101 Facts About South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2020
- Sawubona Motherfactors! Today we're taking a trip to AFRICA! But wait, I know what you're thinking: "Sam, you've already done 101 Facts About Africa!". Well fear not, this time we're headed to SOUTH AFRICA. It's like Africa, but South... So get ready for vuvuzelas, rugby and penguins (no really) in 101 Facts About South Africa!
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Small fact, Elon Musk is from South Africa yet we cannot buy a Tesla here...
I had to edit this... I know all the reasons why we don't have Tesla's in South Africa. This was merely just a statement saying that we cannot buy them here.- (Read the goddamn first 2 words) It is a factual statement not a question on why we cannot buy them)
He hates us jk well maybe🤷🏾♂️
Hates a big word, to help others you first need to help yourself😎💪🏼home made Tesla’s will be manufactured In Cape Town 😅🌱
*Correct*
Becus of you cant charge your car becus of loed sheting
0:44 this guy even shows Elon musk
Im from south africa like if you are too
Hello hello ma Se kind
I am not from South Africa but i very like of your country
sam : bo - er
south africans: bruhhhhhhhhhhh
Krazy Keagan YEEE
Krazy Keagan I am, but i refuse to give likes to like beggars.
Sam: Can someone please teach me the accent?
Me: Which one?
Exactly my answer 😂🤣🤣
lmao so true
@@reya_skye dey have no clue 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏾♀️
😂Each tribe/area has its own accent.
Each tribe and ethnic group has multiple accents I've come to realise
one word:
loadshedding☠️
Another: Eskom
Another : ANC
Hate that for us😐😑
Im in africa and i feel death by that word
PandaBlade 9000 we all do
We should get those diamonds back from the queen yo! Perhaps the money could help fix Eskom - if it's not stolen by politicians first.
I'm dying😂😂
Hahahah loll😂😂
Or the countless consultants and "special advisors" that the government has employed over the years? :P
Amen.
Pls Help Eskom! #nomoreloadshedding!
Miss universe current winner is from 🇿🇦
South africa has 3 miss universe in history
Ntando Cele I know
And The 2019 Rugby World Cup
eden anshar sis
Ntando Cele we have the same surnames💀
*cough* *cough* ESKOM *cough*
ESDOM
couldnt finish this video due to loadshedding xD
Hahahaha legend
EISHKOM
👌🏻lmao
I remember back in 2010 we got 6 weeks of holidays instead of 3 weeks after the second term for the world cup.
Ahhh I miss those days lol. 😥
That's the only holiday i remember xD i spent 4 weeks by my friend just jamming video games and the rest of the holiday by family xD
😅I remember. I was in grade 5.
😅👌I was still in grade 3 damn
the good old days, i was in grade 3 i think
That was such a festive time in SA. Great vibes. I miss that feeling
Factoid #102 South Africa is the 2019 Rugby World Cup champions!!
Of course xD
My favorite fact😁
Another Fact South Africa is the only country to win all their world cup final game. We have never lost our final. Not about to start either.
@@desereerowe2317 Like the way you think :D
@@Donavan37 I also think we are going to win the next one and be the first country to win four.
How can you talk about SA without mentioning our wine 🍷
And the biltong!
and the loadshedding XD
And brannas
...or our crime
And CORRUPTION
Pronounces Apartheid as Apar-Tide
South Africans: Eishhhhhhhhhhhhh bru
I always hate when they do that.
We say that too though, both works.
And how he pronounced "boer"😂
@@Heinrich1x it's weird because in both English and Afrikaans the "oe" makes more or less the same sound... Idk why he said "bo-a"
@@micahretief7893 yep, kinda messed with my mind...
"National cricket team is nicknamed the proteas" Shows Australian.
That bothered me more than it should have
Just shows a lack of proper research
I've lived in South Africa my whole life but I just found out that South Africa has two islands far from the actual country.
I was 41 when I learnt this. Definitely not something they thought to mention in geography class LOL
Even me
Wasn't there more than 2? Robben Island, Marion Island and another one as well? ;)
Joshua September bro what really??? that wild
I've also lived in South Africa all my life, and knew about those two islands for a long time.
17:40 Using a picture of an Australian cricketer and saying it is a South African cricketer is basically a declaration of war
Jason Jones - Hey, at least it wasn’t an Allblack for a Bokke.
😂😂
As a Dutch guy, hearing this pommie butcher all these Afrikaans/Dutch words is pretty funny
Hey you also use pommie
Not gonna lie you need to fact check some of your facts, I'm from South Africa and some of these weren't true like the flags colour not having a meaning
And the "whites own 72% of farm land".. Whites own 70% of 30%.. The rest is owned by the black government..
@@scruffasax Not quite true.
You have to break it down to farm land, sectional titles (part ownership in estates), urban land and the rest.
Whites own the largest portion in each category, but the gap is muuch smaller with urban land and estates.
The 70% statistic only applies to farm lands.
@@QuentinWatt I like your youtube channel, you should upload more.. With That out of the way... As I know it, the government owns the majority of the farmland, I got the 70-30 stat from an interview Ernst roets did.. Yes that does mean that whites own the majority of privately owned farmlands, but only 30% of the farmland is private..
@@scruffasax If you believe Ernst Roets, you probably believe in the easter bunny too. Quentin Watt Tutorials is closer to the truth.
Actually it's true, The South African Flag doesn't have any official meaning to it, all of these other meanings are just theories that people came up with.
As jy die “Afrokans” verstaan gee ‘n like
you dont speak afrikaan you just google translated
Ek praat mooi Afrikaans!
@@ClipsterYouTu its afrikaans not afrikaan
Ek is van die Karoo af! Afrikaans is my twede taal en ek kan mooi praat maar nou day ek in Johannesberg is, raak dit slegter.
Ahah Okay ek het gelike
What the post was intended for:>
Expectations: Tourists
Reality: 99.9% South Africans
OMG. Cringing at the pronunciation of Boere XD
It's making me cry.....
Love it! 👍
I still can't do it and I've lived here my whole life. Someone help me!
I’m South African myself and I cannot pronounce it perfectly. I’m an Englishmen
Cringing an every mispronounced SA word. I keep shouting at my PC correcting him!
What about Sandton, the richest square mile in Africa. The Leonardo, the tallest building in Africa. The fact that Namibia was part of South Africa.
Well Namibia was a south african colony
Cypher , What!??!! I seen u in every south african related video including Don's videos (Donplays) 😶😶
I'm also South African. I'm a teen and I would like to know how LeSotho stayed independent all through the 19th and 20th centuries? Did the British and Boers just ignore the country? Were they scared to even attempt colonizing it because the Sotho nation was that strong?
@@johngalt9255
So when Lesotho became independent from the British did they choose to stay an independent country from South Africa? Were there talks about a "merging" of the two countries or was that never going to happen?
@@johngalt9255 Well thank you for answering my questions. Very cool, man.
You left out that every South African must have a pet lion by law.
😂
😂
Exactly. I own an elephant too actually ;)
Yes mine is called Fluffy
🤦♂️
I dare you to tell a coloured that you shouldn't call him a coloured
I actually saw an American tried to do this once an online platform, she and the coloured guy started arguing until he dropped the "jou am se p***". All the Saffas in the comment section went mental and she was just left confused😂
@@ruangreyling2073 that's the spirit! I don't think they understand being coloured is a culture, one of the most unique I'd say. Ps I'm not coloured
Quentin Fourie yesss!!! it annoys me sooo much when they try and call coloureds, mixed. they’re not mixed it’s a whole other thing
@@inhle1688 coloureds should just be called black. That is what they are. Black. COLOURED is a racist term.
@@davidfoster989 nah dude, coloureds are coloureds they are a culture and I'm sure they will agree, besides, coloureds have Malay and even Indian heritage, calling them black will probably get you into trouble with them.
Proud South African here. We have such a beautiful country. ❤️🇿🇦
Ja
we dont lol
Press X to doubt.
I would love to visit this beautiful counrty one day!!
Im also south african
Hopefully this video will educate the rest of the world about the beauty and diversity of our country. Some of the the facts are not 100% accurate and are a bit misinformed. Good to see a video being made about my homeland 🇿🇦
Also had a good laugh at the kak (shit) pronunciation in this video lol XD
Luke freemantle boaa (boer)
To everyone complaining about the pronunciation, imagine hearing your name mispronounced your whole life!
My name isint to hard luckily 😂
and people not even bothering to check themselves when you inform them.... PREACH!!!
Story of our live... Try them spelling + pronouncing your name and surname wrong... (No I'm white...) It still sucks... I gave up with my teachers and classmates pronouncing it so I told them to say it how they can...I regret that
I know right.
But nna I'm glad they no longer force us to have English names due to not being able to pronounce our names.
Yes it's horrible, most of my fellow south africans pronounce my name Mak Sayess
The way he pronounces stuff like Xhosa, Limpopo and kwazulu natal
The way he pronounces almost everything is funny.
Yugino Plays he even says vuvuzela weird 😂
Fact: South Africa played a crucial role in the establishment of the British Royal Air Force...
You should know this...
Katlego Mafate Correct that crucial role in establishing the RAF was though the South African boer Jan Smuts.
As well as the British Commandos
@@Mixture707 affirm, General smuts
www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Smuts
Yes the best RAF fighter air ace was a South African farmer
South Africa 🇿🇦 is a beautiful country!!! ♥️
I want to come to south africa
You forgot to mention how school children get to school by riding on lions.
We are so savage
When he said South Africa is starting to heal... Lol 😂
HAH, it’s *dying*
Lets not forget about the R500 billion that suddenly Disappeared
😂 omg... the pronunciation on “Boer”
It’s more like “boo” + “er”. drag that O a bit.
At least he’s trying
Boh -ah war😂
More like bouer
Kimberley has the largest man made hole in the world!
This is false, its a Diamond mine in Siberia that is the largest man made hole in the world
@@matthewboschin6313
Wrong again . The hole they drilled in Germany but had to stop as it was to hot
@@creepychris3985 that was not made by hand. Kimberly hole was literally made by hand. Buckets and shovels.
@@brandenvandermerwe5352
Ok if we are looking at it like that .
THEN
Bingham canyon, in Utah, is the deepest at 1.2km but it was a canyon to begin with so not all of it is man-made. The Mir diamondmine in Siberia is the deepest 'proper' man-made hole. It's 525m deep and 1,200m across.
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=largest+man+made+hole+in+the+world+
i really love this country, i never been there but i have a lot of friends from South Africa, i would love to visit one day
In a couple of years when the country gets sorted bro It needs it badly :(
@lwandile dube I'm from god damn South Africa bruh I'm looking out for the homies The country's crime is clearly not at a good level nor is it's economy in perfect shape very much needs work
@lwandile dube not everyone is as "lucky" as you. There are 60 REPORTED murders per day , 114 REPORTED rape incidents per day , 444 REPORTED assaults per day , 142 REPORTED common robberies per day , 605 house robberies per day , not to mention the thousands of petty crimes we face DAILY. And all of this based on reports , MOST people dont reported shit in south africa , why ? Because nothing fucking happens. The crime in South Africa is one of THE highest in the world. Nothing wrong with the country itself , just the people managing it. Eskom is a load of shit , we have loadshedding most of the year , our water is only clean in some places , the roads are terrible , and yet you defend this country like its top class ? Nothing works here , because if it where we would be a 1st world country , and sadly we are far from that. And if you find it difficult to believe my statistics , do yourself a favor and research. We are THIRD on the list for worst crime and crime rates in the WORLD. Open your eyes , its not always sunshine and rainbows.
@@henryM22x preach my guy, crime in SA is very very bad in majority of SA
@@henryM22x thank you 🤗Someone people need to get "woke" lol
As a South African, I must say I love your pronunciation 😂
Especially 'groot' river🤣
I was laughing
I die inside but in a good way😂
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣
As a homesick South African this video absolutely made my day! Thank you!
do you miss all the crimes and stuff?
@@darknessviking every country has crime, it wasn't the reason I left
Im not homesick... im sick of home
@@sockgoblinamazingwtf6511 😂😂😂
@@lucarionite6538 well I got in fine lol, medicine is deffinately skewed tho, 10% minimum must be white
Fact: South Africa is a country that Elon Musk was born in
Stop
Fifth like
Picc
Sans
Gaster
We dedicated a whole day to the act of Braai-ing
Hanro50 - Not surprised to hear that. I’m from the American south where grilling and BBQ is a big deal and still my favorite thing I’ve ever had off a grill is a boerwors in a bun with a sort of sweet onion relish got outside a butcher shop in Pretoria one afternoon. So much love for biltong, braai, grilled springbok, and especially boerwors! Love SA so much.
Yes i am 13 so i an 13 years ib SA and my favorite day is national braai day you braai steak boere wors chops and potato salad
Fellow South African just here to say:
Ek hou van biltong en braai.
Wat van brannas
Ja ons almal hou maar van biltong 😂
This man, he knooowwws
There are actually 12 languages now🇿🇦I love how he tries to pronounce things 😂this is a pretty accurate video
Fact 102: Elon Musk was born in South Africa
Ya'll wouldn't have teslas if it wasn't for him
They might have but his home country doesn’t
Well we don't have either
Note that the 72% of farm land owned by whites are in the semi desert Cape while the most fertile of land is owned by blacks in Limpopo and KZN. There are several hundred farms abandoned all over the country.
Friendly neighbourhood Namibian here😊
I swear, Namibians are as much south African as south Africans
@ynwa forever 😂 nah it wouldn't be because it's accurate..
@@miamcintyre5470 yep, in some way😅
Bonus fact: Sid James, the well known British character actor, was originally a Jewish hairdresser from Johannesburg named Soloman Cohen before he moved to Britain and took up acting.
*eswatini, not Swaziland. It changed its name a year or two ago
To be honest it's still going to he called Swaziland by most lol
Its still Swaziland to majority, guarantee you that everyone i know doesnt know its name changed
I live in Kwazulu Natal and didn't even know we had a king😂😂
The way he said Pietermaritzburg and basically everything else 😂
He: Pronounce every South African word wrong
Me: TRIGGERED
Altus Erasmus I felt this
Who isn't triggered he is an eejit
Finally! A fair and balanced view of South Africa 🇿🇦
As a South African, I was sorta hoping for a mention of the massive level of corruption and all that
There is a lot more bad that needs to said but yeah, corruption is a big issue.
But is that historic. He is looking at pinnacle talking points. Is being corrupt a point of conjecture ?
It is like saying man sins. This is childish to cry about corruption. Man sins everywhere everyday...that is corruption. Do something by voting the bad apples out!
The G in “Groot” is pronounced with phlegm. It’s an Afrikaans word that means “big”
So translated literally, it’s just “big river” in Afrikaans 😂
It’s also a Dutch word that means ‘big’. Although it’s pronounced ‘groat’ but with the same phlegmy ‘g’.
As a South African, I find the pronunciation of South African words by foreigners to be one of the funniest thing ever xD
South Africans mispronounce South African words. Every other day I hear people say Chwany (Tshwane), amshlenga (umhlanga), ikopo (iXopo) etc
As a South African I feal offended that there was nothing on how we won the world cup last year 🏉
Did you forget that the 1995 Rugby World Cup, held in South Africa, and won by the Springboks! It was a huge milestone in the progression of our country, a racially mixed team, and the first major tournament we participated in since the sporting ban was lifted!
Me a South African watching this already knowing most of the facts he is saying like: 👁👄👁
1 extra fact South Africa supplies a lot of America’s army trucks
Hey South African here and your pronunciation of Boer and some other words are so wrong😂😂😂
THE BEST COUNTRY ON EARTH!!!! WHOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOOO
Saintzclann no it’s not
@@bradleyjacobs8765 yes it is.
foreverthea ii it’s a beautiful country not the best one, the amount of hatred in this country does not make it great
Love my country but let's be honest...... Not the best
Love being here shit country thoe
Just going to add, coloured isn't a racist term here in South Africa, its just a word we use here for people who are between white and black, Trevor Noah isn't Black here for example but he is coloured. The people wear the term with pride.
The historical relationships and interactions between the foraging, herding and farming societies is more complicated than Bantu-speaking groups displacing Khoekhoe and Bushman groups. Things like the clicks in Xhosa and Zulu and the traditional cattle-based economic cultures, for example, derive from the mixing and absorption of pastoralist Khoekhoe into agriculturalist Bantu-speaking communities.
Also, during colonisation, the Dutch brought in thousands of Africans and Asians as slaves. South Africans classified/identifying as Coloured are the descendants of those slaves as well as the remaining Khoekhoe and Bushman people who were living within the Cape Colony. They also make up the majority of Afrikaans-speakers and Afrikaans owes much of its development to the Dutch of the slaves and Khoekhoe.
You forget one of the best facts ,the Coelacanth (Selekant) was found in alive(was classified as extinct for 65mil years) on the coast of South-Africa
Half way in watching this video it started to loadshed and the wifi went down🤣🤣🤣
only South Africans will understand.
Keep the country episodes rolling Sam. They are really fun to watch! :D
Zwazulu natal you nailed it 😂😂😂🤣🤣
South Africa is such a beautiful place, I could never leave it
Video that mentions South Africa in the title: *exists*
South Africans: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Yebo GoGo. Thank you. Namaste 🙏🏼.
*Please also note:*
"The first Indians arrived during the Dutch colonial era, as slaves, in *1684* ."
The European soliders from Cape married them. ..and i have noticed these similarities( or attractions ) , though didn't really get into it.. ( now that WiFi and smartphones are the norm , here goes) ..the Indians where of the Religions Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Zoorastrain.
My ancestors came later with the British Raj, in *1890* , as company workers. ( The workers could not return home, due to the anglo-boer war off 1899 and then the world war of 1914. )
..but prior to this, The *Out off Africa* theory states, Africa and India are related.
The Pangaea , broke up 250million years ago from our east cost of Africa, and travelled via continental drifting until reaching Asia off today....
Our New year(Hindi) is in April under the Vikram Samvat calendar which is now at 2076. The Gujarati people have their new year on another day.
The celebrations costly, because we recognise all forms of God, which link back to Matsya and Manu ( of the great flood)...long story here.
Source ( for what in quotations ) : www.sahistory.org.za/article/indian-south-africans
Im from South Africa and I don't think I've ever heard anybody name creamsoda Green ambulance lmao
No, you cannot be taught the accent as most people cannot roll their "r"s as we can. :)
Proudly South African
I am also from SA and I cant stop laughing at how he says boere
Same
Tell the Queen we want our diamond back.
the way he pronounces ‘boer’ and muizenberg 😭😭😭
My aunt has those flamethrowers lmao
LO! How gangster!!!
The way you pronounced the names of our cities, traditions, cultures, and languages has me laughing on the floor LOL :) Die soutie is skreeu snaaks!
Yessssssssss i have been waiting for this so long
Hope you enjoy!
Literally searched if he had a vide on this a week ago
Kimberly houses the Groot Gat which used to be hill but was dug into a deep set lake during the diamond rush, accidently found by a boy going for a walk.
The colors in the have meaning
Black for the people
Gold for the riches (Gold and Diamonds)
Green for the land
Red for the blood spilled in the past
Blue for the sky and oceans
White for peace
Also there a few facts that you got a little wrong but I'm too lazy to correct
I, someone who lives here, would like to see.
Him: South Africa is Extremely rich-
Me: 😯😯😯
Him: In minerals
Me: Ohho😌
This video came out one day after my sister went to South Africa
When you say "Boer" try pronouncing it like this: Boo + R
He pronounced Lesothu right. Kudos to you my friend.
About the only thing je pronounced correctly
as a South African the most entertaining part of this video is listening to all the mispronunciations of all the Afrikaans words and names of various places.
*10 interesting facts about South Africa*
1. About 80% of the country's population is ethnically black African. Roughly 9% are considered coloured (a mix of white and African or white and Asian), nearly 8% are white and about 2% are ethnic Indian.
2. Reflecting the country's diversity, South Africa has 11 official languages: isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Sesotho, Xitsonga, siSwati, Tshivenda and isiNdebele. Other notable languages include Khoi, Nama and San.
3. South Africa has one of the world's younger populations by age, according to U.S. government estimates. The median age of a person in the country is 27, compared to 38 in the United States, 40 in the United Kingdom, and about 47 in both Germany and Japan.
4. South Africa has 10 UNESCO-designated World Heritage sites. They include Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape; Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape; Khomani Cultural Landscape; Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains; Cape Floral Region Protected Areas; iSimangaliso Wetland Park; Vredefort Dome; Maloti-Drakensberg Park; Robben Island, home to a now-closed prison that housed political prisoners during the apartheid era including Nelson Mandela; and the fossil hominid sites northwest of Johannesburg, home to some of the earliest human fossils found and the place that scientists label as the Cradle of Humankind.
5. South Africa has three capital cities: Pretoria hosts the executive branch, Cape Town is home to the legislative branch and Bloemfontein is home to the judicial branch.
6. The first human heart transplant was performed in Cape Town in 1967.
7. In a sign of the country's rich natural resources, the world's largest known diamond was discovered in 1905 at the Premier Mine near Pretoria. The size: 3,106 carats and roughly 1.3 pounds.
8. South Africa in 2019 has the world's highest level of income inequality, according to the World Bank.
9. South Africans have one of the highest rates of HIV in the world.
10. South Africa is the only country to voluntarily abandon its nuclear weapons program.
i love how you mispronounce every afrikaans word including afrikaans itself but then you pronounce Johannesburg in a dutch way😂 "yo-hannesburg"
and the way he says "groot river"😂
I'm sure they picked the name Groot for Gardians of Galaxy from South Africa they just mispronounced it! Drives me nuts because I know it's wrong, sounds wrong too. It means big for those who don't know.
LoL the conversation the pair are having in Fact No. 55 is so hilarious. 😂
You guys are so meta. 😂😂🤣🤣
3:02 Not entirely correct. The migrating Nguni tribes did not displace the Khoisan people living in the Southwest and Northwestern areas of the country. When the first European settlers arrived in the Cape, they mainly traded with local Khoisan.
Yes, a last. With thanks from South Africa!
That's not a Protea cricket player, that's an Australian cricketer. Big mistake, we are sworn rivals.
Majority of Afrikaans people are not white. Also, Afrikaans is born from Dutch and the Khoi & San languages. It is a multi continental language. There is even a monument to this (for now).
"Afrikaans is a creole language that evolved during the 19th century. The majority of its roots can be found in Dutch. While the rest is a mixture of seafarer variants of Malay, Portuguese and Indonesian and the indigenous Khoi-Khoin and San languages."
Afrikaans is not a true creole language, but nice copy and paste attempt, try find better sources next time
The first fact is something I would never guess
He said Lesotho right! So proud 😢
You should do a 101 Facts about Nigeria.. I'm sure you'll find a tonne of interesting things lol
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but the first heart transplant surgery was performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard - not "Bernard".
Look forward to seeing these videos each week. Keep up the good work, Sam!
My Country! I didn’t expect this to happen! 🇿🇦❤️
Ive been waiting for this
Hope it’s worth the wait!
I appreciate that there are a lot of South Africans in this comment section.
He called it the groot river instead of “groot”. If yk yk