Boere 🇿🇦 in Patagonia 🇦🇷 I found Afrikaans Speakers in Argentina

[@paulmalherbe7206]

the Boers never lost the war. Kitchener the coward was embarrassed by the fact that his massive army could not overcome a small resistance of not more than 80 000 Boers. So he reverted to a cowardly tactic, later called the scorched earth strategy, burning down farms and targeting Boer women and children. So the Boers surrendered.

[@LewisWirth]

I know, and creating what we’re basically the first concentration camps

[@JJs2121]

100% when they could not beat the men the fought woman and children very brave 😢 war against woman and kids.... yes that's how they fought

[@victorvosoba6650]

Yes, Germans did not invent Concentration Camps, Germans merely made British invention very efficient. When we lived in Pretoria, we knew location of the camp, outside of Pretoria, today a suburb.

[@Frog13799]

​@@LewisWirththe Spanish beat the Brits to it in Cuba, they used reconcentration policies on a large portion of the population. The British word is just a variation on the Spanish original.

[@DocuZone596]

Still a defeat

[@kwaaikat100]

Dankie vir jou moeite hiermee, regtig interessant! Ek en my vrou het in 2006 ‘n paar weke deur Argentinië getoer, wat ‘n onvergeetlike reis was. Ons kon ongelukkig nie in daardie deel van Patagonië uitkom nie - dit sou net te veel wees om te probeer inpas, maar ons het mense in Bariloche ontmoet wat ons taal herken het as Afrikaans. Argentinië is ‘n ongelooflik interessante land.

[@RozyPozy912]

Rede om weer te gaan

[@ArthurBrum2015]

I knew of the Boers in Argentina, but what I like about your channel is that you don't showcase those kind of people like a zoo as many channels does sometimes, you're real and it's lovely to see

[@LewisWirth]

Thanks man that means a lot. I kind of get a little what you mean. Part of this is probably caused by famous people like celebrities have a higher percentage of psychopaths and very Machiavellian people. And then on top of that most don’t speak any language other then English

[@ArthurBrum2015]

@@LewisWirth I thinks it might also be because many people who does that kind of content are Americans and they have lots of prejudice with Latin America. Of course, everyone has its prejudices, wherever they might be from, but Americans specially have a few things more due to the puritan culture and all the history of racial segregation. And so, for them, it is otherwordly that there are Latin Americans who doesn't speak Spanish or Portuguese, who doesn't come from a Spanish or Portuguese background, who have closer ties to Europe than themselves, etc.

[@socailplayer]

@@LewisWirth They should be exposed for what they really are!

[@Palivfed]

The leaders of the Boer colonization in Argentina were the Boer John Louis William Baumann of Ladybrand and the Italian Camillo Ricchiardi. They contacted the Argentine government to process the land issues. It is a similar story to the Welsh colonization in Argentina with Lewis Jones.

[@delarey40]

Mooi om Afrikaans so te hoor! Absolutely amazing, love it.😁

[@helanalurie9962]

Ek stem saam! Ons mense het n baie sterk oorleweingsinstink en weet ons genade kom van Bo. Is jy afstammeljng van Genl De La Rey of net dieselfde van?

[@konradstark3110]

Loved this, from South Africa but went to Patagonia last year, amazing place!

[@LewisWirth]

Sweet what parts did you visit?

[@konradstark3110]

@@LewisWirth Torres del Paine ... did the O-Trek and then went over to Argentina and did the Laguna de los Tres hike to Mt'Fitzroy's base .... enjoyed those famous little towns down there: Puerto Natales, El Calafate and El Chalten ... loved it, life changing experience!

[@barbaraaraujo7700]

Patagonia is beautiful and the Boer culture is very interesting. The Netherlands should open its doors to Afrikaners from South Africa, who are being discriminated against and persecuted by that country's socialist government.

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah I think that that’s one of the worst things about our government. Such a shame that they don’t open their doors to our brothers basically yet open them instead to people that don’t have our best interests in mind.

[@wolraadwoltemade3275]

Would be nice to have the option but assimilating will be an end to our very unique regionally specific culture, but to have the Dutch government be warm and welcome towards those of us want to leave and assimilate, kill off our culture and become Dutch, it should be an option at least.

[@True-yj3ur]

No. We South Africans needs the Afrikaners. You're part of us. Without you, we wouldn't have a rainbow nation.

[@flacosolazzi6250]

Barbara Araujo: jaja Gobierno socialista el sudafricano ? uy Dio' !

[@barbaraaraujo7700]

@@flacosolazzi6250 Sim, pesquise sobre o governo de Jacob Zuma e sua tentativa de expropriar a terra dos fazendeiros brancos, sem a devida indenização. Assista o documentário "FARMLANDS" de 2018 e verá que muitas leis da África do Sul tratam brancos como cidadãos de 2º categoria. Pesquisa ainda sobre Julius Malena, líder de Extrema Esquerda e membro da Assembleia Nacional da África do Sul, que prega abertamente a violência contra os brancos.

[@dionkruger9374]

Thank you for showing this to the world. It's really great to see that there are still Afrikaans speaking "Argentines", descendants from the Boers who went looking for greener pastures after the Boer War. Now, I’m probably going to kick open a bee hive here. 0:26 you say the the Boers lost the war against the British. I would like to correct that by saying, the Boers were forced to surrender because the British were murdering their wives and children in the concentration camps, burning the Boers farms and killing off their livestock because the British was busy losing the war and had to turn to these inhumane desperate measures to force the Boers to give up their freedom. All this caused the Boers to rather give up their freedom than to keep on seeing their loved ones getting starved, raped and killed by the British.

[@splashafrica]

They where not forced to surrender they surrendered on their own terms the vote to end the war was extremely narrow and only passed after gen smuts and Botha convinced the others also general smuts not so secretly met with the British to frame boer objectives in terms the English would accept in the final peace agreement the boers scored almost all their points with the acception of compensation in contrast the English ended the war completely isolated from Europe while only winning on paper and Botha and smuts Continued to pressure the government to secure greater independence after the war in fact during ward war 2 smuts had cosy him up to the British elite to such an extent he was considered 1st in line to replace Churchill during the war should something happen

[@siyakhonakanjalo1769]

The ones left did the very same thing to the Bantu people and created the Apartheid system for us black people. They killed parents and loved one. The Apartheid system was only abolished 30 years ago.

[@Bushbaby1977]

Ja Dion, die Britte het net kak kom maak. Ons byt nogsteeds die spit af. Die ergste van alles is daar is seker nie een Britse kind vandag wat weet wat in Suid-Afrika gebeur het nie, want hulle leer glad nie van dit in Geskiedenis nie. Daar word niks van die konsentrasie kampe en verkragting en moord op vroue en kinders gese nie. Ons het maar 'n baie tragiese verlede. Ek is in Suidwes Afrika gebore en bly nogsteeds hier en glo my ons is besig om Suid Africa te raak. Hier dink mens nog jy is veilig, maar dit raak net elke dag erger. Sterkte en Groete.

[@erniegouws7262]

​@@siyakhonakanjalo1769you truly are ignorant in your ""FACTS"" about history 😮

[@siyakhonakanjalo1769]

@erniegouws7262 I was the product of Apartheid, I personally experienced Apartheid including my whole family. My children will never have a grandfather because of Apartheid. My own mother has a bullet in her forehead. Thank God she is alive. I don't understand why am being ignorant when my own brother got lost and even today, we were never able to find him. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? The boer never killed and rape our loved ones? Why the insults? Isn't my trauma and pain the same when English people did that to the boer people? The boer are no different to the English. Atleast the English gave the Boers a choice us black people we not given that privilege instead it was the people that fought with the assistance of the international community, such as Russia, Germany and including English people protesting against Apartheid.

[@bukswillemsoosthuizen3745]

❤Proudly.....n Boer...en ek is TROTS om deel te wees van n sterk Boerevolk ..ons sal staande bly..💪💪

[@helanalurie9962]

Thank you for sharing this amazing video! I didn't know my people went to Argentina after the 2nd Boer war against Britain. Many of us still have furniture and other household goods here and there in our houses that we keep safe, reminding us of the war, where we came from and that we got up, survived and re-built again midst extremely difficult circumstances. Met groot dank van n Afrikaner met 'n boerehart van Pretoria Suid Afrika ❤

[@LewisWirth]

Thank you for your message. I'm glad you enjoyed it and perhaps you'll be interested in some of the other videos too.

[@hendo19742]

COLONEL CHRIS WYATT COVERED THIS IN HIS LIVESTREAMS 👍🇺🇸🇿🇦 GROETE UIT ENGELAND👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@thenaughtyred]

Hulle Weet Nie wat ons weet nie ❤🇿🇦

[@michelleberthold6270]

en wat is dit?

[@oldguysrule1488]

Hulle weet want hulle is Afrikaans!

[@michelleberthold6270]

@@thenaughtyred Ek ook.....maar Weet Nie wat hulle Weet Nie......sê my....Dan Weet ons almal

[@Cactus-Jack69]

@@michelleberthold6270 Is jy dom? Ever heard of resilience!!

[@Cactus-Jack69]

@@michelleberthold6270 Nee jy het jou Afrikaner identiteit lankal verloor met jou dom vraag! Sies man! Afrikaners weet hoe om voort te bestaan, hoe om te werk, hoe om n plan te maak, hoe om te veg, ensovoorts! Gaan leer jou Afrikaner geskiedenis van 1652, Anglo Boer era, konsentrasie Kampe, en en en! Jy glo seker in sosialisme kommunisme onder JOU ANC regering? Jy glo seker ook in fairy tales reg?

[@gavinalmeida1994]

NG Kerk - Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk. When I was in High School we had visitors from Argentina that spoke at our school. It was at President Highs School, it was Afrikaans school.

[@PhilosophicaLeo]

When did that happen ?

[@gavinalmeida1994]

@Groove23 1986-87 ish

[@PhilosophicaLeo]

@@gavinalmeida1994 Yes like but that's a long time ago. My parents were toddlers

[@charlielawrence2156]

As a South African, hearing the older style of Afrikaans was very interesting. I've never heard that type of dialect before, the language has changed a lot since then. Also a correction, at 13:41, you are pointing at the wrong man. The man on the right is Pik Botha, the minister of foreign affairs from 1977-1994. The man you are talking about is the other one, FW de Klerk, who was president before Nelson Mandela and became his vice-president.

[@Quakl3ons_Eyes]

I think their dialect of Afrikaans must've come from the Boersans dialect or something similair to that

[@wernercowley]

Dankie vir die video👌 Ek het nie geweet daar was afrikaanse mense wat weg getrek het in daai tyd nie. Maar kan verstaan hoekom hulle sou. Thank you very much the video really enjoyed it👍

[@helanalurie9962]

Ek was netso verbaas om hiervan te hoor.

[@weetbix4497]

Fascinating! You were naturally curious and respectful, and I think they sensed and appreciated this. Dankie vir die video! Dank je wel voor de leuke video makker 👏

[@LewisWirth]

Dankie for watching

[@christienodendaal3001]

May God keep you and bless you there in Argentina.

[@kerneelswolfaardt6016]

Baie dankie vir jou kanaal. Uitstekende werk

[@barbaraholzmann946]

Thank you for sharing this - it is wonderful to hear about this community -

[@hendo19742]

SHARED ON TWITTER AND WHATSAPP GROUPS, COLONEL CHRIS WYATT ON KZbin 👍🇺🇸🇿🇦

[@jeanniekurver7205]

As a South African Citizen of 80 years old I really find your video very interesting. A correction however: The clothes that the SA immigrants wore, were not Dutch. It origins from the Voortrekkers that wore them on the Treks with the ox wagons. There is also Volks dances that the Voortrekkers participated in called Volkspele.

[@LewisWirth]

Didn’t I say that it looked like old Dutch clothing instead of it being old Dutch clothing. Cause they’re surely related. Of course not exactly the same thing but with the same origin

[@christienodendaal3001]

After I watched a previous Voetspore that introduced some of those Afrikaner-descendants in Argentina, I haven't been able to forget about them, specifically their church/Reformed Christian heritage. Who was also touched by this?

[@WIGGER_AESTHETIC_031]

Ek was ook. Baie interresant.

[@stephanuhu963]

​@WIGGER_AESTHETIC_031 Vir my netso hartverskeurend is die Dorsland trekkers se geskiedenis, wat Afrikaner boere in Angola gestrand het, waar die Portugese koloniale regering ook mettertyd hulle taal en kultuur onderdruk het.

[@WIGGER_AESTHETIC_031]

@@stephanuhu963 ja dit is definitief iets wat gebeur het.

[@helanalurie9962]

Dis lekker om mede Afrikaners op oorsese kanale te sien. Ons Volkie het 'n moeilike geskiedenis, maar met genade van Bo het ons vasgebyt.

[@mehlcarelse4319]

Siende dat ek self van Suid Afrika is kan ek defnitief se dat ons as kleurlinge baie respek vir hulle het. In enige besegheids transaksie weet jy van die begin af waar jy met hulle staan en daar is geen rugstekery met n dolk in jou rug met hulle nie. As jy jou kant kan bring dan sal hulle vir jou help en by jou staan. Baie eerlike mense. Op hulle plase soos miskien met skape sal daardie boer in sy bakkie klim en deur daai donderweer en hael ry om te gaan kyk of alles met sy vee in orde is. Hulle skroom nie vir n' uitdaging nie en hulle maak seker dad Suid Afrika gevoed word en dat daar kos in die land is. Hulle is ook fantastiese ingenieurs en ek sal bevestig dat hulle is intelligent genoeg pm skouer tot skouer saam met die Sweedse nasie kan staan sonder om te verwag dat n' supermoondheid land vir hulle alles moet doen nie. By voorbaat dank.

[@FrancodelaCuesta]

Hey, Lewis, I hope one day you can show us around Namibia or South Africa, maybe German towns like Swakopmund or Lüderitz. I'm very fond of your people and their history, towards which I see a parallel with us, the descendants of Iberian and Italian settlers on this side of the Atlantic. I'm also very fond of Rooibos tea and Afrikaans. It sounds wicked good, as do most Germanic languages. See you in your next video, and thank you for coming to Argentina.

[@LewisWirth]

Thanks mate. Those places are actually already on my list. I have some other priorities but one day when I’m in the area I’ll go there

[@FrancodelaCuesta]

​@@LewisWirth If you come around South America again, there are some German-speaking colonies in Paraguay, Bolivia, and La Pampa (in Argentina). Most of them are mennonites, but some moved in from Germany after the COVID lockdowns. You can also find towns with German heritage in Southern Chile, like Puerto Varas. And Capitán Pastene may interest you as well; it's a small Italian town.

[@LewisWirth]

@ I did visit some of the German towns in Chile the other ones I didn’t they were just too far away from everything to work it out in my schedule

[@FrancodelaCuesta]

@@LewisWirth Wow, you really were all over the place. Then maybe you should go to the Falklands sometime. I bet you haven't, and it would make for an interesting video or experience.

[@LewisWirth]

@ Yeah I considered going to the Falklands same with Antarctica but it was ridiculously expensive you can’t set foot on Antarctica unless you get special permission or something and the Falklands aren’t that eventful compared to for example the Faroe Islands so it’ll have to wait for a time where money is more abundant cause it’s pricey and I’d also have to get around somehow

[@riaan237]

Na die oorlog in 1902 was die Britte verbaas gewees om te sien hoeveel Boere oor is. Hulle het gedink al die Boere is uitgewis. Hier is ons nog steeds.

[@martinvanvuuren]

Buenos dias. Ole Patagonia. Love the place. And the new president will make a huge difference.

[@LewisWirth]

I hope he will make a difference too. Though I’m afraid he won’t do even nearly enough.

[@mmb811]

13:43 Incorrect, FW De Klerk, the image in the middle was the President before Nelson Mandela. The guy you pointed at on the right was the Foreign Minister

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah a friend told me that but found no way to change it in post

[@gbone7581]

Pik Botha.

[@lynettedeklerk1550]

Baie dankie dat jy vir ons dit kon wys.... my skoonpa ....FW de Klerk is die man in die middel foto en het in 2021 gesterf Sy seun....Willem ....was my man en het ook n jaar voor sy pa, FW, aan kanker gesterf. Baie dankie vir almal in hierdie mooi stroke inligting

[@LewisWirth]

@@lynettedeklerk1550 wow deam crazy that you found this video I guess. hope you enjoyed the video. and condolences

[@lynettedeklerk1550]

@@LewisWirth.....I guess it was send from heaven.....Baie dankie

[@ecpnothnagel9121]

Baie groete vanuit Orania!!! Stuur van julle jongmense om by ons te kom studeer by BoKaroo Opleiding. Ons sal verseker vir hulle beurse kan organiseer.

[@anitapretorius4124]

Goeie idee

[@LewisWirth]

Ek het wel met die man daar gepraat oor die goeie universiteit in Orania. Alhoewel ek nie weet hoeveel mense daarin sal belangstel nie, maar dit is 'n goeie voorstel. Alhoewel die mense met goeie werksetiek geneig is om byvoorbeeld goeie onderwys in Buenos Aires te kry. En nie een van die kinders praat regtig Afrika nie, diegene met 'n mate van belangstelling ken 'n paar woorde. As ek met die mense praat, het ek my nie baie optimisties gemaak oor die behoud van die hegting daar nie, en ek verstaan baie hoekom sekere Boere nie wil vertrek nie, want hulle glo nie dat hul kultuur buite SA gehandhaaf kan word nie (en sommige omliggende lande) Maar ek is baie bly dat my video Orania bereik het, ek hoop dat meer mense daar kan sien. En ek hoop ook om eendag Orania te kan besoek.

[@ShingwedziGlen]

@@LewisWirth And Aberdeen in the Karoo!

[@Quakl3ons_Eyes]

​​@@LewisWirthWanneer jy na Suid-Afrika toe kom, jy moet asseblief vir die Weskus kom kyk. Daar's soveel invloede van verskillende kulture oorals om die aarde in die Kaapse Burghers se Afrikaanse kultuur, dié dialek is ń bietjie anderste as byvoorbeeld die Transvalers of die Droëlanders in die Noord-Kaap s'n. Maar ek dink jy sal dit geniet om allie ou geboue en wynplase te sien en om die verskillende kos te probeer, soos Koeksisters, die bekende braaibroodjies van Swellendam en ń heerlike potjie ook. Van wat ek weet die KKNK is die beste Afrikaanse kunsfees in die wêreld, as jy deur die Klein Karroo eksploreer, jy sal ń verskydenheid van kuns en skildery dorpies vind. Daar is tot ń Khoisan Museum. Baie Europiese toeriste hou van die weskaap, meerste paaie het geen potholes nie en areas is nie te gevaarlik nie. Tensy jy van Kaapstad of George praat. Die kleurlinge is ń heeltemal ander kultuur met hul eie komplekse geskiedenis en sub-kulture nes Afrikaans. Hulle het die Kaapse-Malaise, Kaapse-Kleurling, Griquas en ń klomp ander kulture. Meertse van hulle praat die Kaaps taal wat verskillend maar nogsteeds verstaanbaar is vir mees Afrikaans Sprekers. Ek dink jy sal baie geïnterreseerd wees in allie verskillende klein kulture en mense wat die Afrikaans en Kaaps tale praat.

[@timothyvanheerden8105]

Pragtig om dit te hoor. Ek hoop hulle leer die jonges om die taal lewendig te hou. Thanks.

[@MariusBuys-f3n]

Dankie Ek Lief julle baie !

[@stephanuhu963]

Beslis familie, lol. Groete van 'n Buys familie in Kanada.

[@tomepic]

well done on this amazing video and wow this family still speaks afrikaans that's awesome great topic for a video

[@LewisWirth]

Thank you, I've waited years to be able to materialize some of my ideas. I actually got this idea from an online friend of mine, so I'm thankful to him for that. He actually didn't remember having recommended it to me when I thanked him 😂

[@tomepic]

@@LewisWirth thx for the reply looking forward to more videos

[@mynameissbu6014]

Nazis also fled to Argentina. I didn't know Boers did too. They should call their brothers and sisters too.

[@gevoel8293]

Without these Nazis you will be running naked in the forest now hunting animals with sticks.

[@thisworldiswonka]

notice how no one is commenting on the apartheid flag. #gross

[@timothyvanheerden8105]

What is gross?? ​@@thisworldiswonka

[@bjorn8854]

fascinerend mooi. Dank je wel!

[@Tuppence1966]

South Africa would be nothing without the tiny Boer population

[@bjorn8854]

@@Tuppence1966 Het is misdadig hoe weinig ons geleerd is over hen op school. Ik kan niet beschrijven hoe hoog ik ze heb in mijn hart. Hulde aan de Boers!!!

[@PhilosophicaLeo]

I'm mixed race (cape coloured) and that's facts

[@wolraadwoltemade3275]

Wonderful to see my people still holding onto some of their culture and they are very proud of their heritage, it's sad what happened to them to cause the events leading up to them having to leave, but they are better off there than in SA tbh, if we had a better government there would be an attempt to help them visit SA and interact with our ministry of culture and maybe even giving assistance where needed who knows a good friendship is never a bad thing to have.

[@LewisWirth]

Actually several people I’ve talked to told me they’ve visited South Africa also the lady at the end talked about it extensively. She mostly stayed along the coat though

[@boithaabroad]

What happened to THEM?!!! Interesting.

[@LewisWirth]

@@boithaabroad nah they just visited and noticed cultural differences like people from SA not being as quick to hug and kiss compared to Argentinians stuff like that

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

I love SA with all my heart and I dont want to live anywhere else, but if I really had to, if SA went full Zimbabwe, Argentina is at the top of my list

[@LewisWirth]

Zimbabwe happened because of foreign political pressure. If that changed. Which it might with the changing views because of immigration. SA might have a very different future. Hope should not be lost

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

@@LewisWirth Mugabe killed the white farmers because of foreign political pressure? Idk about that Unequal societies tend to have a hateful and violent subset who try to achieve equality by burning everything to the ground, we have that subset in SA too. External factors can influence it to some degree but I don’t think that’s the main driving force

[@JOY29702]

The same Zimbabwe that is now paying Europeans billions of dollars for them to occupy lands they lost in the past? South Africa is less likely to follow those footsteps. Racial tensions within the country exist but I doubt there's gonna be another civil war. That's the last thing our currency needs.

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

@@JOY29702 zim isn’t paying Europeans, it’s paying Zimbabweans as it should

[@claravanrooyen4131]

Thankyou I enjoyed the video very much . I heard few years ago on the radio about Patagonia .Very glad to see what is going on there. ( Awaiting another video)

[@johanbarnard3435]

Baie goeie video! Dankie vir hierdie! I really hope someone can help these people preserve their old boër culture and language. Aspecially since their dialect is a very old dialect that most south africa can understand easily but don't speak themselves. She was right when she said Afrikaans has modernized allot here.

[@christopherfitchet4507]

There are many documentaries about the Afrikaner community in Argentina, the last one I believe was Boere op die Aardsdrempel. Tony Leon the ex DA leader and ambassador also met with the Afrikaner community whilst he was ambassador. One can only hope that the promises of an Afrikaans teacher materialized to keep the language alive.

[@katelyntatumnaidoo4923]

As a South African I can't believe this comment section, no offense but you can't trust the media. There is so much of our country that you wouldn't know unless you live here. So if you think people are being treated badly or persecuted due to their Heritage or Race or whatever it may be I suggest booking a flight to SA and come and see the reality of our Nation. Ever country has its flaws but honestly us South Africans live in peace and its our challenges that unite us 🇿🇦❤ ps. I'm supposed to be studying for my final Afrikaans exam.

[@peetschabort1080]

Compare it to the French Huguenots in SA where their language disappeared but their blood still remains in the Afrikaner nation.

[@stephanuhu963]

Lol, including quite literally, the genetic disposition to high blood cholesterol called FH, or Familial Hypercholesterolemia, which happened to have transferred to many Afrikaners from the Huguenots.

[@Football_lover132]

Wow i didn't know there were fellow South Africans in Argentina and they come back home

[@perodenero]

There is a very nice documentary called Boers at the end of the World. It's about the boers that left as mentioned in the video. One of the main guys interviewed was actually from a town in the Northern Cape called Phillipstown. In De Aar the town close to there had one of these Argintine Boers who actually came back to South Africa. I did a DNA test and was actually contacted by a girl from Argentina who is like 5th generation family according to the DNA results. I told her the link must be because of this.

[@LewisWirth]

Interesting that you found that you have "extended family" there. I've watched Boers at the end of the World, or well the teaser and other parts I found on KZbin. And people that I spoke to mentioned it. A number of the people from that documentary are family of people that I've spoken to and I believe some might have appeared in the documentary too otherwise another one. I've watched a number of videos about it before my trip there

[@dannyarcher6370]

As a soutie living in Chile, this is fucking wild to listen to. I would've thought the accent and pronunciation would have diverged wildly after more than a century of isolation, but it seems not so much. You can definitely hear the Spanish intonation, though.

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah I don’t hear it so much though but I’m a Hollander anyway. What part of Chile do you live? Like the south?

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@LewisWirth Ek is in Santiago.

[@LewisWirth]

@@dannyarcher6370 Ahh, I "lived" there for like 2 months mainly just editing my videos. Nice

[@Phil-du7zc]

Absolutely love this video. Sla alsjeblieft boot meer een pagina over zo dicht bij de binnenkant van de pagina. Verder echt heel informerend. Afrikaners zouden meer welkom moeten zijn in Nederland!

[@Helgardt6189]

Julle het ons verstoot tydens Apartheid…nou is ons skielik welkom.

[@globaltradingconcept7407]

So very interesting, i hope you can do a similar visit to Angola as at the same time there were 3 treks from South Africa to Angola called the Dorsland Trekkers and the story is just as fascinating, great work tho

[@LewisWirth]

Thanks for the tip. I’m looking into it haven’t found that much yet. Do you have some names of towns and communities with a substantial amount of Boere or museums and monuments. And they also speak Portuguese in Angola which is also nice to have as I speak Portuguese

[@PhilosophicaLeo]

​@@LewisWirthwow, how many languages can you speak

[@LewisWirth]

@@PhilosophicaLeo I would say 6 though Afrikaans is one of those and is really close to Dutch very mutually intelligible though also some very different grammar and so on. I also for example understand a lot of Frisian and I’m trying to learn that right now.

[@shayleenjoubert2008]

Wpw as a South African i never knew there were Afrikaans speaking people in Agentina❤

[@Beastinvader]

Speaking Dutch to Afrikaans speakers in Argentina. I love it.

[@LewisWirth]

I must say I attempted to do a bit of both so most of it might be a bit of a mix of the two but not proper Dutch. And where I spoke proper Dutch I specified it.

[@bukswillemsoosthuizen3745]

❤Boerevolk sal nie uitgewis word nie...ons staan te sterk ❤

[@poepflater]

Our Afrikaans school hosted one of their rugby teams when I was a kid in the 80s

[@gustavodiniz6156]

Hay una antigua colonia de Nederlands en TRES ARROYOS. Saludos muy buenos tus videos. 😊

[@LewisWirth]

Oh I heard of it actually both Danish and Dutch but it would’ve cost me a lot to get there and it seemed like there’s not that much left sadly

[@gustavodiniz6156]

@@LewisWirth ¿ Sos del Reino de Verstappen ? ¿ Y no eres rico ? ¿ Quien te quito tú dinero ?

[@LewisWirth]

@@gustavodiniz6156 El gobierno, obviamente. Aunque parece que lo hacen en todas partes

[@flacosolazzi6250]

​@@gustavodiniz6156No hay colonias en TresA. Son Argentinos descend. de holand. y daneses de 3era. y 4ta. generación. Saludos

[@gustavodiniz6156]

@@flacosolazzi6250 Tenés razón. Gracias

[@e.gonnermann4646]

Baie dankie vir die mooi video. Ek weet ook van Hollandsche Boere in Nieuw Seeland...

[@katima8065]

The Boere are everywhere

[@buffbull3393]

And achieved nothing in the long run outside of the cult in SA.

[@WilliamKhumalo-n8q]

They not

[@buffbull3393]

Indeed, in the narrow confines of their fantasies and delusions.

[@TheoDaJunk]

​​@@buffbull3393they built up SA into what it is now tho. Most infrastructure is still from the apartheid era(due to the current governments incompetence)

[@keithm6252]

Where? 😮😮😮

[@alastairaspara4554]

The gentleman facilitating discussions doesn’t seem to realise a few things, 1. Afrikaans and Afrikaaners are part of South and southern African culture. Naturally, there are people that are of mixed descent that have Dutch ancestry and are therefore also Afrikaaners, despite what popular and racist culture might say, so he should have a broader understanding of what it means to be Afrikaans. 2. He should visit the Northern Cape, North West, Free State, parts of Natal and basically parts of every province in SA including Namibia to get a good understanding of the state of Afrikaans and Afrikaaner’s. 3. That the idea that Afrikaaner’s are an unwanted minority is a myth driven by political agenda both from Afrikaaners (not all) that think playing the victim has a political benefit, and non-Afrikaaners that think that making Afrikaaner’s a political enemy has a benefit; and also the media that don’t really consider the long term harmful effects of what they report. Namibia for example has a very healthy vibrant Afrikaans culture. However Namibia represents a small fraction of southern African Afrikaaner culture. The author also doesn’t seem to know that there are many black people who speak Afrikaans as a first language especially in the Northern Cape, North West, Free State and Namibia. Stellenbosch, Potch, Pretoria and other universities, including the Western Cape, play an important role in preserving the Afrikaans academic tradition. I caution, the videographer, and encourage him to develop a mature understanding of situations before expressing opinions that may not be holistic. Afrikaans was first coined by the slave community of the Western Cape (greater Cape Town), this term initially rejected, was only em accepted by the descendants of the Dutch / Huguenot settlers at a much later stage.

[@eldobooysen2274]

Afrikaans is slowly phasing out of schools as all schools tend to have English as their medium of instruction. Stellenbosch university is also the only uni to offer Courses in Afrikaans. These are all from a Cape Tonian

[@alastairaspara4554]

@ so?

[@alastairaspara4554]

@ and?

[@alastairaspara4554]

@ you will be bitterly disappointed in you feel Afrikaans needs special cradling. As mentioned above, there are definitely spaces where Afrikaans is celebrated and rightfully so. When you start thinking that it is realistic to parallel Afrikaans with English in the South African context is where you lose me.

[@andriesbasson4229]

@LewisWirth, what was the name of that geneology book? My great grandmother came back to SA when she was a teenager. Would be cool to know if our familie is in this book. Her maiden name was Blackie . Perhaps you heard of the blackies there?

[@andriesbasson4229]

Oh I see now that it relates to the Dickason family

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah exactly. The clip should be in there with the name. The other one in Spanish was more general

[@stephaniejooste3879]

We've actually found that some of our family were some of the people who moved to Argentina. Don't know if anyone is still there but it's great that they still have so many traditions they carry on.

[@kami6796]

Great video, I didn't know these people existed

[@iJuStDuIt]

Ek is van Namibië en praat Afrikaans soos die meeste Namibiërs. My Oumagrootjie het my die heel eerste keur van hierdie vlugtelinge vertel.

[@Odin62100]

Dis soos om my ouma en oupa te hoor praat. 😁

[@LewisWirth]

Hahaha interessant

[@prestonstapleton1258]

Ek was daar 8 jaar geleede en het Mevrou Dickie gekuier Boere op die Aardsdrempel !!

[@LewisWirth]

Interesting

[@air-drive]

There is a revival of Afrikaans people looking for communities like this, it seems like Afrikaners are looking for existing communities to join and maybe even expand. Afrikaners in other countries. Today 95% of Afrikaners live in Cities in South Africa. With the new Government in Argentina who are patriotic Afrikaners should talk to these people for expansion into Argentina. In Australia there are 275 000 Afrikaners and in the UK maybe 400 000 so they can enrich these communities culturally and a revival of the language in Argentina. Love from Afrikaners is Australia.

[@mariannaskontorp5545]

Ek weet daar is mense met die van Visser wat soontoe is. Ons boeremense groet ook so

[@louisscheepers5709]

Vele Dank vir die video🙂

[@pajerry33]

Thank you for making this video

[@LewisWirth]

My pleasure!

[@chrisnordeje341]

VEery Interesting - I am an Afrikaner and I never even knew about our brothers & sisters in Argentina! Earned my sub

[@LewisWirth]

Thanks mate glad you liked it

[@colleengardiner77]

Die Boere vlag is darem verskriklik mooi!

[@Beastinvader]

Baie dankie!

[@bluemarlin105]

Goeie video dankie

[@winternag]

This show us that as Europeans we cannot only be conservative because eventually we will die out. We have to grow and populate and expand like our forefathers. Europe will fall if they don't start to increase their birth count and reclaim what is theirs

[@Men.are.lowest]

You mean when your forefathers oppressed own women Funny how you say forefathers when its women who birth your race ,not men.

[@Xatrene]

At 13:46 you pointed to Roelof Frederik Botha aka "Pik Botha" who was never Vice President or President of South Africa... He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time Nelson Mandela became president... The person Nelson Mandela took over from, was F.W. de Klerk who with a 'soft coup d'etat' wrestled the Presidency from PW Botha...who's photo you can Google...

[@TRAVELSHORTS_TV]

keep on going! more european south american content

[@hendo19742]

SHARED! SUPERMOOI!👍👍🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@fatoomgierdien110]

Thanks for an Interesting video. Cape Town✨️‼️🌿♥️

[@penkop4282]

Baie interresant, dankie vir die deel.

[@shotbychristo]

Baie intresant dankie dat jy dit met ons deel.

[@Odin62100]

Oh, towards the end there you were pointing at Pik Botha. He was minister of international affairs. The bald guy in the middle was president before Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk.

[@LewisWirth]

True, I had a friend check the video and tried to change it but that didn’t work out so I just left it this way.

[@thembawakashe4487]

That flag is obsolete. That community is caught up in a time warp. I suppose they have reasons for holding onto the symbols. It will be interesting to know more.

[@JustinJust-In]

Yes it is the country they left behind. Their history, so the flag can never be obsolete. What do they have in common with the new South Africa if they never lived in a rainbow nation before? These people left long before Apartheid even started, so you can play your racist card somewhere else. Nobodies cares about it anymore.

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

Its called history. Get over it.

[@theabotha3196]

Baie intresant❤ ek hou baie van die geskiedenis 😊

[@BlueBird-q8k]

Really great content hope for your growth 🙏🏼 Also i would be interested in Nordic in us ( mid west ) German Patagonia Italian Brazilian French canada Boer culture And English rhodesia

[@LewisWirth]

Basically all of those are either on my list or waiting to be edited. So stay tuned

[@casrai1]

I didn' t know that afrikaaners fled to argentina after boer war. It is very interesting

[@XHansCoché]

I know about the Boers in Argentina and also that most them cannot speak their original mother tongue, its a pity, but understandable. I hope them a good life. The next places the Boers are moving to is Uruguy and Russia & Georgia.

[@wernercowley]

Alot of our young Afrikaans families have been and are still moving to Australia and New Zealand and the new trend is alot of men are farming in America for 10 month's at a time while there wifes and kids are still staying in South Africa.

[@foucher77]

Dankie mooi om te sien.

[@ecollen]

Interessant. Baie dankie.

[@MassimoPegorin-h2z]

La foto accanto a De Klerk ritrae Wilhelm "Pik" Botha,che fu ministro degli esteri,ma mai presidente .Il presidente del vecchio Sudafrica era Pieter Botha

[@mariusschamrel9514]

Dis regtig so awesome om te sien.... dat daar Afrikaners is in Argentina 🥲

[@vdm568]

Cool. They will again see an influx of Boere. Keep an eye on it.

[@LewisWirth]

There’s a chance

[@HermannDerBarbar]

I doubt it. I don't see why anyone would choose to live there.

[@JvCarratu1981]

Wow, they took a page out of the Nazis book and went to Argentina. Who would've thought 😅

[@BenjieCarstens]

Baie baie dankie vir die video dit word baie baie opreg waardeur.

[@Shack01]

i had 3 uncles go to Argentina, 1 came back to South Africa

[@123abc-wy6fe]

I am English South African and visited Argentina in 2018. This was very interesting. My great grandfather would have been one of the British soldiers in the Anglo Boer war. I still live in South Africa in Johannesburg. ❤

[@wilburburger6155]

My ancestors left the Transvaal before the British Invasion by oxwagon for Angola by the late 1800’s. They later returned to South West Africa in 1929 which is now known as Namibia.

[@LewisWirth]

Ahh I want to visit Namibia too this day. Yeah I’ve heard good things about it in relation to SA

[@AdventureswithSalty]

I miss our old flag

[@keithm6252]

Ag nee man ....is jy ernstig 😂

[@ElmaWilson-t7i]

YES THE TEAM: VOETSPORE FOUND THEM TOO

[@cotietyson8339]

Very interesting. ..baie dankie....sterkte vir julle almal.

[@santamills8638]

Baie interessant. Dankie.

[@chewbaccawookie7260]

Thanks for the video my friend! Are you filming on an iPhone?

[@LewisWirth]

Oh no I use a DJI camera on a gimbal and a GoPro for some other situations just those two I’ve never used my phone for filming videos.

[@tonyminutti5277]

Such a beautiful history! Chubut also has Welsh towns. Another Boer migration from the time was in Chihuahua, Mexico near the capital city. They arrived around the same time, early 1900’s after the Boer Wars. Many Boers joined Pancho Villa in the Mexican revolution and you can see this influence in the uniform and cap that Villa wore. Today there are still some descendants amongst the criollos and mestizos, Mennonites, Mormons and Tarahumara Indians of the region. Very little is documented about them, like the Confederados that made Mexico their home too after the Civil War, invited by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and today many are in politics still, in the Right Wing Party called PAN. Hope you can come to Mexico to tell some of these stories! If you come from the south I recommend checking out Nueva Alemania near Tapachula for the German colony as well as Acacoyagua and the first Japanese colony in Latin America. They’re doing great things down there today.

[@Mzukisi_Gwata]

Interesting.

[@hnag1907]

Just a correction. The person on the right was not a president. It was the one in the middle

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah a friend told me that, I tried to change it in post but to no avail

[@margieksteen193]

PG DU PLESSIS het jare terug die storie van Patagonië en die Boere Afrikaner oor die radio en Tv vertel. Baie interressant.

[@ultroy-motorslimitedlnc]

Yooh that's incredible I need to come see the ooks to apologise for what the government did.I love how the cultural hasn't changed much and the accent is still present.You can take the boer uit die land maar nie die land uit die boer

[@Africasideways]

Very interesting, Dankie, perhaps a little less interrupting.

[@LewisWirth]

Yeah I wish I did that less it sucks while editing and I end up removing a lot of that. Some other videos are much better regarding that though

[@Africasideways]

@@LewisWirth Cool dood, all the best for your travels.

[@caronunez3110]

me encantoooooo

[@LewisWirth]

Gracias