Afrika Bambatha You shit you comment on everyone's post talking about what a beautiful country SA was. If you want to live in a shit hole and killed tomorrow then go on with that mentality
What do u mean by some South African roads doesn’t have no pot holes ... have u been to South Africa ever .. if yes ... or if not .. for your kind info there are still no pot holes and the roads are as good as u can see in any developed countries ..
I was in South Africa in 1972. It was a beautiful country. Very cheap to live in then. I lived in a residential hotel in Durban literally on the beach for 18 rand per day. That included 3 major meals & 2 teas per day. Fantastic.
No don't come back. It's too dangerous, little clean water, filthy streets filled with potholes and patches. Electricity problems. You get robbed when you walk down the street. Your belongings have to be locked up behind 5 walls and gates, and 2 alarm systems. You can't rely on the police so you have to pay money to get a security company. Your pets get poisoned. When your kids want to peacefully go to school they get attacked for speaking Afrikaans. Our farms are under attack so soon we will have no food. If you are white you struggle to get a good paying job to support you even if you spent thousands to study, just because of BEE. Your kids won't learn discipline because they only need 35% to pass a grade. Stay where you are. Come back after the war.
"get attacked for speaking Afrikaans" that was the WW2 German experience as they returned to Germany from the diaspora, as other countries had expelled or murdered them for speaking the language, REGARDLESS if they were German or not !
Andra Karsten I try, what were you referencing/referring to? Our media doesn't cover SA. Ever. I just meant it was a time of world war, and the Afrikaners are being treated like war criminals in their own country, by their supposedly own people....
Yu Toob Oh you are international. They are busy banning Afrikaans out of school. One school said that they were not going to do that and the black people from EFF started attacking the parents of the kids that and the kids, throwing rocks at them, even cars passing the school as well as old people. They wrote on cardboard kill the boer (that is us Afrikaans people). But this has been intensifying the last 5 years. With all the white farm murders.
How awesome this place was!!! Note when they show the houses, there wasn't walls in front of their yards. No security gates keeping vicious dogs in and no burglar bars. They get out of the combi and there is no need to lock it. @ 2:47 you see blacks walking at the side of the road without being persecuted, as is the common believe around the world thanks to nelson mandela. @ 3:18 you can clearly see a black settlement with electricity and running water. @ 8:05 you once again see black walking peacefully without persecution. I can go on. Also note in the beginning of the video the Pick and Pay and Clicks signs visible. In those days they were loyal supporters of the "all evil apartheid" regime. And today they claim to have struggled with mandela and they claim to have opposed apartheid. This is all a lie. They benefited most from apartheid, as they benefit today for claiming they opposed apartheid.
Nice record. In particular, from the mid-1970s onwards, the South African regime began to be reformed. Including the elimination of parts of apartheid, sports reforms with competitions without separation, as well as the repeal of area laws, the permission of indigenous entrepreneurs in the country, and the creation of the tricameral parliament, for example... All of this still under the management of ''groot krokodil'' was at that time, between 1975 and 1986. Also including the rise of an undeniable black middle class in South Africa. That didn't make the country a ''paradise'' (far from it) as some boers tend to comment (not all think so, just a few) in these records on YT, from those times. However, it brings a realism that neither the militant activism of the socialists nor the anti-national agenda of the western press will show. A country of the size and complexity of South Africa should not be approached irresponsibly.
Cape Town is so stunning, but there is so pain and sadness in the way some people are living. I found it difficult to enjoy my holiday there knowing how people continue to suffer in that beautiful country
Just love this, my boss and I made countless night-runs to Sun City in his BMW 735i in the 80's, interesting to see the roads here and recognise every roadside feature! 0:25 Northcliff, 0:30 passing Gary Player's farm, 0:35 Cradle-of-Humankind, 0:45 train to Magaliesberg, 1:20 Magaliesberg mountain range (great hiking), 1:25 kiosk near Kroondal, below Olifantsnek Dam (Hex River, tributary of the Elands River, not the one in the Cape) where I got a fine for crossing a white line when overtaking a mule-cart, 2:00 Rustenberg, 2:20 "Dead Donkey Road", 2:30 Bafokeng ( capital of ex-homeland Boputhuswanaland) parliament on the left, 3:20 Pilansberg Game Reserve, 5:55 Sun City, 9:05 Bryanston, approaching Johannesburg, 9:20 Johannesburg, 9:40 Cape Town from Table Mountain and peninsula, 13:05 Cape Town city. Well done!
Afrika Bambatha It's not in your hands. Look at all the townships. Look at this beautiful country... No potholes... No fences... Clean.. And I don't believe Apartheid was so bad as black people make it out as, black people walked next to the road, sat at homes, worked, looked healthy and not beat up like everyone makes the world believe.
Everybody, you should bear in mind that as recently as 1986, 17.5% of South Africa's population was white European. And 26 years earlier, the year before South Africa became a republic in 1961, 19.3% of South Africans were white European. My point is, right from the beginning of South Africa's history as a country, its European population has been a very big minority. Statistically, White Europeans actually outnumbered Coloreds and Indians combined until 1996 ! But given the statistical dominance of Europeans over coloreds and Indians, why were Indians and coloreds also denied the right to vote in general elections. I am aware of the 1983 amendment to the constitution, which created 2 more chambers in the South African government, one for Indians and one for Coloreds. The number of seats that each chamber of Parliament was respective of the demographic populations of Coloreds and Indians, which were outnumbered by white Europeans at the time. However, this still wasn't equal voting rights with the white Europeans, as only a politician in the white-only House of Assembly could be voted into Government, simply because, although ostensibly based on population figures, the numerical composition of the electoral college and the President's Council meant that the white chamber could not be outvoted by the other two chambers. Thus, the real power remained in white hands-and in practice, in the hands of Botha's National Party, which had a large majority in the white chamber. For all intents and purposes, Botha held nearly all governing power in the nation ! It was a step in the right direction, but it left out the Black African majority, who would have to wait 10 more years before their opportunity to vote in any general election. Also the Colored and Indian South Africans only had limited political voice as a result, so it was a white minority government in effect. Thirdly, the main political parties, e.g. the National Party and Progressive Federal Party, were still white only parties!
With regards to my thirdly point, in the last paragraph of my monologue, I found out somewhere that the Government of South Africa allowed other parties, except the National Party to have non-white membership, in time for the 1989 Election, but only whites could actually vote for the House of Assembly and the Coloured and Indians voted for their respective houses in Parliament. Proof of this fact is the fact that the Democratic Party, founded in early 1989, as merger of the Progressive Federal Party, New Republic Party and Independent Party, was one of the parties in the House of Delegates Election, at the same time as for the other 2 houses. You can see this fact on this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_general_election,_1989
It would be interesting to see a side-by-side video of then and now. I hate when there is something beautiful that is not safe to be around. I love old homes, but most are in rundown neighborhoods that are not safe. So unfair. This video looks like the country could have made a lot of money as a vacation destination spot
I grew up in South Africa. Born in 1974. It really was a Great and Beautifull Country especially growing up as a Child. Now everything has changed. Which State in The US do You Live in?
Fascinating, I enjoyed the shots of that train crossing (I believe that is close to Zeekoehoek, Magaliesburg), scenes of Rustenburg (Kroondal, Rex) and then the road through Phokeng, Boshoek (if I'm not mistaken). Thank you for the upload ! :)
I know that old train crossing near Magaliesburg on the Rustenburg road....(near the old Bekker Agricultural School farm). That rail line is no longer in use and the tracks have all been lifted out and removed (recycled?)
I remember going to the movies for sixpence ( 5c ) and everything was safe - one never locked ones doors at night ( you would close the door but never locked it ) and we had the black people always walking around yet no crime. every thing was great 50s and 60s was great the music was great - I came from Scottburgh on the Natal South Coast - we had 7 main hotels and they were always busy - now there are only 2 left 4/12/2017 what's that tell you about the New South Africa - Peeter Muna
When last did you drive out Auclandpark towards D F Malan (Beyers Naude) drive? you will hardly beleive the mess on the roads! What a blast to whatch your video, I drove down D F Malan drive for 17 years every day.
OMG! Pick 'n Pay! I remember working there after school packing groceries when I was around 14 years old to get a bit of pocket money for the weekend. I'm 56 years old now but I can still remember standing there at the tills in my school uniform packing those groceries. I think I got paid about R2.00 for the afternoon. Good memories...:)
I recognized that traintrack immediately at the start of video, on road Krugersdorp to Rustenburg just past Magaliesburg, we lived close by, though now in USA. Thanks for the memories. Often went to Sun City, added this to my favorites now.
i love South Africa. but i only first came in 2015 because i am,a Chinese. i hope that the white and black would stay together to make this beautiful country great again.
Great to see...and sad too. What a mess SA is now. Having lived through both eras I know which I would rather be in (pre-94 SA). It was a country that had everything and the potential for even more. Look what the clowns in charge now are doing!!! Crime, corruption and greater divisions. You can never take the bush out of the.....
Great comments, Mr Rossouw. You are a credit to the Afrikaans people, and it is only because of people like you that there is any hope for South Africa.
clean environment,good roads without potholes,no big walls,no loitering,no demonstrations for service delivery -- all of this,before the comrades and corrupt,incompetent ANC
It would be good if these had scenes of companies familiar then, which disappeared in about the late 1980s, early 1990s. Examples are Mobil petrol, Trek petrol, Barclays Bank, Building Societies, and Trust Bank.
Ok, even these old pictures, nostalgic of the old republic, only show 1/10 of what the country really was... It was a country with a lot of potential... but it took a while to adapt to the new times that came from the beginning of the 1970s.
BS, the whole Country was great, look at the black housing in Bop at that time, not a squattercamp insight, no plastic bags and broken bottles anywhere. Stop dreaming of a past that didn't exist.
Ok, but a reality and history be a inegable. South Africa was not the ''paradise'' people say it was. It was never a first-world nation as some of the people in the comments said. It's still some pretty interesting footage. However, it brings a realism that neither the militant activism of the socialists nor the anti-national agenda of the western press will show. A country of the SIZE and COMPLEXITY of South Africa should not be approached irresponsibly.
@@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373 The problem in South Africa is this. The Whites have a First World and Modern Culture what is despicted in the video, the Majority in the 1950's and 1960 were but even today have a Third World Culture. So thats why Apartheid was introduced to protect the White Culture but, the bleeding heart Liberals and Socialists did their damndest to make life difficult for the White African. Call it jealousy If you like but thats what South Africa was about. If you look at South Africa today you'll see that most of the First World Culture has been stipped and sold and the Third World Culture popping through... but we are still here.
The point of argument goes beyond the moral issue (which is clear), and from what it seems is: The old regime did not have a good economic model. Because it was based on premises and conditions that fell in sequence, especially in the 70s. The shocks resulting from international boycotts in the following decade only increased a fissure that was already (very) apparent and irrecoverable.
Wow, if not for the driving on the other side of the road, some of that scenery could easily be mistaken for parts of Southern California, Arizona, or even Mexico.
I arrived at South Africa in Ellisras back in 1987 and came back to Portugal in 92, and really South Africa was a much cleaner and organized country that most european ones like mine. From what I've know only the Western Cape remains, all the rest is looking like Africa.
That was the time when you put a fence around your property to keep your dog inside, now you have to put a fence up to keep the ANC's dogs out. South Africa's Human Development Index was pretty much on par with that of Brazil and by far the leading country in Africa south of the Sahara. Now it is in the class of a Botswana or Namibia and 40 places below that of Brazil in the world rankings. The gap between the poor and the rich is now larger than it has ever been. Soo sad .....
Great video, one of the best videos on youtube about South Africa. This is the kind of thing you want to see on here the old days etc. Well put together too, are you South African? Thumbs up from us anyways.
Hello Felix, would like to get in touch about this video for a feature film project about South Africa during that period. Could you message me on here? Thanks, Lauren
wow no walls around the houses no beggars at the traffic lights , no filthy squatter camps and the verges are tidy cos they are not being used as trash cans and toilets and wow trains without people haging out of the windows . ANC = another native catastrophe
7:25 Casinos? I thought they were illegal in pre-1994 South Africa. Anyhow the country looks much cleaner, safer, higher standard of living and everything seems more orderly, then they are today.
watching this video and not knowing where it was filmed one would probably guess the united states. if you watched a video filmed in SA today you would guess its some shit hole in Africa
I'm 62. I live in Blairgowrie in Randburg but I was born in Sea Point and grew up in Wellington / Cape Town / Grahamstown. I have a doctorate in history, with a particular focus on conflict resolution in SA, Rwanda and Canada. I suppose it's only polite to ask you how old you are and where you live? Did you live through apartheid? I did, and it had absolutely no redeeming features.
White people built such a beautiful civilization ❤ a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, universities, hospitals, public schools, paved streets, plenty of clean running water lots of electricity with air conditioning, railroads banks, airports there was no trash on the sidewalks. There was no graffiti on the buildings there was plenty of petrol at all the filling stations and then everything crumbled. I wonder what happened.
Anyone can be taught to drive a truck, or lay a brick, but you'll require a true leader and engineers to invent and design roads and infrastructure. The latter simply lacked terribly the last 2 decades!
Então, o assunto é mais complexo. O fato de o NP e seu apartheid terem sido errados e destinados ao fim... não significa que o Anc e seu governo totalitário seria a solução... Só repensar e analisar... O país tem muito potencial e já perdeu quase 80 anos sob crises e partidarismos extremos. Se passou da hora de a África do Sul buscar um caminho de equilíbrio de verdade. Que fique de lição, de aprendizado, esse bom e raro registro. O auge do regime segregacionista da África do Sul foi nos anos 60 e 70. E com um boom econômico que beneficiou todo o país, TODO o país, repetindo. No entanto após a queda de países amigos como Moçambique e Rhodesia, além do fim do padrão ouro-dolar no sistema monetário internacional em 1971, a economia do país foi severamente atingida e não voltou a ter o ótimo desempenho de antes, entrando em crise crônica nos anos 80. Sem contar a disparada definitiva dos preços do petróleo, que a África do Sul sempre foi dependente. Logo, não seria mais possível manter um estado policial por tanto tempo, com gastos em defesa crescendo exponencialmente, bem como o peso das sanções internacionais. Nisso, o fim da Urss em 1991 ajudou e muito pra que a transição para o pós-apartheid sem uma guerra civil fosse possível na Afr. Do Sul e além disso, pode se salvar a Namibia dando lhe independência sem a mesma cair como foi com Angola e Zimbabwe por ex. Que o país boer se reerga e volte a ser uma terra de prosperidade, saudações do Brasil. 🇧🇷
Your people that are deep in the rain forests, why are they discriminated against? Why aren't they living in mantions and driving the latest Landrover? You rascist, you are living the high life while those people are suffering without water and sanitation, nevermind medical care. The World must put sanctions against Brazil because those people haven't got equal oppotunity's to those in Brazilia or Rio!
"APARTHEID" was abolished ---- and the black man's greed and gluttony took over ---- incompetence and decay is the order of the day ----- if I had known what was going to happen after 1994 and could have predicted the 30 year downward spiral i would have committed suicide the day Mandela raised his fist in the "BLACK POWER" sign and Desmond Tutu said "WE ARE FREE" ------ but he never finished the sentence ---- it should have been "WE ARE FREE TO STEAL AND DESTROY SOUTH AFRICA"
Thanks for sharing. For me SA looks a hell of a lot better now - whatever one's political opinion, this is one of the greatest counties in the world. I travel there about twice a year and do road trips from Johannesburg to Cape Town along the back roads, highways and coastal roads. For those who are so negatively outspoken I say, get a passport and explore the world beyond what you see on CNN. Of course there are areas which are filthy and dangerous, but I feel no safer in parts of Vancouver, Miami, LA,Jakarta than I do in SA. It has a vibrancy which you absolutely do not get in Singapore or Hong Kong etc.
Ha, there was NO GAMBLING in South Africa in the 80's....! Those one arm bandits were in Sun City which was located in the independent state of Bophuthatswana.
That was Bophuthatswana, not SA, at least... not officially. There is information that the self-government there was an exception among the authorities of the bantustans ... as it was favorable to undertakings such as the sun city and some industries (b..swana had valuable platinum deposits) that made up the local economy.
Such a tragedy. While apartheid was wrong, the current state of the country is proof that if a government cannot provide basic order it is illegitimate, no matter how many elections it has.
@railroadtie69 This is a stupid comment, man. The Afrikaners had (and in most cases still have) the good life, but South Africa's resources are such that the good life should be had by all, not just the few. The ANC has overstayed its welcome, but apartheid should have never happened. Had South Africa been able to develop as one nation rather than many, it could well be close to paradise on Earth today, which it deserves.
Neat clean, organised, disciplined ...... CIVILISED.
Whites in charge tend acomplish that.
and full of racism and oppression
Afrika Bambatha You shit you comment on everyone's post talking about what a beautiful country SA was. If you want to live in a shit hole and killed tomorrow then go on with that mentality
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That applied to whites only.bit was always pain and chaos for us Coloreds and blacks
super lovely peaceful . but now sadly South Africa is very dirty & unsafe .
As if India is clean
Nice to see some South-African roads without potholes or litter everywhere...
True.
Vernon Thomas
What do u mean by some South African roads doesn’t have no pot holes ... have u been to South Africa ever .. if yes ... or if not .. for your kind info there are still no pot holes and the roads are as good as u can see in any developed countries ..
Rayhan Abbot Our roads are full of potholes. You probably don’t get out much huh.
@PanQuakes Ons IS AFRIKANERS, gaan leer wat dit beteken!
I was in South Africa in 1972. It was a beautiful country. Very cheap to live in then. I lived in a residential hotel in Durban literally on the beach for 18 rand per day. That included 3 major meals & 2 teas per day. Fantastic.
Looked a lot like Australia and NZ , in fact it was just as good . What a waste of a great nation .
You’re music whack
Notice how there are no electric fences, flame thrower cars and minefields? South Africa has really fallen.
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Just beautiful, no potholes and clean streets. A bygone era.
Go to Nederland/England may you'll not find potholes
I was born in SA in the 80's. God I miss that place!
No don't come back. It's too dangerous, little clean water, filthy streets filled with potholes and patches. Electricity problems. You get robbed when you walk down the street. Your belongings have to be locked up behind 5 walls and gates, and 2 alarm systems. You can't rely on the police so you have to pay money to get a security company. Your pets get poisoned. When your kids want to peacefully go to school they get attacked for speaking Afrikaans. Our farms are under attack so soon we will have no food. If you are white you struggle to get a good paying job to support you even if you spent thousands to study, just because of BEE. Your kids won't learn discipline because they only need 35% to pass a grade. Stay where you are. Come back after the war.
"get attacked for speaking Afrikaans" that was the WW2 German experience as they returned to Germany from the diaspora, as other countries had expelled or murdered them for speaking the language, REGARDLESS if they were German or not !
Yu Toob ... You don't watch the news do you...
Andra Karsten
I try, what were you referencing/referring to? Our media doesn't cover SA. Ever. I just meant it was a time of world war, and the Afrikaners are being treated like war criminals in their own country, by their supposedly own people....
Yu Toob Oh you are international. They are busy banning Afrikaans out of school. One school said that they were not going to do that and the black people from EFF started attacking the parents of the kids that and the kids, throwing rocks at them, even cars passing the school as well as old people. They wrote on cardboard kill the boer (that is us Afrikaans people). But this has been intensifying the last 5 years. With all the white farm murders.
How awesome this place was!!! Note when they show the houses, there wasn't walls in front of their yards. No security gates keeping vicious dogs in and no burglar bars.
They get out of the combi and there is no need to lock it. @ 2:47 you see blacks walking at the side of the road without being persecuted, as is the common believe around the world thanks to nelson mandela. @ 3:18 you can clearly see a black settlement with electricity and running water. @ 8:05 you once again see black walking peacefully without persecution. I can go on. Also note in the beginning of the video the Pick and Pay and Clicks signs visible. In those days they were loyal supporters of the "all evil apartheid" regime. And today they claim to have struggled with mandela and they claim to have opposed apartheid. This is all a lie. They benefited most from apartheid, as they benefit today for claiming they opposed apartheid.
Anno Nomous I was also shocked to see all is not as I was told by black people... They walked free, sold products, healthy, etc. Wow..
@morton christie you see. But what can we do. Our country is fucked.
Nice record.
In particular, from the mid-1970s onwards, the South African regime began to be reformed.
Including the elimination of parts of apartheid, sports reforms with competitions without separation, as well as the repeal of area laws, the permission of indigenous entrepreneurs in the country, and the creation of the tricameral parliament, for example...
All of this still under the management of ''groot krokodil'' was at that time, between 1975 and 1986.
Also including the rise of an undeniable black middle class in South Africa.
That didn't make the country a ''paradise'' (far from it) as some boers tend to comment (not all think so, just a few) in these records on YT, from those times.
However, it brings a realism that neither the militant activism of the socialists nor the anti-national agenda of the western press will show.
A country of the size and complexity of South Africa should not be approached irresponsibly.
You can see how our climate and pollution has changed. The clear blue skies and every were is clean.
The good old days. Thanks for sharing this video.
Wow, everything was so very beautiful, clean and roads without holes everywhere! What has come to our country since 1994???
Cape Town is so stunning, but there is so pain and sadness in the way some people are living. I found it difficult to enjoy my holiday there knowing how people continue to suffer in that beautiful country
Just love this, my boss and I made countless night-runs to Sun City in his BMW 735i in the 80's, interesting to see the roads here and recognise every roadside feature! 0:25 Northcliff, 0:30 passing Gary Player's farm, 0:35 Cradle-of-Humankind, 0:45 train to Magaliesberg, 1:20 Magaliesberg mountain range (great hiking), 1:25 kiosk near Kroondal, below Olifantsnek Dam (Hex River, tributary of the Elands River, not the one in the Cape) where I got a fine for crossing a white line when overtaking a mule-cart, 2:00 Rustenberg, 2:20 "Dead Donkey Road", 2:30 Bafokeng ( capital of ex-homeland Boputhuswanaland) parliament on the left, 3:20 Pilansberg Game Reserve, 5:55 Sun City, 9:05 Bryanston, approaching Johannesburg, 9:20 Johannesburg, 9:40 Cape Town from Table Mountain and peninsula, 13:05 Cape Town city. Well done!
Thank you for sharing..! Nice to know all the landmarks and to appreciate.
This is the real South Africa, before the Tripartite Alliance (ANC-SACP-COSATU) dictatorship.
and now it is in the hands of the black people, where it belongs!
Afrika Bambatha It's not in your hands. Look at all the townships. Look at this beautiful country... No potholes... No fences... Clean.. And I don't believe Apartheid was so bad as black people make it out as, black people walked next to the road, sat at homes, worked, looked healthy and not beat up like everyone makes the world believe.
Afrika Bambatha
now if only Europe and America could be back in the hands of White people, where they belong!
Everybody, you should bear in mind that as recently as 1986, 17.5% of South Africa's population was white European. And 26 years earlier, the year before South Africa became a republic in 1961, 19.3% of South Africans were white European. My point is, right from the beginning of South Africa's history as a country, its European population has been a very big minority. Statistically, White Europeans actually outnumbered Coloreds and Indians combined until 1996 ! But given the statistical dominance of Europeans over coloreds and Indians, why were Indians and coloreds also denied the right to vote in general elections. I am aware of the 1983 amendment to the constitution, which created 2 more chambers in the South African government, one for Indians and one for Coloreds. The number of seats that each chamber of Parliament was respective of the demographic populations of Coloreds and Indians, which were outnumbered by white Europeans at the time.
However, this still wasn't equal voting rights with the white Europeans, as only a politician in the white-only House of Assembly could be voted into Government, simply because, although ostensibly based on population figures, the numerical composition of the electoral college and the President's Council meant that the white chamber could not be outvoted by the other two chambers. Thus, the real power remained in white hands-and in practice, in the hands of Botha's National Party, which had a large majority in the white chamber. For all intents and purposes, Botha held nearly all governing power in the nation !
It was a step in the right direction, but it left out the Black African majority, who would have to wait 10 more years before their opportunity to vote in any general election. Also the Colored and Indian South Africans only had limited political voice as a result, so it was a white minority government in effect. Thirdly, the main political parties, e.g. the National Party and Progressive Federal Party, were still white only parties!
With regards to my thirdly point, in the last paragraph of my monologue, I found out somewhere that the Government of South Africa allowed other parties, except the National Party to have non-white membership, in time for the 1989 Election, but only whites could actually vote for the House of Assembly and the Coloured and Indians voted for their respective houses in Parliament. Proof of this fact is the fact that the Democratic Party, founded in early 1989, as merger of the Progressive Federal Party, New Republic Party and Independent Party, was one of the parties in the House of Delegates Election, at the same time as for the other 2 houses. You can see this fact on this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_general_election,_1989
look how civilized everything waz
still is
Afrika Bambatha Please see a optometrist.
How civlised exactly?
I can see you were happy the way you n your family were treating black people 😮
Because you were so proud to mistreat black people
Ah the good old days.How I would love to have those days back.The innocence of everything.
LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I miss South Africa but I am glad I left there is no future there
Oliver Giesler we are also glad you left!
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enjoy your rubble ;o)
Good! Every white South African should come to Europe. Let the blacks feed themselves!
@@SocialistFinn1 And never come to steal our minerals.
@@maksteve5451 sure, but we can buy them.
Wow, kyk net hoe mooi het die strate en parke gelyk. Kan dit amper amper nie eens onthou nie. Was nog 'n klein wipsnuiter daai tyd.
back when roads weren't so congested and trains were still in use
Thanks for a great walk down Memory Lane. Lekker memories of Sun City.
Once country of my dream.
It would be interesting to see a side-by-side video of then and now. I hate when there is something beautiful that is not safe to be around. I love old homes, but most are in rundown neighborhoods that are not safe. So unfair. This video looks like the country could have made a lot of money as a vacation destination spot
I recently lived there for a few months, and I can confirm that a lot of those areas are run down now.
Man what a beautiful country. I'm an American, but if I could have lived in any country besides the US it would be during apartheid in South Africa.
I grew up in South Africa. Born in 1974. It really was a Great and Beautifull Country especially growing up as a Child. Now everything has changed. Which State in The US do You Live in?
Beautiful and clean...
Fascinating, I enjoyed the shots of that train crossing (I believe that is close to Zeekoehoek, Magaliesburg), scenes of Rustenburg (Kroondal, Rex) and then the road through Phokeng, Boshoek (if I'm not mistaken). Thank you for the upload ! :)
I know that old train crossing near Magaliesburg on the Rustenburg road....(near the old Bekker Agricultural School farm).
That rail line is no longer in use and the tracks have all been lifted out and removed (recycled?)
I remember going to the movies for sixpence ( 5c ) and everything was safe - one never locked ones doors at night ( you would close the door but never locked it ) and we had the black people always walking around yet no crime. every thing was great 50s and 60s was great the music was great - I came from Scottburgh on the Natal South Coast - we had 7 main hotels and they were always busy - now there are only 2 left 4/12/2017 what's that tell you about the New South Africa - Peeter Muna
Yep,drinking a Castle Lager in a tin can - tax free,the good old days.
I would like to see a video of the same areas now. Sad.
When last did you drive out Auclandpark towards D F Malan (Beyers Naude) drive? you will hardly beleive the mess on the roads! What a blast to whatch your video, I drove down D F Malan drive for 17 years every day.
Wow, a real treasure this video. Baie goed! Dankie!
Sun City was located in an independent homeland Bophutatswana, so theoretically not SA.
The only successful bantu stand
OMG! Pick 'n Pay! I remember working there after school packing groceries when I was around 14 years old to get a bit of pocket money for the weekend. I'm 56 years old now but I can still remember standing there at the tills in my school uniform packing those groceries. I think I got paid about R2.00 for the afternoon. Good memories...:)
Everything is clean , no potholes on the roads
This was a first world country.....until 1994 happened.
What happened in 1994 ?
The country went from white minority civilised to black majority shambles.
@@DantheferretRead up on SA history.
@@Helgardt6189 ok
Wow! Love your channel!
I recognized that traintrack immediately at the start of video, on road Krugersdorp to Rustenburg just past Magaliesburg, we lived close by, though now in USA. Thanks for the memories. Often went to Sun City, added this to my favorites now.
i love South Africa. but i only first came in 2015 because i am,a Chinese. i hope that the white and black would stay together to make this beautiful country great again.
#M[SA]GA
#MAGA
Thats i remeber South Africa peacfull and white really really really really miss those days thanks for vids
I'd like to see the footage captured today. This would be effective media spelling out what has happened to SA.
this is the SA of my childhood
Great to see...and sad too. What a mess SA is now. Having lived through both eras I know which I would rather be in (pre-94 SA). It was a country that had everything and the potential for even more. Look what the clowns in charge now are doing!!! Crime, corruption and greater divisions. You can never take the bush out of the.....
Great comments, Mr Rossouw. You are a credit to the Afrikaans people, and it is only because of people like you that there is any hope for South Africa.
looks beautiful. Different era.
thanks for uploading!
Ah, great memories of that Cable Car - sprinting back from Touch and Go to make the last car down!
clean environment,good roads without potholes,no big walls,no loitering,no demonstrations for service delivery -- all of this,before the comrades and corrupt,incompetent ANC
I miss you South Africa
5:11-driving with beer in hand,ahhh the old SA!!
It would be good if these had scenes of companies familiar then, which disappeared in about the late 1980s, early 1990s. Examples are Mobil petrol, Trek petrol, Barclays Bank, Building Societies, and Trust Bank.
Pure Nostalgia. SA was Paradise then.
Yes, Paradise.
14:18 Burned down Parliament…now that is South Africa for you.
Ok, even these old pictures, nostalgic of the old republic, only show 1/10 of what the country really was...
It was a country with a lot of potential... but it took a while to adapt to the new times that came from the beginning of the 1970s.
BS, the whole Country was great, look at the black housing in Bop at that time, not a squattercamp insight, no plastic bags and broken bottles anywhere. Stop dreaming of a past that didn't exist.
Ok, but a reality and history be a inegable.
South Africa was not the ''paradise'' people say it was. It was never a first-world nation as some of the people in the comments said. It's still some pretty interesting footage.
However, it brings a realism that neither the militant activism of the socialists nor the anti-national agenda of the western press will show.
A country of the SIZE and COMPLEXITY of South Africa should not be approached irresponsibly.
@@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373 The problem in South Africa is this. The Whites have a First World and Modern Culture what is despicted in the video, the Majority in the 1950's and 1960 were but even today have a Third World Culture. So thats why Apartheid was introduced to protect the White Culture but, the bleeding heart Liberals and Socialists did their damndest to make life difficult for the White African. Call it jealousy If you like but thats what South Africa was about. If you look at South Africa today you'll see that most of the First World Culture has been stipped and sold and the Third World Culture popping through... but we are still here.
The point of argument goes beyond the moral issue (which is clear), and from what it seems is:
The old regime did not have a good economic model.
Because it was based on premises and conditions that fell in sequence, especially in the 70s.
The shocks resulting from international boycotts in the following decade only increased a fissure that was already (very) apparent and irrecoverable.
Wow, if not for the driving on the other side of the road, some of that scenery could easily be mistaken for parts of Southern California, Arizona, or even Mexico.
Back then when South Africa used to be a first world country
I arrived at South Africa in Ellisras back in 1987 and came back to Portugal in 92, and really South Africa was a much cleaner and organized country that most european ones like mine.
From what I've know only the Western Cape remains, all the rest is looking like Africa.
The end of apartheid was the end of South Africa.
The comments here prove a lot of things about where we are right now!! But hey
That was the time when you put a fence around your property to keep your dog inside, now you have to put a fence up to keep the ANC's dogs out. South Africa's Human Development Index was pretty much on par with that of Brazil and by far the leading country in Africa south of the Sahara. Now it is in the class of a Botswana or Namibia and 40 places below that of Brazil in the world rankings. The gap between the poor and the rich is now larger than it has ever been. Soo sad .....
Great video, one of the best videos on youtube about South Africa. This is the kind of thing you want to see on here the old days etc. Well put together too, are you South African? Thumbs up from us anyways.
Wow white people are awesome!
Ok…
Clean & tidy streets.....the good old days
Hello Felix, would like to get in touch about this video for a feature film project about South Africa during that period. Could you message me on here? Thanks, Lauren
wow no walls around the houses no beggars at the traffic lights , no filthy squatter camps and the verges are tidy cos they are not being used as trash cans and toilets and wow trains without people haging out of the windows . ANC = another native catastrophe
7:25 Casinos? I thought they were illegal in pre-1994 South Africa. Anyhow the country looks much cleaner, safer, higher standard of living and everything seems more orderly, then they are today.
That was Bophuthatswana (bantustan), not SA, at least... not officially.
@@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373 yup. Sun City in Bop..
watching this video and not knowing where it was filmed one would probably guess the united states. if you watched a video filmed in SA today you would guess its some shit hole in Africa
hey Felix Taylor, is SOUTH AFRICA better than ZIMBABWE, please let me know.
I'm 62. I live in Blairgowrie in Randburg but I was born in Sea Point and grew up in Wellington / Cape Town / Grahamstown. I have a doctorate in history, with a particular focus on conflict resolution in SA, Rwanda and Canada. I suppose it's only polite to ask you how old you are and where you live? Did you live through apartheid? I did, and it had absolutely no redeeming features.
1:06?That train would scare the crap out of me
Look at how clean everything is! No rubbish lying everywhere.
wow, priceless video this is. i kept wanting to see some old money and a menu on a wall. some things haven't changed at all.
thats Africa? looks like a normal country not a war torn hell
P77777777 Well. It was ruled by a professional regime of Whites ( and a few black ).
White people built such a beautiful civilization ❤
a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, universities, hospitals, public schools, paved streets, plenty of clean running water lots of electricity with air conditioning, railroads banks, airports there was no trash on the sidewalks. There was no graffiti on the buildings there was plenty of petrol at all the filling stations
and then everything crumbled.
I wonder what happened.
Where was this 2:12 or 2:13.
Anyone can be taught to drive a truck, or lay a brick, but you'll require a true leader and engineers to invent and design roads and infrastructure. The latter simply lacked terribly the last 2 decades!
Então, o assunto é mais complexo.
O fato de o NP e seu apartheid terem sido errados e destinados ao fim... não significa que o Anc e seu governo totalitário seria a solução...
Só repensar e analisar... O país tem muito potencial e já perdeu quase 80 anos sob crises e partidarismos extremos.
Se passou da hora de a África do Sul buscar um caminho de equilíbrio de verdade.
Que fique de lição, de aprendizado, esse bom e raro registro.
O auge do regime segregacionista da África do Sul foi nos anos 60 e 70.
E com um boom econômico que beneficiou todo o país, TODO o país, repetindo.
No entanto após a queda de países amigos como Moçambique e Rhodesia, além do fim do padrão ouro-dolar no sistema monetário internacional em 1971, a economia do país foi severamente atingida e não voltou a ter o ótimo desempenho de antes, entrando em crise crônica nos anos 80.
Sem contar a disparada definitiva dos preços do petróleo, que a África do Sul sempre foi dependente.
Logo, não seria mais possível manter um estado policial por tanto tempo, com gastos em defesa crescendo exponencialmente, bem como o peso das sanções internacionais.
Nisso, o fim da Urss em 1991 ajudou e muito pra que a transição para o pós-apartheid sem uma guerra civil fosse possível na Afr. Do Sul e além disso, pode se salvar a Namibia dando lhe independência sem a mesma cair como foi com Angola e Zimbabwe por ex.
Que o país boer se reerga e volte a ser uma terra de prosperidade, saudações do Brasil. 🇧🇷
Your people that are deep in the rain forests, why are they discriminated against? Why aren't they living in mantions and driving the latest Landrover? You rascist, you are living the high life while those people are suffering without water and sanitation, nevermind medical care. The World must put sanctions against Brazil because those people haven't got equal oppotunity's to those in Brazilia or Rio!
@09feb1992 Why would you build anything in that festering city centre?
We got a new government, with deeeeep pockets........
Was actually clean
Before destruction and mayhem, before thousands of families were split up by emmigrating to AUS, NZ, UK, before south africa became a shithole
It's sad how quickly civilization can collapse. I wonder if those statues shown at the end are still standing.
Everything looks so beautiful, clean and peaceful. What the fuck happened between then and now?????????
"APARTHEID" was abolished ---- and the black man's greed and gluttony took over ---- incompetence and decay is the order of the day ----- if I had known what was going to happen after 1994 and could have predicted the 30 year downward spiral i would have committed suicide the day Mandela raised his fist in the "BLACK POWER" sign and Desmond Tutu said "WE ARE FREE" ------ but he never finished the sentence ---- it should have been "WE ARE FREE TO STEAL AND DESTROY SOUTH AFRICA"
2:29 looks like that in 2018 what a surprise.
The good old days, when South Africa was GREAT, what a shitty mess it is now, wonder why......
It looked so civilized back then. Wow!
Thanks for sharing. For me SA looks a hell of a lot better now - whatever one's political opinion, this is one of the greatest counties in the world. I travel there about twice a year and do road trips from Johannesburg to Cape Town along the back roads, highways and coastal roads. For those who are so negatively outspoken I say, get a passport and explore the world beyond what you see on CNN. Of course there are areas which are filthy and dangerous, but I feel no safer in parts of Vancouver, Miami, LA,Jakarta than I do in SA. It has a vibrancy which you absolutely do not get in Singapore or Hong Kong etc.
Video camera in the 80s , fancy
Ha, there was NO GAMBLING in South Africa in the 80's....!
Those one arm bandits were in Sun City which was located in the independent state of Bophuthatswana.
That was Bophuthatswana, not SA, at least... not officially.
There is information that the self-government there was an exception among the authorities of the bantustans ... as it was favorable to undertakings such as the sun city and some industries (b..swana had valuable platinum deposits) that made up the local economy.
How long have you been living in the States?
Such a tragedy. While apartheid was wrong, the current state of the country is proof that if a government cannot provide basic order it is illegitimate, no matter how many elections it has.
This could be mistaken for footage of Canada and America...
Some people are just mean. I wouldn't waste my time arguing with them. Their hearts and minds are closed.
LOL... my dad drove a Forrrrrrrrrd Corrrrrrrtina X RRRRRR 6! (roll the r's)... good times.
Mmmmmmmm.
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end.............
So very, very sad. 😢 😢 😢
Ek is lief vir dit land and vir die Afrikaners!
(Hope, it will never become a "new Zimbabwe"...)
i was wondering what that "siren" was, then all of a sudden a train came from out of nowhere.
otto second Holy shit that train thing was scary. Install some bloody boom gates!
I'm pretty sure not the US nor Canada drives on the left side of the road. ;-)
Fine country!
hello from Russia.
@railroadtie69 This is a stupid comment, man. The Afrikaners had (and in most cases still have) the good life, but South Africa's resources are such that the good life should be had by all, not just the few. The ANC has overstayed its welcome, but apartheid should have never happened. Had South Africa been able to develop as one nation rather than many, it could well be close to paradise on Earth today, which it deserves.
South Africa 198...shame of the wolrd