Why Does South Africa Have a Hole In It?
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Learn about the history of Lesotho: the country that avoided being a part of South Africa.
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*Next week there will be elections in Lesotho!* 🇱🇸
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Can you do the sudan civil war? Or gran colombia peru war.
Great video. This was way more then I thought it was gonna be. I thought it was just gonna be. “The country of Lesotho is independent and is an enclave” but this went into the history. Great video overall
Obvious because filling it would be too expensive but I'll get the shovel and try
Lol such a south african thing to have massive potholes
@Safwaan it is a joke you egghead
Dental care is just that expensive to fill that hole.
Mad respect for Lesotho for managing independence. Really impressive.
They gained their independance at the cost of being one of the poorest countries in africa and constantly wishing they joined South Africa
Last I checked, they’re begging South Africa to annex them.
@@wintaaaaa" Found the racist neo-colonialist.
@@timesnewlogan2032: Last I checked, no they are not.
@@gabrielpadro5589Then you didn’t check.
Interesting how the Basotho and Boers ended up coming into conflict with each other because both moved into overlapping territories to avoid being absorbed by different empires - the Zulu and British, respectively.
Basotho did not move anywhere. They were always based in that territiory. They had a powerful kingdom so most tribes affected by the Zulu expansion seeked protection under this Basotho kingdom which made them even stronger since their numbers increased exponentially in a short period of time. The Boers invaded Basotho territory. The Boers failed in many attempts to take over Basotho land. Since Basotho had access to trade so they had horse and guns. As soon as Britain started having interest in Basotho land thats when the battle took a turn. The British who governed the Cape Colony thus all trade in SA passed a law to stop arms trade to Basotho, and that began to weaken the Basotho Army over time as they ran out of ammunition with constant war battles against the British and the Boere interchangeably who were able to purchase more and more arms. Thats when the Boere began taking the land of the weakened Basotho. Having cavalry and spears and shields was never going to be enough against the gun.
Thank you for pronouncing “Lesotho” correctly, unlike other CZcamsrs! 😭🇱🇸🇿🇦
should be spelled Lesutu instead
@@daddy_1453 yeah, I get the aspirated t, but being /u/ is just weird.
@@anneonymous4884 in English is usually anything but /e/ so let's give other languages a break
Wtf is that a new Lesotho flag?
@@hanbyeol12 This 🇱🇸 has been Lesotho’s flag since 2006
Excellent video! As an Italian I remember, during geography lessons, the first time I learned about Lesotho and how similar to San Marino its position seemed to me.
Che bello
v similar except lesotho is in the continent of ASIA doofus
@Andrew Documented lol wtf?
@@acey457 did you watch the video? Lesotho is in AFRICA.
Very nice video and very interesting. I knew the gist of this but alot of new info for me for sure. There are an amazing number of examples of Africans not going down so easily in the face of colonialism but we seldom discuss them. I really appreciate you taking part in this collaboration!
Yeah! The Zulu too, they beat the british first by dipping their animal hide shields in water which made them absorb musket balls better
Great video Emperor Tigerstar!
I show your "War everyday" videos in my US History class for the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and World War II.
Very valuable resource
Always love hearing about Lesotho, went there a few years ago and it is a lovely place. Also quite temperate a lot of the time due to being so high up, they get a lot of rain and thanks to having a couple of dams set up, provide SA with something like 50% of their water supply!
Lesōthō Fatše La Bo-Ntat'a Rōna!
Landlocked countries tend to have some of the most interesting histories to their existence
Paraguay, Hungary, Armenia…
Well, because for the most part naval powers have been dominant throughout history and have absorbed their landlocked neighbors. Its only natural for any mainstream, important geopolitical entity to have sea access for trade and military. Thus the exceptions tend to be very, very unique.
True that. I unironically have an admiration & somewhat of an obsession for San Marino.
@@warlordofbritanniacan’t forget Mongolia
didn't just learn why SA has a hole in it, but also how to properly pronounce Lesotho! great video
Nations that were able to thwart European imperialism always have fascinating stories-Ethiopia straight up fought them off, Japan rapidly modernized, Lesutu played politics, etc.
*Lesotho*... did you not watch the video?
Or became imperialist colonizers themselves
@@ArmyNavyAcademyespecially japan in this case lol
Lesotho basically found an exploit in imperialism.
It's great when youtubers turn to a topic that’s underrated.
Papaza Takla Attila Ibnu iman
Hey dude, this is actually a really helpful video for me because I'm literally writing a report on Lesotho due on Tuesday for my Global Studies class at university. I don't think I'm going to cite this due to the terms of the paper and will look for stronger academic source, but I do really appreciate you putting this out! Lesotho is a really interesting case and I'm glad I got this assignment.
Really? That's cool. What degree?
@@moimeself1088 Global Studies and Religion, I actually have more papers to write later.
@@madisonkung8390 sounds interesting. Good luck, with the paper 👏🏾👏🏾🇱🇸
If there is one thing I learned in this video its that whoever was in charge of Anglicizing the spelling of the Sesotho language did not know how syllables worked. Those letters should not be making those sounds.
Ah, yes, the prequel to "Why does Canada have a tumour on it?"
In grade school, I learned that there was a flat-top mountain where some people founded a village, so warring invaders (I guess the Zulu) couldn't attack them easily. The village grew and grew until it covered the mountain and the land around it. Then they were too big for the invaders to conquer. That's the origin of Lesotho as I heard it.
The invaders were the Boers, Zulus never made it up the Drakensburg mountains.
Actually it has two holes in it. The other hole is Swaziland that takes a big bite out of South Africa's border to the east.
Swaziland/eSwatini isn't a hole because it's not completely surrounded by South Africa. It also borders Mozambique.
Great video. This was way more then I thought it was gonna be. I thought it was just gonna be. “The country of Lesotho is independent and is an enclave” but this went into the history. Great video overall.
Very well done and explained clearly. Thanks.
I never knew I wanted to know about Lesotho's history! Thanks!
Long story short, when Lesotho was absorbed into the British Empire, it remained separate from the South Africa colony. It was never merged with South Africa, even though it became completely surrounded.
I'm really fascinated by the Bantu Migrations and the way it impacted language and culture throughout Subsaharan Africa. It ended up changing the face of that part of Africa and really illustrates the way Language can in itself lead to massive shifts in the flow of history. Really interesting stuff.
pure badass wow. thanks for the video.
I’m happy for Lesotho that they dodged the bullet of becoming part of South Africa. Lesotho was probably like a safe island amidst a sea of apartheid
Always good to see people talking about Southern African history. Love from South Africa
Really interesting video, that's for sure. Can you do a video based on how the Italian Unification happened, not a map video, but an explanation video, just like you did with the video, "How the German Unification happened?"? I would appreciate it if you can cover this topic, thank you and please let me know what you think.
Wow, that's really cool...
The Basotho were basically the original gun rights sticklers and it helped them keep their independence!
Somebody (a lot of people) in Lesotho had good foresight.
Yep but they also have sensible regulation and restriction which keeps things from getting out of hand.
@@Sparx632 I'd have to look into that. But I highly doubt they cared to restrict it at first.
Either way, it's an inspirational story of a fiercely independent people. I didn't know of it before yesterday, so I'm really glad to have learned; but I'm nowhere near an expert on African history-- that's why I was watching this video in the first place. So thanks to FN and the whole South of the Sahara group for putting this together!
@@fresholiveoil6490 "The Basotho were basically the original gun rights sticklers and it helped them keep their independence!"
It also helped that their country is a mountain.
Er... not really. We're not obsessed with them like others are.
A nation stockpilling weapons isn't really a gun rights thing, that's just having an army.
3:22 Moeshoeshoe I looking very stylish there
5:00 are we sure this isn't a wayward tribe of Texans?
Britain: Tries to take their guns
Lesotho: "oh boy here i go killin again!"
Because of Lesotho 🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸
They gave them a hard time and South Africa gave them independence.
Love from Serbia 🇷🇸🤝🇱🇸🇿🇦
Imagine being Lesotho during Apartheid South Africa
Eastern Europe post-1989
There were actually a ton of anti-apartheid activsts who fled there while they were wanted by the state
Most countries moved their embassy’s there so they still has some dealings with South Africa, the country enjoyed a bit of an economic boom. Imagine being there when those embassies left. Another anecdote, the current kings aides once forgot to pick him up at the airport and he had to call his wife.
It was pretty wild, that's for sure. We lived peacefully with all other peoples, but then we'd cross the border and be reminded how awful things were right next door. Many south african lived with us in our communities. When boers raided looking for the exiles, they just went on a rampage bc they couldn't tell who was a local and who was an exile. Pretty horrific.
Also, they used economic pressure a lot. They would shut down the borders not allowing the movement of people or goods, including food and medication. The Nats and their supporters were a truly vile bunch.
I live in Ireland and one of my friends' last name is Moeshoeshoe, i asksd him about it after i watched this video and he was like:
"yeah, im like a prince of Lesotho"
Another interesting one is Swaziland. The currency of Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia are pegged to the South African Rand and have equal value.
2:24 The use of prefixes for noun classes is a typical feature of Bantu languages.
Bantu languages have such a badass noun class system I wish more people knew about it
The only thing missing to make this a perfect entry was the dynamic map showing how borders changed over time...
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I own a sleeveless shirt and I knew I had to buy it when I saw it was made in Lesotho.
Now you have to do Swaziland.
Lesotho fatše la bo-ntat'a rona;
Har'a mafatše le letle ke lona;
Ke moo re hlahileng,
Ke moo re holileng,
Rea le rata.
Molimo ak'u boloke Lesotho,
U felise lintoa le matšoenyeho;
Oho fatše lena;
La bo-ntat'a rona;
Le be le khotso.
You’d really impress me if you could come up with the rest of the lyrics to: Lebitso lena la Basotho, le Moshoeshoe, le Letsie, …
To my fellow subscribers of this channel, what other questions do you have about South Africa?
Can you do a video on Swaziland? I wanna know how they managed to remain independent too.
To me Lesotho and Swaziland are like 2 peas in a pod. Small monarchies that remained independent from the larger South Africa.
Fun fact:Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini because it was it was to close to Switzerland!
Always wondered the story here. Never cared enough to look into it beyond “native people wanted to keep their homeland or something”
So thanks for this
This sounds like a strat from a paradox game.
I wonder seeing that there are Sotho people in adjacent territories, especially the Free State, whether they feel any different about the Sothos across the mountains as opposed to the Tswanas, for instance, in their local communities. With that said, if you look at demographic maps, it does seem like there's a clear divide between the Sotho and Tswana people
As a kid, I always wondered why Africa's cap-end had a weird hole. Should have known, same as anywhere in Africa, that the history was rich and fascinating
Wow new favorite South African nation these guys are rather shrewd
Thanks
Because one day I just started digging and couldn't stop
*Next week there will be elections in Lesotho!* 🇱🇸
I wish i had time to learn how to show my research on YT...I have always been interested in historiography and discourse.analysis so i.already know the audience will.probably be mostly other academics but id like to.learn how to.make videos well.
Thought the background music was something out of Rise of Nations for a minute
The Basotho seem like complete badass!
We are 😊💕
Very lovely video - even if the western pronunciation of "Boers" makes me cringe! Try saying it like "Boo" + "Ur", and extra credit if you roll the 'r' a little! Remember: Boer, not Boar.
Basotho's history sounds like it was written by someone playing Victoria III.
So pronunciations... where do you go to get help with pronunciations? I'm trying to do recording some text using a lot of Welsh words which I am struggling with, and I can't even get as much as google translate voice playback on Welsh words for some reason. Some of the words I can find used in videos here and there by native Welsh speakers, which is great, but some of them I can't, so I have no help at all on those. Where to go for pronunciation help?!
Learn the International Phonetic Alphabet, and see if you can find a source that gives phonetic transcriptions of the words. Wikipedia usually has the pronunciations i the first line of the page, though not always the right ones.
@@jared_bowden Unfortunately, for names that are English (or, it turns out, Welsh), wikipedia often doesn't bother with any IPA guide to the pronunciation. Which is crazy, because many an English, and especially Welsh, name is hardly obvious in its pronunciation. And in any event, not everybody using the website speaking English natively. So it should be there in every case regardless. But there is disappointingly few instances of it.
nice
Cool wallet 💯
I don't know. Moths?
History Matters did it
But it looks like Ridge Wallets provides a much more generous budget than James Bisonette
Lèh-Só-Tó
1:20 where you get pickelhaube :000
Cause its sad inside.
San Marino football/soccer!
I wonder how the Vaticans team is?
According to Wikipedia, they once lost 21-4 to Borussia Mönchengladbach
"I wonder how the Vaticans team is?"
Old. Very old.
@@seneca983
w/cool hats
The only non Italian enclave country, a truly interesting story!
that situation must have been really awkward circa 1966-1994
0:49 I realized quickly that I don't know how big Maryland is either, and it's 6 million.
that seemed way too big so I checked and it is, Lesotho only has a population of 2 million. Am I missing something or is that a mistake?
by area, not population
@@EmperorTigerstar oh lol
Thanks
1:25 interesting thumb you have
Lesotho does have their hat on their flag
Lesotho!!! 💚
Nice video 😃I like the title, "Why Does South Africa Have a Hole In It?" If you ever talk about the history of Eswatini, you can call it "Why Does South Africa Have a Notch On It? 😋
A Diarchy has 2 Head Of State/Gov't Monarchs.
It's got an enclave, end of video.
So how did Eswatini manage to make it into the present day?
They opted not to join the Union of South Africa, as did Southern Rhodesia.
British empire be like: "you are now a Crown Protectorate in Royal union status with domestic resolution councils, now hand over the diamonds or oil or whatever you've got"
No oil, but they contunue to take our diamonds. Some things don't change. 🤷🏾♀️
Because there isn't a phallus big enough to fill it.
Yo they should fix It, what if it leaks?
Lesotho reminds me alot of how Northern Ireland functions
Short answer is cause Britain.
Peter: why is there no hole in this hole in South Africa?
I’ve been calling it “les-oh-tho” all this time 😭
you pronouncing it correctly. It is Lee-soo-too
it's funny to live in Lesotho, San Marino and the Vatican. which are countries surrounded by only the country where they are beyond the borders
There's nothing funny in that, it's sad. Just imagine a Roman living in Aurelio watching the Vatican by his windows knowing it was all stolen by Guiseppe Garibaldi and his goons from the people the land belonged (Papal States).
This guy sounds like Technology Connections
Also Italy has two little holes in it. Vatican City and San Marino are completely surrounded by Italy.
2:24 Okay but how does this seriously confuse anyone, that's just literally how all demonyms work. Like an individual British person is called a Brit, the people are referred to as British, the language is English and the country is called Great Britain or the United Kingdom, for another example an individual Swedish person is a Swede, the people are the Swedes, the language is Swedish and the country is Sweden. Like this is literally just how all names for national groups work, no one ever uses the exact same name for an individual belonging to the group, the group itself, the language the group speaks and the country said group is from. Occassionaly you might find the same name being used for like two of these things but that tends to be the result of linguistic strangeness and is a clear deviation from the norm.
So they can keep the balrogs to their place deep inside the earth.
Don’t be fooled, Lesotho isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
Almost two holes
That’s what She said.
Don't have a navy, do they?
Mountains
Лесото
One of the few absolute monarchies left in the world, which is a crying shame, hopefully I live long enough to see that change sooner than later.
Lesotho isn’t an Absolute Monarchy
You must have them confused with Eswatini
Lesotho has been a constitutional monarchy since its independence in 1966.
@@Sparx632 One comment above you, my dude, this isn't hard. I already admitted I got things mixed up
@@samwill7259 I was just adding extra info.
Swaziland is an absolute monarchy.
"In exchange for letting Britain control their foreign policy"
What's the advantage of controlling Lesotho's foreign policy to Britain?
More soldiers for war, map bigger, and more than likely more resources
If a foreign power such as the boers attack (or is attacked), Britain could use basotho lands and people to fight the war.
Labour. My grandfather fought in your world war.
I'm going to blame England
You'd be right, but it's about equal parts blame and credit
Super nice video! But, maybe calling out 1 (instead of multiple) 'cool aspects' of (relatively unknown) people is enough for 1 video. at 5:22, felt a little bit like, trying to compliment anything of barefoot, spear throwing tribe. just wanted to put that out here.
otherwise, tnx for the video, def. interesting politics for such a small patch of colony against the actual British.
Why does anyone have holes 🤔
I always felt it was more of a mole.
Natal in South Africa is pronounced differently to the way you said it. I'm too lazy to explain it properly though, hah.
Nuh-tuhl. The U as in 'up'.