Surprising Culture Shocks! - South Africa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Just things I experienced when I moved to SA and were really surprised about! Definitely didn't include everything so can do a part 2 and hope this doesn't make you cringe to hard. Enjoy :)
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Great video ntombazane uchaza iqiniso ngezwe lethu 😊wamkelekile ekhaya siyakuthanda ngoba kuzofunda nabanye abelungu kule channel yakho big up ✌
Welcome to South Africa, keep posting, we will support you with the views.
Thank you ❤️❤️
Definitely...you know us South Africans 😅
Welcome to Mzantsi my sister. South Africa 🇿🇦 is heaven on earth regardless of the challenges & bad publicity we have. I mean where on earth 🌎 is ever perfect???
@@ZechKipimba It's Mzantsi in isiXhosa or Mzansi in isiZulu. There is no Mzanzi.
You said a mouthfull.
I want to thank you for doing this video, it helps a lot, Living in South Africa is a little bit complicated but fantastic. I'm from Mount Frere, Eastern Cape, and coming to Western Cape felt like I'm in another country, culture is different, norms and values, the food that people eat, and entertainment. all S.A provinces are different, even in the weather, Western cape summer is not the same as E.C If you want to go to another province you should do research, about everything e.g crime, and public transport. so thank you for making this, and by the way I'm currently studying at UCT, its my first year
That's all good 😊 from what I've seen so far I'm honestly so surprised how different they are but still the same country. It's very cool
Tshini molo Mkhaya
Ungowase zilalini mntase ubulindeleni ungazange wayibona idolophu enkulu looooool, xa usuka elalini usiya edolophini emount frere kohlukile kusedolophini kutyiwa nge fork and knife kwezi dolophu lol.
What was yr intention with this reply you made, I'm not your mate nor your friend so don't talk shit as if you know me, and my background f F. U.
Congrats on your first vid. Also, it was interesting hearing your perspective coming from New Zealand 🇳🇿. Blessings from a Caribbean-American now living in Kenya. We luv SA too. We pray you find good friends and a healthy circle and that your best is yet to come.
Thank you 😊 glad you enjoyed the video
Im South african living in Auckland New Zealand, i have heard alot about how other South African exaggerated SA issues, i think they do that for simpathy
Ya I agree it's ashame cause it is a great country
Welcome to S.A and your first video was great... Stay safe and enjoy it here in our country
Thank you!!! I will love it here so far ❤️
Welcome to SA enjoy your stay, explore the food we have variety you will love it
I'm new here,just subscribed 😁😁 Welcome to Mzantsi 🇿🇦👏👏 you will be fine.I enjoyed your video, looking forward for the next one.😍
Thank you so much 🥰❤️❤️❤️
Welcome to mzansi you are more than welcome 😊
Thank youu love it here 😊
Hi, great to see you in SA. Hoping that you will eventually get used to the culture. We love you and welcome you in SA
Thank you 😊 ya I'm getting use to it now 🥰
I like your calm and collected style of presentation.
Hey! Thank you so much for the vid.I always appreciate hearing the contrasts,.Your insights where eye opening.
Welcome to S.A.
I've never really been anywhere else,as far as oceans are concerned. I travel the world through comments and from what I hear we are amongst the best.I hope you enjoy your stay.
Thank you, ya SA is a great country
Great to have you in South Africa! Explore and experience. I have a niece working in New Zeeland right now, so it would be interesting to hear what her thoughts are on life over there. 😊
Ps. Load-shedding can be really bad sometimes though, like when you have two 4-hour sessions a day plus a 2-hour one. But, yeah, it depends on the stage.
Thank you 😊 yes definitely New Zealand is a very beautiful place. Oh ya or load shedding here has gotten a little worse but not that bad yet 🫢
Welcome to SA and I hope you loving it thus far. I'm also from PE now Quebeha but for me it will always remain Port Elizabeth or for short PE. Looking forward to your next video. Baie dankie, means thank you very much in Afrikaans. 😊
Welcome to South Africa. I am so amazed that other people left South Africa but you chose to come and live and get a job. Atleast you will teach one or two of us how to interact with certain races. And how fortunate we are fortunate to live in such a beautiful country.
Hey. Welcome to SA! I find the dogs in cages so weird and a bit cruel to be honest. We need our dogs to be outside and bark for safety reasons 😅 Hope you enjoy SA... Stay safe and hope you explore our beautiful country.
ya same i totally agree i hated how people kept their dogs in cages honestly annoyed me so much. Thank you love it so much so far
@@sketchy_boois not possible are you a Christian bc there it South Africa it still Africa it hot there
Welcome....and u sound very much South African like u come from Pretoria... Enjoy 🌸💜
Thank you❤️ Haha ya I have picked up a little bit of a accent 😅
Thank you for sharing information about South Africa.I kearned a lot especially in the comment section.I watch video about South Africa because I have a South Afrikans boyfiend.He is nice and I want to learn about cultures and traditions.I love your videos,we are humans and we have differences but inspite of differences we need love,embrace and respect all our differences.I'm from Philippines.Mabuhay Africa!!!
There is a community of Afrikaans people in Australia who left us here a while ago but when I check on them I find that they miss home🇿🇦🇿🇦
Ya I do know people in NZ as well missing south africa and some not like it really depends on what you prefer. Both great countries to live in, but the food in SA 😍🤤
Racist did us a favor by living we don't want them back
😂😂😂that's true 😊
Your video is interesting and straight to the point.
Thank you 😊
Hi there. Interesting video. As somebody who is fascinated with different cultures from different countries all over the world, it's interesting to see an opinion of our country from somebody who is from a similar, but different English territory. I live in Johannesburg but am from Cape Town and I have family who have permanently moved to New Zealand. The opinions of both countries from both perspectives is rather fascinating.
I love your experience at the Addo elephant 🐘 park Eastern Cape 😍
When it comes to tipping especially in the restuarants ,some restuarants do not pay their waiters at all so if you don't tip them they will go home empty handed .On a light note, you are definitly not a South African white coz unlike them you ain't complaining .They complain a lot even though they are the most priviledged people in our country with staggering wealth compared to the rest of the population.
I am watching your videos every time. I am fascinated by the the way you love this country. There are tiny things you recognise whereas we South African born and bred here ignore.
You are so amazing. You are welcomed in S.A because you are so straightforward and you don't take sides.
Try to learn Afrikaans and Zulu or Xhosa, I really promise you , you will be comunicating left and right because those are main languages for you.
There are people who have been living here for 300 years but they don't know even one of those languages. How will you be able to learn someone's language if you have been brain washed. You are on the right track girl.
You are the young woman I ever encountered on U TUBE. Keep it up young woman and S.A. will be all yours forever.
Your video is so cute 😅 the Afrikaans and English signs comment killed me 😂😂
Haha thank you ❤️❤️
Nice video, the one thing I always wonder about is media and which local media consumption you enjoy.
You are right, we do mostly tiles on floors or laminated flooring...Carpet means maintenance and vacuuming. Laminated flooring hates water so they can deteriorate quickly. Welcome to and enjoy South Africa 🇿🇦
Not boring at all. Very interesting. Thanks for telling your realexperience about SA.
Your accent is interesting.are your parents south African?i can hear the nz accent but also south African too
Haha yes my mum a New Zealander, and my dad is from cape town but I grew up in NZ
@@sketchy_boo that's awesome. I love the accent 😁. A nice mix. I could say I heard some capetonian in there. But I do hope you enjoy your stay in South Africa. Also we love south African content if you do anymore. But I did sub so I will stay tuned😊
@@AGirlNamedVan thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️ I plan on doing some more sa content in the future 🤭🤫
Welcome home ❤
Here in South Africa 🇿🇦 we don't judge because we are multi-linguistic country.
We have white people, black people, (coloured people -mix of white and black people) and indian people you can learn more different words from each culture/tribe, that can suite you, and without judging you, later you can start learning one language of your choice.
We once had a language that was spoken by our fourfathers called 👉👉 Fanakalok😂. This language was formed in the working places for them to be able to communicate and it was a mixture words of every single language in South Africa and sometimes Foreign language😂 everyone would be able to communicate. Unfortunately it didn't spread much until today.
We have 9 provinces in South Africa and 11 languages officially even though some languages are not mentioned but while they act as a neighbouring languages.
Remember that we are called a rainbow nation because of our race variety and land beuty.
Our main power languages are 1st English 2nd is Zulu.
Dutch people first arrived in western cape and Eastern cape regions spreading inland, Afrikaans came from the languages of Dutch people. Africaans was a our first colonial language. After Britain recolonised us again then we started speaking English 😂
But it depends which province you are and is it rural areas or suburban areas or town, rural areas normally don't mix languages but speak real indigenous languages. But for suburban areas township we mix everything from each race.
My advice for you to learn quickly, join local kindergarten homes/classes, offer some extra time with them offer some little help if you see they need, like joining their programs. Go to the local park find some local girls friends. Go to school programs offer a motivational quotes. Go to church if be like. Start a local small business and hire people who can do your business in the locations, visit universities talk to students and start a podcast episode.😅
Meaning find something to do unlike looking for the languages in the book theoretically whereas language's evolves to another level, go practical, we are living in the time of the GenZ generation.
Nowadays I've realised that South Africa influences the world with new social media trends.
So you can do it, it's up to you, we were going to discourage you before you start if you were looking forward to start without any language listed here. If you were speaking Russian no one would like to but English you are more than welcome😂😂
I hope this was informative.
Yes very informative thank you
You can get honourary Springbok colours
Welcome to SA , Nice one my sister, to be safe, Learn a bit of isiXhosa, Afrikaans and isiZulu those are most spoken languages.
Thank you, I will
Why putting similar languages you add non Nguni atleast
No way ! How can u tell anyone to learn multiple languages all together? U start with one language at a time. Yo yo yo!😢
Learn Zulu and setswana/sotho those are most spoken
@@tshidioageng6918was gonna say same. Learn One Nguni Language and One Sotho Language. Then you have 90% to 100% of SA covered Cause English+These 2 = there is nobody you can't communicate with in SA (I Leave Afrikaans out because there is nobody who speaks Afrikaans who doesn't know English but it's a good language to learn cause a lot of our slang is peppered generously with Afrikaans)
Great video, glad you love it here all the best with finding a job and learning Afrikaans.
Thank you 😊
You’re so beautiful you made me forget my pick up line 🥺😩
anyways welcome to South Africa 🇿🇦 and I trust you having a good time thus far 🫶
Oh one last thing , can I have your Instagram 😅🙈
Thank you :)
I think the thing with crime & violence in South Africa is that it's highly televised or publisised... So almost all crimes are reported & they contribute to our horrible crime stats... Crime is the reality but it's not as bad in some places... & Yeah we don't like hiding things ... So you'll hear about crime more often
God put the girl with the best teeth in New Zealand, and brought her to South Africa to meet my fire grill❤😂
I Live in P.E & i swear i think iv seen u recently at the BoardWalk Mall😂
Tipping at RESTAURANTS & COFFEE BARS is between 10% & 15%. The dogs bark, because we have high crime, hello... OTHER TIPPING: Parking Car Guard: R3 - R6, Petrol Attendant: R3 - R10 depending checking tyres, windows etc, BEGGARS: R2 - R5, STREET BOX BUSKERS: R3 - R6 or R10 if they made your day!!! (carry loads of R5 & R2 coins around in your car or in your purse.) Enjoy sunny SA!!! ;) PS I remember living in the UK and the dogs hardly barked...lol
Youre in Uitenhage neh
Go try a Gatsby and other tale away places, we dont just uave fish and chips😂
Welcome to SA.....GO BOKKE!
Yo wow, I mostly hear of Safas moving to New Zealand lmao 😂😂
Mad I used to live in pe I mis it I would like to move back one day. That's unusual that thay talk a lot of Afrikaans I didn't think that did mabey it's because I was used to it. In the north cape and west cape thay speak more afrikaans. How come you move it sa?
I think I stay in quite a afrikaans place haha but not sure 🤔 just needed a change in life and I have some family that use to live in sa so just wanted to see what it's like
@@sketchy_boo yeah it's good if you live in the right place
She said kariega... its old name was uitenhage. Uitenhage a town just outside pe (gqeberha) but they so close its became one metropol (nelson mandela bay). Uitenhage(kariega)/despatch is more afrikaans while pe(gqeberha) is a lot more english.
The language thing is not really strange, because all South Africans are multilingual, and basically everyone speaks English.
I was sort of meaning it is strange cause not many other countries are like that. It's very unique but very cool
@@sketchy_boo I understand :-)
@dot510 I did say, "basically everyone", so off course there are people who don't
@dot510 most people can speak English, we just prefer not to speak English.. we take pride in our heritage..
@@polymath_sa9745 That's what we as South Africans would like to believe, sure light conversations we do, but when it comes to heavy matters not many, and there is absolutely no shame in that.
I like that when I go to a Sesotho (cause I can't speak it) speaking territory I can not hide behind English, I have to pull up my socks and try hard, especially I rural areas. I respect and take pride in the fact that elders and mostly rural people speak their languages in a way that shows a deep understanding of their culture.
Theres 2 types of loadshedding. National and municipal. Some of the smaller towns get municipal and national loadshedding back to back
Oh ok that makes sense. Thank you
Welcome to South Africa ❤
Different places power gos off at different times. If you live near the township then there will be often robbery. I used to like in pe Warner need the railway in a complex and there was often robbery. Someone tried ok rob me but my dad scared him off unfortunately my dad didn't get him we where lucky many of my neighbours where robbed and one time one of them was killed not sure if thay kill all the family idk.
You do have to have bars for sure, or unless u leave in a very safe area
Haha which part of South Africa gets up to 40 degrees Celsius especially in the Eastern Cape?South Africa isn't a very hot country maybe Durban and Limpopo l but Eastern Cape or Western cape..I doubt it..also it snows in parts of South Africa in winter..the way you talk is like it doesn't have 4 seasons when it does..please visit other parts of South Africa like Cape esp..
Thanks for the advice! I would love to visit more places and still plan to so can't wait to experience more!! I found from my experiences coming from nz that SA is quite warm compared to NZ only reason why I say that 😊 and no I haven't experienced summer here yet but some of my SA friends have told me it can get up to 40 so I'll have to see if their telling the truth!! Thank you 😊
Ive seen 40° days every year for my whole life i lived here even next to the coast sometimes
It can very easily get to 40 degrees Celsius in the summer in the Western Cape and the very southernmost parts of the country where I've lived all my life (rather close to the coast as well).
@@sketchy_boolived in SA but 40°c is once in few years
Unless you are in the desert areas
You clearly don't know the Western Cape very well, places like Paarl, Clanwilliam, etc go over 40°C during summer
ikasi means township/hood, so some Kasis are dirty and dangerous. But there are clean and safe Kasis, they are mostly black-& colored populated, and some are not necessarily poor & Kasis are formed from government RDP projects and some are townships that were classified as black people areas in the dark days, Great video though.
Oh ok thank you 🥰
@@sketchy_boo I think you are conflating kasis (townships) and informal settlements / squatter camps.
Townships are formal, regular settlements, that were once desihned by the Apartheid Regime to keep Black, Coloured and Indian folks out of "white" designated towns. Example: Soweto, which was designed as the Black township of Johannesburg, back during the dark days of racial hatred, when Blacks were not allowed to stay among whites in Johannesburg.
Squatter camps / informal settlement are irregular and built on land not owned or leased by the dwellers. Mistly the dwellers are from very poir and rural (or foreign) background, who migrated to the cities, but have not found accomodation in a formal regular place, such as in town or in the township.
Sometimes informal settlements are built close by or on the edge of a township.
South Africa has crime issues but ironically we are very humane. Welcome, lekker, enjoy!
Welcome to South Africa
Thank you 🥰
6:50 how old is she might be a potential 😅 nice video 👌🏾
English is the money/Power language in SA. Afrikaans is second to English in terms of Economic Power. Zulu is the numerically superior language..followed by Xhosa then SePedi (or any of the Sotho languages). African languages are important in terms of numbers of speakers but not economcally unless you in the taxi and illegal mining industries than Zulu and Sotho would also be the economic languages of these two industries 😂
Interesting! Loved it ❤
Beautiful
Great vid ay 🧡
Thank you ❤️
did you leave your voice in New Zealand?
Try JHB in winter and good luck
We have a free roaming rabbit ..means no cage...love our Tommy...
The NZ and SA accents are so similar.
Welcome to South Africa.
We look forward to b hearing your impressions.
Good luck with your future here.
It is a lovely country, even if it has a bucket load of issues.
When you come to Johannesburg you should visit Soweto let me know.
Tiles are more practical because carpet cleaning becomes expensive over time....don't worry about speaking Afrikaans most everyone here understands English because of unemployment crime is a big problem I would put burglar bars on those open windows the ones with windows only
You so beautiful and I'm sure one of our boys will make sure you you don't go back to Newlands because SA is good national where you can practice your rights without fear 😂😂
The issue of petrol attendants. This was legislated way back in the 1950/1960 as a meassure to provide employment for poorly schooled people.
Why are so many people negative about their country? 30 years of democratic rule, and we have a major problem with education. There are now pro-rata more poorly educated people the ever before.
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Heban... my sister, we're not poor... we're financially dormant... learn the difference!
Welcome to mzanzi
Thank you love it here!🥰
Nou kom Kaap toe dan sal ons vir jou wys hoe om afrikaans te praat nê soma lekker Cape flats style 😂😂😂
Watch out for the frogs they invite poisonous snakes 🐍 😢, especially Puff adders and Spitting Cobras
Nko ?
@@laygossom2655 yea it's me
As far as murder rates go (a measure of violent crime in general that's hard to sweep under the rug), purely for the sake of getting sympathy from strangers I'll never meet, I'll mention that a bit more than 36 per 100 000 South Africans are being murdered every year. (Sorry about the "sympathy" thing, but I saw a stupid comment saying that). Compared to most places on Earth, that's a significantly higher rate (I doubt if it's more than 5 per 100 000 in New Zealand, for instance).
The statistically most dangerous place on Earth last year was El Salvadore, where it's about 52 per 100 000. South Africa was eighth on the list, although if you ignore places like tiny Carribean countries where you have involvement in the drug trade (so adding a few murders that blow the figures up for that small population), it might be higher.
Anyway, there's how your low fence is preventing you from being murdered: There's a very small chance of it happening to you. Add in the fact that a lot of the murders are in things like domestic violence, and if your significant other isn't violent it means there's even smaller chance.
Nevertheless if you work on the risk being roughly ten times what it is in New Zealand, that's probably the safest option.
What I'm saying is just that you need to be a bit more careful here than there. It's not a good idea to look for facts to reassure you and then entirely stop worrying. (It's also not a good idea to become completely paranoid, but at least being paranoid can't kill you.)
And if you see high fences, don't assume it's just due to bad character on the part of the home owners. High fences are ugly, and they're expensive. People put them up when circumstances force them to do so, often. They live in their nice open yard, as they always have, finding reasons to believe they're not at enough risk to waste that kind of money on a fence (that spoils everything), and then something happens to make them accept that they have to put up that fence. There are very few people with high fences who put those up because they like them. There are generally other reasons.
Often it's just having friends and family who've experienced violent crime. My next door neighbour was murdered in the second home invasion in his house. He tried to protect his wife because the criminals were being too rough with her, and one of them stabbed him. He was 83 years old. I experienced a failed home invasion that came much too close to succeeding, once. The pregnant girl in the house over the back fence had her kitchen iron gate ripped off in about 30 seconds, and had to show unwanted visitors where the money was. Luckily they didn't hurt her, but she moved after that. (It just turned into a dangerous neighbourhood, so this isn't how it is everywhere.) I'm just saying that it's wiser to assume that if you see security precautions there's at least a chance that it was trauma of some kind or another that made the people there take them.
So if you have the only low fence in your area, you might want to be at least a bit more alert (and maybe get a contract with a security company, since sometimes the police can be worse than useless, so you'd at least want to reduce the amount of time any unwanted visitor spent with you). If all the fences are low, you might be in a safe area, though. Still pays to be careful. And don't brag about it. Better to keep something like that a secret.
Sorry to go on so, but you're better off working out what the real possibilities are (probabilities don't matter as much) than to risk going so far that you cross over to denying facts you need to be aware of, just for your own safety. No need to be paranoid, and ruin your life, but you do need to take some kind of elevated level of care. Or it's better to do that than to regret it afterwards.
(The thing is there are other crimes that are likelier than murder to consider. The reason for focusing on murder is that murder is more difficult to leave off the books, so works as a kind of "violence index").
Welcome to SA STAY SAFE AND AND STAY BLESSED
Thank you 🥰🥰
This does not sound like a native fron NZ
whys that? Was born and raised there. Born Christchurch and lived in blenheim for 2 years
@@sketchy_boo ok
@@sketchy_boo Apologies, listening to the last part of ypur video I can hear the NZ accent. I guess I liaten more to interviews of NZ rugby players which some are og Moari decent.
In my AFrikaans mind their accent is more prominent, still hurting from our loss. Welcome to SA, wishing you and your family all the best
@rimobenjamin1835 no all good 😊 I was raised with NZ mum and SA dad so I do have a mixed accent 😅
Tell me when you visit Johannesburg South
It's actually cool here
I'm shocked that theres someone who likes frogs
Welcome to SA
First time being exposed to a New Zealand accent, funny enough sounds similar to the South African one
Haha I have a south African dad and a NZ mum so picked up accent from my dad a bit haha
@@sketchy_boo makes sense, I was confused for a while haha
Yeah, she sounds pretty much Afrikaans..
Loadsheding is not too bad? 😭😭😭😭😭
You sound very South African!!!!!
Capetown crime is worse than joburg
Depends on where you are, CPT cbd probably has more crime, but the WC province has less crime than Gauteng in the rural areas.
Enjoy
i'm so into your rabits teeth 🥰
THE REASON FOR SOUTH AFRICANS TO HAVE DOGS IS TO SAFEGUARD AND ALSO KEEP US ALERT COS THERE ARE A LOT IF THIEVES
Live with loadsheding for a couple of years
You have the strangest accent😊 possibly related to where you are living and the people around you. In the same vein, the language in common use can be quite specific to the area you are in, but most South Africans can speak or at least understand English, which is widely used everywhere.
Welcom my sis , I will give you an African name
Thank you, haha whats that?
@@sketchy_boowelcoming
wow wamkelekile😅⛹️🤾🔥🇿🇦
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Where I are you ?. You are very quiet another video.
I don't know you sound south African though
Mholo unjani. means hi how are you
Welcome sister, you are beautiful by the way
Thank you so much ❤️
@@sketchy_boo sharp sharp 👌🏿
You actually look Afrikaans😊
All Blacks is my team
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It's inhumane and cruel to have dogs in cages.That rule should be changed.Dont you'll have people who advocate for animals.
Ya we do it mainly only happens because of strict rules around controlling your dog and noise control which forces people to keep them inside more
But I do agree it is extremely cruel
U mean peoples kids don't make noice.why have animals if they have to suffer.The govt needs to do something to help these poor animals.I know these cruel humans will pay for hurting animals.
By the way we also have cruel people here who do bad things to animals.They do t feed them ,chain them on a ,1 metre chain, make dogs kill cats.Humans are inhumane
@suminthraramsuran724 ya it really is inhumane. Ya not all of nz people do it, it just happens more then it should
well if you wanna learn other languages... try google translate. write sentences then learn them...
Ha ha ha
I can't believe anyone moves into South Africa from New Zealand. Saffa's must look at you like you're mad.
Actually SA is a beautful country and why not move there. Some of us like it
@@alicegauteng2358 yea it’s an absolutely stunning country but it’s managed by crooks and morons so it’s a country bordering on collapse. Plenty of beautiful countries in the world that have low risk of death/grape/kidnapping. Just cross the border north and you’re in a much safer country.
Bla-bla-bla you are the people who don't make it easy to be South African ...you focus lot on the negative, you die young