Dr. Ryrie is not only exceedingly knowledgeable of religion and society, but knows how to deliver his thesis in a cogent, well paced manner. Such pleasurable lectures.

I have just watched all four of these lectures on extremism in tandem. My dinner was late, the talk I was preparing for tomorrow is still incomplete, and midnight has just gone, but I have learnt so much even about areas of history I have long found intriguing. Enthralling, absolutely fascinating, and enlightening. Thank you very much!

If I have to describe Alec Ryrie in one sentence, he is a rare expert in "Here are some terrible ideas that are obviously terrible, but let's try to really understand them deeply as their proponents did." This makes him my favorite lecturer of all times.

I can't but applaud this monumentos lectures, a dissection of belief. A deep view into the structure behind the pretext. A distant observation of a particular beliefs development whilst frankly exposing the broadness of what belief to humanity as such is. Incredible work and build up, impeccable oration. Also absolutely devastating.

Wonderful lecture. What delivery.

A very interesting perspective on apartheid. thank you!

Every time I watch the videos of Dr Alec Ryrie, I lose faith on humanity and btw, the talk made me sure that Israel is a clever lucky implementation of apartheid.

Another wonderful informative lecture.

Alec Ryrie is interesting, informative and thought-provoking whichever Century he is speaking about.

Side note: Here and elsewhere the invention of concentration camps is often ascribed to the British in the Boer War, but they were actually pioneered by Spain in its (then) colony Cuba against a rebellious populace in 1896 - much publicized in the press of that era.

the "beware of natives" sign at 19.04 is a roadsign warning drivers of pedestrians..,not dangerous natives.

'The defeat of Cuban-backed guerillas in Angola... ' is a rather mystifying statement.

Fantastic! There’s a direct link between Calvinism and apartheid

Religion grafted itself onto power then rode for as long as it could.

Apartheid was bad but South Africa today is worse

Fascinating lecture!

Excellent.

Brilliant.

The Boer or Afrikaners came to South Africa from Indonesia via the Indian ocean. The Dutch were the first Europeans to trade porcelain and Silk from China and Japan so did the Brits. So there was a trade war between these two gansters or pirates of the sea. If you study piracy in the Caribbean islands, it's a similar story. The East West Indies made them rich on trade and piracy.

Masterful

The distinct society... and flourished and multiplied they did. The Afrikaners like the Jews in Israel "the God chosen people"? were assimilated by the British superiority. Good land, Gold and diamond led to a war the Boar war. I didn't know that Canada was involved in that war due to her connection as a dominion or a colony of the British Empire.

The south African side of history that some quarters viscerally suppressed.

Boers are very very lucky they live in south Africa. Had they been in any other part of the continent the natives there would have never been so forgiving of their presence

23:08 That sound a lot like "self-determination". 49:00 The problem is that apartheid could *never* be justly implemented, unless the Blacks and Coloreds also wanted it.

Naude pronounced Naw-dee, a French Huguenot name. They were seventeenth century, French religious refugees, via the Netherlands. The people who brought the grape to the Cape.

People who were until very recently and to this day are not constraind by the same pressure will not be born raised think or act like someone who's People were under different pressures

Southern Africa is a mess today. I think separate states for different races had been a much better solution.

Unfortunately, apartheid still hasn't really ended. Yes, racial laws were abolished, but whites continue to own most of the country's land and wealth because Mandela & Co. abandoned the cause as they negotiated to take power. The speaker's misunderstanding of this fundamental point in his adherence to liberal, pro-capitalist orthodoxy undermines his analysis, even though his church-centered focus is elsewhere.

I would like to cite your statements in an paper im writing. If you could give me an official title on this speech and a date that would be highly appreciated

How and why did Eswatini [Swaziland] and Lesotho [Basutoland] become separate states and were never part of the Union of South Africa, even though the former was mostly and the latter totally surrounded by South African territory.

The !Kung! are pretty cool. We of the "civilized" north seldom appreciate human ingenuity and adaptation when it doesn't involve exploitation, polluting, or oppression.

Reconciliation between husbands and wives. Between the oppressed and the oppressors... the exploiters and the exploited.

A limited and one sided presentation by Professor Ryrie of South Africa's history up to 1948 in my view. If one is ignorant about what the British did to both Afrikaners and Black people in this country since their arrival in 1795, you cannot understand why Afrikaners created apartheid in 1948. In a psychological reenactment after the horrors of the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) - where four out of every five Afrikaners who died in British concentration camps, were children; 50% of them under age 14. 20% Of the Afrikaners (approximately 250 000 in total) in the two Small Republics, the British Empire were at war with, were killed. Not only concentrationcamps, but also a scorched earth policy where their houses, farms & thousands of animals were scorched and killed. And why? All for Her Majesties men's greed for SA's gold. The Afrikaner children who saw these atrocities and survived this genocidal war, and the first generations born from these extremely traumatized parents, were the 1948 Apartheid father's and mothers, who started the vile system of apartheid - out of a fear of survival as a group. Not only were they nearly fifty years after the war still struggling to survive, still suffering from transgenerational trauma, they also daily had to endure being humiliated by an English Press and the white English public who oooked down at them. All of this in a country where whites were far outnumbered and survival for many groups was a complicated challenge. However, even more interesting is that apartheid was actually first initiated in 1894 by the British, in name by Cecil John Rhodes with his Glen Grey Act. It was then called segregation. The Afrikaners completed the process in 1948. It changed from covert to overt racism. It is an irony that it was precisely the overtness of apartheid's racism that made the Struggle possible. How do you confront covert racism where the accused conveniently deny his feigned superiority? - like the British tend to do? Ryrie is correct that Afrikaners used the Bible and interpreted it to suit their selfish policy for survival. His post- 1948 facts are correct. But if you don't understand it from a psychohistorical perspective, you completely misses the point why it all turned out the way it did. I suggest you read Apartheid - Britain's Bastard Child by Hélène Opperman Lewis, to give you a good grounding in the psychohistorical reasons why vile apartheid happened. Ryrie is right about people using their beliefs, religion if you wish, far too often to justify their evil actions. You also may want to question whether missionaries did African people any favour. It is well known that British missionaries were front men for the British Empire. Ask the Chinese. They've experienced it too. Britain still has a lot to answer to many people of the world.

Please help me with this PPT

Has the Dutch reform Church ever apologized to the South African people for being responsible for apartheid ?

You seem to have missed the bit about the first ever Concentration Camps in the world where the British imprisonment, killed and poisoned the Boer woman and children who opposed thier rule. That will be a very interesting video.

I appreciated the Rubicon reference in the South African context. I wonder if it was consciously included with a nod to the Rubicon speech by Botha

The Protestants Legacy in world history. Race and religion 😂 complex and difficult issues to deal with.

Alan Boesak struggle accounting, embezzled, thief, liar and gaoled for 18 months. Could not keep his fingers out of the charity till!

Don, Afrikaners are definitely not expecting financial retribution. It's not about money for us. It's about proper acknowledgement by the Britons for what they did to our grandparents. To stop living in denial & trying to justify the horror they caused; which has a direct link to the disaster we currently experience in SA. The British were main players together with France in getting the Germans at Versailles to be punished and humiliated after the First World War - in fact it is generally accepted that it was these revenge conditions put onto Germany, that was the root for the Second World War. If they expected that of the Germans, why can't they take responsibility for the many disasters they caused? In so many places? (The Anglo-Boer War was 1899-1902, just for the record). But back to your question about what to do: Firstly, one of the Royals or otherwise the British Prime minister could lay a wreath at the War Museum in Bloemfontein. And secondly - the diamond that was given to Queen Victoria just after the ABW, now 'inserted' in the Royal crown, could be returned as a gift and gesture of goodwill to SA, to be sold and the money invested into a Trust for further studies by black students. Note: black students. Maybe you can present these options to all those parliamentarians in the British parliament, you say are critical of your x-Empire (though I know they are very busy with Brexit now).

South African won the Angolan war? Am I experiencing a severe case of Mandela effect? Jokes aside, Cuba supported the government and South Africa support the rebels, not the other way around. Cuba supported president Dos Santos who remained in office until 2017, and South Africa supported Jonas Savimbi who was killed in 2002. I would personally argue that one of the key factors in toppling the Apartheid was the resounding defeat of South Africa forces in the hands of Cuba and it's allies, which shook the South African government's confidence of its ability to maintain order by force.

This is a very one sided I’ll informed lecture. The Khoi Khoi were not bushmen. The Dutch never enslaved the local population, the slaves came from Indonesia. So many errors not up to Gresham college standard.