How did the Zulus Interact with the Voortrekkers? | The Zulu-Boer War (1835-1839)

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As a South African, it is good to see these sort of non-racist, no-nonsense videos on our history (both White and Black). I am always sick of seeing the extremely toxic comments or videos people make on these subjects.

Winston Churchill was so impressed with the Boers he named the British special forces "Commandos".

Afrikaner Boers are basically Dutch Australians. And Australians are just British Texans.

Gotta respect you for using that Xhosa click consonant.

The Boers using wagons for warfare Jan Žižka is proud!

I find the overall Voortrekker lifestyle so wild and amazingly unique.

Baie dankie dat jy ons geskiedenis deel Hilbert.

Lmao as a South African I can definitely agree with your pronunciation, you sound like your right here 😂 great video, cheers

Thanks for doing all these South Africa videos man, they're some of my favourites!

I love the recent South African content. As a South African it's always great to see people elsewhere being interested in our history. It sounds weird hearing your Afrikaans as its got a dutch accent to it, very different from the way Americans and Brits normally pronounce these words. I cant comment on your Zulu as I can't speak it but from the little I know and plenty I always hear it's pretty spot on!

Thanks for stopping by and watching this one on how the Zulus and the Boere interacted; if you enjoyed it please let me know with a cheeky thumbs up, and if there's anything you'd like to know or want to add please feel free to do so in the comments below! New uploads every Wednesday and Saturday so stay tuned for more! Related Videos: Zulu Military Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN0toCbXcQo&t=9s Rise of the Zulu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig4Sb53rNpw&t=68s

Boere and Afrikaaners in general are descendants of Dutch, French and Germans and small groups of other Europeans like Scandinavians,Portuguese/spanish.

Mpande was correnated King of the Zulus and his coronation was attended by the Boer leader Andries Pretorius, a major figure in all of this who wasn't even mentioned.

Your South African history is spot on my dude. I live in Pietermaritzburg (King Dingane's formal Royal Kraal), there is a museum in the city (Voortrekers Museum) that is dedicated to this history.

As an South African, I must comment you for the correct pronunciation of everything from the tribal names to the words.

Hey Hilbert, love your videos! Just one important thing to mention, us Afrikaners and "Boers" in this video were not just descendents of the Dutch but the French as well - due to the French huguenot migration away from Louis XIV under his harsh rule. The VOC offered them land and resources to farm in exchange for safety. These huguenots were over half of the current population with the free burghers in the late 17th century. The French language was snuffed out pretty quickly due to VOC's laws and tense relations with France at the time and assimilated, but that's why more than half of Afrikaans surnames are also of French origin and you can find a lot of French influence in Afrikaans as well. Eg. Aucamp (Auchamp) , Boshof (Bossau), Bruwer (Bruere)Buys (Du Buis) Cilliers (Cellier)Cronje (Cronier)De Klerk (Le Clercq)Delport (Delporte)De VilliersDu Plessis, Du Preez (Des Prez, Des Pres, Du Pre)du Randt, du Toit, Duvenage (Duvinage), Fouche (Foucher) Fourie, Gouws (Gauss)Hugo (Hugot, Hugod) Jordaan (Jourdan)Joubert (Jaubert)Labuschagne (la Buscagne)Le Roux, Lombard, Malan, Marais, Malherbe, Minnaar (Meinard, Mesnard) Naude, Nel (Neel, Niel)Nortier / Nortje (Nourtier)Pienaar, (Pinard)Retief (Retif) Reyneke (Reyne?) Riekert (Richarde?) Rossouw (Rousseau) Roux Taljaard (Taillard)Terblanche (Terreblanque)Theron (Therond) Viljoen (Villion)

The Zulus basically committed genocide against every other tribe they encountered

As a white African I can rarely watch these history documentaries on Southern Africa because they’re usually full of such hubris Thank you for this, a good and accurate and honest history, well presented and researched 👏