Investigating The Most Weird Town In South Africa!

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  • @dewalddewet759
    @dewalddewet759 5 місяців тому +1080

    Dricus du Plessis is ranked no. 1 UFC middleweight in the world. He is ranked no. 6 in Brakpan.

  • @ReptileAndWildlifeRescue
    @ReptileAndWildlifeRescue 5 місяців тому +596

    And by the way:
    Brakpan, Boksburg and Benoni is referred to as the Bemoerde Triangle.

    • @ReformedVicar
      @ReformedVicar 5 місяців тому +27

      Don't forget the far East ...Springs and Nigel.When you get kicked out of Brakpan you move East

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 5 місяців тому +21

      LMGA. That's kak snaaks.

    • @mahomedseedat
      @mahomedseedat 5 місяців тому +17

      You meant the Boermeda triangle.

    • @kgb2905
      @kgb2905 5 місяців тому +8

      Van der Bijlpark Vereniging.

    • @sechabaraditla1810
      @sechabaraditla1810 5 місяців тому +10

      😂😂😂😂 'bemoerde' 😂😂😂so they kick ass there

  • @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear
    @HenryTheBoilermaker3rdYear 5 місяців тому +734

    I'm from Australia and recently have few new south african employees at work. You guys have so much slangs that most us aussies never heard of. And now I'm watching south african videos to learn more about your culture.

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому +48

      Come visit!?

    • @MrVoicemailGuy
      @MrVoicemailGuy 5 місяців тому +18

      Hahaha legend! Much respect to you Henry😂 These guys from Brakpan are proper Bogan😂 next time your employees are having a smoko, you should ask them to teach you some slang😂. You'll hear some really funny/weird stuff. And yes, I know what a Bogan and a smoko is! Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦

    • @wernerswanepoel9276
      @wernerswanepoel9276 5 місяців тому +24

      South African here living in Adelaide South Australia. Our cultures are similar in various ways, but South Africa has a VERY diverse range of cultures so you'd have to visit (knowing where's safe and where not) to experience the full mix

    • @dylanpadua486
      @dylanpadua486 5 місяців тому +11

      I am a fitter and Turner do you need one at your company. Help the Boyz get over to Australia!

    • @Expat_from_zaLand
      @Expat_from_zaLand 5 місяців тому +4

      What kulcha, dere is no culcha, it's just a mix of everything in a pot.
      That place is lekka zef man, tell those okes you employed they mustn't act zef ekke se...
      Haaibo, you bega wena

  • @NerdiMee
    @NerdiMee 5 місяців тому +280

    Im a Zulu South African who just found himself in Brakkies for 2 hours on a Sunday, I LOVE how they take out their classic cars on Sunday drives, im quite fluent in Afrikaans yet I feel like my Mechanic side belongs there.
    This is a golden video guys

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому +11

      Hit us up on IG, it would be fun to go out with you there 😂

    • @NerdiMee
      @NerdiMee 5 місяців тому +5

      @@theboyssouthafrica no problem guys, golf day would be propper too 😂but you guys all over the world, no idea when but im down for vibes gents

    • @eugenebrink8305
      @eugenebrink8305 5 місяців тому +2

      💪🏻🔥

    • @jayairBofR
      @jayairBofR 4 місяці тому

      Im not seeing how these fokes are hillbillies. Maybe i dont understand since im from the states, but Im not seeing it. It looks pretty normal.

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 4 місяці тому +1

      You are welcome in BRAKPAN....!!!!.....bru..!!!...especially if you have a hotted up wagon ...!! ....lol...🤣🤣🤣

  • @ndumisohlophe7603
    @ndumisohlophe7603 5 місяців тому +876

    Next quest: finding the bloke who voted EFF in Orania

  • @DN-kz7xl
    @DN-kz7xl 5 місяців тому +240

    They say if you enter Brakpan, you get searched for weapons. If they don't find any weapons on you, they will lend you some.

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +15

      Even give you a wheel spanner From their own toolbox 😂😭🤣

    • @michaelamanus189
      @michaelamanus189 4 місяці тому +3

      😂😂😂😂

    • @MatthewDeanCrabb
      @MatthewDeanCrabb 3 місяці тому +4

      I was in a minibus taxi in Germiston CBD about 2009-2010. The police stopped us and one asked me, do I have any weapons like a knife? I said no. She said "you need to get one"

  • @JohnnySmith-on8oe
    @JohnnySmith-on8oe 5 місяців тому +177

    Official crime stats prove that Brakpan is much safer than the neighboring towns, Boksburg, Benoni and Springs. Part of this is due to the fact that there has been an effective two way radio network in operation since 2010. With more than 800 households linked everyone stands together and help each other. Brakpan Radio Groep - Ons Staan Saam.

    • @anushkaluppnow6749
      @anushkaluppnow6749 5 місяців тому +4

      the boysss, where is my clip talking about the brakpan radio group mann?😂👏

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +2

      Can confirm Johnny's statement

    • @albertabs
      @albertabs 5 місяців тому +7

      Because there is nothing to steal 🤣

    • @Potemkin2000
      @Potemkin2000 5 місяців тому +7

      Because Brakpan doesn't have the time to involve cops - faster ways to distribute justice.

    • @ThatonedeadgirlonYouTube
      @ThatonedeadgirlonYouTube 4 місяці тому

      Secunda in my opinion is way worse

  • @nic_za7494
    @nic_za7494 5 місяців тому +119

    Hahaha those ladies said you can get divorced 3 times and still be married in the same family,and that guy in the parking lot confirmed it with his brother story 😂😂

  • @jonathanhall7815
    @jonathanhall7815 5 місяців тому +153

    I must say the people seem pretty friendly, honest and down to earth, something you don't find everywhere.

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +8

      We are a friendly bunch here in brakkies. Promise u that much.

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому +6

      Everyone was so welcoming, we want to go back!

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +1

      @theboyssouthafrica come back soon Kay 🤗

    • @m1000-n8w
      @m1000-n8w 5 місяців тому +1

      They really were super nice

    • @bhutlegend9922
      @bhutlegend9922 4 місяці тому

      It’s because the presenter isn’t black

  • @thxdxn
    @thxdxn 5 місяців тому +61

    Bru was way too stoked saying “Keep it in the family..”
    Sweet Home Alabrakpan

    • @brandonmeyer1182
      @brandonmeyer1182 Місяць тому

      Facts😭😂
      Was looking for a comment on this

  • @salty-006_7
    @salty-006_7 5 місяців тому +85

    Hey I grew up in Brakpan! Was a firefighter and medic for over 14 years. Moved to the Western Cape, life after Brakpan is possible. I know of many Brakpanites living all over the world like Australia, UK and USA. We've been taking over the world slowly after marrying into families all over cousin.

    • @craigmorgan4676
      @craigmorgan4676 5 місяців тому +4

      The cousin bit is weird af brother!💀👀😬😬😱😱🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🏈🏈🏈🏈

    • @ZeeJuque
      @ZeeJuque 5 місяців тому

      U married your cousin incest is illegal and disgusting the children will have health problems

    • @louwrivanheerden6931
      @louwrivanheerden6931 4 місяці тому

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @jimmywayne983
      @jimmywayne983 4 місяці тому

      ​@@craigmorgan4676🤣

    • @ryanolsen294
      @ryanolsen294 4 місяці тому +1

      dit is baie cool!

  • @snowypetal1
    @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +74

    As someone who has stayed in Brakpan her whole life, a born n bred Brakistani, there's no place like home Bru 😄🏡

  • @beertjiesan
    @beertjiesan 5 місяців тому +22

    I grew up in Springs next to Brakpan and up to now nothing has changed 😊 This is really a wholesome video - it hit home 😂

  • @brettsteinbach708
    @brettsteinbach708 5 місяців тому +60

    Brilliant. Well done The Boys, I havn't laughed so much in a while. I have lived in Brakpan for just over 21 years. I don't speak Afrikaans, However I understand it. I have lived on the Eastrand for 40 odd Years, Brakpan is unique that's for sure. Very friendly. Keep Rocking!

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому +2

      Appreciated brother, we definitely had a lot of fun💙

    • @HeatherWolmarans
      @HeatherWolmarans 2 місяці тому

      I hail from the 'Vale, and you never mess with the chicks from Brakpan.

  • @stace2777
    @stace2777 4 місяці тому +31

    The daughters' facial expression when her dad said the Brakpan guys have good values 😂😂

  • @joshuasibeko5084
    @joshuasibeko5084 5 місяців тому +215

    Brakpan; Benoni; Boksburg = Bermuda Triangle 🔥

  • @AnetCooper
    @AnetCooper 5 місяців тому +55

    I'm 60 my husband blind at 59.i lost my Son to taxi violations 4days ago in Pretoria, we need the friendships of brakpan.

  • @zignfg
    @zignfg 5 місяців тому +32

    That "Hugo bel die polisie" video with a bunch of mechanics is what Brakpan is like in my mind LMAO😂😭 What a gem!

  • @yvonnegreen6738
    @yvonnegreen6738 5 місяців тому +21

    I used to live in Brakpan. There is nothing wrong with it. I would rather live there than in Benoni or Boksburg.

  • @brucelang1201
    @brucelang1201 4 місяці тому +26

    I know nothing about Brakpan but the people seem down to earth and the place looks clean.

  • @marionfriedenthal7352
    @marionfriedenthal7352 5 місяців тому +13

    You put a big smile on my face for the day. I spent a large portion of my life living in Springs. Those little dorpies are actually cool places to live. Cost of living is much cheaper and Joburg is only 45 minutes or less away. Thanks for the laughs. 😂😂

  • @markbrophy1276
    @markbrophy1276 5 місяців тому +17

    Hi. I watched the build from the start. It is absolutely amazing to watch the bike go from steel pipes to a fully functional bike. It was awesome to see. Mark

  • @jeremyrogers4839
    @jeremyrogers4839 5 місяців тому +25

    Cool post. Well done on surviving! The one thing I will say about Brakpan, is the people are REAL!

    • @janmale7767
      @janmale7767 5 місяців тому +2

      I grew up in Brakpan moved there when i was a little kid of about 3 years old, it has an element of hillbilly'ness but you hit the nail on the head,the people are unpretencious in other words like you say real!

    • @jeremyrogers4839
      @jeremyrogers4839 5 місяців тому

      @@janmale7767 Brakpan was on my beat on a job I used to do. That whole East Rand. It is Fokin cool.

  • @Darko_Beez
    @Darko_Beez 5 місяців тому +61

    "a Netflix douchie" yoh that sent me spinning bru😂😂😂

  • @siyamsomi390
    @siyamsomi390 5 місяців тому +151

    Brakpan is the Alabama of South Africa

    • @str8xrippin
      @str8xrippin 4 місяці тому

      Woah wait don't go there💀 I've heard the things families partake in and I've seen it myself

    • @ThatonedeadgirlonYouTube
      @ThatonedeadgirlonYouTube 4 місяці тому

      Agreed
      I know a family with four kids
      The youngest boy and the youngest girl had s e x so many times

    • @Demertech
      @Demertech 4 місяці тому +2

      so where is Ohio

    • @Demertech
      @Demertech 4 місяці тому

      @@str8xrippin k? lmao. Just curious where he thinks the Ohio of SA is, there are a few choices

    • @str8xrippin
      @str8xrippin 4 місяці тому

      @@Demertech what are the choices. Brakies is the only Ohio I know of

  • @dano7189
    @dano7189 4 місяці тому +8

    I was a teenager in Joburg in the 90s. I remember that part of Joburg as the “east rand”. People had less money there was more concrete and it was more sketchy, but I had great church friends there and the people were great. There was a good skate park in Benoni.

  • @philipgrobler7253
    @philipgrobler7253 5 місяців тому +10

    I am impressed at how clean the streets are in your video as compared to Kempton Park.

  • @ricoolivier
    @ricoolivier 5 місяців тому +54

    Born in Brakpan and proud of it!

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 5 місяців тому

      Lived in BRAKPAN and proud of it ...!!!! DIE MANNE VAN DIE PANNE .....MET DIE KANNE IN DIE HANNE ...!!!!

    • @RobinDopeNL
      @RobinDopeNL 5 місяців тому +1

      Verstaan jullie Nederlands? 😅

    • @ricoolivier
      @ricoolivier 5 місяців тому +2

      @@RobinDopeNL Natuurlik.

    • @keniatiger1614
      @keniatiger1614 5 місяців тому

      😂

    • @str8xrippin
      @str8xrippin 4 місяці тому

      ​@@RobinDopeNLeks Engels maar net a bietjie. Ek dink dis die selde?

  • @francoisviljoen4002
    @francoisviljoen4002 5 місяців тому +11

    I grew up there in the 90's I always get a reaction when I tell people I grew up there.

  • @LindoT-c6f
    @LindoT-c6f 5 місяців тому +22

    Funny enough it actually gets proper service delivery unlike most parts of SA which some deem better . It looks clean, potholes are few infact it looked like the streets were wide and well maintained , working traffic lights, you still felt safe enough to interview people, I saw houses with low fences on your video which already tells me it's a bit safer - when last did you see those in an area that's not in an area without a boom gate. It may be regarded as a dead town but maybe what people are saying is weird about it is actually helping keep more bad people away. Go to some parts of joburg, good publicity attracts also the worst of things. It depends on what you see as a person. Great video guys. 👍

    • @paulataljaard3626
      @paulataljaard3626 4 місяці тому +2

      I'm from Brakpan. Believe me, it's not safe. I have a ten feet wall around my property, and yet still they climb over it and rob me.😢

    • @davidallcock6316
      @davidallcock6316 2 місяці тому

      I agree with you..apart from main reef Rd being closed and plastic city..

  • @hansdeleeuw4431
    @hansdeleeuw4431 5 місяців тому +11

    I grew up in Little Falls and later to Cape Town. Now live in Mallorca, Spain for 10years. It was great fun watching this. Thanks man!

    • @robert-trading-as-Bob69
      @robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 місяців тому +1

      LITTLE FALLS! Those white painted rocks on the hillside, facing the highway spelling out Little Falls, and someone regularly changed the F to a B.
      Still makes me laugh to this day.
      In my 55 years on this planet, you are the first person I've ever come across from Little Balls.

    • @hansdeleeuw4431
      @hansdeleeuw4431 5 місяців тому +2

      Ha ha. Yep my late father and his partner came from Holland in 1946 and started HADECO Flowers and Bulbs in Little Falls. Original name Harry de Leeuw Flowers and Bulbs.
      Loved the place. Roamed wild and free. To stop my buddy of six and myself to climb to those “ Little Falls” rocks my mom said there were killer snakes there. Only when 8 did we walk up there💪💪

    • @hendo19742
      @hendo19742 22 дні тому

      😂😂 ME TOO, WATCHED IT AT LEAST TWICE ❤❤

  • @thokozaniskosana6391
    @thokozaniskosana6391 5 місяців тому +19

    Im from Van dyk Park which is a neighborhood where a single street seperates Boksburg and Brakpan. If you guys go decide to go to a pub in Brakpan, you should go to Either Wildebees or Dingos which are on North Rand Road in Boksburg, but they capture that Bemoerde triangle energy perfectly😹. As a black guy i always go to these pubs to enjoy being the center of attention until they play Nkalakatha.

    • @gregorydebeer4531
      @gregorydebeer4531 5 місяців тому +3

      😂

    • @jonno081
      @jonno081 5 місяців тому +2

      I live in van dyk park for about 10 years. I bought my first house there..

  • @idalettejansevanrensburg3079
    @idalettejansevanrensburg3079 5 місяців тому +58

    Did you know. That Charleze Theron comes from Benoni, which is next to Brakpan.

    • @KevinTravis-kw1rr
      @KevinTravis-kw1rr 5 місяців тому +12

      Still not Brakpan.

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 5 місяців тому

      She is "roff genoeg" though to be from Brakpan. Horrible thing she is!

    • @albertabs
      @albertabs 5 місяців тому +14

      And she said that only 40 people speak Afrikans🤣

    • @xXstevilleXx
      @xXstevilleXx 5 місяців тому +11

      Pitfontein, Benoni to be exact. But she can stay in the US of A

    • @PhansiKhongoloza
      @PhansiKhongoloza 5 місяців тому +4

      @@xXstevilleXx I agree. Horrible character that! Awful

  • @T-Man85
    @T-Man85 5 місяців тому +45

    I'm from Brakpan, you guys must let me take you to Geduld in Springs

    • @debbieangel9376
      @debbieangel9376 5 місяців тому

      @T-Man85 How much do you charge, do run a tour operating company??

    • @susanwilliams7814
      @susanwilliams7814 5 місяців тому +5

      Geduld is n Ander plek. Brakpan is grand.

    • @str8xrippin
      @str8xrippin 4 місяці тому

      ​@Ultra_Magiccis die selde bru, gelede geduld was a mooi plek maar nou is nie seker nie. Ek het skool daar gegaan by pinegrove

    • @seanpope6804
      @seanpope6804 4 місяці тому

      Please do and the hotel in the Main Street. Does the hotel next to the springs rail station still exist?

    • @str8xrippin
      @str8xrippin 4 місяці тому

      @@seanpope6804 yep springs hotel is still there and cheaper than ever

  • @rahindawjee7616
    @rahindawjee7616 5 місяців тому +8

    Brakpan is the Florida of South Africa. GTA 7 needs to be set in Brakpan

  • @Letso-cl1qe
    @Letso-cl1qe 5 місяців тому +44

    A fan from Botswana 🇧🇼 ❤❤

  • @maddmavic
    @maddmavic 5 місяців тому +12

    Dude thought unwas gna mugg him. Hes like i got a wife and kids i got to go 😂

  • @oldtighthead2459
    @oldtighthead2459 5 місяців тому +5

    I grew up in Brakpan and was really looking forward to this video,unfortunately I suffer from vertigo and could only watch like 5 minutes before I had to give up,that swinging camara is death to people like us...

  • @dejabudi9334
    @dejabudi9334 2 місяці тому +1

    I love watching your adventures Boys! Keep flying the flag high 🇧🇼. Super proud. Le a e shaya maan!! One love - Joseph

  • @PetrusandPardette
    @PetrusandPardette 5 місяців тому +7

    7:15 Brakpan don't need security.. because every house has about 3 Car Guards

  • @gavinsmith2465
    @gavinsmith2465 5 місяців тому +6

    Born in springs,childhood Brakpan,after boksburg,we east randers are indeed another breed

  • @louwrivanheerden6931
    @louwrivanheerden6931 4 місяці тому +3

    Great video guys, but should go to Brakpan proper...not just around the nice areas😂

  • @kimashton99
    @kimashton99 5 місяців тому +10

    Ngl you guys made this place look mad cool 😂😂 I'll definitely visit 😂😂

  • @farid-zf6wn
    @farid-zf6wn 5 місяців тому +21

    I am definitely moving to brakpan

  • @herbertvanrensburg6411
    @herbertvanrensburg6411 5 місяців тому +17

    You guys should go and visit Springs next, there you are certain to get bliksemed especially if you tel the guys there that you are from Brakpan.

    • @JohnnySmith-on8oe
      @JohnnySmith-on8oe 5 місяців тому +1

      The only time Springs has a population increase is when the Brakpan guys visit.

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 5 місяців тому +2

      Oh no...!!!!Buddy we Brakpanites used to bliksem the Springs guys in their own bars ...!!! i know..... because in the 70,s .....i was one of those Brakpan guys that did the moering........One Friday night we were 4 guys from Brakpan and we decided to go and turn Springs upside down .....we went to the Veld en Vlei hotel....in Springs ......Started making trouble .....and you know what .?...the Springs guys in the bar called the cops .!!!!....and there were about 10 of them...!!!...tough arnt they.......lol......No Springs guys were sh....t...scared of Brakpanites ...!!!........We kicked their asses everytime we played rugby ....!!!!!...One year they took the Brakpan first team ....and they played against a Rest of Eastern Transvaal..selection.....( yes i know it was long ago ).......and Brakpan gave them the hiding of their lives ...!!!.......Long live the Brakpanites ...!!!lol..!

    • @herbertvanrensburg6411
      @herbertvanrensburg6411 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kingalfred3902 My good man, I think you may have been in the wrong Hotel on the night in question, maybe you and your cronies should have rather gone to the Springs Hotel or the van Riebeck Hotel or even beter the National hotel. There you were sure to get on your more! The guys that hung out in the Veld & Vlei were probably from Strubenvale and Casseldale, the people who hung out at the van Riebeck and the National Hotel were normally from Spring extension and Geduld, they would not have called the police, you would have picked up there in an ambulance!😆😅🤣

    • @herbertvanrensburg6411
      @herbertvanrensburg6411 5 місяців тому

      @@JohnnySmith-on8oe Whilst you were visiting in Springs, we were copulating with your girlfreinds😆 That was the only time it was safe for you to visit.

    • @louwrivanheerden6931
      @louwrivanheerden6931 4 місяці тому

      Wahaha. True. But as an old Springsite I think there is respect for the Brakpan okes

  • @1jjopperman
    @1jjopperman 5 місяців тому +17

    Not even Chuck Norris goes into Brakpan

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 5 місяців тому +4

      Why does Chuck Norris still have all his teeth ...???....ans ....Because he has never been to Brakpan..!!!!!...........What warning will you find on the funeral pamphlet in Brakpan ...??........Do ...NOT dice the hearse ..!!!!....Yes you guessed it ....i am from Brakpan....!!!lol...!!

    • @1jjopperman
      @1jjopperman 5 місяців тому

      @@kingalfred3902 kwaaàaa lol

    • @robert-trading-as-Bob69
      @robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@kingalfred3902That's lekker funny, I thought I'd heard all the Chuck Norris jokes, but not that one, thanks.

  • @AbsolutelyRufus-o1h
    @AbsolutelyRufus-o1h 5 місяців тому +11

    😂 hands down the best vlog ever seen on the internet 👌

  • @georgenaidoo9553
    @georgenaidoo9553 5 місяців тому +3

    It's a nice place and people re very straightforward.there is alot of talented guys in Brakpan.

  • @Astrsks
    @Astrsks 5 місяців тому +82

    next go to Orania

    • @jo14wp
      @jo14wp 5 місяців тому +25

      Orania is actually a very nice clean and well organized little town. I was surprised when I went there.

    • @annawitter5161
      @annawitter5161 5 місяців тому +1

      Oh boy!

    • @dewalddewet759
      @dewalddewet759 5 місяців тому +2

      Why?

    • @quententrollipart1985
      @quententrollipart1985 5 місяців тому +3

      And Soweto

    • @junique212
      @junique212 5 місяців тому +1

      Some of the nicest people, as a person in the restaurant industry - Best tippers

  • @tshiamofresh2135
    @tshiamofresh2135 5 місяців тому +8

    0:22 i felt that "yoh" ..😂

  • @SydneyButler
    @SydneyButler 5 місяців тому +11

    I lived in Brakpan for for 14 years, and leaving was the best decision I ever made lol

    • @JohnnySmith-on8oe
      @JohnnySmith-on8oe 5 місяців тому

      From what year did you stay in Bakpan ?

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 5 місяців тому

      And you are living where...????

    • @SydneyButler
      @SydneyButler 5 місяців тому

      @@JohnnySmith-on8oe 1995 to 2009. My parents still live there.

    • @SydneyButler
      @SydneyButler 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kingalfred3902 Western Cape, where I was originally from.

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 4 місяці тому

      @@SydneyButler OK !!!....THAT WOULD BE A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT .....!!....BUT NOT VERY MUCH ....LOL....!!

  • @robertndlangamandla9275
    @robertndlangamandla9275 5 місяців тому +4

    I love Brakpan i grew up there in the 70teens in a surbub called Anzac regent street❤❤

  • @charmelbhagdath9239
    @charmelbhagdath9239 5 місяців тому +5

    Reminds me of that Wrong Turn movie franchise. Make sure your GPS don't take you there.

  • @gregoryvanniekerk1683
    @gregoryvanniekerk1683 4 місяці тому

    Wow , amazing guys ! Awesome video: you mentioned all the towns in the East Rand: Boksburg, Benoni & Brakpan but excluded Springs , my home town ! Even though all towns were labelled as negative places to live , the communities are supportive!

  • @ReptileAndWildlifeRescue
    @ReptileAndWildlifeRescue 5 місяців тому +12

    Next time, give us a heads-up so we can show you around properly. Brakpan certainly does have some colorful and interesting characters doesn't it?
    Perry's Supermarket is roughly 5min from where I live, and I love how you guys managed to capture the atmosphere and the friendliness of the people accurately, without putting Brakpan down.
    Hope you guys come back soon!

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +3

      Agreed! Let us know next time, we will gladly be your guys personal tour guides 😊😊😊

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому +1

      That would be amazing, unfortunately we only had about 3 hours so we couldn't capture everything 😭

    • @snowypetal1
      @snowypetal1 5 місяців тому +1

      Make a couple of hours available next time. Better yet, make a weekend of it. ⌚😁🤗

  • @Cruise-d7o
    @Cruise-d7o 3 місяці тому +1

    Many years ago i worked at SA railways, Germiston depo... All my friends that worked with me lived in Boksburg, Brakpan, Springs,and Benoni, all done their trade with me,i met this wonderful Lady Afrikaans lady in the early 80s from Brakpan,got married,and still happily married with 3 beautiful children (also brakkies)but we actually miss the east rand now - Hopefully Brakpan will see us again 🤘🤘🤘

  • @andrewwarren3566
    @andrewwarren3566 5 місяців тому +6

    Lol man I enjoyed this😂😂😂 FYI I'm not from Brakpan😅

  • @shungite4720
    @shungite4720 4 місяці тому +4

    This video is hilarious and really interesting, more of this please. Damon is piss funny 🤣

  • @pieterpompies2093
    @pieterpompies2093 5 місяців тому +7

    That woman with her son is fire! 🌶🌶🔥🔥

  • @tyronbamping6104
    @tyronbamping6104 5 місяців тому +2

    Aww owes! That was great content. Brakpan is a wild place for sure.

  • @mercury_rises
    @mercury_rises 5 місяців тому +17

    lol yall had an open mind so that was cool

    • @theboyssouthafrica
      @theboyssouthafrica  5 місяців тому

      Where should we go next? 🥲

    • @vermeulenstevos
      @vermeulenstevos 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@theboyssouthafrica while you in Gauteng definitely somewhere in the west rand, Specifically Krugersdorp

  • @nataliemurfin4713
    @nataliemurfin4713 5 місяців тому +2

    Oh damn! That "Tiger King" post was me. Cool.

  • @alidabotes6264
    @alidabotes6264 5 місяців тому +3

    As a child I used to visit my grandparents there - it was a lovely little town. Apparently it has gone to hel in a handbasket in the last 40 yrs. Haven't been there since.

    • @fuzzybunny3235
      @fuzzybunny3235 5 місяців тому

      I grew up there. It was great. Live in the Cape now. Went back there about 10 years ago for a funeral. The poverty and delapidation was astounding 🥺

  • @lizledbitter6711
    @lizledbitter6711 5 місяців тому +2

    Born in Springs, grew up in Boksburg, managed to avoid Brakpan and Benoni.

  • @maddmavic
    @maddmavic 5 місяців тому +5

    Car guard was pretty smart. How he said its the people not the place

  • @scarletTryst
    @scarletTryst 5 місяців тому +2

    Do Alberton next!!!! The local pubs are a sight to see!

  • @Jesus_is_Lord_316
    @Jesus_is_Lord_316 5 місяців тому +4

    Unbeknownst to the global community, Brakpan is actually the unofficial capital of South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @james130362
    @james130362 5 місяців тому +4

    Some our Best Boxers come from Brakpan. I went to Brakpan Tech with the Horn Brothers.

  • @brcdube
    @brcdube 5 місяців тому +10

    Head to Springs next!

  • @Pietie_ache-dee
    @Pietie_ache-dee 4 місяці тому +1

    Top notch video boys. Liked. Subscribed.

  • @MrVoicemailGuy
    @MrVoicemailGuy 5 місяців тому +33

    Ngl this was poes funny hey😂😂😂 especially that supermarket that only has 3 apples but full of meat. 💀

  • @wiseguy111
    @wiseguy111 5 місяців тому +3

    Like staying in brakpan..Stayed in randburg 5 years.took me 10 min to get.out of ny own driveway.. certain suburbs in brakpan has people who owns gold mines, big franchises, but stay down to earth people

  • @kirstendutoit9331
    @kirstendutoit9331 5 місяців тому +7

    You guys should go to Hillbrow if you're looking for danger.
    There's also going to Dingo's in Benoni. 😂

    • @Russell2538
      @Russell2538 5 місяців тому +1

      Definitely Dingos in benoni

    • @mphosa995
      @mphosa995 5 місяців тому

      Hillbrow is full none South Africans who do crime for a living.

  • @JouMoer-s7j
    @JouMoer-s7j 11 днів тому

    How nostalgic
    I grew up in Brakpan, near the dam... love the way you got batman to say what he did. Lol
    Haven't heard the word "tapit" in years.
    Dankie bra

  • @juanpretorius6214
    @juanpretorius6214 5 місяців тому +11

    What about PTA north, something like Wolmer...
    First time I see a Granny, daughter and granddaughter each walking with a pram! 😮😅😂 and its their own children my guy 😮😮😮😮😮

    • @Ravishrex1
      @Ravishrex1 5 місяців тому +1

      Krugersdorp

    • @bluecouchpodcast24
      @bluecouchpodcast24 5 місяців тому +1

      I'm in tears 😂😂

    • @maurchesnyman3955
      @maurchesnyman3955 5 місяців тому +1

      Very true. My mother lives in Wolmer. I live in CT but go to visit in Dec. The best is to join them in the front garden and watch whats happening and who walks by. My 2 brothers and their wives and children lives with my mother. Big family. My brother is hilarious as he grew up there. They know everything about everybody. All the neighborhood know my mother and call her Tannie Ralie. They take turns to come by and each one skinner (gossip) about the other. 😂

    • @juanpretorius6214
      @juanpretorius6214 5 місяців тому

      @@maurchesnyman3955 haha you have to introduce me to them, thats the typical image I get if I think of that area, not saying they bad, but the gossip and borrowing of sugar is what I first think of and thats a lekker vibe to have! And those people always has about 100 friends staying literally within 50meters 😅💪

    • @juanpretorius6214
      @juanpretorius6214 5 місяців тому

      @@bluecouchpodcast24 haha its true bro lol 🤣

  • @Onelove-Oneheart-h4c
    @Onelove-Oneheart-h4c 5 місяців тому +2

    Lol. Love the car guard. Your content is engaging. I would have never ordinarily watched anything on Brakpan.

  • @AzulaZuko100
    @AzulaZuko100 5 місяців тому +3

    😂 I love South Africans - all of them. You boys just made me subscribe. I love how we’ve gotten over our sh*t & we laugh about it in this country ♥️. Local is lekker!

  • @ntiyisotruth612
    @ntiyisotruth612 5 місяців тому +17

    That time am from brakpan 😢🤦‍♂️

  • @mudani2300
    @mudani2300 3 місяці тому +1

    Damon and Chubuku 🤣😂
    Awesome Vlog guys!

  • @T.Mothibi
    @T.Mothibi 4 місяці тому +3

    I died when the old man with a prosthetic chased down the car 💀💀

    • @WayneKitching
      @WayneKitching 4 місяці тому +1

      That went viral in 2018 or 2019. Hugo, bel die polisie!

  • @jerrychetty2524
    @jerrychetty2524 3 місяці тому

    You boys did a fantastic job with this video, thank you I enjoyed this thoroughly ❤

  • @finraziel1
    @finraziel1 5 місяців тому +9

    The 'lick-war' store... eish

  • @Johannesfluke77
    @Johannesfluke77 3 місяці тому

    I spent most of my high school years in Brakpan. My family had a house on the one side of the railway which had a high school, then later we moved to the other side of the railway which had another high school. The best thing I remember was the English church across the road from our 1st house in Brakpan. There were the first Americans I ever met. The pianist was a lady from Texas. That time the accent was a bit hard to understand. The church was where I met the best girl I ever knew but lost when I ran away from home. 1994. Brakpan will always be in my heart. Maybe one day I will go back.

  • @michaelsadie88
    @michaelsadie88 5 місяців тому +4

    You guys came in from the boring side. The other side had a sinkhole block of the road and the detour goes through an informal settlement. Would have really set the mood

  • @CrazyFunguy
    @CrazyFunguy 4 місяці тому +2

    Must say compared to other places in in South Africa Brakpan looks clean great 👍 love ❤️ it

  • @MatthewMarinus
    @MatthewMarinus 5 місяців тому +1

    Tha BOYS!!! Love this thankyou for sharing the stories and vibez of SA!

  • @WarickJames
    @WarickJames 5 місяців тому +8

    Brakpan has a fence around it, it considered the biggest Zoo in South Africa

    • @ca9968
      @ca9968 5 місяців тому +4

      Benoni was built to keep the people from Brakpan and Boksburg from breeding...🤣🤣🤣

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 4 місяці тому +1

      Warick James ...you have made yourself ....our no 1 ...Target ..!!!.......be scared...!!!..lol...!!

    • @WarickJames
      @WarickJames 4 місяці тому

      @@kingalfred3902 😂😂😂

    • @kingalfred3902
      @kingalfred3902 2 місяці тому

      As a long time Brakpanite ....i find that funny ....lol.....!!!

    • @WarickJames
      @WarickJames 2 місяці тому

      @@kingalfred3902 I grew up in Sallies brother the colder sack village many years ago. All good boss

  • @francoisvn82-wf6gd
    @francoisvn82-wf6gd 5 місяців тому +2

    I stay in Brakpan. Right by the shop where they sell the boerewors rolls. I should've taken you around this town. I lived on these streets before.. you would've loved it.

  • @lesterjacobs6753
    @lesterjacobs6753 5 місяців тому +18

    Damon made this video 10× better

  • @michmbolingaba7310
    @michmbolingaba7310 3 місяці тому

    I'm a DRC 🇨🇩 guy who knows quite well Johannesburg 🇿🇦. To my knowledge BRAKPAN is situated in the East of Johannesburg. One of the main attraction spot in BRAKPAN is EMPEROR PALACE. Keep those videos coming through. 🙏

  • @MichaeleKukard
    @MichaeleKukard 5 місяців тому +5

    Brakpan has its nice areas and the rough areas. Some as the people. Much safer in Brakpan than Germiston or Johannesburg which are hell holes !

    • @JohnnySmith-on8oe
      @JohnnySmith-on8oe 5 місяців тому

      They are busy changing that. Nothing is being done to the illegal squatter camp in Anzac. Every day black smoke from burning tyres and plastic engulfs the town, people are ill with respiratory illnesses and many have actually died from related illnesses. Crime is also rising as this cancerous infection called Plastic City is growing. The main road between Brakpan and Benoni has been obliterated by the illegal miners who stay in Plastic City.

  • @mojenkins8494
    @mojenkins8494 4 місяці тому +1

    Brakpan has one of the biggest Woolies : ) How can you miss Carnival Mall.

  • @blaineatkins2968
    @blaineatkins2968 5 місяців тому +3

    Surprised its so clean!!😮...compared to Bloem...

  • @kovinsmith8627
    @kovinsmith8627 4 місяці тому +1

    That was such a great video guys.. I'm from Boksburg and currently live in Brakpan. I guess every place has its bad area and te be honest, I think Primrose is a much worse area you should have gone to. Keep up the good work 😊

    • @MatthewDeanCrabb
      @MatthewDeanCrabb 3 місяці тому

      Yeah I'm I Primrose, there are nice parts but avoid CBD and it's near the huge Makausi township where even the cops won't go inside. Both sides of Rietfontein Road are nasty - drunks, druggies, it's bad. I once drove down and a woman just jumped into the road and freaked out, probably on drugs but looked possessed.

  • @qa4898
    @qa4898 5 місяців тому +4

    Well known for 3,2,1... 3 litre Ford XR, 2 litre Coke and 1 litre Brannas

  • @thulilegwaila3215
    @thulilegwaila3215 3 місяці тому

    I'm from Botswana it's nice to come here 🎉🎉❤❤ love our country ❤❤❤😊

  • @LeaveTheComfortza
    @LeaveTheComfortza 4 місяці тому +3

    Come to Soshanguve jukulyn I’ll protect you I stay here if you want to know about our township reply here and let’s make it happen

  • @GeneEverlei
    @GeneEverlei 2 місяці тому +1

    Brakpan is the florida of South Africa... and we love it😂

  • @einzelganger5290
    @einzelganger5290 5 місяців тому +3

    Notice how Brakpan almost sounds like bedpan. That pretty much sums the place up. 😅

  • @adridutoit4160
    @adridutoit4160 4 місяці тому +1

    Love this❤ Thank you 😅