King Sobhuza I, the smart strategist who avoided Shaka Zulu attacks & established modern Eswatini
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2023
- King Sobhuza I (Somhlolo), who established the modern Swazi nation, was a unifier and a strategic leader. He successfully navigated tribal conflicts with the Zulu & Ndwandwe by using diplomacy, alliances, and geographic positioning to safeguard his people's interests.
Siyabonga, if only more Swati history was captured in this way 🙏🏾🤍
I wish we could have learned African history and literature in our schools instead of European
I agree. Am glad this was part if our Zimbabwean history syllabus when I was in High School. That's why I am here.
Agreed. But how they were intertwined...because they were.
americas didn’t teach us shit about african history… 🤦🏾♂️
Magnificent work. I wish the present king would safeguard his people's interests by reading the signs of times and sharing the Swazi wealth with them.
I'm a Swazi but born in South Africa, I've always wanted to know Swazi history, thanks for your insight.
This period my mother's grand parents move from Eswatini and moved to Zimbabwe running away from the Zulus. and my fathers grandparents moved north past Zimbabwe to Mozambique and later moved backwards to Zimbabwe and settle until now, But the other family of my father remained in South Africa until now, my fathers family is in four countries, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia, we are a big clan.
Your family has quite a story to tell 🙂
How old are you bruv lol
Which Clan?
Which clan brother?
@@spikes2023 i didnt bring names because dont want to name my families and relatives on public
Imagine if all tribes in Africa stood together rather than kill each other for centuries.
Yes, yes, yes!!!
Same thing could be said about the peoples in N. America.
I just learned that Sobhuza II designed Eswatini’s flag! Thanks! I would like more of these!
More to come!😉
but they did not talk about him throughout the lesson.
Thanks for the information, but please we need history book of our africa than one of jan van riebeek and Vasco da gama ,we need to know more about us as Africans
Sobhuza approved the flag he didn't design it. A certain committee designed it
As a Swati , im impressed, keep up the good work❤......I wish to know ,though, if the pictures are real or just for illustration only. The people are so handsome and beautiful ❤❤
Thank you so much ☺️ The images are only for illustration purposes. They aren’t real. Pictures from the 1800s of African historical figures are extremely scarce, or don’t exist.
Thank you ever so much for sharing this vital information. 👏❤
Wena owafulatfela lubombo ngokuhlehletela🇸🇿🇸🇿🇸🇿❤❤❤❤
Thanks for this ❤😊
THis was beautifully articulated and truthful! God Bless You
Kubonga mina.
Thank you for the great work 🙏🏽
Well done, thank you 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😊
thank you for making this video
what great content, this is really fascinating. Just sad to see what has become of the ppl of Swaziland today, the rife poverty, the high rate of youth leaving the country is really sad
This was very well done.
Great content
I am loving this initiative. Kanti uSobhuza nguDlamini
been waiting for a channel like this...
I’m so happy it’s been so well received ☺️
We need more African history like these Thank you!
This was fabulous!
Wooooooow u aree my favourite
🥹🙏🏿
Thank you sir, this is important to see more african fugures
Zulu was nothing before Shaka... the three Nguni Paramouncy was Ndwandwe, Mthetwa and Ngwane!
u know
Abasekho manje. Kusele amaZulu njekuphela.
@@fullmetaltheoristNgwane are still here, they have a whole country and a whole province in South Africa.
@@Dont_touch_my_crown Abekho. Seba amaZulu manje.
@@fullmetaltheorist boNgwane are the Swatis.
"Nine bakangwane" is how Swatis are adressed.
Well captured...though the founder of Eswatini is Ngwane 111 Sobhuza' s grand father
Cn you please bring Mbuso Khoza....
Hi, thanks for the Documentary, can you please cover Queen Nzinga of Angola??
Still on Swazi nation please share more on who ruled after Sobhuza's son Swazi upto the current ruling King
Good work
Thank you so much 😀
The Swazi people have always been secretive about their history. They are probable the only nation with very interesting history, kings and kingdoms. Their history is concrete. They are the oldest nation amongst many of the africa nations. Their history actually ties them to Egypt. They are probable the only ones who still use the name eMbo in their praise names
Hayi man. Don't believe that African American propaganda. We are not Egyptians.
Hlubi people in Eastern Cape are also have Embo ancestry
@@mphathisijako4305 Hlubi people are Swazi. There’s no Hlubi people who is not Swazi. Infact the BaSotho people are also Hlubi people.
Every nation got interesting history but Zulu history has always and will have always been the greatest ever across the world with King Shaka in it,that's why he got statue in Britain and is still talked about till today movies are made with his history by whites and blacks King Shaka forever he is in heaven as we speak
@@thokozanizwane6170 It would be a lie to say Zulus have the best history. We are nowhere near places like China, Japan, UK, Germany or Italy.
They have longer and more interesting histories.
Siyabonga.
Am Ngoni in zambia and we practice incwala
Could you please upload the story of Mswati, the son of Sobhuza II and the story of Dlamini I. Love your work. It truly captures Swazi history in the most appropriate way.
Nice work. But the pictures aren't anywhere near Eswatini traditional gear. These are AI generated.✌️🇸🇿. Otherwise great narration
great quality images. the zooming out of every image is disturbing. stop it. thank you
Mmmmuuu! There is a lot missing 🤔🤔🤔I think,but thanks🇸🇿
Could you please do a video on the amaHlubi/amaNgelengele nation.
It’s on the way. Please click on the bell to get notifications for when I publish it. 🙂
Please speak about King Matiwane, he was the king of the Ngwane-Ngwadi people during the time that King Sobhuza was king of the Ngwane-Swazi.
I love that I met King Mswati III
I was fortunate because I studied this history at standard 3 to 7 in the former Transkie.
That why they call me Chief Mthethwa
No Matter what u hear, All hail King Mswati the third baby
The subtitles....
A very nice channel, i wanted to start binge watching but you don't have enough content. Im disappointed
It’s a new channel. Please give us some time and we’ll things to a binge-able standard 🙂
Shaka bought guns from the Portuguese, not British
It is alleged that Swazis were very sly - they colluded ( spyed ) for the Afrikaaners in Pedi vs Afrikaner wars. The same happened in the 1980's - Swazis sometimes were anti - ANC .
The swazis were actually on the payroll of the Boers,hence the kidnappings of ANC career from that kingdom.
Syabonga kuveta letindzaba letinje . Emaswati need to tell their stories themselves so as to tell the detailed history
This is not our traditional attire. It's giving Nigeria
Is it not the mamba clan that fought the Nguni wars and retrieved Shobuza after he went to exile?
And he did not found eSwatini. The Swazi people are a very big nation. Very big. There were Swazi people in eSwatin already. Just like today. There are Swazi people in eSwatini, Mpumalanga, KZN and the Eastern Cape. We used the name Mswazi way before the days of Dlamini and them.
& Mozambique , I wonder why u avoid that?
@@Kgoki890 Yes. Infact, the Swazi people built the largest kingdoms in Mozambique called Tembe. This is way before they assumed the name Ngwane. Tembe was a Kingdom, not this nonsense yase KZN that is government sponsored,.
So tell me how big is Swazi nation because you seem to be exaggerating here calculat the population of Swaziland and the Swati her in South Africa they don't make even 3 million
@@ronneldube4842 Majority of the black population in South Africa are Swazi. The kingdom of KwaZulu is Swazi. Zulu descends from Malandela. Malendela is Dlamini’s son just like Hlubi. There’s also Mkhwatshwa who is Dlamini son, and this is where the Nxumalos come from. King Zwelithini understood thi
@@bonginkosinkosi4286Malandela's descendants invaded Swaziland and not the other way round. The Dlaminis were a clan and not a nation. I don't care what zwelithini taught you.
Many nations avoided Shaka and Zulus including Afrikaaners and British. The Great Afrikaner Trek route avoided going through Zulus . The route was going to JHB for gold in 1886.
Why would they have gone from the Cape through Natal in order to reach the then Transvaal? Please familiarize yourself with the map of South Africa. The Great Trek was by road and not the sea.
Not completely accurate. He was succeeded by Usuthu. Usuthu was removed by Somquba. Mswazi II removed Somquba. And he actually moved from Phongolo to Enhhlangano.
Hhayi ke asikwati tsine lokwabo Usuthu. The narrator captured most of the events accurately. Well done
pls elaborate on Usuthu. Pls share more info on him? was he a son or brother to Somhlolo
@@mabambelela.dlamini yes, he was his son. He was Sobhuza I’s son
Is it not the mamba clan that fought the Nguni wars and retrieved Shobuza after he went to exile?
@@high-fimusik8543 yes it was the Mamba clan. It did not fight the Nguni wars, it only fought Zwangendaba. It was Mswati II that actually fought and conquered
Didn't King Sobhuza sell King Dingani to the British?
Aaawu meke nakhuluma lesingisi nje nisuke seniphiswe amanga wodwa bakithi 😂😂 ongxiwa baqedile ngawe cc. Ayikho yonke lento oyikwitiza la
Emaswati were already established as a tribe when the Dlaminis and the Ndwandwes both from Mocanbique came to Eswatini
Not true., 😅
Ngiyabobga mine and that's the real Swazi history. The dlamini's settled in Swaziland, a land that was already occupied by its original inhabitants. 🙏🏿They they invented a system and introduced 'kingship'. Otherwise they were amathonga coming from Mozambique and decided to settle in Swaziland which was a beautiful and rich country. They were greedy
Swazi thats why the country became Swaziland and later eswatini
False. Those were not Swazi's. You are talking about the Magagulas who use to occupy the eSwatini lands wena. Dlamini is actually a direct descendant of Mswazi I. From Mswazi to Ludonga to Ngwane to Dlamini. Infact, the Magagulas were witches.
Established as a tribe called what exactly?? 🤣🤣
The Zulus are in almost every clans history in Southern Africa😂 these mf are legendary.
Except the Xhosa. Asinagazi lenu thina. When shaka ascended the throne we were 9 years into the First Frontier War (circ 1779). The Zulus are much younger than even the swazis. Read history with understanding. That's why the Zulus are dismissed as "brainless" by certain ethnic groups.
@@nomagcisacawe3297 you sound like a hater bro
Not entirely accurate but this is quite close
Thandile was never the Chief wife, The Chief wife was LaVumisa, Zwide's eldestdescendants are still there.
LaVumisa was an inhlanti to Thandzile. Her son was named Ndwandwe or Nxumalo.
So dingani killed his brother the greatest king of all just to loose to the Boers and try to invade another black man’s territory he and his other brother are the reason we are in this mess
There is some inaccuracy here, Shaka never interacted with no one from Britain. Saying he bought guns from them is not accurate.
It’s accurate. A number of African scholars and historians say that he did.
@@AfricaEnchantedShaka used the short stabbing spear and not guns. Remember, those scholars are like you, (I.e you don't sound African). Scholars fed the world a pile of rubbish about Africa eg they claim that Southern Africa was empty and that we all came from Central Africa. We all believe and repeat this without any proof. They found the Xhosa in the Cape in the fifteen hundreds but they came to settle a Century later, in 1652. We've always been here. Our history is written by "scholars" and not us.
The founder of emaSwati 🇸🇿 is Dlamini 1 ( King Matalatala) so this is not true at all. Where do get this information because even on Google there's the eSwatini 🇸🇿 Family tree which starts with King Matalatala Dlamini 1st. Stop spreading half truths or expect a Legal action.
This is a Ndwandwe promoting Ndwandwe how originate from the Mocambique region
The Zulu won no territory and no bottles after Shaka s assassination his brother was a poor leader and warrior
Asenteni sobhuza ilembe. 😂😂 Thank you for the documentary. I think some of what is said is not entirely correct. If my memory serves me well, I think Mswati I was the founder of emaswati, not Sobhuza I
I am the 6th generation of this guy. I come from a line of his son called Ndlaphu. The current King came from his son called Mswati 2nd
There was Sobhuza 2 his son Ndlaphu had a son Bhevula had a son Sibilane (my grandfather) had a son Gema (my father) and then me. And I think my name Simphiwe is stupid compared to these masculine names.
We might be related bro, because my roots go way back to the royal house too.
INkosi uSobhuza 111 wafela eZimbabwe eSanali koGodlwayo kulapho alele khona
💀💀👀 sobhuza the 3rd?
You are the only one who knows of Sobhuza 111. Even mswati will laugh at you if you told him that.
It was mswati I who founded the Swati. The way history is being distorted...
Is it not the mamba clan that fought the Nguni wars and retrieved Shobuza after he went to exile?
@@high-fimusik8543 not true ! The mamba never fought any war. Where do you get that...
Are you from eswazini? It's oral history and I can provide documents that prove so@@qalas7327
Would you please cover the part where Shaka slapped his mother with a very hot slap i wan know why? and how could he?
Zulu culture is to pay respect to elders, not slap them, sorry.
@@bee-sting what's that suppose to mean ? Coz Shaka did slapped his mother with a very big slap and i wann know why?
@@tinangubane9349 maybe you should ask the person who told you that lie, they should know the whole story mos. Thina maZulu asyazi leyondaba.
@@tinangubane9349who told you that...abelungu?
All Lies, Finish And Klaar
This whole video is wrong. You are just rewriting history and adding your own spice take this video down please
Which part specifically?
Madlantule mean eat and have nothing
He was the most selfish human being
Who?
assuming .
Lie
Are you rewriting history?????
This is all lies. This is a very inaccurate narrative possibly by a Ndwandwe to try and establish thier own significance
Bizarre.
Indeed history cannot be rewritten of course. Her facts check out objectively from history books. No denying, that, EMaswati remain an enigma. 👏🏾👏🏾. My Sister, Ndwandwe or not, this is an outstanding narration. There’s just not point referring some people to JSM Matsebula book on the history of EMaswati. Never mind the regalia it’s just an attempt at dramatization, which, us the concerned people and who are of the lineage at issue, can attest to it. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
@@mhlabuhlangenedlamini1521 Ngiyabonga 🙏🏿🙂 All the stories I present are objective and thoroughly researched. I take pride in what I do. Some history is simply uncomfortable and some people struggle with it.
@@AfricaEnchanted So true what you say, lokutsi, the truth hurts sometimes, even though that doesn’t change the historical fact being true. I should say this too, that what I have found to be very surprising is that, you the researcher and presenter of fact, will be supported by written authoritative references, yet, these supposed critics just simply say it’s not true,, and end there, without providing any evidence in authoritative writings, of any sort their ‘correct’ history fact(s).Very un-academic but more of the typical present day ,,,,,,, going on.
Tsine lesiyive itekwa ngulabasembili kunatsi lababayitsetse kubokhokho wetfu lokutekwa ngabo lendzaba siyayivuma le.
Shaka never met white people.......
Actually he did
Lol he did
wrong go back to the old history The Boere and the Zoeloe nation have a history with Shaka
He met a few Brits.. (Farrell and others). He was too busy subjugating Black tribes to engage meaningfully with Whites. He believed the Whites had serious muthi and called for them each time he was injured. Remember,he survived numerous assassination attempts.
Well i still maintain he never did... His mentor dingiswayo is the one who met them while he was in exile saw their military strategy and went back and shared this with shaka thus shaka had to reorganise militarily to prepare for the coming whites... When he said "bayeza ondlebe zikhanyilanga" he meant exaxtly that they are coming. But he himself never did.
How can we chat privately? I’m working on something that you can be influential on.
Hi Mthelisi, please email me at africaenchanted@gmail.com ☺️