How did the Zulus Interact with the Voortrekkers? | The Zulu-Boer War (1835-1839)

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  • @ashwinnmyburgh9364
    @ashwinnmyburgh9364 2 года назад +71

    As a South African, it is good to see these sort of non-racist, no-nonsense videos on our history (both White and Black). I am always sick of seeing the extremely toxic comments or videos people make on these subjects.

    • @bsleds4585
      @bsleds4585 Год назад +2

      Exactly

    • @wildmanlopez9772
      @wildmanlopez9772 10 месяцев назад +3

      Absolutely my wife is South African. Afrikaans culture is beautiful ❤️

    • @kiuk_kiks
      @kiuk_kiks 9 месяцев назад

      @@wildmanlopez9772
      White SA? Boer or British?

    • @wildmanlopez9772
      @wildmanlopez9772 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@kiuk_kiks my wife is a boer

  • @ovs8691
    @ovs8691 4 года назад +271

    Voortrekkers: * Crosses Orange River *
    It's Freestate

  • @josh656
    @josh656 4 года назад +281

    Winston Churchill was so impressed with the Boers he named the British special forces "Commandos".

    • @NerdRivera
      @NerdRivera 3 года назад +9

      @Wolraad Wolltemade Churchill didn't start WWII, he wasn't even PM when the war started.

    • @orangecavalier
      @orangecavalier 3 года назад +5

      @Wolraad Wolltemade lmao

    • @phil9265
      @phil9265 2 года назад +5

      @@NerdRivera That's not what he said.

    • @dardalion3199
      @dardalion3199 Год назад

      Interestingly, I read a story that boer security forces caught Churchill with hollow point dum dum rounds on a train shortly before the anglo-boer war started. This was punishable by death, but they instead just seized the bullets and let him go. History would have turned out so differently if those boers would have executed him for essentially trying to undermine their republics

    • @kiuk_kiks
      @kiuk_kiks 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@NerdRivera
      But Britain did start WWII.

  • @CH-zr7qr
    @CH-zr7qr 4 года назад +102

    Gotta respect you for using that Xhosa click consonant.

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +15

      Still think I'm butchering it but I try :P

    • @aungmyintoo4635
      @aungmyintoo4635 4 года назад +3

      thats really complicated language, have you try to pronounce any of their names?..

  • @a8uella
    @a8uella 4 года назад +138

    Lmao as a South African I can definitely agree with your pronunciation, you sound like your right here 😂 great video, cheers

    • @ovs8691
      @ovs8691 4 года назад +15

      @Klaidi Rubiku There's a massive Cultural and Linguistic difference between an Afrikaner and a Dutchman, why would we still be in this Shithole if there wasnt a difference?

    • @Weda01
      @Weda01 4 года назад +18

      @@ovs8691 It is much easier for a Dutchman to learn Afrikaans, for an Afrikaner to learn Dutch is more difficult as i understand it. For me personally as a Dutchman it is very easy to read or speak Afrikaans without having to learn it.

    • @Ravishrex1
      @Ravishrex1 4 года назад +8

      @@Weda01 As a Afrikaans tour guide I have met many Dutch and German people we were able to speak. The German pronounciation is harder to learn and different. The Dutch however was easier to learn and understand once you get around the accent. I do agree it's easier for the Dutch to understand Afrikaans

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +8

      Glad my pronunciations aren't too horrific!

    • @godworden2768
      @godworden2768 4 года назад +2

      OVS Cause some feel it’s the Promise Land, but the reason Nederland land doesn’t recognize you guys is a) You all chose to stay way back when when you were ordered to leave and b) it wasn’t just Dutchmen, there were people from other areas of Western Europe and The U.K and they all were employed by The Kingdom of The Netherlands.

  • @ferrjuan
    @ferrjuan 4 года назад +133

    The Boers using wagons for warfare Jan Žižka is proud!

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +18

      *Laughs in Czech*

    • @ferrjuan
      @ferrjuan 4 года назад +9

      Tarzan hold your wagons bro no where in my comment did I state that Jan Žižka invented wagon warfare. I am aware that tactic has been used since ancient China. My comment just reflects the fact that anyone with late medieval history knowledge the first name that pops when it comes to wagon warfare is Jan Žižka that’s all.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад +1

      The Hussite Guy?

    • @ferrjuan
      @ferrjuan 3 года назад +2

      @@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 yep

  • @lukesteele3329
    @lukesteele3329 4 года назад +127

    I love the recent South African content. As a South African it's always great to see people elsewhere being interested in our history.
    It sounds weird hearing your Afrikaans as its got a dutch accent to it, very different from the way Americans and Brits normally pronounce these words. I cant comment on your Zulu as I can't speak it but from the little I know and plenty I always hear it's pretty spot on!

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +20

      Thank you so much I really appreciate the feedback and I'm really glad you've been enjoying the content! I try my best with the languages but I guess I'll wait to be corrected by a native Zulu speaker when they come along. Glad my Afrikaans isn't too abysmal haha!

    • @Tethloach1
      @Tethloach1 4 года назад +4

      "Blood river" a interesting map in my all time favorite game. The map " blood river" contains two reactor hooks "power plant/ nuclear reactor looking things" that give you one technology level for each one captured. " Blood River" the map also contains two supply elevators" infinite resources at 300 resources per minute for each supply elevator which goes to about 600/minute if you capture both. The aliens have the upper hand on the map blood river given the teleportation technology and leaders like the Arbiter, Prophet of Regret and Brute Chieftain of the covenant faction from the halo universe. The humans under the union of the UNSC ( United Nations Space Command and the spirit of fire space ship) the humans have to rely on upgraded scout vehicles to even have a chance give the speed at which such vehicles move and the cost effectiveness and versatility of such vehicles. Scout vehicles are need to counter or keep up with alien teleportation technology and leaders and air crafts.

    • @shiningknight1375
      @shiningknight1375 4 года назад +2

      r/unexpectedHalo

    • @TheKalihiMan
      @TheKalihiMan 4 года назад +5

      History With Hilbert I’m not a native speaker (or a speaker at all really) of any of the languages of South Africa (unless you include English), but I will nitpick your pronunciation of the word “Xhosa” a bit. You pronounced the click correctly, but the initial consonant is an aspirated click, if you can wrap your head around that. It’s just like any other aspirated consonant that just so happens to be a click.
      Also, the romanized forms of the Xhosa and Zulu languages represent the click consonants with the letters X for the lateral click, C for the dental click, and Q for the alveolar click, so the letter C in “Mfecane” is actually a dental click.
      As a final point, the letter combinations DL and HL in written Xhosa and Zulu represent the voiced and voiceless dental+alveolar lateral fricatives, respectively, like in the word “Isandlwana”.
      I hope this is helpful.

    • @onetwothreefourfive12345
      @onetwothreefourfive12345 4 года назад +3

      Sorry to hear what has happened to your country. As I understand it Africans have taken over much of the government and are forcing white landowners out

  • @andreispurim
    @andreispurim 4 года назад +97

    I find the overall Voortrekker lifestyle so wild and amazingly unique.

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +14

      Yeah it really is an interesting period of history and place in time to look at!

  • @heinrichzerbe
    @heinrichzerbe 4 года назад +71

    Baie dankie dat jy ons geskiedenis deel Hilbert.

  • @arkadeepkundu4729
    @arkadeepkundu4729 4 года назад +276

    Afrikaner Boers are basically Dutch Australians.
    And Australians are just British Texans.

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +86

      I love the idea of them just being Dutch-speaking cowboys in the South African wilderness

    • @Michael-xj4pp
      @Michael-xj4pp 4 года назад +6

      Where did you get this shit from? Haha

    • @skellagyook
      @skellagyook 4 года назад +19

      Many Texans are also of British descent (often being descended from early American settler/pioneer stock and all), especially of English ancestry and (esp. Lowland) Scottish ancestry. (Other significant groups in Texas include, but are not limited to, Hispanics, Germans, and Native Americans.) (But the Texans/people of the Texan culture people usually think of tend to be of British descent.)

    • @louvendran7273
      @louvendran7273 4 года назад +16

      @@historywithhilbert They are really children of the land. Skilled hunters and trackers and passionate about their rugby.

    • @Tethloach1
      @Tethloach1 4 года назад +1

      that is so confusing.

  • @historywithhilbert
    @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +71

    Thanks for stopping by and watching this one on how the Zulus and the Boere interacted; if you enjoyed it please let me know with a cheeky thumbs up, and if there's anything you'd like to know or want to add please feel free to do so in the comments below! New uploads every Wednesday and Saturday so stay tuned for more!
    Related Videos:
    Zulu Military Tactics:
    ruclips.net/video/SN0toCbXcQo/видео.html
    Rise of the Zulu:
    ruclips.net/video/Ig4Sb53rNpw/видео.html

    • @anatolemerrifield4888
      @anatolemerrifield4888 4 года назад

      Reall quick, does Drenthe actually exist?!?

    • @redcoat4348
      @redcoat4348 4 года назад

      Nice that you actually read the comments section and even reply sometimes.

    • @TimDouglas-Henry
      @TimDouglas-Henry 4 года назад +1

      Hey South African here just wanted to say your pronunciation was great overall.

    • @peterfrancis3865
      @peterfrancis3865 2 года назад

      Where do get this history from ; because we coloureds was slaves of the Afrikaner. The Dutch brought us hear 1600 at the Capetown Slave Lodge. The Afrikaner was with us coloureds from the 1600 to 1900 ; thats when we coloureds received our own places to live in. The British brought the Indian slaves to Durban.
      Where do get this history from.

  • @MahDryBread
    @MahDryBread 4 года назад +51

    Thanks for doing all these South Africa videos man, they're some of my favourites!

  • @sphakamisozondi
    @sphakamisozondi 3 года назад +15

    Your South African history is spot on my dude. I live in Pietermaritzburg (King Dingane's formal Royal Kraal), there is a museum in the city (Voortrekers Museum) that is dedicated to this history.

  • @LB_die_Kaapie
    @LB_die_Kaapie 4 года назад +68

    Boere and Afrikaaners in general are descendants of Dutch, French and Germans and small groups of other Europeans like Scandinavians,Portuguese/spanish.

    • @NovaSoldier
      @NovaSoldier 4 года назад +16

      Dont forget italians also, in fact the number of people of italian descent in sa is 150k-200k

    • @LB_die_Kaapie
      @LB_die_Kaapie 4 года назад +5

      @@NovaSoldier Yes, italians also.

    • @Jordan84172
      @Jordan84172 4 года назад +15

      As well as admixture from Indonesia, India, Madagascar, East Africa, West Africa and KhoiSan groups. A lot of the most prominent Afrikaaner families have non-european stammoeders. The founder of the Jonkers family was a Indonesia man, named Adolph Abdullah Jonker (my ancestor).

    • @LB_die_Kaapie
      @LB_die_Kaapie 4 года назад +4

      @@Jordan84172 I mean sure but that's a very small % of their DNA. I do understand they aren't pure European although they do look it but they wont admit it anyways so we just stick to the major %.

    • @dnstone1127
      @dnstone1127 4 года назад +10

      French Hugenots.

  • @clemvandermerwe6106
    @clemvandermerwe6106 4 года назад +51

    Hey Hilbert, love your videos! Just one important thing to mention, us Afrikaners and "Boers" in this video were not just descendents of the Dutch but the French as well - due to the French huguenot migration away from Louis XIV under his harsh rule. The VOC offered them land and resources to farm in exchange for safety. These huguenots were over half of the current population with the free burghers in the late 17th century. The French language was snuffed out pretty quickly due to VOC's laws and tense relations with France at the time and assimilated, but that's why more than half of Afrikaans surnames are also of French origin and you can find a lot of French influence in Afrikaans as well. Eg. Aucamp (Auchamp)
    , Boshof (Bossau), Bruwer (Bruere)Buys (Du Buis) Cilliers (Cellier)Cronje (Cronier)De Klerk (Le Clercq)Delport (Delporte)De VilliersDu Plessis, Du Preez (Des Prez, Des Pres, Du Pre)du Randt, du Toit, Duvenage (Duvinage), Fouche (Foucher) Fourie, Gouws (Gauss)Hugo (Hugot, Hugod) Jordaan (Jourdan)Joubert (Jaubert)Labuschagne (la Buscagne)Le Roux, Lombard, Malan, Marais, Malherbe, Minnaar (Meinard, Mesnard) Naude, Nel (Neel, Niel)Nortier / Nortje (Nourtier)Pienaar, (Pinard)Retief (Retif) Reyneke (Reyne?) Riekert (Richarde?) Rossouw (Rousseau) Roux Taljaard (Taillard)Terblanche (Terreblanque)Theron (Therond) Viljoen (Villion)

    • @alexanderbruwer9363
      @alexanderbruwer9363 3 года назад +5

      As a Bruwer I thank you for bringing this up, the Huguenots are often forgotten when speaking of SA colonial history

    • @easyestentertainment3753
      @easyestentertainment3753 2 года назад +10

      so basically, even when the british are not fighting the french, they are fighting the french

    • @kelbenblack1190
      @kelbenblack1190 2 года назад +3

      Great post, thanks !

    • @shaunspies1108
      @shaunspies1108 2 года назад +4

      There is a bigger German heritage than the French. Afrikaans is made up, and in this order, of Dutch, German, French, and an assortment of loaned words of both indigenous, as well as Portuguese, Malay etc.

    • @faithford9143
      @faithford9143 Год назад

      So what. It’s a black land get out! Go back to the Dutch land.

  • @danielbabb4776
    @danielbabb4776 4 года назад +12

    So glad you included the Nieuwe Republiek, I did a report on them last semester for a South African history class. Thought that even though it was so short-lived and small, it represented all the intersecting forces in the area during that time. Great video!

  • @Navarov69
    @Navarov69 4 года назад +334

    1880: Year that the baterry ran low, this year shall be remember in infamy

    • @kamirupl
      @kamirupl 4 года назад +29

      That moment caused big WTF in my mind, because I'm using desktop **facepalm**
      It's time to go to bed...

    • @bramh688
      @bramh688 4 года назад +9

      I think 2020 might be one of these years again

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +21

      Darkness blighted the land..

    • @parchment543
      @parchment543 4 года назад

      What is that a reference to? SA today or back then?

    • @neelsmostert
      @neelsmostert 9 месяцев назад

      @@parchment543 That is a reference to our politicians, who are constantly running around on low batteries, making moronic remarks. I am convinced that the entirety of the anc faces 24/7/365 mental loadshedding.

  • @huskadog7748
    @huskadog7748 9 месяцев назад +3

    I dont speak dutch, but listening to this guy speaking dutch is really nice, like a weird asmr

  • @Hannodb1961
    @Hannodb1961 4 года назад +9

    Thanks so much for this video. I'm an Afrikaner /Boer, and I think this is the first time I've actually seen a video specifically dedicated to the Boer/Zulu relationship during the 19th Century. Thank you so much for going into so much depth in South African history - it is sorely needed in a time when simplistic one dimensional historical claims drives dangerous political agenda's. I very much look forward to your video on the Difaquane.

  • @fohunter12345
    @fohunter12345 4 года назад +28

    Mpande was correnated King of the Zulus and his coronation was attended by the Boer leader Andries Pretorius, a major figure in all of this who wasn't even mentioned.

  • @rowanmorgan457
    @rowanmorgan457 2 года назад +2

    I am a descendant of 2 of the original 7 Dutch settlers. I'm also the great-niece of a linguistics expert. Your clicks are amazing.

  • @garryjohnston650
    @garryjohnston650 4 года назад +5

    I like everything that you present. There are always things in yours that's not commonly taught. Thanks so much for being you !

  • @ah1rooivalk
    @ah1rooivalk 4 года назад +20

    As an South African, I must comment you for the correct pronunciation of everything from the tribal names to the words.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +188

    The Zulus basically committed genocide against every other tribe they encountered

    • @blazeaglory
      @blazeaglory 4 года назад +13

      They were the biggest and strongest. It was bound to happen.

    • @jojones8927
      @jojones8927 4 года назад +53

      But but but the White people...

    • @長谷川恒男
      @長谷川恒男 4 года назад +8

      @ It was bound to happen but neither was acceptable.

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 4 года назад +17

      @ acceptable to who ? Someone living 200 years later with a very different moral view ?

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 4 года назад +10

      Ok. But this logic is never a justification for genocide against people who are guilty of something similar. Additionally it is not ALL zulus. Just like everywhere else in the world, the leaders made the decisions on behalf of everyone.

  • @Aanironlossetari
    @Aanironlossetari 4 года назад +5

    Portuguese speaker here, the word 'Natal' comes from the latim 'nātālis' that is a derivative from the verb 'nāscor' or 'nascer' in Portuguese which means being born. We only call Christmas Natal because it is the day that Jesus was born. Natalidade is the number of people being born per year. I am not sure what the word is in English but I think it is similar to the word geboorte in Dutch. Also, thanks for your videos, they are always super interesting! I especially like the ones about Dutch history. I live in the Netherlands so it is always great for me to learn something new about the country I live in and to surprise my friends with this knowledge! XD

  • @williamstevenson8454
    @williamstevenson8454 4 года назад +49

    Zulus: Man these guys are pretty boer-ing.

  • @joaocalife9996
    @joaocalife9996 4 года назад +65

    Hilbert, just for curiosity's sake, but do you speak frisian?

    • @oran9519
      @oran9519 4 года назад +40

      Mad lad likes the comment but doesn't reply lmao

    • @danielmalipaard4830
      @danielmalipaard4830 4 года назад +6

      João Calife yes he do

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +15

      Lol sorry I will actually reply. I speak it to a reasonable level but not fluently ;)

  • @Jordan84172
    @Jordan84172 4 года назад +13

    I have Voortrekker ancestry. Some of my ancestors were killed a Bloukrans during the massacres along the Bushman's river (Bezuidenhout laager). Later, another forefather of mine fought at the battle of Blood River/Ncome

  • @iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021
    @iamnotanumberiamafreeman2021 4 года назад +17

    Impeccable timing, some folks are doing a drive on dlive right now to raise funds for Boer farmers affected by the drought.

  • @The_FatGeneral
    @The_FatGeneral 4 года назад +25

    There’s a restaurant called after Paul Kruger in my town in Friesland.

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +5

      Wêr wennest do yn Fryslân? Ik moat der mar in kear ite :P

    • @The_FatGeneral
      @The_FatGeneral 4 года назад +1

      @@historywithhilbert 't Fean

    • @ragnarjakrsson707
      @ragnarjakrsson707 3 года назад +1

      @@historywithhilbert Waar woon jij in friesland ik moet daar eten?

  • @LaoWatsonSmith
    @LaoWatsonSmith 7 месяцев назад +2

    As a white African I can rarely watch these history documentaries on Southern Africa because they’re usually full of such hubris
    Thank you for this, a good and accurate and honest history, well presented and researched 👏

  • @ultramang55
    @ultramang55 4 года назад +35

    Another great video! Would love to see a video about the Dutch - portuguese war, especially the invasion in Brazil. Here in Brazil this events have a capital importance, the battle that finally expulsed the Dutch are considered the birth of the brazilian army. I never see a dutch perspective on these events.

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +10

      That is something I do need to look into actually

    • @nomeyodomar
      @nomeyodomar 4 года назад

      16th century.The battle occurred after Portugal got independent from Spanish invasion. By then, the interest was to kick the Dutch out as invaders from a rival kingdom. Some time before, while Portugal was part of Spain the Dutch (also belonging to Spain) had already invaded Brazil as of common interest(maybe I'm wrong, if so, correct me)

  • @jarydviljoen2288
    @jarydviljoen2288 4 года назад +19

    I know your dutch/frisian and that is why your pronounciation is so good . But still .Dankie baie . Jy moet trots wees op jouself !

  • @cindyw9697
    @cindyw9697 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for that. From a Afrikaans South African. This country has rich history all over.

  • @insanity8108
    @insanity8108 4 года назад +30

    you should talk about the griqua people. that would be interesting

  • @enriquetachias920
    @enriquetachias920 4 года назад +1

    Happy to see a video about the Boers again!

  • @LodiJP
    @LodiJP 4 года назад +4

    Your pronunciation is spot on in all of the languages in your videos! :-)

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +72

    The Zulus were certainly much more brutal than everyone else around them

    • @jacobscrackers98
      @jacobscrackers98 4 года назад +2

      @Klaidi Rubiku Were they the strongest? I mean they did lose.

    • @Jack-th9zg
      @Jack-th9zg 4 года назад +8

      Except for the Boer and British

    • @jimbob465
      @jimbob465 4 года назад +13

      @Klaidi Rubiku they became the strongest by being the first tribe to institute full scale genocide under shaka.

    • @Mercito
      @Mercito 3 года назад +3

      The white people were peaceful i guess

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory 3 года назад +1

      @@Mercito bruh two wrongs don't make a right

  • @MahDryBread
    @MahDryBread 4 года назад +38

    17:54
    I just thought that was pretty funny

  • @williamguest6787
    @williamguest6787 4 года назад +4

    Great video, very informative

  • @grubbybum3614
    @grubbybum3614 4 года назад +26

    Hilbert, do you read the comments? I'd like to see a video on 'why' Dutch people's moved to The Cape in the first place. Why did they leave The Netherlands? Who were these people back in The Netherlands? And were they just the byproduct of the world's first private monolith - the Dutch East India company?

    • @Gidi66
      @Gidi66 3 года назад +5

      most Boer's are descended from Dutch, French huggonots and Germans some came to work in the colony some like the french fled religious hate and some came for the adventure. some where from nobility and some where exstreamly poor kinda similar as to why some people went to the us.

    • @DeniatitadenCompostela
      @DeniatitadenCompostela 2 года назад

      To cultivate food stuff for East India Company (VOC). In other words, to avoid scurvy on the ships of the company.

  • @isaacgriffin5690
    @isaacgriffin5690 4 года назад +2

    Another great video Hilbert! I really enjoyed your video, keep up the great work!

  • @plutochan9931
    @plutochan9931 4 года назад +4

    Really cool to learn more about the Boers :)

  • @johncashrocks221
    @johncashrocks221 4 года назад +14

    Video idea: comparison of the Boers and the descendants of Nieuw Nederlanders in North America (who still spoke Dutch, mind you, up to 150 years after the 1664 capitulation, this isn't known well enough outside of academia, especially outside of the US). The ethnic Dutch population in the US in 1790 was still far larger than the contemporary Dutch population in the Cape Colony, and they spoke what you could call "Amerikaans" in the way the Boers spoke Afrikaans. I think a lot of Dutch people and Afrikaners would probably be surprised there was still a pretty strong Dutch speaking population in the northeastern US well into the mid 19th century (early 20th in some cases) especially considering how much Anglo chauvinism there was. Maarten Van Buren spoke Dutch as his native tongue. I think a comparison of these two kindred groups would make for good content!

  • @lkmh3223
    @lkmh3223 3 года назад

    I go back and watch these often. thank you for your work on this subject.

  • @519djw6
    @519djw6 3 года назад

    I thank you for giving this episode of South African history a thorough going-over in a relatively short amount of time--and for not slaughtering the names of the various ethnic/racial groups involved!

  • @MyRkAcc
    @MyRkAcc 4 года назад +9

    They didnt just kill the vooretrekkers, they slowly beat them to death and had Peter watch them as they killed all, including his son(s) and then him.

  • @SilvioSalieri
    @SilvioSalieri 3 года назад +1

    Wow, first time I see a vid on South African history with perfect pronunciations on the historical South African names.

  • @ImKevin
    @ImKevin 4 года назад +1

    Hey Hilbert, I really enjoyed watching this video! youtube placed your video on my suggestion box and I decided to give it a look and I'm glad I did, thanks so much for your Time in research.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o 4 года назад +23

    17:56 thought that was me, but then I remembered I was using Linux.

    • @Venezolano410
      @Venezolano410 4 года назад

      @Hawaii 5O
      What distribution do you use?

    • @realhawaii5o
      @realhawaii5o 4 года назад +1

      @@Venezolano410 Ubuntu 19.10

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 4 года назад

      @@realhawaii5o not mint?

    • @realhawaii5o
      @realhawaii5o 4 года назад

      @@ls200076 Nope.

  • @Arendvdvenk
    @Arendvdvenk 4 года назад +2

    Heel interessant, bedankt voor het maken.

  • @andreascovano7742
    @andreascovano7742 4 года назад +43

    hahaha Hilbert, you have low battery. Please charge your computer

    • @qatsi4897
      @qatsi4897 4 года назад

      I thought it was my keyboard :)

  • @i.canalista7718
    @i.canalista7718 3 года назад +2

    The boers until today are a very tough people. They don't take nonsense

  • @Matt_Rsa
    @Matt_Rsa 11 месяцев назад

    As a desendent of Piet Ritief i always love hearing my family mentioned in these videos! I learnt alot of this history while researching my family tree, the only thing i would add is that there is a french influence as well, From the french Huguenots that settled in South Africa!

  • @thomasdewever
    @thomasdewever 4 года назад +18

    When you said "the Boer Wars", I initially thought you said "die boerewors" lol

  • @charlesjames799
    @charlesjames799 7 месяцев назад

    Thoroughly enjoyed the video I am sorry that I had not watched it sooner, that’s part of the trouble with RUclips being so vast.
    I intend to watch another one now about the Amish calling Americans the English.
    Keep them coming if you’re still around.

  • @seanbarry1757
    @seanbarry1757 4 года назад +17

    Once again hilbert is the only person that goes through the effort to say the click in Xhosa

    • @lachlanwelsh5880
      @lachlanwelsh5880 3 года назад

      I’m an Australian who has caught the “Africa bug”… SA, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, Zim, Angola etc.
      But getting the pronunciations of the various groupings and tongues is just… impossible…
      Even the crazy rolling of r’s that SA does!
      I just have to smile, laugh briefly and shake my head wishin I could.
      Rather than just embarrassing myself whenever I try.
      Go away COVID!
      I wanna go back!

  • @alexthebigcharm3037
    @alexthebigcharm3037 4 года назад +5

    Please may you do video on mzilikazi and the matabele. And also do a video about great Zimbabwe

  • @friendlymerchant7001
    @friendlymerchant7001 4 года назад +4

    Love this south africa history

  • @florisstraver
    @florisstraver 4 года назад +1

    Such an interesting video on a topic I didn't know much about, dank je wel Hilbert!
    Now it makes so much more sense that in my home town (Den Haag) there is a neighbourhood called Transvaal with a Paul Krugerlaan (and probably many more named after Boers). The more you know :)
    Thanks again!

  • @SenkoZA
    @SenkoZA 4 года назад +3

    Yas you pronounce Zulu correctly unlike other channels I’ve watched lol

  • @YankeeNationalist
    @YankeeNationalist 4 года назад +4

    The Boers are very similar to the pioneers in the American Old West.

  • @sonofamortician
    @sonofamortician 3 года назад +1

    immensely enjoyed your video, I am a boer descendant, and the explanation has a lot of context and nuance. If I can recommend a subject, the inter tribal wars and relations are fascinating, especially Thaba Bosigo aka Thaba Bosiu, the extinct pygmy tribes near vredefort, the period before colonialists when the San, Hottentot, Khoi Khoi was displaced by the difaqane (bushmen cave painting of woodenships, wagons and horses) I think a whole episode on the Bushmen and their misstreatment, culture clash, Harry die strandloper etc.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +22

    The boers were pretty brave to just go explore new land especially during the very bloody Zulu expansion

    • @liamthom7127
      @liamthom7127 4 года назад

      SMM Productions and First

    • @liamthom7127
      @liamthom7127 4 года назад +1

      Klaidi Rubiku and how would you propose they do that?

    • @Gloopular
      @Gloopular 4 года назад +1

      @Klaidi Rubiku It's a lot more complex than that - you may benefit from reading a history book or two.

    • @propellerhead428
      @propellerhead428 4 года назад +1

      @Klaidi Rubiku Contrary to the anc and eff narrative the Boer are actually peace-loving people who would rather avoid conflict. That is why they moved. And if you read the 2 history books as you said, you would know that the Boers did not attack anybody and acted out if self-defence.

    • @JUAN_OLIVIER
      @JUAN_OLIVIER 4 года назад +2

      @Klaidi Rubiku - “They were not brave enough to just stay and fight against british oppression.”
      - No use staying to fight if almost no one will join you in the fight. It was only the Grensboere that made up the proto-Boers that was against British rule. The Cape Dutch that made the vast majority of Dutch speaking people were ok with British rule.
      “The dutch khoi khoi wars say othereise.”
      - You clearly have not read much if you think the Boers had anything to do with the Khoikhoi-Dutch wars. Those wars happened long before the Boers even started existing as a people.

  • @hanoitripper1809
    @hanoitripper1809 4 года назад +5

    Those vortrekkers needed some machine guns

  • @rebeccavaughn9659
    @rebeccavaughn9659 4 года назад +1

    Well done. Thank you.

  • @williammkydde
    @williammkydde 4 года назад +3

    "Zo van onze als van hunne zyde". This means that the Zulus had firearms. And in the end, "to our spite, they ran so fast that we had to pursue them in all directions". The English translation is incomplete. But the video is great.

  • @joewilson3575
    @joewilson3575 4 года назад +2

    You using the clicking consonant in Xhosa is epic

  • @mnr.vlakvark5056
    @mnr.vlakvark5056 4 года назад +2

    Brilliant Afrikaans pronunciation for a foreigner, well done.

  • @Its-Emmerentia
    @Its-Emmerentia 4 года назад +1

    Your Dutch is amazing. But many who grew up in an English house suck and speaking Afrikaans.
    This coming from a born Afrikaaner.
    Your South African information is correct, thank you so much. Now I want to go grab my history books and read them again and see if I have missed something.

  • @LuvBorderCollies
    @LuvBorderCollies 4 года назад +17

    Hilbert your "old Dutch" sounds very much like my dad's side spoke. My great grandfather left Gelderland about 1895 and he and G-grandmother brought their dialect with them. It sounds really guttural and harsh compared to modern Dutch, to me anyway. Recently a professional genealogy researcher identified pockets of Old Saxon dialect along the Rhine/Lower Rhine from Arnhem and west. I'm pretty sure this guttural Dutch is probably the Old Saxon. Actually listening to my dad's generation talking it sounds much closer to German with stronger stress on consonants and hard rolling of the "R"s. My mother-in-law grew up speaking Swabian and Platt Deutsch while learning High German in the Lutheran church. She and dad would chatter and have fun time talking.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +2

    South African history is very fascinating

  • @virginiansupremacy
    @virginiansupremacy 4 года назад +2

    I am African American but a decent chunk of my white British side of the family actually immigrated to south africa and now lives around Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal.

    • @seamonster936
      @seamonster936 4 года назад +2

      The Modern Stoic It’s very hard to commit genocide nowadays what with the police and army keeping us all at home.

  • @abelstropicalfruit8647
    @abelstropicalfruit8647 4 года назад +8

    Great

  • @kickassvideos5469
    @kickassvideos5469 Год назад +1

    fun fact to mention is that "boer" or "boers" is dutch and in english it means "farmer" or "farmers".
    when you keep that in mind, the whole story looks more like the birtish were fighting just farmers.

  • @BrettonFerguson
    @BrettonFerguson 4 года назад +8

    Do a video about the Zulu genocide of the Khoikhoi.

  • @onetwothreefourfive12345
    @onetwothreefourfive12345 4 года назад +1

    I never knew anything about the Boer thanks for this

  • @wiseone1013
    @wiseone1013 3 года назад

    This was interesting and informative thank you.

  • @Marcellogo
    @Marcellogo Год назад +1

    The Voortrekkers have already fought against Mzilikazi, the king of N'debele that was previously the best general of Shaka until they parted in amicable terms. Sotho nations "hired" the Voortrekkers to stop him.
    Note that all previous conflicts between the Dutch/Boers and indigenous tribes were not an all-out struggle for survival, Mzilikazi just surrended and went away , the chief of cattle raiders was released , so the massacre of Weening was something really unheard for them.

  • @aliencyborg1715
    @aliencyborg1715 3 месяца назад

    Your pronounciation of our words is impressive

    • @user-pq9vy4xd1x
      @user-pq9vy4xd1x 4 дня назад

      Nah bro doesn't know how to click his tongue. For the letter q, c and x. At least he tried

  • @jakesroothman3085
    @jakesroothman3085 4 года назад +6

    Man you pronounced the Afrikaans G amazingly

  • @paulphillipvanderlinde9443
    @paulphillipvanderlinde9443 4 года назад +2

    Bedankt voor nog een fantastische video, Hilbert. Zou je een video kunnen maken over de Bataafse Republiek (1795-1806)? Het is een onderwerp dat maar weinig mensen kennen.

  • @HVH-swift
    @HVH-swift 3 года назад

    Great video! Dankie!

  • @megapangolin1093
    @megapangolin1093 2 года назад

    I really enjoyed this video, thank you for this treat of a history lesson. Please might you consider tweaking your background music and microphone effects, they detract a little from the overall impact of your work.

  • @whitleypedia
    @whitleypedia Год назад

    I got a pub trivia question right thanks to this video !

  • @kwanele.gumede
    @kwanele.gumede 4 года назад +18

    Hilbert, just a side note, when reading isiZulu words "t" is the hard t sound and "th" is the soft t sound

    • @historywithhilbert
      @historywithhilbert  4 года назад +1

      Thank you! I'll keep this in mind for the next time I come across a Zulu word!

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 4 года назад +3

    It's interesting how they fought together in the end against the British

  • @kingkong893
    @kingkong893 4 года назад

    Just found your channel. Your videos are awesome mate! Keep it up

  • @Wallyworld30
    @Wallyworld30 4 года назад +3

    That is pretty cool they “circled the wagons” like cowboys and Indians.

  • @larson0014
    @larson0014 4 года назад +3

    Interesting parallel at the same time to the other Dutch immigrants that traveled across the western plains in the states and we're sometimes attacked by natives as well

  • @TimoS1998
    @TimoS1998 4 года назад +2

    Does the name boer have any connection to the dutch word for farmer? Which is also boer.

    • @harrispinkham
      @harrispinkham 4 года назад +6

      TimoS1998 yup indeed. That’s the origin. Probably because most of the settlers who came over were farmers

  • @NocKme
    @NocKme 4 года назад +9

    "I think that should be the end of this video, because my laptop is about to die" - Hilbert

  • @jurgenheyn5584
    @jurgenheyn5584 2 года назад

    Prima informatie!

  • @lize-marieswan8466
    @lize-marieswan8466 4 года назад +1

    drik uys is from my grandma side and jopie fourie from my grandad side. both boer heroes of history. ☺️

  • @destry5250
    @destry5250 4 года назад +2

    How did the Boers interact with the Hottentots . . . ?

  • @garfieldseviltwin97
    @garfieldseviltwin97 3 года назад +2

    Dit is een leuk video. Ik vind Zuid Afrikaanse geschiedenis heel interessant maar het is jammer dat ik dit niet op school heb geleerd.

  • @piotrwegrzyniak5798
    @piotrwegrzyniak5798 4 года назад +4

    1:03 Are you from South Africa? Respect for using clicks, even more so if that's an accurate spelling (can't tell that, I dont speak any language with clicks)

  • @Bontebok5
    @Bontebok5 4 года назад +1

    Awesome video, I love your dedication to correct pronunciation of native languages!
    One small thing, in Afrikaans, Paul "Kruger" is pronounced as Paul "Kruer". Otherwise great job!

  • @alexanderbruwer9363
    @alexanderbruwer9363 3 года назад +1

    Gotta say, not bad Afrikaans pronunciation, well done broer

  • @ctastrophe
    @ctastrophe 4 года назад +7

    Do you think it's harder for the Dutch to speak Zulu or for the Zulu to speak Dutch?

    • @danielmalipaard4830
      @danielmalipaard4830 4 года назад +5

      ctastrophe zulu to speak dutch i think that the dutch are better at pronounciation

    • @LB_die_Kaapie
      @LB_die_Kaapie 4 года назад +2

      Boere speak Bantu languages because it's the way they can communicate with farm workers or labourers/miners

    • @harrispinkham
      @harrispinkham 4 года назад

      Much harder for the Dutch I would say to speak Zulu because of the clicks in the language.

    • @beninwarrior4579
      @beninwarrior4579 4 года назад +1

      @@johnnylangen2839 Sierra leon has an average IQ of 91. That's around the same as lithuania and significantly higher than india and Lebanon. If your idiotic theories are true then explain this. But back to the zulu. I will strongly disagree with you. Many africans are bi and tri lingual if africans struggle to learn languages then why is this the case? In my opinion the boers would struggle more due to the click consonants. Do you actually think before you type. If you don't think then I recommend you do. If you are thinking what you are typing through, then my god you lack brain power.