For our national anthem, the lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages - Xhosa (first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza).
Another fun fact: We absolutely LOVE having a braai (barbeque), so much so that on the 24th of September (our national Heritage Day), is also our National Braai day. We have a whole day dedicated to it. I swear that if you fly over South Africa on that day, all you'll see is smoke because the whole country is having a braai🤣
It started out as heritage day but a local guy went to Desmond tutu to make it a national braai day, as they found it hard for especially white South Africans to celebrate their heritage so soon after apartheid ended, so instead the idea became to celebrate something each and every South African loves, to braai.
@@IsanG08 No. The fact is the constatution is a joke. The cANCer of a government have no time for the minority groups in South Africa. Look at all the bbeee lows.
Yeah leftist academics rave about it, and how progressive it is. But what does it matter, if no one in power respects the constitution. Laws without backing are merely scraps of paper.
Ahh not actually, Cape Malays are Cape Malays and Coloureds are separated by thier specific gene pool and ancestry. For example I am mix Creole and Dutch. My husband is mix together by Indian and black. So we both coloured but not the same. I have absolutely no Cape Malay blood nor my husband. And out religion is Christian not Muslim.
False. Cape malays and coloureds are fully integrated. They decend from the same khoi/African-Asian slaves in the Cape Colony, they just on the Asian spectrum of the creole population. Aka coloured
You should watch "Invictus" to see how we transitioned from a country at war with itself to a democratic country. If possible please watch the movie as a reaction. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
@Mlandvo Mayihlome You are right actually, it shouldn't be something that we can be proud of, it should be something that is normal. The decline of morals is when we don't give people the opportunity to choose how they want to live their lives. And by the way culture changes all the time, it was created by people and can be changed by people. We changed the culture of expecting women to stay home and just take care of children, now more and more women are independent and chase their dreams. Who are you to decide who someone should love? How they should live their lives? I grew up with my cousin who was gay, but did his sexuality change who I find attractive? Nope. I still love women, so why should I be bothered with his sexuality?
@Mlandvo Mayihlome How is people having the right to love who they want, without hurting you or anyone immoral? it would be immoral not to respect them.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome We cannot impose our believes on others, they should choose what they want to do with their lives. Who are you to judge how one should live their lives? I repeat what I said culture was created by people and can be changed, and the Bible says we should not judge. If I'm a homosexual it is between me and God, the rest of us should just focus on our lives. We are a democracy not a dictatorship, and for the same-sex marriage to be passed a majority of SAns agreed to it.
36:01 yes Lesotho is its own country. But we have very strong relations with the country. Just like we have strong relations with Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho as I said. So you might say we are one people, just devided with borders.
@Oarabile Tshwagong ,we also have strong relations with bulawayo ( zimbabwe)because we have our xhosa, ndebele, sotho and tswana brothers and sisters. Why leave bulawayo. You have your brothers and sisters sesotho and seTswana speaking in bulawayo.we one people with bulawayo zimbabwe. Namibia is less than 6000 seTswana speaking people.
18:38 They had a pic of Trevor Noah during the "coloured" segment. And this is part of the complexity of the coloured people or people appearing as "coloured". Trevor Noah is bi-racial, not necessarily coloured, despite his appearence. He identifies as black african with regards to culture and upbringing. His father is white (Swiss) and mother black African of the Xhosa tribe. But that said, again it speaks to the complexity of the "coloured" group and how non South Africans will get it wrong, or may have difficulty understanding initially how it works. But its expected, but can be explained in more detail.
Definitely check also South African music as well because of different cultures qe have and diverse South Africa has, we also have lots of different music like you see Gqom,House,Sokkie-Sokkie ect. Just check South African music out
I like how they make it seem like Lesotho was negotiated when it actual fact it was fought for in never ending wars for atleast 70 years between the Basotho warriors and the European armies and they failed to colonize the state and that is why it isn’t part of South Africa.
The Basotho state of Lesotho came into existence because people had to flee for there lives due to the Zulu murdering impies of Chaka that roamed over the Southern African landscape killing everyone that dared to appose them! It was not because they could not be concurred. The British eventually decided to give them their own land as they acknowledge the separate nature of the Basotho people, when it was decided to create the Union of South Africa.
@@pauldbeer If you have not researched Basotho history in depth then don't comment on it. Basotho have always lived in Lesotho. In actual fact Chaka had sent one of his regiments to attack Moshoeshoes kingdom and they were defeated. This became well known in the Nguni territories (KZN+EC). Moshoeshoe became well known throughout KZN and Eastern Cape. Basotho was not created by people fleeing KZN and EC instead what had happened is that those people heard about Moshoeshoe he became well known so many fled to Lesotho to sought protection under Moshoeshoe and they were accepted and assimilated into Basotho culture. They were given land and livestock to start a new life. Chaka was not happy about this and wanted to attack Moshoeshoes kingdom but his Sangoma warned him and advised him to not step foot there because he wouldn't succeed.
@@pauldbeer read history archives and you will see how many times Basotho defeated the Afrikaners. The Basotho had an horsemen army of no less than 5,000 horsemen that could be summoned at anytime. And they could never be defeated on that landscape. The British tried many times as well to invade by force and they failed dismally. Until they decided to negotiate a protectorate state. And when the British tried to pass a law that Lesotho should be gun free the Basotho woke up the next day and attacked the British headquarters in Maseru and their army camps and they were annihilated and the rest fled back to the Cape Colony. After that they never tried anything funny ever again.
Sotho ,tswana, ndebele ,xhosa and zulu speaking people are found in the following countries, south africa, botswana, lesotho, eswatini ,Namibia and bulawayo(zimbabwe).Namibia is less 6000 seTswana speaking people. Bulawayo (zimbabwe) is the only country outside south africa that speaking the following languages we speak here in south africa, (xhosa,seTswana, sesotho and ndebele, their ndebele is close to zulu.
The motto. The motto is: ! ke e: /xarra //ke, written in the Khoisan language of the /Xam people, literally meaning diverse people unite. It addresses each individual effort to harness the unity between thought and action.
In the movie "George of the Jungle" there is a part where George dances around the camp fire and invites Ursula to join him. That song is one of Johnny Clegg's hits, actually a love song. Can't remember the name of the song right now.
26:19 this isn't true about Trevor noah, he doesn't consider himself coloured and most coloured people don't either. It's more than just having a black parent and a white parent, he grew up in a black community and wouldn't understand a coloured community
Well, roughly speaking yes, but it did not tell the whole truth by neglecting some important info. But, yes, it is mostly correct. For instance, the coloured people is mostly the result of mixing of the Malay slaves with Europeans, with a very small European-African mix. Also, although soccer (Football) might be the most popular sport in SA, South African soccer standard is very bad, with SA men ranked 68th in the world in 2021 Rugby on the other hand, mostly played by Afrikaners and Europeans, with very little participation by people of the other cultural/race groups, are ranked number two in the world and SA's team has 3 World titels, equaled only by New Zeeland!
Check out Nasty C - Jack( Im sure you will love it😊) He is a dope young South African Hiphop artist. We have a rich music content here in the South 💣🔥💯🤟🏿🇿🇦
Have to agree! Also, both Lesotho and Swaziland, think there name changed recently, contribute negatively to the total economic wellbeing of SA as a whole. These two countries would be the poorest and least developed in Africa if not the world if not for SA. They might as well not exist!!
That is also false! Electrical Load-sheding depends on the level announced for that day or week. Level 1 basically are with us always and we see level 2 and 3 regularly! Level one means that certain suburbs can be switched off at least once a week. Level two meaning that certain suburbs can be switched off for up to 2 hours a day and on level three most suburbs can have up to 4 hours of no power per day. The total time per day can be spread over two or three intervals. SA has had level three load-shedding regularly for every year since 2012. For the last 12 years, there has not been a year without any load-shedding!
@@pauldbeer not in the city and suburb where I live. I know in the past, there was loadshedding around 2007...people were blaming exports, it was on Carte Blanch. For the next 6 years there was no chronic scheduled outages. In 2014 there were some. The official excuse was that it was due to some problem supplying a major power plant with coal. It lasted until that was sorted. Then for 5 years there was nothing. In 2019, it started again around March. I remember, because I had to arrange the purchase of UPSs and get the backup generator up and working again for the building where I worked. Since then, it has become a yearly thing. But still, there's typically months in between periods of scheduled power outs. During Covid there was no loadshedding for a year. The maximum duration per blackout is 2hrs. The shortest duration, is 2hrs😅. Half the time, the second one is in the middle of the night, if there is a second one. (at least where I live). Over here, "the level" determines the scheduled frequency of these 2hr blackouts. So, we'll sometimes have multiple instances of 2hr blackouts per day. But virtually never 4hrs consecutively. Basically, where I live, there are much much longer periods without loadshedding than with loadshedding, per year. Most of the year, one forgets about loadshedding, until it returns all of a sudden (for some reason, usually in March).
Just to assist, the click sounds in Nguni languages are not borrowed from the San people. Swahili which has the most commonly accommodating language in African indigenous people and shows that all indigenous African languages have a certain click in them and hence share a common origin which may be from our Nomads. The San people are a part of the oldest nomads/people in the continent and stretched as far as from Tanzania to the South, and have been roaming Africa for years until now where only a few pockets exist. South African nomads need to be protected and preserved in South Africa, language is not even recognised legally in the country nor are their rights as nomads
I like how they jet through "certain" parts of our history. Also, "coloured people" are their own race and didn't become from Caucasians and natives mixing, that is offensive actually. Without being a killjoy, fun video.
🤦 Coloureds have mixed ancestry that's already been proven. And mostly speak afrikaans a language taught to them by white people and some how don't speak a native african language... 😂 Why do you think that is? Its Not like black people in South Africa forgot their language when the white people came.
A lot of the health system, not all of it but most, is horrible, especially in the rural areas. That however is the only thing I take issue with. We have such a beautiful country. Proudly South African.
Greetings nice video of RSA. I am a khoisan defendant call coloured. We don't know why the world is declaring khoisan extinct or non- existing. But our government are recognised as as the people with the oldest DNA in the world. Every videos just wants to ignore our first nation status. Gan gans
Interesting how, although mentioned here and there, the influence of the Afrikaners/Europeans on the socio-economic development of South Africa was neglected! Also, during the music section, the Afrikaans music was not even mentioned, yet 5 of the top ten selling artists in SA are Afrikaans, with the top selling artist by a long shot being an Afrikaans mainstream artist , Steve Hofmeyer, who also has a substantial English repertoire! Me being Afrikaans, I feel that this neglect on giving due acknowledgement for the contributions made by Europeans to the wellbeing, of South Africans, in general, contributes to many of the underlaying racial frictions that are quite prevalent in SA at this time of our history. The negative influence of Apartheid was emphasized, while the positive contributions were scarcely mentioned, if at all!!
@@enkosikhohliso3950 The "pain" you're referring too was mostly a concept created by power hungry politicians. Now I'm not saying there was no unacceptable things done that surely caused pain for some people during those times, but the majority of people in South Africa benefitted much more by the positive contributions the Afrikaners, and Europeans brought to this country. If you're a South African, you simply accept it as a way of life, but if you compare South Africa and Namibia with the rest of sub-Sahara Africa, then you realise the huge difference brought about by European ingenuity and economic development! In the post Apartheid SA this is mostly neglected because it does not fit the ANC's political narrative and contributes to them clinging to power.
@@pauldbeer You've got a deliberate selective view about Apartheid. Being viewed and treated ( mostly legally and economically), as a second class citizen particularly in your own country applied to all and sundry. I don't understand your reference to "some". Especially when you are fully aware that Apartheid was in the South African statutory books targeting the whole entire black nation. You don't need to feel bad about it because that is the reason why the truth is escaping your mind. Black South Africans are a very forgiving bunch. Free your conscience my homie !!!
@@clementmpushe5957 I luckily have nothing on my conscience. I was born in 1965 and only voted twice before 1994. On both occasions I voted for multi-party government and revision of the political system. I can and will not feel guilty about anything I did not support or voted for. Also, please ensure you do not have selective memory or biased views either, as it goes both ways, with the correct view or truth mostly somewhere in between. My view is not selective, it is based in reality only, with me expressing my view based on my experience and the cold facts of what I observed all around me. You might or will most likely not agree with me but that is also ok. We can only learn from each other by being open to the view points of others who have had a different experience.. The reality is that if Africa is viewed as a whole, and living standards are measured, the average South African was/is much better off than most people in other African countries. That was the point I was trying to convey.
@@pauldbeer development that you built on the backs of South Africans and you talk about giving credit to who exactly? To the people who inspected the house or to the people who actually built the house ? Who should be given credit?
Actuallythe term Bantu is just people in Zulu, but some twisted people down the history made it to mean black people. Singular- Umuntu-Person; Plural Abantu-People.
SA Blacks are a millennia old indigenous amalgam of hunter-gatherer and agro-pastoralists. There is some admixture from East Africa in pre-history. The South African Human Genome project mapped this.
For our national anthem, the lyrics employ the five most widely spoken of South Africa's eleven official languages - Xhosa (first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza).
Another fun fact: We absolutely LOVE having a braai (barbeque), so much so that on the 24th of September (our national Heritage Day), is also our National Braai day. We have a whole day dedicated to it. I swear that if you fly over South Africa on that day, all you'll see is smoke because the whole country is having a braai🤣
BRAAI IS OURS AND NOT THE AMERICANS
It started out as heritage day but a local guy went to Desmond tutu to make it a national braai day, as they found it hard for especially white South Africans to celebrate their heritage so soon after apartheid ended, so instead the idea became to celebrate something each and every South African loves, to braai.
Fun fact: SA is considered to have one of the best if not the best constitution in the world.
The best.
Ha Ha Ha. The constitution is a joke.
@@jacoolckers6465 The Fun Fact flew over your head there bud
@@IsanG08 No. The fact is the constatution is a joke. The cANCer of a government have no time for the minority groups in South Africa. Look at all the bbeee lows.
Yeah leftist academics rave about it, and how progressive it is. But what does it matter, if no one in power respects the constitution. Laws without backing are merely scraps of paper.
Did my guy just say Calamari instead of Kalahari 😂
He mentioned it in the comments of the original video that he noticed it after posting it.
And the original name is 'Kgalagadi'. I lived there for over a year.
I laughed
Fun fact,the cape malay and coloureds are fully integrated into each other.its hard nowadays to seperate the two except by religion
Ahh not actually, Cape Malays are Cape Malays and Coloureds are separated by thier specific gene pool and ancestry. For example I am mix Creole and Dutch. My husband is mix together by Indian and black. So we both coloured but not the same. I have absolutely no Cape Malay blood nor my husband. And out religion is Christian not Muslim.
Fun fact. South Africa is also rated as the most dangerous country- outside of a war zone - in the world!!
I'm mixed cape Malay and cape coloured😂 and people always say I'm not colored and that I'm Egyptian or from the middle east.
False. Cape malays and coloureds are fully integrated. They decend from the same khoi/African-Asian slaves in the Cape Colony, they just on the Asian spectrum of the creole population. Aka coloured
You not coloured of you are biracial. Coloureds are creole
I'm from SA 🇿🇦 thanks for the reaction there's so much more that was left out, but this was a really nice reaction
Im from Caoe Town South Africa🇿🇦❤️
Recommended movies
1. Sarafina
2. Jerusalema
3. 4 corners
4. Spud (trilogy)
5. Tsotsi
...Shaka Zulu
Blood and water
I would recommend reading the spud boeks first
You should watch "Invictus" to see how we transitioned from a country at war with itself to a democratic country. If possible please watch the movie as a reaction. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you so much!
Thank YOU for watching! This was a sweet episode to learn about South Africa!
Leon Schuster is the best prankster in the world, the whole country knows him.
Finally I've been asking for this for weeks😁
We actually have a rainforest here in South Africa. The Tsitsikamma Forrest. Really beautiful. I've never been there, but it's beautiful.
I bet a kidney if ya'll came here, you'd never leave.. #proudlysouthafrican
Fun fact: SA was the 1st country in Africa and 5th in the world to recognize same-sex marriages, after Netherlands, Costa Rica, Belgium and Spain
@Mlandvo Mayihlome
You are right actually, it shouldn't be something that we can be proud of, it should be something that is normal. The decline of morals is when we don't give people the opportunity to choose how they want to live their lives. And by the way culture changes all the time, it was created by people and can be changed by people.
We changed the culture of expecting women to stay home and just take care of children, now more and more women are independent and chase their dreams.
Who are you to decide who someone should love? How they should live their lives?
I grew up with my cousin who was gay, but did his sexuality change who I find attractive? Nope. I still love women, so why should I be bothered with his sexuality?
@Mlandvo Mayihlome How is people having the right to love who they want, without hurting you or anyone immoral? it would be immoral not to respect them.
@Mlandvo Mayihlome We cannot impose our believes on others, they should choose what they want to do with their lives. Who are you to judge how one should live their lives?
I repeat what I said culture was created by people and can be changed, and the Bible says we should not judge. If I'm a homosexual it is between me and God, the rest of us should just focus on our lives.
We are a democracy not a dictatorship, and for the same-sex marriage to be passed a majority of SAns agreed to it.
Marriage is defined by the unity between men and women, and still is, I think you’re referring to a Civil union.
You don’t seem to understand what morals are , please look up the definition and try to relate it to real world actions.
Nice. I think there are definitely misconceptions about Africa as a whole and south Africa in particular, and this definitely helped clear things up.
Thank you for the reaction💖 now you need to react to SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY
Thanks for watching!!! We would love to learn about Rugby!
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36:01 yes Lesotho is its own country. But we have very strong relations with the country. Just like we have strong relations with Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho as I said. So you might say we are one people, just devided with borders.
@Oarabile Tshwagong ,we also have strong relations with bulawayo ( zimbabwe)because we have our xhosa, ndebele, sotho and tswana brothers and sisters. Why leave bulawayo. You have your brothers and sisters sesotho and seTswana speaking in bulawayo.we one people with bulawayo zimbabwe. Namibia is less than 6000 seTswana speaking people.
@Oarabile Tshwagong, I'm xhosa,what are you.sotho or tswana.
@Oarabile Tshwagong how are we one with Namibia.
@Oarabile Tshwagong, you dislike your people because they are in bulawayo (zimbabwe) . what relations do we have with eswatini, lesotho and botswana.
@@siyabulelamlungwana8181 The problem is Bulawayo is part of zimbabwe. I don't really think Zimbabwe would just sit and watch as we take it from it.
You really have to know the difference between now, now now and just now it's no joke
Lesotho is the 10th province of South Africa. That's just how we South Africans see it even though its a landlock country.
Lesotho is a crime shithole.
18:38 They had a pic of Trevor Noah during the "coloured" segment. And this is part of the complexity of the coloured people or people appearing as "coloured".
Trevor Noah is bi-racial, not necessarily coloured, despite his appearence. He identifies as black african with regards to culture and upbringing. His father is white (Swiss) and mother black African of the Xhosa tribe.
But that said, again it speaks to the complexity of the "coloured" group and how non South Africans will get it wrong, or may have difficulty understanding initially how it works. But its expected, but can be explained in more detail.
🤣 🤣 🤣 That part about having the best railway... They need to up date that to the shittiest.
Definitely check also South African music as well because of different cultures qe have and diverse South Africa has, we also have lots of different music like you see Gqom,House,Sokkie-Sokkie ect. Just check South African music out
Load shedding does not take that long it is usually 2 hrs
Depending on the stage ofcause
Two hours twice a day 🤣🤣
🤣 How we have just made it a part of life, hay!?!
It weighs on the entire economy and is something people in other countries laugh at. We literally can't keep the lights on.
What a wonderful video. You Nailed it.
I like how they make it seem like Lesotho was negotiated when it actual fact it was fought for in never ending wars for atleast 70 years between the Basotho warriors and the European armies and they failed to colonize the state and that is why it isn’t part of South Africa.
How laughable! No one wanted it because of it's insignificance!!
The Basotho state of Lesotho came into existence because people had to flee for there lives due to the Zulu murdering impies of Chaka that roamed over the Southern African landscape killing everyone that dared to appose them! It was not because they could not be concurred. The British eventually decided to give them their own land as they acknowledge the separate nature of the Basotho people, when it was decided to create the Union of South Africa.
@@pauldbeer insignificance?!? Probably 2/3 of South Africa's drinking water comes from Lesotho. So humble yourself.
@@pauldbeer If you have not researched Basotho history in depth then don't comment on it. Basotho have always lived in Lesotho. In actual fact Chaka had sent one of his regiments to attack Moshoeshoes kingdom and they were defeated. This became well known in the Nguni territories (KZN+EC). Moshoeshoe became well known throughout KZN and Eastern Cape. Basotho was not created by people fleeing KZN and EC instead what had happened is that those people heard about Moshoeshoe he became well known so many fled to Lesotho to sought protection under Moshoeshoe and they were accepted and assimilated into Basotho culture. They were given land and livestock to start a new life. Chaka was not happy about this and wanted to attack Moshoeshoes kingdom but his Sangoma warned him and advised him to not step foot there because he wouldn't succeed.
@@pauldbeer read history archives and you will see how many times Basotho defeated the Afrikaners. The Basotho had an horsemen army of no less than 5,000 horsemen that could be summoned at anytime. And they could never be defeated on that landscape. The British tried many times as well to invade by force and they failed dismally. Until they decided to negotiate a protectorate state. And when the British tried to pass a law that Lesotho should be gun free the Basotho woke up the next day and attacked the British headquarters in Maseru and their army camps and they were annihilated and the rest fled back to the Cape Colony. After that they never tried anything funny ever again.
Sotho ,tswana, ndebele ,xhosa and zulu speaking people are found in the following countries, south africa, botswana, lesotho, eswatini ,Namibia and bulawayo(zimbabwe).Namibia is less 6000 seTswana speaking people. Bulawayo (zimbabwe) is the only country outside south africa that speaking the following languages we speak here in south africa, (xhosa,seTswana, sesotho and ndebele, their ndebele is close to zulu.
South Africa's motto is "Diverse people unite."
Yet we have 0 unity in this country.
Lol
The motto. The motto is: ! ke e: /xarra //ke, written in the Khoisan language of the /Xam people, literally meaning diverse people unite. It addresses each individual effort to harness the unity between thought and action.
@@melissabekker8000 Hi. Dis die land se leuse. Diverse people unite. Weet nie wat is so snaaks nie.
Love SA 🇿🇦. from Kenya 🇰🇪.
Do Kenya next 😊
Kenya 🇰🇪: You are a proud and adorable nation. How I wish you were our real neighbours 🇿🇦. I love each and everyone of you !
thank you a great reaction
Hey Muchizi! Thanks for watching :)
"I am English" with that accent 😆
Doesn't want to be called a rooi nek i guess😂
Also check out Blood and Water on Netflix about SOUTH AFRICA, YOU WON'T REGRET IT 🇿🇦❤️
🤣 The Calamari (Kalahari)
Correction, our national bird is not a Blue Crane ......its a Secretary Bird
That's simply not true
No, it is the Blue crane! You're wrong!
Cool video....enjoyed watching your reaction
In the movie "George of the Jungle" there is a part where George dances around the camp fire and invites Ursula to join him. That song is one of Johnny Clegg's hits, actually a love song. Can't remember the name of the song right now.
Chappie and District 9 are south african films? I loved those, check them out if u want.
Those looked cool to check out!!!! Thanks for the reccomendation!
That boi really said kalamari
Proud South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 most South Africans can sing the National Snyheme. We love braaivleis rugby sunny skies and cheverolet
26:19 this isn't true about Trevor noah, he doesn't consider himself coloured and most coloured people don't either. It's more than just having a black parent and a white parent, he grew up in a black community and wouldn't understand a coloured community
You should watch Dude Perfect Bucket list: South Africa.🇿🇦
I stay in Cape Agulhas and its the first time someone actually pointed out its where the oceans meet, usually they say Cape Point
The fact that I’m from Bloemfontein makes me smile everyday☺️
No! We are NOT a mixed race! We are the original descendants of the first people of Africa
In the Nguni groups they left out Swazi, In the Sotho groups left out the Pedi (North Sotho).
In Eskom's defense..... Load shedding only lasts for like 2 hours or 3 tops. Not from 6am to 2pm. Thats exaggerated
Depends where you live. I've had loadshedding for about 6 hrs
8 hours of load shedding. It happens.
Thats a new for me
I get at most 4hrs, mind you I work from home that can be nerve wrecking. Those who get 2hrs you lucky fishes🥰😉
@@jacoolckers6465 holy crap. Where's that?
In CT it's always 2hrs.
The information provided is quiet accurate.
Well, roughly speaking yes, but it did not tell the whole truth by neglecting some important info. But, yes, it is mostly correct. For instance, the coloured people is mostly the result of mixing of the Malay slaves with Europeans, with a very small European-African mix.
Also, although soccer (Football) might be the most popular sport in SA, South African soccer standard is very bad, with SA men ranked 68th in the world in 2021
Rugby on the other hand, mostly played by Afrikaners and Europeans, with very little participation by people of the other cultural/race groups, are ranked number two in the world and SA's team has 3 World titels, equaled only by New Zeeland!
Checkout South African Hip-Hop especially Nasty C
Bloukrans Bridge is the highest commercial bungee jump in the world standing at 216 meters (708 feet)
They didn't mention it but JRR Tolkien was born in South Afrika.
Check out Nasty C - Jack( Im sure you will love it😊)
He is a dope young South African Hiphop artist.
We have a rich music content here in the South
💣🔥💯🤟🏿🇿🇦
Please react to Dude Perfects: Bucket List South Africa❤😹😹😹
I live in South Africa/Suid Afrika in Cape Town/Kaapstad and its amazing
hey guys very nice reaction the country in the middle is called Lesotho
8:18 Did he pronounce "Kalahari" as "Kalamari"..?!
One thing you guys definitely need to do is react to leon Schuster movies you guys will die from laughter
Johannesburg largest man made forest in the world in a metropolitan area
They spoke of the health system without mentioning the first successful heart transplant in the world
They actually did mention that!
@@pauldbeer Realised too late😜 that they did, thanks
the country within south africa is called lesotho
Love from Cape Town
Fun fact. SA has the oldest mountain 🏔️ in the world
How is it possible for certain parts of the earth's crust to be older than others? This is a scientific fallacy!!
He mentioned about Lesotho so many times and yet you couldn't recognise the country in the middle
Have to agree! Also, both Lesotho and Swaziland, think there name changed recently, contribute negatively to the total economic wellbeing of SA as a whole. These two countries would be the poorest and least developed in Africa if not the world if not for SA. They might as well not exist!!
Regarding language - South African Sign Language is currently being recognised as a 12th language. Progressive.
React to South African netflix series and movies;
1. Blood and Water
2. Savage Beauty
3. How to ruin Christmas
4. Silverton Siege
5. Justice Served
Please 🙏 react to the 101 about Cape Town. South. Africa
Loadshedding is only 2 hours at a time
Or 4 hours to 6 hours. Eskom is not doing great.
Loadshedding usually lasts for 2 hours in a day and a year can go by without loadshedding...
That is also false! Electrical Load-sheding depends on the level announced for that day or week. Level 1 basically are with us always and we see level 2 and 3 regularly! Level one means that certain suburbs can be switched off at least once a week. Level two meaning that certain suburbs can be switched off for up to 2 hours a day and on level three most suburbs can have up to 4 hours of no power per day. The total time per day can be spread over two or three intervals.
SA has had level three load-shedding regularly for every year since 2012. For the last 12 years, there has not been a year without any load-shedding!
@@pauldbeer not in the city and suburb where I live.
I know in the past, there was loadshedding around 2007...people were blaming exports, it was on Carte Blanch.
For the next 6 years there was no chronic scheduled outages.
In 2014 there were some. The official excuse was that it was due to some problem supplying a major power plant with coal. It lasted until that was sorted.
Then for 5 years there was nothing.
In 2019, it started again around March. I remember, because I had to arrange the purchase of UPSs and get the backup generator up and working again for the building where I worked. Since then, it has become a yearly thing. But still, there's typically months in between periods of scheduled power outs. During Covid there was no loadshedding for a year.
The maximum duration per blackout is 2hrs. The shortest duration, is 2hrs😅. Half the time, the second one is in the middle of the night, if there is a second one. (at least where I live).
Over here, "the level" determines the scheduled frequency of these 2hr blackouts. So, we'll sometimes have multiple instances of 2hr blackouts per day. But virtually never 4hrs consecutively.
Basically, where I live, there are much much longer periods without loadshedding than with loadshedding, per year. Most of the year, one forgets about loadshedding, until it returns all of a sudden (for some reason, usually in March).
Which country of them all would you travel to?
love your reaction mega love
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I set foot on that bridge😂
The country surrounded by South Africa is called 'Lesotho"
Funny how they just casually skip over Sepedi
Just to assist, the click sounds in Nguni languages are not borrowed from the San people. Swahili which has the most commonly accommodating language in African indigenous people and shows that all indigenous African languages have a certain click in them and hence share a common origin which may be from our Nomads. The San people are a part of the oldest nomads/people in the continent and stretched as far as from Tanzania to the South, and have been roaming Africa for years until now where only a few pockets exist. South African nomads need to be protected and preserved in South Africa, language is not even recognised legally in the country nor are their rights as nomads
and we win the 2023 world cup 4 rugby world wins
Hi from cape Town 🇿🇦 👋
Whole intro in 8 seconds 🙆🏾♂️
Rugby, Braai, Droëwors and biltong.
Indians were Business man who came for word
Yeah watch Invictus, it's pretty decent.
I like how they jet through "certain" parts of our history. Also, "coloured people" are their own race and didn't become from Caucasians and natives mixing, that is offensive actually.
Without being a killjoy, fun video.
🤦 Coloureds have mixed ancestry that's already been proven. And mostly speak afrikaans a language taught to them by white people and some how don't speak a native african language... 😂 Why do you think that is? Its Not like black people in South Africa forgot their language when the white people came.
Sometimes the truth is offensive to people
Please react to Geography Now - Kenya and Feel the sounds of Kenya
The guy just said calamari🤣
👍👍👍 from Armenia 🇦🇲
So they didn't say anything of the khoi son traditions and culture but khoi son is one of the first indigenous people
Soccer is actually what football was first called by the British. Hence the brits ran away and built America and the brits colonized south Africa
Please react to geography now Maldives.
A lot of the health system, not all of it but most, is horrible, especially in the rural areas. That however is the only thing I take issue with. We have such a beautiful country. Proudly South African.
can you react to best of ultras/chants? :)
Greetings nice video of RSA. I am a khoisan defendant call coloured. We don't know why the world is declaring khoisan extinct or non- existing. But our government are recognised as as the people with the oldest DNA in the world. Every videos just wants to ignore our first nation status. Gan gans
Interesting how, although mentioned here and there, the influence of the Afrikaners/Europeans on the socio-economic development of South Africa was neglected! Also, during the music section, the Afrikaans music was not even mentioned, yet 5 of the top ten selling artists in SA are Afrikaans, with the top selling artist by a long shot being an Afrikaans mainstream artist , Steve Hofmeyer, who also has a substantial English repertoire! Me being Afrikaans, I feel that this neglect on giving due acknowledgement for the contributions made by Europeans to the wellbeing, of South Africans, in general, contributes to many of the underlaying racial frictions that are quite prevalent in SA at this time of our history. The negative influence of Apartheid was emphasized, while the positive contributions were scarcely mentioned, if at all!!
Probably because all the pain inflicted on our grandparents overshadows all the good
@@enkosikhohliso3950 The "pain" you're referring too was mostly a concept created by power hungry politicians. Now I'm not saying there was no unacceptable things done that surely caused pain for some people during those times, but the majority of people in South Africa benefitted much more by the positive contributions the Afrikaners, and Europeans brought to this country. If you're a South African, you simply accept it as a way of life, but if you compare South Africa and Namibia with the rest of sub-Sahara Africa, then you realise the huge difference brought about by European ingenuity and economic development! In the post Apartheid SA this is mostly neglected because it does not fit the ANC's political narrative and contributes to them clinging to power.
@@pauldbeer You've got a deliberate selective view about Apartheid. Being viewed and treated ( mostly legally and economically), as a second class citizen particularly in your own country applied to all and sundry. I don't understand your reference to "some". Especially when you are fully aware that Apartheid was in the South African statutory books targeting the whole entire black nation.
You don't need to feel bad about it because that is the reason why the truth is escaping your mind. Black South Africans are a very forgiving bunch. Free your conscience my homie !!!
@@clementmpushe5957 I luckily have nothing on my conscience. I was born in 1965 and only voted twice before 1994. On both occasions I voted for multi-party government and revision of the political system. I can and will not feel guilty about anything I did not support or voted for. Also, please ensure you do not have selective memory or biased views either, as it goes both ways, with the correct view or truth mostly somewhere in between.
My view is not selective, it is based in reality only, with me expressing my view based on my experience and the cold facts of what I observed all around me. You might or will most likely not agree with me but that is also ok. We can only learn from each other by being open to the view points of others who have had a different experience..
The reality is that if Africa is viewed as a whole, and living standards are measured, the average South African was/is much better off than most people in other African countries. That was the point I was trying to convey.
@@pauldbeer development that you built on the backs of South Africans and you talk about giving credit to who exactly?
To the people who inspected the house or to the people who actually built the house ?
Who should be given credit?
Actuallythe term Bantu is just people in Zulu, but some twisted people down the history made it to mean black people. Singular- Umuntu-Person; Plural Abantu-People.
The country you wanted to know is Kingdom of Lesotho, geography has an episode
FYOI South African blacks came from East Africa not Cameroon...
SA Blacks are a millennia old indigenous amalgam of hunter-gatherer and agro-pastoralists.
There is some admixture from East Africa in pre-history.
The South African Human Genome project mapped this.
Bobotie = Like meat loaf but 10 000 times better!!!
I did the bungee jumping!!!
Cute video, surprisingly accurate.
But xenophobia towards migrants from African countries can get nasty.
Coloureds are also khoi son but the debate is what do you see yourself as
You should listen to the national anthem
No mention
I would love to ask Americans if they wanna have a BRAAI
Americans do have Braai's, but they call it barbeque!
FINALLY lol
I live and was born in South Africa Port Elizabeth it is terrible where i live it is covered in trash and we will be moving to England