History of South Africa – Episode I: The Beginning!
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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The creator of this video is a racist idiot.
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!
In the beginning…. the only inhabitants were the KHOI and SAN . Then the black Bantu tribes arrived from central Africa . They massacred whole clans of the original inhabitants . Killing all the men , raping the women and then forcefully adopting them and the children into their tribes . Hence the language adaptations and lighter skin tones . These northern newcomers invaded the land of the Khoi -San approximately 300 years before the whites arrived .
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 .
No proper research conducted whatsoever didn’t talk about any of the polities and kingdoms that existed prior to 1652 and the arrival of Europeans shame
it's been 4 years where's part 2
A history of an African country by a Westerner that casually mentions one tribe (mispronounce and misspelling their name) of indigenous people and ignoring all the rest… Very original.
This sounds 100% right.
The truth will set you apart!
South African was wond in 1670
They would have the Hadids come to Farids to trick those around them and reinforce to others that Farids (arabs / jew) were running the show.
In Dubai, they trick with the art their and infrastructure. Farids are prominent there but are ultimately directed by SA military.
SA military will often go to these places in character.
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
Brits running slaves. They blew up exports because they could do it cheaper.
A bunch of white people mostly from different places.
Now there are a bunch of silo'd sections there for production and residence for entertainment whores.
Not really whores, forced whores.
"kepts "the dutch say.
🤦 clearly you are American with your stupidity stop spreading lies
Great Video. I like it.
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! <3
Huh, my ancester is Jan Van Riebeeck… One of his children down the line married a Jones and here I am now
1 minute in and I already know that you need to edit the title of this video
So good to know how a land so great can be called “South Africa “ and the other fake insignificant land called “Middle East”
How can South Africa history start in Portugal. What nonsense is that.
World Most Controversial videos 😂
I saw Portugal and stopped watching the Colonial version of history. Bullshit
The bottom line is that these groups fought over land that belonged to the Khoisan people and have no claim to it.
Wrong… smh sooo very wrong
Dude what the fuck? Over half way and I have yet to learn anything about my country.
Ah, so Europeans moved to South Africa and thieved?
South Africa old medieval city, old castle, old university before European
Am South African and I see lots of stuff that are not true
Thumbs down this is the worst
so when muslims take European land its ok, and when Europeans take the land back its bad?
THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA DOES NOT START IN PORTUGAL , THE PEOPLE THAT WHITE PEOPLE COLONIZED IN AFRICA HAVE A HISTORY TOO !!
Would love hear South African History told by Africans at some point. Things that happened before other people discovered South Africa. History passed on from generation to generation.
This is history of how South Africa was colonized not South African History. There's a big difference. You failed dismally. You gave misinformation.
Wt… is south africa really starts in Portugal?? What rubbish is that ?? I like literally ..b.c. can't
This is a history of Europeans in South Africa not indigenous natives
This needs a part 2 👏
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.
I stopped watching at the history of South Africa starting in 1415. That is highly offensive for those of us from these parts. Delete please.
Hey hope your OK. Love this series. When are you gonna make a new video?
The person who is speaking in this video is high is a drug addict lol
This is the biggest load of B.S I've seen. TF is this???
@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.
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.