bantu migration. But it’s Your choice if you want to learn rubbish

  • @MalkaMoon

    @MalkaMoon

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Belugacrip oh okay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Belugacrip

    @Belugacrip

    3 ай бұрын

    @@MalkaMoon 🤣😂🤣😂litter

  • @abibnoor
    @abibnoor5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Waiting for part II

  • @JJ-ck2mt

    @JJ-ck2mt

    3 ай бұрын

    Still waiting...

  • @tutukanizungu1616
    @tutukanizungu16165 жыл бұрын

    What an excellent history teller...Good job Michael! 💯

  • @njabulomaseko2590

    @njabulomaseko2590

    5 жыл бұрын

    hawu zungu musa ukusihlaza, lomuntu uyasibhedela ukhuluma ngomlando wase south africa koda uqala le phezulu emazweni abelungu wena uyancoma ??

  • @smithnxumalo7590

    @smithnxumalo7590

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@njabulomaseko2590 washaya nkabi yami , asingancomi umuntu esilulaza sinomlamdo ovuthwe kangaka singamaNguni

  • @tafari988

    @tafari988

    3 жыл бұрын

    U are a joke as African 😂😂😂

  • @jjshaw8360
    @jjshaw83605 жыл бұрын

    This is the most underrated channel on youtube. You deserve way more subscribers!

  • @albinstenstrom9711

    @albinstenstrom9711

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @rocr62

    @rocr62

    4 жыл бұрын

    And I thought my jokes were bad.

  • @amekgomo4578

    @amekgomo4578

    3 жыл бұрын

    for saying south africa begins in portugal and spending the whole video not talking about what was actually happening in south africa and what it's people were doing?

  • @thegrumpydragon7601
    @thegrumpydragon76015 жыл бұрын

    I am not ashamed to say , I have been binging your channel.

  • @rykheer
    @rykheer2 жыл бұрын

    @Michael Beach, Thanks for doing the work to put something together that aims to re-cap very broadly a review of SA history. I want to point out to visitors completely unfamiliar with the history, that several very key elements are missing though - Despite acknowledging that this is only a high-level summation. Missing elements speaks to motivations and driving powers and true nature of groups and characters in the full historical storyline. I don't believe it serves to capture the character of the SA people themselves, but the video does achieve enough context and overview to provide points of history to further build knowledge from. I regard this stil as an insightful singular view of an SA historical perspective. Well done for doing it.

  • @SuperSouljahBoy
    @SuperSouljahBoy5 жыл бұрын

    As we would say in South Africa, what kak is this?!

  • @rynominnie83

    @rynominnie83

    4 жыл бұрын

    And I thank you! My thoughts exactly. Like someone else mentioned: the history of South AFRICA - but without a single African being mentioned

  • @lihlesibiya5870

    @lihlesibiya5870

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rynominnie83 yeah like what the hell

  • @maleratomaphanga3342

    @maleratomaphanga3342

    4 жыл бұрын

    The history of South Africa starts in Portugal 🤣

  • @rynominnie83

    @rynominnie83

    4 жыл бұрын

    @IM HO there's a difference between opinion and fact though. And there's also something strangely self-serving in telling the history of a country without mentioning anyone FROM that country. I don't need to start my own KZread channel to realize any of the

  • @dodecahedron7910

    @dodecahedron7910

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha thats Afrikaans white word just like voetsek which means voort se Ek.

  • @madschrono9891
    @madschrono98914 жыл бұрын

    Very good video man, keep it up

  • @jKLa
    @jKLa2 жыл бұрын

    Hey hope your OK. Love this series. When are you gonna make a new video?

  • @casperjohannesjakobuslabus7739
    @casperjohannesjakobuslabus77393 ай бұрын

    Hi Michael, great video! Would it be possible for you to do Episode 2 or 3 even? Me being a South African found this extremely interesting, and I do believe South Africa is a very complex case study. Cheers!

  • @HowToWatchMovies
    @HowToWatchMovies5 жыл бұрын

    Hey, that’s where I live!! Do the rest of it! History in South Africa is so darn gloomy. The cutesy animation takes the sting out of it.

  • @dawoodwilliams3652
    @dawoodwilliams36525 жыл бұрын

    episode 2 should focus on the bantu expansion, the establishment of Boer Republics and the Zulu empire and the wars that followed.

  • @Belugacrip

    @Belugacrip

    4 ай бұрын

    Bantu expansion? Go back home bruh.. we about to vote.

  • @jcb5782
    @jcb57825 жыл бұрын

    Great video! There is a brilliant Dutch book covering a Dutch 18th century explorer who lived in Capetown and made several expeditions into the heartland. He came across some wild stuff there, like a guy who inherited land on the border of company and local territory and simply proclaimed his own kingdom. If there are any dutch here, the book is called "Een Nederlander in de Wildernis." A must read for anyone interested in this kinda stuff.

  • @rykheer

    @rykheer

    2 жыл бұрын

    `Dutchie` (Afrikaner) here. Thanks for the book reference, JCB

  • @camerongg
    @camerongg3 жыл бұрын

    Now we call each other “Poes”👍🏻👌🏻

  • @rileysetc.5107

    @rileysetc.5107

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣💯👌

  • @kinss1
    @kinss14 жыл бұрын

    Well it's true, there is history in this entertaining video. It looks as though you two had fun making it.

  • @emmanuelsithagu2144
    @emmanuelsithagu21445 жыл бұрын

    I thought this was a history about South Africa!

  • @Phyto.

    @Phyto.

    5 жыл бұрын

    Emmanuel Sithagu it is. South Africa was sparsely populated by hunter gatherers groups (KhoiSan), the Bantu groups haven't moved into SA yet at the time of European arrival.

  • @dawoodwilliams3652

    @dawoodwilliams3652

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Phyto. the bantu actually moved in before the arrival of Europeans, however they were mostly on the East.

  • @lihlesibiya5870

    @lihlesibiya5870

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Phyto. you mad we ''bantu'' as you call us have been here for 1000s of years before europeans

  • @lihlesibiya5870

    @lihlesibiya5870

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cubancucumber lol we wouldnt tell you everything about ourselfs but we know our history

  • @johnpowell9417

    @johnpowell9417

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lihle Sibiya bantu is a word used to describe the group of africans that spoke the bantu languages... its not meant to be racist or anything, its just a classification, it would be like calling someone english because they speak english (even if they are not necessarily from England, this is especially prominent when describing afrikaans and english people, we are both south africans but we are classified by our languages) ...

  • @HackedBy
    @HackedBy2 жыл бұрын

    I love your vids!

  • @oswaldoflores1777
    @oswaldoflores1777 Жыл бұрын

    Great Video. I like it.

  • @hash-slingingslasher1374
    @hash-slingingslasher13744 жыл бұрын

    Part 2 coming anytime? Been over a year

  • @57dem
    @57dem5 жыл бұрын

    Great video, subscribed and looking forward to the next episode!

  • @kunalroy9735
    @kunalroy97354 жыл бұрын

    I love the "age of discovery" definition😄

  • @TGBAgentOrange
    @TGBAgentOrange5 жыл бұрын

    I'll patiently wait for episode 2. Thanks for the history lesson of my people (although I already know 90% of it, still worth watching)

  • @callingrantham2553
    @callingrantham25535 жыл бұрын

    I like this

  • @tselisomolukanele9627
    @tselisomolukanele96274 жыл бұрын

    But South Africa history doesn't start in Portugal! What non sense is that?

  • @_snecooks1600

    @_snecooks1600

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tseliso Molukanele my question exactly😠😠😠

  • @mondaindoodles8667

    @mondaindoodles8667

    3 жыл бұрын

    But how can you prove that it didn't start in Portugal??? Because I'm an African person too.

  • @hwitbooi4671

    @hwitbooi4671

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dangel Doodled Because there was already people there - which he failed to mention - and the low population of the area meant that Portugal wasn’t really interested in it and they never really left any impact.If he made a video about Mauritius or Reunion he’d probably be right seeing as literally nobody lived there beforehand but if anything the real turning point would be when the dutch arrive in the mid 16th century and found Cape town.

  • @davidhobbs5679

    @davidhobbs5679

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hwitbooi4671 1. Just because people were there doesn't mean the history of a political entity exists by default, otherwise the history of England would start long before the romans, Germany before charlagmange ect. 2. The native history is not known anyway so either way it still flies

  • @hwitbooi4671

    @hwitbooi4671

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidhobbs5679 All isn’t completely unknown - Although it is true that a lot isn’t known because the original peoples didn’t have any written history. I just thought it was something he should have mentioned

  • @Ashy-Boy-The-Original
    @Ashy-Boy-The-Original3 жыл бұрын

    Where's episode 2 already it's been 2 years

  • @matheuroux5134
    @matheuroux51342 жыл бұрын

    Wish there was a part 2

  • @AFKGr
    @AFKGr5 жыл бұрын

    just found out this channel, great stuff man, keep it up!

  • @TWOCOWS1
    @TWOCOWS13 жыл бұрын

    very nice. thanks for making and posting. do ignore all the non-history PC victim people writing below, about their dogma instead of data). very accurate. so where is the rest of this series??

  • @NORMANHIGH405
    @NORMANHIGH4053 жыл бұрын

    So no episode 2?

  • @jusonn9922
    @jusonn99225 жыл бұрын

    Where is part II?

  • @sibongileviolet8934
    @sibongileviolet89343 жыл бұрын

    So how does South Africa start in Portugal

  • @karlgwambe8860
    @karlgwambe88604 жыл бұрын

    Episode 2 please!

  • @AmiraSmyrna
    @AmiraSmyrna2 жыл бұрын

    Cool video! I love the way you say "Graaf Reinet" = graph rye net. We say here in SA: "Graaaaaaaf re-net" but I enjoyed the video and its to the point and precise.

  • @MrNardusdutoit
    @MrNardusdutoit4 жыл бұрын

    I liked this video. These historical facts place South Africa apart on the continent and are worth noting. It produced a rich and colorful history that is fascinating and exiting. Apart from the political powers of the time, many European’s fled persecution in Europe resorting to the Cape as “European slaves”, suffering under the powers of that time, as modern day emigrants meet foreign labor demands. Reference to the “Dutch” South Africans omit societies of French, German and Portuguese who emigrated to South Africa escaping persecution. Many did succumb to hunger and suffering under ‘Machiavellian Governance’ of the time. The European community in SA was liberating as it constituted a great portion of other European communities apart from only the Dutch, removing the ‘Racial Stereotyping’ in practice. Thus, historically the country was not ‘Colonized’ to the extend to which other countries were, rather it was pollinated with rich culture that played an important role in resisting English colonization centuries later. With no intent to cause resentment (sometimes a sensitive topics) or blame but purely constructive reference of history; European South African population declined at the hands of English concentration camps which declined the future European population in South Africa, consequently restricting the capacity for future ‘Democracy’ and meritocracy. Followed by the world depression and immense Anti-European agenda’s under Cecil John Rhodes laid foundations for the advocacy that followed. The countries history has been controversial ever since contributing to torn society of date. Western and Eastern powers played their part in the times to follow; the US in their fight against ‘Communism’ in the 1975’s, imposing the controversial arrests of political opponents and a war against Angola with detrimental long term consequences for SA and modern day history experience Chinese Neo-colonization and African nepotism. A stable country polarized by continuous political calamity which seem to make its round every 50 years or so.

  • @lindokuhlemthembu3015

    @lindokuhlemthembu3015

    2 жыл бұрын

    Uyanya wena

  • @yangasidziya3245

    @yangasidziya3245

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@lindokuhlemthembu3015 They like this ke mf2, they make up their own bullsh*t history

  • @ayandasperanza530

    @ayandasperanza530

    6 ай бұрын

    Not colonised... Wow I can bet what your ancestors aren't African.

  • @rochellesmal7770
    @rochellesmal77705 жыл бұрын

    The visuals on this is kinda misleading, by the end it makes it look like the Dutch & French had conquered the Xhosa and Sotho people and where on the doorstep of the Zulu people, while in reality they hadn't made contact yet. The upper right bit of the final visual(where the date displays 1814) of south Africa looks like the British Cape colony is on top of Lesotho which would be very inaccurate as they were neither conquered by the Dutch or the Zulu and thus is the reason it is still an independent country today.

  • @goldust3212

    @goldust3212

    5 жыл бұрын

    And also the reason the Dutch's crops were failing because they were using crops that was incompatible to the climate and soil. 6:53

  • @rochellesmal7770

    @rochellesmal7770

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Rocky Fletch Yes but the sotho people did and were in that geographical location. My point was that the map was a bid misleading in showing that the colonies had conquered more land than they actually did at that point in time.

  • @mazambane286

    @mazambane286

    Жыл бұрын

    @@goldust3212 Oh rubbish! Name a single indigenous crop grow in South Africa. Just one.

  • @mazambane286

    @mazambane286

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rochellesmal7770 More rubbish. The Sotho live in Lesotho because that is where the Zulu chased them to. They ran up into the mountains to escape the Zulu. And nobody wants to purposefully live up in those mountains. Especially as it's very cold and before the white man introduced blankets and clothing and shoes. What did the Basotho wear before the European introduced woven cloth?

  • @rochellesmal7770

    @rochellesmal7770

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mazambane286 My complaint is that the visuals on the map do not correctly reflect the timeline portrayed. The Mfecane started before the Dutch left the cape, the fact that they where chased to the mountains does not matter as it is still where they ended up and remained since that point. The Dutch & Zulu did not care for the mountains, as you said, and mostly avoided them so they where never conquered by either of them and they only became a British protectorate much later. It seems incorrect to mark that section of the map in 1814 as under British rule when the Dutch did not move out of the cape until 1835, so in my view the map is still misleading as it does not correctly portray the movement of the people at the time. Also, while I don't know much about the history of woven cloth I would like to point out that our species survived an Ice age before it was invented and that the Inuit survived much colder climates without woven cloth. Even if they did not have woven cloth at that point they obviously still had the ability to make clothes and more importantly did have the ability to create fire, which seems much more essential in order to survive colder climates. Honestly nothing in your comment contradicts what I said so why call it Rubbish?

  • @rahulsamaddar8151
    @rahulsamaddar81515 жыл бұрын

    Part 2 please!

  • @warmflash
    @warmflash5 жыл бұрын

    You have a great voice with great style matched to fantastic scripts !!!!

  • @voertsek8404
    @voertsek84045 жыл бұрын

    My ancestors would be proud . Great presentation Michael, looking forward to episode 2 .

  • @DeadPresident00BC

    @DeadPresident00BC

    5 жыл бұрын

    and u should be ashamed

  • @amekgomo4578

    @amekgomo4578

    3 жыл бұрын

    your ancestors in portugal?

  • @juliabrockbank9484
    @juliabrockbank94843 жыл бұрын

    Where's part two though?

  • @Pierreebertsohn
    @Pierreebertsohn4 жыл бұрын

    we want episode 2!

  • @friendlyneighbourhoodstoner
    @friendlyneighbourhoodstoner4 жыл бұрын

    I need episode two

  • @goodafy
    @goodafy4 жыл бұрын

    King Gumede KaZulu of 1330 Zululand, KhoiKhoi and khoisan hunters and farmers on the cape scrublands, their culture, food, political system, marriage rights are the earliest history of area known today as South Africa. I am shocked that in 2019, people still have European propaganda about Africa as true representation of facts. 9minutes video on South Africa history, 1st 2.5minutes is about Portugal and Spain. Otolo...

  • @itzmebuster5392

    @itzmebuster5392

    3 жыл бұрын

    @goodafy tf does king Gumede KaZulu have to do with the history of south africa. The zulus first came to south africa in the late 1600 and early 1700 and then came through natal and setteld in present day kwazulu-Natal

  • @lmc4355

    @lmc4355

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@itzmebuster5392 That's nonsense. Nguni people have been in South Africa as early as 300ad

  • @ayandasperanza530

    @ayandasperanza530

    6 ай бұрын

    Still falling for the propaganda I see

  • @Gerrard_b

    @Gerrard_b

    4 ай бұрын

    The Zulu didn't exist as a tribe in 1330 . The Bantu clans only crossed the Limpopo river about 600 years ago .

  • @will-jx3df
    @will-jx3df3 жыл бұрын

    Please make more videos I miss them

  • @callingrantham2553
    @callingrantham25535 жыл бұрын

    Episode 2?

  • @Phil-gp4id
    @Phil-gp4id4 жыл бұрын

    ...starts in Portugal?

  • @maleratomaphanga3342

    @maleratomaphanga3342

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @killowatraibikio2855
    @killowatraibikio28555 жыл бұрын

    Can down town of Pretoria (the capital city) be urbanised?

  • @HowToWatchMovies

    @HowToWatchMovies

    5 жыл бұрын

    killowatra ibikio I wish.

  • @clancenix

    @clancenix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Downtown Pretoria looks like Lagos

  • @killowatraibikio2855

    @killowatraibikio2855

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@clancenix Would love to see it Urbanised.

  • @matheuroux5134

    @matheuroux5134

    5 жыл бұрын

    It is urbanised?

  • @welakapela1587
    @welakapela15872 жыл бұрын

    This needs a part 2 👏

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann89694 жыл бұрын

    Need more research on how early Khoi And San relations were

  • @meneither3834

    @meneither3834

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well they got driven off by the Bantu's and then you had 10000 people running around in an area the size of Texas.

  • @brineo
    @brineo5 ай бұрын

    it's been 4 years where's part 2

  • @transcribemusic
    @transcribemusic4 жыл бұрын

    If you're really looking for a historical narrative on South Africa, do NOT watch this! No offense, but this video is the very definition of Eurocentrism. Apart from terrible overgeneralizations and misconceptions (what has started in the 15th century can hardly be called what you and many of our history teachers in school labelled »Age of Discovery« - South Africa was already there, the Europeans didn't "discover" it; the word "discover" itself implies your Eurocentric perspective). In fact, the history of the Southern part of the African continent (the current South African borders haven't been there when Bartolomeo Diaz or Jan van Riebeeck arrived!) is probably far older than the European one. Plenty of archeological research has been done proving that traces of humankind can be dated back to the very time of hominisation. Saying that "it all began in Portugal" implies that the peoples of South Africa didn't have any kind of culture worth mentioning and what is probably worse, it implies that it took European colonists to get one.

  • @gmartins4393

    @gmartins4393

    4 жыл бұрын

    He already starts with inaccuracies about Portugal . Firstly, there were no people on Madeira so it was not colonised. Islam had conquered Iberia so Reconquisita was justfied.

  • @PalesaDee

    @PalesaDee

    3 жыл бұрын

    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Thank you!!!

  • @vusiselani7439

    @vusiselani7439

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your comment is the best and way so underrated 🎖

  • @transcribemusic

    @transcribemusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Rocky Fletch Well, this is not about generalizations but rather about vast Eurocentric misrepresentations

  • @rynominnie83

    @rynominnie83

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@transcribemusic trust me in this - don't even try to reason with that troll. Next up he's gonna tell you that you're lazy for not making your own video on the subject instead of voicing your opinion on this misleading video I myself am a white South African and am proud of my (mostly) Dutch heritage, but I'm not naive enough to believe that there was nothing here before "my people" got here. Nor am I stupid enough to think that the history of my country started in Portugal in the 1400s (hence "The Beginning" in the title)

  • @CJJ2501
    @CJJ25015 жыл бұрын

    South African here. Great video, looking forward to the next one! I think the map showing Dutch/British territory around Cape Town could use some work, but still awesome video all round.

  • @DeadPresident00BC

    @DeadPresident00BC

    5 жыл бұрын

    how is it awesome when the people of the land are not even mentioned, is South Africa in Europe or what, all this says is europeans got to South Africa

  • @johnemerick5860
    @johnemerick58604 жыл бұрын

    Great video! 🎥subbed

  • @ameeraasmal1511
    @ameeraasmal15113 жыл бұрын

    episode 2?????

  • @roborich7793
    @roborich77935 жыл бұрын

    Episode 2 please!!!

  • @MerganNaidoo
    @MerganNaidoo5 жыл бұрын

    South African here, it's interesting to see the countries history from another perspective

  • @waqkiidthemangaandanimekid3612
    @waqkiidthemangaandanimekid36123 жыл бұрын

    And the history of South Africa does not start in Portugal...they are just the first Europeans to land here

  • @sunnya2203
    @sunnya22035 жыл бұрын

    You are talking about the history of South Africa from the "beginning" and you started from Portugal?

  • @sabeloshikwambana6472

    @sabeloshikwambana6472

    5 жыл бұрын

    Never felt more disrespected

  • @gabrielseaborn257

    @gabrielseaborn257

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s of course looking at it with a European perspective, as well as looking at what will be context for all the things that go down later on. He could talk about Khoi people’s living there for thousands of years but but it doesn’t matter a huge amount I what he will be trying to get at

  • @DeadPresident00BC

    @DeadPresident00BC

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gabrielseaborn257 the audacity ☹

  • @gabrielseaborn257

    @gabrielseaborn257

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kamogelo Moloto What? The Europeans and Bantus brought conflict, and therefore they will be talked about. I think he could have acknowledged the native people of South Africa at first, but he didn’t. So we can’t really change that.

  • @barbaravick5634

    @barbaravick5634

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sunny A And he lies a lot too.

  • @klm2639
    @klm26395 жыл бұрын

    This is very inaccurate

  • @barbaravick5634

    @barbaravick5634

    4 жыл бұрын

    KLM From the first lying words out of his mouth.

  • @yessum15

    @yessum15

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is a stupid and pointless comment if you're not going to be more specific.

  • @itzmebuster5392

    @itzmebuster5392

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is accurate though

  • @UnderstandingCode
    @UnderstandingCode5 жыл бұрын

    Incredible videos bro! this one has lame music tho

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann89693 жыл бұрын

    More should be documented with how the Sans mostly worked before arrivals of Khois, Bantus, Xhosas, Europeans, And Coloureds

  • @trudievanvuuren2199
    @trudievanvuuren21995 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I've learned more about my country from this video than any school book... when will episode 2 be available?

  • @thandomntungwa6697

    @thandomntungwa6697

    5 жыл бұрын

    I love the way he has drama when he explains this story

  • @loyisoqaqane9774

    @loyisoqaqane9774

    4 жыл бұрын

    that is because the video is missing some important facts

  • @ayandasperanza530

    @ayandasperanza530

    6 ай бұрын

    And naturally you care nothing about the other 92% of citizens who's history was completely glassed over in this... You really are not different to your ancestors.

  • @wearewatchingyouhumans6956
    @wearewatchingyouhumans69565 жыл бұрын

    so just skip over all of the african history in that region and go straight into european history :l

  • @Phyto.

    @Phyto.

    5 жыл бұрын

    We Are Watching You Humans what Africa history? The only people that populated SA were the KhoiSan hunter gatherers.

  • @17millionpercocetplease61

    @17millionpercocetplease61

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yep Fuck this guy. So eurocentric and biased

  • @lihlesibiya5870

    @lihlesibiya5870

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Phyto. you do know that koisans are still African right?

  • @elrickojames988

    @elrickojames988

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Phyto. I am so welcoming the expropriation of land. Its gonna be beautiful to finally see you people kicked out of the land. You talk so much crap, and then you victimize yourself when the native blacks get sick of your antics. Everyone with any common sense knows the whites in SA are finished. But sure keep on with those lies. There where Xhosa, Zulu not to mention the KhoiSan still exist and live and have gone nowhere. I also dont see whties caring about Khoisan in any other way except to use them to further your filthy lies. Dont worry there are many ways to get you people to leave South Africa, and soon it will be more intense.

  • @deathstar6998

    @deathstar6998

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Adrian Bradey Its all vauge as its taught by Oral Tradition which is unreliable at best. Since nobody bothered writing anything down or building anything lasting the biggest things that happened close to South Africa were Kilwa and the Kingdom of Zimbabwe.

  • @Woistwahrheit
    @Woistwahrheit Жыл бұрын

    Huh, my ancester is Jan Van Riebeeck... One of his children down the line married a Jones and here I am now

  • @ndzalamangobeni4412
    @ndzalamangobeni44125 жыл бұрын

    Psrt 2 please

  • @deathstar6998
    @deathstar69984 жыл бұрын

    Ok You guys I am not defending this I agree his video is very inaccurate but keep in mind two things. Most of south africa, and even africa's history was taught via Oral Tradition which means there are very few concrete facts about places before europeans came there. The second thing you need to keep in mind is that the only significant event that particularly effects South Africa before colonization is the Great Bantu Migration which I believe he should have mentioned as a starting point instead.

  • @smithnxumalo7590
    @smithnxumalo75903 жыл бұрын

    Next time you'll need to do a lot of good research about our genuine history Africans of Sourh Africa and besides that what you need to know is the fact that Africa and South Africa in particular is nothing without its ethnic indigenious people and I am talking about the likes of the great AmaZulu, AmaXhosa, Amandebele, AmaSwati, AbeSotho,AmaKhoisan, to name the few including their Kingdom's . We know our history very well .thanks

  • @safuwanfauzi5014

    @safuwanfauzi5014

    2 жыл бұрын

    South Africa like Australia and Papua do not have civilization, no writing script, no university no mathematic no city, no medieval city with grand sophisticated architecture like Morocco, Spain, Arabia, Europe and India. no money, no palaces, castle, monument no Angkor Wat, Prambanan or Taj Mahal. Swahili coast rule by Omani Arab that why they used Arabic script. Mali copy Arab culture. and European bring civilization to Sub-sahara black, that why black easy to enslaved because of lack of civilization no Chinese, Arab, Indian, Malay, Thai, Korean, Persian be capture easily in larges number and ship to America, they easy to obey

  • @andrewdutoit9571

    @andrewdutoit9571

    11 ай бұрын

    As far as this video goes you people weren't in the picture yet.

  • @welakapela1587
    @welakapela15872 жыл бұрын

    Now hear me out, I think this is great research and storytelling. The colonization of Mzansi started way before Jan v Riebeeck & Co. arrived in the Cape in 1652. If you look at this more objectively. I think Mr Booths’ angle is the introduction of immigration to, and eventual colonization of SA. the organization of South Africa as we know it today started at the point of contact with our dishonorable ancestral brothers & sisters. I think this is the exact place to start, exactly where the true story of “South Africa’s” map begins.

  • @chabchoubxxl4785
    @chabchoubxxl47854 жыл бұрын

    Where is the rest I have an exam in 5 hours about SA

  • @HughvanZyl
    @HughvanZyl4 жыл бұрын

    4:01 try telling that to South Africans today, have you heard of the expropriation of land with out compensation, basically a certain group of individuals want "their land" back and take it from another certain group of individuals with no compensation.

  • @baum7des7lebens7

    @baum7des7lebens7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who invented compensation and reparations? Hm? Hahaha

  • @Paballo_Kgotle

    @Paballo_Kgotle

    2 жыл бұрын

    6:30 no gold, no diamonds, no platinum just veggies and cows 😉

  • @BawlzOfuzz
    @BawlzOfuzz4 жыл бұрын

    You'd be surprised to know how many people don't know where South Africa is.

  • @Sbonelo_
    @Sbonelo_3 жыл бұрын

    1075 dude... Mapungubwe kingdom was found. Way before any colonisers came to SA.

  • @andrewdutoit9571

    @andrewdutoit9571

    11 ай бұрын

    What happened after Mapungubwe was built, did the people forget how to put one stone upon another or did the ones who built it pass away and he wasn't a nGuni as why did the building style not continue?

  • @nicolaszaronis9978
    @nicolaszaronis99783 жыл бұрын

    Mono Motapa kingdom....more info on that im sure...

  • @bafanamsibi4388

    @bafanamsibi4388

    3 жыл бұрын

    People need to learn about that.

  • @asemahlemakwedini2462
    @asemahlemakwedini24623 жыл бұрын

    South Africa doesn't begin then. This is just the European discovery of South Africa.

  • @micky6258
    @micky62584 жыл бұрын

    My mother land mama africa

  • @shisuiuchiha480
    @shisuiuchiha4802 жыл бұрын

    How do you end up in 1814 and skipping the continuous wars in the 1700s that lasted for a century between Europeans and the Xhosas. There was a large Xhosa population in the Western Cape that fought against the Europeans and were successful in many occasions. But as the Europeans recruited more and more soldiers they were able to push the Xhosas out of the Western Cape and further East into the Eastern Cape. Don’t forget that there were natives found there and it wasn’t as peaceful as you think it was.

  • @mazambane286

    @mazambane286

    Жыл бұрын

    The amaXhosa never reached south of the Great Fish River. No Xhosa or any Bantu can claim any land in the Cape outside of the Transkei. Hamba msunu

  • @nonickname8938

    @nonickname8938

    Жыл бұрын

    and the 1660 war with Khoikhoi

  • @mazambane286

    @mazambane286

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nonickname8938 The Khoi are not Bantu though. The Khoi are indigenous to Southern Africa. The Bantu are not! As they hail from West Africa. And are recent arrivals in Southern Africa. In fact the Bantu arrived in South Africa after the Boers. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.

  • @nonickname8938

    @nonickname8938

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mazambane286 what did I say about Bantu?

  • @mazambane286

    @mazambane286

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nonickname8938 Why mention the 1660 war with the Khoi?

  • @matthiascerebri3315
    @matthiascerebri33154 жыл бұрын

    The country at the Southside is really called South Africa? I strongly believed it would be North- western Africa!

  • @historygame4490
    @historygame44904 жыл бұрын

    Part 2

  • @ntokozopoppy5141
    @ntokozopoppy51413 жыл бұрын

    South Africa started in South Africa

  • @Panacea9
    @Panacea910 ай бұрын

    Uk started it, blew up exports. Frank was from the states. etc.. Born in Michigan. 79 ish if still kicking. He said he knew an uncle her, who had moved here first because he knew a friend. They were market there so were familar with their side of the system. Son was born in Swaziland hospital though. Thomas. 41

  • @Panacea9

    @Panacea9

    10 ай бұрын

    He moved up there because he was 'rutherless' with his orders. He is damaging and sadistic. He does get off on it. They had handlers in place that are elevated slaves that will have weapons. Or they just have elevated weapon slaves that are controlled and will listen to direction. They follow it out of fear of others and often because sadists themselves. They are promised things but are ultimately killed by another elevated with a directive. Frank will have a weapon himself to maim and torture others directly. They put on shows for slaves so they follow direction. That is how they become feared.

  • @rianasmith4021
    @rianasmith40217 ай бұрын

    This sounds 100% right.

  • @dawuddawah
    @dawuddawah3 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Spain and I just took a DNA test and I have 0,50% South African ancestry. That's why I am here.

  • @roddesroddes7950
    @roddesroddes79503 жыл бұрын

    Haha. The truth hurts... Shame i know of some "black" africans thats gona be real pissed... But you know, you cant argue with a brick wall... Nice video. Looking foward to the next chapter.

  • @isotopebunny
    @isotopebunny3 жыл бұрын

    Hey dude, you do excellent work and I’ve greatly enjoyed your other videos, but consider changing the title to “A Colonial History of South Africa” or similar to accurately represent a video that leaves out non-colonial history.

  • @genesishaisley7019

    @genesishaisley7019

    3 жыл бұрын

    A risk money was took from a friend who invented in AUTOMATE Company. In 1 hour ago.

  • @orcaflotta7867

    @orcaflotta7867

    2 жыл бұрын

    "non-colonial history." That makes no sense. There is no history of South Africa before it became South Africa. SA's history starts at 1653. The video is about the country, not the region.

  • @c.b.s.3495

    @c.b.s.3495

    2 жыл бұрын

    South Africa didn't exist before then.

  • @orcaflotta7867

    @orcaflotta7867

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@c.b.s.3495 The landmass did, of course but the political entity indeed did not exist.

  • @c.b.s.3495

    @c.b.s.3495

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@orcaflotta7867 Of course. Did you know that the people referred to as Black South Africans are not Native to South Africa? They actually arrived AFTER the Boers. Isn't that interesting?

  • @Gerrard_b
    @Gerrard_b4 ай бұрын

    The full impact of bantu migrations from central Africa into SA is inadequately addressed. They permanently changed the south African landscape , beginning with their genocidal wars against the original inhabitants , the Khoi and San . Whole clans were wiped out . The men killed , the women raped and both women and children forcefully adopted into their tribes . Forcing the Khoi to trek southwesterly away of expanding presence of the new comers. The SAN/Bushmen took refuge in caves and opted to rather live in barren, arid undesirable regions of the country . This was the setting into which the Dutch arrived .

  • @eubo383
    @eubo383 Жыл бұрын

    1 minute in and I already know that you need to edit the title of this video

  • @iBhacaBeats
    @iBhacaBeats3 жыл бұрын

    “Graff Reinet” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @emmalee859
    @emmalee8595 жыл бұрын

    It is not the Nuh-meeb desert. It is the Nar-mib desert.

  • @Phyto.

    @Phyto.

    5 жыл бұрын

    Emma Lee Franklin wrong lol, it's Nah Mib

  • @Bebelovie
    @Bebelovie3 жыл бұрын

    Portugal wow really

  • @francoispoolman9853
    @francoispoolman98538 ай бұрын

    The truth will set you apart!

  • @safuwanfauzi5014
    @safuwanfauzi50142 жыл бұрын

    South Africa old medieval city, old castle, old university before European

  • @susandinosaur732
    @susandinosaur7323 жыл бұрын

    what were the south africans doing before the portugese invaded?

  • @liamsmith210
    @liamsmith2105 жыл бұрын

    Sies