Americans React To "101 Facts About South Africa"
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Lol, fun fact... At any given moment, a South African can randomly use 4 languages on one sentence without even thinking about it or realizing it 😂😂😂😂it's one of our crazy talents.
Yes !! We South Africans are less darker in skin colour naturally, it is not because we inter-breeded with Europeans, they found us that way !!! And am saying this with peaceful spirit not fighting with you guys
Black South African are lighter in color I think because South Africa is bit far from equator 😊
@@gloriantswaki76 l agree with you my sister, I believe that can be the real reason, with that said - we (South Africans) been lighter than our fellow brothers in North Africa that doesn't mean we are better, am saying this because I don't want people to take it the wrong way
Thanks !! For responding politely - my comment are not about to stir up a fight
West Africans are far darker than us, close to the equator, harsher sun.
All the responses are actually correct.
1. The Nguni group became light skinned because of interbreeding with the Khoi San who were light skinned and not necessarily with the Europeans. The Europeans then interbred with the same Khoisan and so what you find is a unique variation of mixed race people who are referred to as coloured people. Even within that group, they don't all look the same based on what the interbreeding lineage is. ie (Khoisan and White or Khoisan and Nguni (Xhosa,Zulu), Malaysians slaves also interbred with the Khoisan and the Europeans thereby creating an additional variation within this group. Today coloured people have the largest genetic variation of any group of people in the world.
2. We are also lighter because of the relative distance from the equator.
@@luthovellem865 l didn't know that !!! Thanks for the enlightenment
South Africa is a very diverse country. As a South African, I understand 9 South African languages. We have everything from or bustling world class cities, our breathtaking natural landscapes to our villages rich in culture. We have one of the most unique histories in the world. We are united in our diversity and we are patriotic.
•South Africa is often voted the most beautiful country in the world
•Cape Town is often voted the most beautiful city
•Franshoek is often in the top 5 most wonderful towns
•We have the 1st and 2nd most beautiful coastal drives
No one can make hate my country
Proudly South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
The King of the Zulus can afford many kids ,he is a millionaire or was a millionaire since he is late.Another thing South Africa is now number 1 economy in Africa.Cape Town is a huge tourist spot , it has a European feel and Joburg is where you get exposed to the culture .Where you find wealthy blacks and it is more integrated .The British stole a lot of things so .....
A few of these "facts" are incorrect. Whoever did this video should have done more research.
SA diamonds are not blood diamonds, because they are mined and the workers are not enslaved. It's in the countries further north where you could find the more dodgy practices.
About nicknames, Danitjie (dani-ki) and Spenitjie (spenni-ki) or Groet Dan (guttural G like in German or like the J in Juan) and Spennerman
About the penguins, they are the raw ingredient of Guinness, you blend one. And after letting it sit for and hour in the fridge, the white all froths up at the top and that makes the perfect pint
So typical of Americans to downplay developing nations. Smh
Yes there is a "cross country train"... The Blue Train travels an approximately 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) journey in South Africa between Pretoria and Cape Town.
It is one of the luxurious train journeys in the world.
18:02 that guy is completely El wrong about the flag colors…every color represents something Black for the majority population, Gold for the natural resources, white for peace, green for the land etc
Its not old school when it comes 2 Lobola, still well and practised.
2 Panado's, a can of creme soda and a garage pie and your good to go the next day😂 100% facts
Pienk steri stumpie
My mother is from Zululand, they live high up on the mountain in Mkuze , there is a mountain there known as Ghost Mountain they say at night you see lights moving about. So it goes that a group of soldiers were hiding in a pit when they were killed . So they still think they in war. Thats the legend of Ghost mountain. By the way i am coloured My great grandmother is was Zulu and my great father was Scottish they got married
Another fun fact is that South Africa also hosted cricket World Cup and rugby World Cup of which we won x 4 now we are actually the rugby kings taking number one in the world
HI guys, thank you for being so open minded about receiving the information on South Africa, you are appreciated. There are a few corrections that need to be made here though, information omitted or not correct. Most white South Africans are English speaking as a first language, not Afrikaans. White, Coloured, Black, Chinese, Indian etc where all segregated by the Afrikaaners, not by a voting system, just an overnight segregation program. My gran grew up in a multi-racial community, people mixed, married etc until the Afrikaans controlled government enforced more and more segregation rules. However, religion was never touched, so if you were Catholic and went to a convent school, all the private schools, churches were multi-racial. White South Africans were segregated by neighborhoods, schools, churches, universities etc, English and Afrikaans did not marry. The English were seen as far to liberal for the Afrikaaners, a great deal of animosity due to the BOER War. Apartheid existed for 48 years, not 50. Mandela went to jail for being part of a bombing in a business district during Apartheid, detail omitted. Also, the government of South Africa owns 70% of the land in the country, factually inaccurate. If white people were caught n areas outside of their own, they were considered communists and put on watch lists and would end up in jail or would go missing. The Afrikaans Apartheid government took all the segregation models from the States, UK etc at the time, and utilized these models, an example being 'homelands,' the same as the reservations of Native Americans. We were then, in my parents and my generation taught ALL of the UK and American history as regards to slavery and segregation as part of a 'subtle' indoctrination of a nation that had not originally been racist, class distinction was very much in place though due to British rule and behaviour of the time. Worthy to note too that the 'farther,' or designer and implementor of Apartheid was in fact Dutch, not South African. His father had come over to South Africa with his 4 boys to exterminate the British due to the Boer War, indoctrinated his children so full of hatred and the end result was Apartheid Today, unfortunately the only original people of South Africa, the Khoisan, have not seat in government, just like Native Americans. The parallels are there, however, ours was short lived, by the grace of God and we have come a great deal further in healing and changing than many countries. Today, my family is a rainbow nation of diversity, and this started way before the end of Apartheid. People of all demographics had to keep separate in fear of the security police. Nobody voted to institute Apartheid, it was done internally by the government and actioned by the army overnight. Hope this provides insight. I live in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, so if you do come this way, let me know, we can hang out. We are the friendly city of South Africa, although South Africa has just been voted the friendliest country in the world. take care, great show.
Beautiful and true. Well said.
You are clearly saying this from the same education that your were taught as a white south African...your point is one sided you are therefore speaking for yourself don't say we were taught...also you say Khoisan are the only original people of SA..so misleading...you go on to claim that Mandela was arrested for bombing , misrepresentation he was fighting for black people self determination against the apartheid government...
@@Dability firstly, my family is diverse as is full representation from ALL demographics, therefore it is derived from formal education and from integration of my family which existed during and after Apartheid. Furthermore, Mandela was fighting for freedom, I never disputed that, however, it is factually correct his involvement in the bombing was why he went to prison. Perspectives are only made as you live them, neither are wrong, they are your own experience. The combination of the Khoi and San people are scientifically and factually the original people of South Africa, the balance are migrant nations. I did not refer to equal education or the history of what was known that was Bantu education, I merely provided insight into what was factually occurring in white schools of the time. I did not refer to ANYTHING being equal at the time, hence referred to the division amongst whites too, if you read an Afrikaans history text book of the time, it did not concur with an English history book, that is called fascism with a purpose to segregate, which is why we were ALL kept desperate.
@@Dability LOL shows you dont know how much the ANC has changed the history of this county. You Mandela was fighting thats why he was arrested but then you need to explain why Cyril was fighting apartheid and well education and never arrested, explain they thabo mbeki was able to get his masters degree in London, very few people had to money to do that. There are many black people when looking at their history they had good lives. And well educated.
Love it 💓.However the Sharpeville Massa care arranged by PAC Robert Sobukwe not the ANC.
Would it surprise you americans if i told you that the SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE is older than the AMERICAN AIR FORCE its the second oldest after the BRITISH AIR FORCE.
Corrections: 1960 Sharpville uprising was organised by the PAC not ANC.
This British guy he’s misleading you most things he says are incorrect.
Boer is pronouced the same as "poor" but with a B, if you have an English accent,. In Afrikaans oe = oo sound and so its pronounced like boo! with a gutteral R at the end!
Only coloureds were mixed, we are not too dark like other Africans because we are not close to the equator and we also have winter and autumn.
You guys need to employ a fact checker…. Having said that I wish you had mentioned one of the best meals a person can get…… the Bunny Chow!
I am a South Africa, we are considered a 2nd world country because we enjoy the luxury of the 1st world country yet we suffer the issues of a 3rd world country.
You miss understand.
1st world - Western countries
2nd world- Communist countries (Russia, China etc)
3rd world - poorer countries
To say khoi and san were replaced is definitely a lie..get your facts right about my country
It’s a made up history by mainly white SAns trying to parallel their history with that of who they call “Bantu” so they can feel better about themselves and their history as they claim the black population are also “settlers”.
Please react to geography now South Africa to get an in-depth understanding of SA
I think they already did that
19:23 the unemployment stat is actually flawed because certain people employed in certain sectors don't count as employed and other African countries don't have the resources to keep track of these numbers
Cream Soda is actually flavoured with Rose and Vanilla. In SA it used to be colourless or pink. But it became green by government decree in 1974 (not true at all). Some people now call it Green Soda. An innacurate statement is that most white South Africans are Afrikaans speaking. i think maybe over half are, the rest are English speaking mostly. Although many people across all groups are able to understand or speak Afrikaans.
There are no fake or blood diamonds in South Africa. The only fake diamonds (or copies of real diamonds) are for exhibition purposes in museums. And yes, Coloured is a designated race group in South Africa and it is NOT a racial slur here. Also, the mother tongue of Coloured people is mainly Afrikaans, with a few exceptions who speak English as their mother tongue. The government still insists on racial classification and there are four: Black, Coloured, Indian (as in their ancestors are from India) and White.
Guys thanks for putting focus for my country South Africa.
Only one timezone all over South Africa. Thanks for the 'react', was a good show.
South Africa only has one time zone, i.e. GMT+2. We also don't have any daylight savings time, meaning that it is always the same time everywhere in the country throughout the year. Quite convenient, as we never have to change our clocks and we never have to remember what time it is! FYI: for all practical intents and purposes, Pretoria (in Gauteng province) is the capital of the country, since all the foreign embassies are located in Pretoria and it has the residence and the office of the President We just had a national election last month and on Wednesday, June 19th, Ramaphosa will be inaugurated here in Pretoria at the Union Buildings. Can you tell that I live in Pretoria, LOL? Pretoria is about a 30 - 45 min drive from Johannesburg and although Gauteng is the smallest (and most densely populated) province in the country, it is the most wealthy province, since Johannesburg is the economic hub of South Africa and also of the African continent. Cheers from South Africa! 😊
Yes but you still all come to Cape Town to spend the money and jam up our roads
@@abbu.robinson I definitely don't! The Garden Route is much nicer to visit and has the Indian ocean to swim in, which is much nicer and warmer. And my hubby and I always go on holiday out of season, since we don't have kids, so on the few occasions that we've been to Cape Town, we spent our money on local businesses and over tipped everywhere in order to help stimulate the economy for those who are disadvantaged. Unfortunately not everyone has this option. If you have kids, you can only go on holidays during the school holidays. Not that Cape Town would be my preferred destination. Durban beach front is still very nice and it's very nice to swim at uShaka beach across from uShaka Marine World on the beach front. Tuck your bitterness away!
@@abbu.robinsonNever been to Cape Town, went everywhere else, but not Cape Town. What have you got to offer, that I can't find somewhere else. Nearest I went was Cerest and Knysna. Visited Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Uganda. Hour and half drive from Kruger, do some tiger fishing, go to the east coast, bushveld, rain forest, The Kalahari. Best fishing at Henties.
The British commentator forgot to mention that 8 days into the invasion of Zululand, the Zulu's (armed with spears) annihilated 1500 Redcoats seperated from the main British column, armed with rifles and cannons in a few hours at the battle of Isandlwana. The remaining British column retreated back to the coast and waited for a larger army to be shipped out to reinforce them before the second attempt to invade Zululand began. It was at the time the worst defeat suffered by the British Army by a technologically inferior army.
I am South African I was born in 1994 when Apartheid ended so the people born in or after 1994 are called the born free's
Nah dudes, blood diamonds are a central-african thing. We kinda civilized here😅
“Bantu” migration is but a theory. Full word is “Abantu” which means people.
RODRIGUEZ was our BOB DYLAN.
Our average age?! 😂 that’s why this country is so unserious. I remember when we were told that there could be a terrorist attack and all we did was joke about dying 😂
Always good to hear a brit talking about our nation
Some things in the video is sugar coated, like mentioning how 'tye spear of the nation' was an armed section of the resistance to Apartheid - they planted bombs in public places like supermarkets, churches and schools like current extremist groups.
Also, when they mentioned the Zulu King (unfortunately he passed away a few years ago) and his wives and kids, you mentioned condoms, he had 6 wives, as in at the same time as is traditional and normal for those who can afford it. Kids are not seen as a burden like in the West, but a gift and makes you rich. Just shows how different cultures view marriage and kids...
Coloureds are a cultural group and proud. Please don't feel bad about using that word for THEM, they are not dirty or a group to be pitied.
Also, our diamonds are real, though, we have issues with the government trying to make laws to basically steal the mines and illegal mining does happen, sometimes run by gangs of illegal foreigners that highjack mines and force other illegals to work them. We have massive issues with crime by illegals.
Come to south africa . A place called Brakpan !! Best place
Come visit anytime 🎉 your welcome. Fergie from 🇿🇦
Its called the Blue Train, its all about luxury travel.
South Africa only has 1 Time Zone (SAST) or GMT+2. It used to have 2, but it was taken away and even though Cape Town now gets dark later, it still falls under the same Time Zone.
It's Kevin from southafrica I enjoyed watching you guys very interesting😂!!
one timezone for the whole of South Africa
Like what happen to blood river the battle the zulus won, fighting against guns using bows arrows spears and shields
You guys would be called MLUNGU . Translating to white person. A lot of these facts are quite old and not true anymore, some were not true at all, but a lot was accurate. Maybe you guys can get a South African to do an updated version for you. 😏. Hamba kahle Mlungu's. lol
Must be champions at any racism challenge,we blame everything wrong on our wicked past,most of us live in buckets,we love pointing fingers and blaming others, we just happen to be good at destruction, we lack education but are too clever,foreigners allways abuse us, we've become very lazy, we hate each other, divorce is fashionable,corruption is a sport impunity the prize.we believe in nothing, have been promised everything,love anything American but hate colonialism, abuse one another whenever possible, we are just south africans.
I will gladly send you great South African travel, music and adverts, just let me know where I can send them.
Employment figures are very skewed as the informal market trades the equivalent of 24% of tbe countries GDP but as informal traders are not registered tax payers they are counted as unemployed.
Do research on the blue, green and white train aswell as the shosholoza mile
Okay a few facts left out in this video are that the protests were not peacefull. Mandela and his people had planted bombs and car bombs which resulted in the deaths of innocent men, women and children. This was the reason for his imprisonment and the ban of the ANC. At the time of his releasing, he was still considered a terrorist internationally. This video does leave out quite a bit of the true history. If you want, I will send you more historical facts about south africa.
The colored people (as called in SA) of the western cape province speak Afrikaans as a main language
The Cullinan diamond was gifted to the crown. It wasn't stolen.
😂 gifted by who?
@@kingz411the owners of the diamond!
@@kingz411don’t claim it was stolen from the blacks, blacks didn’t even know what they were, they were just stones to them! Sorry but you can’t claim being black and shun colonialism, and still want the benefits of colonialism! All we need to give you back are your loin cloths and wood and cow dung to build your huts!
Gifted by who. It was stolen just like of things
By the owner of the diamond
Being following from Jozi since around 13k on ETS, love your work guys. Knew you'd come around to SA eventually. Cause we're everywhere and mostly rather lekker.
Like I told you guys before, when you get to Cape Town, you have a place to crash and a personal tour guide.
The past is pretty dark but we are trying move on.
Not that dark really if you look at the history of the world and all the horrors that happened. ....but yeah we like to think that unfortunately
The Dutch settlers were only majority Dutch, many French, Walloons and Germands from the beginning too. Together with the Cape Malayans shipped in soon after, they as working and farmer class soon developped their own language relatively different from the Dutch of the VOC ("Dutch East India" company). That's why the oldest Afrikaans was written down in the Arabic script first.
The HIV part hit me hard.
43:32 just learned that Wouter Basson is still alive, wtf
We use 1 time zone
Unless you get a fancy schmancy ticket, I would highly recommend the South African rail system for anything but transport within a city. The infrastructure is struggling BIG TIME :/
Also just wanted to correct you, the diamond was not stolen, it was ltterally found by accident by the mine owner and given as a gift, people will say its stolen simply because it was found here but regardless, the facts dont lie
You should come here black Americans move here to Johannesburg ,Santon is for the rich so they buy there and live on estates because they can get it for cheap with their dollar . You should google Santon then the white Americans and celebrities chose to buy in Cape Town in the rich areas like Clifton Camps Bay ,Sea Point and all along the Atlantic Sea board. Cape Town is like California so the Americans from there would compared it to California but better they say. Please if ever you want information on tour packages you can let me know i will indroduce to companies here in Cape Town or my daughter
Except that Cape Town is much colder than California! Climate wise, California is more like Johannesburg/Pretoria.
Check out the real south africa tourism guys. They represent SA well
South africas healing lasted a short time, as today we are more devided today as we ever were before.
Alternatively, one could say South Africans are still healing
Definitely Capetown
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Yeah guys we are still dealing with this shit.
Keep finding more stuff about South Africa
Yeah better to move on. Its a can of worms that should remain closed. Although Apartheid was wrong, there is always two sides of a story. Not taking away the wrongs, but there were very wrongs on both sidedls.
You are welcome anytime. Just watch other RUclips videos about Americans travelling and even relocating here.
Love you guys
U would be called, Mhlungu
That Bantu migration fact will never make sense to me.
It’s a theory.
That Bantu speaker’s history is bull😂 No SAn comes from the north. Great video otherwise ❤
I always tell people that.
@@wandilekhumalo1255 Bro who started that rumour it’s cringing stuff and whole world believes it, WTF
JOHANNESBURG CITY IS 3 TIMES BIGGER US NEWYORK 🇿🇦🇿🇦😂😂
6:41 what do you mean SA is not melanine inclined
South Africa doesn't have blood diamonds.
Khoi Khoi and San replaced?
😂😂😂😂😂 Khoisan people are the only original South Africans ,*Propagandist
Anyway guys ,you can google our country crossing train,I think the Journey biggins in Cape Town all the way to Congo
I live 10 minutes drive away from those penguins at Boulders. Contact me when you arrive and I''ll advise you on accomodation and tourism. for free!
Just say mixed people
❤🇿🇦🫶🏽great reaction
No the man pays dowry to the wife's family. These days you day have to bring the cows physically, if the wife's family wants 10 cows you must bring money that's equivalent to that.
1 time zone
STOP SAYING WE’RE FROM NORTH AFRICA PLEASE
engliand stole dimonds and usa the gold and thats why their was apartheid so that the rnd could drop to shit that you could get it for cheap
There are no Blood Diamonds in South Africa, you two should read before you start making bets
Green Ambulance
Blood diamonds in South Africa? 😂 please educate yourselves
This was interesting one again lads thank u
Well I listened to First Day and it's decent I must say
Apartheid is spoken openly because of the arrogance of the former oppressors who still want things to go their way and argue that apartheid was not that bad and better than the current government. Imagine such statements in Germany. But South Africans love peace and forgiving people.
Our flag does have meaning and was not used to represent the ANC or the Dutch. Sounds like this guy was thumb sucking some "facts".
Sorry chaps this was heavily sugar coated and not all accurate. Not sure who you speaking to, personally I have not had loadshedding since last November. Check out geography now for SA. Otherwise, enjoyed vid, pls do more😊
South Africa began to heal is the biggest load of shit I've heard since the day was I was born 🤣. The only thing that keeps this country together is Rugby and Dricus Du Plessis the UFC champion
I would call you BIASED
Sugar coated, I'll say about 20% of this are not really facts, this guy left a lot of good and facts that makes South Africa unique, It's sad
I disagree with number 36
React to some SA food videos. You'll be drooling
South African history told by an Englishman. Too many half-truths.
So much incorrect information on this video 🤦🏾♂️
A lot of the "facts" are at a long stretch almost true - but not really. Wow, you should reconsider using a comedian for information...
imo