THE STORY OF BULAWAYO

Not just any other place!!!!!!!!....... Deeply rooted in strong traditions and royalty, we take a closer look at the story of KoBulawayo with renowned Historian, Mr Phathisa Nyathi. The past has a huge bearing on decisions of today and the future.Time to know more about the City Of Kings

[@BlueSkyMedia]

MUSIC by Hudson Simbarashe - Bulawayo

[@1U.M]

I see Baba Phathisa Nyathi, I make time, we need more of him and his wisdom on all platforms.

[@TheZuluman7]

This is deep and rich history of the amaNdebele siyabonga baba Nyathi

[@bongiwemoyo7545]

Ubaba uPhathisa Nyathi is a walking library of the Ndebele history. Siyabonga baba ulwazi lwakho lokusifundisa particularly at a time where our culture has been distorted, ignored and minimally practiced.Siyakuthanda koBulawayo, koNtuthu Ziyathunqa!😊

[@sibongokuhledlodlo7899]

Siyabonga Baba Nyathi for the info

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

What a gracious and eloquent elder and academic ❤

[@fikilembatha8093]

Rich history I love this we are related with Our people from kwaBulawayo

[@lorraineagnihotri5487]

I stayed here in Bulawayo since I was a baby until now and I still love it....it has always been my hometown n I love it

[@BonganiMagadu]

Where you from originally

[@silibazisomoyo2499]

Siyabonga baba !!! lobabengathini we have a history !

[@transporter9821]

Wow what a piece of good history of our city ....

[@iclasvirtual155]

The name Bulawayo remains profoundly appropriate. Wonke umuntu wakoBulawayo uqhubeka enguBulawayo nanamuhla.

[@IVORKUNAKA]

Beautiful City and wonderful people.

[@thembakhumalo3113]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿kushoti Luveve.. Nketa...Ema...Sizinda Mganwini...otherwise kumnandi babaNyathj

[@kelvinmarwizi8769]

Bright minds here He is not reading he is speaking what is in his mind perfectly.

[@simisomacaphunana]

My former headmaster siyabonga nge mvelaphi yethu ngo Bulawayo we will always treasure our Ndebele history siyabonga Nyathi

[@danielfourie7204]

Thanks Mr this my birthplace and all my regards!

[@sehlulkiledube2821]

I love my hometown and the history that goes around..

[@christinerobinson547]

My birthlace Khobulawyo!! I loved my land!! Thankyou for this information.

[@Thapelo-zf8cx]

KoBulawayo not Kho-

[@collinmahlangu1140]

eNyathi baba. Siyabonga imbali emhlophe, ejujile ngoBulawayo wethu omuhle hle.

[@mukeloncube410]

First time learning about Ndebele people or Ndebele History.

[@rossitherhodie5659]

I loved living in Bulawayo..........Great times, great people of all races. I was a Policeman working in Mabutweni. Who was Lobangulas father. The township names were named after top men in his day., Kumalo, Luveve, Mabutweni, Mpopoma, Mzilijkazi, Luveve, Mugwegwe etc...yes sir I know them all very well. Remember Lobangula and Rhodes were great friends even to the point where his men guarded his grave at Matopas against the Shona who were Lobangulas enemies even then. Thats why years later Gukuruhundi happened because Mugabe wanted revenge against the Ndebele or Matabele people. Thank you for the history lesson sir, you have an amazing mind. Wish we were taught this subject at school instead of battle of Hastings.

[@victorndlovu663]

I thought the City was named after KwaBulawayo in South Africa??

[@jenniferngwenya2537]

It's good to have people like you . Who really know how good Ndebele people are. We lived with shona boys . As neighbors they were like our children for years.

[@foxbat473]

How can Shona like Ndebele when they took part of our land are you crazy. Mzilikazi was an imperialists just like Cecil Rhodes. Mugabe was not avenging any historical conflict but was just fighting opposition.

[@Thembi31]

@@foxbat473 is this the same land the Shonas took from the people they found in Zimbabwe when they migrated there from the Congo? Because we all know that land was already occupied before they arrived. And since when was committing genocide called fighting the opposition? If throwing pregnant women into mine shafts is fighting the opposition then I don’t know. To me that sounds like the act of a coward.

[@foxbat473]

@@Thembi31 We were the first ones to arrive in the 5th century we built Great Zimbabwe between 900 -1000 AD and many other across Zimbabwe like Kami and Dlodlo/ Danangombe ruins. We hardly came across Khoisans who were mostly on the West coast of Southern Africa most probably the few we met were assumed into out culture but there is no record. The Zulu nation were a part of our nation when they came from Congo in the 15th centutmry they lived with us at Mapungubwe before moving to KZN area. In 1980 Ushewokunze wanted us to rename Bulawayo to Guruuswa its original name. Gukurahundi is not a Shona thing we never supported it and there were a lot of Shonas who were killed for opposing it

[@severtone263]

BULAWAYO! City of my birth! Loved hearing the history of the city. Thank you so much BSM, you have earned my sub!

[@zatsogibson136]

I'm gonna comment on this one...my beautiful byo

[@conwaythemachine615]

Love this

[@hendihsongz]

God bles keep up the good work

[@amoyo369]

Thanks to our Historian Mr Nyathi, this is very informative, especially to our kids, they must know all this

[@tmgeza]

Thank u thank u. I LOVE these conversations I have subscribed

[@tgods38]

Baba Siyabonga kakhulu ngiyacela futhi ngizithoba.Ibizo NginguThandolwenkosi Bhebhe ugogo NguMaSiwela ezalwa NguMamkhwanananzi owendela KoBhebhe umkhulu ozala Ubaba USeNkayi ESiNgwangombe ngizalwa Ngu Ethel Mabhena.Siyabonga ngembali yethu.

[@man_7_hai]

Listening to this rich history... Gives me a sense of belonging...

[@josephmuronda9713]

Well spoken and well informed

[@karinjacka7422]

Oh my…this is so interesting…there is so much I don’t understand, but how deep this culture and its ramifications….wish I could sit under the teaching of this historian

[@josephalewisphiri3550]

Phathisa Nyathi rich in history of the ndebele nation thank you ,we will remember your contribution..

[@EmmanuelMxolisi-kc7du]

Eva lovd, stil loving city of happy, humbled people, born by birth in Bulawayo.

[@othymoyo8956]

Beautiful City we so love!❤️

[@jenniferngwenya2537]

Baba Nyathi wenze umsebenzi omkhulu ukusehlukanisela ngembali yethu. Ubuyithi bethu imnvelaphi yethu . Ususivule amehlo sazibona njengo Adam lo Eve abadla esihlahleni ababengasi vunyelwanga banana ukuzibona ukuthi babe hamba ze kusukela lapha umthwakazi usezazi isiqu sakhe. Yikusivunulisa lokho isizwe sika mthwakazi. Siyabonga Nyathi.

[@jenniferngwenya2537]

Baqala

[@mukeloncube410]

I wish we learned about Southern history more, if many people actually knew that most of our African people we together, colonialism separated our people too much and our history was lost. If we teach Kids at a Young age especially Kids from South Africa, they won’t have that Xenophobic mindset but now because all we learn about is European History and Half of the History of Africa, we learnt tht Mzilikazi is a Zulu but never knew that they were actually called Ndebele people when Mzilikazi left Zululand to go to Zimbabwe

[@BonganiMagadu]

But Ndebele in Mpumalanga doesn't sound similar to our Zim Ndebele. That confuses me

[@ironore1000]

And Ndebele history is suppressed in Zimbabwe.

[@lightlight9861]

@@ironore1000 nobody is suprasing your history bcs the same way the shona and european history is taught in Zim is the same way your history is taught but the problem is is that you want every one even the non ndebeles to practice your culture

[@ironore1000]

@@lightlight9861not true, Ndebele people don’t spread their culture or disrespect others, or force/expect people to speak their language and follow their norms like some culture is wont to do, even abroad. Instead, they just want to enjoy and express it without molestation or suppression. That’s all. If you’re well travelled, particularly in countries with significant numbers of Zimbabweans, a common refrain is the distinction between one loud, boisterous and impetuous group and others. Nuff said.

[@mcmillanncube1113]

The book laphum elinye lingakatshoni helped me a lot to eqiup myself about Ndebele history

[@carlosmoyo6281]

Siyabonga Nyathi omuhleee

[@Simon_Hawkshaw]

My beloved hometown.

[@thamsanqathusi9671]

Good to learn from you. Ngizobala amabhuku akho wonke. So should young person from Mthwakazi, it's important that we know about our history.

[@nomamoyo8925]

Siyabonga baba Nyathi

[@kimmckandla8666]

Powerful

[@victormarotya2268]

Yhooo, this elder is a goldmine.

[@leolinedlamini6871]

Siyabonga bab'uMdluli umlandu omuhle kangaka ,,,,,

[@nicomasuku2127]

Wow I did not know half of that you've got my sub

[@tembancube7998]

Siyabonga baba Nyathi. Eish kuqhakathekile to record & pass i history yethu to future generations bakithi !!!

[@phathisanidube3778]

New subscriber here,,,siyabonga for ihistory sifuna somemore

[@BlueSkyMedia]

We are humbled. Ngokusekelwa yini lonke more will be availed

[@tgods38]

Siyabonga kakhulu ❤❤❤❤

[@user-fc8wq7mx2r]

Very true

[@lorrainemgushini6385]

That's good news

[@dax4949]

Thina sifuna the way foward Kzn Zulu to remove the big lock abakhiye ngayo e kzn ivulwe Amandebele akwazi ukungena kubo.😁😁 why amazulu abafana baka king shaka zulu benza kanje bevala imnyango.

[@dax4949]

Cha bhudi ngoku khulu ukuhlonipha iqhiniso emhlabeni alikho uma sibuka ngelinyi langa isilo u zwelithini ethula inkulumo yakhe esizweni ekhumbuza isizwe ukuthi abantu baziqhenye ngevelaphi yabo bazi ukuthi bavelaphi badabukaphi. Thina abakwa Khumalo sichwaswa ngo kwebala kodwa iqhiniso lilodwa singabakwa zulu la esidabuka khona. Uma ngi buka ngeso lokhozi kweyiswa ihlupheko nobuzima esibhekane nabo. Uma kungaba khona into enhle ewela esizweni sika khumalo sibabazwe ngezinyi zizwe ngi sho bazo sondela abakwa zulu benona iqhatha eliphethwe yisizwe sika khumalo. Kodwa bhudi uma sikhoza sithandaza enkozweni umfundisi etshumayela niyaziphika isolo zoku chwasa ngebala. Uxhamalala U zuma ukhombisile ubuntu ngesikhathi engu mongameli wavulele isizwe sika khumalo imnyango ethize 😀😀

[@ElectrostatiCrow]

Ngithi ningabuya kodwa hayi manje. Sisanezinkinga okufanele sizilungise khona la Emzansi Afrika. Kodwa sizonivulela umnyago mhlawumbe ngabo 2030 lapho.

[@user-vg6jv9wk4e]

He looks very healthy ...

[@mukeloncube410]

It really means that Southern Africans we actually one Tribe and that the Khoisan People must’ve not been the first people of Africa.

[@llhk2]

I want to know more lobengula…..

[@emmanuelgordon2641]

Siyabonga

[@sibusisonyathi919]

Nyathi I wanna know more about history of Nyathi surname

[@nqobilemabandla4321]

My favorite city in the world well my question is who was advising our colonizers to name our township in such manner

[@tumidube5903]

It should be documented

[@tkmox1033]

KO meaning the place U meaning the person KObulawayo the place then Unyathi the person O 'bulawayo' a description of what is being done to the person like in this case the one who is being killed, On the other hand i heard kwabulawayo was there in Kzn where Mzilikazi came from isnt it that Lobhengula just took the name from his forefathers stories and just to instil fear on his enemies that his place is not to play with

[@greenpeace7380]

Its KoBulawayo

[@BonganiMagadu]

Yes Bulawayo existed in KZN during king Shakas time. That's fact

[@costergumede9457]

My Elder , honourable P Nyathi..Bulawayo has no roots with Lobengula..it has to do with King Mzilikazi who had experience with the original Kwa Bulawayo in Kwa Zulu Natal..the place is in Eshowe.. It's a serious miscarriage of justice to suggest that Bulawayo belongs to Lobengula yet it's his father and many elders who came from KwaZulu eg..Lotshe KaHlabangane (Magalela clans) Chief Mazwi Gumede..Do you suggest that Mzilikazi lived without a Kingdom? And how can a King be one without a throne name?

[@costergumede9457]

Even today my Leader..I know that place in Eshowe..I saw the eSamagwala tree.where it's said the cowards were killed by King Shaka...hence eSamagwala (isihlahla)

[@thamsanqathusi9671]

Phakama Bulawayo.

[@tgods38]

My Grandmother Mbuka Siwela never ate fish she was a cousin o Lo eBegula

[@gptactical6658]

Batshele mdluli, Batshele manqele.

[@anesusoko]

Nice historical video. Whats the name of the song in the beginning?

[@BlueSkyMedia]

Hudson Simbarashe - Bulawayo

[@anesusoko]

@@BlueSkyMedia thank you.

[@foxbat473]

KZN

[@mandlamaseko2550]

Siyabonga kakhulu baba Ko Bulawayo not blawayo 😤😤😤

[@metalbird8992]

Ngiyabonga Budede

[@BonganiMagadu]

What's budede

[@nevermushamba3711]

U learn from univerty of Cambridge

[@dax4949]

Mdala uyaphazama Kwabulawayo umuzi ka king shaka zulu based in kzn Habeni Eshowe. Uma u khuluma ngo Bulawayo qala Kzn first usungadlula to mthwakazi. Kwabulawayo is way king shaka zulu & king Mzilikazi Khumalo beqhuma amadoda amaphambili ku Gwazwa abantu abafishane ngemkhonto🤣🤣🤣

[@nelsonndlovu2825]

Wadlula kudala lapho wena nguwe ongamlandeliyo

[@zgmkwambo5306]

Cha akazi ngampela kwaBulawayo igama.lesgodlo seSilo u Shaka ka Senzangakhona ,

[@gamdelasjwila3814]

eBergvile

[@futuremoyo4049]

Hawu selischazela ke lina mazulu amanga,, thina singama ndebele not ama zulu

[@laureatembiba5981]

This man is a library

[@jenniferngwenya2537]

Ah lapho ngiya phazamiseka angisaqedisisi . Kanti okwathiwa unina libhudlu elilamathe amunyu ayisu Tshaka yini ? Owayelonina oliswazi lingincede ngokungehlukanisela. Iqakathekile I nganekwane yamandebele.

[@alexandernyamazana4795]

Ngulobengula besala ukuthi abe yinkosi ngemva kokutshona kukaMzilikazi.

[@henda1538]

IsiZulu leso enisikhulumayo

[@bayethefm9338]

How do we contact you

[@BlueSkyMedia]

[e-mail]

[@ba-kasbongiseninombalizabayeki]

Kanti why singachazelwa ngesindebele aii

[@dax4949]

U are always active my sister😄😄😄

[@zimchild1973]

Education entered their brains

[@machlabs3294]

Ukuze sonke sifunde labangaziyo isiNdebele!

[@niconkola9314]

i remember at my early primary level in 90s we used to be forced ndebele at school guests what in beitbridge 500 kilometers away from bulawayo punching as for speaking my venda language form that year I hate this language belong to mzilikazi also I learn about ndebele and shona history until I hate those two language until today ndebele and shonas do not force your language to as venda people we got venda language given by God

[@cefasfah85]

It's the zanu pf regime, not the people

[@terencendlovu9235]

Njube n nguboyenja i didn't get it ryt

[@user-dz4nr4my6w]

Njube and nguboyenja were Lobengulas sons

[@ndodanasibanda764]

Am confused by the fact that Mzilikazi grew under Zwide why if his mother is Mandiweni?

[@BonganiMagadu]

What do you mean

[@hermisphasha5404]

Ko blues ndiko kwedu, ko ntuthu ziyathuqa

[@euginenyuswa4608]

Ngjcela ukulungisa umhlonishwa . Igamaelithi Kwa Bulawayo. Waqembhuka nalo kwaZulu. Ukuze athi sekukaBulawayonalapha okushoukuthi akasaqhubeki. Phela kubokwakwakhiwe ndaweniyabeyaziwangokuthi ikwaBulawayo. Kwa Zulu

[@nhlaloambrose6628]

No angivumelani nawe nduna lapho

[@costergumede9457]

I agree with you! Bulawayo is a place in KZN .. Eshowe to be precise...in that place there's a tree called isihlahla samagwala.. Udlula ithuna lika Nandi..king Shaka's mother!

[@costergumede9457]

Ezansi wehle ngomgwaqo indawo yakhona kuthiwa kukwaMaqhakaza..kulapho ke kwaBulawayo..God willing I'll do documentary about how Bulawayo of Zimbabwe came about..so far the information is scarce..my resident UBaba uGwala, Mphephethe uGodo lwaseNgwavuma died last year so am left with Mbuso Khoza..and I'm Costa Mazwi Gumede a descendant of Magona Gumede a first born of Chief Mazwi Gumede, the big brother of Chief Menyezwa Gumede in Dongamuzi in Lupane.

[@mukodoborijakafiriri8698]

Tne name koBulawayo is Not related the Bulawayo of KwaZulu? Same with eNtumbane and Mzingwane or better still Muzi waNgwane the Mkhizes who came with AmaNtungwa?

[@snubcapri8691]

Zulu nation

[@wisemanmhlanga8832]

Nguni nation

[@zeburules]

If the British arrived after the Ndebele nation, historically speaking, the Ndebele people would have been the first "colonialist settlers"? If you are a true historian you have a responsibility to be accurate, factual and unbiased. Otherwise you fall into the category of politician.

[@Thembi31]

Maybe you are the one who falls in the category of politician because it’s common knowledge and factual that the Shonas are foreign to Zimbabwe and migrated from the Congo. The only difference is that they came before the Ndebele and the British. When they migrated there there were other tribes living in Zimbabwe like the San people for example. So truly speaking historically the Shonas could have been the first “colonialist settlers”.

[@zeburules]

@@Thembi31 I agree with your comment. I was speaking to a specific discussion... the subject is broad and can't be covered in one comment so calm down.

[@greenpeace7380]

No, the first colonialists we Shona people. Thats a fact

[@zeburules]

@@greenpeace7380 As I responded to another commentator, I did not want to write a historical dissertation, I was responding to the video creator.

[@josephmarapire2674]

This is total wrong history Muzilikazi was a warrior he never be in Matebeland until 1924 when he was coming for the awards given by colone for helped dissolve the Rozvi empire colonial properganda manipulate our history Mr its all wrong we can talk it from 1099

[@sydkhumbu51]

Phathisa udlezi udukisa abantu why Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and Kwa Bulawayo in kwanongoma in KZN ntumbane in Zimbabwe and in KZN enyokeni in Zimbabwe and enyokeni in Kwa nongoma The problem is you guys you speak broken Nguni you mixing it with shona eg yini imuli? thina sazi umndeni

[@doubtcele4887]

Lobaba udukisa abantu ayikho indaba yakhe angisamthembi ayi kahle kahle ku Kwa Bulawayo not ko Bulawayo

[@dax4949]

Sho brother uyaphazama Kwabulawayo is not based Nongoma ( NND). Kwabulawayo based in Eshowe Esgodini Habeni (NES) under inkosi Bheke Showe Zulu.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@doubtcele4887]

@@dax4949😀😀

[@marioshezi7219]

With all due respect back thn Lobengula was zulu and he did not speak isindebele as spoken currently so he was going to say kwaBulawayo

[@sfisosguda3951]

He's referring to ' umuntu Obulawayo ' ,,the person who's killed,as a figurative saying and that like the Zulu who're referring to the literally killed person bcz Shaka used to kill people,,so angiboni kuts uwrong ngani cz uchazile ekcalen the difference between the meaning of the two words,,here he referred to as it's him being killed by being given that throne,as Nguni people we also refer to someone being killed if given a certain position,,n in that Zulu case it's means the place where Shaka used to kill people

[@seelomugwenhi7773]

Why do these so called purpoted historians or biographers purposely omit the crucial beginning of everything and pretend like nothing existed before then. The ndebele who were chased by shaka zulu during the mfecane crossed into zimbabwe into this shona inhabited area, decimated the local shona tribes there and formed the ndebele kingdom under Mzlikazi and then lobengula, and thats when Bulawayo emerged.simples

[@darylngwekazi1314]

There you go,why spoil this Beautiful video with your tribalist mind ...anywhere that's wat you shona shit holes are known for.....fuck off

[@darylngwekazi1314]

There you go,why spoil this video with your tribalist mind ,I am not surprised coming from a shona shit hole like yourself,fuck off you shona shit,you always think you're special.

[@thabanidube1137]

You are crazy there was no shona in matebeleland

[@seelomugwenhi7773]

@@thabanidube1137 . What a half witted approach from a puny tribalist seeking applause from like minded quarters. The shona tribe was the tribe that was based North of limpopo and whether that area was scarsely populated with scatted settlements isnt the reason why you suggest the fact that the shonas weren't present.Your pathetic take lines up properly with the Boers in South Africa who echoes the same sentiments that South Africa wasn't inhabited untill they showed up.

[@Thembi31]

I guess the Ndebele did the same thing the Shonas did when they decimated the local San tribes that they found in Zimbabwe when they were running away from the Congo

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

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[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

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