Ian is a motor boat passionate and has a motor boat on a lake Chivero. Darrel is his friend who knows boats inside out. I met them at the boat club. They invited me for a ride. I heard many interesting stories from them. Viking migrations, gold mining, Southern Africa as it is. Check this out. Check my new series from Africa. i visited Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa but i stayed the longest in Zimbabwe. Check how i explore Shona and Ndebele culture, food, music, night life, wild life and many other topics in Norton, Katanga, Lake Chivero and Harare. I also talked to white Zimbabweans and find many interesting stories. I was shocked when i came to South Africa and saw an epidemy of white Afrikaners homeless on the streets of Johannesburg and Pretoria. Check the new series.
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Folks, we are here with Daryl and Ian who are going to take me for the for the ride. Uh very nice people just like that invite me the boat and uh hopefully we can listen to their stories after. But let's focus now about taking off. They significance their Rs are slightly different and the G does slightly different. Ah. Ah. Do they do they say they are like stronger? Yeah. It's a bit more emphasized. Yeah. Ah, I see. Okay.
Yeah. Th this guys talks the English with the Zimbabwean accent and they just told me that the accent from South Africa is very different. Ian said that the they they speak with that the R the stronger R and Gez you said different as well. Yes. But you all say like back. I'm back. I'm neck neck. You know like the a for e I I notice like I think the here in Europe is like back and you say back. We're back. Yeah. But how do you say the boys are back in town? Here we go.
The guy who invented the telephone, right? Um, the first words on the telephone was aoy, not hello. Was aoy. Yeah. So, if had it kept up, we'd still be saying aoy aoy. Not just the chicks are saying [Music]
Ian and Daryl are in the sheds there. So, I'm going to go there and see if I can find out more about the life of Zimbabwe.
All right. So, you you you walking on the small engine now? Yes. To fish the bus. Oh, [ __ ] These guys, they have to stay. Okay, no problem. Take it. They know how what to do any anything here. They well prepared. Uh, we can draw with that. Okay, tell me where. Yeah, look this he does look Nordic basically. Look at this face. Blond eyes, blonde eyes, blue blonde hair, blue eyes. Nordic must be we've got Nordic. Nordic. Yes. Person in in Africa. Now the Vikings are migrating still. Yeah, we're still m we're still conquering. So your great granddad, how happened that he came to to Zimbabwe? So he started off as a cabin boy on a on a boat, right? And he came to South Africa. He was a cabin boy and his the boats from from where? From Norway. From Norway. And he went over to England. That's a bit tight. And became a cabin boy on the boat in England. All right. And the captain liked him. And his name our our name was. You might pronounce it. [Music] And the captain of the ship said, "Enough of this nonsense. Your name is no." And his his name was Johan. Mhm. And he said, "No longer is your name Johan. Your name is now John Austin." And that's how I got how we got our name. It was a nickname. It wasn't a proper name. Wow. Yeah. So, it was actually put in the register as as John, but John Austin. Okay. They've changed the the original names. That's fine. Yes. The British tend to do that. Yeah, they do. Everybody has a nickname. So he came to this country and then so what happened was there was a mutiny on the ship and the captain said to him, "Yeah, you come with me and they went to South Africa." Yeah. And my my uncle, my grand great grandfather, I'd like a nut as well. You had the nuts. There they are. as long as I've got none. Um, and the captain took my great-grandfather under his wing and looked after him. And he started working and he borrowed money and he said, "This is the only time in my life that I will ever borrow money from now on. I'll never borrow money." And as soon as he paid the money back, he he left. And he heard of a wagon train coming up to Rudesia. And he decided, I'm coming to Rudia and he Oh, he went for a trip or on the wagon train. Yes. Just to see the place. No, not just to see the place. He to move here. He moved. Yeah, he moved here from South Africa to basically bush from Norway to to bush. Right. Right. He was like under the the British. He spoke He wasn't with the the Africans. No, he wasn't the Africans. Uh he he was in he was in Norway, right? I think we are there by Rajesa was invited to become a fifth product province of South Africa and they turned it down. What year was that? Oh uh I can't remember 50 something in the 50s somewhere somebody no it was before the 50s and 19 about 1940 it was like smuts and smuts I think general smuts was the uh the people of Zimbabwe of Rhodesia said no we don't want to be part of South Africa. Yes, it was southern Rodesia. Southern Rodia, right? I don't know why I keep saying Rodesia. There was It was southern Rodesia and Northern Rod. Northern Rodia, which is now Zambia. Yes. Interesting. And then my So that was a little bit of history. My Let me get the My greatgrandfather, right? Um where's the started off?
There they are. there. My greatgrandfather started off as a farmer and he started off in Okay, Bulway Bulway in Bulway. Then he moved to Gueru to Guillo and then he moved from Guillo to Quiqu and my grandfather I'll give it a titan please on was the first mayor of Que which is a a town big it's a yeah it's a town and your grandfather was the first mayor of Que right and there's a bridge over the Sabbakwe river that is still bought the John George Austin Bridge and I noted in return. Are you kidding? Yeah. You're after your granddad. Wow. We're talking about very prominent family here when it comes to Zimbabwe and the war because you said that your granddad also told me the story about the boat. So my grandfather because of the proximity to Norway they he wanted to join the the British forces but because of the proximity of Norway to Germany they were afraid that he might be a spy. I think Norway was ne neutral at that point in the second war. So maybe didn't help. And even we so the we were he was born on an island just off Norway but was part of Norway. I see. Okay. And so he was there you go. So because he was Mind your fingers now. Yeah. Because he was refused um entry into the British army. He bought a battleship for Redesia called the HMS Bulway. um he wanted it originally to be called HMSQ or HMS Gueru or Midlands but they called it HMS Bulawo and even today there's a HMS Bulawo Society and you can Google it and you can look it up and you'll find out a little bit about the history of of uh the battleship. Um my my grandfather was a gold miner. A gold miner. A gold miner. And he owned quite a lot of the mines. And in just outside Redcliffe, he discovered there's a type of clay that they use for medicine. And he was the one who discovered that in just outside Ritcliffe. and then he became the first mayor of Quequ and then when he when he left he and my grandmother were very interested in horses. So they came to Ssbury and started a stud and they wanted a site for a raceourse and the original raceourse was in going to be in Belvadier but the government wanted a airport in Belvadier. So there was a bit of conflict of interest and so my grandfather went and cited it at its present place at Boredell [Music] at Bardell Racecourse and my grandmother and my grandfather's ashes are at the winning post at Bard Racecourse. Um because they were founder members they started Bardell Racecourse. All right. Okay. So that is that one one of many race courses in in in the main race course in Zimbab is the main it's the main one the only one going I think I don't Escot is not going anymore I don't think no really all the names sound so much like in England Escott Belg grave is just like English names well I mean it was an English colony so Belgravia and all these names in Kensington and places like this these are all suburbs in the Rari but it's all English. Yeah. Sounds Yeah. parts of London. Yeah. I think a lot of people from around London has settled and identify. Yeah. So even if you go to even in America, if you go to Australia, anywhere where there's British colonies, you'll find that some of the places have got the same names as places in um in England because they identified certain features of that place with where they were in Africa. Have you got place called Gleno in in South Africa or in Zimbabwe? We we have a a road called Gleno Road because that's a little Scottish village. That's where I used to work on that campsite. I and I know there's Gleno in US and uh and there's Gleno road in Zimbabwe. Yeah, it's a beautiful place in Scotland is uh is rocks, rocks, rocks, you know, high high mountains. Pardon? You like rocks? Well, they look, you know, spectacular. Yeah. Well, in Zimbabwe, you've got plenty rocks as well. And here in Bulaway, like I said, in South Africa, like I said, um the Mtopus here in Bulawa, just outside Bulawa, it's something you have to see. You've never seen anything like this. I mean, um Ceil John Rose, who named the place Rodisha, obviously, is buried on top of this huge Oh, yeah. I know what you're talking about. It's called World's View. It's one great big granite stone. It's about um 3,000 ft high. Is that a national park? Is it It's a national park. It's a national park, but it's it's just one stone. It's one rock. It's about 3,000 ft high. Yeah, I've I've seen video of that. Yes. Um I was asking some people, but they didn't know what I'm talking about. So, I'm glad that you mentioned that. That's It's really worth seeing. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else, to be honest. Yeah, I know. It's It's like another miracle, you know. It's mind-blowing. Yes. Yeah. How did you manage to to to have this? I lived in Bulawway. I came from Bulway. I'm not from Mr. All right. So, you more bulaw. How is the difference between the the the Nella and the Sha people? No, not the Lella. In the belly. Oh, yeah. Not in the head or in the foot, but in the belly. In the belly. Right. In the belly. Yeah. That's how you you say do you see a big difference between them? Yeah. Yeah. Big time. Big time. Character wise, um work ethic wise, lots of lots of differences. Slight two different differences. Actually, two different nation. Yeah. One is definitely war more warlike and the other one's more cover. the genre of basically um the hinder belly were an offshoot of the Zulu tribe. They blow up in the Zulus and they kicked um the king out and he came here and formed the Matabili which is basically a warlike tribe. It's the Zulus that became the Matabilli and the whole the country at that time was owned by the Bushmen and the Shauners which are pretty relaxed like just farming and what and they basically just kicked them out of all the nice places and said you go and live over here. Oh, the Embella people. The Indelly. Yeah. Oh, I see. So the Indelly kicked them out and Yeah. And Yeah. Nowadays they kicked them out. That that was the Shauna regions before the bul the whole this whole country was Shauna and Bushman owned the whole country before the indelly came. See darl when you're talking about the bushman is that in the in the particular small guys about 5 foot same size as that same size bey
careful now all you got to do is paint in black a new bushman. So it's a it's like the pig maze. Yeah. Okay. No, they're a bit bigger than pygmies, but not very they they're small guys like my my I would be a big bush. All right. But sort of my size build and whatever, but I would be one of the bigger guys, right? Let's put it that way. That's how I how I felt when I was in Japan. The bigger guys, the bigger guys. Okay. Yeah. There's a language. Okay. There's a language called chilapa. Chilalapa it's used chilapa lapa it's used on the mines and on the farms but it's a dying language because not really uh still anyone can understand chilapalapa no it's a quite a simple thing it's a mixture of English Africans sha belly zulu right I because some English as well what happened because of the big mines in South Africa right they wanted labor so they just came and got guys from all over Africa and they said you are now working for us and these guys spoke Shauna and those guys spoke Mander belly and these guys spoke something else. So they mixed all the languages together to something that everyone could understand. And how does say that name again my friend? Chilapalapa chilapalapa right you go in the back smaller. We're going to a club next door. Guys are taking me with them. I kindly please come here. This is a This is a journalist. He's just coming in. He's going He's going to be with us for about 15 minutes and then coming out again. Okay. He's just This is David, right? This is David. David looks after our gate. Okay. Okay. Thank you, David. Nice to meet you.
You got a cell phone. Hook up with me on WhatsApp and I'll send you the video. Yeah. Look guy, Darl is actually a gold miner and Moroza. Makora. That's what we call. The gold miners. And there's a lot around in Zimbabwe. Gold miners. My mother's side of the family from Kimbley in South Africa. Um great great grandfather great great actually owned 10% of the beer's mine. You know the big hole in where they made all the money and found the diamonds and everything. Yep. He actually in South Africa. Yeah. He owned 10% of that worth to at today's money billions of dollars. He sold it for it was in the paper and I one of my family has got it. He sold it for £106. 10% of that mine for £106. When was that? In the 1880s. Yeah, it wasn't much. It was a lot of money. £106 in the All right. In in 1880s. 1880s. 1880s. Yes. Yeah, it was a lot of money. But imagine what it would be worth now. Hello. Hello. This is your boy Vlogger Zupa. Welcome to the new series from Africa Zimbabwe. I have 3 weeks to travel around this country. The size of Zimbabwe is about the size of the UK, but it's only inhabited by 14 million people. 80% of that population is Shauna tribe and we will look closely at them. We will look at their oral traditions, music, food, and of course night life. Snuff tobacco is a big part of Shaa culture. I had the experience to use it myself. Find out if I've connected with my ancestors. ancestors totems and spirituality is a big thing in Shona culture. So is the music. A traditional instrument called serves as the telephone to the spirits. Their has been estimated to exist in Shona society for the past thousand years. It is a mystical instrument full of tradition and history. The repatory dates itself back many centuries and it's only passed down orally. I was very fortunate to meet the right people who explained to me complicated history of this region. Zimbabwe and street food is amazing. Watch the episode where I eat chicken and cow feet. At Lake Chiver, I've met Gary who showed me his birds and told me interesting history of his Dutch side of the family. I've also met Ian Darl and Alex whose stories were as incredible. Make sure you watch the interviews I've had with them. Also definitely watch the episode about the Johan Masawa church which is a phenomena of Zimbabwan church. It is a church without a church. Yes, they pray in nature. 30% of Zimbabwan territories covered with national parks or protected areas. Animals are protected by the common belief of totems. But it is the people of Zimbabwe that made the biggest impression on me. They were very kind and helpful and I never felt unsafe. Subscribe to the channel and watch the series from Africa. [Music] is so bad. [Music]
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