🇿🇦Exploring NDEBELE Culture l Americans Experience South Africa's Vibrant Culture

[@luthandi]

We don’t use the words ‘tribe’ to use identify ourselves. Culture is the word you will hear in South Africa and mostly so in Southern Africa.

[@Devine2067]

Im ndebele, and im so happy for you guys. I never really comment, but today you hit home🎉❤

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Hahahaha well thank you for commenting my brother

[@PamPam1CreamoftheCrop]

I am South African, born and bred.I didn't know a thing about Ndebele culture. Thanks to the Jones Family. It was so informative.

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Oh Nice, you are most welcome! More to come for sure

[@thabangdiokana9886]

Guys please make time to come to suncity in rusternbug north west province 🎉

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

We shall when it warms up again

[@Sarah_M84]

Ndebele people loves their culture, if you can go to Kwandebele in Mpumalanga , most of the houses are painted like that, everything is culture.

[@ndivhuwocreates]

Thatch roofs never get hot. Natural air conditioning in the summer. That's why it's so cool in the room

[@YAHismyPeace]

Beautiful vid. Thanks so much for sharing.💜💜🙏🏽🙏🏽You all are making me excited about coming to SA.

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Thank you so much and when are you looking to make the visit?

[@YAHismyPeace]

@@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL your welcome. We are looking towards April, early May. We’ve been doing a lot of research. And watching a lot of videos on here. 🤣🤣 So we are excited about it. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@sifisonkosi9427]

Ndebele, Swazi, Zulu, Xhosa are all Nguni clan(the languages are similar too)

[@harveys8145]

But Xhosa takes the cup😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂...jokes don't come for me

[@fishdawn1804]

Quite similar... just different dialects. It's akin to Sotho, Pedi, and Tswana. They can understand each other despite the dialect differences

[@faneciaconner-dz7tt]

Great content as always. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thulanishabangu3320]

Good to see you Crystal...and our friends from the USA

[@yandy3419]

Beautiful content. 😊

[@tankisosedutla9311]

I love mopani worms. It's not just a snack ,you can make mopani worms gravy (tomatoes, onions ,spices ,some soup )+pap 🔥🔥

[@renitawilliams]

Worms?? No thank u

[@Gorgeous_Noxolo]

Oh hell no🤮

[@juba9000]

Very nice ❤

[@lebo5281]

@renitawilliams They are caterpillars, not worms.

[@pmambongwe8640]

​@@renitawilliams many SAn feel the same. Not all tribes eat them. It's the minority

[@fatimawindvoel2253]

Chrystel is becoming hard core South African😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️its the "jaa" for me in afrikaans accent sort of😂😂

[@StAlfonzo87]

Y'all must remember; outside of America a biscuit is a cookie. Edit: And Marie biscuit is just a type of biscuit (cookie) made by the Baker's brand: A plain, flat-ish disc shaped cookie. Kinda boring on its own, but nice as an ingredient for other desserts.

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Noted

[@jewlstorres8600]

A lot of the coloured communities too. We always bought them at school functions & fundraisings other homemade sweet options are ‘tamaleitjie’ & other flavored fudges. We also do different koeksusters, more like a vetkoek, dipped in a cinnamon syrup & rolled in coconut. A favorite after school was big flat vetkoek with atchaar - those with more spending money could get polony too! 😅

[@vuyokazimthethwa]

Chrystle with the vocals okayyyyy 😂

[@jewlstorres8600]

The koeksuster’s are different in ‘coloured & Malay communities, more denser & dipped in cinnamon syrup & rolled in coconut. Most families buy a dozen every Sunday morning & you can take your own container.

[@sydneyrodney7599]

you guys are amazing🙌🙌

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Why thank you

[@Hlaluminathi-u9p]

Thank you for sharing other beautiful South African culture and circumcision is done by 99 percent of the tribes as our culture in the whole Africa ❤.

[@jamesstewart4402]

Thank you, great video as always.

[@SbuAfrica]

Nice video as always ...thank you ❤

[@DreLBrown529]

Have you all been to the upside down house in North West Province?

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

we have not

[@DreLBrown529]

@@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL you should check it out, I think the whole family will like it.

[@StAlfonzo87]

14:25 Not to be confused with the Cape Malay version (also called "koesister" -- note the lack of a 2nd "k" -- to differentiate it from the Afrikaner version). Also a doughnut, but very different. Please try it out if you're ever in Cape Town.

[@tmash509]

Consumption of mopani worms is not common in SA. Its popular among Venda and Tsonga people from Northern areas of SA. Most of us never tasted it

[@TshifhiwaMashamba]

You are too ignorant I guess

[@tmash509]

@TshifhiwaMashamba no offense intended. I just stated facts. North West, all cape provinces, Natal, free state, G.P (except for migrants from LP and parts of MP), and no one eats masonja from these provinces. It's not like pap, which is common throughout SA.

[@ZAR_72]

Mopani worms are not actual worms, they're caterpillars. This is for those who might think we eat things coming out of rotting flesh

[@BolamasTheLevite]

Family you have more cultures to explore, remember they're not tribes but culture

[@thandazilentokozogumede431]

Hey guys -great conent as usual,I really enjoyed the Chief part it got me finished 😂😂😂❤,I actually didn't know about this.

[@nuxannharvey4932]

Hey Rickey, It would be the best time to get Kota. it would be a great experience.

[@BolamasTheLevite]

Thank you very much for visiting my culture.... Don't regret Subscribing...

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Thank you! 😃 it was an honor

[@BolamasTheLevite]

They built lot of those houses, so living was awesome

[@sphelelemelvin5680]

next time you must go to Lesedi Cultural village

[@MlulekiNtuli-k4b]

My culture!! The art on the walls looks so familiar to my granny's yard who passed away last month and this reminds me so much of her😢The lady is wrong when she says the reason for boys initiation school is for circumcision . There are many reasons for it and it part of the culture that they cannot be disclosed to anyone and also boys as young as 13 year olds do undergo the process as long as they're physically fit and healthy. I have friends who have went through the process and I am also 18 year old who will be undergoing the initiation process next year April-June and the reason why I didn't go in 2021 was because I was still in matric and not because of my age.😊

[@ThomasShabangu-l3o]

your friend must start a vlog called " I LKIKE IT".

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Hahahaha

[@harveys8145]

Hi Jonas Fam The Ndebele part starukf from 16:00 time stamp... I wanted to say the same as Xhosas, we talk a bit slow so that you grasp what we say. My worry is traveling abroad and meeting homies whobtalk really really fast😭😭😭😭😭

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Thank you and yes there are parts of the states that people talk really fast for sure

[@lenbeckmann4311]

Guys why do u all look afraid when you tasted the pap tart. South Africans cook with normal ingredients.

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

It’s something new to us and we don’t know everything that’s in it. Normal ingredients is true however we didn’t know what all was in it. It was good though

[@PoppyMasimula]

My culture...love it❤❤❤

[@Demru_1]

Now you're completely Africans without any adjectives. God bless you ❤️

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Wow, thank you

[@shenaazmathee7034]

really love the open mind nesses of ur friends u all should visit other tribes in South Africa

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

We look forward to do so for sure

[@takula7]

Great content!! I suspect the South African flag to be designed according to Ndebele paintings...

[@zuluuyasabeka9303]

It's quite obvious

[@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271]

I like the "i like it guy"😂😂

[@vusidube2171]

Fellows find someone to show you Tennis pudding...you love south africa for ever...

[@vuyokazimthethwa]

What’s tennis pudding? Respectfully

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

Oh snap lol

[@KagisoHamilton]

I thought he was gonna say "I LIKE IT!" after eating the mopane worm! lol

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

hahahaha

[@samanthandaleni]

Your friend just inspired me to try the worms

[@mbusomhlongo579]

Mr "I Like It"😂😂😂 Is there a thing he doesn't like❔🤣🤣🤣

[@tobekasipambo3399]

Am South African but I can’t eat mopani worms, never

[@ZAR_72]

Good for you 🙄

[@ThomasShabangu-l3o]

I am so proud of my culture Ndebele not endebele.

[@mamkitimloyi2486]

Wow Ndebele cultures ❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎉🎉🎉🥳

[@musaamos1678]

Those African Americans and Africans in diaspora who want to come visit South Africa we got a huge population of Europeans in fact the number of whites in our country makes up 80% of the whole population of them in Africa, the 5 million white in South Africa own 80% of the wealth the majority of the economy is in the hands of the few super wealthy whites while the 20% is in the hands of the government and few rich black elites who have shares in Europeans businesses.

[@africaneagle7397]

And so?

[@lebzamodiakgotla7593]

😂😂😂and so..

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

hahahaha

[@MrMiagi_GP]

That animal is called an Oryx

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

ahhh copy

[@vuyokazimthethwa]

lol not the pap and eggs 😂

[@magwinyamangola5473]

Mara loMlungu, who eats pap 3 times a day 🤷‍♀️😀And we don't know that white and pink desert.. We know amaSkopas, Cadbury and Custard and Jelly.Those Sweeties are for White South Africans not Black culture.

[@mbusomhlongo579]

Those sweets reminded me of the Indian sweets,During Indian ceremonies.

[@jewlstorres8600]

A lot of the coloured communities too. We always bought them at school functions & fundraisings other homemade sweet options are ‘tamaleitjie’ & other flavored fudges. Our favorite was big flat vetkoek with atchaar - those with more spending could get polony too! 😅

[@benjiza0314]

That village is not make sure...

[@ItumelengMochaka]

You're nothing but a hater. That village is just used to display Ndebele culture. Nothing hectic

[@mbusomhlongo579]

Next thing to do now is to go visit the ptoper villages not the tourists villages.

[@ayandakhuzwayo9023]

As a South African Black never been taken by Kok sisters ever. Only the ones with coconut the Durban version. PERIOD

[@lebo5281]

@ayandakhuzwayo9023 They are called Koesisters, the Coloured tradition is to have them every Sunday. The Afrikaner Koeksisters ones are just sugar with no flavour.

[@mphosetlhabi9303]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@phelphel6157]

African culture are quite vibrant and beautiful and some of our practices and values are also beautiful, however I will request that as people who are Christian, be very prayerful and discerning as some aspects of our culture or tradition doesn't align with the core values of being a Christian. May the holy spirit help you

[@THEJONESFAMILYCHANNEL]

So very true! Noted!

[@mphotsilo2650]

A classic example of the appropriation of black people's culture by white people. Again, a white person - an owner of the land (just like colonization right?) and a black person - a remunerated entertainer (just like slavery, right?). It saddens me how very little has changed for blacks, post-colonization. This is just my reflection, not to take away your beautiful experience. Great content as always

[@luthandi]

I choose to think that what you mean is that you wish to see more black people participate in the commercialisation of their culture at ownership level. Me think 🤔

[@walkwithorr]

You are saying what I'm thinking, pink people just commercialize our lives so easy. Now Chinese are even selling our traditional wear made in cheap cloths😮. Lapho they would not have made proper research into the cultures and not even an effort to speak at least one of our languages.

[@africaneagle7397]

They will continue for years, because we blacks do nothing much but complain or worse destroy what we have!😢😢

[@nthabisengmametja7031]

I was surprised by that, I expected the owners to be Black 😢

[@Nolizwe]

We were dispossessed of our land. Pathetic and painful to see owners of the land and culture just entertaining.

[@Seeta_sa_gauta]

Ndebele ? 😂

[@JohnHaze4666]

Aikhona 😂😂😂😂never

[@riverniletv7273]

Mopani worms, or cartapilars are ate all over Southern Africa, they taste just like shrimp, and are high in protein.

[@tozamilefunani]

All over?? Don’t lie..

[@lebo5281]

@tozamilefunani Yes, all over Southern Africa. The best masonja are found in Bots.

[@vuyokazimthethwa]

Mopane worms do not taste like shrimp 😂

[@tobekasipambo3399]

I disagree with this statement

[@noziphokhumalo4030]

Some parts of South Africa would be better put