How did the Zulus Interact with the Voortrekkers? | The Zulu-Boer War (1835-1839)
The Boers were the descendants of Dutch settlers in the Cape of South Africa who during the Great Trek "trekked" inland and founded several Boer Republics. The Zulus were a kingdom that rose to prominence in the early 19th Century under the direction of Shaka Zulu and soon became the greatest military power in Southeast Africa. In this video I'll be looking at the relationship between the Boer Voortrekkers moving eastwards into the interior of the African continent and the Zulu they met standing in their way.
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1880: Year that the baterry ran low, this year shall be remember in infamy
That moment caused big WTF in my mind, because I'm using desktop **facepalm** It's time to go to bed...
I think 2020 might be one of these years again
Darkness blighted the land..
What is that a reference to? SA today or back then?
@@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.
Voortrekkers: * Crosses Orange River * It's Freestate
Orange Free Real Estate.
the best use of the format.
Eyy I see what you did there ;)
Si
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.
Exactly
Absolutely my wife is South African. Afrikaans culture is beautiful ❤️
@@wildmanlopez9772 White SA? Boer or British?
@@kiuk_kiks my wife is a boer
Winston Churchill was so impressed with the Boers he named the British special forces "Commandos".
@Wolraad Wolltemade Churchill didn't start WWII, he wasn't even PM when the war started.
@Wolraad Wolltemade lmao
@@NerdRivera That's not what he said.
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
@@NerdRivera But Britain did start WWII.
Gotta respect you for using that Xhosa click consonant.
Still think I'm butchering it but I try :P
thats really complicated language, have you try to pronounce any of their names?..
The Boers using wagons for warfare Jan Žižka is proud!
*Laughs in Czech*
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.
The Hussite Guy?
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 yep
Lmao as a South African I can definitely agree with your pronunciation, you sound like your right here 😂 great video, cheers
@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?
@@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.
@@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
Glad my pronunciations aren't too horrific!
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.
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!
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!
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r/unexpectedHalo
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.
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
Afrikaner Boers are basically Dutch Australians. And Australians are just British Texans.
I love the idea of them just being Dutch-speaking cowboys in the South African wilderness
Where did you get this shit from? Haha
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.)
@@historywithhilbert146 They are really children of the land. Skilled hunters and trackers and passionate about their rugby.
that is so confusing.
I find the overall Voortrekker lifestyle so wild and amazingly unique.
Yeah it really is an interesting period of history and place in time to look at!
Baie dankie dat jy ons geskiedenis deel Hilbert.
Geen probleem!
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: kzhead.info/sun/hrJppNN7mYqZhKc/bejne.html Rise of the Zulu: kzhead.info/sun/fMttg8ZtaqSEo68/bejne.html
Reall quick, does Drenthe actually exist?!?
Nice that you actually read the comments section and even reply sometimes.
Hey South African here just wanted to say your pronunciation was great overall.
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.
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.
Boere and Afrikaaners in general are descendants of Dutch, French and Germans and small groups of other Europeans like Scandinavians,Portuguese/spanish.
Dont forget italians also, in fact the number of people of italian descent in sa is 150k-200k
@@NovaSoldier Yes, italians also.
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).
@@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 %.
French Hugenots.
Thanks for doing all these South Africa videos man, they're some of my favourites!
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)
As a Bruwer I thank you for bringing this up, the Huguenots are often forgotten when speaking of SA colonial history
so basically, even when the british are not fighting the french, they are fighting the french
Great post, thanks !
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.
So what. It’s a black land get out! Go back to the Dutch land.
As an South African, I must comment you for the correct pronunciation of everything from the tribal names to the words.
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.
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!
I like everything that you present. There are always things in yours that's not commonly taught. Thanks so much for being you !
Hilbert, just for curiosity's sake, but do you speak frisian?
Mad lad likes the comment but doesn't reply lmao
João Calife yes he do
Lol sorry I will actually reply. I speak it to a reasonable level but not fluently ;)
Another great video Hilbert! I really enjoyed your video, keep up the great work!
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.
The Zulus basically committed genocide against every other tribe they encountered
They were the biggest and strongest. It was bound to happen.
But but but the White people...
@ It was bound to happen but neither was acceptable.
@ acceptable to who ? Someone living 200 years later with a very different moral view ?
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.
I go back and watch these often. thank you for your work on this subject.
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.
That is something I do need to look into actually
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)
Happy to see a video about the Boers again!
Zulus: Man these guys are pretty boer-ing.
Good thing I'm moving on to more topics then ;)
Impeccable timing, some folks are doing a drive on dlive right now to raise funds for Boer farmers affected by the drought.
J T How so?
Nice, where is this fund raise?
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!
Great video, very informative
I know your dutch/frisian and that is why your pronounciation is so good . But still .Dankie baie . Jy moet trots wees op jouself !
you should talk about the griqua people. that would be interesting
Heel interessant, bedankt voor het maken.
Really cool to learn more about the Boers :)
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.
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
There’s a restaurant called after Paul Kruger in my town in Friesland.
Wêr wennest do yn Fryslân? Ik moat der mar in kear ite :P
@@historywithhilbert146 't Fean
@@historywithhilbert146 Waar woon jij in friesland ik moet daar eten?
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
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!
Just found your channel. Your videos are awesome mate! Keep it up
Your pronunciation is spot on in all of the languages in your videos! :-)
This was interesting and informative thank you.
Netflix should do a series on the Anglo-Boer-Zulu-Everyone else wars
Netflix will prop it full of far-left politics.
@@JUAN_OLIVIER agree. To the media and majority of the world the Boere will always be the thief’s, killers and racists
@@JUAN_OLIVIER Yeah there be soany gay people
Netflix should do a Zulu, Boer, Anglo series indeed. It would be quite interesting to also include the evolution of the Afrikaans language and the purposeful exclusion of the major influences of Indonesian, Malay and African native dialects on the language by the broederbond's recasting of history for white supremacy purposes and the fact that the early Afrikaans script was in arabic and in expression of Islam (NG Kerk pioneers must be turning in their graves!)
Well done. Thank you.
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?
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.
To cultivate food stuff for East India Company (VOC). In other words, to avoid scurvy on the ships of the company.
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.
Great video! Dankie!
The Zulus were certainly much more brutal than everyone else around them
@Klaidi Rubiku Were they the strongest? I mean they did lose.
Except for the Boer and British
@Klaidi Rubiku they became the strongest by being the first tribe to institute full scale genocide under shaka.
The white people were peaceful i guess
@@Mercito bruh two wrongs don't make a right
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.
17:56 thought that was me, but then I remembered I was using Linux.
@Hawaii 5O What distribution do you use?
@@Venezolano410 Ubuntu 19.10
@@realhawaii5o not mint?
@@ls200076 Nope.
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.
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.
I never knew anything about the Boer thanks for this
Prima informatie!
loving the its always sunny music
17:54 I just thought that was pretty funny
Please may you do video on mzilikazi and the matabele. And also do a video about great Zimbabwe
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.
Thoroughly enjoyed the video I am sorry that I had not watched it sooner, that’s part of the trouble with KZhead 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.
Very interesting thank you
Love this south africa history
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!
Stunning video and content as always, how do you do that Xhosa click, it is so difficult? Kudos to you.
Great thanks!
You using the clicking consonant in Xhosa is epic
I like your history videos very much. Keep up the good work. Thanks
I'm really enjoying this series
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.
I dont speak dutch, but listening to this guy speaking dutch is really nice, like a weird asmr
The boers until today are a very tough people. They don't take nonsense
The Boers are very similar to the pioneers in the American Old West.
Interesting. Thanks.
Do a video about the Zulu genocide of the Khoikhoi.
When you said "the Boer Wars", I initially thought you said "die boerewors" lol
"Die Boer whores" *Angry Boer noises*
That was a very tasty war.
Lol😂🤣🤣
Wow, first time I see a vid on South African history with perfect pronunciations on the historical South African names.
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 👏
Yas you pronounce Zulu correctly unlike other channels I’ve watched lol
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!
I got a pub trivia question right thanks to this video !
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!
Those vortrekkers needed some machine guns
Dit is een leuk video. Ik vind Zuid Afrikaanse geschiedenis heel interessant maar het is jammer dat ik dit niet op school heb geleerd.
Lekker! Gefeliciteerd :)
Nice!
Once again hilbert is the only person that goes through the effort to say the click in Xhosa
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!
hahaha Hilbert, you have low battery. Please charge your computer
I thought it was my keyboard :)
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.
Great
Thanks man!
Brilliant Afrikaans pronunciation for a foreigner, well done.
Man you pronounced the Afrikaans G amazingly
Gotta say, not bad Afrikaans pronunciation, well done broer
The boers were pretty brave to just go explore new land especially during the very bloody Zulu expansion
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Klaidi Rubiku and how would you propose they do that?
@Klaidi Rubiku It's a lot more complex than that - you may benefit from reading a history book or two.
@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.
@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.
drik uys is from my grandma side and jopie fourie from my grandad side. both boer heroes of history. ☺️
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.
Hilbert, just a side note, when reading isiZulu words "t" is the hard t sound and "th" is the soft t sound
Thank you! I'll keep this in mind for the next time I come across a Zulu word!
"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.
South African history is very fascinating
Very mellowed out
Excellent pronunciation of Afrikaans and Xhosa words.