The Kruger Millions: The Mystery of South Africa's Buried Gold | Myth Hunters | Absolute History

The Kruger Millions is a hoard of gold reputed to have been hidden in South Africa by or on behalf of President Paul Kruger to avoid it being captured by the British during the Second Boer War. According to legend, about two million pounds in buried gold and diamonds lie hidden, but whereabouts? And why has the Kruger Millions never been found?
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  • @kdawggg2413
    @kdawggg241318 күн бұрын

    I grew up on a small farm near Waterval Onder, the place where Paul Kruger spent his last nights in Africa while escaping from the British, I always heard the stories of the gold being hidden somewhere in those hills and imagined finding it one day while exploring the farm as a child, good memories!

  • @ansonayeeye

    @ansonayeeye

    17 күн бұрын

    We have some of this gold in Zimbabwe.

  • @MarnusvdMerwe

    @MarnusvdMerwe

    8 күн бұрын

    Grew up in the area too and I can confirm that 👍🏼

  • @wasirijambo661

    @wasirijambo661

    8 күн бұрын

    @@ansonayeeye where

  • @madibengmolupe4945

    @madibengmolupe4945

    6 күн бұрын

    Àfrikaners/beers took south africa and British came 18nth century to fight them,they both came here for same reasons to enrich themselves with gold.when I was crowing up I heart about thatstory of a lost gold or goldy money.golden gŕuger pounds,I hate south african history it's full of lies and myth and fiction.

  • @shabanes

    @shabanes

    Күн бұрын

    @@ansonayeeye i trust you

  • @ae1586
    @ae158612 күн бұрын

    They should give Kruger more credit than they do - he did beat the British in standard combat - every man 16-60 had an 8mm German Mauser and a horse , they were accurate to 1000 yards while the British soldier of that time was taught to value quantity of fire over accuracy and to March in quarter column . The boers would fortify positions and meet the enemies advance . The boers whipped the British for the first year plus of the war . It wasn’t until the British had changed generals and brought some 250k soldiers to the cape that the Boers went to true guerrilla tactics. Put some respect on that old man’s name . He was over 70 years old and leading a serious attempt at freedom from the crown

  • @janusroos4492

    @janusroos4492

    9 күн бұрын

    7mm mauser's

  • @mikespencer4922

    @mikespencer4922

    8 күн бұрын

    The Brits did not beat the Boers. They beat their women and children..... in concentration camps.

  • @winnielombaard8984
    @winnielombaard898417 күн бұрын

    If Fritz really knew where the treasure was, why did he not make his way back to South Africa to find it and turn his fortunes around?

  • @capefox8321

    @capefox8321

    12 күн бұрын

    All eyes were on him.

  • @jonathanchirwa

    @jonathanchirwa

    5 күн бұрын

    South Africa is controlled by whites the reasons why is resources but now the biggest problem is crippleling indigenous people just like DRC very Ritch in resources but very poor more than those they don't have resources

  • @blaisemcgee5289
    @blaisemcgee528916 күн бұрын

    If someone did find it they wouldn't declare it because it'll go straight to the ANC

  • @kobusvanstaden3747

    @kobusvanstaden3747

    12 күн бұрын

    That's a LOT of Streetwise Two... 😂😂😂

  • @ichoosegodfromnowon847

    @ichoosegodfromnowon847

    10 күн бұрын

    ANC is indigene even if they steal it it's theirs not settlers

  • @MeganGreeffHammer

    @MeganGreeffHammer

    8 күн бұрын

    Classis,but true😂😂😂

  • @MeganGreeffHammer

    @MeganGreeffHammer

    8 күн бұрын

    Had tears rolling down laughing at ur good comm😂nt.love it😂😂😂😂

  • @madodamasuku3945

    @madodamasuku3945

    13 сағат бұрын

    and disappear

  • @Eli04664
    @Eli046649 күн бұрын

    Voetsek with this Kruger “pound” this is the Kruger RAND

  • @daveparker749

    @daveparker749

    5 күн бұрын

    Don’t show your ignorance, you ate embarrassing yourself. At that time the country was using British coinage - POUNDS.

  • @crypteqptyltd3701

    @crypteqptyltd3701

    Күн бұрын

    It was pounds. Ur wrong

  • @mahlanguism
    @mahlanguism12 күн бұрын

    My great grandfather was personal secretary to Kruger. I have an article he wrote where he says that the amount lost is greatly exaggerated. The rest of the money was spent on diplomatic missions in Europe. Certainly, the money lost was nowhere near the millions the legend has become.

  • @MrAspden

    @MrAspden

    9 күн бұрын

    Thanks tips. If you watched the whole video they said there’s no such thing.

  • @user-ec2vx2hq1p

    @user-ec2vx2hq1p

    8 күн бұрын

    How people go around stealing things that do not belong to them and call is discovery. Why did nature not give same to you?

  • @Eugene-ic2ul
    @Eugene-ic2ul17 күн бұрын

    Crazy how the British was never accused of apartheid

  • @bonginkosihoko2839

    @bonginkosihoko2839

    13 күн бұрын

    I have been asking myself the same questions. It was the British who created apartheid blame the Afrikaans

  • @zwelethumtshali5558

    @zwelethumtshali5558

    12 күн бұрын

    Narrative was controlled

  • @isaidthat4505

    @isaidthat4505

    11 күн бұрын

    don't believe everything you hear on the internet.just like Britian ruling India how did a small country like Britian take over a massive country like India with the help of Indian elite willing to look India of its wealth.howdid Britian sell opium to China quite easily the market was well established by arab traders and Chinese traders well before Britian America Dutch and many others sold a commodity to a thriving market how did British win ww1 and ww2 they didn't Germany made many mistakes and Russia won the war the last one into the war America was in a position to enjoy the spoils of these wars . history has lies on both sides the truth is plain to see if you look for it

  • @andrewndlovu7353

    @andrewndlovu7353

    11 күн бұрын

    They are the masters of Apartheid They used the Afrikaners to push their Agenda

  • @josephmartin4487

    @josephmartin4487

    10 күн бұрын

    Apartheid is a postcolonial concept, because during the colonial era, it was expected as a natural consequence of conquest

  • @keithrikhotso227
    @keithrikhotso2278 күн бұрын

    I used to buy old coins. I was contacted by a young guy through my Facebook post. I went to see him in Pretoria in Mabopane. His grandfather was a sangoma. They showed me a lot of Kruger rands that I have never seen. They were Swati speaking original from Mpumalanga. They wanted 2 000 000 in cash for all of them.

  • @boshoff814
    @boshoff81419 күн бұрын

    Well currently South Africa has silver fever. Apparently SA just won a case to claim the silver cargo that was sunk with the SS Tilawa in 1942

  • @levytjale889

    @levytjale889

    10 күн бұрын

    So where is that silver?

  • @boshoff814

    @boshoff814

    10 күн бұрын

    @@levytjale889 The ship was sunk near the Seychelles Islands and some British salvage company recovered it. The court only made it's ruling in May 2024 so it might still be in the UK

  • @avrillee7369
    @avrillee736917 күн бұрын

    Let's be honest if you watched the entire podcast Duquesne would have actually gone back to South Africa in 1902 if there was really any hidden Kruger Millions - there is no way that he would have died in poverty 1956 if there was any truth to the stories that we still hear even today. Thats my opinion. I thoughly enjoyed watching this even so.

  • @user-oh5lv9zd7i

    @user-oh5lv9zd7i

    17 күн бұрын

    absolutely correct

  • @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    11 күн бұрын

    Don't urinate on the best story feast told by the best narrator I've listened to in a looong time.dying of laughter in my lonely house🤣🤣.if it wasn't for their apartheid I think Boers would all have gone to heaven.seriously!!tough stay put in Afrika pioneers, and who like my Kikuyu nation dared the British military while everybody else was mother skirt tugging

  • @jerry24675
    @jerry2467518 күн бұрын

    The story is a load of crap. Where is the 42 coins he received the first time and how and where did he sell the first thousands for the Zulu family.

  • @ryanh9183

    @ryanh9183

    6 күн бұрын

    Did you actually watch this? He says he sold them and likely they were sold to the same collector the Zulu coins went to. Not hard to figure out.

  • @Midwest10

    @Midwest10

    Күн бұрын

    I have two of them

  • @johan4321able
    @johan4321able12 күн бұрын

    I know of a old man in hoedspruit who have found an undisclosed amount of kruger pound in the dry river bed in the blyde river on top of a old carriage buried under the sand

  • @fredshred5194
    @fredshred519418 күн бұрын

    That Athol dude is not the smartest tool in the box.

  • @witsend008

    @witsend008

    13 күн бұрын

    John Wayne : Life is tough - it's tougher when you are stupid.

  • @darrenrodgers6425

    @darrenrodgers6425

    11 күн бұрын

    Oh poor Athol especially after aaaall that work that he had done to find them

  • @HipHopRealness

    @HipHopRealness

    10 күн бұрын

    Sharpest.. tool in the box? 😂

  • @HettieB5270

    @HettieB5270

    8 күн бұрын

    Greed

  • @groenrizla2513
    @groenrizla251316 күн бұрын

    There's more to this conspiracy, because there's no way the Transvaal could've extracted the amount of gold that left by train, it's not that the gold didn't exist but that the Boers had discovered a large amount of already mined gold that someone before them had mined and it was this gold rather than the coins that was the real treasure. It's a cool story anyway and there are people that expand on the myths that once there were believed to be a civilisation in the area that was mining gold long before the white man arrived and obviously that gets related to the Anunnaki stories and apparently there's been reports of discoveries of deep tunnel systems that we didn't make. So depending how far you want to go into these conspiracies, whether true or not, it is quite fascinating all the same.

  • @sandmanenters4187

    @sandmanenters4187

    13 күн бұрын

    I am on board with this. Pretty sure the history of the world is much different from what we've been told. Look to the Voortrekker monument and the Union Buildings for clues of this previous culture. Those were already here when the Ancestors got here.

  • @DJ-st4rs

    @DJ-st4rs

    4 күн бұрын

    The mining companies have found lots of shafts dug deep into the ground that they simply covered up because they could not build or make those shafts with todays technology. See Michael Tellingers series on what was going on in SA. There were mines found where apparently the gold oozed out of the veins like in some molten factory and there was talk of coins already found minted but simply buried that Kruger came across - that matches the amount of coins he found

  • @sandmanenters4187

    @sandmanenters4187

    4 күн бұрын

    @@DJ-st4rs very interesting, thank you, I'll check that out :)

  • @3cardmonty602
    @3cardmonty60219 күн бұрын

    Athol’s wife was a real Athol

  • @negotiator96

    @negotiator96

    18 күн бұрын

    Yeah, what an Athol!!!!!!

  • @3cardmonty602

    @3cardmonty602

    17 күн бұрын

    @@negotiator96 Mike Tyson even said she was an Athol

  • @potnoogle5780

    @potnoogle5780

    16 күн бұрын

    😂

  • @revolutionnow5227

    @revolutionnow5227

    10 күн бұрын

    ​@@3cardmonty602😂😂

  • @twirra264

    @twirra264

    8 күн бұрын

    Yeah but no 😅😅she just wasn't well informed, most of the time Zulu people use spirits to find these coins so there are certain rules and rites that must followed which have serious consequences if contravened. I blame Athol's guys for not clarifying this, she could've just taken a picture of these after they had gotten their cut.

  • @winnielombaard8984
    @winnielombaard898417 күн бұрын

    Why does he not show the original SABC footage of his interview on the news....I am from South Africa and I have never heard of this story - I cannot remember it being on the news...where is the original news footage? I do not believe this...

  • @kapoto1942

    @kapoto1942

    10 күн бұрын

    This story is almost the same as nazi gold...

  • @lydiaventer4440

    @lydiaventer4440

    8 күн бұрын

    Whether you do or don't believe it, it's true but let it go it doesn't affect you in any way.

  • @bonisilesikiti8329

    @bonisilesikiti8329

    8 күн бұрын

    If this plays at SABC that will make you to change all what you been told meaning what they programmed you with will be lost now.

  • @ThatoTalks

    @ThatoTalks

    6 күн бұрын

    Been living in SA all my life and do not recall this being a nation wide story or even a gold searching frenzy, the SABC would have pumped this story Six - Love.

  • @ryanh9183

    @ryanh9183

    6 күн бұрын

    They showed some of the news footage. He was wearing the ridiculous toque and Ms South Africa was there in her gold coin dress. How did you miss that?

  • @petersnow6509
    @petersnow650919 күн бұрын

    I followed the train trail, they went down river in canoe with the treasure

  • @hibellla
    @hibellla19 күн бұрын

    This doesn’t sound like the whole story. What problems did they have selling the coins and what about his help solved those problems.

  • @jdeejay4050

    @jdeejay4050

    16 күн бұрын

    Correct.... the coins are still laying in the ground. The rest went with Paul Kruger....if there were any found it would have been news... this oke is a claimed... riding off the story....

  • @flipster7285

    @flipster7285

    14 күн бұрын

    Could be because it was 1999, fairly early after the fall of apartheid and there might have been distrust of the givernment from the older family members? Or they just did not know how to go about sellings such coins as they never could sell it under apartheid?

  • @nicoleneesterhuyse7090

    @nicoleneesterhuyse7090

    9 күн бұрын

    Yeah I understand the need to take this with a grain of salt

  • @RabbitholeIsrael
    @RabbitholeIsrael12 күн бұрын

    long ago i was working at a restaurant next to the highway N4. one day a black man came to me and showed me a kruger gold coin. He said he picked it up nearby and was shown where it is in a dream. He didnt want to sell it to me. And left.

  • @southernafricanboy4148

    @southernafricanboy4148

    9 күн бұрын

    Wow I wish we knew each other I would have talked to him and had a few beers and he would have up the secret and you and I would be rich tosay😂

  • @DragonsAndDragons777
    @DragonsAndDragons77719 күн бұрын

    As a South African, I approve of this video, keep up the marvellous work!

  • @lebomonareng7696
    @lebomonareng769616 күн бұрын

    What about the ones found in Sabie and Graskop and Pilgrims Rest and Lydenburg and Dullstroom and White River And Hazyview what about the POTS of Gold found there? You guys only have half of the info i see

  • @denk4915

    @denk4915

    13 күн бұрын

    I think there’s a particular mountain with meths in Hazyview. I think imma buy a drone and go search

  • @franniepieterse5356

    @franniepieterse5356

    12 күн бұрын

    What do you mean by "the one's found at...."?

  • @southernafricanboy4148

    @southernafricanboy4148

    9 күн бұрын

    ​@@denk4915what's meths

  • @twirra264

    @twirra264

    8 күн бұрын

    That's what many people in these comments seem to keep missing, there's a whole other part of this story that lies with us Africans that was only briefly touched upon on this documentary.

  • @sheepdog1102
    @sheepdog110219 күн бұрын

    That money is long gone what’s not in museums has been melted down and turned into something that could be sold.

  • @floridaboiwoody

    @floridaboiwoody

    18 күн бұрын

    That is what I always think about these hidden treasures stories. Someone recovered it long ago and kept it quiet.

  • @negotiator96

    @negotiator96

    18 күн бұрын

    Well, a lot of the Krugerrands we're confiscated in the 1980s by The Los Angeles Police Department. Specifically under the renown detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh! During their investigations into The South African consulate and it's nefarious drug smuggling and currency manipulation endeavors! Which were finally brought down thanks to an informant and key witness, Leo Getz; who was also the money laundering accountant for the South African Drug Dealers! In the end the South African consulate's "diplomatic immunity" did not save them!.... "Its Just Been Revoked!!!" 😁🤣😆😂

  • @jamierichardcormack6045

    @jamierichardcormack6045

    16 күн бұрын

    Or at the bottom of the oceans in a ship somewhere

  • @CBDLife-gx8sv

    @CBDLife-gx8sv

    12 күн бұрын

    The British took it all

  • @nofilterhistory
    @nofilterhistory19 күн бұрын

    Always the interesting content that you don’t often see. I might have to take a few tips.

  • @chadbennett3998
    @chadbennett399812 күн бұрын

    Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan.

  • @FrancoisStrydom-gl3dl
    @FrancoisStrydom-gl3dl16 күн бұрын

    What people don't know is when the railway station master of Colenso Natal went on pension years go, I can't remember what year - my memory tells me late 1970s. - The new station master was doing an inventory and found a chest that workers used to sit on - the chest had no paper work that the station master could find - it was heavy - took a couple of workers to move it to the station masters office - when the station master broke the lock - inside was full gold coins - the station master filed out a report - that was the last heard of the chest - probably the Kruger millions everyone is looking for.

  • @twirra264

    @twirra264

    8 күн бұрын

    It's only a part of the millions they're all over KZN and former Afrikaner settlements, I'm Zulu and happen to know a few sites. It's said that many Boers used Zulu witch doctors to enchant these sites to keep neighboring Zulu clans and farm workers from accessing it, which is what surprised me about Athol's story that they used used izangoma to locate that stash

  • @fistosravenscroft6651
    @fistosravenscroft665110 күн бұрын

    Nice documentary, but as a South African it’s the very first time I hear of this. Great tale though

  • @josephwood499
    @josephwood4998 күн бұрын

    I really enjoyed the story as i was not aware of it. Thanks for allowing me to learn something new today.

  • @joshcputz
    @joshcputz8 күн бұрын

    I grew up on a farm in Botha's Hill and lived there for 21 years. We often had people coming to the farm, claiming they knew that gold was buried there. Our neighbors farmed vegetables, and it was rumored that they had dug up their whole farm looking for it.

  • @user-sq2fg3qe1i
    @user-sq2fg3qe1i19 күн бұрын

    Halfway through and I’m already hooked

  • @denniseldridge2936

    @denniseldridge2936

    18 күн бұрын

    New theory: The black servants who buried the boxes went back and took them. However, they were in a bind. If a black person in those days, up until after the end of apartheid, just showed up with a bunch of gold coins, they would certainly have been targeted by the authorities. So they stashed it themselves somewhere for many decades, until some of their descendants perhaps found them. Holy crap, I just found out that that Fritz guy was sent here to Bermuda. There were several concentration camps set up here for the purpose. There is a legend that a certain local family had Dutch ancestry and would help out those who escaped form the camps. However, I spoke with a local descendant of that family and he claimed they had English ancestry, so that's a bit up in the air...

  • @gustavfourie5099
    @gustavfourie50999 күн бұрын

    A Kruger rand is one of the most valuable and well known bullion coins worldwide. Oom Kruger can talk every language in the world.

  • @kushyclouds92
    @kushyclouds928 күн бұрын

    41:49 did anyone else notice the Hyena in the background near the tree? 😂

  • @losonsrenoster
    @losonsrenoster7 күн бұрын

    The Kruger gold probably ended up in America. I had Boer War diaries written by 2 boers, Schickerling (Commando courageous) and Rootman (Oorlog dagboek). Both these men happened to be members of genl Ben Viljoen's commando, and both were part of the Boer forces escorting Kruger to the Mocambique border. Rootman wrote in his diary: "At Hectorspruit we buried stuff that will probably be dug up by later generations" (translated from Afrikaans). Schickerling wrote something to the same effect, but I do not remember his exact words. I lost both diaries by lending them to an uncle who developed Alzheimers before I could get them back, and I never got them back from his family. Now the story gets interesting. I speculate that 1) Kruger would not have been allowed to take a state asset across border to Mocambique, and 2) The boers would have moved it as far as possible from the British. 3) What was buried would not be much needed arms and ammo, nor food supplies, nor clothing. It must be noted that the diaries also mention damaged artillery pieces were dumped into the Hector spruit stream. It could be documents and archives, possibly with the gold hidden in between so none of the Boer fighters knew about it. 4) One person must have known though: the commander Ben Viljoen, maybe the ONLY person to know what happened to the gold. 5) Ben Viljoen was tasked with, or took it on himself to protect the gold, because his commando stayed in the area untill the war's end, effectively taking them out of the fighting. After the war, Ben Viljoen was shunned by the other Boer leaders, who, uncharacteristically, would have nothing to do with him. My guess would be because he refused to tell the others where the gold was. Ben Viljoen then moved to America, where he ended up in such high social circles that he later became a millitary advisor to Pres. Theodore Rooseveldt. To get accepted in that society he would have needed a lot of money, and the type of influence only money can buy, maybe with the Kruger gold?. My ten cents worth of info regarding this gold: It is gone.

  • @prawnstar9213
    @prawnstar921314 күн бұрын

    Anyone who knows where a fortune is is going to for sure get it themselves or tell a loved one where it is.. it doesn’t just stay there. Strike it rich by ripping this dude off

  • @waithakaalviskungu
    @waithakaalviskungu2 күн бұрын

    He said he thought he was going to get robbed,, I thought he was going to rob them and term it business haha

  • @XitsundzuxoHimina
    @XitsundzuxoHimina8 күн бұрын

    This was amazing to watch. Well researched, written and executed 😇😇😇

  • @JSpies-ql6bw
    @JSpies-ql6bw13 күн бұрын

    All left with kruger on a ship called"Gelderland". Gelderland? It speaks for itself.

  • @skypieper
    @skypieper18 күн бұрын

    That's a great gold story.

  • @peterxd3610
    @peterxd361018 күн бұрын

    greed is the seed of evil

  • @odikaiopolis2832

    @odikaiopolis2832

    5 күн бұрын

    Anglosaxons rasised it to the 9th power.

  • @marietaharmse6529
    @marietaharmse652913 күн бұрын

    Krugermillions..he took it with overseas

  • @deonbroodryk3167
    @deonbroodryk316713 күн бұрын

    There was no Kruger millions. The Boers was fighting a war,and need to buy guns,ammunition and supplies. They have used the gold for that.

  • @thoth3696
    @thoth369610 күн бұрын

    That is the only Man in the world that could Win any argument for life, " excuse me Honey, Who took the the photograph "🤣🤣

  • @6ftS
    @6ftS2 күн бұрын

    my great uncle on my mother's side of the family (my grandmother's brother) owned a big sheep farm in ermelo. There was always talk of the kruger fortune being buried on this farm, but honestly if it was, they wouldnt have had to sell the farm due to financial reasons as they did... still, there were no metal detectors in their time, so it may well have been buried somewhere on the farm.

  • @chidozieegbu9909
    @chidozieegbu99097 күн бұрын

    Nice delivery

  • @looking8030
    @looking803013 күн бұрын

    He ripped them off so hard

  • @jdeejay4050
    @jdeejay405016 күн бұрын

    I know a secret.. and I know direct Family Blood line and I know what happened with the missing Kriger Rands... The story is half on par....

  • @treykruger3999

    @treykruger3999

    9 күн бұрын

    really...

  • @jdeejay4050

    @jdeejay4050

    5 күн бұрын

    Yes

  • @jdeejay4050

    @jdeejay4050

    5 күн бұрын

    I knw about your family

  • @peterpooe3145
    @peterpooe314512 күн бұрын

    Klomp twak man

  • @richardkuhn9795
    @richardkuhn979516 күн бұрын

    The Kruger millions or at least a part of it was found.

  • @unboxsa
    @unboxsa6 күн бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @johnbethea4505
    @johnbethea450512 күн бұрын

    No one is taking about the slaves that buried the gold, why? They could have come back to dig it up.

  • @southernafricanboy4148

    @southernafricanboy4148

    9 күн бұрын

    I think they would done what the Nazis used to do When they buried gold and other stuff in caves they would then execute the soldiers they used

  • @johnbethea4505

    @johnbethea4505

    9 күн бұрын

    @southernafricanboy4148 they may have. The Egyptians killed the burial group back a few times until no one knew. If you know too much, the mafia and the government black ops still do if you know the secrets.

  • @oubaas49

    @oubaas49

    8 күн бұрын

    There were no slaves at that time anymore. Slavery in SA had been abolished about 70 years earlier. Additionally, it was very rare for indigenous people to be enslaved (by the white settlers, at least). The East India Company in the 17th & 18th century brought slaves mostly from other parts of Africa, India, and the Far East.

  • @johnbethea4505

    @johnbethea4505

    8 күн бұрын

    @oubaas49 you are probably right, but I thought that I heard him say that the man released them. Could they have been in servitude?? I have studied the Boor War and the Zulu War many years ago. Anyway, this was an exciting story. Thanks for correcting me.

  • @oubaas49

    @oubaas49

    8 күн бұрын

    @@johnbethea4505 It is strange to say they were released from servitude; maybe they were indentured labourers. Who knows! But slaves - I don't think so. Anyway, I'm just an armchair historian! 😄 And let's not ruin a good story with facts.

  • @bonisilesikiti8329
    @bonisilesikiti83298 күн бұрын

    Nice documentary

  • @RevolutionFreedom8388
    @RevolutionFreedom838816 күн бұрын

    Seriously people the gold is long gone now you honestly think for a single moment that his families didn't know where the gold was put 🤔 and this just goes to show that he was never a trusted man of the Boer people and it was very much about his own benefits and interests of wealth and power and more than ever if his family does not know where the gold was put his 33rd freemason brother's will absolutely definitely know where the gold is and that gold will be very much long gone now.

  • @WildAlchemicalSpirit
    @WildAlchemicalSpirit6 күн бұрын

    I love the reenactments in this 😅

  • @vanessacoetzee8634
    @vanessacoetzee863414 күн бұрын

    The Boer men were never sent to Bermuda 😂😂😂😂 they were sent to St Helena and Ceylon. What an entertaining story 😂😂😂

  • @garybulcraig7709

    @garybulcraig7709

    13 күн бұрын

    Actually they were also sent to Bermuda, go do some research...

  • @HBrsz

    @HBrsz

    10 күн бұрын

    The British sent about 4,619 Boer prisoners of war to Bermuda, where they were held on five islands in the Great Sound: Darrell's Island: Held 1,100 men, including 27 officers, who believed the war should continue against the British Morgan's Island: Held 884 men, including 27 officers Tucker's Island: Held 809 men Burt's Island: Held 607 men Port's Island: Held 35 men and had hospital facilities

  • @oubaas49

    @oubaas49

    8 күн бұрын

    Some were definitely sent to Bermuda.

  • @Carl-ht7cg
    @Carl-ht7cg16 күн бұрын

    Cool mystery 😎

  • @samabrahams7687
    @samabrahams768715 күн бұрын

    Absolutely ruins the coins by wiping them with a cloth . This will give them hairlines wich is not wanted if your looking for any numismatic value

  • @WernerGastonLehmann-yw7wr
    @WernerGastonLehmann-yw7wr13 күн бұрын

    It is possable that there is som of the coins somewhere. But I think, even if they try to ceep it secret it would leak ou somewhere, and we would hear of it. And if I found it, the anc will get 0.0000000000% of it. 😁

  • @stormeharris4924
    @stormeharris49243 күн бұрын

    I bet R1000... That Cool Story Bru.. Will use this within the next week or two 😂

  • @gustavfourie5099
    @gustavfourie50999 күн бұрын

    Dankie vir alles oom Kruger❤

  • @mustangboss1246
    @mustangboss12465 күн бұрын

    Now im going to go look for it. I live near it

  • @buyanifakudze3489
    @buyanifakudze348910 күн бұрын

    A Sangoma is not a witchdoctor...that is a derogatory term....

  • @wijpke
    @wijpke13 күн бұрын

    It went to Switzerland with Kruger 😅

  • @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059

    @acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059

    12 күн бұрын

    That would not surprise anyone

  • @wijpke

    @wijpke

    12 күн бұрын

    @@acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 you think Switzerland is cheap ? Where did Kruger get the money to stay in Switzerland. Kruger was a crook he started a war against the greatest empire of the time with no hope of winning, and then went to live comfortably in Switzerland while his Volk was suffering from all the trouble he caused , he should have waited for WW 1 to happen and then started the Boer war just like Michael Colin's of the IRA and then got independence

  • @georgekrause5661

    @georgekrause5661

    9 күн бұрын

    ​@@wijpkeKruger started the war? While British troops were building on the Republic's borders?

  • @wijpke

    @wijpke

    8 күн бұрын

    @@georgekrause5661 Why would you make war against the greatest superpower of the time??They should have hidden all the gold and negotiated with the British. In 1914 just slightly more than 10 years later , without a doubt the Kaiser would have helped them.... Taking up arms is making war..

  • @kimhill6389
    @kimhill6389Күн бұрын

    Why didn't they just keep it quiet until he found it

  • @pedropfaff8906
    @pedropfaff89067 күн бұрын

    The British invaded Transvaal not South Africa.South Africa came into existance in 1910 after the gold firlds of the Republic of tbe Transvaal was stolen.

  • @noahsimon7658
    @noahsimon765819 күн бұрын

    How did he drop the bag TWICE???? Never been so angry with a documentary before

  • @user-tb7kd7op2q
    @user-tb7kd7op2q13 күн бұрын

    If there was a fabulous treasure, why didn't Duquesne return to SA and recover it? Hmmm Because maybe there wasn't a treasure. Alledgedly, he was one of the last people to actually see the treasure before it was removed from the train and buried.

  • @theresasmuts9896
    @theresasmuts989612 күн бұрын

    Wherever Kruger is buried 😶 Switzerland

  • @mkkabi
    @mkkabi5 күн бұрын

    And we still have town names like Bothaville and Krugersdorp.

  • @manyananihlwatika726
    @manyananihlwatika7269 күн бұрын

    Where can i find this Sangomq😂😂😂

  • @shannongramani3309
    @shannongramani33096 күн бұрын

    The Kruger Millions have been found? Back in 2021if 1 remember correctly. They were dubbed "the lost hoard" and found in a swiss vault. Currently in possession of the SA Mint.

  • @paulross1703
    @paulross170310 күн бұрын

    A kruger pound weighs 7.98g if the zulu family picked up over 14700 coins thats over 117kg. And ran out? The gold as per its weight would be 4.7million at the R6000 per coin mensioned thats 88million.

  • @AmenYeshua

    @AmenYeshua

    7 күн бұрын

    Pound…Rand!

  • @zolimbika

    @zolimbika

    4 күн бұрын

    It was pound then

  • @paulross1703

    @paulross1703

    3 күн бұрын

    Rand only came into existence in 1961. Also a Kruger rand and a Kruger pound are very different in size, gold percent and design

  • @andriesoliviier9529
    @andriesoliviier95298 күн бұрын

    I heard a rumour that the Brandwag had the gold, then transported it to Germany in the 30s where it was sent to Argentina after the war. Strangely enought, this is the least unbelievable theory out there.

  • @user-bg1eo7lo9u
    @user-bg1eo7lo9u19 күн бұрын

    the ZooLoo's got it all!

  • @BettyWalton-vz8dy
    @BettyWalton-vz8dy12 күн бұрын

    Where did the gold come from to make the coins Africans Gold was shipped out to make the coins.

  • @charishalomvictor

    @charishalomvictor

    12 күн бұрын

    No they made it in Pretoria

  • @patrick818
    @patrick8186 күн бұрын

    There were 60 burial locations, buried in a clock system around the lake

  • @TheBoogyman360
    @TheBoogyman360Күн бұрын

    Hope that zulu family got their moneys worth 😢

  • @AubreyBradfield
    @AubreyBradfield5 күн бұрын

    😮you can say that again

  • @bernardhill1622
    @bernardhill1622Күн бұрын

    My late Grandfather maintained it landed ip in possesion of the Dutch Crown & Oos Indiese Kompanjè, whilst Oom Paul died in exile in Switzerland..⁉️🤔🤷‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @heatherwalker5557
    @heatherwalker555711 күн бұрын

    Just look at the books- Kruger earned vast amounts taxing the mining and related activities. Mining property, dynamite, alcohol, transport and even apricot jam were taxed. But on the other hand vast sums were spent on fortifications, railway infrastructure, explosives, armaments, cannon, rifles and other military equipment as well as the cost of waging war. I think Kruger, if he had the treasure, would have spent it on the Boers. I'm sure it was all used up waging war.

  • @dienar3717
    @dienar37176 күн бұрын

    The gold is most likely in Switzerland.

  • @janniemeyer9951
    @janniemeyer995110 күн бұрын

    Rubbish. The market would have been flooded with Kruger Pounds during that time. Ermelo is also too far away from Machadadorp. Gold is heavy and a logistical challenge. Moving it to Ermelo under the circumstances at the time is highly questionable. It may be that a local Bank hid their cash around the small lake.

  • @gersie777
    @gersie77711 күн бұрын

    "Paul Kruger, one of South Africa's founding fathers" - What did he find???

  • @MarnusvdMerwe

    @MarnusvdMerwe

    8 күн бұрын

    The Union of the Boer Republics

  • @ntsikinxosha9486
    @ntsikinxosha94869 күн бұрын

    One of South Africa founding fathers,what did he find exactly since South Africa has been here with it's inhabitants from the beginning of time

  • @holymelon8011

    @holymelon8011

    8 күн бұрын

    There is such a thing as society, he founded the boer country

  • @johanbarnard3435

    @johanbarnard3435

    7 күн бұрын

    He founded the Boër republic.

  • @DJ-st4rs

    @DJ-st4rs

    4 күн бұрын

    Which inhabitants? They are not all bantu - Western portion was bushman territory, Xhosa only entered Eastern Cape in 1700s, Bantu not from South Africa - Portuguese only found Bushmen in Natal, Natal was Bushman territory then the Zulu entered, called them San which means "Thief" in Zulu, chased the bushman out calling them thieves while being the thief and stealing their land. Today they do the same thing, Western Cape was NEVER, EVER bantu - tell us the name of the bantu kings from Western portion of South Africa - you cant, they dont exist, they never existed.

  • @stupidminotaur9735
    @stupidminotaur9735Күн бұрын

    It was found in a swiss bank. In I think 2023. The family knew about it.

  • @negaless1144
    @negaless114417 күн бұрын

    We dont get the beginning when the gentleman need a loan jus saying. )

  • @shabanes
    @shabanesКүн бұрын

    i have seen them thousand of them we brought to me

  • @sandilendzuzo5419
    @sandilendzuzo541910 күн бұрын

    Paul Kruger is not a founding father of South Africa. He is one of the early colonists.

  • @southernafricanboy4148

    @southernafricanboy4148

    9 күн бұрын

    He did create conditions for a Union of the 4 republics of Natal, Cape, Free state and Transvaal

  • @MarnusvdMerwe

    @MarnusvdMerwe

    8 күн бұрын

    Not a colonist by definition. Settler president of various republics yes.

  • @theadebeerthecosmicdragonf6090
    @theadebeerthecosmicdragonf60908 күн бұрын

    Switzerland ....

  • @patrickmcardle4771
    @patrickmcardle477110 күн бұрын

    If the gold exists it's gone long ago. Far to meany people involved, much likely Portugal has it all.

  • @ronaldbaatjes2470
    @ronaldbaatjes24707 күн бұрын

    "Kruger Millions":irrelevant whether fact,or fiction.South Africa has such a rich history.Sadly,most south Africans have no interest in it.Instead,what we have is a rush for power,driven by greed.

  • @nidalshehahadeh7485
    @nidalshehahadeh74854 күн бұрын

    If it is found I imagine it would be the property of the South African government .

  • @sakhumzisosibososibosakhum1337
    @sakhumzisosibososibosakhum13379 күн бұрын

    Cela lesa sangoma please 😂 ngiyasidinga

  • @ashworthfamily3023
    @ashworthfamily302311 күн бұрын

    I have 2 of those coins

  • @andrez3640
    @andrez364013 күн бұрын

    That gold ended up in Britain......

  • @macguyver8698
    @macguyver869816 күн бұрын

    They stoped inbetween daaaaaa...

  • @kevinhill9564
    @kevinhill956418 күн бұрын

    Its on naburu

  • @sharlocknkuna9179
    @sharlocknkuna91798 күн бұрын

    You will never get the Kruger coins they are spiritual heavy guarded by soldiers and more

  • @DirkJacobs-tu4mp
    @DirkJacobs-tu4mp15 күн бұрын

    Die Kruger miljoene 3 waens is in n grot tussen Nichel en Balfore kyk in Kuger huis wie was sy vertroueling dit was my oupa Pieter Danieel Jacobs

  • @mk-xq1tt
    @mk-xq1tt5 күн бұрын

    ......according to legend.......😊

  • @granthallee1953
    @granthallee195318 күн бұрын

    "His african servants" lol

  • @praiseproductionhouse
    @praiseproductionhouse5 күн бұрын

    Kruger is not South Africa founding father 🙄🙄🙄

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