Rating South Africa's Province Names Out Of 10
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South Africa’s Provinces: en.wikipedia.o...
Limpopo: kids.britannic...
Mpumalanga: kids.britannic...
Gauteng: www.gauteng-in...
North West: en.wikipedia.o...)
Free State: www.sahistory....
KwaZulu: en.wikipedia.o...
Natal: www.britannica...
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How would you rate these names out of 10?
Gauteng is a shortening of the phrase gau(gold) e teng(is here or is present) it does not mean only gold, other than that good video if you want more fun names try the provincial capitals and major cities
The "au" in Gauteng is actually pronounced similar to the "ow" in words like wow, how, etc. And it literally translates as "place of gold"
One interesting name confusion is that of Port Elizabeth (which has a new name). Unlike the other Port-cities in the Eastern Cape, the city wasn't named after a British Monarch (Elizabeth II was already on the Throne at that point), it was named after the founder's wife.
A video that could generate lots of views might me the name changes streets, towns and cities in South Africa. The idea is to replace the "colonial" names with indigenous names, but it is not without controversy.
It'd be funny if the province was called Northwest South Africa, since then you'd find someone who could say "I am from east Northwest Sout Africa" and confuse the hell out of people
yeah it is already confusing enough to hear someone say “I’m from East North West” or whatever 😂
As a South African, I'm looking forward to this
6:33 As a Portuguese South African, you'd be surprised how many of us live here😂
I bet u love our loadshedding aye?
I visited South Africa in 2020 from Philly. It blew me away! I stayed in Jo’Burg CDB in Franklin Lofts which were dope af! I hung out a lot in Melville and Rosebank and out in Sandton. You would think you were in California from the looks of it. I went to Kruger National and stay at Skakuza for 3 days. It was one of the highlights of my life. I want to go back and visit Cape Town and Durban
Durban is great! Please mind that tourists get a bad rap around there, especially if you are white
I feel bad correcting you, but it’s spelt _Skukuza._
I’m glad you enjoyed the visit! However, we’ve got consistent power outages so I’m not sure that it’s a great time to visit right now
You are going to live Cape Town! Also visit the Garden Route!
As a Durban baby, I agree Kwa-Zulu Natal is a 10/10. I never get bored of exploring this province. I'm surprised the Western Cape is so low. Most people want to flock to CT.
I hate Gauteng, I grew up there for a big part of my life and felt so depressed, it was boring and the only exciting things to do back in the 90's and early 2000's was the glass bridge at Menlyn Mall and being amazed at the painted roof in Monte Casino.
6:39
Funnily enough there is another Vasco De Gama today in Sourh Africa and he works as a politician and was a speaker for the city of Johannesburg earlier this year.
The best part about North West is looking at the map it appears to actually just be in the North Middle, Northern Cape is almost entirely further west, And a decent portion is about the same amount north as North West. For that, I'd give it some extra points for not being entirely accurate, At least a 2.
North-West is a pretty recent addition as name goes too, probably being about 30 years old. It used to just be part of Transvaal called Western Transvaal.
Former Provinces of South Africa pre 1994, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal
Zulu also means sky or heavens
A very few from my country know that my home province means Christmas 😅
A Lil correction on Gauteng pronounciation it's Ghawu-teng, not Ghua-teng. other than that however, spot on 👏
Gal-teng
Gauteng is pronounced like Howteng, but with a guttural soft G.
Is this name ( Gauteng ) " of Afrikaans " origin I guess?
Being named after gold isn't too commonplace on the globe? Some exceptions being Gold, Texas; Gold, Pennsylvania; Gold, North Carolina; Golden, Colorado; Goldsboro, North Carolina; Goldberg, German; El Oro, Mexico, and Golden City, Missouri. There is also a city named Gold in India. Also, there's the Gold Coast in Australia and the Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago, and the 740 locations of Gold's Gym. 😜
In California some gold miners who moved there named a town Johannesburg and nearby there is a Randsburg (obviously after Randburg), also a Sun city but I suspect named that before the South African resort
I'd give North West 0 out of 10, because it's not even in the northwestern part of the country!
yes it is?
@@mishaal__k Is it?
@footballhipster you could argue. Its funnier to think its not though
@@gollossalkitty As far as compass directions are concerned, I'd wager that it is just north rather than northwest.
It seems to me that if you're going to have a NEINE scale it should go from 0 to 9.
A very few from my home country know that my home province means Christmas 😅
As a Portuguese speaking South African I always knew it sounded like our word for Christmas
Great vid, but the way you pronounced Gauteng killed me xD
And boers xD
Agreed!
But you skipped that the original British colony in South Africa was the "Cape Colony." I don't know it's exact borders, but I bet the three modern provinces largely correspond to the old colony, and surely historical legacy is worth at least a half point?
Also, I enjoyed "North West" because it made me think of the "North West Territory," which is still a subunit of Canada and certainly in The North but isn't in the west (any more; at one point the NWT was everything between Ontario, the Arctic Ocean, British Columbia (at the time a separate country) and Russia (when they still controlled Alaska).
North-West is a pretty recent addition as name goes too, probably being about 30 years old. It used to just be part of Transvaal called Western Transvaal.
Yea, the Cape colony (British version) is the original Dutch Cape colony that they just kept giving newly conquered lands to, it was at it's largest half of modern day South Africa, it was split into 3, north, East and West but their is a 4 the South Cape however it's not as large and is just like the others their general direction from the city of Cape Town.
I don't blame him for referring to the Western Cape as the Southern Cape, it makes more sense that way.
And also Northern Cape should just be called the Western Cape
Confusingly enough, the part of the Western Cape more or less in the middle of the Southern coast, is called the Southern Cape. George, Mossel Bay and Knysna are some of the towns there. It is also called the garden route because of its natural beauty.
I would find it interesting how you would rank the names of the German Bundesländer.
Imagine the pronunciations though!
@@FoggyD
Especially for the (attempt of) the German pronounciation.
Hey, at least he talks about us 😊
This would be an interesting new series! Im here for it
The way he said Gauteng né joh eish man 💀☠️💀☠️
Gwateng😂
Other than Sun City, the North-West province sucks. My dad used to work there and would drive 2 hours back and forth for work from Pretoria everyday, it was brutal.
You should do a tier list of country names (perhaps on a livestream). Feel free to edit the S to F scale to fit your own Ethymology scale.
That sounds like a fun time honestly
Since north west isn't truly in the west, I think they should name it "East North West" South Africa. Voila! All four cardinal directions at once.
Those pronunciations are cracking me up
such videos remind me why I subscribed
Tip: the Dutch oe is pronounced the same as the English oo in boot. So boer becomes boor.
Please do one for the whole world. Maybe a video for each continent... also, capital cities
Do the Eastern Shore of Virginia (Assawoman, Onancock, Assateague, Metompkin, Saxis, Tangier, Kegotank, Pungoteague, Cape Charles, Chincoteague, Nassawaddox...) but also we have an Accawmacke near Accomac in Accomack. And come visit!
Isn’t Tangier the island with all the incest?
@@tomney4460 Tangier is an island sinking in the Chesapeake Bay where they speak Elizabethan era English like Shakespeare. They call themselves "Hoi Toiders" for High Tiders. It is only accessible by boat or plane and there are almost no cars. The school is K-12 and students are dropped off and picked up in golf carts. Some years they may have only one graduate. It is a dry island but locals sometimes sneak alcohol on the ferry. There is a museum and a restaurant. Come see for yourself but bring bug spray.
@@jenniferlee7744 definitely somewhere I’d like to visit.
Lebitso la province of Limpopo used to be called northern province in the 1990s
You should do New Zealand provinces eg Northland Southland East Coast West Coast and also some interesting ones.
Some important things you missed. The Free State was initially called Transorania because it was across the Orange river. That's where the orange came from. Then it became Orange Free State and then Free State.
When South Africa had 4 provinces, the Cape Province was one. That split into the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape. Kwazulu Natal used to just be Natal, but it is the home of the Zulus. Hence the name today.
And Natal was the British name for the Boer Natalia Republiek (Natalia Republic) whitch was a shortlived boer republic born from when the new Zulu monarch Mpande gave land as thanks for helping him win the war against his brother Dingane, the British fearing how strong the boers could be growing in the area invaded and took over, the boer leaders left and went and founded city's in other boer republic's the most known one today is Andries Pretorius who's son founded the city of Pretoria and named it in Andries's honour.
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There are no oranges, nothing is free and the rugby is in a terrible state.
We were lied to.
Should be called Mielie Flat Land
was that a south african accent at 1:07
So sad to see the rapid decline in this country's prosperity 😢
Straight to the point names are the best
The Orange remained in Free State until political changes in 1994. The name came from the Orange river (perhaps named to honour the Price of Orange in Holland). An alternate name was Trans (across) Oranje (Dutch for the colour, not the fruit). Likewise at that time the 4 provinces above that other side the Vaal (Dutch for pale in colour) river were 1 state named Transvaal.
Mpumalanga is the most beautiful.
North West is also the name of the daughter of musician, Kanye West. 🎵
It would be very interesting for you to rate the provinces of Canada.
I’ve always thought it was funny that they call it the eastern cape, even though it’s not on the eastern coast, it makes more sense to call it the southern cape
Another Win for the Zulu Nation 🎉😅❤
His opinion 😂
Dankie dat jy my land reit en waar ek blue in limpopo
I am old enough to remember when Limpopo was Northern Province, and Free State was Orange Free State.
Orange Free State (1854-1902) became Orange River Colony (1902-1910) became Orange Free State again (1910-1990s) became Free State.
Safrica
3:29 that explains why there’s a rising sun on Mpumalanga license plates
should of called a south african (me) to collab and help ya with some pronunciation ahah
Up until a few years ago Limpopo province used to just be name Northern Province
Do US states
What's the song you're referring to at 7:05?
Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
@@Taito3D Thank you
When you said "wildlife" and there was a picture of Nelson Mandela I almost got an heart attack 😅
This is such a random topic..
But asa South African I'm going to love this
The Way you Pronounced Mpumalanga And Gauteng eeei no cut
North West got too many points! Re the capes - they have that cool guess the missing cardinal thing going on; like thr ridings of yorkshire - so that should be worth one more.
3:47 that absolute butchery of the word Gauteng😢, like damm man you could at least have tried to google a how to pronounce it guide. And 6:31 comes from the Boer Natalia Republiek (Natalia Republic) whitch was a short lived boer republic that was made from land given by the new Zulu king Mpande for helping him win the war gains his brother Dingane, the British invaded it and took over as they feared thr boers where growing to strong in the region. The British renamed Natalie Republic to the Natal Colony.
Need more NEINE scale
Johannesburg may mean John's Mountain 😂😂😂
It took be like ten second to figure out what he was saying: BoWEr WAr
Its BOER WAR
Lol not Western cape getting a 2 🤣
next thing i wan't rated are the regions of Italy
South Africa borders a country with a much more fun name, Swaziland. It's so damn satisfying to say Swaziland.
It's Eswatini now
@@atlegangmoeketsi8865 It's still Swaziland to me.
@@TheLobsterCopter5000 nu uh, respect the country lil bro, it's Eswatini
@@atlegangmoeketsi8865 It's Swaziland, and it will always be Swaziland.
Northern Cape and Northwest should swap names, it only makes sense
although ig northwest isn't a cape
As a Zulu man from KZN I just want to say to my follow South Africans Ayy we carried yall bafethu do better😂😂
"Gwateng" 💀💀💀🤣
I am in kzn now
Us states
Australian states + territory
Canadian provinces+ territorys
Also 4 nations making up united Kingdom
Areas named after commodities are pretty common, especially from the colonial perspective.
HUONG HUONG HUONG!!!
They should have called it Azania
You know, as much as that would be better etymologically speaking, Azania as a word is still greek, if we were going to change the name, I would want it to be changed to something that at least has an indigenous etymology.
There was a call for that however it could involve more regions in Africa. The nickname on the street used by kids in Mzanzi
How much does pronunciation factor into your rating? I ask because you definitely butchered Mpumalanga & Gauteng. But if meaning is the main factor then pronunciation matters little.
You said: mpumm ah lung ah
Correct: mpoo mah la ngah
You said: hwa-teng
Correct: hau(how)-teng
I’m pretty sure Natal means birth. Greetings from Durban
Natal means Christmas from Portuguese
@@williswameyo5737 it does mean that, but that isn’t where the Provence gets it’s name. The South African province of Natal gets it’s name from an old English word that means ‘Birth’
Wow, North West ya rona e tlwaelwa marete weitse ...If we named NW Bokone Bophirima y'all would still complain on some "It's hard to pronounce" anyways Nnyo ya Mmao 😁💁
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Native name 10/10. Foreigner name 1-5/10
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Completely uninformed take here, but: Gauteng - Gaut - Goud (Dutch word for Gold)?
In Dutch there is no real difference between 'au' en 'ou'. So if one voiced the 'd' pretty harsh, more like a 't', I could see this misunderstanding taking place.
But yes, the pronunciation is completely different, but the likeness of the spelling does make me ponder a bit. :)
He's also correct. Gauta means gold in the sotho languages
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Another example of SOuth Africa's regime change not going nearly far enough. Why the hell are any of these provinces still named from English or Afrikaans? Generally when you throw off the shackles, you're meant to take down the colonizer's runner up trophies.
Maybe because there are still living English and Africaans in the country? What are they supposed to do, Einstein - flee into the water and die? 😤
The provinces also have names in African languages. They are often used in official government communication.
I dunno we just don't make much of a fuss over the name of provinces and nobody has suggested doing so. It would cost billions and take a lot of getting used to.
Well, some cities did get renamed recently.
East London got changed to Gqeberha.
Renaming entire provinces would cost a lot of money (which we don’t have right now)
Because Afrikaans and English are the third and fourth most spoken languages in the country...