A Brief History of South Africa, with Dave Steward | Big Think

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   @Emmanuel-nn5lq

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   B. S THIS IS NOT THE REAL SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY. ITS ALL ABOUT EUROPEANS TELLIN US ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE IN SA . WE. EED TO KNOW HOW OUR COUNTRY WAS LIKE BEFORE THE SETTLERS CAME IN ? THEY GON TELL YOU THE WAS VACANT LAND ,THEY DISCOVERD EVERYTHING WTF 😳.
   STOP SPREADING LIES BRO. TO EVERY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN BELIVING THIS YOU BRAINDEAD. FOH

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   @Lulu-pd1zb

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   Do they really have clicking sounds in their speech? I thought Southpark was just being silly.

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   @enricofisher3369

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   Sorry sir you got the South African history wrong, there was and still is the khoisan people, who fought the first war in South Africa against Italy … before there was a Nelson Mandela there was Harry die strandloper (Atchimua), before there was any black Zulu or Xhosa the khoisan was here

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   @Mikicrno82

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   One more rasist😢

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   @nlnalphz

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   What a diluted and abstract way to speak about the Apartheid era. And the perspective as well, is so unlearned and unashamedly biased. Terrible.

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   @vryburger6330

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   The Bantu are from central Africa not Southern Africa. The Koi-San lived in Southern Africa and the Bantu stole there land. The Bantu can go and take land back in central Africa.

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   @Dalf80s

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   Brittish killed thousands of woman and children white and black in death camps.

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   @bushamajola2201

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   British King George wanted to Colonize Americans by using Zulu help only for the ship to dock in Western Cape & George died in Britain

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   @bushamajola2201

   January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

   The defeat of Cetshwayo involved Americans, Deutsches, British, Slaves, and locals such as Sothoes

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    @bushamajola2201

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    First whites were Portuguese

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    @bushamajola2201

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Deutsches were destroyed in the Western Cape by Zulus and the British

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    @bushamajola2201

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    False history, the British arrived with Xhosa, Francis Farewell, Xhosa was an interpretator

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    @MichaelCook84

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    This guy really hates the british, he could barely contain his smirk whilst talking about the battle of Isandlawana where the zulus ambushed and killed 1,500 british. But then failed to mention the battle of rorkes drift where 130 or so men slaughtered the zulu army. But this guy says "of course the british called in back up and defeated the zulus a year later" no mate. After winning the 1st battle you mention they advanced 10 miles to rorkes drift. The next day…..they met a small group of Double hard English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Indians who faught together like dogs and massacred the zulu army.

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    @smishize

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    There are Sociologists and there was an Evil man called Verwoed who was born in the Netherlands.

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    @WalterBurton

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Fair.

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    @WalterBurton

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    How do you spell that?

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    @moksent003

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Dude, you need to be hearing the history of South Africa from each cultural category to get a decent gist. Any less, it feels like a propaganda exercise. Unless you have a vast perspective on the context of South Africa, then it's educational to see how other cultures view the past

    I say categories because most of the official languages are just umbrella terms for a bunch dialects that differ significantly.
    Once met someone who said they spoke Sepedi (I'm (mainstream) pedi) , then they spoke it, that was not Sepedi, I don't care what you say😂😂but apparently, officially it was considered so
    This country is kinda weird. Don't be fooled

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    @Shakes79_20KS

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    This is NOT the history of South Africa!! This is pink washed history starting in the middle, leaving out a whole history before colonialisation! History is told by the colonialist!

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    @pieteri.duplessis

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    I think this was a very good summery, thanks.

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    @alanoberholzer7587

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    South Africa Changed because USA wanted it. The berlin wall fell. SA was not needed to fight a war in Angola to restrict Russian influence in Souther Africa, also the Suez Canal meant sea route around Cape was not impoetant.USA had no need from the white goverment in South Africa. Countries don't have friends, they only have interests.

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    @1254popoful

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Anyone else impressed with his pronunciation of xhosa!?

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    @Allan_O._Muthiga

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Do not listen to this man if you want to understand the history of Africa, and the changes in the South African state since it's carving and founding. This is some simplistic nonsense.

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    @ThatOneAstraWagon

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Why are you not telling the truth that the khoi (coloured) people were here first and that the British put the land in trust for the aboriginal South Africans. You Pretend we don't exist in order to steal our land,. all the black tribes you mention are from North Africa. and not indigenous to this country. You purposely leave us out of our own history. Tell them how you hunted and killed our people and stole our land and how you put imposter kings and tribal leaders to pretend that you were taking care of the indigenous peoples in order to steal our land. God will arise for his people. Watch how he will deliver us . May he judge you for your lies.

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    @prodbystxnder

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    just pick a way to say Xhosa bro

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    @ephraimmotho887

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    I enjoyed this account. It was sober. I would love to delve into more detail

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    @Scott-rc1tj

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Why do we trust this person to give an account of South African history

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    @Scott-rc1tj

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Who is Dave steward

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    @Pang_Yau

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Malaysia is consisted of 60% malay , 30% chinese , 5% indian & 5% indigenous population.
    Malaysia has a social contract drawn up at it's inception to propagate malay (bumiputra)race supremacy and a New Economic Policy (NEP) to ensure malay domination of the economy with a national etiquette bureau (BTN) to propagate malay race supremacy ideals.
    Malaysia has affirmative action policies for the benefit of the majority malays in all sectors of the economy ranging from education, employment, property…
    Malaysia has elite educational institutions such as MCKK , MRSM, UITM , PASUM and vocational training centers such as IKBN , IKTM, GiatMARA , ILP that are reserved for the majority malays only in fact TVET is considered a malay profession with entire industries like O&G , automotive, electrical reserved for the majority malays.All other public and private educational institutions like universities and colleges have racial quotas to the benefit of the majority malays. The non malays have to sit for the academically rigorous STPM national entrance exams taking 18 months while the malays have the option of less rigorous and transparent pathways such as matriculation, foundation taking just 12 months and consisting of take home assignments and open book tests .
    Scholarships funded by civil service department, national bank , GLC, MARA and some funded by countries like Japan & Germany are also reserved for the malays only or have racial quotas that disproportionately favor the majority malays.
    Malaysia has racial quotas in employment that disproportionately favor the majority malays especially in the civil service(with pension and all public holidays) with "sensitive posts" like PM , DPM , ministers/DG of finance,defence, home , rural (MARA) , education , AG , uniformed services police , arm forces , border patrol ,GLC like PETRONAS , Maybank , TNB , TM with the non malays largely relegated to the private sector (without pension and 8 public holidays) or underground economy .
    Malaysia has freehold malay reserve land that are reserved only for the majority malays with the non malays only able to obtain leasehold land (99 or 66 years) ,with some states like Kelantan having land enactment act that classify all land as malay reserve land in a form of ethnic cleansing , and a 10% discount when purchasing property from the developers for the majority malays even rich malays that are denied to non malays even poor non malays.
    Malaysia has high yielding investment funds like ASB and interest free loans like MARA that are reserved for the majority malays only.
    Malaysia stock market authority has stipulated that all public listed companies has to donate 30% of their equity to malay trust fund like Khazanah , PNB or malay captain of industry "sleeping partners" who are cronies of the ruling elite and yet the malay controlled ministry of finance will deny the malays ever achieving 30% equity ( even though the GLC alone already exceeded 30% equity) as intended by the New Economic Policy as a milestone to abolish the malay special rights.
    Malaysia has race based political parties under the national front BN coalition ( UMNO malay , MCA Chinese , MIC indian) which governed Malaysia for over 60 years and involved in kleptocracy (1MDB , PKFZ 2) and cartels ( Astro, maxis…)
    Malaysia government ( local , state , federal) and GLC projects are tendered exclusively to malay or bumiputra contractors (class F) with a many of the malay rentseekers or cronies of the UMNO ruling elite unqualified and selling their license to a small group of chinese cronies of MCA "Ali Baba" like YTL , Berjaya(subcontractors and human trafficking syndicates ) for commission thus inflating the cost of the mega projects like ECRL (by 300%) .
    Malaysia local authorities will only approve projects that include new mosques for muslims but will reject any new application for non muslim places of worship like churches or temples even muslim cemeteries are allocated by the local authorities but not non muslim burial grounds.
    Malaysia has a covert operations of ethnic cleansing of the non malays such as the project M of former prime minister Mahathir (even though he is of Kerala indian origin himself) to dilute the non malay composition of the demographics by granting citizenship to illegal immigrants from Indonesia who are of similar malay ethnic background to grow the malay vote bank especially in Borneo east Malaysia where the malays are the minorities and also peninsula Malaysia where the composition of non malays were at 50% around the time of independence in 1957 .

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    @stephanw1034

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    We all know this guy had an illegal copy of Rodriguez

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    @HenkVenter777

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    LOL you got it all wrong Or you like your dead criminal queen, financing supporting Congo terrorism against south African boer making YOU a criminal as well. We are going to sue Britain for this crime by the international court like Britain has sued Germany after the second world war wrongfully. See you criminals in court very soon and let's see if you going to repeat this filthy lies there again.

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    @pinkylucia1273

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Guys please be aware of scam some people might contact you by WhatsApp asking you to like this video and you will get paid please don't…they are scammers,they want to assess your email and bank account and take everything you have please be alert.

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    @andrekarelse2306

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Never knew big think would have chosen my crazy beautiful country

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    @CLKrazy350

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    South Africa is a shithole now

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    @romanussaal712

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Thats the conflict we have…(Is all about the British, Zulu, Xhosâ and Afrikaner History)…..and we are bn labeled as other Nationals…WhAt a rubish history is this man talking about here…The Khoikhoi and Kwe history are well documente in this Country…The small poc pendemic were well documented in this Country…and list can go on & on…

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    @Beetlejooce01

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    My great grandad was in prison with Nelson Mandela (little rivonia trial) he was a white communist in South Africa and he even hid Nelson Mandela in his house, John matthews was his name

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    @LukaSA-y8d

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    This was very clear, nice and clean perspective of the past. Hope South Africans could listen to this.

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    @LukaSA-y8d

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    The Red terror is still hovering over South Africa. ANC is slowly submitting to communist.

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    @Republican1795

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    Steward is right concerning the obvious fact that South Africa is an artificial entity as it was created by the British during the early 20th century after conquering numerous local groups and was done so for the main purpose of securing the gold and diamonds found mainly within the old Boer Republics that the British had conquered. But it is important to point out that the Boers are not Afrikaners – as the Afrikaners were a political regime that was composed mostly from the Cape Dutch population that the Boers had trekked away from during the 1700s – and that the driving force of the National Party was not the restoration of the Boers Republics as they were expressly OPPOSED to it as they wanted to turn all of South Africa into a nominal and false republic in order to prevent the Boers from reclaiming their old Boer Republics and thereby scuppering the British and Afrikaner control over the resource and mineral rich areas of the new macro State of South Africa. Prime Minister D F Malan ( a Cape Dutch of Huguenot origin ) did not even initially want to turn South Africa into a Republic and worked to destroy the Boer groups that were calling for the restoration of the Boer Republics.

    I am still astounded how too many people do not look at this situation closely enough to discover that the Boers were and are still often an impoverished and disenfranchised people who fell under the sway of the more affluent and politically connected Cape Dutch controlled Afrikaner political regime that rose to power over the artificial state of South Africa. When the impoverished Boers were chased off of their farms by the British during the aftermath of the second Anglo-Boer War: they began to migrate to the cities in big numbers in order to find employment. When they arrived at these cities they often encountered the Cape Dutch controlled Afrikaners ( who migrated to the large cities within the Boer Republics during the late 19th century during the gold rush ) who were in the process of establishing themselves and taking control of the major institutions.

    This led to the Afrikaner Colonization of the Boer Nation. As these Afrikaners would soon propagandize the Boers' children who were now enrolled in Afrikaner controlled schools to now see themselves as part of the Afrikaner political class despite the Boer segment remaining at the bottom never rising much higher than the working class. The Boers have had to struggle against Afrikaner domination and have been subjugated by the Afrikaners. The Boers were not even largely literate until the Cape Dutch controlled Afrikaners began to impose their Afrikaans onto the population. This led to further Afrikaner control over the Boers as newspapers and magazines were now in the standardized dialect of Afrikaans that the Afrikaners created and not in the dialect of the Boers. When you take away or replace a peoples' language or dialect you take away their ability to communicate authentically in their own voice. The language promoted reflected the views of the Cape Dutch controlled Afrikaners and not the conquered Boers who were not able to develop their dialect into a literary form as this process was scuppered or outmaneuvered by the Cape Dutch originators of the standardization process. The Boer's dialect of what is often referred to as Boeraans ( historically known as Boeretaal ) would have to be promoted more in order to get a clearer understanding of the actual Boer perspective on matters otherwise one is only getting the crafted view of the Afrikaner. The sad reality is that the Boers have been and often still are too impoverished too truly get their own dialect turned into a large scale literary from that can rival the ubiquitous Afrikaans that was promoted by the Afrikaner establishment and government.

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    @gagsonly

    January 2, 2026 at 3:12 pm

    I did history in high school.
    Continued doing research throughout my university life. The massive amaXhosa suicide he's talking about🤔 I've never heard of it🙅
    Not even from my ancestors' stories about the past.

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