I lived in SA for 37 years. What a wonderful place. I emigrated in 1998. I have been back many times to visit the few remaking family I still have there. It’s an absolute culture shock every time I go back. The place is a real mess. I’m not going back again. I pray for those still living there.
Yes very very sad to see places trashed , I was living in South Africa for 50 Years , and I worked for Information and Eco System . I can't tell how I feel , every time I see places trashed filthy and dirty , cry there I nothing we can do . Thanks a lot for the video, God's blessings with you ! 😘😪🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@lindelwanothandongcobo8863 The victims of apartheid got their victory. Now they have no country worth being on the winning side for. Which was better? Apartheid or what you've got now?
Many people see the RSA as only "an apartheid country" back in the day (fact) but I also see a well run country, a beautiful land, a prosperous country as a whole. Yes, I miss those days where we didn't have to fight with municipalities for the general upkeep of our towns, where the council used the funds appropriately. I don't ever remember a municipality being bankrupt or owing Eskom millions of rands. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.
I’m sure all these animals in this clip would have passed away by now apart from the Crocodiles 🐊 of course.1981 is a long time ago now as I was 8 years old back then. I was in SA from November 1999-2000 Feb and I travelled from Pretoria to Joe burg down to Durban all down the Garden Route to Cape Town and on Christmas Eve is where I would me my now Canadian wife in Cape Town. South Africa changed my life. I’ve now been living in Atlantic Canada 🇨🇦 since June of 2000. I’m from Leeds England 🏴 and all of 1998 and 1999 I was backpacking around Australia and New Zealand 🇳🇿 and I wanted to go to South Africa for the Millennium so glad I did. Love you SA ❤
@@JamesOrr-v5g It was a lot of things at once , in the late 80s Argentina had inflation issues, there was fear of another military coup , and on a personal level I had bronchitis and the doctors recommend a dryer climate and my Dad's sister went to SA as a exchange student and had a good experience.This was all 80s to early 90s
@@JamesOrr-v5g Argentina and SA are very similar, corrupt Marxist Governments have brought down the standard of living in both countries, Where unemployment, inflation are big problems, Think Argentina is slightly better in crime and has a new government that is promising ,will see how things go for now on
My dad owns an old 80s Merc that was imported to the UK from the seller in SA. Only had a few hundred miles on it and had armoured plating underneath and a mounting for flame throwers. They didn’t F*** around!
All the old model cars, so exciting to see them again. Including the orange Ford Cortina, red Volkswagen Beetle, Double cab combi van and the Toyota Corolla. Ah to many to remember, such an amazing video of years past, Thank you for sharing ❤
Disgusting really... I would say the comments were disappointing but these are white South Africans for you, will excuse Human rights abuse if only THEY get what THEY want
Stunning country. People only focus on apartheid but fail to understand the impact on individuals. I have some black, indigenous SA friends who adamantly say that the country and the people were better off with it. It’s just tribal, corrupt and ineffective now, with reverse discrimination and racism. Johannesburg is now a cesspit of crime and corruption.
What a wonderful walk down memory lane. I was able to travel the country extensively during the late 70's and early 80's. It was so beautiful back then. Unfortunately now it is not the same proud and majestic country it was back then. Like most other African democracies it slipped down the toilet and into ruin. Such a shame. This beautiful country with wonderful people didn't deserve this.
Of course "certain" people knew their place and where they were allowed to live and play and where they weren't... which beaches they could use and which they couldn't. What schools they went to and which ones they couldn't.
@@andrewdutoit9571 Everyone in the West thinks they're a South African historian. They know the one or two facts they're taught at school or via the media and think they've got it all figured out. I admit that I barely know a fraction of it but I know that my grandmother worked for the chamber of mines and she was constantly trying to track down workers brought in from countries to the north on 6 month working visas. They would disappear into the community around month number 5. We are talking around World War 2 at this stage. I don't have all the data but in 1800 there were approximately 1.44 million people. By 1940 there were 10 million people. Now there are 60 million people. The growth is phenomenally exponential over this period. The concept of the majority of these people being illegal immigrants probably never dawns on people and it will never be publicised. I don't care what you say but that number of unemployed, uneducated and technically homeless people would break most countries. I fear that this knowledge will die out and all that will be left is the portrayal of history that suits people like Ron so that they can package things up into a very simple good vs evil story. My grandmother also told me that numerous schools that were built to educate native people were burned down pre-apartheid. I'm sorry, but civilised people don't go around burning their schools down so they can remain uneducated and ignorant. I can't speak for apartheid but I know people were trying to build a successful integrated society there at one point but they got swamped by population expansion and a ridiculous amount of poor attitude and behaviour. No-one also talks about the moronic ritual behaviour that goes on there. Like the black men used to tell the women that they would have to prove their fertility before they could marry. That was just a common excuse to father ridiculous numbers of kids who grew up fatherless, and later also spread aids. My grandmother was also sending money from overseas to buy school books for the son of her brother's housemaid, who was talented and wanted to go to university. There was a tribal war one day and his people asked him if he was going to come and fight the other tribe at the age of 12. He said no, so they decapitated him in the street. I have heard heaps of great stories like this that make me feel a whole different way about things to the indoctrination I've been exposed to. Honestly, I only know as little as what I have been told, but I still know a hell of a lot more about Africa than anyone I've met where I live, who all strangely have strong opinions on the matter and the continent. When will they admit that giving control back to the "native" people in places like Zimbabwe etc. has been a colossal failure. You need skilled and educated people to create and maintain industries, as well as farm enough food to feed such a ridiculous number of people. It should also be acknowledged that the GDP per capita right now is roughly what is was 40 years ago. Progress???
@@mrd4785 My take on it is that I, my Parents and Ancestors are made out to be absolute Hate and Warmongers which couldn't be further from the truth. We/ they are and were good people who knew the African better than the Africans knew themselves but especially better than the 1st and 2nd generation Europeans that settled here after World War 2 which contributed to the problems here! We built this Country into a Super Power despite sanctions. From what I see, we'll have to do it again if this Country progresses any further down this road of 'Africanisation' as it's pushing my Culture and the Country back into the Stoneage.
So a system that goes against the creator of life was better? all these problems we face now were caused by that system but one day things will get better
What a totally different dispensation that was, the new SA is really the polar opposite to them old days. note that pre ANC rule there were jobs and economy.
When black people were nothing in South Africa those were the good old days right? As bad as the ANC is and they are bad, they are still better than the NP. Atleast the ANC is dealing with the whole SA problem those NP cowards only made life good for 10% of the population what fucking cowards man.
@@johandiedericks8528 When I was a young lad in the late 1980's, Johannesburg my Nana and Gramps didn't even have a wall around their property, now that same property owned by others looks like Fort Knox with alarms, palisades barbed wire, Political freedom means absolutely squat if there is no economic freedom. Even the Chinese people with complete lack of political control have financial independence. For whatever reason in Africa, the people equate political "freedom" as the first and only priority...
I agree with you Johnny, it's no longer easy, it's still possible but not easy for a talentless, no skill white person (I don't mean you, just generalizing) to make it in SA nowadays. The old days were good for you, to make it you just needed to be white.
@@toast2610 Ken jy my of dink jy, jy is met die helm gebore soos die ou mense sou se? Ek het destyds my eie plakkate laat druk om die Nee-stem te ondersteun en dit saans in die strate van Randburg en Sandton gaan ophang. Wat het jy gedoen my heldersienende vriend?
@@toast2610 Jy verwar my met iemand anders. Baie mense meen ek lyk soos die man van Vlakplaas maar dit kan ek nou eenmaal nie verhelp nie. Pasop vir aannames. Soos hulle destyds in die ou SAW geleer het: Assumption is the mother of all f@ckups.
@@willem7399 In daardie geval sê ek jammer. Jy is heeltemal reg oor aannames. Ek gaan wel nog een aanname maak, en dit is dat jy nie moedwilliglik 'n foto soortgelyk aan daardie ander ou geplaas het nie. Hopelik is dit nie ook 'n fokop nie.
@@alicegauteng2358 It's because the townships were unindated by people moving to the towns, that why the dompas was introduced to prevent just that and squattercamps.
@@patshes1951 Yes as it should have been. The resources were only spend on a few minority while the majority of us were toiling in tbe dusty unpaved streets of the townships. Thetefore the government had enough to have everything worked
@@patshes1951 Are you aware that in Soweto we only got electricity in the 1980s. So we cant even say things worked well then when we didnt even have them
Watching it from afar in Australia has been painful while being told by everyone on tv, at school or in the street that what has happened there is wonderful and it represents true progress. The level of brainwashing is stupendous. Regardless of what happens there well into the future, be it war or famine, people in the West will continue to stick by their guns and say it still represents progress, whilst blaming any poor behaviour on a partially fabricated historical narrative and poverty that is somehow perpetuated by events that occurred 50-100 years ago.
@@garyschei apartheid is the root of all evil, yes it is the reason for this today.. oppression and trauma will damage your mind. Those senior citizens are the direct victims of apartheid, they not capable of running a country
Towns were clean and the country was rich,but few enjoy the riches of the country.and now is vise versa,towns are filthy like pigs-den and BB poor are more poor,and thieves in tie are enjoying the Richie's of the country
One thing is so Sad that we lost how home & country … look how it was keep so clean and safe .. now that ANC is still around the country has gone to the Pigs , witch they don’t look after it ,
Can’t change the past but we can shape the future. It will take long but at least we are not a country like india or barren countries with little to no resources.
Okay, even these old footage, nostalgic for the old republic, only show 1/10 of what the country really was... You must remember the fact that more than 70% of the country was better than other African countries... it was possible (and simple) to look for and get a job (horses of immigrants from neighboring countries, in general, socialists, harassed the borders) , unlike today, where unemployment is very high.
Durban has been cursed, the last 2 years. In July 2021, looting took place. Countless lives were lost. In April 2022, heavy rain crippled the city's road infrastructure. Again, lives were lost. I hope Durban can rise again. 🙏
The black man cannot govern because of the system the white man gave him. The black man had a functional society before the white man's system was forced down the black man's throat.
When HIV which was once non existent to black people was injected to their veins 😢.Aluta continua I have a strong feeling that this will one day be taught in school and will be the most fundamental things to learn when it comes to HIV
Yes, I remember when HIV was non existent in white people too, but then black people started having sex with monkeys in central Africa and so it began.... At least that's one of the theories.
@@alicegauteng2358 Stop crying , we had the chance to do the same , but you chose to steal the wealth of the country instead , the new south africa is a dump today , nobody believe your stories or your excuses today , the world has woken up .
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Not at all, there were Homelands in the most picturesque of areas of South Africa but all that was needed was hard work. But unfortunately that word doesn't appear in the handbook.
My family got out in the 1970s. My family had a pretty good life there until then. I was born in Australia and I am surrounded by people who say stupid stuff about how pieces of trash like Mandela, the ANC and Zuma etc. have been great for the country. There is virtually no understanding of the history of the place and people couldn't give a stuff about Mandela FC, what goes on in Rhodesia, putting people's babies in microwaves, or that innocent farmers have been tortured to death with regularity. They don't even want to accept that the regime is corrupt and racist. My father's friends were being forced to hand over half of their businesses to equal black partners, who are not required to contribute any capital and refuse to work, so they've closed their businesses for good now. It is just slowly destroying the place piece by piece as it goes backward. People in the West have been brainwashed by this false narrative spun out by the media and politicians, but also history in every shape and form seems a mystery to most of the Gen Z kids these days anyway, and they've got no context regarding the past and the events that have led up to our current existence. I've noticed very few of them seem to understand the Cold War, so how are they going to understand complex geopolitics and the situation in Ukraine, Taiwan etc. I still have some family over there but I am reluctant to go. Sadly I feel safer in the prospect of traveling to places like Namibia instead but I don't think I would enjoy myself as much as I should because of the repugnant stuff that goes on across the continent that is a bit too hard to ignore. I don't know how people are holding in there. The people my father knew who were currently doing OK were strangely supporters of apartheid but now they're somehow singing a different tune and they're on the ANC express. While my family opposed apartheid and I don't sympathise with these people at all on that front, I have even less respect for them, as it shows that they don't really stand for anything and that they're willing to change their whole outlook to progress in society and feather their own nest. I just can't fathom changing fundamental opinions based upon the flow of the breeze, but I guess that's what people start to do when living under an oppressive regime like in Russia or China, where its best to stick to the party line if you don't want to be persecuted. In Australia we also have politics creeping into business. I work for a business in which the CEO expresses her political opinion in internal documents, communications and meetings. So far I have escaped it, but she is forcing other employees to read out political and racially divisive statements at the beginning of group meetings and I am seriously contemplating my options.
Beautiful old South Africa. I noticed a "white only restroom sign" on the video. Question. If there were white only restrooms and black only restrooms...where did Asians, Indians, mix race people go to relieve themselves? What about Asian tourist or non-white tourist from America or Europe? If they are not white or black...which restrooms did they use. Anybody who lived in that time of South Africa know?
I think that as a not white person you wouldn’t consider spending your money on holidays in a country who would treat you as a second class person. I would not have spend holidays there although I’m white.
@@andrewdutoit9571 that government was pretty pathetic if they didn't even have 60 million to govern . Including immigrants from all over the world. And they still failed. Bunch of useless turds
I suppose you love the way the country is, and you love the filth and potholes everywhere. I can imagine in the condition that you are living in. In absolute shambles and filth 😢😢
@@ramennaidoo162 🤣🤣 oh you wish I was don't you? All black people are poor right? Bet you don't even let us near you cause we might contaminate you. Y'all always crack me up
As far as I don't like ANC government but I still don't think these days was nice coz our parents didn't have quality life and their self-respect was taken away from them. ANC will go for sure but forget about the white privilege never
South Africa wasn't like it is today. It was a very young Country with a small economy run by the White Africans for the previous 350+ years. As there are two cultures in South Africa, one Western and the other is Patriarcle, pasteral and Tr!bal as it is today. When the Majority started moving to the towns and cities in the early 1960's, all were uneducated labourers with no employment and nowhere to stay. That was when the trouble started as from a tricle of people it became a flood and the cities and towns inftastructure couldn't accomodate the pressure. Then in the 1970's it was 'Revolution before Education' and all this exacerbating the problem and caused friction between the races. Even now, after 30 years of Majority Rule the people in power still aren't managers as all that was inherited through Democracy is bankrupted due to cadre deployment bar none. So this problem is more complex than just blaming Apartheid and the White African for the Country's woes, the problem goes far deeper than that.
@@andrewdutoit9571 before white people came in Africa and inverted money black people was living just fine with no stress or greediness. Those cities was built by Africans as labours and after that they were kicked out others were injected by diseases 🥺 to die, women was used to develop white race in SA and you've successfully did that. The people who were left in the villages had no choice but to come in the cities and hustle since everything was money in Africa. I may be a born free but I know what was happening those days. If white people handled the situation in a better way we wouldn't be here today blaming each other. If you people built cities and developed rural areas as well instead of apartheid south Africa would be the best country in the world. Black people didn't care of being rich or being presidents before apartheid forced them to be obsessed with it. White can still win this country I believe that but I wish them to behave in a decent way this time. ANC has lost my voters whole DA is rising which means south Africa will be a whites man's country again.
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Apartheid was demonized by the Liberals and Socialists of this World. Their agenda was to do exactly what has happened. Listen to Verwoerds speech where it was supposed to be Good Neighbourliness. We White Africans knew that we could never hold the Country without destroying most of the Majority which is against our Morals and upbringing. If you look at the 'Struggle', what really happened? How many Whites were casualty's compared to Blacks? Blacks were killing their own. We may have favoured Inkatha but if we didn't care about Blacks, why did we send the Police into the Townships in the late 70's and 80's when the people were rioting? Why not leave them alone to finish the job for us as it'll save White lives from getting inbetween the combatants? Apartheids idea was to give everyone a 'Home' based on the UK model. Kwazulu for the Zulu, Transkei for the Xhosa and wherever the Whites were in the Majority as our spot. But it didn't work like that due to other County's interfering in our internal problems. Their meddling caused all the troubles you see today. Many Whites have no problems with anyone as long as I can do my thing, I don't want to interfere with anyone and I want the same. Under Apartheid it could have happened, but the Worlds Liberals and Communists had other agenda's to cause a rift between our peoples and you know what they are. Imagine dying to use someone elses toilet, it's laughable really but sadly people did. For all SA's problems blame the mentioned groups.
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Something I never mentioned, South Africa has always been a bloody mess. From the time the Dutch and the Koi's tangled to the day the Xhosa and Boers met on the great Fish river, to Chaka building the Zulu Nation, there has always been conflict. Research the 'Real' South African History and not the woke version, even today there are still feudes going on on the rural areas. Have a good day there.
You missed the part about people being forcibly removed from their homes and ancestral lands. You missed the part about the township creation. You mud huts for black students, who had little to no books. You missed the part about no electricity, running water, paved roads for blacks. Stolen resources, jails, hangings etc. You missed a whole lot
@Lulu I think you should review your opinion, what ancestral lands were you evicted from? As far as I know the Homelands were where that particular tribe originated from. As far as evictions go, the cities and towns were designed in an orderly fashion, so if people squatted on land or in houses they didn't have title deeds to you would be forcibly removed, that's why it's called law and order. Visit any progressive Country and those rules are the same. Townships were created to serve the business communties as mostly imported black labour didn't have finances to purchase land in the main hubs. Where in the World will you find uneducated labourers buying property in rich and affluent areas? One thing you forget, the economy of South Africa was only supported by the White taxes in those days, so to modernise the infrastructure in the cities took priority as you can see today, the education system is ruined, schools are turning out inferior educated students and yet Apartheid still gets blamed for it. You will be delighted to hear since Democracy the problems you had with no electricity, running water, sewage and no paved roads are a thing of the past, now all suffer the same affliction, we are all living without it... please tell me how do you steal resources that were not there to start with? As far as hangings, jail etc goes, if you break the law you pay the price isn't it, thats what happens in any civilised Country. If you have anymore questions ping me as I might have a logical answer for you without any emotions attached.
Your ancestors came from central Africa, squatted on a strip of mud and called it a farm. They had no right to that land in the first place. Everyone knew that apartheid was wrong and as soon as we got the option to vote against it we did.
@@garyschei no matter where they came from it's still Africa. You don't know me or my ancestors. I have Koisan, Xhosa and white. Don't think youblnow me or my ancestors by my comments on social media
I lived in SA for 37 years. What a wonderful place. I emigrated in 1998. I have been back many times to visit the few remaking family I still have there. It’s an absolute culture shock every time I go back. The place is a real mess. I’m not going back again. I pray for those still living there.
Yes very very sad to see places trashed , I was living in South Africa for 50 Years , and I worked for Information and Eco System . I can't tell how I feel , every time I see places trashed filthy and dirty , cry there I nothing we can do . Thanks a lot for the video, God's blessings with you ! 😘😪🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hello Africa From San Paulo Brazil South America!!! Beatiful!! God Bless Africa!!🙏🙏🤝🤝🤝❤❤
Thank you Vlad for this upload. Our family used to go to Durban each year from Joburg. They were amazing holidays!
Immigrated to there from Czechoslovakia in 1969 and lived therefor 34 and a half years.Such a beautiful country gone down the drain.
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Down the drain because racists like you don't benefit from apartheid anymore.
That's for sure.
If you love the immoral system of apartheid
@@lindelwanothandongcobo8863 The victims of apartheid got their victory. Now they have no country worth being on the winning side for. Which was better? Apartheid or what you've got now?
Many people see the RSA as only "an apartheid country" back in the day (fact) but I also see a well run country, a beautiful land, a prosperous country as a whole. Yes, I miss those days where we didn't have to fight with municipalities for the general upkeep of our towns, where the council used the funds appropriately. I don't ever remember a municipality being bankrupt or owing Eskom millions of rands. Thank you for a trip down memory lane.
Typical white response of deflection and denial
So sad to see this. Nothing looks like that any more and it doesn't matter where you go the whole place is trashed.
So says the Caucasian that invaded South Africa. Then you can go back to Europe.
Apartheid did plant hate and the plant did and dies flourish very successfully
This is what happens when you hand over a thriving economy and country on a platter to the undeducated.
@@Helgardt6189 it’s frightening to see people like you still exist. Have you heard? In Australia everything works and leaders are educated
@@sgn5607 you're missing the point..
I’m sure all these animals in this clip would have passed away by now apart from the Crocodiles 🐊 of course.1981 is a long time ago now as I was 8 years old back then.
I was in SA from November 1999-2000 Feb and I travelled from Pretoria to Joe burg down to Durban all down the Garden Route to Cape Town and on Christmas Eve is where I would me my now Canadian wife in Cape Town.
South Africa changed my life. I’ve now been living in Atlantic Canada 🇨🇦 since June of 2000. I’m from Leeds England 🏴 and all of 1998 and 1999 I was backpacking around Australia and New Zealand 🇳🇿 and I wanted to go to South Africa for the Millennium so glad I did.
Love you SA ❤
I was Born in Argentina in 89 then my family immigrated to SA in 1991and I loved my childhood but after highschool we left SA and it was for the best
Why did your family leave Argentina out of interest? Argentina is as bad as South Africa?
@@JamesOrr-v5g It was a lot of things at once , in the late 80s Argentina had inflation issues, there was fear of another military coup , and on a personal level I had bronchitis and the doctors recommend a dryer climate and my Dad's sister went to SA as a exchange student and had a good experience.This was all 80s to early 90s
@@JamesOrr-v5g Argentina and SA are very similar, corrupt Marxist Governments have brought down the standard of living in both countries, Where unemployment, inflation are big problems, Think Argentina is slightly better in crime and has a new government that is promising ,will see how things go for now on
I love the old Mercedes in the vid. Durbs was immaculate in those days.
My dad owns an old 80s Merc that was imported to the UK from the seller in SA. Only had a few hundred miles on it and had armoured plating underneath and a mounting for flame throwers. They didn’t F*** around!
All the old model cars, so exciting to see them again. Including the orange Ford Cortina, red Volkswagen Beetle, Double cab combi van and the Toyota Corolla. Ah to many to remember, such an amazing video of years past, Thank you for sharing ❤
I came here for the "those were the days" comments
And boy….they were good !!😄😄
Those days weren’t good, they were great days, the greatest🤩
Disgusting really... I would say the comments were disappointing but these are white South Africans for you, will excuse Human rights abuse if only THEY get what THEY want
@@herbertderbersfield5870 good old nazi days.
People are starting to say that about Europe now too.
Lived in hillbrow in 76 to 78 absolutely loved it all changed now though
Stunning country. People only focus on apartheid but fail to understand the impact on individuals. I have some black, indigenous SA friends who adamantly say that the country and the people were better off with it. It’s just tribal, corrupt and ineffective now, with reverse discrimination and racism. Johannesburg is now a cesspit of crime and corruption.
AND FILTH GALORE.
OMG as a kid all i ever wanted to do was go to the Durban Beachfront and go on the rides and swimming pools !
Lol..I know..we sometimes used to call it Minitown.
@@nomkhosimashile2942 i think Mini Town is actually still there !
Now u have to worried about getting robbed
@@navnator5444 don't lie. Many people still swim there and nothing happens. You people are irr*rating with your comments. You left SA leave us alone
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Today the beach front stinks.
Beautiful old days...
Beautifull while 80% of the population was in poverty&oppression! To hell with that...💥👇😏
Yh , I was born in 2007 but miss the days my white great grandad used to beat my black grandad for impregnating his daughter .
ILLUMINATI
@@la23s.a.22 That doesn't say much for your heritage...
@@andrewdutoit9571 U don't get the point ou topi
What a wonderful walk down memory lane. I was able to travel the country extensively during the late 70's and early 80's. It was so beautiful back then. Unfortunately now it is not the same proud and majestic country it was back then. Like most other African democracies it slipped down the toilet and into ruin. Such a shame. This beautiful country with wonderful people didn't deserve this.
Of course "certain" people knew their place and where they were allowed to live and play and where they weren't... which beaches they could use and which they couldn't. What schools they went to and which ones they couldn't.
@@ron4501 Ron, comment on a subject you know about.
@@andrewdutoit9571 Everyone in the West thinks they're a South African historian. They know the one or two facts they're taught at school or via the media and think they've got it all figured out. I admit that I barely know a fraction of it but I know that my grandmother worked for the chamber of mines and she was constantly trying to track down workers brought in from countries to the north on 6 month working visas. They would disappear into the community around month number 5. We are talking around World War 2 at this stage. I don't have all the data but in 1800 there were approximately 1.44 million people. By 1940 there were 10 million people. Now there are 60 million people. The growth is phenomenally exponential over this period. The concept of the majority of these people being illegal immigrants probably never dawns on people and it will never be publicised. I don't care what you say but that number of unemployed, uneducated and technically homeless people would break most countries. I fear that this knowledge will die out and all that will be left is the portrayal of history that suits people like Ron so that they can package things up into a very simple good vs evil story. My grandmother also told me that numerous schools that were built to educate native people were burned down pre-apartheid. I'm sorry, but civilised people don't go around burning their schools down so they can remain uneducated and ignorant. I can't speak for apartheid but I know people were trying to build a successful integrated society there at one point but they got swamped by population expansion and a ridiculous amount of poor attitude and behaviour. No-one also talks about the moronic ritual behaviour that goes on there. Like the black men used to tell the women that they would have to prove their fertility before they could marry. That was just a common excuse to father ridiculous numbers of kids who grew up fatherless, and later also spread aids. My grandmother was also sending money from overseas to buy school books for the son of her brother's housemaid, who was talented and wanted to go to university. There was a tribal war one day and his people asked him if he was going to come and fight the other tribe at the age of 12. He said no, so they decapitated him in the street. I have heard heaps of great stories like this that make me feel a whole different way about things to the indoctrination I've been exposed to. Honestly, I only know as little as what I have been told, but I still know a hell of a lot more about Africa than anyone I've met where I live, who all strangely have strong opinions on the matter and the continent. When will they admit that giving control back to the "native" people in places like Zimbabwe etc. has been a colossal failure. You need skilled and educated people to create and maintain industries, as well as farm enough food to feed such a ridiculous number of people. It should also be acknowledged that the GDP per capita right now is roughly what is was 40 years ago. Progress???
@@mrd4785 My take on it is that I, my Parents and Ancestors are made out to be absolute Hate and Warmongers which couldn't be further from the truth. We/ they are and were good people who knew the African better than the Africans knew themselves but especially better than the 1st and 2nd generation Europeans that settled here after World War 2 which contributed to the problems here! We built this Country into a Super Power despite sanctions. From what I see, we'll have to do it again if this Country progresses any further down this road of 'Africanisation' as it's pushing my Culture and the Country back into the Stoneage.
So a system that goes against the creator of life was better? all these problems we face now were caused by that system but one day things will get better
What a totally different dispensation that was, the new SA is really the polar opposite to them old days. note that pre ANC rule there were jobs and economy.
When black people were nothing in South Africa those were the good old days right? As bad as the ANC is and they are bad, they are still better than the NP. Atleast the ANC is dealing with the whole SA problem those NP cowards only made life good for 10% of the population what fucking cowards man.
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And clean, minimum crime, etc...
@@johandiedericks8528 When I was a young lad in the late 1980's, Johannesburg my Nana and Gramps didn't even have a wall around their property, now that same property owned by others looks like Fort Knox with alarms, palisades barbed wire, Political freedom means absolutely squat if there is no economic freedom. Even the Chinese people with complete lack of political control have financial independence. For whatever reason in Africa, the people equate political "freedom" as the first and only priority...
I agree with you Johnny, it's no longer easy, it's still possible but not easy for a talentless, no skill white person (I don't mean you, just generalizing) to make it in SA nowadays. The old days were good for you, to make it you just needed to be white.
What is done is done
What is won is won and
What is lost is lost and
Gone for ever
danksy ja-stemmers soos jy..
@@toast2610 Ken jy my of dink jy, jy is met die helm gebore soos die ou mense sou se? Ek het destyds my eie plakkate laat druk om die Nee-stem te ondersteun en dit saans in die strate van Randburg en Sandton gaan ophang. Wat het jy gedoen my heldersienende vriend?
@@willem7399 Hoekom dan daai ja-stemmer verraaier se bakkies op jou profiel?
@@toast2610 Jy verwar my met iemand anders. Baie mense meen ek lyk soos die man van Vlakplaas maar dit kan ek nou eenmaal nie verhelp nie. Pasop vir aannames. Soos hulle destyds in die ou SAW geleer het: Assumption is the mother of all f@ckups.
@@willem7399 In daardie geval sê ek jammer. Jy is heeltemal reg oor aannames. Ek gaan wel nog een aanname maak, en dit is dat jy nie moedwilliglik 'n foto soortgelyk aan daardie ander ou geplaas het nie. Hopelik is dit nie ook 'n fokop nie.
pre anc everythimg worked and was clean.
One sided
Current position of the country 💔💔💔💔😢😢😢
Good to see we had electricity those days
But there was No electricity at all in the townships
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@@alicegauteng2358 It's because the townships were unindated by people moving to the towns, that why the dompas was introduced to prevent just that and squattercamps.
That is the land of lost content I see shining plain. The happy highways where I went & cannot come again.
Wonderfull days. I dont think we realised what we had then. It burns my haert.
You had it good at the expense of millions of black folks
@@alicegauteng2358 expence? Everything was clean and in working order!
This is deeply offensive
@@patshes1951 Yes as it should have been. The resources were only spend on a few minority while the majority of us were toiling in tbe dusty unpaved streets of the townships. Thetefore the government had enough to have everything worked
@@patshes1951 Are you aware that in Soweto we only got electricity in the 1980s. So we cant even say things worked well then when we didnt even have them
Sader than 'Gone with the Wind'.
Best economy in Africa
Then moondela injected communism with his ANC and now the locals can’t even safely walk down the street
to me also it truly was in so many ways paradise on earth … for about 8% of the population
Today is impossible walking in Durban CDB.
I walk it all the time
Didn't take too long for the ANC to destroy a magnificent country.
Watching it from afar in Australia has been painful while being told by everyone on tv, at school or in the street that what has happened there is wonderful and it represents true progress. The level of brainwashing is stupendous. Regardless of what happens there well into the future, be it war or famine, people in the West will continue to stick by their guns and say it still represents progress, whilst blaming any poor behaviour on a partially fabricated historical narrative and poverty that is somehow perpetuated by events that occurred 50-100 years ago.
ILLUMINATI !!!!
And they're still blaming apartheid, they will never accept their own incompetence!
@@garyschei apartheid is the root of all evil, yes it is the reason for this today.. oppression and trauma will damage your mind. Those senior citizens are the direct victims of apartheid, they not capable of running a country
Negro bisnis.....aparthead must come back.....
Beautiful country I lived. Always kept my memories and purchased SA 🍊 at super stores in Vancouver.
Dang man i miss the 80s
Towns were clean and the country was rich,but few enjoy the riches of the country.and now is vise versa,towns are filthy like pigs-den and BB poor are more poor,and thieves in tie are enjoying the Richie's of the country
City used to be clean. Nowadays it's a joke
ILLUMINATI !!!!
Only the absolute filth of society lurks in the city these days.
One thing is so Sad that we lost how home & country … look how it was keep so clean and safe .. now that ANC is still around the country has gone to the Pigs , witch they don’t look after it ,
SATANIST !!!!
Can’t change the past but we can shape the future. It will take long but at least we are not a country like india or barren countries with little to no resources.
I like your thinking
I love these types of comments... its refreshing compared to those "good old days" delusional merchants
Just a year before I was born in cape Town. This country has gone to hell
It really is a shame what has happened to South Africa
Happened bleck president 1994.....
😢😢😢😢
It looked like those cities in us
Built for whites only
i wished i was born eariler
ILLUMINATI !!!!
I wish yall were all born in Europea
@@Lulu-wv1nt And you in Kenya or the Congo.
THANK YOU ( UA-cam
Okay, even these old footage, nostalgic for the old republic, only show 1/10 of what the country really was...
You must remember the fact that more than 70% of the country was better than other African countries... it was possible (and simple) to look for and get a job (horses of immigrants from neighboring countries, in general, socialists, harassed the borders) , unlike today, where unemployment is very high.
Viva ANC, Viba SACP, Viva Cosatu, viva try apartheid aliance. They did sutch a great job in building a better SA.
South Africa use to be such a great country. It's sad to see the horrible mess that the country has become.
The board signs Bright in your face lane marking Bright White no potholes😳👍👌
Where are you originally from ? You don't have a traditionally South African name .
They drank blood and did weird sex those white people never praise such systems
@@la23s.a.22 100% black south african Zulu man right in the heart of kzn between dbn n pmb is where ull find me!
@@kwanelemchunu1386 👍🏼
I would love to see the coloured majority areas in this time , then the Indians/asians and lastly blacks.
Why. No funding was made available for black people. These fancy places were for white people. Unless you also suddenly clueless.
There were no nyaope addicts
You must be a f**l if you think apartheid was better than now. Shameless black go to European countries if you are not happy with the current mzansi
Nigerians the new government just lets them in 😢
But there were cocaine addicts and crime and rape don’t be fooled it was a system creamy satanists
That is because of no strick borders.
Ek kan my öe uithuil as ek sien hoe hierie mooi Land vernietig is 😭😢😥
Durban has been cursed, the last 2 years. In July 2021, looting took place. Countless lives were lost. In April 2022, heavy rain crippled the city's road infrastructure. Again, lives were lost. I hope Durban can rise again. 🙏
Well done ANC
@@dudleykamal4679 : I remain hopeful that Durban will rise from the ashes. Like the phoenix ( no pun intended ).
It’s not cursed those things happen even in England
ILLUMINATI !!!!
There's was looting in London and New York are they also cursed.
This was a proper place to stay in back in the day now its a total nightmare black man cannot govern 😭😭😭😭
The black man cannot govern because of the system the white man gave him. The black man had a functional society before the white man's system was forced down the black man's throat.
In Canada they can govern, and everywhere you look is a proper place to stay😀😀😀so when are you leaving?
@@sgn5607 soon defiantly I still have both parents alive after that I am out
@@grantmyles887 Australia offers retirement visa 😊😊😊 you can leave ASAP. Take them with. In most cases, old people are racist AF, pls take them with
@@sgn5607 thks for the info 👍💯I appreciate it
All downhill since 1994. Wonder why! 🤷♂️🧐🧐
Sorry the gravy train is gone for yall. Too bad you fail to see that not all of us had it good then. And yes I agree that the ANC should go
Gravy train came after 1994.
You're right not all had it good then, now nobody has it good. Unless you are corrupt or have old money.
The gravy train is here today. We worked for our money.
@@andrewdutoit9571 lies that house which is passed down and everything you have was given to you because you’re white
@@losonsrenoster lies some people have it good and that applies everywhere in the world
4 years after i was born in e.l
Now A Failed City
Now it's a slum.
When HIV which was once non existent to black people was injected to their veins 😢.Aluta continua I have a strong feeling that this will one day be taught in school and will be the most fundamental things to learn when it comes to HIV
@Mafuze Ngcobo Strange theory that, I heard HIV was spread through promiscuity.
Yes, I remember when HIV was non existent in white people too, but then black people started having sex with monkeys in central Africa and so it began.... At least that's one of the theories.
@@andrewdutoit9571 how naive
@@marshathomas6422 Considering you are still catching up I won't respond to your comment. Have a good day.
And what is left of the country kol Kol worse than fokol
Amazing what a small white nation achieved in those good old days .
Its easy to achieve when you take over 80% of the wealth among yourselves
@@alicegauteng2358 Stop crying , we had the chance to do the same , but you chose to steal the wealth of the country instead , the new south africa is a dump today , nobody believe your stories or your excuses today , the world has woken up .
Ons is en was mense met visie…ons weet hoe om ‘n land te regeer.
@@Helgardt6189 govern a
Country by discriminating other races🙄
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Not at all, there were Homelands in the most picturesque of areas of South Africa but all that was needed was hard work. But unfortunately that word doesn't appear in the handbook.
Country has gone to the dogs.
ILLUMINATI !!!!
Horrible pictures...
It brings back apartheid memories..💔
Yes, the Beaches today really remind me of Ipanema.
❤
Horrible ?? Look,everything is clean and in working order.
My family got out in the 1970s. My family had a pretty good life there until then. I was born in Australia and I am surrounded by people who say stupid stuff about how pieces of trash like Mandela, the ANC and Zuma etc. have been great for the country. There is virtually no understanding of the history of the place and people couldn't give a stuff about Mandela FC, what goes on in Rhodesia, putting people's babies in microwaves, or that innocent farmers have been tortured to death with regularity. They don't even want to accept that the regime is corrupt and racist. My father's friends were being forced to hand over half of their businesses to equal black partners, who are not required to contribute any capital and refuse to work, so they've closed their businesses for good now. It is just slowly destroying the place piece by piece as it goes backward. People in the West have been brainwashed by this false narrative spun out by the media and politicians, but also history in every shape and form seems a mystery to most of the Gen Z kids these days anyway, and they've got no context regarding the past and the events that have led up to our current existence. I've noticed very few of them seem to understand the Cold War, so how are they going to understand complex geopolitics and the situation in Ukraine, Taiwan etc. I still have some family over there but I am reluctant to go. Sadly I feel safer in the prospect of traveling to places like Namibia instead but I don't think I would enjoy myself as much as I should because of the repugnant stuff that goes on across the continent that is a bit too hard to ignore. I don't know how people are holding in there. The people my father knew who were currently doing OK were strangely supporters of apartheid but now they're somehow singing a different tune and they're on the ANC express. While my family opposed apartheid and I don't sympathise with these people at all on that front, I have even less respect for them, as it shows that they don't really stand for anything and that they're willing to change their whole outlook to progress in society and feather their own nest. I just can't fathom changing fundamental opinions based upon the flow of the breeze, but I guess that's what people start to do when living under an oppressive regime like in Russia or China, where its best to stick to the party line if you don't want to be persecuted. In Australia we also have politics creeping into business. I work for a business in which the CEO expresses her political opinion in internal documents, communications and meetings. So far I have escaped it, but she is forcing other employees to read out political and racially divisive statements at the beginning of group meetings and I am seriously contemplating my options.
ILLUMINATI !!!!
White people build such beautiful cities ❤
When life was white and not black.
I love it now amazing place to visit we now share the same toilets n same pavements no pink n whites signs anymore
I never loved it back then
Yeah share the same toilets, get raped and mugged and Probably killed to in them
Yes sir quite right, nowadays you can piss on the pavements and poo on top of the toilet 🚽 As long as it’s together is what counts 😉
Do you go to public toilets today?
@@andrewdutoit9571 yep very clean
@@uncletee1853 Your standards haven't changed.
Beautiful old South Africa. I noticed a "white only restroom sign" on the video. Question. If there were white only restrooms and black only restrooms...where did Asians, Indians, mix race people go to relieve themselves? What about Asian tourist or non-white tourist from America or Europe? If they are not white or black...which restrooms did they use. Anybody who lived in that time of South Africa know?
They had to sh!t in nature somewhere
I think that as a not white person you wouldn’t consider spending your money on holidays in a country who would treat you as a second class person. I would not have spend holidays there although I’m white.
Indians were the second lowest black people were the last 😢
I doubt any person of colour was willing to spend their money here.
With those appalling laws.
@@andrewdutoit9571 that government was pretty pathetic if they didn't even have 60 million to govern . Including immigrants from all over the world.
And they still failed. Bunch of useless turds
The comments on this video makes my skin crawl. You disgust me if you don't like South Africa the way it is leave! And please do not look back
❤ they support a system that goes against the creator
I thought people were leaving, along with opportunity, foreign investment and hope for the future. It has all left South Africa.
Shame !! We all have the right to our opinions.
I suppose you love the way the country is, and you love the filth and potholes everywhere.
I can imagine in the condition that you are living in. In absolute shambles and filth 😢😢
@@ramennaidoo162 🤣🤣 oh you wish I was don't you? All black people are poor right? Bet you don't even let us near you cause we might contaminate you. Y'all always crack me up
As far as I don't like ANC government but I still don't think these days was nice coz our parents didn't have quality life and their self-respect was taken away from them. ANC will go for sure but forget about the white privilege never
South Africa wasn't like it is today. It was a very young Country with a small economy run by the White Africans for the previous 350+ years. As there are two cultures in South Africa, one Western and the other is Patriarcle, pasteral and Tr!bal as it is today. When the Majority started moving to the towns and cities in the early 1960's, all were uneducated labourers with no employment and nowhere to stay. That was when the trouble started as from a tricle of people it became a flood and the cities and towns inftastructure couldn't accomodate the pressure. Then in the 1970's it was 'Revolution before Education' and all this exacerbating the problem and caused friction between the races. Even now, after 30 years of Majority Rule the people in power still aren't managers as all that was inherited through Democracy is bankrupted due to cadre deployment bar none. So this problem is more complex than just blaming Apartheid and the White African for the Country's woes, the problem goes far deeper than that.
@@andrewdutoit9571 before white people came in Africa and inverted money black people was living just fine with no stress or greediness. Those cities was built by Africans as labours and after that they were kicked out others were injected by diseases 🥺 to die, women was used to develop white race in SA and you've successfully did that. The people who were left in the villages had no choice but to come in the cities and hustle since everything was money in Africa. I may be a born free but I know what was happening those days. If white people handled the situation in a better way we wouldn't be here today blaming each other. If you people built cities and developed rural areas as well instead of apartheid south Africa would be the best country in the world. Black people didn't care of being rich or being presidents before apartheid forced them to be obsessed with it. White can still win this country I believe that but I wish them to behave in a decent way this time. ANC has lost my voters whole DA is rising which means south Africa will be a whites man's country again.
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Apartheid was demonized by the Liberals and Socialists of this World. Their agenda was to do exactly what has happened. Listen to Verwoerds speech where it was supposed to be Good Neighbourliness. We White Africans knew that we could never hold the Country without destroying most of the Majority which is against our Morals and upbringing. If you look at the 'Struggle', what really happened? How many Whites were casualty's compared to Blacks? Blacks were killing their own. We may have favoured Inkatha but if we didn't care about Blacks, why did we send the Police into the Townships in the late 70's and 80's when the people were rioting? Why not leave them alone to finish the job for us as it'll save White lives from getting inbetween the combatants? Apartheids idea was to give everyone a 'Home' based on the UK model. Kwazulu for the Zulu, Transkei for the Xhosa and wherever the Whites were in the Majority as our spot. But it didn't work like that due to other County's interfering in our internal problems. Their meddling caused all the troubles you see today. Many Whites have no problems with anyone as long as I can do my thing, I don't want to interfere with anyone and I want the same. Under Apartheid it could have happened, but the Worlds Liberals and Communists had other agenda's to cause a rift between our peoples and you know what they are. Imagine dying to use someone elses toilet, it's laughable really but sadly people did. For all SA's problems blame the mentioned groups.
@@sakhizwesakhi2243 Something I never mentioned, South Africa has always been a bloody mess. From the time the Dutch and the Koi's tangled to the day the Xhosa and Boers met on the great Fish river, to Chaka building the Zulu Nation, there has always been conflict. Research the 'Real' South African History and not the woke version, even today there are still feudes going on on the rural areas. Have a good day there.
@@andrewdutoit9571 villages are the most peaceful in south Africa no crime ,no nothing just people living simple lives. Thanks
You missed the part about people being forcibly removed from their homes and ancestral lands.
You missed the part about the township creation.
You mud huts for black students, who had little to no books.
You missed the part about no electricity, running water, paved roads for blacks.
Stolen resources, jails, hangings etc.
You missed a whole lot
@Lulu I think you should review your opinion, what ancestral lands were you evicted from? As far as I know the Homelands were where that particular tribe originated from. As far as evictions go, the cities and towns were designed in an orderly fashion, so if people squatted on land or in houses they didn't have title deeds to you would be forcibly removed, that's why it's called law and order. Visit any progressive Country and those rules are the same. Townships were created to serve the business communties as mostly imported black labour didn't have finances to purchase land in the main hubs. Where in the World will you find uneducated labourers buying property in rich and affluent areas? One thing you forget, the economy of South Africa was only supported by the White taxes in those days, so to modernise the infrastructure in the cities took priority as you can see today, the education system is ruined, schools are turning out inferior educated students and yet Apartheid still gets blamed for it. You will be delighted to hear since Democracy the problems you had with no electricity, running water, sewage and no paved roads are a thing of the past, now all suffer the same affliction, we are all living without it... please tell me how do you steal resources that were not there to start with? As far as hangings, jail etc goes, if you break the law you pay the price isn't it, thats what happens in any civilised Country. If you have anymore questions ping me as I might have a logical answer for you without any emotions attached.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 I cry for my own people. We have enough problems.
I'm sure you cried enough for them
Your ancestors came from central Africa, squatted on a strip of mud and called it a farm. They had no right to that land in the first place. Everyone knew that apartheid was wrong and as soon as we got the option to vote against it we did.
@@garyschei no matter where they came from it's still Africa. You don't know me or my ancestors.
I have Koisan, Xhosa and white.
Don't think youblnow me or my ancestors by my comments on social media
Full of shit like all the rest!