🇱🇸 THE COUNTRY INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA American Couple React "Understanding Lesotho"
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Love you guys ...
from Lesotho 🇱🇸 my home country 💎🐎...
Much love!
I am from Lesotho, wishing you all the best guys…next time u think of coming down here just visit Semonkong waterfalls and Tsehlanyane nature resort, you’ll be amazed to meet other Americans there👌🏼🇱🇸
trust me... there's more than 1 road leading from SA into lesotho - I've used at least 4 routes (Maseru bridge, Qacha, Mafeteng & Sani's Pass)
plus Hlotse, Peka Maputse and etc
PS Mafeteng doesn't have border is closer to the center of Lesotho.
@@shiftorigi1346 Borders are at Mokhotlong, Botha-bothe, Maputsoe, Peka, Maseru, Mafeteng, Mohale's Hoek and others I may have not written. Hlotse doesnt have a border, but usually use the Maputsoe one or Botha Buthe, depending where one is traveling to
@@shiftorigi1346 Yes you're right... I was referring to the gate that's close to Ficksburg. What's that border gate called.
@@kabeloreid7586 Maputsoe
Indeed there are more roads than what was mentioned in the video
Hey guys, I am a really big fan of your channel. I am from Kenya, thank you so much for speaking the truth about my country and other countries in Africa from all perspectives. Love you guys.
I love how you both, have a thirst to learn ❤. I Respect that 👌 about you guy. I wish most Americans were like you. 👍 Love and Respect 🙏 ❤
Much love!
Love you guys🥇👌watching from Lesotho 🇱🇸
Much love!
I took a dna test and as an AA, I was shocked to see Lesotho & South Africa & Botswana on there😮 pleasantly surprised.
Wow that's amazing and rare
What's less known about the slave trade is that the Portuguese were the first to set up shop here in the late 15th hundred and they did capture a lot of slave before we finally we able to kick them out. They moved to Mozambique (neighbouring country) and captured a lot of slaves from there to the Americas, mainly Brazil. There's even a slave ship wreck from Mozambique that was recently discovered off the coast of South Africa. The Dutch then came in the mid-17th century and they did practice slavery in the Cape. The British followed soon after and they practiced slavery in Natal. The Brits and the Dutch mainly imported slaves from Asia to avoid them running away, but some Africans would still be captured and sold in the Americas. There's a scene in the first episode of Shaka Zulu where the physician says "they are the wandering Jews of Africa. Fleeing from pharaoh Shaka to the hands of the Babylonian slave traders in the Cape". He was referring to the natives who were chained in a dungeon looking like they were awaiting a slaving ship to dock in Cape Town and sold off. It's a TV show, not too factual; but it shows that even in the early 19th century, before the Brits abolished the slave trade, the was some natives who were captured for slavery. Of course not as significant as with West Africa and Congo, but it did happen and you are a living proof of it
@@ZAR_72 wow! That’s amazing. Thank you so much for that information! And yes it did mention Mozambique as well.
I will give you guys all the praise in the world for the corners you are prepared to go into for content, especially as it relates to geography. Your curiosity about all the parts of the globe is highly commendable, keep up the good work!!!
Wow, I'm happy you did a video about my country. Cool
Here's how you pronounce it Les-o-two.
I grew up in Lesotho because of political instabilities in SA, and we have couple of houses and land there.
There are more roads that lead to Lesotho and the country is insanely beautiful, from it's people to the landscape.
Well, if you're looking to establish any kind of business, it would be Tourism.
Thank you guys
I am sotho in the FreeState, South Africa and we are about an hour or less drive from Lesotho. We are separated by the Maluti Mountains and initially, the whole FreeState borders were the King Moshoeshoe's territory and I can assure you that the Lesotho nation is not growing on a slow rate. People here literally have illegal borders where they just walk and cross some lakes to get into South Africa. They have children with South Africans, which ultimately become South African and no one notices
🙄🤔 haai bo?
I am South African, I went to Lesotho once and crossed one border going in and a different one coming out. The best borders BTW out of any I have crossed in any African country. I have been on that highest mountain pass, it was hectic as being from Jhb I am not used to snow and ice roads, but amazing none the less
Wow! Double Wow! Another excellent reaction video. As a South African I know a little bit about Lesotho history and also about Basotho culture, and even though I knew about the Lesotho Highlands Water project, my mind was blown learning that so many Basotho themselves lack decent access to running water..
Certainly the Lesotho and South African politicians and engineers who thrashed out the dam project deal should have included a plan that ensured making water more accessible to the general population of Lesotho.
I'm truly impressed with how your pronouncing Lesotho as compared to last time you did a video.. You've really impressed me🎉🎉🎉
Lesotho looks so beautiful. I want to visit.
I feel my Surname was butchered 😭😭😭it's Mu-shwe-shwe it feels like school all over again, had to fight with teachers to pronounce it right😂😂😂😂
Nnake😂🙈🙆♀️ reseach e la mo hlola!
@@Pula_ne tjoo 😭😭🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤣🤣🤣
Kingdom in the sky🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸❤❤
Theres only one road to the highest bar in Africa, which is in Lesotho. As for coming into the country, we have many roads into the country
Im going there it looks beautiful
The way that man said "Moshoeshoe" HURT MY SPIRIT!
I am a Mosotho woman and as informative as this video is, the pronunciations...😢😅
Love y'all reaction though❤❤❤
The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho!!! Love you guys
In the movie, Cry Freedom, the biography showed part of Lesotho where Donald Woods had sought out refuge from the British embassy for him and his family. This was after Steve Biko's death, a year after June 16 protest. His life and children's lives were in danger by the state's security for befriending Steve Biko.
Steve Biko was acted by Denzel Washington and Donald Woods acted by Kelvin Kline
I like that movie. They haven't played that movie in years
One of my favorite movies.
Acording to my cultural oral history 250 years ago King Mlambo helped King Moshoeshoes get His kingdom from his brother and make an aliance aliances with King Shaka.
Suggesting that 1) there was a nation a monarch and a lineage as well as culture (which takes years to develop)
2) There was never a war between the basotho and King Shaka.
This is why you find Nhlapos in Lesotho and many provinces in South Africa.
King Moshoeshoe offered the Nhlapo King land within Lesotho.
Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland are basically South Africa.. The only thing separating us is Borders and Government, other than that people just walk in and walk out without nobody noticing because we have the same cultures, we speak the same languages (Sotho, Tswana and Swati) and we look the same and our English accents are the same except for when the other 3 countries speak their native languages, its the same languages we speak in south africa but theirs is just deep or old😂😂
Hahaha.. no that is a delusion buddy. Lesotho, Eswatini,.Botswana, u hear that, real African names.. then there is South Africa😂😂😂... Botswana is doing well by the way, so much so that the currency is higher than that of south africa... i doubt theid wanna be a part of that circus. As for Lesotho, we have a saying, "re ikhantsta re lapa". We are a very proud nation despite us being poor. And u can never bribe a poor proud man..
Oh, and yes we speak Sesotho, not sotho. Sorho is the diluted version of our langauge, mainly because ur education system was largely defined by the whotes in South african who had no understanding of it and frankly were not in the business of understanding it. Over the years black forgot how to pronounce their own langauges in Sotuh africa. ZULU, XHOSA TSONGA TSWANA, SOTHO.. If u asked ur grandmother she would tell u they are called isizulu, Setswana, Sesotho, etc. Ur lost buddy
Correction: the unrest during Lifaqane/Mfecane wars was mot bcs of King Shaka (Bayethe🙏🏿). It was bcs of foreign western forces that showed up causing all sorts of havoc amongst the tribes.
Fact is, there has always been peace and great respect between the Bantu tribes in this area (Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa).
100% it was Portuguese colonization/slave trading pushing from the east side(Mozambique,KZN) the Dutch pushing from the western cape and the British pushing from KZN which caused Africans to ran all over the place causing chaos all over southern africa.
including the Khoisan
Hi guys, I am a Mosotho born and bred in Lesotho. The accessibility of water comments in the video is half factual. My grandfather is chief and water is abundant in Lesotho villages but not as individual household running water. The villages do have a common water tap for consumption and rivers and dams are freely accessible to anyone to use, either for irrigation or however they want to use it. As an agricultural land, these dams and rivers do get used for that. The most important thing is we don't pay for water usage in Lsotho. If one can afford to have a borehole in their yards for personal household use and run the water into their houses, they can do so, which is what my family did. We do have running water in the house from the borehole we drilled.
True indeed.. where i live there is not dam or river close by so we rely almost exclusively on borehole water. It helps that our aquifer is easily replenished and never runs out of water no matter how much we abuse it.. however i think the argument is specifically with LHDA water, Katse, Mohale blah blah blah. The locals are prohibited from using that water especially closer to the dams. Ppl in Mokhotlong, Katse and Mohale experience this... but water is abundant in the general view..
Guys u will be fine there is a road from Bloemfontein to the boarder Maseru the road is good , it’s just like driving from new jersey to newyork no big deal!
Lesotho is not the only country that experiences snowfall. Algeria, Morroc, and of course, us South africans do have snow almost every year. Lesotho is just the coldest place in africa due to its high altitude. Hence, they are called the mountain kingdom. Wearing blankets as their apparel signifies all that.
Lesotho has snow caps on the Maluti mountains for almost half a year every year, sometimes snow falls in the summer, tell me of another country in Africa like that, not even S.A. has that kind of weather...
No my brother, SA has everything according to South Africans, havnt u realied?😂😂
Hi guys❤
Lesotho's landscape is not very much from South Africa,you guys have been exploring the cities. Check out rural villages, Eastern Cape is an example of a rural province that is truly a hidden gem in plain sight.
They are the Colorado to California in America!
You just cross the unguarded river then boom. You're in Lesotho
I love the clubbing scene of Lesotho ....especially if u love deep house musice
During the Second World War the then Protectorate of Basutoland sent many fine soldiers who saw action in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy to help in the war effort. By 1940 Nazi Germany had overrun France and was now preparing to invade Britain. But first it had to elliminate the Royal Air Force. The Ensuing air battle was named "The Battle of Britain" after Winston Churchill's famous speech. Britain had to win or it was "game over". Basutoland, even though then, one of the poorest regions in the world, addressed the question: "How can we help". The King made a national appeal for donations and with the money collected they were able to pay for the production of 24 Spitfires, the legendary fighter of the Royal Airforce. THe "Spitfire Heritage Foundation" has donated a real-size copy of a Spitfire which is on display in Maseru as a gesture of gratitude to the people of Lesotho. Aid also moved in the other direction. Sometimes these Spitfires are depicted on the Basuto blankets, a matter of great national pride.
Ok wow this is good to hear. I was always wondering what that old plane was doing there in the park.. my whole life no1 has ever told me this.. great!
I missed going to Afriski in Lesotho 🥶🏂⛷️
As a mosotho living in Lesotho I'd say the video is a bit biased given they're only looking at the rural side of our beautiful country that's like showing us Real Americans or Native Americans as you say it and say that's how Americans live... There's urban sides of Lesotho where more of our population live and there are so many borders to get into this beautiful country we also have an airport so you're safe you visit us this is a very peaceful unique country we have a snow... We skiing we have our beautiful Mokorotlo hats...
The problem with our country is keeping data and statistics... In terms of GDP and all of the other stats there're very huge discrepancies since many or most people have businesses that are unregistered our system has so many loopholes that we can't really report our true wealth and I think politicians don't improve it because they also benefit from it
To proof my point even our richest man who was named by Forbes Africa businessman of the few years before being our PM has never published his true net-worth. Basotho naturally are very secretive so it's hard to truely know how poor or rich...
Lesotho, it’s a very poor and backward country, who’s work force is entirely dependent on emigrating to South Africa or are employed by South African companies Invested in Lesotho. On their own, they would not survive and they know it
The only kingdom that remained Immune from Shaka's quest for dominance.
We appreciate your recognition that side
That's because moshoeshoe made good relations with Shaka.
Moshoeshoe was a diplomat and an amazing negotiator. Legend has it that the relation btw Shaka and Moshoeshoe was very funny. Anytime Shaka attacked the Sotho's, they would run to the mountains and roll down big rocks towards the Zulu. Ultimately, the 2 kings agreed to have mutual trade between because they both has resources that either one didn't have i.e. the baSotho had horses, sheep and ostriches which the amaZulu were not familiar with. The Zulu had cows, goats and other interesting things that the Sotho didn't have...like access to the ocean. The funniest deal they made was that the Zulu men could have access to marrying Sotho women....you go to KZN, you'll find alot of these marriages even today and my husband and I are one of the examples. I'm a Sotho woman married to a Zulu man ❤️
3:39 it is called Mfecane"the crushing".Shaka Zulu was on a war campaign at that time.
There are many roads to Lesotho and we have flat roads as well.
True, but we also have only one road one straight road for about 10km. The rest are twisty uphills and downhills. I travel that road almost everyday, i can attest, and its not a bad thing at all.. our terrain just doesnt allow, otherwise wed have to blast 90% of our mountains just so we can have a straight road. Flat is just not in our vocabulary though, even in the lowlands it ain flat... partially 😅
Same thing with Gambia.
Gambia is also inside one country call Senegal. They both call them Senegabia.
The difference being that the Gambia is not land-locked
Even south africa we have snow
This narrator is butchering King Moshoeshoe's name. His name is pronounced Mo-shwe-shwe
That’s what happens when you fail to control your grounds and let foreigners write your history or story.
True. in high school they use pronounce it "More-shoe-shoe". I found that funny.
Fr? 😂😂 I am Namibian and laughing cause of the pronounciation, thought it's "Mo-shoe-shoe" the whole time atleast that's what i hear about here. Great to have learnt something though.
Random: how do you pronounce "Khoekhoegowab"?
I just had a similar experience , I laughed ! And did the same thing you did , I tried to spell it out like you say it , lol
My name I explained was Dave Chappell
I hate how he pronounce "moshoeshoe" but what can I do it is what it is.
The guy butchered the names in a disrespectful way and referring to King Moshoeshoe as a chief really irked me. I feel inspired to create a different voice over for his video.
Actually a new factual video while you are at it
14:13 Lesotho has the world's highest diamond mine? I didn't know that.
Please do food , culture and lifestyle. dance,marriage
I hope you guys know we❤ you ey 👊🏽🇿🇦🇱🇸
❤❤❤ love your reactions
Much love!
OK just to answer Cee on that last part of the video Lesotho has a lot of tourist attractions but snow isn't really a part of it because it doesn't happen very often I mean it's not skiing weather, it's probably like 8-10 snowfalls in a year, although it is quite a lot for sub-saharain Africa but for yall it will probably be nothing, it might be more than Texas though I don't know 😂
Afriski, is a big attraction. It’s a skiing resort in Lesotho. U probably don’t know about it. It host events during the snow season
I am great fan of yall anyway let me enlighten you a bit...In Natural Resource Economics there is what we call "resource curse phenomenon" Lesotho is very rich in resources as mentioned yet it experiences slow growth due to its governance. They only showed the bad sides of Lesotho the video is rather down grading and outdated too and theres a lit of cap. South Africa and Lesotho are the same to a certain extent, its true Economically SA is waaay ahead but in terms of living conditions its all the same, even less expesive. They are part of the common monetary area Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland and Namibia.
Much love 🇿🇦🇱🇸
My country but I stay in South Africa now
5:19 That situation sounds familiar. Doesn't it?
Also known as South Africa's 10th province😅
Known as the 10th province by who?
Ke zolo ena e ba u tsubang ba sa ja.. kapa ha ba tsebe zolo ea jelloa le oena? Hana Nzansi ba tsuba nyaope neh.. yes ke nyaope..
As it after me
Moshweshwe.. ❤
I' am here again. When are coming to OUR MOTHER LAND..Ya'll mama calling you to visit your ROOTS. So is the GAMBIA..
The way this guy pronounces King Moshoeshoe is wrong. It's Mo - shoe - shoe.
Ba tlo bala mona ba nahane seeta joale 😂🙈
@@Pula_ne 😆😆😆😆😆
Moso shoe? 😂😂😂😂 😣😂😂⚰
many of the facts here a exaggerated, some of which are false even though they are somehow official stories; like the HIV stuff. Lesotho is simply the smaller part of Moshoeshoe's land which most of it is now part of RSA; like Freestate, Southern, Kwazulu-natal and Northern part of Eastern Cape all the way to the sea
On the realz since yall might be coming around soon, it's probably gonna be helpful to learn the metric system because the imperial system is almost non existent here, miles turn into kilometers (km) and pounds(lbs) turns to kilometers (km) you guys probably know this already but it's just a reminder
(Km) ha beli?
O noele joala a sa ja, kapa ke zolo banna. Kg Ntate please🙏
Moshoeshoe is not a chief. The title is King. Y pipo 🙄
Today most of Lesotho are now pushing for Lesotho to become a 10th province of South Africa
Its statistically proven that this comment is just false info. South Africans just feel entitled and wish for Lesotho to be their province.. and trust me that will never happen.
As a Mosotho i would like to say, this are just lies!! that will never happen.
U leshano
@@Pula_ne mpolae🤣🤣
False narrative. Basotho are bushing to regain the Basotho territories that are within South Africa
Swaziland and Lesotho must be incorporated into South Africa and made monarch provinces like KZN
Pronunciation of Mo shwe shwe terrible
Lesotho is it's own country because no South African wants to live in that cold😂😂😂
Yhu hayi, it may be cold in PE sometimes kodwa I've never experienced snow before 😖.
😂
There are no slums in Lesotho, they have better housing than South Africa
Ja! thats 2 million people dude how can you have housing problem with 2 million people vs 60 million people? but GDP per capita is still very low compared to SA. let me not talk about other stuff.
@@isoboy1000 Chief , relax, Free State where I'm from has almost same population but we have slums here, I'm not taking about gdp every one knows the difference
2 things, you either never been to Lesotho or to South Africa. How can you even compare South Africa to Lesotho. B
Limpopo don't have slums, and also have better houses 😂
@@fusielehasa4983 Don't tell me to relax when no one told to do so i was just pointing out the difference between these 2 countries the same way you did bafo, why are you catching feelings?
Wasn't it going to be easier to say something positive about Lesotho without dragging another country? or were you just proving a point?
I can't say authoritatively that Lesotho has more than one access road, but there is only one official border post. It's a main road going directly into the capital city so no mountains. There are however many way to get into and out of Lesotho whether you're driving, cycling or obviously walking. I just don't know if they are legal.. definitely not official. Coming from KZN, very few would be willing to go half way around. Basotho people cross on foot everyday everywhere
Is it the road in the video?
Please don't give false information about Lesotho,what do you mean by 1 official border?
@@TheDemouchetsREACT thanks for learning about my beautiful country Lesotho,do more research there is more that is not said or mentioned on that video ❤
I appreciate their History of existece but i tink it's now time Lesotho,Swaziland and Botswana become one South Africa. The existece of this small countries robes our brothers and sisters all what is due to them in South Africa.We speak the same language and look alike and rob them the advantages of a more sophisticated and developed bigger county. Tell me any good reason Lesotho exist in 2023....Only disavantages for the odinary ppl. If those small parts were good they would have long been incorporated into their original main country out of artificial Apartheid benefiting borders making my brother a poor foreigner in our region.
It is always South Africans preaching this BS.
I thoroughly agree with you. I'm a South African with ancestors from SA, Lesotho and Eswatini. My surname is in Setswana, but I identify as Sotho. My grandmother who helped raise me is Swati. I hate crossing borders to see my loved ones, only to feel like I haven't left SA.
This ain't accurate he's lying
hahaha No Thabiso no Sir.. you can't just say that. I mean they did the best research they could find, its up to us Basotho to tell them who we are, how we live daily & everything.. please refer to my first comment on this video. We can share links, videos & pictures of what is interesting in our Kingdom. You can't just say "ba leshano" (Lying) No Bro, Basotho are known for Peace & Love thats who we are.