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Breaks my heart to think what my old hometown Durban has become. It was once a clean and well managed city which all its citizens were proud of. Things could have and should have been very different.
I was born and raised in the Grey Street Casbah in the Durban CBD. Our streets were clean and safe and no criminals or filth. This is how I recall Durban ,not the way it is now . We will never get this Durban back unfortunately and those memories especially if the beachfront and CBD are in the past now especially with the recent disgusting looting and internal terrorism we just faced.
if the DA was able to run Durban for 12 years , they would be able to undo all the damage the ANC did for the past 30. Durban would become alot like Miami. never too late guys . go vote
This made me sad. I was born in Durban. Lived here my entire life. It was such a beautiful city. Not anymore. It's filthy . Garbage never gets picked up. The munipality has built open air urinals in the once beautiful Greenacres lane, amongst other streets. And it overflows into the streets. There's more illegal migrants than locals. Now the municipality is pumping sewage into the oceans. The old Durban would give any European city a run for its money. Not anymore. Durban is dead. Durbanites keep away from from the city.
My beautiful Durban. It will never be restored to a clean relaxed city of the people who were born here& grew up in a friendly &vibrant multicultural society . I have many beautiful memories growing up in Durban.😢❤An excellent production.Please continue the series🎉
@@christobosman5710 Só até 1980, pois durante a década de 70 muitas coisas ocorreram que foram contra a sustentação da África do Sul com aquele (caríssimo) regime de separação. O governo da minoria deveria ter tratado disso sem esperar contrapartidas de Eua, UK e ONU... enfim, esse tempo de resolver as coisas já passou mesmo.
@@christobosman5710 Só até 1980, pois durante a década de 70 muitas coisas ocorreram que foram contra a sustentação da África do Sul com aquele (caríssimo) regime de separação. O governo da minoria deveria ter tratado disso sem esperar contrapartidas de Eua, UK e ONU... enfim, esse tempo de resolver as coisas já passou mesmo.
@DefinitelyNotDan Moved to Johannesburg where we had a Wimpy franchise in Randburg and on the 50th floor of Carlton centre as well as industrial catering facility for factories.
I lived in Umzinto on the South Coast and in the 70s used to go to Durban every Saturday night to collect the Sunday Tribune and Times to deliver all the way down the South Coast up to Port Edward. The news papers only came out a midnight so we had plenty of time to explore the streets of Durban. Clean streets and safe. I live in Cape Town now and haven't been to Durban city centre in 24 years.
Nelson, My late uncle, Ainslie Royston managed "Barker Bros' sugar farms nearby Umzinto. I even lived on the farm for a school term in 59 and went to Sezela with my cousins. Still remember the "Shows" they had on the showground/sportsfield in the lower part of the town. I still remember driving out of town southwards towards Esperanza and then southwards to the farm. The Barkers later stopped leasing that farm and bought another one at Ifafa which my uncle lived on and managed, finally retiring to the Ifafa lagoon. I have many happy memories of that area.
@@neilblunt1926 thank you for your input sir, I know the Ifafa lagoon and the beach and I know the Ifafa hotel. Fished often there. I am an ex sugar boy myself and was born and brought up on a sugar farm.
A Brit who visited the Durban area twice in the 2000s, my ex was from the province. So beautiful the coast line and also inland Natal. I don't expect to go back and hope the city can recover the pride it had in those days.
Thanks. Th epain is to recall how CLEAN and South African tis city was. The pain is to see NO REAL DEVELOPMENTS have happened in Durban city proper. EVERYTHING has been on standstill in every city centre under the ANC, eactually great regress and great dirt.
Lol stop. There are countless infrastructure programs underway to redevelop the city centre and a new city near the port. Also Durban Aerotropolis is being built. Transport networks are being added every year in the region to connect all regions in Durban. The promenade has rejuvenation plans as well.
@@khweziza5397 Today they plough human sh.. into the beach sand because their is so much lying on the beaches after December and New year it is impossible to remove. How the good old South Africa has fallen in to just another sh.. hole called the new south africa
Durban before the Moses Mabhida Stadium sounds like another century, remembered, and perhaps a little missed. I lived there in the '90s. Thanks for bringing it all back. Time does not stand still, they say. So, shoot a new one, showing all the important changes in the look and feel of the Metro. Money allowing, a one hour or 90 minute show would be nice. Eita.
Ah! Days before filming with drones. Looking at the beach and hearing the helicopter sound reminds me of the John Rolfe rescue helicopter from back then. I worked and lived in Durban at that time. Capital radio on South beach. The yachts and boats. The cable cars . The dodge-em cars . The sunken gardens. Feeding pigeons in the park. Durban was just beautiful and amazing. It is now a dead city. The locals don't go there. I moved to the suburbs and keep away from the city. It's gone to the dogs
I was born there in 1950. Seen all of Durban right through till 2014 when I retired. All those places bring back so many wonderful memories of the times I spent at the beaches, Old and New Kingsmead playing football there and watching rugby at Kings Park. I moved into the country and will never go back for the reasons we all know.
The building of the gigantic suburban shopping malls was the beginning of the destruction of South Africa's inner cities. Middle class left the inner cities and obviously it would be naturally filled again by people .
Previously clean, properly run cities abhor a vacuum. Hence the infiltration of disgusting plantlife & the accompanying endless litany of social ills now visited upon the CBD & surrounding suburbs. But my friends & I made several of them feel very sorry that they even thought of rioting & theft in 2021..
Nothing goes in the right direction if you make wrong decisions. You are only in control of your own actions, stop worrying about how the world is changing, this is normal. The world is always changing. That's why it's written in the scriptures, don't worry but seek the kingdom of God first and its righteous and everything shall be added. Mathew. Nothing goes wrong in the kingdom of God, in other words nothing God wrong when you are always doing what God requires from you.
@dannyarcher6370 As I did, Danny. I believed I was doing the right thing at the time, but history has proved me wrong. All African liberation movements have proved to be disastrous at governance.
@@davidsouthwick6802 & others. I voted yes because it seemed the right thing to do. NO ONE ever thought South Africa would come to what it is now. But the world was against us with economic sanctions and we could never have survived much longer. What NOBODY, here in RSA or the world could foresee qas the TOTAL MISMANAGEMENT of a country by absolute bloody useless individuals who can't run a race, let alone a country. All they wanted is POWER to rule. And the fools still want to nationalise.
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Good old days.
Breaks my heart to think what my old hometown Durban has become. It was once a clean and well managed city which all its citizens were proud of. Things could have and should have been very different.
I was born and raised in the Grey Street Casbah in the Durban CBD. Our streets were clean and safe and no criminals or filth. This is how I recall Durban ,not the way it is now . We will never get this Durban back unfortunately and those memories especially if the beachfront and CBD are in the past now especially with the recent disgusting looting and internal terrorism we just faced.
if the DA was able to run Durban for 12 years , they would be able to undo all the damage the ANC did for the past 30.
Durban would become alot like Miami.
never too late guys .
go vote
I was doing Primary School in Addington Primary School and apart of the Bodyboarding Club
The Sea level has risen so much yoh!
only brown in the water is the beach sand from the wave action
This is the DURBAN we've LOST and will probably never ger back again!
You lost India too but you're fine
Isn't this footage recent
What a fantastic journey this video took me on. To think what Durban was and unfortunately has become is vey sad but what a glorious place it was.
couldn't agree more.
The final years before the collapse.
Yip, and then came 1994......
Yip
This made me sad. I was born in Durban. Lived here my entire life. It was such a beautiful city. Not anymore. It's filthy . Garbage never gets picked up. The munipality has built open air urinals in the once beautiful Greenacres lane, amongst
other streets. And it overflows into the streets. There's more illegal migrants than locals. Now the municipality is pumping sewage into the oceans. The old Durban would give any European city a run for its money. Not anymore. Durban is dead. Durbanites keep away from from the city.
This hurts to hear. It used to be so beautiful and calm. I really miss my hometown ❤
Good old days..before the anc!
My beautiful Durban. It will never be restored to a clean relaxed city of the people who were born here& grew up in a friendly &vibrant multicultural society . I have many beautiful memories growing up in Durban.😢❤An excellent production.Please continue the series🎉
If the south africa are still handled by whites 🥺 idk what it would be .. maybe it's like usa or canada
It was far better those days than the U S A ,even our currency was stronger than the U S A ,it was paradise
@@christobosman5710 Só até 1980, pois durante a década de 70 muitas coisas ocorreram que foram contra a sustentação da África do Sul com aquele (caríssimo) regime de separação.
O governo da minoria deveria ter tratado disso sem esperar contrapartidas de Eua, UK e ONU... enfim, esse tempo de resolver as coisas já passou mesmo.
@@christobosman5710 Só até 1980, pois durante a década de 70 muitas coisas ocorreram que foram contra a sustentação da África do Sul com aquele (caríssimo) regime de separação.
O governo da minoria deveria ter tratado disso sem esperar contrapartidas de Eua, UK e ONU... enfim, esse tempo de resolver as coisas já passou mesmo.
@@4l3x5andro ? Try English .
@@christobosman5710 Nigeria currency was stronger than dollars too in the 70's so with most African countries
Lived there for 3 years in the late 60's
@DefinitelyNotDan Moved to Johannesburg where we had a Wimpy franchise in Randburg and on the 50th floor of Carlton centre as well as industrial catering facility for factories.
i'm thinkin' this is my favorite form of 90s architectural modernism. there's just somethin' about it, feels special.
That was when everything was maintained and law and order prevailed….never to be seen again
I lived in Umzinto on the South Coast and in the 70s used to go to Durban every Saturday night to collect the Sunday Tribune and Times to deliver all the way down the South Coast up to Port Edward. The news papers only came out a midnight so we had plenty of time to explore the streets of Durban. Clean streets and safe. I live in Cape Town now and haven't been to Durban city centre in 24 years.
Nelson, My late uncle, Ainslie Royston managed "Barker Bros' sugar farms nearby Umzinto. I even lived on the farm for a school term in 59 and went to Sezela with my cousins. Still remember the "Shows" they had on the showground/sportsfield in the lower part of the town. I still remember driving out of town southwards towards Esperanza and then southwards to the farm. The Barkers later stopped leasing that farm and bought another one at Ifafa which my uncle lived on and managed, finally retiring to the Ifafa lagoon. I have many happy memories of that area.
@@neilblunt1926 thank you for your input sir, I know the Ifafa lagoon and the beach and I know the Ifafa hotel. Fished often there. I am an ex sugar boy myself and was born and brought up on a sugar farm.
Braais on the fields outside the rugby stadium after the game were fantastic.
Bru! They were the best!
Thank you very much, Thank you very much - This time coming not back 😢
I remember Durban city as a child, it was an absolute blast. Now its another World Class African Shitty. Thanks ANC.
The GOLDEN years....before the Zimbabwe crowd took over lol
A Brit who visited the Durban area twice in the 2000s, my ex was from the province. So beautiful the coast line and also inland Natal. I don't expect to go back and hope the city can recover the pride it had in those days.
GEE, I WONDER WHO HAPPENED
Heartbreaking that is when criminals run the country 😢😢
I grew up in this Durban.
Me Too. Born 1950 lived there till 2014. Never going back. Too many great memories all spoilt by what this city and country has become.
So many memories! Thanks for sharing.
North Beach 🏖️ and south beach 🏖️ Durban 😂😂😂
Never to return in my lifetime.
Thanks. Th epain is to recall how CLEAN and South African tis city was. The pain is to see NO REAL DEVELOPMENTS have happened in Durban city proper. EVERYTHING has been on standstill in every city centre under the ANC, eactually great regress and great dirt.
Lol stop. There are countless infrastructure programs underway to redevelop the city centre and a new city near the port. Also Durban Aerotropolis is being built. Transport networks are being added every year in the region to connect all regions in Durban. The promenade has rejuvenation plans as well.
Corruption and even political murders are common place in Natal.
@@khweziza5397 Today they plough human sh.. into the beach sand because their is so much lying on the beaches after December and New year it is impossible to remove. How the good old South Africa has fallen in to just another sh.. hole called the new south africa
@@khweziza5397Hi if you there were still waiting , it's been 2 years already and there city has degraded dramatically, it's a slum now!🤷♂️
@@shikarbabulall3897 lmao yeah, you’re right. there’s nothing to defend at this point. totally is dilapidated.
It was before the drugs rights and homelessness exist.
Durban before the Moses Mabhida Stadium sounds like another century, remembered, and perhaps a little missed. I lived there in the '90s. Thanks for bringing it all back. Time does not stand still, they say. So, shoot a new one, showing all the important changes in the look and feel of the Metro. Money allowing, a one hour or 90 minute show would be nice. Eita.
Some folks are good at building things and maintaining them. Other folks are better at destroying things.
Wow Durban CBD looked great
The days when Durban was a white paradise.
When sewerage was not flowing into the sea, when you could walk the golden mile, when there was not two tons of litter on a Monday morning.
Ah! Days before filming with drones. Looking at the beach and hearing the helicopter sound reminds me of the John Rolfe rescue helicopter from back then. I worked and lived in Durban at that time. Capital radio on South beach. The yachts and boats. The cable cars . The dodge-em cars . The sunken gardens. Feeding pigeons in the park. Durban was just beautiful and amazing. It is now a dead city. The locals don't go there. I moved to the suburbs and keep away from the city. It's gone to the dogs
I was born there in 1950. Seen all of Durban right through till 2014 when I retired. All those places bring back so many wonderful memories of the times I spent at the beaches, Old and New Kingsmead playing football there and watching rugby at Kings Park. I moved into the country and will never go back for the reasons we all know.
It still looks the same today....... From the air
awesome to see water world
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Can you do a comparison of then to now??
We lost it all 😭😭😭😭
1990 until nw. Nothing changed, still the same. Look😅
The building of the gigantic suburban shopping malls was the beginning of the destruction of South Africa's inner cities. Middle class left the inner cities and obviously it would be naturally filled again by people .
Previously clean, properly run cities abhor a vacuum. Hence the infiltration of disgusting plantlife & the accompanying endless litany of social ills now visited upon the CBD & surrounding suburbs. But my friends & I made several of them feel very sorry that they even thought of rioting & theft in 2021..
water is so clean
Let’s reset human race nothing is going in the right direction at least that’s what I do when I seem to loose in GTA
Nothing goes in the right direction if you make wrong decisions.
You are only in control of your own actions, stop worrying about how the world is changing, this is normal.
The world is always changing.
That's why it's written in the scriptures, don't worry but seek the kingdom of God first and its righteous and everything shall be added. Mathew.
Nothing goes wrong in the kingdom of God, in other words nothing God wrong when you are always doing what God requires from you.
The referendum naysayers were right on the money..
I was only 11 which was a good thing, because in my liberal stupidity, I'd have voted Yes.
@dannyarcher6370 As I did, Danny. I believed I was doing the right thing at the time, but history has proved me wrong. All African liberation movements have proved to be disastrous at governance.
@@davidsouthwick6802 & others. I voted yes because it seemed the right thing to do. NO ONE ever thought South Africa would come to what it is now. But the world was against us with economic sanctions and we could never have survived much longer. What NOBODY, here in RSA or the world could foresee qas the TOTAL MISMANAGEMENT of a country by absolute bloody useless individuals who can't run a race, let alone a country. All they wanted is POWER to rule. And the fools still want to nationalise.
@@dannyarcher6370 See my reply below.
My dad owned an apartment on marine parade. He sold it at a loss in late 90s and squandered the money on travelling. None of us got a dime.
His money, you have no claim on it.
Wow, in my view though Durban hasn't changed that much.