😂😂 As South Africans... We will fully and confidently discuss apartheid, it's not a taboo subject subject at all. Look into the truth and reconciliation commission, we were forced to discuss everything, and air everyone's dirty laundry.
I'm white and no. That is a generalization. Different parts of the country had different attitudes. Whites aren't even a homogenous group here. We were very divided between English and Afrikaans speakers and there are splits of opinions along generational lines. Every story has 4 different sides here and the truth is somewhere in between.
We actually mention apartheid all the time. We are progressing so rapidly because we acknowledge our history, no matter how uncomfortable. We had the truth and reconciliation commission in which we laid bare the atrocities of apartheid. Victims and families of victims got to face their oppressors and the oppressors got to ask for forgiveness, which they didn't always get. Lots of tears. Lots of healing. We try not to be in denial. Burning books is retarded
South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine was designed for political leverage rather than actual battlefield use, specifically to induce the United States of America to intervene in any regional conflicts between South Africa and the Soviet Union or its proxies. To achieve a minimum credible deterrence, a total of six nuclear weapons were covertly assembled by the late 1980s. The nuclear weapons were disarmed in 1989 during the South African Republic years and not the current day Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
They did mention that they did it, but they failed to mention that were the only ones. However, didn't Ukraine also give up its nuclear arms capacity in exchange for foreign security guarantees? I suppose it depends on your definition of "voluntarily". Do you mean without outside pressure?
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Ukraine got screwed over by BOTH Russia and the USA. Their deal includes that Russia would not invade Ukraine BUT it also said the USA would promise to outright actively defend Ukraine in case it got attacked by any country. Both broke the deal. Russia did invade Ukraine and the USA did not actively defend Ukraine.
Americans that visit our country often says our air are more breathable and much cleaner. South African's that visits America often say that American food have so much additives in it that the taste becomes unrecognizable.
We have plenty of American tourists so you may not stand out as much as you think. Especially in the larger cities, especially Cape Town. Uber is plentiful and relatively cheap in the larger cities. You can pay for almost anything, anywhere with a credit card (VISA or Mastercard, American Express is not as widely accepted). It is easy to rent a car and to rent a cellphone or just get a local prepaid SIM card (I think there are even things called eSIMs which mean you don't even need a SIM card but I don't know the details). Internet access is plentiful with most coffee shops, restaurants and accommodation offering good WiFi. There are many restaurants in South Africa ranging from fast food to world class cuisine and eating out is relatively cheap. I think like anywhere else if you treat people with kindness and respect you won't go far wrong. I think you will find almost all South Africans open and friendly towards Americans. It is worth noting that a lot of establishments now have backup power so many don't experience any times without electricity so the loadshedding is not bad if you're a tourist and can afford to stay in places that have backup power (which you can on USD). In short South Africa is very tourist friendly and I think an easy place to visit for 'first worlders'. And you can really just be who you are. We have so many different people of different backgrounds and cultures and origins so we all just kind of get along.
It is customary to tip waiters at restaurants 10% and waiters are very reliant on tips just like the US. You only wouldn't tip if the waiter was really bad. And tipping more than 10% is always welcomed of course.
GrahamMaher it's fascinating that Uber is a thing in South Africa. I'm black South African living in the UK since 1996 and Uber is virtually unknown in Scotland 😂😅. I've never used it here though it exists but only in bigger towns in Scotland but it's not something know of here yet in South Africa it's a huge thing
There's dozens of Khoisan languages set to go extinct with this current generation along with their culture and history and for political and populist reasons the government basically ignores the existence of the Khoisan. Help!
We literally have an institution called the truth and reconciliation council made with sole purpose of discussing apartheid and correcting all the wrongs. In that way we've made it okay to talk about what happened so we can all figure it out together and find ways to move forward together. Not taboo at all. We don't run from those convos👍
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football. (The habit of adding -er to nicknames in British vernacular is frequently attributed to Oxford students of that period, and can be found in other sporting slang such as “rugger” for rugby.
All i can say is there is a vibe. There is a feeling you get. Its like we all connected once you get off the plane you can feel it .. the food is awesome and the weather.
Just come visit us in Cape Town. We have it all, braai, melktert, the red bus so you can visit wine farms, penguins, the mountain, flora and a few amazing nature reserves. There are also direct flights to the Kruger Nat Park, an absolute must.
The three capitals thing was made to make sure there is no single centre of power, to make sure it would be much harder to capture and consolidate power under one racial. ethnic or political group, even one person with dictatorial goals. It is separation of power in a literal sense, not just in legal document.
Its also a useful tool to deter invasions...harder for a larger nation to take over the country when they are fighting on multiple fronts to take a country you need its capital kinda interesting when you think about it
@@JACKBOOT12 That is very very true. In fact, not long ago, the US persuaded Botswana, our neighbour to the north, to build a US air force base in their south, where there is nothing but the South African border and the nearest capital is Pretoria, where the president and cabinet are. South Africa successfully pressured Botswana not to go ahead with it because it was clearly meant to threaten or intimidate the country. But even if it were built and attacked, and somehow got passed the defences to get to Pretoria, there is still a succession plan and the third in line to the presidency is way down in Cape Town, the 4th in line is in Bloemfontein, 5th in Cape Town, 6th usually resides in Port Elizabeth. Good luck trying to invade or stage a coup. It's possible but it is hard.
Most people drive manual cars here by the way. Worth knowing. Although there are lots of automatics too and you can easily request an automatic hire vehicle.
South Africans are not afraid to talk about apartheid. Talking is what helped us heal. We founded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission just to talk about the horrors of apartheid. It helps to talk.
I don't want to be *that* guy, but by what metric? In the 1950s and 60s is was great if you were white. By the 1980s SA faced an international debt crisis which crippled the economy. We had a brief window of optimism in the mid/late 90s with that rainbow nation bs and currently it seems to be a great country for criminals in/outside of government. Am I missing something? 💙💙
@@marco8081a more referring to potential! With new leadership we will great again! The worlds leaders are pretty bad at the moment though so, we'll wait for change!
Before the Union of South Africa happened in 1910, there were four colonies, namely the former British Colonies of Cape Colony (now Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces) and Natal (now Kwazulu Natal province), and then the former Boer colonies of Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (between 1902 and 1994 known as the Transvaal province, now Gauteng, NorthWest, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces) as well as the Orange Free State (now the Freestate province). The Capitals were divided so that the union could be more fair. So Cape Town represented the two british colonies, Bloemfontein the Freesate, and Pretoria the Transvaal.
South Africa, especially Cape Town should be viewed as 'AFRICA LITE'. You have all the natural beauty with the benefits of modern conveniences. As a Cape Coloured, I suggest deep diving into that topic because it is worthy of video all on its own. When you come to Cape Town, my house is open to you
Did the Gardenroute, Capetown to durban in 2003. As well as visit some friends that migrated in the early 90s to Swellendam en Stellenbosch. It holds a special place in my ❤. The only place on the African continent i want to revisit. Loved The people, the landscape and the food (Biltong, Braai !!! 😂, the US does a good BBQ, but a S.A. Braai is right up there.) But i sometimes fear for my friends and families well being tho, just coz they are white farmers. They arent even South African nationals and had nothing to do with racewars. I realise i get one sided views, so i try to get info besides the family and friends that live there, but it worries me. For example the Penuel show podcast on Konvo channel is where i get alternate views as an outsider. It remains hard to judge what is going on on the ground when you're not living there ofcourse. So maybe my view is wrong, But i hope things improve because the potential of your nation is truly limitless.🤘🇧🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇲❤️🇿🇦
"Africa Lite" what an embarrassing statement to make. There are lots of nice places all over Africa, respect the continent please. I know your people don't know where they fit in, but please respect the continent.
The splitting of capital's does hamper meetings and stuff, but als with the separation of government in different locations across the country it does make it harder to collectively take out the entire government.
It is, estimated 1 million or more whites have left south africa for other countries.... Most are in UK .. When l visited UK l was told so many live near Wimbledon THE councilor had trouble get votes in his area.... There used to be 6 million now 4.5 milluon.
My daughter left because of Bee... It is rare to find white people working behind counter in shops and businesses.... Usually seen in own businesses or practices.
There are dangerous areas same as America..... CAUTION an American tourist arrived at Cape Town Airport hired a car and followed the GPS instead of looking at map and doing his homework... He went through Guguletu an African township.... Was, shot in hijacking incident... Fortunately he survived.... So stick to freeway and stay on Gautrain in Johannesburg... Don't get off in random areas.
South Africa faces enormous challenges... 33% of south Africans are unemployed... Almost 20 million people..... 18 million are on social grants.... There are only 12 million private tax payers but 7 million pay 80 % of the tax... 700 odd companies and organisation's.
Yeah I feel that South Africa is a bit too reliant on tourism and not doing enough to bolster local industry. Although this isn't unique to South Africa, many countries are having trouble keeping up with cheaply manufactured goods from other third world countries and we all have to come to a solution quickly.
@@flipster7285 definitely, doesn't help that government fails to bring down the cost of reliable energy for the remaining local businesses to operate without having to spend large quantities of money themselves.
Get with it - our infrastructure has just about collapsed after 30 yrs of mismanagement....no rail system to speak of anymore and the roads are more potholes than tar in most places. A great country that has sunk to 3rd world status after being a leader in the continent. And yes, I'm South African
South African Coloured may not necessarily be mixed, they are some bi-racial, but coloured descend from the Khoi San or original Bushmen (First Men) of the area so not mixed.
@@TheHuny85 the ones that don't are Cape Malay but still call themselves coloureds. Coloureds come from the Griqua which is a branch off from the Khoisan with Dutch influence.
@@BottomlessCoffee. yeah just like the coloureds from Durban who have Zulu and the United Kingdom ancestry ,Since they have Nguni blood they do have Khoisan ancestry because Zulus have it .
Always greet people first, even ask how they are, before asking your questions. And say thank you. All the languages of SA are not spoken everywhere, so you will not e.g. use a Sotho language in Cape Town, you will use Xhosa (Molo/Molweni, Kunjani?, Enkosi, etc). In the north people won't speak Xhosa, but mostly Zulu (Sawubona, Hamba kahle, etc) and Sepedi (Dumela/Dumelang, Ke a leboga, etc). English is spoken everywhere, and Afrikaans in most places. Try to learn a few local words in all our languages, we don't necessarily use American words or pronunciation to refer to things, for example clothing items, food, etc. We also call traffic lights 'robots', haha! Remember that SA, like many other countries, use the metric system. We refer to metres, kilometres, kilograms, degrees Celsius, etc. We use a 24-hour time system, for example, you will see that trading hours are 8:00-18:00, or an event starts at 20:00. Yes, we drive on the left, and 'keep left, pass right', even as pedestrians, lol! Most cars are manual, and of course right-hand drive. Also remember that our seasons are the opposite of the northern hemisphere (December is hot, we don't have a white Christmas!), and that we have different climates here, e.g. it rains in winter (June to August) in the Western Cape, but in summer (October to February) in the rest of the country. And don't use the word barbeque, it is BRAAI!
'Coloured' is an Apartheid era race classification that remained. It consists of mixed race people, the Khoisan, the Cape Malay who are decedents of Indonesian and Malaysian slaves.
Thanks I wanted to make a comment mentioning that most coloureds would trace their lineage to the Khoisan and Cape Malay and not specifically from race mixing although that did happen in the community as well.
Your facts are not entirely correct. Whites played a huge part in forming the race, hence a lot have European like surnames, Coetzee, Le Grange, etc. You won't get that if the make up was just Indonesian or Malayian (not Malaysian) or Khoi which became extinct most probably in the first century of the colony. Today the coloureds are a fully recognised race.
Interesting fact. During the early years after the Dutch settled in 1652 there were not apartheid or "purity laws" and a lot of the settlers married Khoi or San women leading to a lot of the modern whites carrying Khoi or San genes. After the Brits took over they installed "purity laws" prohibiting interracial marriages.
The coloures are basically 5 generations of mixed people, mixing among themselves. Therefore some look closer to white, whilst others look closer to black. Also, there are still "light skinned" black people that are not classified as coloured. It's a complex issue, you won't fully grasp it as an outsider.
In SA, Apartheid is not a topic we shun. We are free to discuss it, we have textbooks covering the topic and they are uncontested. We were all there during apartheid, we felt it, we live with trauma thereof. To deny the topic it is to be heartless.
No topics are off the table to discuss in SA. We aren't sensitive about anything! I can understand why Americans are sensitive about certain topics, lots of controversial topics that affect world opinions, being an economic powerhouse. There has been much improvement about racial issues. The lingo and words are a cool factor! We laugh together across racial barriers. ❤ Your accent will make you noticed! Just have fun and be yourself and be safe. Speak to a tourist organisation. 🇿🇦
It's harder to take over a country with 3 Capitals. For the US to fall they'd just have to take over DC, in South Africa they'd have to take over Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Cape Town all at once. You should definitely check out Leon Schuster
Correction the native people of South Africa do not originate from other countries outside SA,our great great grandfathers yes they were born here ,we have our own cultures always have always will .We do not even share a single language with other African countries outside of South Africa except for those Tribes who were driven of of the country during tribal wars like the Ndebele people who m you will find in Zimbabwe,These guys need to do a little bit of research on that note,its a bit disturbing to find that only Khois sans and Bushman people are the only people who originally belong to this land😂😂😂😂,*Agenda*
In an older video you spoke of attending a performance by Ballywho. In 1974 a South African band by the same name started and produced one of the countless first hits ... ruclips.net/video/hVhAL4snonM/видео.htmlsi=r9j_KoeGv1wgYYTK
Load shedding is a thing of the past so you don’t have to worry about it. South Africa 🇿🇦 is the only country in Africa that have the most incredible universities and we rank with the European and American 🇺🇸 universities world wide. University of Cape Town, University of KwaZulu Natal, University of Pretoria, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg and Cape Peninsula University ❤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️ we are the best
You really think loadshedding is gone? The ANC is just trying to score some brownie points so that all the idiots vote for them again. When elections are done and ANC win....again.....loadshedding will be back and it will come back hard
How can they say Afrikaners weren't related to the continent when they were born there many generations? The British had no relations as a colonial power
The division of the three branches of govt is due to the history between the Voortrekkers and the British. The Union of South Africa was divided between the Cape, OVS (Free State), Transvaal and Natal. They agreed that they should split the capitals between the British (Cape) and Boers (Ovs & Trvl), more of splitting of power. Natal missed out.
The traditional kings don't rule provinces... They rule their traditional tribal lands and they allow their tribes people to live free on pieces of land.... This presents a problem because they can't get credit from the bank if they want to farm on large scale because they have no title deed.
If you like bubbly - try the MCC (Methode Cap Classique). A favourite wine estate of mine is Simonsig, situated outside Stellenbosch, close to Cape Town.
Black people all belong to a tribe with tribal lands... The chief gives them permission to occupy a piece of land for free....if they have certain services like electricity then The chief may ask them to pay toward these services.... So why are there shacks in our cities... People gravitate to cities for jobs... A study found most black people have 2 dwellings one in city and one in rural area.... The city dwelling could just be a shack because, urbanization has occurred at increased rate over years.
The load shedding could be true, there were times when we'd have load shedding for 12 hours, but that was rare and could be attributed to cable theft at times.
😂😂😂😂 Yeah she's got Afrikaans undertones to her accent. Or maybe she didn't grow up in Joburg, Cape Town or Durban so she just picked up the regional English accent where she grew up.
The Geography Now guys didn't cover an important part of archeology in SA, the study of early hominids and early humans. I guess they didn't want to piss off religious people. ps. you can mention Apartheid if your in SA, it's not some secret we swept under the rug so that no one can see our dirty history (if that makes sense).
Also, this video is obviously a bit outdated since we won the World Cup Rugby last year (2023) again, making it four times and the most rugby world cup wins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup
What I don't like about that Geography Now episode is the guest, she is so clueless about our languages and culture. The way she pronounce things 😬 I wish a person like gophari would do a better job than her. I'm sure 90% of SA don't use the word Jol 😂
Oh no, I hope my ears were wrong, but no He definitely said kalamari, he forgot the "h" in Kalahari 🤣🤣🤣 I guess that happens if you pronounce something quickly
This is so flawed. "Khoisan" is a 20th century ahistoric term by Schulze. San and khoi were an AFRICAN 'ways of life' reference: hunter & pastoralist respectively. During the advent of the colonial era, all the then minor ascendant houses which became polities (Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, etc) , are the descent by the tens of millions of the ancient pygmies and proto-agrarians. "Khoisan" was an ahistoric 20th century fiction created by Schulze. *For millennia the South African native, of whichever way of life, was a blend of African pygmy and proto-agrarian, long before Europeans or Asians ever made it to the Cape.* Tuu (khoekhoegowab) and Ba'Ntu was just a matter of dialect. Today people online disingenuously like focusing pictures on MIXED-race VOC droster descendants as being an ahistoric singular group called "khoisan". Euro descendant settler colonists and Asian VOC colonists engage in this "khoisan" propaganda online incessantly because they have a lot of property interests to lose.
Every ethnic group was asked we what they wanted to be called by and coloureds voted for coloured.... No one asked America how they felt about this l guess.
I hope these people have updated their video. Most of their facts and stats are so outdated it makes me cringe (referring to the Geography Now channel) And the condescending foreigners trying to dis our sport and not even featuring our proper musical influence is cringe as hell.
It's FNB Stadium, Soccer City was a trade name for the FIFA World Cup, same with Cape Town stadium was 'Green Point stadium' and now DHL stadium for Rugby franchise trade.
Some of the historical parts are not accurate.When the dutch moved inland they were not known as Afrikaners they spoke dutch and were dutch.The slave history in Cape Town was left out which was actually an integral part of how SA came to be.Original Afrikaners are not white.
Of course split capitals would hamper meetings and stuff, you don't want the executive branche and the judicial branche meeting up regularly, especially not privately. Afrikaans is a seperate language from Dutch and it is mutually intelligable for a large part but not that easily. Actually the first scritpt Afrikaans was written is Arabic, because of the Cape Malayans more or less. The Dutch spoke Dutch and wrote in Dutch, Afrikaans was the language of the working class, the farmers (Boer is Dutch for farmer), the sailors (including Asians), the servants, so with lots of non Dutch influences from the beginning. It's stripped of many complexities and even more direct, fit to tell it like it is, than Dutch. Apartheid is one of the words that is not mutually intelligable. It did not exist in Dutch but could be construed, and then it would mean peculiarness. We know what it is of course, the Dutch protested apartheid in SA more than any Western nation, but as a foreign word.
Dutch didn't protest apartheid more than everyone. Vervooed was BORN in Netherlands and reflected sentiment in Holland the time which is that many Dutch were happy with imperialism
@@southernafricanboy4148 No, the Dutch anti-apartheidsmovement was founded in the 50's, a bit of middle class housewives project at first, but still. That was when the USA still didn't have anything resembling racial equality. Verwoerd spend the first 2 years of being a baby in the Netherlands, that's it. Obviously not enough and too young to take in any positive influences.
This is all true. And it reflects the the people of South Africa. They did not mention the politics and those in power that undermine the people. But the people of South Africa are very resilient and try very hard to move forward each day dispite the lack of good leadership. People of South Africa have heart and soul and are proud but yet very humble in the way the interact with each other.
I'm South African. What a joke it is. The country is about to fall economically, socially, politically, macro,micro, in , out, down,up,inside,outside,reverse, forward. Nice history though
😂😂 As South Africans... We will fully and confidently discuss apartheid, it's not a taboo subject subject at all. Look into the truth and reconciliation commission, we were forced to discuss everything, and air everyone's dirty laundry.
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Agreed
I was just thinking that! The comparison to Trump?! Massive respect to you guys..💜🏴🌻
It's not a taboo subject at all? It is among white people 😅
I'm white and no. That is a generalization. Different parts of the country had different attitudes. Whites aren't even a homogenous group here. We were very divided between English and Afrikaans speakers and there are splits of opinions along generational lines. Every story has 4 different sides here and the truth is somewhere in between.
We actually mention apartheid all the time. We are progressing so rapidly because we acknowledge our history, no matter how uncomfortable. We had the truth and reconciliation commission in which we laid bare the atrocities of apartheid. Victims and families of victims got to face their oppressors and the oppressors got to ask for forgiveness, which they didn't always get. Lots of tears. Lots of healing. We try not to be in denial. Burning books is retarded
What they also fail to mention was South Africa is the only country in the world to voluntarily disarm its nuclear weapons program
South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine was designed for political leverage rather than actual battlefield use, specifically to induce the United States of America to intervene in any regional conflicts between South Africa and the Soviet Union or its proxies. To achieve a minimum credible deterrence, a total of six nuclear weapons were covertly assembled by the late 1980s.
The nuclear weapons were disarmed in 1989 during the South African Republic years and not the current day Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
@@bodigames Either way, it was done
They did mention that they did it, but they failed to mention that were the only ones. However, didn't Ukraine also give up its nuclear arms capacity in exchange for foreign security guarantees? I suppose it depends on your definition of "voluntarily". Do you mean without outside pressure?
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Ukraine got screwed over by BOTH Russia and the USA.
Their deal includes that Russia would not invade Ukraine BUT it also said the USA would promise to outright actively defend Ukraine in case it got attacked by any country.
Both broke the deal. Russia did invade Ukraine and the USA did not actively defend Ukraine.
@@bodigames I mean that much is pretty obvious in retrospect, but it doesn't really impact the voluntary nature of Ukraine's agreeing to the deal.
In South Africa we talk about Apartheid we dont tiptoe around it. Its part of our history we r not ashame of it
Like Kathrine said, it doesn't matter where you live in the world we South Africans always feel like SA is our home
We can not have our eggs in 1 basket... you'll never know where to attack
Americans that visit our country often says our air are more breathable and much cleaner. South African's that visits America often say that American food have so much additives in it that the taste becomes unrecognizable.
Those idiots I've seen online who say South Africa is a direction and not a country need to watch this. Would blow their tiny minds 😂
So glad you mentioned the Coloured community of SA. This has sparked so many conversations especially since Tyla became famous.
We have plenty of American tourists so you may not stand out as much as you think. Especially in the larger cities, especially Cape Town. Uber is plentiful and relatively cheap in the larger cities. You can pay for almost anything, anywhere with a credit card (VISA or Mastercard, American Express is not as widely accepted). It is easy to rent a car and to rent a cellphone or just get a local prepaid SIM card (I think there are even things called eSIMs which mean you don't even need a SIM card but I don't know the details). Internet access is plentiful with most coffee shops, restaurants and accommodation offering good WiFi. There are many restaurants in South Africa ranging from fast food to world class cuisine and eating out is relatively cheap. I think like anywhere else if you treat people with kindness and respect you won't go far wrong. I think you will find almost all South Africans open and friendly towards Americans. It is worth noting that a lot of establishments now have backup power so many don't experience any times without electricity so the loadshedding is not bad if you're a tourist and can afford to stay in places that have backup power (which you can on USD). In short South Africa is very tourist friendly and I think an easy place to visit for 'first worlders'. And you can really just be who you are. We have so many different people of different backgrounds and cultures and origins so we all just kind of get along.
It is customary to tip waiters at restaurants 10% and waiters are very reliant on tips just like the US. You only wouldn't tip if the waiter was really bad. And tipping more than 10% is always welcomed of course.
GrahamMaher it's fascinating that Uber is a thing in South Africa. I'm black South African living in the UK since 1996 and Uber is virtually unknown in Scotland 😂😅. I've never used it here though it exists but only in bigger towns in Scotland but it's not something know of here yet in South Africa it's a huge thing
@southernafricanboy4148 we have our own local versions of Uber, too
There's dozens of Khoisan languages set to go extinct with this current generation along with their culture and history and for political and populist reasons the government basically ignores the existence of the Khoisan. Help!
Where are my South African family ❤🇿🇦🇿🇦proudly South African here my beautiful Country.
We literally have an institution called the truth and reconciliation council made with sole purpose of discussing apartheid and correcting all the wrongs. In that way we've made it okay to talk about what happened so we can all figure it out together and find ways to move forward together. Not taboo at all. We don't run from those convos👍
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football. (The habit of adding -er to nicknames in British vernacular is frequently attributed to Oxford students of that period, and can be found in other sporting slang such as “rugger” for rugby.
the 3 Capitals was chosen as a spread of power throughout the country after a dispute in 1910 when the Union of South Africa was formed
All i can say is there is a vibe. There is a feeling you get. Its like we all connected once you get off the plane you can feel it .. the food is awesome and the weather.
There are hundreds of wine producers , mostly in the Western Cape province
Loved it when at 10:10 he just renamed our Kalahari and called it calamari 😂
Just come visit us in Cape Town. We have it all, braai, melktert, the red bus so you can visit wine farms, penguins, the mountain, flora and a few amazing nature reserves. There are also direct flights to the Kruger Nat Park, an absolute must.
Arnold Vosloo, who played the Mummy in The Mummy is also South African
Tugela Falls are now recognised as the higher waterfall overtaking Angle falls
The three capitals thing was made to make sure there is no single centre of power, to make sure it would be much harder to capture and consolidate power under one racial. ethnic or political group, even one person with dictatorial goals. It is separation of power in a literal sense, not just in legal document.
Its also a useful tool to deter invasions...harder for a larger nation to take over the country when they are fighting on multiple fronts to take a country you need its capital kinda interesting when you think about it
@@JACKBOOT12 That is very very true. In fact, not long ago, the US persuaded Botswana, our neighbour to the north, to build a US air force base in their south, where there is nothing but the South African border and the nearest capital is Pretoria, where the president and cabinet are. South Africa successfully pressured Botswana not to go ahead with it because it was clearly meant to threaten or intimidate the country. But even if it were built and attacked, and somehow got passed the defences to get to Pretoria, there is still a succession plan and the third in line to the presidency is way down in Cape Town, the 4th in line is in Bloemfontein, 5th in Cape Town, 6th usually resides in Port Elizabeth. Good luck trying to invade or stage a coup. It's possible but it is hard.
Most people drive manual cars here by the way. Worth knowing. Although there are lots of automatics too and you can easily request an automatic hire vehicle.
Be yourself and say " HALLO" before ask a question....then you be allright..South Afarica
South Africans are not afraid to talk about apartheid. Talking is what helped us heal. We founded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission just to talk about the horrors of apartheid.
It helps to talk.
Best country ever!
I don't want to be *that* guy, but by what metric? In the 1950s and 60s is was great if you were white. By the 1980s SA faced an international debt crisis which crippled the economy. We had a brief window of optimism in the mid/late 90s with that rainbow nation bs and currently it seems to be a great country for criminals in/outside of government. Am I missing something? 💙💙
@@marco8081a more referring to potential!
With new leadership we will great again! The worlds leaders are pretty bad at the moment though so, we'll wait for change!
@@GaragePie22 Hey bro (sis?) I hear you. Not disagreeing on that at all. This is gonna be the first election I vote in🤞
@@marco8081a excellent! Get lots of people around you to vote! Let's rebuild!
Before the Union of South Africa happened in 1910, there were four colonies, namely the former British Colonies of Cape Colony (now Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces) and Natal (now Kwazulu Natal province), and then the former Boer colonies of Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (between 1902 and 1994 known as the Transvaal province, now Gauteng, NorthWest, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces) as well as the Orange Free State (now the Freestate province). The Capitals were divided so that the union could be more fair. So Cape Town represented the two british colonies, Bloemfontein the Freesate, and Pretoria the Transvaal.
South Africa, especially Cape Town should be viewed as 'AFRICA LITE'. You have all the natural beauty with the benefits of modern conveniences. As a Cape Coloured, I suggest deep diving into that topic because it is worthy of video all on its own. When you come to Cape Town, my house is open to you
Did the Gardenroute, Capetown to durban in 2003. As well as visit some friends that migrated in the early 90s to Swellendam en Stellenbosch. It holds a special place in my ❤. The only place on the African continent i want to revisit. Loved The people, the landscape and the food (Biltong, Braai !!! 😂, the US does a good BBQ, but a S.A. Braai is right up there.)
But i sometimes fear for my friends and families well being tho, just coz they are white farmers. They arent even South African nationals and had nothing to do with racewars. I realise i get one sided views, so i try to get info besides the family and friends that live there, but it worries me. For example the Penuel show podcast on Konvo channel is where i get alternate views as an outsider. It remains hard to judge what is going on on the ground when you're not living there ofcourse. So maybe my view is wrong, But i hope things improve because the potential of your nation is truly limitless.🤘🇧🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇲❤️🇿🇦
Such a beautiful country you have 💚
"Africa Lite" what an embarrassing statement to make. There are lots of nice places all over Africa, respect the continent please. I know your people don't know where they fit in, but please respect the continent.
The splitting of capital's does hamper meetings and stuff, but als with the separation of government in different locations across the country it does make it harder to collectively take out the entire government.
Black people talk about apartheid all the time....most White south Africans are not as obsessed with politics like Americans.
It is, estimated 1 million or more whites have left south africa for other countries.... Most are in UK .. When l visited UK l was told so many live near Wimbledon THE councilor had trouble get votes in his area.... There used to be 6 million now 4.5 milluon.
My daughter left because of Bee... It is rare to find white people working behind counter in shops and businesses.... Usually seen in own businesses or practices.
There are dangerous areas same as America..... CAUTION an American tourist arrived at Cape Town Airport hired a car and followed the GPS instead of looking at map and doing his homework... He went through Guguletu an African township.... Was, shot in hijacking incident... Fortunately he survived.... So stick to freeway and stay on Gautrain in Johannesburg... Don't get off in random areas.
Most current politicians doesn't attend even if it is around the corner from them. The ones that does consider it nap time.
We literally have a stadium called soccer city 😂
No it's called FNB Stadium
South Africa faces enormous challenges... 33% of south Africans are unemployed... Almost 20 million people..... 18 million are on social grants.... There are only 12 million private tax payers but 7 million pay 80 % of the tax... 700 odd companies and organisation's.
Yeah I feel that South Africa is a bit too reliant on tourism and not doing enough to bolster local industry. Although this isn't unique to South Africa, many countries are having trouble keeping up with cheaply manufactured goods from other third world countries and we all have to come to a solution quickly.
@@BottomlessCoffee.Problem is that some government policies are not conducive for the establishment and sustainability of local businesses.
@@flipster7285 definitely, doesn't help that government fails to bring down the cost of reliable energy for the remaining local businesses to operate without having to spend large quantities of money themselves.
Get with it - our infrastructure has just about collapsed after 30 yrs of mismanagement....no rail system to speak of anymore and the roads are more potholes than tar in most places. A great country that has sunk to 3rd world status after being a leader in the continent. And yes, I'm South African
apartheid in South Africa was abolished in 1994
But unfortunately discrimination still exists
1990 actually. The first truly democratic election was in 1994. But Apartheid ended in 1990
This video is old the Springbok Rugby Team has won the rugby World Cup 4 times.
Im an Aussie amd think South Africa is so gorgeous - id love to go there
South African Coloured may not necessarily be mixed, they are some bi-racial, but coloured descend from the Khoi San or original Bushmen (First Men) of the area so not mixed.
Thank you. It saddens me slightly that some South Africans don't know their own history sometimes.
Not all coloureds come from San or Khoi dont lie.
@@TheHuny85 the ones that don't are Cape Malay but still call themselves coloureds. Coloureds come from the Griqua which is a branch off from the Khoisan with Dutch influence.
@@BottomlessCoffee. yeah just like the coloureds from Durban who have Zulu and the United Kingdom ancestry ,Since they have Nguni blood they do have Khoisan ancestry because Zulus have it .
BTW, in S.Africa "black" is Zulu, Swazi, etc etc, but "Coloured" is pan-genetic.
Always greet people first, even ask how they are, before asking your questions. And say thank you.
All the languages of SA are not spoken everywhere, so you will not e.g. use a Sotho language in Cape Town, you will use Xhosa (Molo/Molweni, Kunjani?, Enkosi, etc). In the north people won't speak Xhosa, but mostly Zulu (Sawubona, Hamba kahle, etc) and Sepedi (Dumela/Dumelang, Ke a leboga, etc). English is spoken everywhere, and Afrikaans in most places. Try to learn a few local words in all our languages, we don't necessarily use American words or pronunciation to refer to things, for example clothing items, food, etc. We also call traffic lights 'robots', haha!
Remember that SA, like many other countries, use the metric system. We refer to metres, kilometres, kilograms, degrees Celsius, etc. We use a 24-hour time system, for example, you will see that trading hours are 8:00-18:00, or an event starts at 20:00.
Yes, we drive on the left, and 'keep left, pass right', even as pedestrians, lol! Most cars are manual, and of course right-hand drive.
Also remember that our seasons are the opposite of the northern hemisphere (December is hot, we don't have a white Christmas!), and that we have different climates here, e.g. it rains in winter (June to August) in the Western Cape, but in summer (October to February) in the rest of the country.
And don't use the word barbeque, it is BRAAI!
The idea behind the three capitals was to have some separation between the executive and the judiciary.
Watch District 9 one of the best movies ever made
We have about 40 days without energy as we speak May 2024
Without or with🤔
Watch Mr Bones by Leon Schuster , you will laugh for 2 hrs straight😭
The band Seether originates from South Africa too.
There have been discussions about moving parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria but cost seem prohibitive.
There's a lot of countries that drive on the left. Australia. New Zealand. South Africa. Japan. England.
Former British Colonies drive on the left.
'Coloured' is an Apartheid era race classification that remained. It consists of mixed race people, the Khoisan, the Cape Malay who are decedents of Indonesian and Malaysian slaves.
Thanks I wanted to make a comment mentioning that most coloureds would trace their lineage to the Khoisan and Cape Malay and not specifically from race mixing although that did happen in the community as well.
Your facts are not entirely correct. Whites played a huge part in forming the race, hence a lot have European like surnames, Coetzee, Le Grange, etc. You won't get that if the make up was just Indonesian or Malayian (not Malaysian) or Khoi which became extinct most probably in the first century of the colony. Today the coloureds are a fully recognised race.
Sorry we have 40 days without loadshedding , no blackouts
Its election month 😂
Soo naive. It's election time. 😂😂
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Interesting fact. During the early years after the Dutch settled in 1652 there were not apartheid or "purity laws" and a lot of the settlers married Khoi or San women leading to a lot of the modern whites carrying Khoi or San genes. After the Brits took over they installed "purity laws" prohibiting interracial marriages.
"whites carrying Khoi or San genes" You mean coloreds?
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How the heck did we miss that?!?! We love us some DMB!
The coloures are basically 5 generations of mixed people, mixing among themselves. Therefore some look closer to white, whilst others look closer to black. Also, there are still "light skinned" black people that are not classified as coloured. It's a complex issue, you won't fully grasp it as an outsider.
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In SA, Apartheid is not a topic we shun. We are free to discuss it, we have textbooks covering the topic and they are uncontested. We were all there during apartheid, we felt it, we live with trauma thereof. To deny the topic it is to be heartless.
Uh, I've never had load shedding from 6am to 2pm. Maybe for a period of 2 to 4 hours within that time but not for that full period
No topics are off the table to discuss in SA. We aren't sensitive about anything! I can understand why Americans are sensitive about certain topics, lots of controversial topics that affect world opinions, being an economic powerhouse. There has been much improvement about racial issues. The lingo and words are a cool factor! We laugh together across racial barriers. ❤
Your accent will make you noticed! Just have fun and be yourself and be safe. Speak to a tourist organisation. 🇿🇦
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It's harder to take over a country with 3 Capitals.
For the US to fall they'd just have to take over DC, in South Africa they'd have to take over Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Cape Town all at once.
You should definitely check out Leon Schuster
Correction the native people of South Africa do not originate from other countries outside SA,our great great grandfathers yes they were born here ,we have our own cultures always have always will .We do not even share a single language with other African countries outside of South Africa except for those Tribes who were driven of of the country during tribal wars like the Ndebele people who m you will find in Zimbabwe,These guys need to do a little bit of research on that note,its a bit disturbing to find that only Khois sans and Bushman people are the only people who originally belong to this land😂😂😂😂,*Agenda*
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Load shedding is a thing of the past so you don’t have to worry about it. South Africa 🇿🇦 is the only country in Africa that have the most incredible universities and we rank with the European and American 🇺🇸 universities world wide. University of Cape Town, University of KwaZulu Natal, University of Pretoria, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg and Cape Peninsula University ❤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️ we are the best
Load shedding is coming back after elections😢😢
@@NkosanaMakhubeledefinitely only halted till after the Elections
You really think loadshedding is gone? The ANC is just trying to score some brownie points so that all the idiots vote for them again. When elections are done and ANC win....again.....loadshedding will be back and it will come back hard
@@NkosanaMakhubele stop lying about your country it’s not healthy at all
@@NkosanaMakhubele we don’t need people like you in South Africa 🇿🇦 we need positivity
For those who can afford it loadshedding doesn't exsist with an inverter and solar panels
Watch the movie
Gods Must be Crazy and
Tsotsi
Guys you NEED to use a compressor / limiter for your final sound mix. I don't want to be riding the volume whole video long.
How can they say Afrikaners weren't related to the continent when they were born there many generations? The British had no relations as a colonial power
Put , dead man's shoes , up for a movie vote
If you like craft beer there is also a wide variety of high quality craft beer.
The division of the three branches of govt is due to the history between the Voortrekkers and the British. The Union of South Africa was divided between the Cape, OVS (Free State), Transvaal and Natal. They agreed that they should split the capitals between the British (Cape) and Boers (Ovs & Trvl), more of splitting of power. Natal missed out.
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The traditional kings don't rule provinces... They rule their traditional tribal lands and they allow their tribes people to live free on pieces of land.... This presents a problem because they can't get credit from the bank if they want to farm on large scale because they have no title deed.
If you like bubbly - try the MCC (Methode Cap Classique). A favourite wine estate of mine is Simonsig, situated outside Stellenbosch, close to Cape Town.
South Africa raised Elon Musk
Black people all belong to a tribe with tribal lands... The chief gives them permission to occupy a piece of land for free....if they have certain services like electricity then The chief may ask them to pay toward these services.... So why are there shacks in our cities... People gravitate to cities for jobs... A study found most black people have 2 dwellings one in city and one in rural area.... The city dwelling could just be a shack because, urbanization has occurred at increased rate over years.
We’ve got some of the best gin’s and beer in the world too…
Loadshedding from 06:00-14:00 🤔😳 Why’s she lying unprovoked?? 4 hours AT MOST. It’s usually 2 hours.
They have told so many lies. They say coloureds are marginalised . How and by whom ? What do coloureds not have that everyone else gets ?
The load shedding could be true, there were times when we'd have load shedding for 12 hours, but that was rare and could be attributed to cable theft at times.
Honestly just the SA government that’s a problem here in South Africa
at 5,59 you show the wrong SA flag
No ways this girl is English south african. She sounds very Afrikaans to me.
It’s the twanging throwing you off 😂 she rolls too much.
She is English speaking South African pukka
😂😂😂😂 Yeah she's got Afrikaans undertones to her accent. Or maybe she didn't grow up in Joburg, Cape Town or Durban so she just picked up the regional English accent where she grew up.
The Geography Now guys didn't cover an important part of archeology in SA, the study of early hominids and early humans. I guess they didn't want to piss off religious people. ps. you can mention Apartheid if your in SA, it's not some secret we swept under the rug so that no one can see our dirty history (if that makes sense).
Also, this video is obviously a bit outdated since we won the World Cup Rugby last year (2023) again, making it four times and the most rugby world cup wins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup
Rather skip Spier, and go on the wine tram in Franschoek, from farm to farm, through the vineyards, overlooked by the mountains. Enjoy!
What I don't like about that Geography Now episode is the guest, she is so clueless about our languages and culture. The way she pronounce things 😬 I wish a person like gophari would do a better job than her. I'm sure 90% of SA don't use the word Jol 😂
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But ever since the election time was getting close this year, we have had electricity everyday for more than 2 months.🤔🤔
A cool movie for you guys is an old one from the 80s called "The Gods Must be Crazy".
Excellent suggestion!!
Oh no, I hope my ears were wrong, but no
He definitely said kalamari, he forgot the "h" in Kalahari 🤣🤣🤣
I guess that happens if you pronounce something quickly
Psssst. About that Rugby thing. It's out of date. The Spring Boks have 5 World Cup titles now.
Four
Actually we won the Rugby World cup 4 times.
The geography video of South Africa was made in 2020 so that is before our 4th World Cup win.
44:00 you keep forgetting Elon musk is south African? Don't worry. He keeps forgetting himself 😅
This is so flawed. "Khoisan" is a 20th century ahistoric term by Schulze.
San and khoi were an AFRICAN 'ways of life' reference: hunter & pastoralist respectively.
During the advent of the colonial era, all the then minor ascendant houses which became polities (Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, etc) , are the descent by the tens of millions of the ancient pygmies and proto-agrarians.
"Khoisan" was an ahistoric 20th century fiction created by Schulze.
*For millennia the South African native, of whichever way of life, was a blend of African pygmy and proto-agrarian, long before Europeans or Asians ever made it to the Cape.*
Tuu (khoekhoegowab) and Ba'Ntu was just a matter of dialect.
Today people online disingenuously like focusing pictures on MIXED-race VOC droster descendants as being an ahistoric singular group called "khoisan".
Euro descendant settler colonists and Asian VOC colonists engage in this "khoisan" propaganda online incessantly because they have a lot of property interests to lose.
Every ethnic group was asked we what they wanted to be called by and coloureds voted for coloured.... No one asked America how they felt about this l guess.
Be Very Careful When Travelling to SA, one of the most dangerous places on earth in terms of violent crime!!
That depends entirely on where you spend your time...
I hope these people have updated their video. Most of their facts and stats are so outdated it makes me cringe (referring to the Geography Now channel)
And the condescending foreigners trying to dis our sport and not even featuring our proper musical influence is cringe as hell.
By the way guys, the biggest stadium in South Africa is called "Soccer City"
It's FNB Stadium, Soccer City was a trade name for the FIFA World Cup, same with Cape Town stadium was 'Green Point stadium' and now DHL stadium for Rugby franchise trade.
@@lehlogonoloditshego9730 Hayi Wena mina ngiyabonga eDK, we've always called iFNB Soccer City thina ekasi
@@stephenmlangeni1243 yes but it doesn't mean it's its name. FNB acquired the naming rights since it was opened in 1989.
@@lehlogonoloditshego9730 I know Bafo ,but we have always called iSoccer City or iStadium thina
@@stephenmlangeni1243 Yeah, both names are correct though.
More geography gents! Australia has it's capital as Canberra, yet Sydney and Perth are more prominant! Switzerland? Same! New Zealand? Same!
Some of the historical parts are not accurate.When the dutch moved inland they were not known as Afrikaners they spoke dutch and were dutch.The slave history in Cape Town was left out which was actually an integral part of how SA came to be.Original Afrikaners are not white.
Of course split capitals would hamper meetings and stuff, you don't want the executive branche and the judicial branche meeting up regularly, especially not privately.
Afrikaans is a seperate language from Dutch and it is mutually intelligable for a large part but not that easily. Actually the first scritpt Afrikaans was written is Arabic, because of the Cape Malayans more or less. The Dutch spoke Dutch and wrote in Dutch, Afrikaans was the language of the working class, the farmers (Boer is Dutch for farmer), the sailors (including Asians), the servants, so with lots of non Dutch influences from the beginning. It's stripped of many complexities and even more direct, fit to tell it like it is, than Dutch.
Apartheid is one of the words that is not mutually intelligable. It did not exist in Dutch but could be construed, and then it would mean peculiarness. We know what it is of course, the Dutch protested apartheid in SA more than any Western nation, but as a foreign word.
Dutch didn't protest apartheid more than everyone. Vervooed was BORN in Netherlands and reflected sentiment in Holland the time which is that many Dutch were happy with imperialism
@@southernafricanboy4148 No, the Dutch anti-apartheidsmovement was founded in the 50's, a bit of middle class housewives project at first, but still. That was when the USA still didn't have anything resembling racial equality.
Verwoerd spend the first 2 years of being a baby in the Netherlands, that's it. Obviously not enough and too young to take in any positive influences.
Sibayi, kalamari
This is all true. And it reflects the the people of South Africa. They did not mention the politics and those in power that undermine the people. But the people of South Africa are very resilient and try very hard to move forward each day dispite the lack of good leadership. People of South Africa have heart and soul and are proud but yet very humble in the way the interact with each other.
Fun fact every south african can understand other south africans languages easily😂
NOT EVERY .I know a lot of white South Africans who cant speak an African language to save their lives
Apertheid started in 1910 with the Union of SA
it officially started in 1948 when the National Party won their first election
Wrong
In the uk we called mixed race ppl half cast
Bo-Kaap, not Bo Kapp...their spelling is atrocious
I'm South African. What a joke it is. The country is about to fall economically, socially, politically, macro,micro, in , out, down,up,inside,outside,reverse, forward. Nice history though
Hopefully you are making your way to Europe.Not just here blowing hot steam
@@TheHuny85europe does not seem much better at the moment.....
Afrikaner only has one A...