For me this is the greatest king in history of Africa, he showed abilities at the young age, when Bapedi were blocked from getting food and water, he used to sneak and crawl to get water for his people, that's when he praised himself and said "ke Sekhukhuni "meaning I'm able to sneak and crawl. His real name is Matsebe..Hlabirwa.he defeated British until they collaborated with Africans,its now African skill+British skill against African skill ...very sad
@@radon4380 That's an interesting point. I went to school in the US, but I had read years ago that previously colonized nations often have education systems begun by the colonizers. In that case the history they teach was, at least initially, from the colonizers' perspective. Hopefully over time people will reclaim their history. As for my country, the story of the teaching of history begins with what was taught by British schools. As we created our own, they would of course continue to favor the perspective of the white colonizers at the expense of nonwhites such as Africans and Natives. The history of immigrants from the middle east and India, among other places, is basically ignored except in specialized areas. Thankfully, some effort has been made to rectify this, but there's a long way to go.
I belong to the Bapedi tribe, in the heart of Sekhukhuneland and grew up in a large community called Ga-Masemola, at the centre of which is the great mountain Phsiring, which you have touched on in this video. I'm grateful for the accuracy of your historical account, its just the way our elders narrate it to us in my village
its not accurate the was hardly any contact with he zulu from natal and sekhukhune unless you are talking about the ndebele who are zulu offshoots.And remeber after the defeat of mzilikazi other defeated joined srkhukhune of barote wich was the creation f his bapedi nation ad nexpanded more only afterhe defeat of mzilikazi who was incharge of the greater transvaall by then.The more accurate version is at the national archives.A correct and truethful narrative must be given
@@HotepHooliganSupremeThe was no contact between zulus's and pedi's.Pedi's helped boers bring mzilikazi founder of the ndebele nation who was uniting the different african clans together using shaka's stratergy and the pedi's helped the boers in a batlle against mzilikazi.Zulu's were fighting boers.Go do your research in terms of military strtergy and nation building zulu's were far more ahead.the barote clan was small and sekhukhune only started building his bapedi nation with destituted people joining in and he was taking in people from other clans.The was only one serious war in the transvaal.that was with mzilikazi and the boers needing man power and knowing the fear wich some of the clans of the bapedi and other batswana clans depending on the area mzilikazi's dominace streched inthrough variuos locations had against mzilikazi.Zulus were fighting their own battles in the coast.Please stop halusinating.If zulu's wanted to wipe you out they would have done it.tHEY WERE MORE IN NUMBERS.ZULUS WERE FIGHTING THEIR OWN WARS AGAINSST THE BRITISH.AND WHERE NOT SELL OUTS.THE PROOF IS IN THE ONE WHO HAS THE GUN.WICH IS A SIGHN OF BETRAYAL.GUNS WHERE GIVEN TO AFRICANS TRIBES IN SOUTH AFRICA TO STOP ZULU INFLUENCE AS THEY MANY IN NUMBERS AND THEIR MILITARY STRATERGY WAS GIVING THE EOROPEAN PEOPLE AA TOUGH TIME SO WEAKER AFRICAN TRIBES WERE RECRUITED.PLEASE ALSO START YOUR OWN PAGE.WITH CORRECT INFORMATION AND STOP SEEKING POPULARITY THROUGH THE CLINGING OF THE ZULU SINCE IT IS KNOWN WORLD WIDE.HISTORY CANNOT BE CHANGED.IT CAN BE ALTERED BY MISINFORMATION.PEDI WERE NOT A THREAT THE MINI WAR THEY HAD WITHHTE BOERS WAS BECAUSE THEY SOME LEVEL OF GUTS AFTER RECEIVING GUNS FROM EUROPEANS WICH THEY WERE TAUGHT BY EUROPEANS AFTER COLLUDING WITH HEM IN THE WAR AGAINST MZILIKAZI.THE EVIDENCE IS THE AND HISTORY IS WRITTEN ABOUT AND EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS FROM PRETORIA TO ZIMABABWE.IT WAS EVEN TOUGHT IN THE SYLLABUS .PRIOR 94.PLEASE DONT EMABARASS YOUR.IF ZULUS COULD CONQUER FRM HERE TO TANZANIA ,PLACES LIKE MOZAMBIQUE ZAMBIA ,MALAWI A SMALL PORTIN ENETRED THE DRC.AT THE TIME OF SHAKA HE WAS TRAINING MEN ON A DAILY BASIS AND SENDING THEM OUT AND OTHERS CRATED NATIONS OF THEIR OWN.FROM SHAKAS MILITARY CONQUEST EVEN IF HE WAS KILLED BEFORE TIME SHOBHUZA BRANCHED OT AND FORMED HIS SWAZI NATION SOSHANAGANE WAS SENT TO MOZAMBIQUE FOMED THE SHANGAAN NATION ABSORBING THE NONE NGUNI PEOPLE OF THE TSONGA NDAU RODZI ZWANGENDABA WENT PAST BY ZAMBIA MALAWI AND TANZANIA FORMING THE NGONI OTHERS ENETRING THE DRC.AND I DON'T KNOW WWHY SHAKAS STORY ALWAYS GETS DISTORTED.AND PEOPLE SEKK RELEVANCE BY COVERING THEIR ANCESTORS COWARDICE OF COLLABORATING WITHHE BOERS.IF IT MAKES ONE FEEL BETTER BY LYING WICH IS SICK MENTAL CONDITION.THEN I SUGGEST YOU GO FOR THERAPY.I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST ANYONE BUT I JUST WANT THE TRUETH TO BE TOLD.YOU CAN'T CHAMGE HISTORY
Kgoši Sekhukhune was a great strategist, and for a man with his limitations he managed to rule as far as the Vaal triangle and withstood many attacks by the Europeans only to be undone by his fellow Africans.
@@legioncold3666 it drives me nuts as well. More often then not Europeans can be beaten back but there is always one or more of us that is easily bought. From africa to the the Americas when blacks tried to resist you always had a snitch or a backstabber the fact enslaved blacks who planned revolts had to actively weed out the deadbeats shows there is something wrong with our race. Sure other races have similar problems but ours is out of control.
Thanks for covering southern Africa's history, as a person from Botswana 🇧🇼 this pleases me. It is sad though that instead of coming together as Africans, some joined forces with Europeans.
Don't be proud because you're a Christian, he fought against Christianity invaders to protect his people,Christianity was a colonial political tool if refuses Christianity you're kill that's how Christianity was spread around Africa.
@@MidTierVillain when it comes to our ancestral bravery we quickly allies with their achievement but we fail to understand that they refuses to be conquered because they refuses colonial Christianity,and some of us of today will curse them in churches because our pastors told us to so. King Sekhukhune was brave because he refuses to be brainwashed and indoctrinated to worship a white man as god
As pedi from burgerfort I'm blessed with the knowledge of the pedi King however sadden by the contribution of other Africans in the fall of kgosi Sehkuhkune
I think this was well done. It is historically correct as relates to the political situations of the time. The European powers were able to recruit so many Africans as allies because OF THE INFIGHTING AMONG THE AFRICAN TRIBES. This is an old, successful tactic worldwide. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" - it works. The same techniques were used by Europeans to eliminate resistance of indigenous peoples in North America. Europeans could never have been successful in destroying native resistance without pitting tribes against each other.
You're right, but they didn't just ally with tribes. They also allied with centralised kingdoms that existed in the territories they wanted to conquer. This is how they conquered west africa for exapmle. Edit Also I wouldn't use the word infighting, people from the same ethnic groups or kingdoms only fought each other during an event like a succession war. Most of the time it was rival ethnic groups and rival kingdoms that fought eachother.
In the United States when they first went out West and met the Lakota, Dakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The United States lost and retreated. The United States could not defeat these people so what did the do. The U.S. killed about 50 million bison. They starved these People.
It will be a sad case of CRITICAL TRIBAL THEORY bro...the fact that the Africans paved the way with their own destruction with infighting....🤣🤣🤣..its still actually a personal character trait amongst many west africans actually...dividing and conquering them is very easy and simple...
Naaa bro...big mistake...you must learn all history esp yours... 🤣🤣....only a blk man would think like that...next ting you are oblivious of your oppositions culture and then they come and fok you up....🤣🤣🤣...over and over and over...again.
BaPedi Nation. My people, my heritage. King Sekhukhune, the greatest Pedi warrior king of Marota, my maternal great great grandfather. Great coverage 👍🏾
A tribute to King Sekhukhune in his tribal Language of Sepedi: Ngwana Kgosi wa mohlake wa mohaba marole. O bwa mohlopi wa masibutla sadimotole Matheba. Sanaka irile ka kodi ya tubatsa. O bwa Phoko le Phofwana. O bwa Maru was mara mara. Mailo magulu ke a maBedi, oa ka ntlokomele Pula ya Thulare. Thulare bao ba ki morekereki wa lebotsa ki kgosi ki sikitla mangala. Ke ngwana Kgosi wa Sekhukhune. Ke ngwana Kgosi wa Sekhukhune wa Malema wa Khosi Wa Mashila manyama, wa Mashile wa gao go ntsha ka Lekopelo. Ki mamosela wa matuma, ki tso tsobo wa tsosa. Bare mosela o hlahla lephoka lephukeng. Ki tsotsobo kwa tshusa ki tsoso wa ko manakale Gateng. Bare nakale bare ba palela Masole Richitile maHuru ka lenareng. Retecha chichila manyama. Mashile ki naakne riya retecha. Mashile ki namane ya Moshitwana Mashile ki namane ncholoane.
Sereto se gake tsebe gore se hlakahlakantjwe ke wene goba ke rena resa se tsbeego goba rese rutilwe boshaedi,Efela kego rolela kuane mong'aka,Kere leka moso hle o tjwelepele o re fahlolle... Nna ke wa SEFOKA sa Mmakanyana ka Thabampje Ga-Masemola babina taung
This history was so lost that I had my doubts about some of this information. So I "tested" this channels history lessons using my own research too. I finally concluded that this channel is the truth 💯 The amount of detail in these history lessons is simply incredible. Thank you Home Team.
Though the London Times seems to speak glowingly of *King* Sekhukhune, notice how they call him a Chief as if to demote him & cheapen his authority. Also, great video.
He wasn't defeated by the Europeans but the share numbers of the black Africans and it still playing out today,African leaders are killed by black Africa commanded by Europeans countries. Africans are still been used against each other despite not been enemies.
@@watchingthehawks355 I hear you on that, so many times it is our own helping the enemy. For people like that, they deserve a very bad death at the hands of their own people.
King Sekhukhune the nightmare to the Boers, Swatis and the British this is one of the greatest king in Southern Africa. I am happy today our history is told and our hero is recognised. Ke Sekhukhune se bona ke sebataledi.
The biggest downfall of our people has always been caused by our people's refusal to acknowledge that we are one in the same. Our refusal to be on code and uphold tribalistic feuds that have literally gotten us nowhere but in chains.
I am pedi from the Bapedi people and a descended from sekhukhune land in south Africa and I appreciate your factual enlightenment about my people to people who are watching. However I can't help but laugh at your pronunciation of our words.🤣
King SK ( Sekhukhune)is the greatest EVER. He is the reason why people in limpopo own their land till this day . Most of the land in limpopo was not colonized becouse of his power.
I like the idea of Africans who said we're not going to put up with this European colonialism. We're going to make it as hard as we can for you, to get it.
Good video, Im from Sekhukhune... till to date Bapedi are more pro-black but still vulnerable to african and european unified tribalism but very resilient - e.g. Politicians like Julius Malema
What a wonderful video. I almost wish I could see this in a short movie... I was actually moved as I found myself rooting for the King not knowing what the outcome would be.
I cannot believe how many people still believe in that garbage about the Greeks founding Western civilization. The Black Kemets colonized and taught them, all the evidence is there.
Thank you so much, as a Pedi woman from Ga-Sekhukhuni I definitely agree with this piece of History based on what my parents have told me. It makes more sense to me and I usually battle with recognizing our history written by outsiders
I watched a show on Moja Love called Umphakathi and they were speaking about tribalism. The last guy to be interviewed was a Ndebele guy who said that Pedi, Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa, Ndebele, Zulu, Tsonga, Venda and Swati people are all related. He kept saying we were all Ndebele people. He says there was a king who had multiple wives and children, when he died there was conflict within the family and groups of people went their own ways not wanting to be ruled by the others and that's how those tribes were formed I don't know how much of it to believe but when you listen closely to those languages there similarities and overlaps.
@@bafanakaione9534 that could be true. Do some research on King Ndlovu. It is said that he migrated from central Africa, with nearly his entire nation. I once heard that while he was coming down south, that was when his people separated into the nguni and sotho groups.
I have a book that has all that information including the bloodlines and the family tree where it all started when we were all basotho, tswana and pedi all combined as one, send me ur email so I cn send u the book
The Bapedi history the most under told despite the British have documented it so much. The most being over their ceding from their brothers Bahurutshe and Bakwena through Bakgatla which should inform which happened when are already within the southern tip of Africa called South Africa in the western part of it called Transvaal . Their siblings including those who called themselves southern sotho being Makgolokoe, Batlokoa, Baphuting and Basia these siblings of bapedi by their mother Mmathulare, the wife of Tabane of Botlolo of Pogopi. Now we leaving with the southern with huge gape where the Government after 1994 has done nothing to teach the generation to know this. We blamed old government but new either have done nothing bridge the gap. It seem it's easy to blame but to remedy the situation, nothing is getting done. Even the southern sotho callled bakwena which is Moshoeshoe in Lesotho following and Mopedi in Qwaqwa are Bakwena being decendants for Kwena, brother of Mohurutshe born by Malope of Masilo. They are brothers in the lineage, why this history not brought to the fore? Who is benefiting in this activity of putting it under the carpet. It is imperative that is known and emerging generation start to come close to each other as siblings, especially Batswana, Bapedi and Sotho(Southern) as we are all sotho but southern make it their identity. We belong together, the language differ solely because in each area we find ourselves there is other nations which become our neighbor dialect change from our formal language while we were still together. Both Western, Southern and Northern sotho languages have diversified owing to other nations we shared the space with us. The language distinctive does'nt determine us but our blood determine our siblingness. Go to Maroteng- Bapedi, Kgoloko is one of royal name, in the south, followers of of Kgetsi are called Makholokwe, Maroteng are nation of Thulare, Mmathulare is the mother of Diale- Mopedi, Khetsi-Lekholokwe, Kgwadi-Motlokwa, Matsiboho(go)-baphuti and last born Mosia of Basia all are children of Tabane with his wife Mmathulare- mofokeng. Their other family is Bakgatla ba Mocha and Mmakua from which directly Bapedi and their siblings in Free State are linked to. Ba Motsha are of elder wife of Tabane - Mamatlaisane, mother of Matlaisane a bo tseke as he quaralled over it with the heir -Diale. Further Bakgatla ba Mosethla and Kgafela are of Mogale who is the elder brother of Tabane, are born of Mogale's son, Matshego.. this bakgatla group includes Bakgatla of Mmanaana and Ba Kgafela in Botswana. This is in brief for now.
I'm glad to discover this video, I'm Xhosa, am glad to learn about the role of the Bapedi, their history is overlooked like thst of our Xhosa Kings, King Hintsa tribe fought against the British the so called Frontier wars, hence we r very patriotic of this land, our ancestors fought then later Mandela and his generation continued. Bravo to Bapedi kingdoms
Your videos are amazingly powerful, informative and effective_ The one about African conquistadors among others is of high value to me as I once heardin 2009 from Mutabaruka(Jamaican Poet say that 'not all black men were slaves in the slave ships.' which got me searching within current political and socio-economic situations within Africa) ... I wish You all the best with the channel. KeepShiningYourLight!!! Regards/LuNgelo (SA)
Honestly the person who was responsible of Bapedi downfall is Kgosi Mampuru who killed our king and dispersed the tribe for which it cost us as the Bapedi nation as we lost our roots to this day
Thanks you nice video I never heard of them wow it's a great history for the pedi people of south Africa and Botswana. The African continent is so diverse with all kinds of tribs.
I am extremely indifferent as KW Smith seem to be the only source of this video or rather the main source of the video; KW Smith wrote his book some odd 90 years after the events. His accounts were meant to demean Sekhukhune and not to tell the true accounts as they happened. Below it is a somewhat of a summary of what happened, and if you need more around Sekhukhune, just shout and I will direct to the correct sources, including information on the vastness of the Marota Empire, the lineages of the Kings, origins, even other chiefs who caused havoc amongst the Europeans and other tribes during the times of Sekwati and even before like Maranganga later misspelled and mispronounced as Marangrang. Details about the Xhosa Wars between 1779 and 1879. The Transvaal wars and a ton of information regarding Southern Africa. To the story of Sekhukhune, it includes people like the then president, Thomas Francois Burgers, Paul Kruger, Rev. Dr. Alexander Merensky, Portuguese in Delegoa Bay who sold arms to Sekhukhune, European mercenaries (Hans von Schlieckmann, Otto von Bismarck, Alfred Aylward, Knapp, Woodford, Rubus, Adolf Kuhneisen, Dr. James Edward Ashton, Otto von Streitencron, George Eckersley, Bailey, Captain Reidel) and others from America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and other European countries. To defend his empire from the encroaching European colonization, Sekhukhune sent young men under the authority of 'appointed' headmen to work in white farms and diamonds mines. The money they earned in these employments was taxed and used to buy guns from the Portuguese in Delegoa Bay and cattle to increase the wealth of the Marota people. This money was sent through Sekhkukhune under the guise of sending money to their mothers as means to support them, but the mothers took the money to Sekhukhune so that he can purchase guns and cattle to enrich the and defend the empire. By the middle of the 19th century the Marota empire had grown to unite all the disparate people in the area under a common Royalty. The Marota lived in the land between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers, I mean Sekhukhune, made Thomas Francois Burgers to lose his presidency to Paul Kruger, whacked the British and Swazis not once but twice, between March 1878 and October 1878. The third time they also failed under the command of Colonel Lanyon between June and July 1879. In their fourth attempt it was Sir Garnet Wolseley who moved his motley troops of Britons, Boers and Africans (10,000 Swazi troops) to bring down Sekhukhune. Wolseley chose November 1879, for his move. It was a major military operation. Sir Wolseley's men moved in a pincer movement from Fort Kruger, Fort MacMac, Fort Weeber, Jane Furse, Bebo, Schoonoord, Lydenburg, Mphahlele, Nkoana, Steelpoort, and Nchabeleng, Swaziland - literally from all sides - to Thaba Mosega. The battle raged furiously from November 28 to December 2,1879. Sekhukhune fought with muskets obtained from Lesotho where he had royal support and French Missionaries as friends; from Kimberley Diamond fields where his people worked; from Delagoa Bay (Mozambique) with which he had close trade and other links. Sekhukhune was never killed in battle in fact he was imprisoned at age 65, the people who killed in battle was his son and heir, Moroanoche, and fourteen other members of his immediate family. Sekhukhune took refuge in Mamatarnageng, the cave on Grootvygenboom (high up in the Lulu Mountain), some distance from Thaba Mosega. There he was cut off from all sources of food and water. So, when on December 2, 1879, Captain Clarke and Commandant Ferreira were led to the cave and called him out, Sekhukhune had no choice but to comply. He was accompanied by his wife and children, his half-brother, Nkwemasogana, Makoropetse, Mphahle (a Swazi national) and a few attendants. There on the night of August 13, 1882, he was murdered by his half-brother, Mampuru, who claimed that he was the lawful king of the Marota, and that Sekhukhune had usurped the throne in, 1861, when their father Sekwati, died. Thereafter Mampuri, fearing arrest escaped and sought refuge first with Chief Marishane (Masemola) and later with Nyabela, king of the Ndebeles. So, Sekhukhune was murdered almost a year later not during the fourth attempt and his half-brother killed him not, the Europeans.
@@ThePawcios you mean the ones in the description, that he always has there in each video uploaded? Those references that you couldn’t even be bothered to look for? Yea, man, “I don’t know why” either..
@@MidTierVillain I guess you never tried to click on them and check somthing right? You don't understand idea of references... they all the same for each video, they are pointing to their homepage, and they are absolutely not related to the topic of video :P For example quoting a sentence from the bible and giving as a reference whole book... cool impossible to verify.
@@ThePawcios all the books are being referenced beside the links, man, the site holds all the information you need to know what books to gather info from.. Where you expecting PDF files? You can type in each book, and everything you need is right there.. I can appreciate that sentiment, if this channel was political/news reactionary; but, it’s not. I dunno, man..
@@MidTierVillain I belive that the information is somewhere there, but the point of references is to have a quick and easy access to the source. To have possibility of verification. Try to verify information about the battles mentiond in this video or the quotes shown on the screen. In practice it is impossible :P But maybe you are right and I'm expecting too much. Cheers
“They were the under dogs, simply playing chess” of course, that’s why we (people from limpopo province) are always doing well academically and professionally( most of us are health professionals, CEO’s engineers and lawyers) . The current president of the country is from limpopo too lol
I don't think, this message is meant to discredit other blacks. We should be united especially now. When are we going to learn. Maybe our minds needs to be renewed.
We covered this in African History in Zimbabwe..Am surprised that South Africans didn't learn this at school. Some of these bapedi we have them now under northern Ndebeles in Zimbabwe. They fled with Mzilikazi's people.
Maroteng=Mohlaletse (royal palace), GA-Kgoshi Sikhukhune (Bauba a' Hlabirwa) Our pride, heritage and history. Proud pedi from GA-Shukhune, Ga-Masemola Village.
Man you need more meat on bapedi history. Send your team of researchers to sekhukhune. I like the direction you taking with african history. Real tales of our leaders and our people achievements against all odds. Big ups
Thank you man for this video. Kgosi Sekwati and Kgosi Sekhukhune are my ancestors...you just chronicled my family history, which I am proud of...Much appreciated🙏
Thank you , as a proud mopedi(with tsonga genes) i always wondered why most if not all tribes in south africa undermine bapedi ppl this vid sheds light i will not go deeper since i believe in lerato(love) n wish for a unified Africa but i will leave it like this.... it took both Europeans and Africans to defeat us.
You hear about samurai, Shaolin monks, knights and Vikings all the time. Africa’s warriors never get a shout out or spoken about. The Zulu with their Ikwa spears were the stuff of legends!
True. I hear he was a fearless warrior. He unified clans to form a nation. I don’t know if it’s urban legends or not, but I heard that he insisted that he doesn’t need royal guards protecting him, saying he is capable of standing his own ground. His influence was so powerful that even clans that he didn’t defeat, paid allegiance to him and voluntarily became his subjects. He died on the day of a solar eclipse in 1824. I heard some elders still know where his grave is located.
@@pholosomakgato8298 they were fighting in a war and sadly Sekhukhune was killed due to the war between him and his half brother. So he’s not a traitor, Sekhukhune formed an alliance with the British thinking that he will obtain more power. Mampuru on other hand did not agree with that so he fought for his throne. Sekhukhune’s real name is Matsebe. Sekhukhune (Go khukhuna) means to sneak around. He got this name because he used to sneak around during the war making deals with the British and betraying his own people. Even when he was fight with enemies, he was sneaking. This is why we honor King Mampuru because he was the rightful heir to the throne that was unlawfully taken from him. He was the son of the senior wife of King Sekwati(they’re called “Lebone” or “Timamollo”) meaning “The Candle Wife” “Mother of the Nation/Kingdom”. So in the Royal Family the rule is that the first born child of the Mother of the Kingdom, is the rightful heir to the throne. So Sekhukhune wanted the throne for his own selfish reasons which is not according to the tradition/ customary law of the Marota(Bapedi)people. It’s similar to the biblical story of Cain and Able. The media which is predominantly white owned depicts our history to fit their own narrative, in favor of their Eurocentric mentality. Mostly being in favor of Sekhukhune because he was their ally which makes him a sellout in exchange of power.
@@sebotsestarlight Your first point is correct, but Sekhukhune was not a sell out, neither was Mampuru, Sekhukhune was one of the last remaining kings that resisted colonialism, even other kings like the Zulu king, Cetshwayo kaMpande admired him. Both Sekhukhune and Mampuru are heroes of the Bapedi nation, let's not demonize one in favour of the other. Let's honour both of them without creating divisions amongst ourselves
All SothoTswana groups could have had their own sovereign state if the Swatis didn't allied with the Boers . We could have had Lesotho ,Botswana ,Borotse and Bopedi .
But how so because atthe time Mzilikazi was based in the transvaal and ruled it with an iron fist and since the ndebel ere offoshoots of the zulu also used shaka's tactics of subjugating ssmaller clans in to his nation willingly or by force and for him to lose the war to the europeans they asked certain tribes of the batswana and barote of sekhkune by offering them guns wich the ndebele did not have have and thats how mzilikazi lost the war and fled to the now zimbabwe/matebele land via botswana.If you go to matebele land most ndebele are of zulu origin and a smaller portion of sotho and others tswana.Even moshoeshoe's uncle became on of Mzilikazi advisor,and even till today you find some of mzilikazi's descendants in lesotho who stayed behind and form part of the sotho nation .Matebele/Ndebele thats were the term came from matebele/ndebele meaning zulu or zulu offshoot today what is commonly used as Nguni.Sekhukhune;s family line originates from zambia and he also subjugated smaller destitue groups who lost their own wars or fled.The narrative of involving zulu's every just to spice up the story because shaka was a threat to the british and at the time of this shaka had already past on and the swazi had formed who are offshoots of the zulu and when dinaggaan was king of the zulu the was war between the zulu and the swazi.Dingaan also tried doing what shaka had done and also trying to reclaim other clans wich had seperated from the zulu.A correct narrative must be given.Smaller weaker clans were approached by the Boers to assit hem in promise of independence and be given land wich they did not keep and remeber the boers or dutch moved to the interior running from british control the british had taken control off the cape and the boers wanted independence from the british hence they moved to the interior and the boers only had contact with the britis only after the zulu were completely annexed the zulu long after shaka's death the boers mostly had contact with the tswana and bapedi.His must be narrated on time and events and reasons why certain situations happened and it becomes distorted if not explained correctly and remember moshoeshoe who is mosotho also subjugated the different groups to form the basotho nation and the nation only expanded in number mostly after shaka was killed by his half brother Dingaanand the now called the batswana grouping never had a sole leader it's differnt independent clans withe their own seperate chiefs
So amazing to see my King the Great Sekhukhune being recognized even in abroad tho my people and government never really teaches us our true culture and black history
The Video although has some truthful parts the background story on nation is flawed. Bapedi were an old regional hegemon and could not be threatened by a young unified Zulu kingdom. Bapedi ruled the land between the Limpopo and Vaal rivers. Parts of their territory included most Tswana areas and Ndebele with parts populated by Tsonga and Venda people. The North Ndebele people were refugee bandits who raided for living and this did not make it easier for the Empire because they just received a large refugee population from Shaka's conquest and now some of those refugees were those raiders who even stole girls. The Zulu kingdom was young to threaten Bapedi empire because it was almost 150 years after the current Ruling dynasty is took power in the 1680s.
Those bandits were Mzilikazi’s people. He was running away from Shaka and hid amongst the true Ndebeles of South Africa 🇿🇦. He Mzilikazi went ahead and stabbed them in the back by abducting Ndebele girls and killing some of the Ndebele men, he also stole their livestock and ran to Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and named his tribe after the Ndebele tribe to hide from Shaka who was looking for his head.
Christianity has always been the focal of indoctrination by the colonialist, if you rejected Christianity you're put to dead and if you accept Christianity you becomes a slaves for natural resources mining and farming for the invaders,so both kings lost because they refuse Christian slavery and indoctrinations;can we say their descendants follows in their footsteps?
@@watchingthehawks355 They didn't loose, they won, if they lost then we would still be slaves and colonies today, stop looking at the one sided view of white history, they will never admit that they were unable to control and conquer Africans
@@gloriasarah9653 And they (and the Arabs) also won't admit that black people built a huge proportion of their empire for them. They even (stupidly) bragged about it in history, but now they want to play it down because they know it. They knew what they were doing, they knew the most impressive in terms of physical, mental and spiritual strength, were the black people. It's all obvious but disguised as us being 'inferior' to try and keep us down.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ . Please note, this is also Julius Malema's tribe. Nightmare to..... We are still conquering. We have the most developed rurals without any government support. Road or infrastructure. Just pure hard work and determination
King Matsebe named 'Sikhukhuni' because of his bravery during his youth. He evaded boer sieges with is 'Mphato' to get basic needs for his People. He used to say " Ke paletše Maburu ko Tjate , Sebata ke Sekhukhune kea khukhuna. Moka boditsi ke hlahla le phoka.
For me this is the greatest king in history of Africa, he showed abilities at the young age, when Bapedi were blocked from getting food and water, he used to sneak and crawl to get water for his people, that's when he praised himself and said "ke Sekhukhuni "meaning I'm able to sneak and crawl. His real name is Matsebe..Hlabirwa.he defeated British until they collaborated with Africans,its now African skill+British skill against African skill ...very sad
Even South African schools don't teach this. Thank you for informing us about true African history.
Because we got a europeanized school system with their syllabus
Because South Africa is still a Colony 😥
Indeed more African content is needed to be surfaced, Real African content that is!
Jasmine where are you in SA.
@@radon4380 That's an interesting point. I went to school in the US, but I had read years ago that previously colonized nations often have education systems begun by the colonizers. In that case the history they teach was, at least initially, from the colonizers' perspective. Hopefully over time people will reclaim their history.
As for my country, the story of the teaching of history begins with what was taught by British schools. As we created our own, they would of course continue to favor the perspective of the white colonizers at the expense of nonwhites such as Africans and Natives. The history of immigrants from the middle east and India, among other places, is basically ignored except in specialized areas. Thankfully, some effort has been made to rectify this, but there's a long way to go.
I'm so glad you covered him. He's so overlooked in South Africa. I'm really glad you covered him. ❤️❤️❤️
Underlooked I think
The overlooked ones are the Zulu kingdom
I belong to the Bapedi tribe, in the heart of Sekhukhuneland and grew up in a large community called Ga-Masemola, at the centre of which is the great mountain Phsiring, which you have touched on in this video. I'm grateful for the accuracy of your historical account, its just the way our elders narrate it to us in my village
its not accurate the was hardly any contact with he zulu from natal and sekhukhune unless you are talking about the ndebele who are zulu offshoots.And remeber after the defeat of mzilikazi other defeated joined srkhukhune of barote wich was the creation f his bapedi nation ad nexpanded more only afterhe defeat of mzilikazi who was incharge of the greater transvaall by then.The more accurate version is at the national archives.A correct and truethful narrative must be given
@@Eddymaf Start a page grow it and tell the correct story or shut the hell UP
@@HotepHooliganSupreme true sekhukhune never had any contacts with the Zulu nation
@@zee-ke1zk I didn’t say anything in this post a$$face
@@HotepHooliganSupremeThe was no contact between zulus's and pedi's.Pedi's helped boers bring mzilikazi founder of the ndebele nation who was uniting the different african clans together using shaka's stratergy and the pedi's helped the boers in a batlle against mzilikazi.Zulu's were fighting boers.Go do your research in terms of military strtergy and nation building zulu's were far more ahead.the barote clan was small and sekhukhune only started building his bapedi nation with destituted people joining in and he was taking in people from other clans.The was only one serious war in the transvaal.that was with mzilikazi and the boers needing man power and knowing the fear wich some of the clans of the bapedi and other batswana clans depending on the area mzilikazi's dominace streched inthrough variuos locations had against mzilikazi.Zulus were fighting their own battles in the coast.Please stop halusinating.If zulu's wanted to wipe you out they would have done it.tHEY WERE MORE IN NUMBERS.ZULUS WERE FIGHTING THEIR OWN WARS AGAINSST THE BRITISH.AND WHERE NOT SELL OUTS.THE PROOF IS IN THE ONE WHO HAS THE GUN.WICH IS A SIGHN OF BETRAYAL.GUNS WHERE GIVEN TO AFRICANS TRIBES IN SOUTH AFRICA TO STOP ZULU INFLUENCE AS THEY MANY IN NUMBERS AND THEIR MILITARY STRATERGY WAS GIVING THE EOROPEAN PEOPLE AA TOUGH TIME SO WEAKER AFRICAN TRIBES WERE RECRUITED.PLEASE ALSO START YOUR OWN PAGE.WITH CORRECT INFORMATION AND STOP SEEKING POPULARITY THROUGH THE CLINGING OF THE ZULU SINCE IT IS KNOWN WORLD WIDE.HISTORY CANNOT BE CHANGED.IT CAN BE ALTERED BY MISINFORMATION.PEDI WERE NOT A THREAT THE MINI WAR THEY HAD WITHHTE BOERS WAS BECAUSE THEY SOME LEVEL OF GUTS AFTER RECEIVING GUNS FROM EUROPEANS WICH THEY WERE TAUGHT BY EUROPEANS AFTER COLLUDING WITH HEM IN THE WAR AGAINST MZILIKAZI.THE EVIDENCE IS THE AND HISTORY IS WRITTEN ABOUT AND EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS FROM PRETORIA TO ZIMABABWE.IT WAS EVEN TOUGHT IN THE SYLLABUS .PRIOR 94.PLEASE DONT EMABARASS YOUR.IF ZULUS COULD CONQUER FRM HERE TO TANZANIA ,PLACES LIKE MOZAMBIQUE ZAMBIA ,MALAWI A SMALL PORTIN ENETRED THE DRC.AT THE TIME OF SHAKA HE WAS TRAINING MEN ON A DAILY BASIS AND SENDING THEM OUT AND OTHERS CRATED NATIONS OF THEIR OWN.FROM SHAKAS MILITARY CONQUEST EVEN IF HE WAS KILLED BEFORE TIME SHOBHUZA BRANCHED OT AND FORMED HIS SWAZI NATION SOSHANAGANE WAS SENT TO MOZAMBIQUE FOMED THE SHANGAAN NATION ABSORBING THE NONE NGUNI PEOPLE OF THE TSONGA NDAU RODZI ZWANGENDABA WENT PAST BY ZAMBIA MALAWI AND TANZANIA FORMING THE NGONI OTHERS ENETRING THE DRC.AND I DON'T KNOW WWHY SHAKAS STORY ALWAYS GETS DISTORTED.AND PEOPLE SEKK RELEVANCE BY COVERING THEIR ANCESTORS COWARDICE OF COLLABORATING WITHHE BOERS.IF IT MAKES ONE FEEL BETTER BY LYING WICH IS SICK MENTAL CONDITION.THEN I SUGGEST YOU GO FOR THERAPY.I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST ANYONE BUT I JUST WANT THE TRUETH TO BE TOLD.YOU CAN'T CHAMGE HISTORY
These little mostly unknown historical nuggets is why this ch: is important, much respect.
AGREED!!!!
unknown to other Africans, but this was/is still part of the South African curriculum in grade 10
Kgoši Sekhukhune was a great strategist, and for a man with his limitations he managed to rule as far as the Vaal triangle and withstood many attacks by the Europeans only to be undone by his fellow Africans.
That part we cant seem to get out of history or correct yet and it hurt my heart
@@legioncold3666 it drives me nuts as well. More often then not Europeans can be beaten back but there is always one or more of us that is easily bought. From africa to the the Americas when blacks tried to resist you always had a snitch or a backstabber the fact enslaved blacks who planned revolts had to actively weed out the deadbeats shows there is something wrong with our race.
Sure other races have similar problems but ours is out of control.
@@ludovicusbathory1715 deeply! Man!.. I'm tired of it. That willie lynch attitude is so our downfall
Thanks for covering southern Africa's history, as a person from Botswana 🇧🇼 this pleases me. It is sad though that instead of coming together as Africans, some joined forces with Europeans.
That has become the biggest problem in Africa we always joined the enemy to destroy our people.
yep... when two brothers fight against each other, the foreigner takes over their fathers land
@@os6487 this is a powerful statement and is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard 😥
@@LebeauEmpress It's sad but it's true my sister. Soon all of this will be over though, a new earth will arise.
@@ayosmith2626 true and bugged all the buildings
Wow thank you for this lesson. I am a South African but did not know anything about the legacy of King Sikhukhune. He was a hero 🙏
Yay💃🏾🇿🇦🇿🇦. I am a proud Mopedi from South Africa and my Sepedi dialect is Sepedi sa Sekhukhune.
I once had a crush go ngwana o mogwe wa Sekhukhune
@@jaylovely7083 Ebanna 😂, Leina la gage ke mang?
Mopedi wa Ga-Mphahlele, mmina tlou, ya omella e hlaba motho diatla
Hello same here. My home language is Sepedi ❤
Schools teach about ancient egypt and think "welp that's Africa is covered " and we just accept it.
and they white wash that too
They only teach ptolemyaic Egypt with cleopatra
you mean the US?
@@gidd That's not true :P Nowadays history is independent and more objective than ever :P
@@ThePawcios History isn't white washed??
Man you have downloaded my soul. You spoke about the king of my maternal ancestors.
Thokoza Mkhulu
Don't be proud because you're a Christian, he fought against Christianity invaders to protect his people,Christianity was a colonial political tool if refuses Christianity you're kill that's how Christianity was spread around Africa.
@@watchingthehawks355 where in his comment did he say anything about Christianity?
@@watchingthehawks355 He didn't say he was Christian..
@@MidTierVillain when it comes to our ancestral bravery we quickly allies with their achievement but we fail to understand that they refuses to be conquered because they refuses colonial Christianity,and some of us of today will curse them in churches because our pastors told us to so.
King Sekhukhune was brave because he refuses to be brainwashed and indoctrinated to worship a white man as god
@@watchingthehawks355 you don't know me enough to be making claims like that. Stick to the content if you want to engage with me.
Thokoza Khehla
As pedi from burgerfort I'm blessed with the knowledge of the pedi King however sadden by the contribution of other Africans in the fall of kgosi Sehkuhkune
I think this was well done. It is historically correct as relates to the political situations of the time. The European powers were able to recruit so many Africans as allies because OF THE INFIGHTING AMONG THE AFRICAN TRIBES. This is an old, successful tactic worldwide. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" - it works. The same techniques were used by Europeans to eliminate resistance of indigenous peoples in North America. Europeans could never have been successful in destroying native resistance without pitting tribes against each other.
I am afraid that you're right.
You're right, but they didn't just ally with tribes. They also allied with centralised kingdoms that existed in the territories they wanted to conquer. This is how they conquered west africa for exapmle.
Edit
Also I wouldn't use the word infighting, people from the same ethnic groups or kingdoms only fought each other during an event like a succession war. Most of the time it was rival ethnic groups and rival kingdoms that fought eachother.
So you wanna blame the Euros? Why not blame the infighting bums?
In the United States when they first went out West and met the Lakota, Dakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.
The United States lost and retreated. The United States could not defeat these people so what did the do. The U.S. killed about 50 million bison. They starved these People.
Except, you know where this HASN'T happen yet? Afghanistan.
I think we as AFRICANS WE should drop European history and teach our own AFRICAN HISTORY IN SCHOOL S
Absolutely
Teach your children the public schools aint gonna do it
It will be a sad case of CRITICAL TRIBAL THEORY bro...the fact that the Africans paved the way with their own destruction with infighting....🤣🤣🤣..its still actually a personal character trait amongst many west africans actually...dividing and conquering them is very easy and simple...
i believe it's a must for a better tomorrow; AND now
Naaa bro...big mistake...you must learn all history esp yours... 🤣🤣....only a blk man would think like that...next ting you are oblivious of your oppositions culture and then they come and fok you up....🤣🤣🤣...over and over and over...again.
BaPedi Nation. My people, my heritage. King Sekhukhune, the greatest Pedi warrior king of Marota, my maternal great great grandfather. Great coverage 👍🏾
blessings brother
AWESOME 😊👍🙌
Did you know that ke mo Kgatlha, meaning that ke Motswana from this side in Rustenburg, ga se mo Pedi originally?
I just wish people would realize what wonders unity can do, we are one!
@@lebogangmataboge6252 ke mokgatla!?moruleng?
A tribute to King Sekhukhune in his tribal Language of Sepedi:
Ngwana Kgosi wa mohlake wa mohaba marole.
O bwa mohlopi wa masibutla sadimotole Matheba.
Sanaka irile ka kodi ya tubatsa.
O bwa Phoko le Phofwana. O bwa Maru was mara mara. Mailo magulu ke a maBedi, oa ka ntlokomele Pula ya Thulare.
Thulare bao ba ki morekereki wa lebotsa ki kgosi ki sikitla mangala.
Ke ngwana Kgosi wa Sekhukhune. Ke ngwana Kgosi wa Sekhukhune wa Malema wa Khosi Wa Mashila manyama, wa Mashile wa gao go ntsha ka Lekopelo.
Ki mamosela wa matuma, ki tso tsobo wa tsosa. Bare mosela o hlahla lephoka lephukeng.
Ki tsotsobo kwa tshusa ki tsoso wa ko manakale Gateng.
Bare nakale bare ba palela Masole Richitile maHuru ka lenareng.
Retecha chichila manyama.
Mashile ki naakne riya retecha.
Mashile ki namane ya Moshitwana Mashile ki namane ncholoane.
Sereto se gake tsebe gore se hlakahlakantjwe ke wene goba ke rena resa se tsbeego goba rese rutilwe boshaedi,Efela kego rolela kuane mong'aka,Kere leka moso hle o tjwelepele o re fahlolle...
Nna ke wa SEFOKA sa Mmakanyana ka Thabampje Ga-Masemola babina taung
I am Pedi all the way from Limpopo province in South Africa and I was never informed about our cultural history, the video is amazing Thanks!
Bapedi are the last Empire of South Africa. This will make a great Hollywood Blockbuster. what a history, what a nation! Salute!
@neo mpax we will be great again
Last?😄
Eswatini? LESOTHO?
Ok ok sorry, u said South Africa the country not South of Africa.. apologies
@@mantuli_ka1 😂
This history was so lost that I had my doubts about some of this information. So I "tested" this channels history lessons using my own research too.
I finally concluded that this channel is the truth 💯
The amount of detail in these history lessons is simply incredible. Thank you Home Team.
Though the London Times seems to speak glowingly of *King* Sekhukhune, notice how they call him a Chief as if to demote him & cheapen his authority.
Also, great video.
Exactly
Yep
I noticed that. Calling him a king would be like calling him a god
@@jbthajugganaut2003 They stink of fear. The words they choose reveal them.
The British did that to everyone. Ask the Welsh, Scotts, Celts. It wasn't about colour
I wish that some African leaders had the heart of this great king! Instead of being complicit in the demise of some African lands!
Facts man
He wasn't defeated by the Europeans but the share numbers of the black Africans and it still playing out today,African leaders are killed by black Africa commanded by Europeans countries.
Africans are still been used against each other despite not been enemies.
@@watchingthehawks355 I hear you on that, so many times it is our own helping the enemy. For people like that, they deserve a very bad death at the hands of their own people.
@@freddiedouper it's always too late;when they help defeated their own people the Europeans turn against them and use them as slaves.
Leaders??..... Look at what's going on bk home with your so called leaders.....
King Sekhukhune the nightmare to the Boers, Swatis and the British this is one of the greatest king in Southern Africa. I am happy today our history is told and our hero is recognised.
Ke Sekhukhune se bona ke sebataledi.
My king finally got an episode.
The biggest downfall of our people has always been caused by our people's refusal to acknowledge that we are one in the same. Our refusal to be on code and uphold tribalistic feuds that have literally gotten us nowhere but in chains.
Real Talk💯
The same thing that cause Nubia and Egypt to be captured by stringer people
You should check out the Balkans or Yugoslavia
Agreed our perceived tribalism continues to be our downfall.
Agreed our perceived tribalism continues to be our downfall.
Keep shedding light on our Ancestors worldwide we need this. I never knew of this Aboriginal King !! Thank you so much 👑🙌🏽
History is a set of lies agreed upon..
Imagine how many kings, warriors, queens and empire we still dont know about so amazing love my heritage regardless of what anyone says 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
I am pedi from the Bapedi people and a descended from sekhukhune land in south Africa and I appreciate your factual enlightenment about my people to people who are watching. However I can't help but laugh at your pronunciation of our words.🤣
I think we should also get other platforms to spread this history
King SK ( Sekhukhune)is the greatest EVER. He is the reason why people in limpopo own their land till this day . Most of the land in limpopo was not colonized becouse of his power.
As a Swazi from the kingdom of Eswatini Iam proud to know more about our ancient history thanks home team
Sell outs
Exactly mxm
I like the idea of Africans who said we're not going to put up with this European colonialism. We're going to make it as hard as we can for you, to get it.
@Alkebulan Warrior Ogun I mean... That's rasist man...
@@ThePawcios Soo racist
@Alkebulan Warrior Ogun Exactly. Along with help from indigenous enemies.
@@ThePawcios racist how? Its the truth.
Good video, Im from Sekhukhune... till to date Bapedi are more pro-black but still vulnerable to african and european unified tribalism but very resilient - e.g. Politicians like Julius Malema
Do what I do brotha,💛 hit the share button, and share it with everybody on your social media! ✊🏿
Bapedi by nature stood their ground - even today.
Like me... Although there's a bit of tswana and khoi from my mother's side
What a wonderful video. I almost wish I could see this in a short movie... I was actually moved as I found myself rooting for the King not knowing what the outcome would be.
Insightful historic information not even taught in South African schools. Thank you for this video.
Thank u for this😊Proudly Mopedi🇿🇦
Man this channel is so insightful. There’s so much we don’t know about US
I cannot believe how many people still believe in that garbage about the Greeks founding Western civilization. The Black Kemets colonized and taught them, all the evidence is there.
@@nassauguy48 taught them everything
@@DaduaMaiga 😂😂😂
@@DaduaMaiga thanks lol
Thank you so much, as a Pedi woman from Ga-Sekhukhuni I definitely agree with this piece of History based on what my parents have told me. It makes more sense to me and I usually battle with recognizing our history written by outsiders
But this one is an American version
Pls do
Origin of bapedi,basotho,batswana
And relation between them
That would be so cool
I watched a show on Moja Love called Umphakathi and they were speaking about tribalism. The last guy to be interviewed was a Ndebele guy who said that Pedi, Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa, Ndebele, Zulu, Tsonga, Venda and Swati people are all related. He kept saying we were all Ndebele people. He says there was a king who had multiple wives and children, when he died there was conflict within the family and groups of people went their own ways not wanting to be ruled by the others and that's how those tribes were formed
I don't know how much of it to believe but when you listen closely to those languages there similarities and overlaps.
@@bafanakaione9534 that could be true. Do some research on King Ndlovu. It is said that he migrated from central Africa, with nearly his entire nation. I once heard that while he was coming down south, that was when his people separated into the nguni and sotho groups.
@@bafanakaione9534 me I know batswana,basotho, bapedi, balozi are 1. And we are from lower Egypt
I have a book that has all that information including the bloodlines and the family tree where it all started when we were all basotho, tswana and pedi all combined as one, send me ur email so I cn send u the book
Good over view. He was very clever and stactical. There's more to his legacy.
The Bapedi history the most under told despite the British have documented it so much. The most being over their ceding from their brothers Bahurutshe and Bakwena through Bakgatla which should inform which happened when are already within the southern tip of Africa called South Africa in the western part of it called Transvaal . Their siblings including those who called themselves southern sotho being Makgolokoe, Batlokoa, Baphuting and Basia these siblings of bapedi by their mother Mmathulare, the wife of Tabane of Botlolo of Pogopi. Now we leaving with the southern with huge gape where the Government after 1994 has done nothing to teach the generation to know this. We blamed old government but new either have done nothing bridge the gap. It seem it's easy to blame but to remedy the situation, nothing is getting done. Even the southern sotho callled bakwena which is Moshoeshoe in Lesotho following and Mopedi in Qwaqwa are Bakwena being decendants for Kwena, brother of Mohurutshe born by Malope of Masilo. They are brothers in the lineage, why this history not brought to the fore? Who is benefiting in this activity of putting it under the carpet. It is imperative that is known and emerging generation start to come close to each other as siblings, especially Batswana, Bapedi and Sotho(Southern) as we are all sotho but southern make it their identity. We belong together, the language differ solely because in each area we find ourselves there is other nations which become our neighbor dialect change from our formal language while we were still together. Both Western, Southern and Northern sotho languages have diversified owing to other nations we shared the space with us. The language distinctive does'nt determine us but our blood determine our siblingness. Go to Maroteng- Bapedi, Kgoloko is one of royal name, in the south, followers of of Kgetsi are called Makholokwe, Maroteng are nation of Thulare, Mmathulare is the mother of Diale- Mopedi, Khetsi-Lekholokwe, Kgwadi-Motlokwa, Matsiboho(go)-baphuti and last born Mosia of Basia all are children of Tabane with his wife Mmathulare- mofokeng. Their other family is Bakgatla ba Mocha and Mmakua from which directly Bapedi and their siblings in Free State are linked to. Ba Motsha are of elder wife of Tabane - Mamatlaisane, mother of Matlaisane a bo tseke as he quaralled over it with the heir -Diale.
Further Bakgatla ba Mosethla and Kgafela are of Mogale who is the elder brother of Tabane, are born of Mogale's son, Matshego.. this bakgatla group includes Bakgatla of Mmanaana and Ba Kgafela in Botswana. This is in brief for now.
Wow we need to claim our heritage and our space
This need a movie now!
I'm glad to discover this video, I'm Xhosa, am glad to learn about the role of the Bapedi, their history is overlooked like thst of our Xhosa Kings, King Hintsa tribe fought against the British the so called Frontier wars, hence we r very patriotic of this land, our ancestors fought then later Mandela and his generation continued. Bravo to Bapedi kingdoms
Your videos are amazingly powerful, informative and effective_ The one about African conquistadors among others is of high value to me as I once heardin 2009 from Mutabaruka(Jamaican Poet say that 'not all black men were slaves in the slave ships.' which got me searching within current political and socio-economic situations within Africa) ... I wish You all the best with the channel.
KeepShiningYourLight!!!
Regards/LuNgelo (SA)
Honestly the person who was responsible of Bapedi downfall is Kgosi Mampuru who killed our king and dispersed the tribe for which it cost us as the Bapedi nation as we lost our roots to this day
I've been waiting on this one Thank you 🖤🖤🖤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Is the great to hear African history especially about King Sekhukhune. Proudly Mopedi from gaSekhukhune.
Thanks you nice video I never heard of them wow it's a great history for the pedi people of south Africa and Botswana. The African continent is so diverse with all kinds of tribs.
Much luv alway from DETROIT I was born in 1982 I never heard about the stories u tell us about our history 🤞🏾keep up great work 💯 💯
How to conquer a continent (Africa edition):
1.Aggressive Military Expansion
2. Learn Your enemy
3.Exploit any and ALL weaknesses
4.Wait many years
And enemy of my enemy is my friend
@@bafanakaione9534 Which is why all Kingdoms and empires fell. Even those who conquered everyeone else.
I am extremely indifferent as KW Smith seem to be the only source of this video or rather the main source of the video; KW Smith wrote his book some odd 90 years after the events. His accounts were meant to demean Sekhukhune and not to tell the true accounts as they happened. Below it is a somewhat of a summary of what happened, and if you need more around Sekhukhune, just shout and I will direct to the correct sources, including information on the vastness of the Marota Empire, the lineages of the Kings, origins, even other chiefs who caused havoc amongst the Europeans and other tribes during the times of Sekwati and even before like Maranganga later misspelled and mispronounced as Marangrang. Details about the Xhosa Wars between 1779 and 1879. The Transvaal wars and a ton of information regarding Southern Africa.
To the story of Sekhukhune, it includes people like the then president, Thomas Francois Burgers, Paul Kruger, Rev. Dr. Alexander Merensky, Portuguese in Delegoa Bay who sold arms to Sekhukhune, European mercenaries (Hans von Schlieckmann, Otto von Bismarck, Alfred Aylward, Knapp, Woodford, Rubus, Adolf Kuhneisen, Dr. James Edward Ashton, Otto von Streitencron, George Eckersley, Bailey, Captain Reidel) and others from America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and other European countries.
To defend his empire from the encroaching European colonization, Sekhukhune sent young men under the authority of 'appointed' headmen to work in white farms and diamonds mines. The money they earned in these employments was taxed and used to buy guns from the Portuguese in Delegoa Bay and cattle to increase the wealth of the Marota people. This money was sent through Sekhkukhune under the guise of sending money to their mothers as means to support them, but the mothers took the money to Sekhukhune so that he can purchase guns and cattle to enrich the and defend the empire. By the middle of the 19th century the Marota empire had grown to unite all the disparate people in the area under a common Royalty.
The Marota lived in the land between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers, I mean Sekhukhune, made Thomas Francois Burgers to lose his presidency to Paul Kruger, whacked the British and Swazis not once but twice, between March 1878 and October 1878. The third time they also failed under the command of Colonel Lanyon between June and July 1879.
In their fourth attempt it was Sir Garnet Wolseley who moved his motley troops of Britons, Boers and Africans (10,000 Swazi troops) to bring down Sekhukhune. Wolseley chose November 1879, for his move. It was a major military operation. Sir Wolseley's men moved in a pincer movement from Fort Kruger, Fort MacMac, Fort Weeber, Jane Furse, Bebo, Schoonoord, Lydenburg, Mphahlele, Nkoana, Steelpoort, and Nchabeleng, Swaziland - literally from all sides - to Thaba Mosega. The battle raged furiously from November 28 to December 2,1879. Sekhukhune fought with muskets obtained from Lesotho where he had royal support and French Missionaries as friends; from Kimberley Diamond fields where his people worked; from Delagoa Bay (Mozambique) with which he had close trade and other links.
Sekhukhune was never killed in battle in fact he was imprisoned at age 65, the people who killed in battle was his son and heir, Moroanoche, and fourteen other members of his immediate family. Sekhukhune took refuge in Mamatarnageng, the cave on Grootvygenboom (high up in the Lulu Mountain), some distance from Thaba Mosega. There he was cut off from all sources of food and water. So, when on December 2, 1879, Captain Clarke and Commandant Ferreira were led to the cave and called him out, Sekhukhune had no choice but to comply. He was accompanied by his wife and children, his half-brother, Nkwemasogana, Makoropetse, Mphahle (a Swazi national) and a few attendants.
There on the night of August 13, 1882, he was murdered by his half-brother, Mampuru, who claimed that he was the lawful king of the Marota, and that Sekhukhune had usurped the throne in, 1861, when their father Sekwati, died. Thereafter Mampuri, fearing arrest escaped and sought refuge first with Chief Marishane (Masemola) and later with Nyabela, king of the Ndebeles.
So, Sekhukhune was murdered almost a year later not during the fourth attempt and his half-brother killed him not, the Europeans.
Man. Kudos to you. Can you point me to which book to read, pleaaaase
Yeah pls share the details bro...can I download a book online or what
Please teach/enlighten us more bro. Any links or books to read?
Make TH-cam Videos Le seye natšo badimong
I spent my whole 23rd bday watching your videos. Im a young black author from the Midwest and I was in need of this knowledge.
Kgapuru ya maja ditala thoba dingwe melala!!!!!! Thobela 🙏
They clearly didn't share this in know school cause it also coveres the conversation of who is your lord and saver.
I love to hear history of our people .Thank you #ilovemyancestors
This one was so good, packed with tons of historical facts. Thanks your attention to details 🔥
The Greatest of all kings of our land
Thank you for this information. I have worked and traveled in Sekhukhune Land, but I knew nothing of this history.
Watching this and the slow-mag ad comes on with Caster Semenya, our champion, who if I'm not mistaken, is BaPedi herself 🤗
She is
My eyes stay glued to this channel.
Thanks for the episode, I'm Pedi
These aren’t just historical videos, Hometeam gives us mini documentaries.
Still without the references.... I don't know why
@@ThePawcios you mean the ones in the description, that he always has there in each video uploaded? Those references that you couldn’t even be bothered to look for? Yea, man, “I don’t know why” either..
@@MidTierVillain I guess you never tried to click on them and check somthing right? You don't understand idea of references... they all the same for each video, they are pointing to their homepage, and they are absolutely not related to the topic of video :P
For example quoting a sentence from the bible and giving as a reference whole book... cool impossible to verify.
@@ThePawcios all the books are being referenced beside the links, man, the site holds all the information you need to know what books to gather info from..
Where you expecting PDF files? You can type in each book, and everything you need is right there.. I can appreciate that sentiment, if this channel was political/news reactionary; but, it’s not.
I dunno, man..
@@MidTierVillain I belive that the information is somewhere there, but the point of references is to have a quick and easy access to the source. To have possibility of verification.
Try to verify information about the battles mentiond in this video or the quotes shown on the screen. In practice it is impossible :P
But maybe you are right and I'm expecting too much. Cheers
“They were the under dogs, simply playing chess” of course, that’s why we (people from limpopo province) are always doing well academically and professionally( most of us are health professionals, CEO’s engineers and lawyers) . The current president of the country is from limpopo too lol
I don't think, this message is meant to discredit other blacks. We should be united especially now. When are we going to learn. Maybe our minds needs to be renewed.
It's time for independence
Still plays Chess in the day of today!!!..
We covered this in African History in Zimbabwe..Am surprised that South Africans didn't learn this at school. Some of these bapedi we have them now under northern Ndebeles in Zimbabwe. They fled with Mzilikazi's people.
Maroteng=Mohlaletse (royal palace), GA-Kgoshi Sikhukhune (Bauba a' Hlabirwa)
Our pride, heritage and history. Proud pedi from GA-Shukhune, Ga-Masemola Village.
Man you need more meat on bapedi history. Send your team of researchers to sekhukhune.
I like the direction you taking with african history. Real tales of our leaders and our people achievements against all odds. Big ups
This page is inspirational. Got a question, when are you making a vid on The Black Byblos?
Thank you man for this video. Kgosi Sekwati and Kgosi Sekhukhune are my ancestors...you just chronicled my family history, which I am proud of...Much appreciated🙏
Greatly done ..I wish you could do a documentary on King Munhumutapa of great Zimbabwe
This has shed more light into the knowledge I already had about our King. I'm thankful for this channels exists.
Thank you , as a proud mopedi(with tsonga genes) i always wondered why most if not all tribes in south africa undermine bapedi ppl this vid sheds light i will not go deeper since i believe in lerato(love) n wish for a unified Africa but i will leave it like this.... it took both Europeans and Africans to defeat us.
Really important piece here. The most important lesson, it is not the pursuit in sameness but uniformity in purpose that will free us all.
You hear about samurai, Shaolin monks, knights and Vikings all the time. Africa’s warriors never get a shout out or spoken about. The Zulu with their Ikwa spears were the stuff of legends!
Kongo weapons are legendary
They loved their fans
Thokoza Sekhukhune one of my great ancestors ❤
You should make another one for king Thulare, king Sekwati's father who was also king Sekhukhune and king Mampuru's grandfather.
True. I hear he was a fearless warrior. He unified clans to form a nation. I don’t know if it’s urban legends or not, but I heard that he insisted that he doesn’t need royal guards protecting him, saying he is capable of standing his own ground. His influence was so powerful that even clans that he didn’t defeat, paid allegiance to him and voluntarily became his subjects. He died on the day of a solar eclipse in 1824. I heard some elders still know where his grave is located.
From South Africa 🇿🇦 I love you content
I AM Mopedi. From Ga Sekhukhune
He’s actually my great great grandfather and we made a statue for his half brother King Mampuru in Mamone,Limpopo. Feel free to ask me any questions.
I saw the statue on Sekhukhune united fc facebook page🔥🔥🔥
a statue of a traitor, he killed Sekhukhune
@@pholosomakgato8298 But the throne was his birth right, Kgoši Sekhukhune seized it from him
@@pholosomakgato8298 they were fighting in a war and sadly Sekhukhune was killed due to the war between him and his half brother. So he’s not a traitor, Sekhukhune formed an alliance with the British thinking that he will obtain more power. Mampuru on other hand did not agree with that so he fought for his throne. Sekhukhune’s real name is Matsebe. Sekhukhune (Go khukhuna) means to sneak around. He got this name because he used to sneak around during the war making deals with the British and betraying his own people. Even when he was fight with enemies, he was sneaking.
This is why we honor King Mampuru because he was the rightful heir to the throne that was unlawfully taken from him. He was the son of the senior wife of King Sekwati(they’re called “Lebone” or “Timamollo”) meaning “The Candle Wife” “Mother of the Nation/Kingdom”. So in the Royal Family the rule is that the first born child of the Mother of the Kingdom, is the rightful heir to the throne. So Sekhukhune wanted the throne for his own selfish reasons which is not according to the tradition/ customary law of the Marota(Bapedi)people. It’s similar to the biblical story of Cain and Able.
The media which is predominantly white owned depicts our history to fit their own narrative, in favor of their Eurocentric mentality. Mostly being in favor of Sekhukhune because he was their ally which makes him a sellout in exchange of power.
@@sebotsestarlight Your first point is correct, but Sekhukhune was not a sell out, neither was Mampuru, Sekhukhune was one of the last remaining kings that resisted colonialism, even other kings like the Zulu king, Cetshwayo kaMpande admired him. Both Sekhukhune and Mampuru are heroes of the Bapedi nation, let's not demonize one in favour of the other. Let's honour both of them without creating divisions amongst ourselves
I always wonder why this King is not as hyped as they do King Shaka, but now I get it.
Another FIYA one.. And the context is a healing
You are doing a great job. Thank you!
I love your channel. Keep up the great work and be safe.
All SothoTswana groups could have had their own sovereign state if the Swatis didn't allied with the Boers . We could have had Lesotho ,Botswana ,Borotse and Bopedi .
We can do it now, time and time again there emerges a new country. Look at South Sudan, look at the Slavic and Baltic States of Eastern Europe.
Barotse which are the ones in Zambia Balozi, correct
@@justmote oh yeah we can still do it
@@soccerchannel9930 yah Zambia forced them to join Zambia now the Zambians don't like it when our Barotse couzins claim their sovereignty .
But how so because atthe time Mzilikazi was based in the transvaal and ruled it with an iron fist and since the ndebel ere offoshoots of the zulu also used shaka's tactics of subjugating ssmaller clans in to his nation willingly or by force and for him to lose the war to the europeans they asked certain tribes of the batswana and barote of sekhkune by offering them guns wich the ndebele did not have have and thats how mzilikazi lost the war and fled to the now zimbabwe/matebele land via botswana.If you go to matebele land most ndebele are of zulu origin and a smaller portion of sotho and others tswana.Even moshoeshoe's uncle became on of Mzilikazi advisor,and even till today you find some of mzilikazi's descendants in lesotho who stayed behind and form part of the sotho nation .Matebele/Ndebele thats were the term came from matebele/ndebele meaning zulu or zulu offshoot today what is commonly used as Nguni.Sekhukhune;s family line originates from zambia and he also subjugated smaller destitue groups who lost their own wars or fled.The narrative of involving zulu's every just to spice up the story because shaka was a threat to the british and at the time of this shaka had already past on and the swazi had formed who are offshoots of the zulu and when dinaggaan was king of the zulu the was war between the zulu and the swazi.Dingaan also tried doing what shaka had done and also trying to reclaim other clans wich had seperated from the zulu.A correct narrative must be given.Smaller weaker clans were approached by the Boers to assit hem in promise of independence and be given land wich they did not keep and remeber the boers or dutch moved to the interior running from british control the british had taken control off the cape and the boers wanted independence from the british hence they moved to the interior and the boers only had contact with the britis only after the zulu were completely annexed the zulu long after shaka's death the boers mostly had contact with the tswana and bapedi.His must be narrated on time and events and reasons why certain situations happened and it becomes distorted if not explained correctly and remember moshoeshoe who is mosotho also subjugated the different groups to form the basotho nation and the nation only expanded in number mostly after shaka was killed by his half brother Dingaanand the now called the batswana grouping never had a sole leader it's differnt independent clans withe their own seperate chiefs
So amazing to see my King the Great Sekhukhune being recognized even in abroad tho my people and government never really teaches us our true culture and black history
The Video although has some truthful parts the background story on nation is flawed. Bapedi were an old regional hegemon and could not be threatened by a young unified Zulu kingdom. Bapedi ruled the land between the Limpopo and Vaal rivers. Parts of their territory included most Tswana areas and Ndebele with parts populated by Tsonga and Venda people. The North Ndebele people were refugee bandits who raided for living and this
did not make it easier for the Empire because they just received a large refugee population from Shaka's conquest and now some of those refugees were those raiders who even stole girls. The Zulu kingdom was young to threaten Bapedi empire because it was almost 150 years after the current Ruling dynasty is took power in the 1680s.
Well Said and I agree with you 100%. Bapedi Empire was superior to the young Zulu Kingdom.
Those bandits were Mzilikazi’s people. He was running away from Shaka and hid amongst the true Ndebeles of South Africa 🇿🇦. He Mzilikazi went ahead and stabbed them in the back by abducting Ndebele girls and killing some of the Ndebele men, he also stole their livestock and ran to Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and named his tribe after the Ndebele tribe to hide from Shaka who was looking for his head.
Your chanel does such great work in educating Africans about their hidden history. Thank you very much and God bless you.
Always a good day when u post a new vid
As a African I learned more from this channel than at school thanks for the content 🎯
You need to do a video on another "British Nightmare"
Dedan Kimathi from kenya
Facts 💯‼️ As well as Patrice Lumumba.
Christianity has always been the focal of indoctrination by the colonialist, if you rejected Christianity you're put to dead and if you accept Christianity you becomes a slaves for natural resources mining and farming for the invaders,so both kings lost because they refuse Christian slavery and indoctrinations;can we say their descendants follows in their footsteps?
@@watchingthehawks355 so true
@@watchingthehawks355 They didn't loose, they won, if they lost then we would still be slaves and colonies today, stop looking at the one sided view of white history, they will never admit that they were unable to control and conquer Africans
@@gloriasarah9653 And they (and the Arabs) also won't admit that black people built a huge proportion of their empire for them. They even (stupidly) bragged about it in history, but now they want to play it down because they know it. They knew what they were doing, they knew the most impressive in terms of physical, mental and spiritual strength, were the black people. It's all obvious but disguised as us being 'inferior' to try and keep us down.
I think in schools should teach us these things instead of hiding them .this is history!!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ . Please note, this is also Julius Malema's tribe. Nightmare to.....
We are still conquering. We have the most developed rurals without any government support. Road or infrastructure. Just pure hard work and determination
People must reply on themselves. Governments are an impediment to success not the reason for it.
Malema is Venda not Pedi,he could have grown up within Pedis but his Surname is not Pedi
This channel is FIRE!! THANK YOU!
Well researched👏🏾 Thank You!
King Matsebe named 'Sikhukhuni' because of his bravery during his youth. He evaded boer sieges with is 'Mphato' to get basic needs for his People. He used to say " Ke paletše Maburu ko Tjate , Sebata ke Sekhukhune kea khukhuna. Moka boditsi ke hlahla le phoka.
Even Moshoeshoe outclassed Britain
He was a wise and shrewd leader. Rest in Mighty Power, King Sekhukhune. Much respect.❤😂🙏🏽✊🏾
Thank you for the accurate history of the baPedi people, he's one of my favorite kings from this part of Africa
Wow thank you 🙏🏾
I’ve read this history but unfortunately Is not taught in our schools.
We need these GLORIOUS DAYS BACK let's bring back our KINGS IN POWER. I ensure you if we do this we shall have brought back our GLORY TO LIFE
There's no going backwards fam...only forward.
@@jamaaldaynitelong8367 back to the future then?
@@TheAfroGoddess Idk what you mean or what you're implying.
@@jamaaldaynitelong8367 that's ok Jamaal
Love your name btw
@@TheAfroGoddess 🤨 Whatever that means
I really enjoy your videos man. Please do one on the great Venda King Makhado.
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Can you please do a video on the Psychological impact of slavery and colonisation on modern day African/Black society?🙏🙏🙏