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hi guys
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let's talk about the tribes of
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south africa many people know about
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south africa and perhaps know about the
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most
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famous uh tribe of south africa
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which is the zulus but
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there are other nine or ten
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also other tribes and today
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i'm just gonna go through them
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and if you do not know much about the
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tribes of south africa
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by the end of this video short video i'm
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gonna try and make it as
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short as possible you would have learned
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something
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the first tribe is of course the zulus
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the most famous warriors of southern
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africa
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as the british they will tell you
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this is the largest tribe in south
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africa
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and the most prominent and
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the most famous
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but of course there are other tribes as
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i said
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before and then we have
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uh the quesan the oldest
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tribe in the world as scientists say
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i don't know but scientists say that
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they say they are the oldest tribe in
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in the world all i know is they are the
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oldest tribe in
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southern africa in south africa botswana
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namibia
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and um actually there is no
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uh uh this question thing
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there is no tribe called the queen it's
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just a word that was coined by the breed
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not just the british uh let me say
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europeans when they came here
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uh they just uh uh
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combined uh names of two tribes and
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uh make it one they called them one
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tribe but
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really those were two different tribes
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uh although their languages as
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sounded the same and they look the same
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and interestingly
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this is uh where most uh
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black south africans get their light
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skin from
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and as you will see this tribe is mostly
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light skinned
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uh although they are not mixed with
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europeans or asians at all
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as you see the hair type is
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different uh from any that you've seen
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this is where you'll see even most black
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south africans their hair is this type
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um it's not like the type of
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hair you will see from west african
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ghanaians kenyans in the east
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their hair is totally different
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and and
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also uh as you can see there as i was
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saying
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you'll see most black south african hair
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is like this
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also and uh they're also very small
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in size and that's where also i'd say
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most south african um especially those
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who are mixed with the coincidence a lot
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the tuanas the sotos you realize they
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are
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most of them are small in size and
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this is as i'll say this is where
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uh during that the genetic mixing with
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the cuisine that's
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how uh they got uh
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so small in size
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and um uh the question i can actually
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make it
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totally different video about them we
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can
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talk in an hour about uh who are the
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questions
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which tribes were classified as a
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coincidence
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and so on and so on and then you have
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the closer
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tribe who already said their click
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language is borrows a lot from their
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question languages
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then you have the africana
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tribe i think it's just 180
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many people might disagree with me but
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africana
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are really now the tri tribe of south
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africa i believe
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because they are not like the dutch they
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are not like the
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english they are not like the french
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they have uh developed their own
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culture and language that is unique to
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south africa growing of course
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largely from dutch german
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french flemish and some words from
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malaysian obviously from the indonesian
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and malaysian
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slaves who that were brought to cape
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town
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and in my opinion they are a tribe
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of south africa
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next is the sutures the south southwest
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not the south sudan
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the south uh they are the mountain
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people who live
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in the mountains mainly but
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they are not really a part where they
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live
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isn't really a part of south africa it's
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a sovereign state
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but that's a long topic that we will
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talk about
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some other day and then we have
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the southerner south african
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indians who are
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just indians who came here first
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in uh in the 1800s
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uh brought by the british
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they were not all slaves you know some
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were slaves to work
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in the sugar canes but others really
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were
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just businessmen or
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who came to sell
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stuff food products supplies
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to the indians who were slaves in those
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times so there's this misconception that
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all south african indians
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came to south africa as
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slaves but that's not true of course
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certain number of them did but some were
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really just a businessman
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and the south african indians are just
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indians they still
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really i cannot they as as i've realized
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indians are around the world
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they they are really it's really really
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hard for them to assimilate
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into any country they are into they
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still keep their culture
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and uh keep their customs
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keep their religion for the most part
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and really
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it's it will just be the language like
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uh like maybe
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the south african languages oh yes the
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south african indians obviously don't
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speak the languages from india hindi and
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all the others but
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other than the language they are
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usually just normal indians for the most
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part
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and then the swazi people who
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are who i can say also where they live
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swaziland or eswatini now
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is not really part of south africa
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but the tribe is south african is uh
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related
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to the other tribes in south africa as i
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will try and
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briefly explain later
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there's a swazi man there and i think
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there's a king
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swazi king there also next
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is the tuana people uh
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who are another prominent tribe in south
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africa
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uh they go all
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through to botswana and they are also
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related to the coincidence
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in many especially in looks not so much
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in language
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but that can be a topic
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we'll talk about some other day i
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promise it would be a long topic
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and then we have the colors
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the mix race uh people of south africa
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of course some people might ask how are
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mixed rate makes race people a tribe
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not a part of the black community or
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for some who choose part of their white
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community
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there's a long story to this and
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which can be this
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subject of an entirely uh different
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video
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but um the mixed race
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uh people of south africa have been
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were organized and coalesced into
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communities
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in order to become one
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community you know so that's a
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long story actually but
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i cannot say there are they you cannot
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say they are zulu or they are tosser
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because most of them
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will have mixed race parents both
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parents are mixed race
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and those parents have mixed race
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parents
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so you understand ego it goes all the
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way back
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to maybe the late 1800s
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when white people decided that they were
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gonna
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take uh all mixed race
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kids from black people and
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and then that's where it started but
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like i said this is a
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long story um that
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i can make an entire video
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about but of course there are other
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mixed race people who do not want to be
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classified or who do not want to be
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called colors
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but as most of them especially those
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from cape town
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are very happy to be classified as
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colored
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and then we have the paddy or the not so
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too
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tribe uh most people call them
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pedi but actually patties are just a sub
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tribe of the nosotro tribe because we
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have
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within the north soto tribes you have
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the penny
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and then we have the baluberu
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and then all other tribes there so
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uh uh they are
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related to the sutures and the twanas as
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i i'll try and
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add that later on how how does that work
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out
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and this is one of the
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tribes that live in the same area as the
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vendors
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in the northern part of south africa
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and then the vendor tribe from the
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northernmost part of south africa close
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to the
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zimbabwean border this is
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a tribe that i respect a lot a small
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tribe
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i think they are the most educated tribe
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in south africa
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and very humble very smart uh
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very hard working and when i was in the
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military
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some years ago i know how strong they
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also are
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you know i can say they are also some of
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the biggest
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size in south africa in size
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i think sometimes some people might
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mistake them for west africans but
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they're not west african
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but if you don't know them you might
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think that west african girls most of
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them are big
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and uh they are also the smartest
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i don't i think anybody who studied in a
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south african university will agree
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that most of them are very smart and
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hard-working
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then the in the ballad tribe which is
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sometimes in zimbabwe uh
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but from south africa as well
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and how they got to zimbabwe it will be
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can be another video also that we can
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talk about one day
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but uh they are a well-known tribe in
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saturn
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and the tonga tribe personally i have
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not met anybody who is stronger
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and i cannot even maybe if they talk up
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i will not tell you
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that that person is talking song
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i only know some famous people maybe
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who's that lady who uh sings
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some south african lady who who's a
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musician
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she's stronger i don't remember her name
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but it's not a big tribe it's a small
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tribe along the border of
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mozambique i think the origins are
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mozambican
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but personally are not gonna lie i have
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not
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personally met anybody who was stronger
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even when i was in south africa
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i did not meet anybody even in school
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university
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i never met anybody
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now let's talk about uh south african
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tribes in terms of areas or provinces
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where they are
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originally from of course it will they
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will not
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be just from that area but originally or
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pronoun predominantly they will be from
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that area
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um the zolos of course are from the
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uh guazulu natal province which is
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here this is where most of them are
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originally of course they will spill
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over
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in the neighboring provinces
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but of course a significant a number of
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them are in this province the
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khaotem province where which it is
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which is the economical powerhouse
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of all other of all provinces and uh
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people will go here for for jobs this is
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where their mines are
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and big industries are so obviously
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all other people will move here to you
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know
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get employment and make some money so
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this is where
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the zulus are and then
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the the swatis
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they are from this area mostly which is
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currently not
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um part of south africa but
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uh this area this province
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is predominantly uh
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swazi because it is close to this
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country which bylaw is a country but
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it's not really a country
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yeah and then the sotus
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come from here like i said earlier this
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is the monuments
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area in south africa which is a
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sovereign
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state of its own and the socials come
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from here mostly
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but this entire province is uh
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where the sutures come from the free
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state province
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uh you will find sothosia of course not
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only sotos
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but um other
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tribes as well but uh majority of people
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will be
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sotos and of course they will spill over
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here
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and and the neighboring provinces of
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course
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but predominantly they come from here
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and the tuana uh tribe
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who uh where this this area is botswana
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who
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originally come from botswana but
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uh this province here is predominantly
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swanna and this province here
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is also predominantly tuana
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of course there are other tribes but
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mostly
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african tribes who live here uh artswana
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and then uh the corsa
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mostly come from this province the
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eastern cay province
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although there are clusters all over the
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country
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but mostly they come from this province
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and then also a significant
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a number of them uh
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originate from here this is the area
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where cape town is
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and then there's
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north sutu and
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the not so too and the vendor
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uh of course come from the northern
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province or the limpopo
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province and
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this is where they mostly come from
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but um a significant
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number of them also uh a sniffing
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number of the uh
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petty will be from pretoria this is
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i think today is right about here it's
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a number of this uh perry or the not so
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to tribe
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will be uh originate from here
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and the tonka uh that's longer
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here somewhere i guess because this is
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uh
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close to the mozambican border because
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this area here is mozambique
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uh most of the uh tsungas will be from
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this area thinking limp
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or gianni that town they'll be from here
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but of course you'll still find tongas
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in other areas as well
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and the africana tribe
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which of course are europeans who landed
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in cape town here
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in 1652 and
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later on the four trackers
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went uh into the interior
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and then they started their free state
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republic and the transvaal republic
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they are mostly you'll find them here
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in the keru area and also in the free
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state
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but of course africanas are all over
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the country mostly they are farming you
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know
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feeding the country malema is not going
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to agree
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with that but that's my opinion um
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originally of course from the western
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cape province
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as of course this is where the europeans
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landed in 1652
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and then and then of course they
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expanded and went
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into the interior but mostly they'll be
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in this area and the koi san
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and when i say the cuisine i'm talking
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about uh the crease and not the
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colors the equation
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in the desert areas of the northern cape
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into namibia into some into botswana
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this is where you'll find them uh
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mostly especially in namibia in the
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parts of botswana and parts of the
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northern cape um
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who else and then the colors the colors
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of course
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most uh here in cape town but in every
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city
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and every town in essay there is a
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colored community
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um of course uh in
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every in here all over in every city in
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every town this
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but mostly majority are in the northern
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cape
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and but mostly i remember when i was in
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the northern cape
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here you will not in some instances
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tell who is swana and who is um
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colored because of the languages
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anybody can speak any language and
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anybody
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can look however also in terms of their
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names
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it doesn't mean if somebody has a dutch
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last name automatically they will be
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colored
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in the northern cape it's just when i
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realized when i was in the military i
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spent a lot of time in the northern cape
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in kimberley in postman's bag in olympus
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hook
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i spent a lot of time here those small
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towns i know most people never even
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heard about them i i also did not know
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about them too when i was in
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military 20 years ago and i used to
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travel a lot in these
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areas and one of the things i realized
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was
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it's hard to tell here who's colored and
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who's tuana as
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people here can speak can speak any
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language
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most of the time and can look in how
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they can look
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african they can but they are not they
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don't classify as african they can look
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colored like almost close to being a
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white person but
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they classify as tuana it was just one
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of the things i realized i realized when
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i was there
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and uh which tribe did i not
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uh talk about um and the
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south african indians are mostly
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in this area and this
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province mostly uh there's a city here
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uh called the largest city in the
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guazulu natal province
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uh derelict and that's where most
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indians are however
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uh a lot of them have spread out
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throughout the country
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but uh in this province
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and some towns in this province you will
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really think you are india in india in
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some
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some neighborhoods and that is where uh
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because as that's where the british in
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the 1800s like i said earlier
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excuse me that's where their the indians
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landed when they first came to south
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africa and this is where they settled
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yeah and then uh another thing that
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comes
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is how the tribes are related to each
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other uh and then you will see those
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tribes tribes which are classified as
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the nguni
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uh who are the zulu the torso the swazi
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and then the bella
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and uh these tribes mostly their
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languages are the same
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more or less the same a zulu person can
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go to to a swazi area he will hear what
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they are saying he will understand the
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language
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even as olympus a torso person can go to
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an
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area mostly uh occupied by zolos
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he will understand the language and they
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will be able to communicate
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same as the endeavors because
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these tribes have a similar origin where
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they come from so their languages are
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very similar and then you have the sutu
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tribes
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and also these tribes their languages
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are more or less the same
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a south sudan person somebody who speaks
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the south sudo
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can move here and they will understand
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the language
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this people who are not so two will
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understand him
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same as somebody who's basically from
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botswana can
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move to a an area that is predominantly
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south sudan but he will understand what
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they are saying
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there will be some differences here and
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there but
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they will uh mostly understand each
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other more like uh let me say maybe
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like um
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spanish from spain spanish from
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argentina spanish from
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mexico uh which would be different that
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would be different and the accents would
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be the
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different but they will understand each
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other people who speak spanish whether
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they live in california or they live in
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argentina they live in spain they live
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in colombia they'll understand each
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other but
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their accents are different and there
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there's also some
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differences in some words and the
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question
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like i said earlier there is no tribe
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uh that is called the queen
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is just a term that was coined by using
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this tribe and this tribe the these two
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tribes but
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there's also other tribes that were
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classified as their koi san
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like the damara who usually are from
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predominantly from namibia and other
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tribes as well and then they just
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europeans just came in they saw people
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who looked almost
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the same and their languages sounded
00:26:18
almost the same
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and then they just called them the
00:26:20
cuisine it's more like
00:26:24
imagine you went to europe and and then
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you just
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looked at the spanish and the italians
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and you just
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gave them some name like okay uh
00:26:34
i'll call you this but while those
00:26:37
people have had
00:26:38
a different culture their languages are
00:26:41
different that's more or less what the
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europeans did
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and then of course there's the tsonga
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the vendor like i said the smartest
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driving south africa who are from the
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north
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and then that tonga who i admitted i do
00:26:58
not know much about because i have
00:27:00
never met even when i was in the
00:27:02
military i never met anybody who was
00:27:04
from
00:27:06
uh who was stronger you know
00:27:09
because actually my first time meeting
00:27:12
vendor when the person was in the
00:27:15
military and a good friend of mine
00:27:17
and i got to you know hear the language
00:27:21
and um learned a lot
00:27:24
you know left uh later on when i left
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the military and went to university then
00:27:29
that's when i discovered oh wow then the
00:27:32
people are actually very smart
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yeah uh of course
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uh uh this is a short video not so short
00:27:41
in one minute
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but uh there's a lot more we can say
00:27:45
about the tribes of south africa which
00:27:47
of course i did not cover here and most
00:27:50
of the things i said are my opinions and
00:27:54
other people might have different
00:27:56
opinions or
00:27:57
not different but maybe just to add on
00:28:01
what i've said and please comment
00:28:05
below and correct me where i'm wrong
00:28:08
and add where you think i left
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some things off all right thank you for
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watching
