The Basotho Gun War and why Lesotho is not part of South Africa
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- In the latest Five-minute Friday (OK OK I know it's not five minutes!) I examine the Basotho Gun War of 1880-1881. It is a conflict almost forgotten by history but it is an incredibly important war as it is the reason that the small Kingdom of Lesotho is not part of South Africa.
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Proud sotho myself, showed my grandfather this and must say u did ur research
Now that is the best compliment I could get - thanks so much for letting me know. Ke a leboha abuti
A proud MoSotho you have done my people justice by laying out in detail save one or two how the fight for our land went on. Bravest men ever. Its often never mentioned. Fantastic video.
Ke rata basotho!
I have always been wondering why Lesotho is not part of South Africa. You have explained everything. Thank you.
Thanks Frank - I’m glad you found the video helpful 👍🏼
I am from SA and never knew about this part of southern african history. Great job and thanks for the info.
Thanks Hayden, I'm glad you found it interesting.
@@redcoathistory I found your series on the Zulu War fascinating. Very accurate and enjoyed seen the different battlefields especially Islandawana. At school they never mentioned this war and I appreciate your hard work. Keep them coming Old Chap.
Lesotho, the real Wakanda, peace from Malaysia 🇱🇸🇲🇾
Excellent work sir. These tales are all too often left untold.
Thanks a lot. Appreciate you watching.
Great video! Visited Lesotho several times when living in Jo'burg - beautiful country & friendly people.
Malealea Lodge for a two day/ one night pony trek to the Ribaneng Waterfall was an easy weekend trip and a good diversion for visitors from the UK... and who can forget the hats!
Yes - I've also been to Malealea! Lovely place. Cheers, Douglas.
That is very true. We are friendly people here in the Mountain Kingdom.
Thank you for pointing out this war I was once stationed in Somalia and said to my unit that when a government starts gun control their true meaning is total control. And I gave this nation as an example of what a organised group of people can do against a army
Hundred percent brother.
My God!! Basotho, children of heros and men of valour..Be proud!! I had goosebumps hearing a white British person reciting a poem( thoko ya Maama) which many of us were taught!! Iam still read this poems with so much pride! For this I will make a video of reading that poem and try explain it!
This makes me feel proud to be a Mosotho
You should be proud - a strong and wonderful people. Though I am a little biased hobanee mosadi waka ke mosotho!
you have every right to be proud.
me too@@redcoathistory
Great 5-minute Friday. Love the Praise Poem!
Thanks mark - I still haven’t played it to my Sotho friends tho...I’m sure they will laugh at me
I hadn't heard of this war at all. Very informative. Many thanks!
That's great I'm glad you found this interesting. It certainly not a well known conflict.
Awesome video, very well researched with a great delivery 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾. The Maama Sesotho poem had me dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Liemiso! How lovely to hear from you. I'm glad you enjoyed the video...I hope life is treating you well. Big hugs.
Well researched. Thanks
Thanks a lot 👍🏼
Very interesting, Chris. I knew none of this. Thanks for adding to my understanding the region. I realize I'm 2 years late, but I am certainly enjoying your videos on the region.
Glad to hear it Paul. PS I’ve seen your email and will reply asap
At your convenience, Chris. Thanks.
Great. I hope you also one day cover Ntoa ea Berea which Moshoeshoe himself was involved when they defeated British troops
Yep part of Ntoa ya Mashole ( war of soldiers at barea) it was one of the first Kombat
😂😂😂😂 Maama was if my memory serves me well was the first born son of Letsie but from a second house, he was very favoured by Letsie to succeed him. His descendants are the Principal Chiefs of Ha Maama or Roma, where the National University of Lesotho is situated, my home town. He was a great patriot.
Did the gun war history at school, well researched ntate, really amazing. Rea leboha
Ke a le boha! Ke thabile that o e rata (sorry for my broken Sesotho - Ke ithuta)...
"Kea leboha! Ke Thabile Hore ebe u ea e rata" that is a good start with sesotho, and indeed I really like it.
Man thank you for sharing such an incredible information "Modimo ao hlonolofatse"God Bless you
Ke a leboha Abute. Ke thabile.
Fascinating story , never heard of it before, very much enjoyed being educated.
Thanks for listening
Something else discovered from watching your channel, thanks Chris..
Cheers, Bernard
A History sadly not known by majority of us...Ho thata le ho utluisisa lithoko tsa marena a Basotho le ha li ngotsoe ka Sesotho.
Great history! It's helped me with pronunciation for an upcoming video. Thanks!
I'm glad that I could help - pls send me a link when you post your video.
@@redcoathistory will do!
well done with your translation
This is the stuff they should be teaching our children.
Thanks, Karabo. The Basotho must be proud of their history.
I live in Lesotho ❤️
Wow you're good being from Lesotho were taught a poem about the gun war your talking about from the book "Lithoko tsa Marena" and is exactly it is as well you're describing it though the book is written in Sesotho.
Wish you can provide recommendations for books to study about all this history..
I'm a mosotho from Lesotho but these stories are hardly revealed
Dumela Abute, my main source was Throwing Down White Man: Cape Rule and Misrule in Colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884
by Peter Sanders - my friend Cam Simpson is also writing some books at the moment so please subscribe as in due course he and I plan to visit the battlefields and make a film together.
Peter Becker has written a series of books about Southern African history:
Hill of Destiny - history of the Basotho
Path of Blood - Matabele
Rule of Fear - Dingane
Chronicles of Basutoland
Germond, R.C.@@redcoathistory
Thanks so much!!! My Great Grandfather served in the Cape Yeomanry and was killed in the battle of Kalibani. My Grandfather who served in the Cape Mounted Rifles in the Boer War always maintained that prior to embarking on the ill fated Basuto Gun War campaign the Cape Yeomanry troopers had begged for swords or pistols to be issued in addition to their outdated single shot Snyder rifles but their request was denied and as the saying goes "The Rest is his History"
Thanks, Barry. I also have a video on Moorosi's mountain that you may find interesting and I hope to visit the gun war battlefields one day - watch this space!
FUN FACT* the province of Free State in South Africa was part of Lesotho
Top stuff Christian really enjoyed your story telling and your thoughts at the end what if the British and Dutch hadn't fought and colonized South Africa? Certainly took my mind off the snow. Many Thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks Simon - yes it’s an interesting question Re. European settler
Great video bro I respect your love for militairy and African history you even went to the South African militairy museum you should als go to the Angolan militairy museum the looks will suprise you. I will share this great video of yours you should also search up the Ashante of Ghana another African tribe with guns
Thanks, Bernard - yes I'd love to visit Angola and it would be great to do a film on the Ashanti wars one day also. Appreciate the feedback.
Beautiful country! Not too far from Durban, where I plan on moving to 2025. I’ll undoubtedly visit
So very interesting! I really enjoyed this episode!
Cheers - it took a lot of research but I really enjoyed learning about this conflict and how it still impacts southern Africa.
Leshoto is embraced by South Africa #onelove
Nah
Wow...this is interesting and you are good in Sesotho language
Thanks a lot...My Sesotho is very basic but luckily I can get by if people speak slowly to me. I would love to be fluent one day.
@@redcoathistory Ho leboha 'na moholoane, tsoela pele ho phatlalatsa thuto ea nalane ka boqhetseke le bokhabane. LIKHOMO !
Thanks, God bless my country Lesotho fatse la bo ntat'a rona .
I like this guy.
Thanks
Good to hear from a Sotho African.
They fought trek wars
I know that two of the 94th regiment of foot earned Victoria Crosses.
Good knowledge but I think that was actually the war with Sekukhune of the BaPedi tribe. Not far off tho!
@@redcoathistory Thanks. The two are Francis Fitzpatrick and Thomas Flawn.
9th frontier war? Never heard of it by that name.
It's now the commonly accepted term mate...the other one is understandably not used any more, especially here in South Africa where that word is considered incredibly offensive.
wow this is what i wrote about in my Extended Essay! what are the odds.
That's great - I hope you enjoyed it and found it interesting abute.
Would you mind sharing the essay with me perhaps. I would love to read it
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@@hopdrizzygettingbusy7589 wow !! it’s toka.moduane.45@gmail.com
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Again ur sotho ain't that bad😂👌
Le-ro-to-dee is how it's pronounced
Ripping stuff what? "What did the British ever do for us?" -ha-ha !!!
Now its time for reparations.
Lol that's nice sotho there
Ah the joys of civilization .
They gave up cattle raiding and wound up in a tax revolt.
You have to admire what they have accomplished.
Not only did they make their freedom stick while the Brit's were spread thin, they have made it stand ever since.
I think Southern Africa should all be glad they weren't expansionist, like the Zulu.😁
Lol “not the finest hours of colonialism”
The first defeat of an European mation by Africans
Of course English propaganda hid it 😂
Sorry mate, "all of South Africa" did not exist in 1878 - the forced union was only formed in 1910. Also please start your timeline earlier - the time before the Basotho - the time of the San.
The title said "the basotho gun wars", maybe he should have started with the first homosapians.
Go see a documentary bushmen then. We are here to learn about the war that is in the title.
There is no where in the world where the British did anything that benefited the local people. The Aristocratic British Government sent their excess subjects to subdue the people of the lands captured all over the world so the wealth of those lands could be taken.