Everything Felt Like a Culture Shock in This VILLAGE

Added: 2026-05-18

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[00:02:19]>> They usually tell us that 1497 was the arrival of um the Portuguese that came to our shores here, discovered the now so-called the pot of Natal >> because it was the pot that was discovered on a Christmas day, hence natal because natal is Christmas day in the Portuguese language.

[00:02:39]>> They didn't settle here for long. They just stopped here as a post wherein they could actually stop and continue on their mission. 1824 um the English-speaking people arrived around Durban and they decided to name the city after Sir Durban who was the governor of Cape Colony at that time and of course the city started building city hall around 1835 the city of Tquini and the city hall went until 1903 where they decided look we are going to build a new city hall because the city was expanding realized that okay because Belfast and South Africa are both English colonies who will duplicate the very city hall uh that's in Belfast here in Durban and they built that from 1903 and started working in 1910.

[00:03:30]>> Now the city hall that was built in 19 in 1885 is a post office in Durban just opposite the workshop in Durban.

[00:03:40]uh 1948 that's when everything somewhat began when apartate in South Africa was introduced and the first party that led it was of course the uh national party under Dr. DF Milan of that time and it focused solely on uh uh the so-called good sense of neighboriness the separate development and that's what brought us these kinds of places. This kind of place came as a result. So of group areas act where they said people of this particular race must be so distant to >> the central business activities and that's what happened. Now in Quazulu Natal in particular you had Quazulu and Natal. Natal is the more commercial side. Quazulu is where the Zulu kingdom is actually stronger.

[00:04:30]>> Uh doesn't mean that we don't subscribe to the Zulu kingdom beliefs and all that and or we don't bow down to him. We do but they see us as the Zulus from Natal.

[00:04:40]>> And now so around 1990 people who have been fighting against aparate like Nelson Mandela come out of prison. Of course, there needed to be discussions in Quazulu Natal. There was a lot of bloodshed from 1990 because people under the Inkata Freedom Party wanted Quazulu Natal to be an independent state just like Swiserland, Lysoto and such countries that are found within the boundaries of South Africa.

[00:05:07]>> Because Quazulu Natal has the busiest harbor after the one in Alexandria in Egypt, they thought, "No, no, no. We cannot let this go. We've got the sugar canes. We've got the cultures. We've got the Indians being the second largest population outside of India with all their traditions and culture, our oceans, with all you know all the weathers for tourism and all that. No, they couldn't let this go. They convinced Chief Mangosutles and the Zulu Kingdom that you will sit in the legislature.

[00:05:34]You will influence policy. Your your monarch will be the only one acknowledged in Kazulu Natal. And they gave him that opportunity. And so the IFP decided to form part of all the political parties that could be voted in and it was the first dominant party in Quazul Matau.

[00:05:53]What does that leave you? It leave you these areas that are still under the chiefs. They still under the control of the chiefs. Each and every area on this side of Utella Utella is the bridge separating Guazulu and Natal. On this side of Uta, we name our areas after the clan names. M >> so you'd know that surnames have say for an example Nelson Mandela and you'll be surprised at times they call him Ma >> and other names and other names this this this and that here too we have you know we have all the areas in these areas they are called after the main second clan name after the main surname and then the clan name. So this area here is called Quat Limba. These areas have so these areas they have a dual system of rulership that rulership is that which is under the traditional way of leadership meaning that the chiefs have a right to say who can and cannot build a house here.

[00:07:01]>> Oh >> and you have the counselors that we vote for because I move into the villages.

[00:07:05]What do I mean by that?

[00:07:07]Part of the apartate system was that there was education for African people and that was to teach them that equality with Europeans was never meant for them.

[00:07:16]We are being educated in a language English >> which is not the language we speak at our homes.

[00:07:22]>> When you go to each and every of the subjects we learn at schools, these subjects are not taught in our languages that we 100% understand in our heads.

[00:07:34]The information that is local here is regarded somewhat bush information. So when we go to the schools, the teachers themselves are not a 100% English speakers. So you need dictionaries and all that. So as a result, people of these communities and South Africa at large do not necessarily get the content not to speak about contents of different fields. So when we tell you information about how the contemporary cultures have thrived and or have emerged over the times, please just bear in mind all the information I'm giving you.

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[00:08:39]>> We are going to have a long walk, I assume, guys, because we walking inside the villages. I'm so excited. I love village life.

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[00:08:57]>> Let's go, guys. I'm so excited. It's late. It's around 4, guys. It gets dark here very early, but let's see what we'll find. Let's see what we will see.

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[00:09:53]>> Real life in Africa. Welcome to South Africa.

[00:10:00]Okay guys um majority of the people here um are traditionalists. They are people who subscribe to the idea that when people pass away they become our ancestors. They become our gods. So thereby we praise them. Over the years, of course, people decided to use a particular plant called impo. And impo is found on usually drier lands like the eastern cape, the pondlands and or the Draensburg. You can see it has those rolling hills and it's that small grass that grows there and when it dries you can burn it and then speak to your ancestors. That's what we subscribe to.

[00:10:36]65% of the people around this area here subscribe to both that and Christianity.

[00:10:43]how Christianity ended up here. We'll have to do a research about that.

[00:10:47]>> The colonizers you we know Christianity.

[00:10:51]>> So when a child is born, it is known that at some point short it is known that at some point a child will have to be introduced to their ancestors.

[00:11:02]>> The child is supposed to belong to the father's side, >> but the father has to pay for the child, pay the family of the girl. If a girl for an example fell pregnant before they got married, >> there is what we call onoy where you take younger girls who are still girls to sing around in the village going around asking for gifts for the day when it comes to go down the river. And when they go down to the river, they uh throw coins to say we are throwing you now away from the girlhood. You're now going to the motherhood. And at their home usually they will build like a small house uh on the side because two bulls don't rule in one crawl. So the father is saying okay you are about to be a mother you're about to go. Some fathers who are hush >> will say come take you take take your wife and they just give it to you for free because it's somewhat disrespectful to impregnate someone else's child before you marry >> marry them.

[00:12:00]>> Yes. So this was very very very important.

[00:12:03]>> Does it go until today?

[00:12:05]>> Now I want to share this with you. the age of uh infrastructural development in our areas, the age of um technological development in our areas plays a significant role. Now let me tell you this, >> the environment has a huge um what you call uh contributing factor towards how people in that particular area behave.

[00:12:28]Zulu culture that's vague. Zulu culture is consisting of different subcultures.

[00:12:34]For an example, in this area before the age of water taps and all that, uh, cell phones, electricity and all that, there were activities that were separated between that which is done by men and that is done by women. Men would be doing the hard work, pushing the cows to the river. Let me not say the hard work, but physical work.

[00:12:51]>> Yeah, physical labor.

[00:12:53]>> I might sound wrong when I say hard work as if like taking care of the family, raising children is not hard. So, they would they would dig graves, they would do this, this, this, and that. uh that would be men's job. Women would be doing domestic type of work. How how how h how do I mention that? That would be work such as washing the clothes, taking care of the babies and all that. Like Zulu men from around these areas when you say change diapers, change nappies, they would look at you like me a man changing nappies. Mm-m. So down the river, down the river, that's where they would meet.

[00:13:25]The others are washing, the others are pushing cows to go drink there. Yeah.

[00:13:28]>> And when the cows are drinking there and they are washing, da da da, that's when they meet. This is when courtship takes place.

[00:13:36]>> Courtship is when a man approaches a woman. You approach a woman, you explain to them just how you feel about them inside. We call it >> Yeah.

[00:13:47]>> the real dating life. Now, >> the the real dating life. So, you'd know that um there is myself, there's another guy, there's another guy that are going for the same woman.

[00:13:57]>> And that's um we are going for the same woman. Didn't mean that we have to fight.

[00:14:02]So we would actually kind of know that this guy he dresses up nicely, he talks nicely. And it was very important for women back in the day to um drag the process of aushella before they can say yes. Why did they have to drag this process? It was simply because dragging it would mean they get to understand the person they are actually approaching or that they are approached by. So it would mean uh if this person can make me laugh, if this person can make me uh feel secure around them and that's why we never had what you call it divorce.

[00:14:35]>> Yeah.

[00:14:35]>> This thing of so it doesn't even sound right in Zulu >> because also you should know when you are marrying you're not only marrying the man it's two families joining together.

[00:14:49]>> And so this was very important. So when they introduced water taps at the homes, people were no longer going to the river. Cows were now drinking at the homes. Now that culture started fading somewhat away.

[00:15:02]>> Also when women used to go to the bushes >> and get wood, dry wood under the trees there to make fire, they introduced electricity. And when they introduced electricity, it meant that they no longer in contact with the bush as much as they were before. So now the tradition and or the knowledge of which plant with a child is sick with contemplation and stuff like that will start to fade somewhat away. So the relationship of the people and the nature somewhat starts to distance as soon as you introduce these developments. So even if in Africa we want these developments to happen as Africans we must sure follow certain ways that the westerners followed but we must be very cautious on how we follow them.

[00:15:48]>> Yeah.

[00:15:53]>> So >> this village has nice views. Yeah.

[00:15:55]>> You like it down here. So >> you're rich in views.

[00:16:00]>> Yes.

[00:16:02]>> Wow.

[00:16:03]>> Yeah. Money is still going to take time to come. So >> you already have the money.

[00:16:07]>> Yeah.

[00:16:09]>> And we saw some people.

[00:16:10]>> It's just that it's not phys physical cash, but the money is there.

[00:16:14]>> Yes. Yes. Yes. So when a child is born in a family home that is traditional here in the in the area, the child has to be introduced to the ancestors for the ancestral protection. What we do is we slaughter a goat. A goat. And then we take a piece on the on the goat skin and put it around the reef.

[00:16:32]>> I've seen that online. What is it called? Do you remember?

[00:16:35]>> I don't remember. But I've seen I've seen >> it's called guys. That's what it's called.

[00:16:46]>> Remember you're going this way?

[00:16:47]>> This way. I once asked the guy to do a uh tour with some people from America here >> and um you know Zulu sometimes cannot necessarily uh speak English.

[00:17:00]>> Yeah.

[00:17:01]>> Uh but we are brave people. So the guy was like this way, this way. This way.

[00:17:06]>> Sorry, sorry, sorry. This way.

[00:17:08]>> At least he did the tour. That's the most important.

[00:17:13]>> This way. So this way.

[00:17:15]>> This place is so hilly, guys. So >> we're going to have like a cute little evening walk.

[00:17:22]>> That's amazing.

[00:17:23]>> That's crazy, right?

[00:17:24]>> They're like mini castles of some sort.

[00:17:26]>> Y >> and then the design of the houses are like round round. These are the most traditional um houses, the round houses.

[00:17:34]Let's this way.

[00:17:38]>> Hi guys.

[00:17:41]>> Hi.

[00:17:44]>> So now you can look around, you'll see like um houses built out of mud. And these houses built out of mud.

[00:17:54]When one decides to build a house in the most traditional way of thinking, you would invite people, brew some Zulu beer, you mix the mud, men bring the wood and the sticks and of course you buy the nails and all that. You cook food, traditional food that people can share and that one that is one of the way in which you can bring people of the community together coming to build a house. There's a saying in Zulit says It means when you see people building a house, you join in.

[00:18:28]>> You you support them >> cuz it takes the whole community to build >> a community, right? So, and these houses do not necessarily have like measurements and this and that and people don't worry. They they they they use these kinds of houses >> and this is a region with uh thunderstorms and lightning strikes. So, what does that mean? It means that people believe that rubber and certain plants if put on top of the roof can prevent lightning strikes.

[00:18:56]>> Like I can see a tire on top there.

[00:18:58]>> You see the bowl on top of that tire?

[00:19:00]>> And if you look at that flat house there, there's a bowl also on top.

[00:19:03]>> The other one here.

[00:19:04]>> No, this one here next to the um EST00001.

[00:19:08]>> The one next to it there.

[00:19:10]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:11]>> There's a uh there's a bowl on top there. And there's a tire here.

[00:19:14]>> You can see this one here.

[00:19:15]>> And the other one over there. These kinds of houses, they would take about 15 years until they fall and then they build another one. But people now >> it's made of concrete.

[00:19:24]>> Nowadays, those who had a bit of money would actually put concrete around. Even in our villages, you'd have people with a bit of money and and and those people with a bit of money will um actually put concrete because cement and buying the sand and picking it up from the river is quite expensive. So, they would still have these things. Who are people that had a bit of money? These were people who had local t shops. who had like two or three mini buses.

[00:19:50]>> Uh when you walk around their homes, you can easily smell some good food and you'll just hang around there and you'd like to befriend yourself with such people. In every community, you'd have such people that were just good with money. Um in our area here, there's no uh town planning in the area. It's the subchief that decides today because the chief allowed us to use this piece of lands, we'll put someone to build a house here. So whether the road is going to be going this way and the road is going to be going that way, we think there needs to be some kind of cooperation between the chiefs and the government. Why? So when the sub chiefs put people in those plots, it would be easy to say to the office of the counselor, yes, we've got two, three families for this week that we've actually placed and we would suggest that maybe you speak to the water department and or the electricity department so that these things happen because what we've seen over the years is people build those houses and they start connecting uh illegal connections onto the transformers and the transformers bust and you know >> Africans, >> it's the same everywhere.

[00:20:58]We like to go to one of the houses and see how it looks.

[00:21:01]>> How it looks?

[00:21:02]>> Yeah.

[00:21:02]>> Okay.

[00:21:03]>> Like this round houses, maybe the mud house. Yeah.

[00:21:06]>> Yeah.

[00:21:07]>> We'll have to speak to one of the ladies there because usually we would organize with them, but we'll see. We'll see.

[00:21:13]>> Okay, we'll see.

[00:21:14]>> Oh, is we have a bit of problem with water here in the area. A lot of people start to buy Georgia tanks in the area.

[00:21:25]>> These tanks, >> these kind of tanks >> despite the fact that people had um what you call it the ability to go down the river and collect water before. But just when they introduced the uh age of water taps, >> it became somewhat um not fashionable for them to go back to the river again.

[00:21:45]>> So even if there's no water on the on the taps, they don't go back to that.

[00:21:48]>> What about stealing boho? Hey, it's expensive. You need all those machines, you know.

[00:21:53]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:21:54]>> And people have this >> terrain. Mhm.

[00:21:57]>> You don't know how far you need to go to get the water.

[00:22:01]>> Yes.

[00:22:02]>> But wow, look at that river.

[00:22:04]>> That's Uneni River. It's It's been joined by the Sunsi River. It's a very doozy canoe marathon goes.

[00:22:10]>> Diu Marathon is a three-day event. It starts in Pitzville, goes all the way to the Durban.

[00:22:16]And so this here area is called in many cotton because if you come this side you'll see it's somewhat very rocky down there at the bottom.

[00:22:23]>> Yeah, I see so many rocks.

[00:22:24]>> So the boats would actually break.

[00:22:26]>> Oh, >> in areas like this you have different kind of churches. Yes. Uh Roman Catholics did come here and you can see they used the very old method. Mothers who believed >> this is a church.

[00:22:36]>> This was a church.

[00:22:37]>> Oh was a church >> and um the mothers or the congregants gathered a lot of money trying to buy blocks. They did buy blocks you can see.

[00:22:44]But until the blocks turned color um they couldn't build. They couldn't pay the builder and all that. So the um richest or one of the richest people around Durban who is a Roman Catholic gave them like 92,000 rand and they finally built what you're seeing there.

[00:22:59]>> This one >> this one over there.

[00:23:00]>> But they decided not to take this one down >> just to show you once the idea is closer to your heart you don't easily let it go.

[00:23:09]>> Yeah. Yeah. The history >> the history behind it. We used to >> How many people will this church hold?

[00:23:14]>> Around 50ish.

[00:23:16]>> 50.

[00:23:17]>> 50 or 60 depending. Yeah.

[00:23:20]>> We go this way.

[00:23:21]>> Yes. This way. This way.

[00:23:23]>> This way.

[00:23:23]>> This way, >> guys. This way.

[00:23:26]>> Like a small part. Let me show you.

[00:23:29]>> People say people say that this church looks like a shop. You see that shop over there?

[00:23:36]>> The shop is the white thing right there.

[00:23:38]>> Some guys started coming wanting to buy.

[00:23:40]You didn't see the cross.

[00:23:42]>> Exactly.

[00:23:42]>> Yeah. Without the cross, you can't tell it's a church.

[00:23:45]>> Exactly.

[00:23:46]>> But I can see this village now is becoming so modern. Modern houses.

[00:23:50]>> The gentleman here, Mr. Shalebe, he also ran a couple of shops in the area.

[00:23:54]>> Okay.

[00:23:54]>> He was very good with money >> and you can see what he built.

[00:23:58]>> Yeah. You can tell who is rich in the village.

[00:24:01]>> This is his crown.

[00:24:02]>> He's got about 20 cows as well.

[00:24:04]>> Okay.

[00:24:05]>> Um and so the cows >> 20 cows?

[00:24:07]>> Yeah. Yeah. If you are his boy, you have to take care of the cows just so when you meet woman, >> he as a father can give you 11 of them.

[00:24:14]But that only depends if the girl is a virgin, >> then you pay really 11 cows. But if the girl has been tempered with and or have been >> in a relationship that produced a child, then of course the negotiations will speak to that. Oh.

[00:24:28]>> Oh. But >> this pup has come to twin.

[00:24:33]>> Hallelujah.

[00:24:35]>> And so if it's someone who's been married before, probably a widow, >> um, of course, um, you'd pay much lesser cows, uh, circumstances like that do happen.

[00:24:47]>> But also in our tradition, >> um, as I said, when you're marrying, you're not marrying just your man, you're marrying their family.

[00:24:54]>> If you have been married to me and I've got a younger brother, irrespective of whether he's married or not, he can you what is una is to take over my brother's wife when he passes away.

[00:25:06]>> Okay.

[00:25:07]>> And that that polygamy happens by default and it becomes somewhat fashionable. Am I right or wrong?

[00:25:14]>> That's a good thing >> is it?

[00:25:17]It's not.

[00:25:19]>> Ah we don't know is the tradition.

[00:25:23]It's nothing like educated girls like logic logic.

[00:25:27]>> Do you think your your children would be happy to have um >> you as a mother maybe there's like five of them with the same surname and then have a new one now with a different surname.

[00:25:41]>> Tough one.

[00:25:43]>> Yeah.

[00:25:44]>> Just be honest on that one, >> I don't know.

[00:25:54]Y we're walking around the village, guys.

[00:26:04]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:26:07]>> So, this place is called >> Is itumba?

[00:26:11]>> Is it?

[00:26:12]>> Yeah.

[00:26:13]>> Yeah. Guys, we are walking around Isita village.

[00:26:20]You can see.

[00:26:22]>> Let me show you something here.

[00:26:26]>> I hope it doesn't.

[00:26:29]Oh, thought you were going to the cows.

[00:26:32]>> The goats.

[00:26:32]>> I mean the goats.

[00:26:34]>> This is what we call eolofia.

[00:26:37]Eido produces a reddish fruit.

[00:26:40]>> It's u it's it it's it's greenish in the beginning and then it turns red. That's when you can eat it. It has these small little things here called izintua. If it sticks on you, it's very hard to take them off. And then these stones are as hard as a bone. Very strong. On the social media in the recent days, they've been thinking that that this can actually help a man be a bit stronger.

[00:27:02]>> Oh, you know, for real.

[00:27:04]>> I'll not get into details, >> but basically you cut this and you take the transparent part inside and then you mix it with hot water. You let it stay overnight.

[00:27:13]>> What do you take this?

[00:27:14]>> Yeah. Be careful for your hand there.

[00:27:16]You don't touch it. You cut it. You remove the the the green stuff and you take what's inside and you boil it and drink it like cot >> like aloe vera.

[00:27:24]>> H this one is different. It's some kind of cactus >> but that's different. That's doesn't have milk but it has a transparent thingy inside there and it's very good for your for your cells. It makes them perform somewhat bad.

[00:27:39]I don't know how true that is, but >> let us know guys in the comments section >> about it's called is called idolopia. That thing >> it's not guys. What a beautiful walk in the evening. Avocados are just right here.

[00:28:05]Wow. Avocado.

[00:28:10]Yeah, that river >> very good. Yeah, >> it's rocky. Can >> you can just lay down there and chill?

[00:28:19]>> I have a question.

[00:28:21]>> Do people still go to the river to take river baths?

[00:28:24]>> Yes.

[00:28:25]>> Yeah.

[00:28:25]>> For many reasons. One is if I feel that my soul is no longer in line with my brain, >> I need to go. Like right now I'm having mental problem. You have a metal.

[00:28:37]>> You know, you need to take cow poop because the cow eats a lot of >> cow poop.

[00:28:41]>> Yeah. It eats different kinds of grass.

[00:28:43]So cow poop is sacred.

[00:28:45]>> It's cooked.

[00:28:46]>> No.

[00:28:47]>> Raw.

[00:28:47]>> Of course.

[00:28:48]>> And then that THING THAT THING SMELLS so bad. How would you eat it?

[00:28:51]>> Smells so good. Cow >> cow poop smells good.

[00:28:54]>> It smells good. I don't know. Maybe.

[00:28:56]>> Maria, what do you think? For me, >> it doesn't smell bad.

[00:28:59]>> No.

[00:29:00]>> No.

[00:29:01]>> It's natural and for me it doesn't smell bad. So I will give them that remedy.

[00:29:05]>> Bad smelling stuff is good for healing.

[00:29:09]It's good for healing. So when you go to moving waters >> and wash yourself off of those evil spirits, you believe that it goes >> goes away with the water.

[00:29:19]>> Zulu people when we heal or African people in the main we study the nature.

[00:29:23]>> Yeah.

[00:29:24]>> Either the plants and or animals >> and then we see how best can we use it to our advantage in the most mystical way.

[00:29:30]>> One take for an example. If I'm in a relationship with say three wives and one of the wives is a witch, uh she can witch the other two that their relationship with me would be as steady as if they go to the river and take water with a cup on a place where the water is not moving as much and curse the relationship I might have with the other two wives. And you find that I only love the one that bewitched me. And it'll be strong. It will be evident to all the community members. So if that happens to you, you might have to go down to the river and wash yourself and also where the water for an example is hitting the rock and come back >> that's to go back to send >> and you will take that and you know how to mix it well so you know what you're doing. So we cannot reveal much of that type of information but I'm just trying to show you that there's some kind of supremacy in there.

[00:30:21]>> We use aloe vera for many reasons. Uh one known to even the westerners.

[00:30:26]>> This is free aloe vera. It doesn't belong to anybody.

[00:30:29]>> So if I have a saw here, you'd put it on your skin here and when it dries, it dries with the saw. If the mother has a ch a baby, a baby is now developing teeth and they start to bite the >> nipples.

[00:30:41]>> Nipples, that's a better word. The mother will put it there and when the baby dry >> tastes bad, >> they stop.

[00:30:49]>> They stop and they will never go to their mother. Oh, good. You're old now.

[00:30:53]Bye-bye.

[00:30:54]If you're wondering how to make your your kids stop breastfeeding remedy.

[00:31:00]>> And so also it's good to lower the levels of blood pressure >> BP because it has that irritating uh type of taste which is bitter and so it makes your digestive system go.

[00:31:15]>> Now this um is dry >> yeah the dried one. Usually our granny's would mix it with snf.

[00:31:23]>> Yeah.

[00:31:24]>> When they have a bit of headache, stress and all that, they will crush this and burn it and and then mix it with snuff and have have a dorsa here. We call it a dsha. The small container on the chest.

[00:31:38]Yeah.

[00:31:48]>> For word >> and the people >> it's called.

[00:31:56]>> What?

[00:31:57]>> Mafindo at the knots.

[00:31:58]>> What the river?

[00:31:59]>> Yeah. Because it's like this.

[00:32:01]>> Oh, okay.

[00:32:04]>> These are new sites where people are now building houses. So if you ever get a sight there, you already know, yo, you're not building something bad.

[00:32:13]>> Yeah.

[00:32:14]>> Yeah. Because they've already set the standard.

[00:32:17]>> Hey, so here until the chief accepts, then you can build.

[00:32:23]>> Yes. Look, um, in areas like these, especially Situmba, we grew up as boys heading cows down to the river. There there will be head boys, boys that were superior than the others that will dictate what happens when we are around.

[00:32:35]Those were the ones who say are you scared of it? Hey, you you scared of you scared of say no and then you fight. So we would know as boys who is dominant and who is not. That would mold us as young people growing up in this community to kind of know each other.

[00:32:50]When we reach the age of 20 25 if someone didn't go to the heading of cows you can easily understand >> easily they get irritated when we speak.

[00:32:59]Then you realize this one they didn't grow up with us. Why do you fight spa?

[00:33:03]Because we should know Spa from when we were growing up. He used to just be like this. This is how he jokes and you fought with him. So what what's the point of So bringing someone from somewhere else to build a house here that we don't know might be somewhat problematic because they might come with some kind of mindsets that we are not accustomed to.

[00:33:20]>> Okay.

[00:33:21]>> So the sub chief if someone is coming to ask for a piece of land ask you where do you come from? Who is your sub chief and a chief? And you will say ah Mr. Sella.

[00:33:30]Ah I know Mr. So because they've got their committees they will call Mr. Sella and say do you know Spa? Mr. Yes yes yes we know Spa what about him now he's asking for a piece of land here like ah no no no no no no no let me let me say let let me take you back >> spa is this guy who has been doing a lot in our community so if you took him to your community take him at your own perhaps >> so most of the people around this community you know each other.

[00:33:58]>> Yes.

[00:33:58]>> Okay.

[00:33:59]Yes.

[00:34:00]>> If you do wrong here, there's what we call disciplinary comment.

[00:34:05]You take my globe, you take my car, you take my this, you take my that, we call you into a soccer pitch or like people would call you into a soccer pitch. And those who lead those kind of structures would say, "How do you discipline this one here?" And then you tell them how you discipline them. They'll give you a shambok, a bench is there and then maybe you do like this. They say, "No, come we show you how you deal with this."

[00:34:28]because they don't want to take people to the prisons. Taking people to the prisons makes them even more corrupt.

[00:34:36]>> So best is the Ubuntu way. Try try go back.

[00:34:40]>> You get to do it again. Try try go back.

[00:34:42]You do it again. We make it stronger.

[00:34:46]>> That's good.

[00:34:47]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:34:48]>> That was better.

[00:34:49]>> Yeah.

[00:34:54]What's the time, guys?

[00:35:06]1637.

[00:35:08]>> Okay.

[00:35:17]>> Mana.

[00:35:18]>> Yes.

[00:35:19]>> Ma is someone's name.

[00:35:21]>> Okay.

[00:35:22]>> So, my my grandfather had four wives.

[00:35:26]four wives.

[00:35:26]>> He was a good man.

[00:35:28]>> He had four wives and to to keep his polygamy strong, the first wife was partnered with the third wife. The second wife with the fourth wife.

[00:35:42]>> How my aunt usually tells me is like this.

[00:35:45]>> It was like this.

[00:35:48]>> The first and the third. Second.

[00:35:49]>> First and the third. Second and the fourth. Take children from this one to this one. take children from this one to this one so that when this mother talks about this one and this one talks about this one this one will say ah no no no this mother is not like that I eat her food you know she raised me and all and and the same so that the children understand that we are one so men would do that and they had to be strong multi-wise do you know what multi is >> is what we're going to use for you >> what is that drop a comment if you know >> it's to make you scream at night Your mind just cannot stop thinking about me.

[00:36:27]>> What?

[00:36:28]>> Like a love.

[00:36:29]>> Hell no.

[00:36:30]>> And then you're like >> And there I'm standing at my home.

[00:36:41]>> And when he knock at my door, I'm like >> I know he's screaming tonight, bro.

[00:36:47]>> It's like witchcraft.

[00:36:48]>> It's love potion.

[00:36:50]>> It's a love potion. Love love potion for witchcraft. Witchcraft love portion.

[00:36:56]>> I like I like the portion.

[00:37:03]>> Do you still have which doctors?

[00:37:05]>> I want I'm telling you.

[00:37:07]>> Really?

[00:37:07]>> Stop saying it. What? What do you call it?

[00:37:09]>> Really? I'm just saying like you've been saying you want to see >> I want to I wanted to to see a witch doctor >> because we have not spoken to the sub chief's home but I'll just speak to you about he had like uh two wives and he had like uh 15 children and a lot of grandchildren. He had a lot of cows 45 cows to be precise and of course made made sure that made made sure that his um wives were staying on the same yard.

[00:37:37]Um and so for this reason he has a crawl in the middle. Um people come to take um cow poop uh at uh his home uh for their garden.

[00:37:47]>> This is where he stays.

[00:37:48]>> This is where he stayed.

[00:37:50]>> He stayed.

[00:37:51]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:37:52]>> Wait. People come and take poop for what?

[00:37:55]>> Uh poop for the garden because uh >> Oh, for the fertilizer.

[00:37:58]>> Fertilizer. And they would take also the um one to polish the floor. Oh, >> yeah.

[00:38:11]Looks cool. Yeah.

[00:38:13]>> Wow.

[00:38:15]>> Life in the village. Typical African life, guys.

[00:38:20]>> And it feels the same like it's just that their story a little bit a little bit different but >> same similar African story >> to >> Yeah. Let's go.

[00:38:34]In the next fine >> see my mother is happy that I'm bringing a wife. Oh >> yeah that's why >> it's the only easy way to do it.

[00:38:58]>> Welcome wife. You were enter first. Oh, >> enter.

[00:39:03]>> I want to capture that experience.

[00:39:11]>> Oh, the ladies sit on the left.

[00:39:13]>> Wow.

[00:39:16]Sit down on the right.

[00:39:18]>> And you may sit down. You may. Thank you.

[00:39:25]>> This is so nice. So in this house here you can see the door opens to the left because it has to protect the precious creatures women that produce uh life to the extension of that particular clan.

[00:39:37]It's about building the clan. This is the fireplace. So when >> um this is why they put this here and usually they'll make fire but this is a >> firewood >> with firewood that you will see on the piles outside. But reality of the matter is this is a semi-odern kitchen >> because you've got stoves, you've got gas, you've got this, you've got that.

[00:39:59]But ordinarily this is the separation between the genders, female and male.

[00:40:04]The door opens to the side so that when there's war coming outside or any attack doesn't attack a woman, it attacks who?

[00:40:11]The man. The man must face what's coming.

[00:40:13]>> Oh, >> this here is called at the entrance or rather the outside.

[00:40:20]So you'll hang what's important there in this area here. We have this grass called Iska. It's found on top of the mountain um or any other mountain. It's it has something like um so at the top >> is and then it has a stronger root. So to take it out you take it out hard from the grass. This you use it when you've been using the mystically used medicine of the zulus and you probably happen to have sex and to continue not kill the spirit of that medicine you have to chop this one and mix it with hot water go outside and bath and continue using the medicine. And also if you've been to a funeral as a mother and or a father when you come back we have to chew this spit it on the heads of the children so they don't capture the dark spirit you may be carrying with because death is considered a dark spirit. That's why chiefs and kings ordinarily shouldn't be attending funerals cuz it's a dark space.

[00:41:21]>> Okay. And so the fireplace when the fire goes to the top here and it hits the roof here and something starts hanging when children are crying or babies are crying cuz we believe babies can see things we as adults don't see.

[00:41:36]>> You take the dark stuff and put it as a cross on top of them and sometimes make them leak the ash from here so they can stop the hiccups and or crying and seeing stuff that they shouldn't see.

[00:41:48]You see on the ground here women when we look at them we look at their knees to see is this one a hard worker or not and knees has to be dark before I can pay my labor mine is dark.

[00:42:04]>> So I have to see the knees if they're dark enough or not. This one is a hard worker. Good. So it means they're usually like this on the floor polishing polishing the floor with cow dang. Cow down. this cow down here.

[00:42:18]>> Mhm.

[00:42:19]>> But there's still cement.

[00:42:20]>> Yeah. Um this might not necessarily be cement but this is this is but not all the time. It could be >> m >> let's put >> heart on the ground >> and it remains like this. This is the boys slingshot or the um the sub chief slingshot also when uh chickens are coming.

[00:42:45]or goats coming inside the house.

[00:42:46]>> If they're coming inside the house or if they're going into the garden, they'll use this. Or it's something that you can use as a boy going into the bush to hit birds.

[00:42:54]>> Yeah.

[00:42:56]>> Yeah. We'll compete. Have you hit a pigeon? Have you hit a sparrow? Have you hit this one? Have you hit a weaver?

[00:43:03]>> This now doesn't sound too good to westerners, but I mean, hey, hello.

[00:43:10]>> We're in the motherland. Yes, this is Sam. Ordinarily, I shouldn't be coming here because it's >> Oh, you have to take off your shoes, right?

[00:43:18]>> Yes. This is a very respected area.

[00:43:21]>> Um, this is Ukaba, the Zulu pot. This was used by the subchief when he is by himself and his family.

[00:43:28]>> Shoes and go my shoes.

[00:43:32]>> And at that time, >> go that side.

[00:43:34]>> And at that time, he would be very fun and joking with his children. So, they would love him more when he drinks a bit of this. Yeah.

[00:43:42]>> Uh he drank this by himself or his brothers and this when men that he actually shares common interest with have come to visit him to discuss local matters in the area they would take the bigger one.

[00:43:54]>> Yeah. So in Zulu we have what we call means we don't smoke the same cigarette.

[00:44:02]Me and you, we don't share the same smoke, particularly wheat.

[00:44:06]Zul would sit in the cra and when they sit in the crawl, they would smoke so that when they've smoked, they get to the next realm of thinking. When they get to the next >> You mean people back in the days, they used to smoke weed.

[00:44:19]>> Not like you smoke it the hip-hop way today.

[00:44:22]>> No, it's for >> Yeah, it's for us to understand the community better. So when you smoke weed and you start talking then I don't want to smoke with you. M >> you'd smoke with the people that can actually suggest our children are now behaving in a funny way. What can we do?

[00:44:38]Maybe we can start Zulu dancing group for girls.

[00:44:42]>> Maybe we can start zulu dancing or stick fighting tournaments and all this. Maybe we can have bulls fighting each other.

[00:44:49]This will entertain our kids that will keep them off thinking of stuff that's not necessary. Mhm.

[00:44:54]>> So, and so the subchief would sit in the crowd with his peers and they would discuss issues of that matter in our community and we believed that that was the best way of sharing stories around.

[00:45:06]>> This is called so before you married in the zulu thinking you're a boy and you have to cut the meat for all those who are married. So imagine all of them they are sitting there now you would know what men in the village are are given >> in times of ceremonies you put all the meat here you come with it raw before you cope right they will check it sit like it's good go when you come back you are like this the whole time just cutting it for them they like chop this one go for that one go for that one and this motivates boys to no man I don't want to do this forever >> no I I want to married at some point and tell the boys what to do because also in this area you cannot get a piece of land if you're not married.

[00:45:53]>> Wow.

[00:45:55]>> What are you building?

[00:45:57]>> You're building a squatter camp.

[00:46:01]>> That is really nice. Wow. But also new.

[00:46:05]>> Yeah.

[00:46:05]>> You need to get married.

[00:46:07]>> Yes.

[00:46:08]>> So you can have a piece of land >> to have a voice. You can't convince no one. Who you Who can you convince?

[00:46:15]>> No. You have no children that you tell do this, don't do that. Now, who are you in the community? So, please ma'am, I think it's dirty. Can you please sweep it?

[00:46:23]>> Yeah.

[00:46:26]>> So, where does the dirt go?

[00:46:27]>> It goes outside.

[00:46:28]>> Yes. Yeah.

[00:46:30]>> Where is dirty? The house is clean.

[00:46:37]>> My wife, please.

[00:46:39]>> Can we get We're getting married tomorrow. for you.

[00:46:43]>> Yeah, we can plan the wedding >> and I will need 22 cows.

[00:46:49]>> You see, now you see this thing of feminism only works when we are discussing >> once we are here. You see, she enjoys this. Don't you enjoy this?

[00:46:57]>> It's fun.

[00:46:58]>> Oh, thank you.

[00:47:02]>> But the house looks really nice. Do people sleep in the same same?

[00:47:07]>> No, they they have their own houses where they sleep. Oh, so when you build you build a kitchen, then you build a bedroom, then you build a sitting area.

[00:47:16]>> Yes. And in in homes like this, you build houses separately. You strategically place people based on which gender they are and stuff like that. Cuz I don't want my daughter to be sleeping next to my heart. Sleep there.

[00:47:34]>> Okay. So the daughters have their own rooms like that. Like in in short, you build just one room >> in what?

[00:47:41]>> You you build just one room. Like there's no way this house is partitioned inside. But it can have a kitchen here, a bedroom here.

[00:47:49]>> Oh, there the there. You see that one?

[00:47:52]It has some rooms.

[00:47:54]>> No, I'm saying this round one.

[00:47:55]>> Oh, it's just one >> one room. One round.

[00:47:58]>> Okay. One round.

[00:47:59]>> One round, >> guys. Thank you very much.

[00:48:02]>> No, you Thank you very much. At least you've experienced some village life. Guys, let me know in the comments section. Have you learned anything? If no, I don't know if how I will help you. It was me. I'm super impressed. Thank you.

[00:48:16]>> You've done your job, babe.

[00:48:18]>> It's okay.