What was The Great Trek?

As an Afrikaner, I appreciate the attention to detail you used for all your pronunciations and colloquialisms. Please consider doing Namibia?

Baie dankie vir die akkurate video. This Part of our history is largely unkown and ignored in South Africa today.

Oh, I'd love to see a video about Boer tactics! The history of South-Africa during the colonization and the Great Trek is incredibly gripping. It's the history of 3 great empires colliding with each other in the unknown. The Dutch and British find themselves in a unexplored corner of Africa, ignorant of it's challenges and native people. While the Zulu are forced to face a new enemy with weapons they've never seen before. With their military expansion now thwarted, I'd imagine that it must've had quite the cultural impact on the Zulu. Suddenly they find themselves to be on the losing side of their culture of conquest and war. TL;DR 3 great empires - each with their own goal, thrown in the same place, good times.

I find it interesting how the Boers resemble american cowboys and pioneers

Oh btw. The voortrekkers didn't use winchester repeaters they used "voorlaaiers" that were a type of musket.

9:07 if anyone doesn't get the reference there: Bok Van Blerk is a famous Afrikaner singer who created several Afrikaner/Boer nationalist songs and got extremely famous with them, and he pretty much became THE Afrikaner folk singer. However, he is considered an EVIL RACIST by the ANC gubmint in South Africa.

I like how there's room for both Boer and Zulu monuments at the same battlefield. With all the baggage South Africa has gone through it gives one the belief that there's room for hope.

As a South African I actually did learn quite a lot in primary school about this part of history and you are covering it very accurately. Although I am not Afrikaans (More of a British and Austrian decent) I love the history of this country. Please keep up the good work, you're filling a very important place in history for us!

I love the Afrikaans dialog you added. Gave me a laugh!

I feel very lucky when I see these historical videos about the videos. My family went to Nieuw Netherlands in 1627 with the Dutch West India Company and didn't have to deal with so much hardship. The only inconvenience was the English robbing the colony 1664 and imposing English customs and laws like a tax to support the Anglican Church. Two ancestors moved to New Jersey where the laws didn't apply and bought land from the Leni Lenape Indians one buying 5000 acres to open a saw mill and the other buying land for farming. They were both Huguenots. One was Stuyvesant's adjutant and the other a magistrate. The Dutch ancestors were barrel makers They all disappeared from history except in genealogies. The three of them were married to three sisters. One pair are also Teddy and Eleanor Roosevelt's ancestors, another is Edward Hoppers and the third sister was married to Jan Aertsen van der Bilt. There was a developed language spoken called Jersey Dutch which is now pretty much extinct. It's spoken only by Ramapo Indians who are intermixed with Dutch and African genes. It's mixed with Dutch, English and the Ramapo language. I'm amazed at how the Afrikaners kept their language alive all this time. Dutch descendants are pretty much just Americans now and many don't even know they have Dutch ancestry. What doesn't help is that so many of the names have changed because English speakers couldn't pronounce them or spell t hem.

I'm a South African and I watched this video. Good job, you summed it up quite well. I even appreciate the pronunciations of the Afrikaans words.

I do think that just packing everything and leaving it all behind must have been a very tough decision to make, but it had to be done. Unfortunately it looks like the Boer might have to make that very same decision in the not so distant future.

I am very interested in South African history. Read a lot about it and throughly enjoy your work, love the way your dates, numbers etc correspond with what i have read. Great work. keep going.

Great video! I find it interesting since my dad is from South Africa (English South African) , he loves the history of the South Africa, he would be very interested in these videos. Again, thanks for the great video! You got yourself a new fan.

Wel gedaan Hilbert! Thank you very much for making this video and for doing it so well. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you from South Africa - Afrikaner

Hey Hilbert, your videos are doing good man, keep up the good work.

Goodness, I didn’t realize just how close English and Dutch were until I heard this guys Dutch and how good his English was, amazing videos btw! :)

Such a great video! Extremely accurate and helps a lot.

I'm a Pretorius. I appriciate you sharing the long and proud history of the Afrikaaners

Thanks for this video about the history of South Africa. It's very interesting to learn about what happened - and learn about what's happening today.