Tribes of South Africa, who are they?

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TLDRIn this video, the speaker explores the diverse tribes of South Africa, starting with the Zulus, the largest and most well-known tribe. It discusses other tribes like the Khoisan, considered the oldest, and outlines their unique traits such as skin color and hair type. The video continues with the Afrikaners, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Pedi, Venda, Xhosa, and others, emphasizing their distinct cultures, languages, and geographical origins. It also tackles misconceptions, such as the history of Indians in South Africa and the complexities surrounding mixed-race communities called 'colored.' The speaker highlights the linguistic relations among tribes, noting that they often share similarities in language that allow for communication. Overall, the video serves as a brief introduction to the rich tapestry of South Africa's tribal heritage.

Takeaways

  • πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Zulus are the largest tribe and renowned warriors.
  • 🧬 Khoisan are considered the oldest tribe in the world.
  • πŸ—£οΈ Afrikaners have a unique language developed in South Africa.
  • 🌍 Sotho people predominantly inhabit the Free State province.
  • πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Indians in South Africa have a complex history, not all were slaves.
  • πŸŒ„ Venda tribe is known for their education and hard work.
  • πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ€ 'Colored' people form a significant mixed-race community.
  • 🌏 Many tribes share similarities in both culture and language.
  • πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Xhosa is another prominent tribe with a rich heritage.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video introduces the tribes of South Africa, beginning with the Zulus, known as the most famous and largest tribe in the country with a history of formidable warriors. The presenter mentions other tribes, emphasizing the KhoeSan as the oldest tribe in Southern Africa, countering misconceptions about their classification and highlighting their unique genetic traits.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The video explains the cultural significance of the Afrikaner tribe, which emerged from European settlers, developing a unique culture and language distinct from their colonial ancestors. It also touches on the Sotho people, who primarily reside in mountainous areas and are often misidentified outside their designated regions.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The South African Indians are discussed, explaining their arrival in the 1800s, dispelling the myth that they all came as slaves, and highlighting their strong connection to their culture and religion. The discussion shifts focus to the Swazi people, who mainly reside in Swaziland but share cultural ties with South African tribes.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Continuing the exploration, the presenter talks about the Tuana, Pedi, Venda, and Tsonga tribes, providing insights into their unique characteristics, cultural significance, and geographical locations in South Africa, emphasizing the Venda's reputation for high levels of education and intelligence among the various tribes.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:28:15

    Finally, the presenter discusses the geographical distribution of these tribes across provinces in South Africa, including the Zulu in KwaZulu-Natal and the Sotho in the Free State. The video concludes by highlighting inter-tribal relationships, similarities in languages, and the impact of colonial classifications on tribal identities, inviting viewers to engage with their thoughts.

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  • What is the largest tribe in South Africa?

    The Zulu tribe is considered the largest and most famous tribe in South Africa.

  • Are there tribes in South Africa that are considered the oldest?

    The Khoisan tribe is regarded as one of the oldest tribes in the world.

  • What are the main characteristics of the Khoisan people?

    Khoisan people generally have lighter skin, unique hair types, and are small in stature.

  • What is the Afrikaner tribe?

    Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch, German, and French settlers who developed their own culture and language distinct from their European ancestors.

  • What is the history of Indians in South Africa?

    South African Indians began arriving in the 1800s, with some being brought as laborers while others were businesspeople.

  • Where are the Sotho people predominantly located?

    The Sotho people are mainly found in the Free State province of South Africa.

  • What distinguishes the Venda tribe?

    The Venda tribe is known for being highly educated and hardworking.

  • What does the term 'colored' refer to in South Africa?

    'Colored' refers to mixed-race people in South Africa, representing a unique social group.

  • How are the tribes linguistically related?

    Many South African tribes belong to similar language groups, allowing for mutual understanding among them.

  • What areas do the Zulu people primarily inhabit?

    Zulu people primarily inhabit the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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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
  • 00:17:21
    and then also a significant
  • 00:17:23
    a number of them uh
  • 00:17:26
    originate from here this is the area
  • 00:17:30
    where cape town is
  • 00:17:33
    and then there's
  • 00:17:36
    north sutu and
  • 00:17:40
    the not so too and the vendor
  • 00:17:45
    uh of course come from the northern
  • 00:17:47
    province or the limpopo
  • 00:17:49
    province and
  • 00:17:52
    this is where they mostly come from
  • 00:17:56
    but um a significant
  • 00:18:00
    number of them also uh a sniffing
  • 00:18:03
    number of the uh
  • 00:18:06
    petty will be from pretoria this is
  • 00:18:10
    i think today is right about here it's
  • 00:18:13
    a number of this uh perry or the not so
  • 00:18:16
    to tribe
  • 00:18:17
    will be uh originate from here
  • 00:18:21
    and the tonka uh that's longer
  • 00:18:26
    here somewhere i guess because this is
  • 00:18:29
    uh
  • 00:18:30
    close to the mozambican border because
  • 00:18:32
    this area here is mozambique
  • 00:18:35
    uh most of the uh tsungas will be from
  • 00:18:38
    this area thinking limp
  • 00:18:39
    or gianni that town they'll be from here
  • 00:18:43
    but of course you'll still find tongas
  • 00:18:46
    in other areas as well
  • 00:18:49
    and the africana tribe
  • 00:18:53
    which of course are europeans who landed
  • 00:18:56
    in cape town here
  • 00:18:58
    in 1652 and
  • 00:19:01
    later on the four trackers
  • 00:19:05
    went uh into the interior
  • 00:19:09
    and then they started their free state
  • 00:19:13
    republic and the transvaal republic
  • 00:19:17
    they are mostly you'll find them here
  • 00:19:21
    in the keru area and also in the free
  • 00:19:24
    state
  • 00:19:25
    but of course africanas are all over
  • 00:19:29
    the country mostly they are farming you
  • 00:19:32
    know
  • 00:19:32
    feeding the country malema is not going
  • 00:19:35
    to agree
  • 00:19:36
    with that but that's my opinion um
  • 00:19:41
    originally of course from the western
  • 00:19:43
    cape province
  • 00:19:45
    as of course this is where the europeans
  • 00:19:48
    landed in 1652
  • 00:19:50
    and then and then of course they
  • 00:19:51
    expanded and went
  • 00:19:53
    into the interior but mostly they'll be
  • 00:19:56
    in this area and the koi san
  • 00:20:00
    and when i say the cuisine i'm talking
  • 00:20:02
    about uh the crease and not the
  • 00:20:04
    colors the equation
  • 00:20:09
    in the desert areas of the northern cape
  • 00:20:13
    into namibia into some into botswana
  • 00:20:19
    this is where you'll find them uh
  • 00:20:22
    mostly especially in namibia in the
  • 00:20:24
    parts of botswana and parts of the
  • 00:20:28
    northern cape um
  • 00:20:31
    who else and then the colors the colors
  • 00:20:33
    of course
  • 00:20:35
    most uh here in cape town but in every
  • 00:20:38
    city
  • 00:20:39
    and every town in essay there is a
  • 00:20:43
    colored community
  • 00:20:45
    um of course uh in
  • 00:20:48
    every in here all over in every city in
  • 00:20:51
    every town this
  • 00:20:53
    but mostly majority are in the northern
  • 00:20:56
    cape
  • 00:20:57
    and but mostly i remember when i was in
  • 00:21:00
    the northern cape
  • 00:21:00
    here you will not in some instances
  • 00:21:05
    tell who is swana and who is um
  • 00:21:09
    colored because of the languages
  • 00:21:13
    anybody can speak any language and
  • 00:21:16
    anybody
  • 00:21:17
    can look however also in terms of their
  • 00:21:20
    names
  • 00:21:21
    it doesn't mean if somebody has a dutch
  • 00:21:25
    last name automatically they will be
  • 00:21:27
    colored
  • 00:21:28
    in the northern cape it's just when i
  • 00:21:31
    realized when i was in the military i
  • 00:21:33
    spent a lot of time in the northern cape
  • 00:21:35
    in kimberley in postman's bag in olympus
  • 00:21:39
    hook
  • 00:21:40
    i spent a lot of time here those small
  • 00:21:43
    towns i know most people never even
  • 00:21:45
    heard about them i i also did not know
  • 00:21:47
    about them too when i was in
  • 00:21:49
    military 20 years ago and i used to
  • 00:21:52
    travel a lot in these
  • 00:21:53
    areas and one of the things i realized
  • 00:21:57
    was
  • 00:21:58
    it's hard to tell here who's colored and
  • 00:22:01
    who's tuana as
  • 00:22:03
    people here can speak can speak any
  • 00:22:07
    language
  • 00:22:07
    most of the time and can look in how
  • 00:22:10
    they can look
  • 00:22:11
    african they can but they are not they
  • 00:22:13
    don't classify as african they can look
  • 00:22:16
    colored like almost close to being a
  • 00:22:19
    white person but
  • 00:22:21
    they classify as tuana it was just one
  • 00:22:24
    of the things i realized i realized when
  • 00:22:26
    i was there
  • 00:22:28
    and uh which tribe did i not
  • 00:22:32
    uh talk about um and the
  • 00:22:36
    south african indians are mostly
  • 00:22:40
    in this area and this
  • 00:22:44
    province mostly uh there's a city here
  • 00:22:49
    uh called the largest city in the
  • 00:22:52
    guazulu natal province
  • 00:22:54
    uh derelict and that's where most
  • 00:22:57
    indians are however
  • 00:23:01
    uh a lot of them have spread out
  • 00:23:03
    throughout the country
  • 00:23:06
    but uh in this province
  • 00:23:09
    and some towns in this province you will
  • 00:23:12
    really think you are india in india in
  • 00:23:14
    some
  • 00:23:15
    some neighborhoods and that is where uh
  • 00:23:18
    because as that's where the british in
  • 00:23:21
    the 1800s like i said earlier
  • 00:23:24
    excuse me that's where their the indians
  • 00:23:28
    landed when they first came to south
  • 00:23:31
    africa and this is where they settled
  • 00:23:35
    yeah and then uh another thing that
  • 00:23:38
    comes
  • 00:23:38
    is how the tribes are related to each
  • 00:23:41
    other uh and then you will see those
  • 00:23:44
    tribes tribes which are classified as
  • 00:23:46
    the nguni
  • 00:23:48
    uh who are the zulu the torso the swazi
  • 00:23:51
    and then the bella
  • 00:23:53
    and uh these tribes mostly their
  • 00:23:56
    languages are the same
  • 00:23:58
    more or less the same a zulu person can
  • 00:24:02
    go to to a swazi area he will hear what
  • 00:24:05
    they are saying he will understand the
  • 00:24:07
    language
  • 00:24:07
    even as olympus a torso person can go to
  • 00:24:10
    an
  • 00:24:11
    area mostly uh occupied by zolos
  • 00:24:14
    he will understand the language and they
  • 00:24:16
    will be able to communicate
  • 00:24:18
    same as the endeavors because
  • 00:24:21
    these tribes have a similar origin where
  • 00:24:25
    they come from so their languages are
  • 00:24:28
    very similar and then you have the sutu
  • 00:24:32
    tribes
  • 00:24:33
    and also these tribes their languages
  • 00:24:36
    are more or less the same
  • 00:24:39
    a south sudan person somebody who speaks
  • 00:24:42
    the south sudo
  • 00:24:43
    can move here and they will understand
  • 00:24:45
    the language
  • 00:24:47
    this people who are not so two will
  • 00:24:49
    understand him
  • 00:24:50
    same as somebody who's basically from
  • 00:24:53
    botswana can
  • 00:24:54
    move to a an area that is predominantly
  • 00:24:57
    south sudan but he will understand what
  • 00:24:59
    they are saying
  • 00:25:00
    there will be some differences here and
  • 00:25:03
    there but
  • 00:25:04
    they will uh mostly understand each
  • 00:25:07
    other more like uh let me say maybe
  • 00:25:10
    like um
  • 00:25:13
    spanish from spain spanish from
  • 00:25:16
    argentina spanish from
  • 00:25:17
    mexico uh which would be different that
  • 00:25:20
    would be different and the accents would
  • 00:25:22
    be the
  • 00:25:23
    different but they will understand each
  • 00:25:25
    other people who speak spanish whether
  • 00:25:27
    they live in california or they live in
  • 00:25:30
    argentina they live in spain they live
  • 00:25:32
    in colombia they'll understand each
  • 00:25:34
    other but
  • 00:25:35
    their accents are different and there
  • 00:25:37
    there's also some
  • 00:25:38
    differences in some words and the
  • 00:25:42
    question
  • 00:25:43
    like i said earlier there is no tribe
  • 00:25:46
    uh that is called the queen
  • 00:25:50
    is just a term that was coined by using
  • 00:25:54
    this tribe and this tribe the these two
  • 00:25:58
    tribes but
  • 00:25:59
    there's also other tribes that were
  • 00:26:01
    classified as their koi san
  • 00:26:03
    like the damara who usually are from
  • 00:26:06
    predominantly from namibia and other
  • 00:26:08
    tribes as well and then they just
  • 00:26:10
    europeans just came in they saw people
  • 00:26:12
    who looked almost
  • 00:26:14
    the same and their languages sounded
  • 00:26:18
    almost the same
  • 00:26:19
    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
  • 00:26:27
    you just
  • 00:26:28
    looked at the spanish and the italians
  • 00:26:30
    and you just
  • 00:26:31
    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
  • 00:26:43
    europeans did
  • 00:26:46
    and then of course there's the tsonga
  • 00:26:48
    the vendor like i said the smartest
  • 00:26:50
    driving south africa who are from the
  • 00:26:54
    north
  • 00:26:55
    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
  • 00:27:27
    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
  • 00:27:35
    yeah uh of course
  • 00:27:38
    uh uh this is a short video not so short
  • 00:27:41
    in one minute
  • 00:27:42
    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
  • 00:28:12
    some things off all right thank you for
  • 00:28:14
    watching
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