"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire." - Nelson Mandela I'm honestly torn. I feel both fighting fire with fire and fighting fire with love. Being oppressed and begging to be thought of as a person for so long is so exhausting, and when you're on the brink, it just seems so much easier to just say "eff it" and fight back, but at the same time, you become just as bad in a sense. I don't want to associate with oppressors or people who are okay with oppressors, especially after trying for so long to reason and educate them and just say that I deserve to live, only to be met with hate and ridicule. Sometimes, it's just too much, and it reaches a breaking point. I know I should be better than the oppressors, but sometimes I just wonder "why are they allowed to be evil and full of hate, and I am told to be the bigger person and not fight back? Why do they get a pass? Why do they get to spread their hatred and evil without consequences?"
That's a great point You can look at certain people with shame because of their poor behavior, but people tend to forget the next day. Then as soon as person B attacks back at person A, even with a good argument, person B is looked at like the crazy one! This world is so inconsistent, backwards, hypocritical, and lacking of self-awareness. It's embarassing
Violence is seen by us so often as a flaw, an aberration, something to be avoided at all costs and condemned when it does occur. But we have the privilege - most of us, I don’t know where you’re from - of making these judgements from a place of privilege and safety. Freedom fighters throughout time have not had such luxury, and their oppressors had no qualms about meting out horrific violence on them, for the sake of keeping their hold on power secure. “The end justifies the means” is not my point here, and moral relativism is something I have no truck with. That said, any regime or administration that seeks to make human beings less than human, needs to be opposed at every level. And if violence is the only means left open to those oppressed, that is the fault of the oppressor, and they reap that whirlwind. The best we can do in the aftermath, is learn from history, sturdy the context of those events instead of just the events themselves, and seek never to see they happen again. That’s the only way we advance, the only way we grow as a species, and honor the dead by not forgetting them.
@@limeyndixie I get what you're saying, and it's why I'm so torn. I know this is going to sound silly, but I just finished watching Attack on Titan, and the entire theme of that anime is oppression and breaking the cycle of hatred and fear and war, and part of breaking that cycle is the oppressed literally fighting back. Like, I understand me even thinking about this and thinking what I would do comes from a huge place of privilege. I completely understand that. I don't know what I would do when placed in a situation like so many people who are beaten down and oppressed. I don't know how I would go about fighting back. I like to think I have an idea based on how I'm doing based in my country of America and how close we are to being run by dictators and Fascist policy holders, but that doesn't show me how I would act if Fascism fully took over and there were military police walking the streets literally killing people like in say Nazi Germany. I don't know how I would react in that situation, and I know not knowing that and talking like I do know, again, comes from a place of privilege, but I guess I like to have an optimistic outlook that maybe, one day, we as humans can break the cycle of hatred and fear and war without having to resort to violence in order to get that peace, because I fear if we use violence to get that peace, then that peace won't last, because eventually, someone will want to get revenge. That's my fear.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - The beloved country 5:05 - Chapter 2 - A poison system 8:50 - Chapter 3 - Fight the power 12:45 - Chapter 4 - The prisoner 16:00 - Chapter 5 - The regime unravels 20:05 - Chapter 6 - On the knife edge
Yes, I am living in california and I am trying to let people know of things happening there bc I know we can do more to help but I still never hear people talking about it, like the slavery for example, the recent prison break, how lybia continues stealing people for their slavery, its a mess but people here are so in their own heads that they dont even know.
@@apeiceofgarbage9848 I know you want to fix the problems of the world, which is lovely, but California really needs to fix their own problems first. No offense, but Cali is hell-hole now! Taxes are high, businesses are leaving, forests are burning, and riots are... well... you probably know this already... 😥😥😥
@@theparadigm8149 yeah but i cant do anything about that because im living here and im to young to leave, to much power here, no one would litsen to a 13 year old girl. But thank you I agree
@@apeiceofgarbage9848 thanks for the concern. Just make sure to understand that Africa is a very large place. Some African countries are closer to, in distance, America than to South Africa.
@@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat Way to totally miss the injoke :D Also apartheid =/= slavery, so the comment make no sense. I don't see why you'd want to draw that parallel, are you american? Most south africans are not and have never been slaves, I find it a bit insulting to inject your own social issues on another country, tbh.
Amazing job Biographics. For recent passings, bio on Sean Connery and Alex Trebek. Also, as his 250th birthday is happening this December, bio on Ludwig van Beethoven?
@@quincyquincy4764 can't ever forget the tragedy of rhodesia from the breadbasket of africa to starvation purely due to incompetent leadership after an unjust transition of power
We was. Tho, his party obliterated South Africa, and it still to this day has not recovered. It's one of the most violent, corrupt, and poorest countries in the world. The government sponsors violence against the white population of the country. And they are allied with Putin in BRICS. This man was a communist authoritarian and a blood thirsty murderer. Calling Nelson Mendenhall a hero is the greatest piece of propaganda of the 20th century
I don't really agree with that. Some of his views really aren't that great. It's the same with Martin Luther King, if you look at his views objectively, not all of them are that great. But "we" choose to focus on a very narrow window of history which paint certain people in a positive light. The best example of this is "Mother Theresa". She was an absolutely barbaric and evil person, but people see her as a saint. Look up "house of the dying" for some horrific stories. The same goes for the views of the aforementioned people, just look them up, and you'll find out not all of them are that great.
The whole world is literally justifying these BRUTAL farm murders because of Apartheid. It is now normalized to torture people to death. To steal, rape, corrupt. To rape elderly women & to leave them for death. Beat the elderly & leave them for death. It's all okay!! Because Apartheid... An eye for an eye...
Did you just glorify terrorism and the refusal to renounce violence, which lead to post-Apartheid South Africa: the single most violent and unempoyable country on earth?
Look up ku Klux Klan. Neo Nazi , white supremacist, American cities are in shambles, yes go look further at Hitler, Franco , Mussolini, there have been many European fail States, the West did not achieve the governments they now have instantly. It took hundreds of years, let the people of South African make mistakes , they will learn. You see shambles because you miss your racist government.
@@meharmann4328 oh sure lol you're so correct, I don't lol, you are the only one with the facts, I was being sarcastic , about America being in shambles , please teach me, wasn't Russia behind for centuries. Didn't Europeans fight for hundreds of years. But wait , I supposed if you alone have the facts and you know every thing. What's the point. I say bring back the killing of black south Africans. Bombing of black townships. Assassination of persons like steve Biko, I stop there kill all other ethic groups and create your white heaven.
@@ham-mantheman-ham634 I think you are preaching to the choir and missing the point. In fact you are simplifying the issue. The original statement was look up necklaces, my point is not a justification of Mandela or the ANC actions. But to highlight that there was war on a people , who having failed to convince the colonizers of a peaceful solution, used violence. Now despite your response, you are very aware that all independent nations had to fight to attend thier rights. Power does not concede without pressure. Non whites must not respond to white oppression. They must turn the other cheek. This was war, and they did what was necessary, they won't the aggressors, they were the defenders of their land , from racist invaders.
This one is a long time coming even though I might disagree with some of mandalas opinions but I do agree with his fight for freedom and rights for all but sadly South Africa is more divided that ever constant farm attacks on white farmers and the riots in the city’s which are against other people who emigrated to South Africa.
It's really sad I hope someday us south Africans can come together with all our differences and this We've done many wrong things against each other and we have to end it
South Africa's more divided than ever?? You have to be joking. I can tell that you've been watching a lot of those far-right propaganda videos cause you're using those same talking points.
@@mrmcgraw3706 It's ironic of you to call me dumb when it doesn't take a genius to look up farm attack statistics from reliable sources. Farm murders are an act of criminality and don't just affect white farmers but also affect black and other non-white farmers the only reason why white farmers make up the majority of those murders is because there aren't that many non-white farmers. South Africa has a high crime rate and over 20 000 people are murdered yearly, how many of those murders are farmers? Only 57. If the farm murders are racially motivated then why are there 9 non-white farm workers murdered yearly? You're misrepresenting the truth, do farm attacks happen? Yes they do, are they racially motivated, there's no evidence to prove that especially when non-white farmers are affected
@@mrmcgraw3706 really? coz from the official stats, white farmers are being killed at a rate BELOW the national average. Most of the attacks have NO clear indication of racial influence. In fact, a significant portion of the victims of these farm attacks aren't even white. Taxi drivers are killed at rates several orders of magnitude above those of white farmers... and they're not even the worst affected demographic... You look into security guards, police officers, etc. You'd be shocked, but you never hear anything about them coz most of them just aren't pale enough to catch your attention. we average +/- 60 farm murders a year in RSA, and that number has gone down DRASTICALLY from the previous decades. But again, you won't know that because your right-wing echo chambers are too think-walled to allow facts to break through.
@Emil there has never been a correlation that showed that singing struggle-era songs influenced attacks on white people. People sang about all sorts of thing during the struggle. They also song about killing double agents, or people they accused of being apartheid sympathizers. How come none of you are making these sorts of correlations to black people being killed at the highest rates of any demographic in RSA? There's nothing truthful about being far-right, selectively truthful is the term you were looking for.
Just to be clear, irrespective of the good he did later on, he was not a political prisoner. He was imprisoned for terrorism and planting bombs, not for political reasons. Up until then, the ANC was not banned yet.
The death of a negative nation and the birth of a positive one with as few a deaths as possible thanks to one man is a pretty feel good story, at least in my opinion
@@needsmetal Lol It was on the brink of Civil war *before* 1994. SA has been in a slow motion French Revolution since 1976. The currency lost as much value in the 25 years before 1994 as it did in the 25 years after 1994. Half the urban population was in slums in 1990. It's under 20% now. The current government is corrupt, but it's certainly no absolution of the previous government. Far from it. And often the people involved in the corruption back then are literally the same crowd colluding with the ANC today. Which is all that BEE is: Collusion of the old white guard and the new black elite.
@@agrid2608 the man built IEDs that killed at least 19 people for starters... “I do not deny that I planned sabotage,” Mandela told the court at his trial. “I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by whites.” He wasn't an irrational person. He convinced himself that he should do the things he did. It was intentional. He believed that he was qualified to pick and choose who should die. He was close with Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, and Sani Abacha... I'll assume you didn't know these things.
@@derptothemaxclearly lol notice how you don't answer and start randomly talking about something else. So much for the *necklacing* ! Mandela's bombs were for infrastructure sabotage. (energy pylons, post offices at night) The lethal bombings happened by other people when he was in prison particularly in the 1980s. It's why there were no charges of murder, but rather the charge of " the preparation and use of explosives for the purposes of sabotage" I''ll assume you didn't know these things.
@@agrid2608 ah sorry I wasn't clear enough. I meant to say that I find it disturbing that you'd come to his defense let alone side step the lives he took. If you believe it was the right thing to do, I'd encourag you to speak with a counselor. Ask them, "If I'm being objectively oppressed and made to suffer, is it ok to kill a minimum of 19 people and inflict damage to the understructure of my country?" Please come back to us here and let us know what the councilor said in reply.
@@derptothemaxclearly lol or you can admit you lied. Maybe you should see a shrink to determine why your ego might lead you of on a babbling tangent, rather than admitting that your statement was factually incorrect.
Yep but love him or hate him Nelson Mandela will always be the champion of South Africa 🇿🇦.. generations will come generations will go but his name will always be remembered FOREVER.
Next up, please do Martin McGuinness. He more than warrants an episode - “In the name of Jesus of Galilee and Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is only appropriate that on this occasion we fondly remember Martin McGuinness, a man of Derry, a passionate man, a commander in the Irish Republican Army who fought with everything he had for his people, but who also, like Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in South Africa, had the capacity to transform himself and the IRA’s political arm, Sinn Fein, into instruments of peace and reconciliation after decades of warfare known as The Troubles,” said Rev. Jackson.
A global hero indeed! Viva Mandela. I think all of South Africa is so thankful for his struggle and leadership. He and de klerk worked tirelessly to prevent a civil war from taking place. If only the country's current leadership could keep Mandela's visiona and wisdom in mind... It saddens me to see so many negative comments about Mandela from other South Africans. Unfortnately, Mandela's vison of a happy rainbow nation is still an illusion... But most of us, especially young people, are working hard to correct the social consequences caused by apartheid. The struggle never really ended...
Thank you - this was very well done. Living in South Africa I appreciate how balanced and contextual the script was, very well delivered and senstive too - for he was a hero to many. For Geographics it would be pretty interesting to cover some SA topics too - Kruger National Park, Vredefort Dome, Boesmansgat and perhaps the super deep gold mining. Many intersting potential topics. Also the Namib desert in Namibia would be awesome. Plenty of historical figures in SA - Shaka Zulu for example.
That's very true. I would like to add Helen Suzman to your list though, since even Mandela himself praised her and what she tried to do to end Apartheid from within parliament.
He was never involved with necklacing. Only Winnie was alleged to have done that ...Don't insult the legacy of Nelson Mandela by making false accusations
I think it is a bit odd, that you don't bring up that Winnie Mandela endorsed the practice of necklacing. Were tires filled with petrol were used to kill people. The bodyguards of Winnie used necklacing against a 14 year old black south-african boy named Stompie Seipei. They thaught he was a traitor. I understand that even these things need to be seen in context, but it is important to tell every part of the history.
Very disappointed at some of the factual errors you made in some of the most crucial moments of this history. For example you said that rubber bullets were used against protesting students, but then you weren't on to use the famous picture of a dead young boy from those protests. In fact, over a thousand students were shot dead during the 1976 uprisings.
One of my uncles was a student at Vaal Tech in the 90's. His home was less than 3 kms away from the college but the political violence was so horrible, he lived on campus so no one would follow him home,as his mom was a secretary of the local ANC and there was an ongoing power struggle between the IFP(another party),I think, and the ANC. It was so bad that my dad,who lived in Johannesburg since 1988,never visited him. The area was that dangerous.
I hate to be that guy, but black people are the only people not allowed to be violent even though they are the victims of violence. imagine ukraine being judged for reacting out of violence....that's every black man around the world it's sad how the never ending onion of racism still brings tears to my eyes
Mandiba was a man in a million. His book , the long walk to freedom is a must read. I hope that one day, South Africa can honour his memory with change for good.
South Africa is fucked because of this man's regime. Though I guess beggars can't be choosers. It's not like there was a libertarian opposition to the Apartheid government.
@Vox Populi☭ Ah yes the libertarian capitalists that nationalized half our industries, engaged in foreign wars, and implemented curfews. Not sure you understand what either Libertarianism or Capitalism is, friend.
@Vox Populi☭ The Apartheid regime was socialist. Problem is it was mainly socialist for a small minority. But their socialism on the back of the black labour and land differential provided white South Africans with some of the highest standards of living in the world. Most whites had been dirt poor at the beginning of the century. They urbanized in large numbers around the same time as the blacks, which is the economic friction that would lead to Apartheid.
@Vox Populi☭ that's Communism. Socialist government policies include social provision and centralized job creation and subsidization. The Apartheid government was quite socialist for the Afrikaner minority.
@Vox Populi☭ Communism is the *theoretical* goal of socialism. The individual policies you implement in the mean time are......socialist. (e.g socialized welfare, or state job creation)
Finally someone I suggested. So Simon does read my comments. It is matter of time we get Biographics on Atatürk. Tomorrow is going to be 82nd year after his passing.
This is inscribed on The Kemal Atatürk Memorial, which is a memorial directly opposite the Australian War Memorial on Anzac Parade, the principal memorial and ceremonial parade in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The inscription, attributed to Atatürk, pays tribute to his former foes and reflects his understanding of the cost of war: "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
Perhaps Simon has a twin sibling we don't know about and who is helping him make videos. Or perhaps he has a time machine like the one Hermione uses in The Prisoner of Azkaban to keep up with his other channels
He has multiple writers and i think people overestimate how long it takes to record a 20-30m talk, and we can assume from the frequent errors, misspeaks, audio bugs, etc that he doesn't do a lot of retakes. Then its just a case of sending the data to the editor. I reckon Simon spends between 2-4hrs of his time on each video, this includes pre-reading the script, setting up lighting and audio and recording
What does that have to do with him? He was in prison when the "people's war" kicked off in 1984. I don't think he had much control over the streets of Johannesburg, a thousand miles away from Robben Island.
dude do you lnow anything about what you're saying he didn't ever call for violence...he spoke out against it and at the time that was happening he was in prison OPEN A HISTOY BOOK
Followed by a video of the grim realities of living in a post apartheid South Africa. Rape Capital of the world, 5th most dangerous country in the world. Extreme poverty, record high unemployment, government corruption etc etc etc.
Could you make a video explaining why South Africa today has more rape, murder, and violence against women than any other country on Earth? I'm genuinely curious as to what went wrong.
Generational poverty. Granting equal rights doesn’t erase the economic consequences of colonization and apartheid. So monetary investment into the infrastructure and wealth of the bottom 80% of the country needs to happen.
But South Africa doesn’t have more rape, murder, and violence against women than any other country on earth. You just made that up. Also you asked “what went wrong?” as if these issues weren’t worse decades before.
Quite a few people, apparently. I can only imagine the kind of echo chamber you've been in if you're that shocked people don't see things the way you do.
That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric. (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)
@Movies and Games lol that's your logic. Population growth? Alcohol abuse has always been the worst. And if you want to know why how about you use google to learn some history about the Dop system among other things.They literally used to pay people with alcohol. Or did you think alcoholism miraculously started in 1994?? All the facts above are from the Free Market Foundation, no fan of govt. You seem to think that deflecting with "google current problems still" changes anything about the fact that people are materially better off today than they were. Or did you get lost in what this thread is about... Electrification: 1994: 36% 2019: over 90% Employment DEPENDENCY ratio: 1994: 380 2019: 251 For every shack built post 94, 10 formal houses have been built. In 1998: 340 people dependent on every nurse. In 2019: 194 people dependent on every nurse. In 1991: 44 white engineering graduates for every ONE black one. Today there are twice as many black engineering graduates as white ones (white number having grown too.) In 1990 half the urban population was in slum. In 2019 it's down to 20% despite massive urbanization and mass-migration over the last 30 years. In 2001 18% of the SA population was in multi-dimensional poverty. In 2019 6% were multi-dimensionally poor. Fact: whatever it is, it's better than pre-94.
@Nasdaq trader lol You can use whatever alternate user profile you like "Mr Google". Any nation in an economic downturn in 2019 would show up on a "list". *You still seem lost.* The thread was comparing pre-94 to today. Any negative you find today was doubly true pre 94. Still cannot refute this can you: Electrification: 1994: 36% 2019: over 90% Employment DEPENDENCY ratio: 1994: 380 2019: 251 For every shack built post 94, 10 formal houses have been built. In 1998: 340 people dependent on every nurse. In 2019: 194 people dependent on every nurse. In 1991: 44 white engineering graduates for every ONE black one. Today there are twice as many black engineering graduates as white ones (white number having grown too.) In 1990 half the urban population was in slum. In 2019 it's down to 20% despite massive urbanization and mass-migration over the last 30 years. In 2001 18% of the SA population was in multi-dimensional poverty. In 2019 6% were multi-dimensionally poor. Fact: whatever it is, it's better than pre-94. Again: You seem to think that deflecting with "google current problems still" changes anything about the fact that people are materially better off today than they were. PS the fact that you think a handful of listed corporations profiting of feudal near-slave labour meant anything good for the actual people of SA is hilarious.
@Nasdaq trader lol you're still lost "Mr Google" At some point you're going to have to realize you're on the wrong thread and you don't have an answer. [ *That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric.* (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)] This is what you're responding to. You cannot get around it can you? Do you want to ramble on some more, Mr Google?
@Nasdaq trader Still lost, Mr Google. Though now I can see now you're most likely delusional. Though I have to say your last comment was really amusing again: Literally every supposed metric was wrong. Exhibit A: Several universities were built and several existing university systems greatly extended. Exhibit B: The twenty most dangerous cities 1 Tijuana Mexico 2 Juárez Mexico 3 Uruapan Mexico 4 Irapuat Mexico 5 Obregón Mexico 6 Caracas Venezuela 7 Acapulco Mexico 8 Cape Town SA (gangs confined to 7 precincts on the remote Cape flats that's been there for half a century now) 9 St. Louis United States 10 Vitória da Conquista Brazil 11 Baltimore United States 12 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela 13 Kingston Jamaica 14 Feira de Santana Brazil 15 San Pedro Sula Honduras 16 San Juan United States 17 Ensenada Mexico 18 Ciudad Bolívar Venezuela 19 Cuernavaca Mexico 20 Celaya Mexico Exhibit C) Electricity wasn't cheap, it was non-existent. Only 36% was even electrified. ...I could go on: the same is literally true for literally every supposed metric of yours. So if you're going to be: a) neither factually accurate and b) not even relevant to the fact that you still seem completely unable to get around the fact that life is better for millions of people by any social metric then the question really remains are you drunk or just too embarrassed to admit that your rambling is completely aside from the substance of the thread.. which remains a simple FACT: [ *That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric.* (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)] A fact you cannot get around! ...And responded to with irrelevancies. You can ramble and you'll still end up at the same spot of irrelevance to the facts above.
3:44 "he excelled at boxing..." 😂 His boxing record was 18 Matches, 0 wins, 16 Losses, 1 draw, 1 walkover 🤣 Mandela was many things, but an excellent boxer is none of them
Nelson did what the Algerians both Europeans and North Africans couldn't do, a reconciliation to start over United in one nation. however the french and arab nationalists and the bloodshed was to extreme and immense to overcome. Mandela always makes a reference in any paper discussing the Algerian war and independence and how it would ve be like today if both sides worked together.
@Balmung Barbossa everyone knows that he failed his country when it comes to economic issues and it not something unknown! Islamists curse Kamal Ata Turk for destroying the Islamic identity of Turkey but he still the founder and the hero of the country and his Islamist enemies can't take that away from him.
If only his followers had the same idea he had.... SA is a festering ass pimple at the moment. Pity how quickly things went down the shitter after he left. RIP
As a Person who was born in Africa, and moved to USA in 90s, People just dont understand how BIG TO PEOPLE iN Africa and Around the world Mandela was, He was pretty much a living hero and force of nature. Nelson Mandela is basically Africans Abraham Lincoln.
This is my new all time favorite one of your videos. Your an amazing person and teacher. I thank you sincerely for all you do to help spread these amazing teachings of history thank you Simon
122 dislike..well dang stay salty. The world isnt just Germany. Europe and America. We have Africa. We have Asia. We have South America. Turns out earth is a big place with alot of cool people in History 😊👍
please make a BIOGRPAHICS EPISODE of ; willem van oranje (William of Orange) is known as the founding father and hero of The Netherlands. he made his fame when he led the Dutch uprising against the rule of the Spanish Habsburg, The uprise led to the 80-year war (1568-1648) between the Dutch states and Spain There is a English page on wikipedia "William the Silent" that's his nickname
I’m actually watching this because I listened to “to pimp a butterfly” yes, you heard that right, straight from a white boy who wasn’t taught this in Christian school lmao
Nelson Mandela, a man who deserves to be remembered, not just being a part of Sourh African history, or African History, but world history, I-m sure people have drawn strength and continue to draw strength and even quote him to this day. He put up with great injustices, imprisoned on trumped up charges, doing back breaking labour, and being denied to attend the funeral of his Mother and eldest Son. Yet despite all that he holds onto his conviction, on his unwavering and unfettered belief on a racially equal Siuth Africa. Nelson Mandela sacrificed 27 years of his life at the expense of his marriage and his children, denied repeated attempts to be released early, if he denounced his protects and activism, and would have accepted death for his beliefs, the truest embodiment, of belief is the sacrifice of oneself, to continue the cause, a true believer I dont know, what South Africa is like today, if it has improved or not we can all be inspired by Nelson Mandela, and his idea of a rainbow nation, black, white, brown, coloured any race. R.I.P Nelsob Mandela 1918 - 2013 🇿🇦😂 I ❤Africa
This is one of the reasons he will always be a hero of mine. He could have absolutely gone the way of Guevara, but instead chose a very different path. One that other humanitarians can genuinely be proud to emulate. He brought change without bringing revolutionary violence and without becoming like the monsters he opposed. Many of us around the world despised Appartheid and its inexcusable violence. But he showed the way to defeat it.
Since you’ve done Mandela how about Bishop Desmond Tutu?
He who forgave Bikos killers
"A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a certain point, one can only fight fire with fire." - Nelson Mandela
I'm honestly torn. I feel both fighting fire with fire and fighting fire with love. Being oppressed and begging to be thought of as a person for so long is so exhausting, and when you're on the brink, it just seems so much easier to just say "eff it" and fight back, but at the same time, you become just as bad in a sense.
I don't want to associate with oppressors or people who are okay with oppressors, especially after trying for so long to reason and educate them and just say that I deserve to live, only to be met with hate and ridicule. Sometimes, it's just too much, and it reaches a breaking point. I know I should be better than the oppressors, but sometimes I just wonder "why are they allowed to be evil and full of hate, and I am told to be the bigger person and not fight back? Why do they get a pass? Why do they get to spread their hatred and evil without consequences?"
That's a great point
You can look at certain people with shame because of their poor behavior, but people tend to forget the next day. Then as soon as person B attacks back at person A, even with a good argument, person B is looked at like the crazy one!
This world is so inconsistent, backwards, hypocritical, and lacking of self-awareness. It's embarassing
Violence is seen by us so often as a flaw, an aberration, something to be avoided at all costs and condemned when it does occur. But we have the privilege - most of us, I don’t know where you’re from - of making these judgements from a place of privilege and safety. Freedom fighters throughout time have not had such luxury, and their oppressors had no qualms about meting out horrific violence on them, for the sake of keeping their hold on power secure.
“The end justifies the means” is not my point here, and moral relativism is something I have no truck with. That said, any regime or administration that seeks to make human beings less than human, needs to be opposed at every level. And if violence is the only means left open to those oppressed, that is the fault of the oppressor, and they reap that whirlwind.
The best we can do in the aftermath, is learn from history, sturdy the context of those events instead of just the events themselves, and seek never to see they happen again. That’s the only way we advance, the only way we grow as a species, and honor the dead by not forgetting them.
@@limeyndixie I get what you're saying, and it's why I'm so torn. I know this is going to sound silly, but I just finished watching Attack on Titan, and the entire theme of that anime is oppression and breaking the cycle of hatred and fear and war, and part of breaking that cycle is the oppressed literally fighting back.
Like, I understand me even thinking about this and thinking what I would do comes from a huge place of privilege. I completely understand that. I don't know what I would do when placed in a situation like so many people who are beaten down and oppressed. I don't know how I would go about fighting back.
I like to think I have an idea based on how I'm doing based in my country of America and how close we are to being run by dictators and Fascist policy holders, but that doesn't show me how I would act if Fascism fully took over and there were military police walking the streets literally killing people like in say Nazi Germany. I don't know how I would react in that situation, and I know not knowing that and talking like I do know, again, comes from a place of privilege, but I guess I like to have an optimistic outlook that maybe, one day, we as humans can break the cycle of hatred and fear and war without having to resort to violence in order to get that peace, because I fear if we use violence to get that peace, then that peace won't last, because eventually, someone will want to get revenge. That's my fear.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - The beloved country
5:05 - Chapter 2 - A poison system
8:50 - Chapter 3 - Fight the power
12:45 - Chapter 4 - The prisoner
16:00 - Chapter 5 - The regime unravels
20:05 - Chapter 6 - On the knife edge
This video brought me to tears. I live in South Africa 🇿🇦 and Nelson has been my hero. Thank you for this fantastic video
We could do with Madiba at the helm again. 🇿🇦
Bless your heart!🙏
MADIBA! how Africa loves him. Sadly his children are spoilt rotten embarrassing his name and his party
I hope as a south African we can fix this
It's messed up here rn but some day I know we can make things right
Yes, I am living in california and I am trying to let people know of things happening there bc I know we can do more to help but I still never hear people talking about it, like the slavery for example, the recent prison break, how lybia continues stealing people for their slavery, its a mess but people here are so in their own heads that they dont even know.
If you have anything you can share I would love that and thank you I hope we can make this even just slightly better.
@@apeiceofgarbage9848 I know you want to fix the problems of the world, which is lovely, but California really needs to fix their own problems first. No offense, but Cali is hell-hole now! Taxes are high, businesses are leaving, forests are burning, and riots are... well... you probably know this already... 😥😥😥
@@theparadigm8149 yeah but i cant do anything about that because im living here and im to young to leave, to much power here, no one would litsen to a 13 year old girl. But thank you I agree
@@apeiceofgarbage9848 thanks for the concern. Just make sure to understand that Africa is a very large place. Some African countries are closer to, in distance, America than to South Africa.
You should do a video on Egypt’s Nasser, he was a very interesting man
Under ottoman control or British control
Also, Sir Anthony Eden. He hated Nasser with a burning passion, and went to war illegally over it.
You mentioned no casualties from the bombings, maybe look up the Church Street bombing in Pretoria, just to name one example
Church Street bomb happened in 1984. He went to prison in 1964.
Based! Well done Mendela
All hail Simon, the master of TH-cam information.... and his slave army led by Danny, King of the basement.
Slave Army? Probably not the best video to say something so stupid. 🤔
@@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat you're the one conflating apartheid in South Africa with the slave trade...
@@TheRandomGuyTheFarNoGameCat Way to totally miss the injoke :D Also apartheid =/= slavery, so the comment make no sense. I don't see why you'd want to draw that parallel, are you american? Most south africans are not and have never been slaves, I find it a bit insulting to inject your own social issues on another country, tbh.
Amazing job Biographics.
For recent passings, bio on Sean Connery and Alex Trebek. Also, as his 250th birthday is happening this December, bio on Ludwig van Beethoven?
Yes, all great recommendations!
All of these please
I visited the house Beethoven was born in, in Bonn last month
If you do Nelson Mandela then I think you should do the "Bush War"
Interesting topic. I've been reading a lot about African history most recently the Bush war and the Congo in the 60s.
Why?
@@quincyquincy4764 can't ever forget the tragedy of rhodesia from the breadbasket of africa to starvation purely due to incompetent leadership after an unjust transition of power
@@MajesticSkywhale you seem nostalgic to the apartheid system. Is that true?
@@quincyquincy4764 in rhodesia blacks had access to the same things whites did
It's admirable how he wasn't bitter after how badly he was treated for decades. RIP
He was never badly treated
@@jeffslote9671 You are a fool!
We was. Tho, his party obliterated South Africa, and it still to this day has not recovered. It's one of the most violent, corrupt, and poorest countries in the world. The government sponsors violence against the white population of the country. And they are allied with Putin in BRICS. This man was a communist authoritarian and a blood thirsty murderer. Calling Nelson Mendenhall a hero is the greatest piece of propaganda of the 20th century
Need to do a Steve Biko Bio
Some sugestions, all of which are latin american dictators: Alfredo Stroessner, Jorge Rafael Videla, Alberto Fujimori
I’d like to see something on Trujillio
Does cuba fall in your latin american world?
Aberto fujimori was not a dictator he was the president of the contry Peru
@@henrygrootenify yes
@@Arias21JL maybe not a dictator but highly corrupt and used lots of violence
I’m so excited to see this post! I made many requests for Nelson Mandela! Thank you!
Winnie got a few men hot under the collar. RIP SA.
Had been waiting for a while for this one. Thanks Simon
The world needs someone like Nelson Mandela more than ever now.
I don't really agree with that. Some of his views really aren't that great. It's the same with Martin Luther King, if you look at his views objectively, not all of them are that great. But "we" choose to focus on a very narrow window of history which paint certain people in a positive light.
The best example of this is "Mother Theresa". She was an absolutely barbaric and evil person, but people see her as a saint. Look up "house of the dying" for some horrific stories. The same goes for the views of the aforementioned people, just look them up, and you'll find out not all of them are that great.
@@nightfly4664 are you seriously comparing Mandela to someone who purposely allowed the poor and sick to suffer? Please, tell me more.
Hero ! Bullocks, go ask South African farmers about the legacy of the Hero 👎💩
The whole world is literally justifying these BRUTAL farm murders because of Apartheid. It is now normalized to torture people to death. To steal, rape, corrupt.
To rape elderly women & to leave them for death. Beat the elderly & leave them for death. It's all okay!! Because Apartheid...
An eye for an eye...
@Freddy Douglas lol ✌🏻️
Did you just glorify terrorism and the refusal to renounce violence, which lead to post-Apartheid South Africa: the single most violent and unempoyable country on earth?
Look up necklacing
SA is in shambles.
Look up ku Klux Klan. Neo Nazi , white supremacist, American cities are in shambles, yes go look further at Hitler, Franco , Mussolini, there have been many European fail States, the West did not achieve the governments they now have instantly. It took hundreds of years, let the people of South African make mistakes , they will learn. You see shambles because you miss your racist government.
@@noveltycandles5231 lol you have no idea what ur talking sbout
@@meharmann4328 oh sure lol you're so correct, I don't lol, you are the only one with the facts, I was being sarcastic , about America being in shambles , please teach me, wasn't Russia behind for centuries. Didn't Europeans fight for hundreds of years. But wait , I supposed if you alone have the facts and you know every thing. What's the point. I say bring back the killing of black south Africans. Bombing of black townships. Assassination of persons like steve Biko, I stop there kill all other ethic groups and create your white heaven.
@@noveltycandles5231 one evil does not justify another. It creates a cycle of revenge and hate.
@@ham-mantheman-ham634 I think you are preaching to the choir and missing the point. In fact you are simplifying the issue. The original statement was look up necklaces, my point is not a justification of Mandela or the ANC actions. But to highlight that there was war on a people , who having failed to convince the colonizers of a peaceful solution, used violence. Now despite your response, you are very aware that all independent nations had to fight to attend thier rights. Power does not concede without pressure. Non whites must not respond to white oppression. They must turn the other cheek. This was war, and they did what was necessary, they won't the aggressors, they were the defenders of their land , from racist invaders.
Finally they talk about Africa..reminds me of those days of complaining..please do more ..you also have an African audience too !!!!!
Do Steve Biko next. He is credited for starting the end of Apartheid. He's one of the greatest martyrs in the 20th century.
Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom
YES!
Since you're discussing a South African figure, any chance at a Shaka Zulu vid in the future??
The world is a sadder place without Nelson Mandela.
Can you please do:
Henry VIII: The Tyrannical Tudor King
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
Episode of the head of the stasi in East germany Erich Mielke.
This one is a long time coming even though I might disagree with some of mandalas opinions but I do agree with his fight for freedom and rights for all but sadly South Africa is more divided that ever constant farm attacks on white farmers and the riots in the city’s which are against other people who emigrated to South Africa.
It's really sad
I hope someday us south Africans can come together with all our differences and this
We've done many wrong things against each other and we have to end it
South Africa's more divided than ever?? You have to be joking. I can tell that you've been watching a lot of those far-right propaganda videos cause you're using those same talking points.
@@mrmcgraw3706 It's ironic of you to call me dumb when it doesn't take a genius to look up farm attack statistics from reliable sources. Farm murders are an act of criminality and don't just affect white farmers but also affect black and other non-white farmers the only reason why white farmers make up the majority of those murders is because there aren't that many non-white farmers. South Africa has a high crime rate and over 20 000 people are murdered yearly, how many of those murders are farmers? Only 57. If the farm murders are racially motivated then why are there 9 non-white farm workers murdered yearly? You're misrepresenting the truth, do farm attacks happen? Yes they do, are they racially motivated, there's no evidence to prove that especially when non-white farmers are affected
@@mrmcgraw3706 really? coz from the official stats, white farmers are being killed at a rate BELOW the national average. Most of the attacks have NO clear indication of racial influence. In fact, a significant portion of the victims of these farm attacks aren't even white. Taxi drivers are killed at rates several orders of magnitude above those of white farmers... and they're not even the worst affected demographic... You look into security guards, police officers, etc. You'd be shocked, but you never hear anything about them coz most of them just aren't pale enough to catch your attention.
we average +/- 60 farm murders a year in RSA, and that number has gone down DRASTICALLY from the previous decades. But again, you won't know that because your right-wing echo chambers are too think-walled to allow facts to break through.
@Emil there has never been a correlation that showed that singing struggle-era songs influenced attacks on white people. People sang about all sorts of thing during the struggle. They also song about killing double agents, or people they accused of being apartheid sympathizers. How come none of you are making these sorts of correlations to black people being killed at the highest rates of any demographic in RSA? There's nothing truthful about being far-right, selectively truthful is the term you were looking for.
Video suggestions: Francisco Nguema, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Mobutu Sese Seko, Thomas Sankara, Ousmane Sembene, Pelé, Shaka Zulu.
"A brave and wise man, Nelson Mandela always fought for his beliefs, but at the same time remained a great humanist and a peacemaker,"
-Vladimir Putin
"Rolihlalha," meaning "trouble maker"
Good trouble, as Rep. John R. Lewis would say.
Biographics:
Machado de Assis
Ayrton Senna
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Salvador Arena
Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca
Dom Pedro II
From RSA this was very well done
Have a look into Steve biko too
He got into jail for terrorism
“Terrorism” governed by the state who despised him
that was an amazing video simon, beautifully delivered, and the script writer deserves a hell of a pat on the back.
Some suggestions:
1. Constantine XI Palaiologos
2. Suleiman the Magnificent
3. Margret Thatcher
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Sargon of Akkad
Carl Benjamin isn’t that well known
@@JonMI6 dont do my ancient man like that ;(
@John Higgins and others aren’t?
In the near future? Desmond Tutu?
Just to be clear, irrespective of the good he did later on, he was not a political prisoner. He was imprisoned for terrorism and planting bombs, not for political reasons. Up until then, the ANC was not banned yet.
This is literally a feel good story about the death of a nation.
The death of a negative nation and the birth of a positive one with as few a deaths as possible thanks to one man is a pretty feel good story, at least in my opinion
@@sarahfowler3217 you mean a country on the brink of Civil War and genocide
@@needsmetal Lol It was on the brink of Civil war *before* 1994. SA has been in a slow motion French Revolution since 1976. The currency lost as much value in the 25 years before 1994 as it did in the 25 years after 1994.
Half the urban population was in slums in 1990. It's under 20% now.
The current government is corrupt, but it's certainly no absolution of the previous government. Far from it. And often the people involved in the corruption back then are literally the same crowd colluding with the ANC today.
Which is all that BEE is: Collusion of the old white guard and the new black elite.
Apartheid yay!
@@sarahfowler3217 lol...Nelson's wife is a lovely lady too, right?
Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)
Yes!
Should have highlighted the war crimes that he was into as well. Necklacing is horrific.
What does that have to do with him? He'd been in jail for 20 years when the first necklacing happened.
@@agrid2608 the man built IEDs that killed at least 19 people for starters...
“I do not deny that I planned sabotage,” Mandela told the court at his trial. “I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by whites.”
He wasn't an irrational person. He convinced himself that he should do the things he did. It was intentional. He believed that he was qualified to pick and choose who should die.
He was close with Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, and Sani Abacha...
I'll assume you didn't know these things.
@@derptothemaxclearly lol notice how you don't answer and start randomly talking about something else. So much for the *necklacing* !
Mandela's bombs were for infrastructure sabotage. (energy pylons, post offices at night) The lethal bombings happened by other people when he was in prison particularly in the 1980s.
It's why there were no charges of murder, but rather the charge of " the preparation and use of explosives for the purposes of sabotage"
I''ll assume you didn't know these things.
@@agrid2608 ah sorry I wasn't clear enough. I meant to say that I find it disturbing that you'd come to his defense let alone side step the lives he took. If you believe it was the right thing to do, I'd encourag you to speak with a counselor. Ask them, "If I'm being objectively oppressed and made to suffer, is it ok to kill a minimum of 19 people and inflict damage to the understructure of my country?" Please come back to us here and let us know what the councilor said in reply.
@@derptothemaxclearly lol or you can admit you lied. Maybe you should see a shrink to determine why your ego might lead you of on a babbling tangent, rather than admitting that your statement was factually incorrect.
I look at the almost 200 dislikes & think why?? I also despair of the fact that there is such hate out there...
Yep but love him or hate him Nelson Mandela will always be the champion of South Africa 🇿🇦.. generations will come generations will go but his name will always be remembered FOREVER.
Next up, please do Martin McGuinness.
He more than warrants an episode -
“In the name of Jesus of Galilee and Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is only appropriate that on this occasion we fondly remember Martin McGuinness, a man of Derry, a passionate man, a commander in the Irish Republican Army who fought with everything he had for his people, but who also, like Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in South Africa, had the capacity to transform himself and the IRA’s political arm, Sinn Fein, into instruments of peace and reconciliation after decades of warfare known as The Troubles,” said Rev. Jackson.
Preach!
Amen
A global hero indeed! Viva Mandela. I think all of South Africa is so thankful for his struggle and leadership. He and de klerk worked tirelessly to prevent a civil war from taking place. If only the country's current leadership could keep Mandela's visiona and wisdom in mind... It saddens me to see so many negative comments about Mandela from other South Africans. Unfortnately, Mandela's vison of a happy rainbow nation is still an illusion... But most of us, especially young people, are working hard to correct the social consequences caused by apartheid. The struggle never really ended...
Thank you - this was very well done. Living in South Africa I appreciate how balanced and contextual the script was, very well delivered and senstive too - for he was a hero to many. For Geographics it would be pretty interesting to cover some SA topics too - Kruger National Park, Vredefort Dome, Boesmansgat and perhaps the super deep gold mining. Many intersting potential topics. Also the Namib desert in Namibia would be awesome. Plenty of historical figures in SA - Shaka Zulu for example.
That's very true. I would like to add Helen Suzman to your list though, since even Mandela himself praised her and what she tried to do to end Apartheid from within parliament.
How many people did he and Winnie have "Necklaced"?
Yeah the look on their faces was of deep disbelief to what is happening to them! It deserves a painting.
He was never involved with necklacing. Only Winnie was alleged to have done that ...Don't insult the legacy of Nelson Mandela by making false accusations
@@kaybee1996 sa going from nuclear power to shitthole is his legacy
Mandela wasn't a perfect man. He did take part in the dismantling of a racist regime. I am sorry the ANC is now a corrupt government.
How many children did the south African SS "police" murder?
Suggestion: St. Catherine of Siena
I think it is a bit odd, that you don't bring up that Winnie Mandela endorsed the practice of necklacing. Were tires filled with petrol were used to kill people. The bodyguards of Winnie used necklacing against a 14 year old black south-african boy named Stompie Seipei. They thaught he was a traitor. I understand that even these things need to be seen in context, but it is important to tell every part of the history.
AKA: The Colombian Necktie
I thought this video was about “Nelson Mandela”?
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion”
Nelson Mandela
Lol. Ironic coming from a man who often sang songs about how we should murder the "boer".
its actually not true, its a survival mechanism
Very disappointed at some of the factual errors you made in some of the most crucial moments of this history. For example you said that rubber bullets were used against protesting students, but then you weren't on to use the famous picture of a dead young boy from those protests. In fact, over a thousand students were shot dead during the 1976 uprisings.
He ruined south afrika....
how did he do that?
Question: does Simon has a family and if so does he speak to them or see them at all?
He has a wife and baby daughter.
@@--enyo-- but does he see them with all his youtube channels and the time those consume
One of my uncles was a student at Vaal Tech in the 90's. His home was less than 3 kms away from the college but the political violence was so horrible, he lived on campus so no one would follow him home,as his mom was a secretary of the local ANC and there was an ongoing power struggle between the IFP(another party),I think, and the ANC. It was so bad that my dad,who lived in Johannesburg since 1988,never visited him. The area was that dangerous.
I hate to be that guy, but black people are the only people not allowed to be violent even though they are the victims of violence. imagine ukraine being judged for reacting out of violence....that's every black man around the world it's sad how the never ending onion of racism still brings tears to my eyes
It would be intersting to see a biography on F.W. de Klerk
Please do an episode on The Mad Queen of Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona i
You forgot to add that he also has a conspiracy named after him also, "The Mandela effect".
First thing i thought of too. I swear mandela died in prison!
@@brett4264 your tinfoil hat is crooked
Can't Wait To see your doing Ante Pavelić
Mandiba was a man in a million. His book , the long walk to freedom is a must read. I hope that one day, South Africa can honour his memory with change for good.
South Africa is fucked because of this man's regime.
Though I guess beggars can't be choosers. It's not like there was a libertarian opposition to the Apartheid government.
@Vox Populi☭ Ah yes the libertarian capitalists that nationalized half our industries, engaged in foreign wars, and implemented curfews. Not sure you understand what either Libertarianism or Capitalism is, friend.
@Vox Populi☭ The Apartheid regime was socialist. Problem is it was mainly socialist for a small minority. But their socialism on the back of the black labour and land differential provided white South Africans with some of the highest standards of living in the world.
Most whites had been dirt poor at the beginning of the century. They urbanized in large numbers around the same time as the blacks, which is the economic friction that would lead to Apartheid.
@Vox Populi☭ that's Communism. Socialist government policies include social provision and centralized job creation and subsidization. The Apartheid government was quite socialist for the Afrikaner minority.
@Vox Populi☭ Communism is the *theoretical* goal of socialism. The individual policies you implement in the mean time are......socialist. (e.g socialized welfare, or state job creation)
The man behind the Mandele effect
Finally someone I suggested. So Simon does read my comments. It is matter of time we get Biographics on Atatürk. Tomorrow is going to be 82nd year after his passing.
I'm Australian and I love that idea
This is inscribed on The Kemal Atatürk Memorial, which is a memorial directly opposite the Australian War Memorial on Anzac Parade, the principal memorial and ceremonial parade in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The inscription, attributed to Atatürk, pays tribute to his former foes and reflects his understanding of the cost of war:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
Could you do one on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?
While he was a freedom fighter his wife was actually a tyrant.
Perhaps Simon has a twin sibling we don't know about and who is helping him make videos. Or perhaps he has a time machine like the one Hermione uses in The Prisoner of Azkaban to keep up with his other channels
He has multiple writers and i think people overestimate how long it takes to record a 20-30m talk, and we can assume from the frequent errors, misspeaks, audio bugs, etc that he doesn't do a lot of retakes.
Then its just a case of sending the data to the editor.
I reckon Simon spends between 2-4hrs of his time on each video, this includes pre-reading the script, setting up lighting and audio and recording
He doesn't own all the channels as well for some he is just a narrator
Lots of soft reactionaries in the comments lmao
Don't forget to mention Necklacing. Nothing says hero as someone burning those with opposing views alive.
🆓 palistine
What does that have to do with him? He was in prison when the "people's war" kicked off in 1984. I don't think he had much control over the streets of Johannesburg, a thousand miles away from Robben Island.
dude do you lnow anything about what you're saying he didn't ever call for violence...he spoke out against it and at the time that was happening he was in prison OPEN A HISTOY BOOK
@@agrid2608 Speaking like this only happened during his prison time. Keep denying reality and reality will eventually knock on your door.
@@YeeLeeHaw lol Sure tell us about your freemason conspiracy. It literally started in the eighties NOT the sixties when he went in.
I need a video about grim realities of life in apartheid South Africa.
That would be a good topic.
@@ding1466 i forgot others like nazi gemany, imperial Japan, dark ages, inquisition and mongol empire.
That's it. 😁✊
Followed by a video of the grim realities of living in a post apartheid South Africa. Rape Capital of the world, 5th most dangerous country in the world. Extreme poverty, record high unemployment, government corruption etc etc etc.
@@matto6195 I love how everyone has an opinion until they cant refute a counterpoint. Well done😁
Your channels are amazing! Thank you for the constant content you provide.
Would you do a Biographics on Steven Biko? And Peter Gabriel?
Nelson image should be held responsible of the damaged South Africa we have today ....
@Freddy Douglas failed attempt at being relevant...
80 Years later and alex looks the same, mandela is just another che guevara.
Not really.
You need to do bio of Winnie Mandela, she was a nasty woman!
Could you make a video explaining why South Africa today has more rape, murder, and violence against women than any other country on Earth? I'm genuinely curious as to what went wrong.
Generational poverty. Granting equal rights doesn’t erase the economic consequences of colonization and apartheid. So monetary investment into the infrastructure and wealth of the bottom 80% of the country needs to happen.
But South Africa doesn’t have more rape, murder, and violence against women than any other country on earth. You just made that up. Also you asked “what went wrong?” as if these issues weren’t worse decades before.
Hyperbole, thy name is Bass Roulette.
@@Ruosteinenknight I guess next time I'll just smile, nod my head, and remember that asking difficult questions about touchy subjects is not ok
@@trevor5666 thank you for the thoughtful reply, I appreciate the perspective!
The greatest sell out in African history
Gay
A neo liberal sellout
Could you do one on Rwanda and their government ?
Thank you Simon for this beautiful video that spoke magnificently of South Africa's greatest icon
Global Hero? Who says that?
Quite a few people, apparently. I can only imagine the kind of echo chamber you've been in if you're that shocked people don't see things the way you do.
@@Zorrent12 will I became a global hero if bombed buses full of kids?
He's recognised as a hero around the world, a household name.
Have you even watched the video?
propagandists
@@needsmetal That sounds like an interesting story. Wanna give everyone the specifics?
I swear you already uploaded one on Mandela, or maybe he has that effect
from RSA, you did well Simon.
he was a terrorist , not an hero in my book
@Freddy Douglas did I insult him ????? how do you know I am not black ????? if he was a hero to you fair enough , its how you see him I don't ...
Why was he a terrorist to you?
For the record, I'd still ask you this question if you were black.
Fast forward: South Africa barely a 2nd world country.
That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric. (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)
@Movies and Games lol that's your logic. Population growth?
Alcohol abuse has always been the worst. And if you want to know why how about you use google to learn some history about the Dop system among other things.They literally used to pay people with alcohol.
Or did you think alcoholism miraculously started in 1994??
All the facts above are from the Free Market Foundation, no fan of govt.
You seem to think that deflecting with "google current problems still" changes anything about the fact that people are materially better off today than they were.
Or did you get lost in what this thread is about...
Electrification:
1994: 36%
2019: over 90%
Employment DEPENDENCY ratio:
1994: 380
2019: 251
For every shack built post 94, 10 formal houses have been built.
In 1998: 340 people dependent on every nurse.
In 2019: 194 people dependent on every nurse.
In 1991: 44 white engineering graduates for every ONE black one.
Today there are twice as many black engineering graduates as white ones (white number having grown too.)
In 1990 half the urban population was in slum.
In 2019 it's down to 20% despite massive urbanization and mass-migration over the last 30 years.
In 2001 18% of the SA population was in multi-dimensional poverty.
In 2019 6% were multi-dimensionally poor.
Fact: whatever it is, it's better than pre-94.
@Nasdaq trader lol You can use whatever alternate user profile you like "Mr Google".
Any nation in an economic downturn in 2019 would show up on a "list".
*You still seem lost.*
The thread was comparing pre-94 to today.
Any negative you find today was doubly true pre 94.
Still cannot refute this can you:
Electrification:
1994: 36%
2019: over 90%
Employment DEPENDENCY ratio:
1994: 380
2019: 251
For every shack built post 94, 10 formal houses have been built.
In 1998: 340 people dependent on every nurse.
In 2019: 194 people dependent on every nurse.
In 1991: 44 white engineering graduates for every ONE black one.
Today there are twice as many black engineering graduates as white ones (white number having grown too.)
In 1990 half the urban population was in slum.
In 2019 it's down to 20% despite massive urbanization and mass-migration over the last 30 years.
In 2001 18% of the SA population was in multi-dimensional poverty.
In 2019 6% were multi-dimensionally poor.
Fact: whatever it is, it's better than pre-94.
Again: You seem to think that deflecting with "google current problems still" changes anything about the fact that people are materially better off today than they were.
PS the fact that you think a handful of listed corporations profiting of feudal near-slave labour meant anything good for the actual people of SA is hilarious.
@Nasdaq trader lol you're still lost "Mr Google"
At some point you're going to have to realize you're on the wrong thread and you don't have an answer.
[ *That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric.* (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)]
This is what you're responding to.
You cannot get around it can you?
Do you want to ramble on some more, Mr Google?
@Nasdaq trader Still lost, Mr Google.
Though now I can see now you're most likely delusional.
Though I have to say your last comment was really amusing again:
Literally every supposed metric was wrong.
Exhibit A: Several universities were built and several existing university systems greatly extended.
Exhibit B: The twenty most dangerous cities
1 Tijuana Mexico
2 Juárez Mexico
3 Uruapan Mexico
4 Irapuat Mexico
5 Obregón Mexico
6 Caracas Venezuela
7 Acapulco Mexico
8 Cape Town SA
(gangs confined to 7 precincts on the remote Cape flats that's been there for half a century now)
9 St. Louis United States
10 Vitória da Conquista Brazil
11 Baltimore United States
12 Ciudad Guayana Venezuela
13 Kingston Jamaica
14 Feira de Santana Brazil
15 San Pedro Sula Honduras
16 San Juan United States
17 Ensenada Mexico
18 Ciudad Bolívar Venezuela
19 Cuernavaca Mexico
20 Celaya Mexico
Exhibit C) Electricity wasn't cheap, it was non-existent. Only 36% was even electrified.
...I could go on: the same is literally true for literally every supposed metric of yours.
So if you're going to be:
a) neither factually accurate and
b) not even relevant to the fact that you still seem completely unable to get around the fact that life is better for millions of people by any social metric then the question really remains are you drunk or just too embarrassed to admit that your rambling is completely aside from the substance of the thread.. which remains a simple FACT:
[ *That would be an improvement from what it was pre-94. By any sensible social metric.* (whether electrification, piped water, access to schooling, or the numbers in urban slums: half in 1990, less than 20% now)]
A fact you cannot get around! ...And responded to with irrelevancies.
You can ramble and you'll still end up at the same spot of irrelevance to the facts above.
3:44 "he excelled at boxing..." 😂 His boxing record was 18 Matches, 0 wins, 16 Losses, 1 draw, 1 walkover 🤣 Mandela was many things, but an excellent boxer is none of them
Nelson did what the Algerians both Europeans and North Africans couldn't do, a reconciliation to start over United in one nation. however the french and arab nationalists and the bloodshed was to extreme and immense to overcome. Mandela always makes a reference in any paper discussing the Algerian war and independence and how it would ve be like today if both sides worked together.
@Balmung Barbossa everyone knows that he failed his country when it comes to economic issues and it not something unknown! Islamists curse Kamal Ata Turk for destroying the Islamic identity of Turkey but he still the founder and the hero of the country and his Islamist enemies can't take that away from him.
The pronounciation was the best part 🤣🤣🤣
Patrice Lumumba should be next
I'm guessing you never visited the homelands did you?
If only his followers had the same idea he had.... SA is a festering ass pimple at the moment. Pity how quickly things went down the shitter after he left. RIP
If he had stayed for a second term, things would've been much better.
Great coverage.
Much more than I expected, and a great conclusion.
Please do the Mad Baron- Roman Von Ungern Sternberg
While nelson Mandela wasnt a perfect human being I'm sure we all know this but I'd argue he is probably one of the best leaders in the world
Please do videos on...
1. Geronimo
2. Sir Francis Drake
3. Tokugawa Ieyasu
4. Captain Kidd
5. Jose Rizal
My Uncle said, He went to South Africa in the 70’s by his international business. He was given a “TEMPORARY WHITE MANS CARD?” Did such a thing exist?
Yes, apparently Japanese and Taiwan were also considered Honoury whites because they were friendly to South Africa
As a Person who was born in Africa, and moved to USA in 90s, People just dont understand how BIG TO PEOPLE iN Africa and Around the world Mandela was, He was pretty much a living hero and force of nature. Nelson Mandela is basically Africans Abraham Lincoln.
Can you do a video on Shaka Zulu
This is my new all time favorite one of your videos. Your an amazing person and teacher. I thank you sincerely for all you do to help spread these amazing teachings of history thank you Simon
122 dislike..well dang stay salty. The world isnt just Germany. Europe and America. We have Africa. We have Asia. We have South America. Turns out earth is a big place with alot of cool people in History 😊👍
Germany is most definitely part of Europe...
they all salty trump supports lol
@@jamessutton7335
@@jamessutton7335 I know that.
please make a BIOGRPAHICS EPISODE of ; willem van oranje (William of Orange) is known as the founding father and hero of The Netherlands. he made his fame when he led the Dutch uprising against the rule of the Spanish Habsburg,
The uprise led to the 80-year war (1568-1648) between the Dutch states and Spain
There is a English page on wikipedia "William the Silent" that's his nickname
P.S. i was watching the other channels videos ;-) and thats why i posted 1 hour later
I’m actually watching this because I listened to “to pimp a butterfly” yes, you heard that right, straight from a white boy who wasn’t taught this in Christian school lmao
Nelson Mandela, a man who deserves to be remembered, not just being a part of Sourh African history, or African History, but world history, I-m sure people have drawn strength and continue to draw strength and even quote him to this day. He put up with great injustices, imprisoned on trumped up charges, doing back breaking labour, and being denied to attend the funeral of his Mother and eldest Son. Yet despite all that he holds onto his conviction, on his unwavering and unfettered belief on a racially equal Siuth Africa. Nelson Mandela sacrificed 27 years of his life at the expense of his marriage and his children, denied repeated attempts to be released early, if he denounced his protects and activism, and would have accepted death for his beliefs, the truest embodiment, of belief is the sacrifice of oneself, to continue the cause, a true believer I dont know, what South Africa is like today, if it has improved or not we can all be inspired by Nelson Mandela, and his idea of a rainbow nation, black, white, brown, coloured any race. R.I.P Nelsob Mandela 1918 - 2013 🇿🇦😂 I ❤Africa
This is one of the reasons he will always be a hero of mine. He could have absolutely gone the way of Guevara, but instead chose a very different path. One that other humanitarians can genuinely be proud to emulate. He brought change without bringing revolutionary violence and without becoming like the monsters he opposed. Many of us around the world despised Appartheid and its inexcusable violence. But he showed the way to defeat it.
Make a video on " Mr been " next
Mr. Bean?