stop lying; congo, cameroon and southern bantu consist of Bantu peoples like Xhosa, Twana and Zulu

Truly enjoyed the way you presented your test results. Like how you combined it with genealogical documents that traced your African ancestry. One of the better readings of genetic genealogy that I have seen.

Matthew, you are f#%king Proud and BeAuTiFuL!!!

I feel like I can see the 2% African features

No surprise a white South African has African DNA cuz duh😂😂😂

Yes, this is not a surprise. We have such things in the US as well. It's called passing. That's when someone in your bloodline is so light they can pass for a Euro and disowns their African family to so that they can be looked on and treated as a European. Even though they have African relatives they treat African people just as poorly as the Euros and sometimes worse. What a disgrace.

Your coloured

Any white South Africans who can trace their ancestry in South Africa before the arrival of the British in 1810, will have admixtures of black, khoi and Malaysian genes. Its was only with the arrival of the British and their colonization with their hierarchical social class society, that mixed marriages became socially frowned upon.

I am South African and live on the Isle of Man , was pretty shocked when I found that my Scandinavian dna actually was the viking line in my English side of my family.

There is no such thing as pure German or pure British. Nearly all of Europe has been mixing for thousands of years with a huge influence from Persian area. Whoever says they are pure something is just deceiving themselves.

South Africa just joined the chat with these ancestry tests.

That's so cool, to be honest I wasn't expecting you to have mixed ancestry, that's seriously cool

People forget that in the start of the half way stop at Cape town. There where no European women. So many men married slaves from Batavia and there were some slaves from West Africa but not much. So most Afrikaans people will have African and Asian DNA in their heritage. Some slaves where also from Madagaskar.

Help DNA confuses me .. why does his sisters differ to his if they share the same parents. Thanks.

you can use the N word now.

Can I ask a question ? If I can I want to know: if a mother and father have two children Q why is their DNA not the same as I hear you and your sisters DNA is mot the same?

A lot of native South Africans (at least those in coastal regions) have traces of European DNA too (which predates colonialism). I'm glad to see this from a South African.🙏

Learning about the unexpected African and Asian roots on my white mom's South African side has been such an adventure. I realize I hadn't learned about the history on the country at all, and how slavery from countries around the Indian Ocean was so fundamental to that.

2 % african so whatever really my guy

More like 0.1% African pal, your people colonised the land, raped and murdered many…. But yet claim to be African haha, the f**k outa here man!.🖐🏾

Im here after latest UFC event 😃

Somebody send this to Dricus du Plessis

How can i do this? I'm. based in SA

I'm Australian and I also had some surprise DNA. I discovered through Ancestry and 23andme that my great-great grandmother was Anglo-Indian. Never knew anything about Indian ancestry before that. I wasn't expecting it, but I wasn't surprised either as my grandfather didn't look fully European. It's sad that people back in those days had to hide their non-European roots. I think we are more mixed than we realise. I have a few Australian cousins on Ancestry who even have small amounts of African ancestry from the Caribbean.

You look it to me and already knew when I clicked on it. I called it exactly 2% African. Unless white south africans kept yourselves in a cage down there and away from native africans theres no way most white south africans dont have some kind of african DNA. But you have really exotic looking features for a white person I would think you were either a foreigner if you were living in america or mixed minimum with 1 or 2% asian and black. You dont look like a common caucasian from europe you have a very round face high cheekbones and chinky shaped eyes. Those are african and asian features. Something you dont see on most white people. White people in the deep south in america also have minimum 1-10% african. Because of all the mixing they did 100s of years ago.

Nice results! I'm a South African of Portuguese origin but my girlfriend is Afrikaans and she has an incredible mix of things we weren't expecting 😂

You will be surprised how many white south africans have black african DNA. A test was done a few years ago and it was found thT 98% of white Afrikaans proeple have black african DNA. Yes it's only 1-2% but that still means somewhere i their history they had a black african person in their family

Thank you for this video, which is really nice and clear. I am just wondering what I can do when I know that there was a will and estate documents (Cape) but they are can't be found by clicking right on the DN file.

If ALL South Africans did a dna test there would be NO RACISM in anyone!

Asians like to travel .....so....

You're South African in name only. 😀

Hi Matthew, where would I find birth records please

Nah u white

Iam in south africa at Durban where do I go for my test

I can't wait to do mine my grandfather was South African ,but I wonder how many ppl in South Africa have registered

do your bode lines come from south africa as well as austrailia or just europe, I think we might be related through Mackenzie-roberts-wells-wynne-hall-smith-vernon(dont know what is direct however im of Mixed race background) on my Dads side

The thing, even with 1% of something, it’s only a few generations back. The bottom line, you can’t go by the percentages, use that to understand your family tree. Oh, in the US we say Black or people of color. Wonderful.

So your African heritage is not South African. During the slave trade, other African groups and West and Southern Asians (lndians, Malaysians, Indonesians and Central and East Africans from the Indian ocean slave trade). But majority of your European DNA in South Africa comes from a group of settlers from North West Europe. South Africa, DID not have a domestic slave trade, where the natives here were shipped of some place else. Most South Africans don't really have long lost people scattered around in Africa or the world, our basis of colonisation did not start with a slave trade of natives, but a slave trade of others (Indian ocean slave trade) being brought here by Companies, not representatives of the British or Dutch rulers and government. The unique part of South African colonisation was most South Africans were treated as cheap labourers if they were of color for the past 150 years in the agricultural sector and mining sector. Colonies here started as settlements (not administrative colonies from European countries or government) and most of them were Europeans being dumped here because they weren't wanted wherever they came from so most White South Africans only know Africa and they know nothing else. The British had the mines and Dutch and some French (Huguenots that settled, not colonized, but settled in the Cape in the 1600 and 1700s) had agriculture so most Dutch, French, Portuguese South Africans have been here for atleast the past 250 years if not more. The industrialization of the mining and agricultural industries might have brought other groups of Europeans to South Africa, like how some Europeans and Japanese people went to Brazil in the late 1800s and early 1900s to be labourers there. South Africa also has a small group of South African Asians from East Asia (South Chinese, Guangdong/ Hong Kong and Taiwan). They came here in the early 1900s or late 1800s. Your results are not so surprising if you put history into context. History IN South Africa because that is were you are.

My foot, you're black! And proud of it. I salute you man.

Hello from central asian. Central asian means turkic origin.

Is it possible to edit a custom report that has been saved: Open it and make corrections?

Yes, haters cannot tell you you don't belong in Africa.

Wondering if it's as easy to obtain genealogical record for black south Africans (and sothos from Lesotho) as I'm just coming across this. Always been told my great grandfather was coloured and was interested in investigating that

Im from indian (from Durban). Which DNA test is most suitable for me to do?

Very helpful videos Matthew.

Some of the words you say sound so kiwi!

She was definitely mixed ethnicity.

When people live close together, there will be some rolling in the hay!! This has happened through out the ages, even with Neanderthals. Great research.

born in afrika doesn't make one Afrikan!!!

Thanks Mathew i would try, though struggling to find them, have been struggling the whole week, learning from your presentation.