ESWATINI - the Sugar Kingdom
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- eSwatini is a small state located in southern Africa, landlocked and enclosed between South Africa and Mozambique. What does what is known as the last absolute monarchy on the African continent, often associated with the sugar business, have to hand down to us? Let's find out together in this documentary.
Sources:
- D. H. Gillis, “The Kingdom of Swaziland: studies in political history”, London, 1999;
- M. W. Arnold, “Swaziland: In Transition to What?”, 1984;
- “Swaziland: la monarchia fondata sullo zucchero”, COSPE, 2014;
- C. Vandome, A. Vines, M. Weimer, “Swaziland: Southern Africa’s Forgotten Crisis”, 2013
Sitography:
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www.unaids.org...
www.tibiyo.com/...
www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/swaziland;
www.repubblica...
100r.org/2015/...
I’m sorry if my English is worse than usual and there are some technical errors that I noticed too late. It was a busy week of work and I experienced some fatigue in the recording. I hope it doesn’t affect the viewing too much
- Jacopo -
Your English is fine and I really liked how you pronounced SingaporeEe
Another great video, quickly becoming one of my favourite informative channels. I also really enjoyed the video on Yemen.
@@ethanwatkins6780 Thank you
-Simone
Don't be sorry you are very clear speaker (better than some native/natural English speakers), anybody who can speak another language should be proud of themselves.
Dude, my Italian is worse. It's fine.
What I appreciate is the effort to try, and do really good, for a solid 15 minute video.
The people that get triggered are always that way.
I visited Eswatini in January 2020 with my wife for our anniversary. We stay at Damicha Lodge at Lebombo. We visited the museum, visited Mbabane and the other city Manzini.
I enjoyed it. Beautiful country and lovely scenery. God bless my Swati cousins
Love from Zimbawe
I'm stoked at how much information you have on Eswatini. You are clearly well researched.
Thank you very much! It was difficult to find information, but i came across a very interesting article, unfortunately in italian, regarding the water-grabbing phenomenon. You can check the sources in the description anyway.
- Jacopo -
misinformation*
the country doing fairly well considering its situation.
he doesnt have a lot, he misses a ton, and mistakenly thought eswatini would abandon taiwan.
i have no clue why this is in my recommendations, but i guess i care about swasiland now
@@superbit6426 who asked?
@@superbit6426 dude, thats the joke
Ong bro
Swaziland.
it was in my boyfriends recommendations. now it's in mine.
I'm from Swaziland tho. but still weird that it got reccomended
Natsi siyakutsandza... meaning we love you too.🥰
As an inhabitant of Eswatini (as you would say), well done and we need to make such videos TREND
I am from Swaziland and the brother of Thulani Maseko, and I found this video very informative
Hi Sakhile, thanks for your appreciation. Is your brother safe now?
- Jacopo -
@@novalectiointernational Hi yes, he is. The King has made financial difficulties for him. Thanks for sharing. Swaziland needs more awareness of how the King violates human rights of Swazi Citizens.
@@sakhilemaseko3994 Do you like King of Swaziland
@@Emily-m3u3d No. He is currently a dictator who lives a luxurious life at the expense of citizens. While basic services like health care collapse he bought lots of luxury cars for his 20 wives and security guards
@@sakhilemaseko3994 I don't know why I like this person. I visited Swaziland and saw the royal palace very beautiful. The king passed by and I spoke to him here in Iraq also. There are no rights for everything.
Very accurate video and unlike a lot of videos about Swaziland in RUclips, this one is well researched and not biased..
Aphi emaSwati akitsi???🇸🇿🇸🇿🇸🇿
I have absolutely no idea why this was recommended, although I'm glad it was.
Kudos on the pronunciations (some need a tad more work),,, you've done a better job than most of the world in its entirety...
That demarcation you showed at 0:30 is actually demographic regions, not climatic regions. There you have Hhohho (blue), Manzini (purple), Shiselweni (green) and Lubombo (orange). The climatic regions each run in a north-south orientation, the Highveld being on the west (left on the map), followed by the Middleveld, Lowveld and Lubombo which is on the East (right on the map).
Sibiya where do the Magadu surname people come.from in Swaziland. How about the Maphosa clan
My surname is Magadu and our clan totem is Maphosa. my grandfather always told us we originated in Eswatini but he didn't know where?
I have seen it seems there is a river called Magadu in Eswatini
Thanks in advance
Swaziland is a fairly interesting country, the fes that still run by an Absolute Monarchy.
Unfortunate the country is still plagued by poverty, and an oppressive dictator. Because looks like it has lots of potential to be stable.
Pretty good possibility that removing the monarchy might be "bad for business" in the context of neo-colonialism
@@snuurferalangur4357 Its not a minor difference, it makes ALL the difference in the world
A dictator is an anti king
@@snuurferalangur4357 no dictator simply means one who holds absolute power over a state. How they came into power is irrelevant, Mswati is a dictator.
If you can argue someone who comes into power through legit means isn't a dictator, then there aren't many dictators through history
@@snuurferalangur4357 I'd say how they rule would be what sets them apart. From fascists, Hitler and Mussolini both took power through legitimate means, think the same happened with Stalin. Are you telling me the founding fathers of the US are bigger dictators than Hitler?
@@snuurferalangur4357 nope, none of Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin came to power through coups or revolutions. They acquired power through the rule of the land.
As a Swazi I can say that is well researched.....however we don't cultivate tobacco.
Swazi gold rather Mary Jane
We're known for our top tier weed fr fr
We do, Lulu. In 2007 I was lithwasa at Ngculwini, near St Phelomena School. In that neighbourhood, an old lady was supplying sniffing tobacco (snuff) that she was grinding from locally sourced tobacco.
Ugwayi...
Would a Swati person call themselves Swazi 🤔
Thanks
For RES sugar corporation, the second largest shareholder is listed as TSB foods at 26.3% in every source I can find other than the main website, which shows RCL foods at 29.1%. Do you think this is a mistake?
I think it would also be relevant to note that Illovo sugar Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods, in the context of neo-colonialism.
Excellent presentation full of new facts I didn't know. Fabulous stuff!!
very interesting. As a swazi I would be very happy to see videos of people talking about the brutal killing happening in Swaziland/ Eswatini.
people should not see Swaziland as a country where there's peace . there's too much violence happening in there . we need people to talk about that.
people should know what kind of leader is there.
great video, there’s said to be unrest here tomorrow due to it being the anniversary of last year’s unrest. police presence is big. i hope people stay safe.
lol i just watched your video about yemen a couple hours ago and now you’ve just made this video about the country i’m from, crazy.
I live in eSwatini.. I'd like you to know that you did a great job with this video. Thank you
Salve ragazzi, hello everyone. I have lived in the Kingdom of Swaziland in 2002 to 2004. I attended a United World College (UWC) Waterford Kamlhaba. Many Italians have attended this school there. Emiliano, Vanina, Robin, Alessandro, Sharon, Marco and Luca and many more. I cant remember all of them. Many Italians in Mozambique and South Africa.
I was born and bred in Swaziland. Only the kids of Who’s Who cud afford education in that school. Growing up i so wished i had that sort of education. My country is impoverished and the citezens are oppressed by the regime, but soon we hope to attain Democracy
Ciao fratello🙏🏽im a born swazi who learnt italian
@@terrancendzimandze5103 wat kind bra. You frm SD? Im half Italian. I grew up in Mozambique. I know Swaziland well. You live in Italy?
Swazi red. Some of the best natural dagga you can find.
The other issue is that Swaziland is still above average for an African Country (though it is in one of the more prosperous areas.) Instability is often really bad its not just tradition.
Eswatini has shit to It's East and fermenting grapes to It's West.
You have weird standards if this is above average
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 In terms of hdi , Eswatini is in the top 20 most developed African countries .More developed than every East African country except The Seychelles 🇸🇨, more developed than every central African country except Gabon🇬🇦 & Sao Tomé & Principe🇸🇹 .More developed than every West African country except for Cape Verde 🇨🇻 , so I guess .... you better humble & educate yourself . Yh yh , I checked Google, but It's still funny to think Eswatini 🇸🇿 is high by our contemporary African standard .
@@la23s.a.22 I don't know what you're on about. You only gave one metric. How bout you give all of them.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 Give me aspects in which I should mark their position amongst all African countries .
Please make more videos about monarchies and everything about from wealth to ruling and their history
A balanced reporting upon which one can pick up angles from which to anchor today's disturbing political scenario.
Well done, I got recommended this video I guess because I was born in Mozambique. but it doesn’t matter. I just found too cute the way you pronounced Limpopo. Good to practice how to pronounce the names of the rivers, because at first I didn’t know what you were talking about until you repeated it, then I realized you’re talking about the Limpopo river. Overall Great Job! I hope you are feeling better 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🙏🏽💚💚🌱
I tapped on this video without reading the title because in my peripheral; I thought it was a Fallout video.
This did not disappoint.
I really enjoy your videos and learn a lot
Great explainer as always....
That is so great! Pls stay in touch!
Swati people were already settled in the current territory in 14th century. The migration was much earlier perhaps from 8-9 centuries.
I don't even think there was ever a migration. This history of migration was written by a white man to suit himself. If people in southern Africa migrated from Cameroon, as he says, they would be speaking the same or almost the same languages as the Cameroonians. For example boers migrated from Dutch and the Naderland, to this day they still speak almost the same language as where they come from. However, languages in Southern Africa are only unique to southern Africa - meaning nobody has ever migrated from anywhere. Those people have been there forever.
@@o.ghanylo617 the migration took place over 1 000 years ago, languages change. What kept the colonial settler languages relatively intact was the constant interactions with the place of origin. English is still the same language, but because the Dutch lost the Cape, Dutch was eventually replaced with afrikaans.
@@o.ghanylo617 English 1000 years ago was completely different, didn't really begin standardising until print media was widely available. Afrikaans didn't even exist in close to its current standardised form until just over a 100 years ago. That's why South Africa is still abbreviated to ZA from Dutch.
Languages are dynamic and constantly changing over the course of a millennium the changes get drastic. People in Italy don't speak Latin anymore, and even in the last 100 years, a lot of Italian dialects/languages have gone or are extinct. Look at a lot of the Nguni languages that aren't official South African languages. The Portuguese spoken in Brazil is different to what's spoken in Europe.
@@o.ghanylo617 Shakespeare is relatively recent, the printing press had been invented by then. I'm talking English 1 000 years ago, old English, when it actually sounded germanic.
Languages evolve all the time, and over a long enough time they become unintelligible, bantu languages all have pretty much the same set of laws that govern them, and in some cases, the Nguni languages, their intelligible.
@@o.ghanylo617 Your reasoning is whack. I'm all the way up in Kenya and still pick up things when I read or even hear South African languages. I guess you have never heard of the Bantu language category that spans allll the way from Cameroon to South Afrika.
Very interesting documentary well done 👍
A well researched article Nova, we can not dispute much about our Kingdom. We used to be the most peaceful country in the whole of Africa though of late we are seing more destruction and violence,kunzima
All because of a selfish king
The country of diabetes ,finally
That's my home country 💙💙💙
Swazis we are🇸🇿
Your pronunciation of african names and words is spot on .....well done
was going crazy because I never heard this name studying geography in school, turns out it was renamed after I graduated
Thanks for a video not about Europe or North America
Why don't you follow channels that make videos about Africa instead?
The current Zulu Monarch's mother is the sister of the Current Swati King. It will be interesting to see if this will lead to unity between South Africa and ESwatini.
G7 NEVER GROW ECONOMY IN AFRICA BUT BRICS IS ON FIRE IN AFRICA 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🤸♀🤸♀🤸♀🤸♀🤸♀
It would be interesting to cover Singapore, a "successful dictatorship".
Very interesting
Look mom, we're on RUclips!
We have a very selfish king along with his family members who believe everything in the country is theirs, we citizens are nothing more than their subjects . We want them out.
Things mighty change and people ✊ unite against their evil government. How do you explain to the word where power is concentrated to the so call King
I knew where the location of eSwatini was but not the fact that it had anything to do with sugar.
Just subscribed to your Channel, very accurate and informative.
100000 years ? Wow they’ve achieved so much
Can ya dub this video in Italian?
puoi trovare una versione più lunga di questo video in italiano sul canale “Flashpoint”
- Jacopo -
@@novalectiointernational grazie mille
You said the people migrated from the Cross River in Cameroon in the 14th century,but your map clearly shows it as Nigeria!
You need to do DRC Congo next bro , The whole world and the UN are running the place like a mafia. Loving the content 👍🏾
Finally my home country the Kindom of eSwatini.It is such a pitty that I cannot go back too eSwatini since I don't have Swazi citzinship anymore plus I only have
German citzinship and I am consired a "foreigner" although I was born in ESwatini.I don't think I will ever be able too go back home.
Why not. It’s possible
I have a British citezenship but i go to SD every year. It’s possible
google text predict really struggles with a lower case 'e' first letter, and a capitalised 2nd letter country name. ♥️🇱🇸🏴🇦🇺
The first country to start with a lowercase letter in English
It's swati though
I love it.. eSwatini ~ but I believe the "e" means "in" or "at" so, without that, really it is Swatini 🤔 so.. technically it does start with an uppercase??
@@garittinamagnuson1336 Wouldn't the "ni" at the end of eSwatini mean "in". It's a convention in the Bantu languages I speak... But I don't know.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 Ooh, interesting! Perhaps! Now that I'm thinking of a couple places in eSwatini, "eZulwini".. "eVeni".. they also have "e" at the beginning and "ni" at the end. But not all places have "ni" or anything close like Mbabane with "ne". Some are very different. However, you'd always hear "e" added to the beginning of a place when spoken about in the siswati language. You'd hear people say "eMbabane". I am definitely going to ask one of my friends what the endings might mean. Perhaps the same thing :)
@@zeenkosis Wait, so is the name of the actual country Swati? Without the "e" at the beginning and "ni" at the end?
Neat
Wow
Maye vele umuhle mntfwanenkhosi Bandzile
Your information is partially wrong....next time ask a Swazi Citizen
There’s no tobacco grown in Swaziland . Just for what is worth
cool. the pronunciations need work tho
Namibia please
I swear you look like a different person every video and it confuses me greatly
Where is human watch in Ukraine?
No press freedoms no other political parties other than Zelensky
Get drafted.
The issue with countries in this region is their economies (and labour force movements) are dominated by South Africa
Well that's not a problem and more like a good thing because they get trade and investment from South Africa.
@@fullmetaltheorist it kinda is a problem - all their labour force leaves for SA. There are 3 times (!) as many Sotho people in SA than there are in Lesotho
@@seadkolasinac7220 Well that's just how labor migration happens. People leave for wealthier countries and plus the number of Sotho people in South Africa isn't because of them leaving in mass migration it is actually because when the British drew the borders they didn't care that there were Sotho people living in both countries.
@@seadkolasinac7220 South Africa has native Sotho people as well. Not necessarily a matter of people migrating from one place to the other.
We dont mind ss long as we are not ruled and dominated by white people. Enough of white people. Xlaa.
😂😂 I definitely know where Eswatini is but then again SADC us my neighborhood. But it definitely isn't the smallest state. I think Cape Verd, Mauritius or Seychelles might bein terms of land area.
my friend; you need to understand one thing about south africans - they don't travel in africa. they think they part of the European continent or American. they don't know whats happening in there own region. but they know what P diddy is up to min by min.
ay i live in that country
ppl love democracy but power will just be in corrupt politicians hands instead of monarch. as long as the ruler is capable. its not really a bad thing.
Their monarchy is extremely corrupt and totalitarian wtf are you talking about
Damm Swaziland is next door but I know nothing about it😂
We also plant good stuff of marijuana...
Taiwan isn't a country, especially if Alaska and Hawaii aren't
Boo this man ^ BOOOOOOO
learn how to read maps@@smelly1060
SUGAR 😋😋😋😋😋😋🔥🔥
There must be a lot of people suffering from Diabetes Mellitus
So tell me if the Boers took the land why did the British give it back?
Terrible research man, you can do better @Nova Lectio international
Bro rid you just pronounce Swaziland as Zwaziland??? You say it just the way it is spelt...
That Country name sounds also ,almost like another Country name:
Like:
Swaziland -África
and
Swissland -Europe
Long live the king of eswatini
Mswati must fall
Not veld but regions and lobamba is just a place not capital
We from Eswatini😀
😂funny how NO ONE calls it Eswatini
WRONG DANAGING FACTS, tHABANI was involved in a car accidents he was not killed for participating in apublic protest,
We also have sugar daddies and sugar mamas
is there something more useless than our beloved SADC
SADC, AU... they're all useless because they're run by the same corrupt scums who call themselves 'leaders'
They should have chopped up the boers like Zimbabwe did the British, then they wouldn’t have had a need for all that useless paper and nonsense delegations.
And starve like the Zimbabweans are now ... 🤔 Your thinking skills are remarkable
@@JOEYZ-nq2gn Starve? They weren't starving before the boers came and stole their land. How would slaughtering them starve them? Man, you Rhodesiaboos are a weird bunch.
@@JOEYZ-nq2gn 😂😂
Boers and afrikaaners are basically the same thing
I think of the Weeed. Probably 80% of our weed comes from Swaziland. VICE made a video about it
the v in Afrikaans is pronounsed more like an f its not an f it is a different f sound but an f but its not an english v sound
Never knew what that country's function was... Always just drove around it on my way to Sodwana.. Didn't know Sodwana is technically in Eswatini...
"Its function" ?
@@SwatiBornGirl i have only met i guy in film school who was from Swaziland.. He hated it... Monarchy and love dont go hand in hand... News
I wish to comment but victimization is worse in my country (Swaziland) ain't no freedom of speech ill be called a terrorist
Point of correction Sobhuza was not a king of the Swazi nation he elected himself as a paramount chief. His ancestors were immigrants from mozambique and sorrounding areas. His clan, the Dlaminis were settlers in Swaziland who found the original clans in Swaziland, namely the Mamba clan who had their traditional chief/king, the Maseko clan, the Hlophe clan, just to name a few. Just like his predecessors and ancestors, he cunningly formed or established a ''king's office which he termed or coined or claimed was 'in trust of the Swazi nation', which is how after striking a number of dirty deals with foreign entities such as the British and the Afrikaner was how he was able to rise to ''power'' and take over the Swazi nation. Important Swazi history has been hidden for generation so the ''royal family'' in that country can maintain its monarchial position and keep its status for decades while the people continue to be sidelined and for them not to be recompensed of their land and wealth that rightfully belongs to them.
thanks for the corection @Kairos
@@asantemaseko8534 U're welcome Ngcamane.Your ancestors too were the original clans Asante. Swaziland is your birth right Maseko.
😃 p̾r̾o̾m̾o̾s̾m̾
Wrong history.
Cross river is in Nigeria not Cameroon
actually not, the Cross river crosses Cameroon and Nigeria and the water source is in Cameroon. Look at the map.
- Jacopo -
how sad and rotten a Kingdom!!
Your history about the peopling of Southern Africa is contradictory and very incorrect, particularly the origin, "great migration", the period of arrival and settlement of the Bantu indigenous people. When will people stop peddling this lie of the south migration? How convenient that the claim is that the great migration took place a within 500-800 years before settler arrivals, if not later 😤
The southern African Bantu group is distinct from the central north, east and west African groups.
It's pronounced "Felt" not Velt
I live in Eswatini :))) Thank you for sharing this, even I didn’t know some of this 🥲
Hey, I live there too
@@terribrandt0305 me too n i was born there lol
Lol was very interesting not the dramatic angle for views
@@thandomzamo8575 As was I