Wow I was 10 years old when this was broadcast and when I left school one of my jobs was working in the bioscope in the Carlton centre . I used to catch a train fron Florida to Joburg , was so easy and no problems. I miss my younger days in Florida, Florida Lake , Joburg and Hillbrow. Thanks for the memories :)
I still live in Florida, Madeline just above Goldman, 😊 believe me, it's heart breaking what we see daily now. Entire Goldman street a rotten dump now! No more meticulously arranged jewelry store with velvet lining display in the window.No more shoe stores I think it was Edworks back then, no more Ok bazaars, no more Edgars on the corner.All the big bank branches closed down.It's like taking a drive down to hell from time to time, drugs OPENLY offered to a middle aged woman on the pavement in Goldman now....
I was clearly too young back then to appreciate her beauty ! She was born the same year as my mother. I could only find one article of her on the internet, I see she passed away in 2009 at age 65.
A great piece of history. Lucky you saved it - I presume on VHS. I was born Aug 1977 ! Somewhere I have the first 30s of the opening of the SABC in 1976. Thanks for posting.
I remember that day. I walked through the Carlton center a couple weeks later when a plastic coating was being added to all shop windows to prevent glass flying about the next time. I saw the crater in the concrete were the bomb had gone off. A large flower pot had been put over the spot to disguise it. That was a long time ago now.
...judging from the video, This country was beautiful back then, compared to what it is now, it's totally vice-versa, the ANC has failed us big time thy can't maintain the infrastructure, just to maintain NOT building , I was born in the late 1980s, nowadays you can't even walk freely on the streets of CBD, your life will be in danger...
Its easy to build a eutopia when 90% of the country works for the remaining 10%. Regardless, i am sure those in the townships would have a different view. Yes the ANC is failing. However, as much as it fails, it is still a better pick than the government of that era shown in the news.
Because it was back when people weren’t such wussies and the news didn’t sensationalize everything but instead just say the news. And were normal people
Carolyn, this is really valuable history gold. Not much of this around anymore. I don't think the current SABC cares much for this history. If you have any more recordings, please upload.
@John James yes.... 2012......thats SHITVILLLE..... Saw people crapping on the green grass...... My wife lost it and blurted words that would get us locked up while the crap lay and get dry. I know what you mean bro... I belive it's now officially SHITVILLLE amongst thinkers like us..
After some research, I suspect this broadcast dates from Thursday 25 November 1977. The Concorde's flight was on 22 November. Also, on Wednesdays, the late news was in Afrikaans.
@@carolynlewis1903 This is what got me as well. Wikipedia has it as 7 December, but other sources place it as Thursday, 24 November 1977, which is more in line with this news bulletin. Once again, thanks for the video, it is gold.
The ¹st Air France landing of a Concorde at JFK Airport was on 19 October 1977, which is actually a Wednesday, but they speak of Tuesday - well that's according to my calendar for 1977
The Carlton Centre bombing occurred either on 25 November or 7 December, according to various sources. Probably 25 Nov is correct, if you factor in the dates of the Concorde landings.
Interesting at 07:35, that the Americans feel a close sense of community with South Africa in general. Some Americans and South Africans have said that there should be more cultural exchanges between the two countries. (No politics. South Africans staying in the USA, and Americans staying in South Africa (e.g. 6000 in Cape Town) can have a blending.) South Africans generally tend to have a fascination for all things American. The two countries have also had similar histories. For instance both started out as partially Dutch and then British colonies. It also seems that often whatever happens in the one country also happens in the other. For instance, in 1994 both countries moved more away from isolation and into the international community. In South Africa it was with the first democratic elections, and in the USA it was with the Soccer World Cup. (And then, South Africa moved more towards that with the 2010 Soccer World Cup.)
I was a aprentist in 1964 And qualified in 1967. As a plumber and was never without a job until 2012. Now a pensioner at 78 Jr's. Old. But unfotunelatly Those were the days.
The streets look so clean and orderly and the quality of the newscasters are so much better than what they are today!… It’s obvious that South Africa has regressed tremendously since then.
Rubbish this was all a charade, how did the townships look? Just cause the white areas looked good does not mean the whole of SA looked good. The NP are cowards for only building a good life for only 8 million people instead of the whole 40 million in the country at that time. Anyone can make a good life for just 8 million people nothing special there
Well I agree with him and I do not support apartheid. The ideal thing would have been that the life standards and rights that whites enjoyed were fully extended to blacks and other communities. Instead, the life standards of both blacks and whites dropped after Mandela and Motlanthe, but there is racial equality.
Aar yes, at 14:14 with the Concorde. Good plane that, retired in 2003. I saw one taxing along the runway at Heathrow in 2005. I then saw another one at the aircraft museum in Seattle, USA. One thing about them, is being much smaller than what they appear - a little bigger than the Boeing 737.
I just love the first jingle on the test card after the epilogue: Virginia, the wine for men who enjoy being men, Virginia!🤣 Great memories, I had a few days left of std 5 , thank you.
I remember Pastor Bill Price,cause he preached at the Lighthouse Christian Centre,in Parow,Cape-Town. This video was recorded,when my older brother was born in that month of 1977,on Christmas Day.
Dankie Carolyn Lewis. Die smit-egpaar se moorde is ook in Hermann Giliomee se boek, "Die Afrikaners 'n Biografie" bespreek. Ongelooflik die materiaal is bewaar. (Engels of te nie...)
I was 8 in '77. Todays 'Freedom Fighters' used terror as a weapon back then, so we called them Terrorists. I often traveled SAFELY by bus from Malvern to town during the school holidays to see movies near the Carlton Centre.
Roughly translated, they are saying: There's a bonus. There's a bonus. There's a bonus! Mmmm a big big bonus! There's a bonus in your future with defence bonus obligations. Now for sale at your nearest post office. There's a bonus. There's a bonus! There's a bonus! Mmmm a big big bonus! Get your bonus for the future. Help our land and help our people. (something) beautiful good morning for our land and for our people. La la la la.... Bonus is the winning investment.
In Ireland from around 1990 until 1997, RTE 1 & RTE 2 (named Network 2 between 1988 to 2004), used to broadcast the national radio services during the testcard after they would closedown for the night. RTE 1 would broadcast RTE Radio 1 and Network 2 would broadcast RTE Radio 2FM. In 1997, RTE 1 and Network 2 would show teletext pages with their respective radio stations on each channel. RTE 1 began full 24 hour broadcasting from September 1998 and Network 2 I think when they reverted back to the RTE 2 name in 2004 (the first time since 1988 when it was named RTE 2 originally from November 1978). I am very surprised that South Africa didn't have television until 1976. Ireland had television since 1961 (Since the 1950's if you count people living along the border with Northern Ireland or on the East Coast where there was television from Wales). By 1976, RTE Television was 15 years old, fully in colour at this stage, and plans for the second channel RTE 2 were under way. However, RTE still closed at around 11 o'clock at night, and didn't start again until 4 o'clock in the afternoon the following day.
South Africa didn't have T.V. until the late 1970's because the churches, National Party and the Broederbond though t.v. would endanger peoples morals and the blacks and others would get ideas. Also before T.V. was finally introduced into South Africa the government sent a team to the U.K. get information and to investigate how set up a t.v. network. The government had to set up different channels for different ethnic groups with there own languages and also set up bilingual channels for whites in Afrikaans and South African English (even thought the news in English sounded something like a British news bulletin).
Apartheid was wrong but back then South Africa was a first world country that was the equal to Australia and New Zealand. The ANC have been in power for thirty years now and they turned what was a first world country into a third world slum. How is that a good thing? The road back to recovery for South Africa will be a long and painful one. Getting the ANC out of power will be a welcome start on that long journey.
Well, for what its worth, the same Western nations that forced Rhodesia and South Africa to hand over their beautiful countries to communists, are now headed down the same path. Karma is a bitch.
@@christobosman5710 You mean how Mandela SPECIFICALLY said that he will now use violent means to stop Apartheid because his peaceful means meant nothing to the barbaric Afrikaners? Mandela announced it personally, and now you and your ignorant posse want to call him a "terrorist" when you won't even bother with the whole story.
WOW! Now we get to see what the SABC-TV closes down back in its infantry. That's South African TV gold (the opening day of the SABC-TV in 1976 is worth more than gold than this closedown recorded a year after!!!) Moreover, in the 1980's before the current ZA flag, when SABC closes down, do they still use the same "South African flag national anthem film with the lyrics scrolling up" or is it different to the 1976/7 one? Also, in the Afrikaans version of the national anthem, do they show the same film of the old ZA flag with lyrics scrolling up, but the lyrics are in Afrikaans?
I've also got hundreds of VHS tapes to go through, to see what I could upload. But, to find time to do those sort of many things, and my two VCRs fairly recently dropped.
Hi yes they had a Philips vcr. This was before beta or vhs. Tape was square. I ended up sending it to the UK to be digitized as the one person I found in SA who had a machine discovered it was not working when he offered to transfer the footage for me.
@@carolynlewis1903 It's gold. I was born in 1980. So interesting seeing how news was covered around that time. The Biko court coverage is really interesting.
They couldn't as Mr Biko was a banned person: in those days, if you were banned as a person you could not be quoted much less represented in any media.
A "behoorlike land" that disenfranchises 90% of the population to the benefit of a foreign minority? A "behoorlike land" where dissidents would be abducted and ruthlessly assaulted until they die from severe brain injury?
Many thanks! - Do you mind if I use it (possibly) in some artwork for a course I am doing with the Open College of Arts (University of Creative Arts)? If you ever hear of any footage of Bilton and Potroast or Strike a Match with Alan Field, I would love to have it. SJ
They tried to blow up a solar power exhibition with a bomb in a pot plant? Was the pot plant's name Gwede Mantashe? The personality & motive are a perfect match 🤣🤣🤣
@@WayneKitching Correct, and in this particular recording, since this was from a Western Cape feed, this station in particular was "Good Hope FM", which is still around to this day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hope_FM
I think it's fascinating that such a modern country, that could be compared to any other Western country (even a higher living standard)*, only introduced TV so late! *For its White population
@@carolynlewis1903 Thanks for posting, and also for replying, Carolyn. Did you work for the SABC yourself? As an accent enthusiast (I'm a foreigner, but I try voice recording as a hobby.), I wonder how you'd describe the differences between a British RP and that of the pair of broadcasters mentioned in your reply. Are they and Shirley Veal British themselves working for the SABC? (like Tony Jay, who worked for Springbok Radio)
Hi no I did not work for the SABC. The accents of the reporters would be described at the time as South African English and most probably of British descent but thats just me assuming.
Bernard kuhn if you are referring to the picture jumping then it’s because the tape was very old and so too the machine used to play it so that we could convert it into digital.
Thanks for that. It was great going back in time to when Oinga Boinga was still civilised, in spite of the ANC trying everything in their power to ruin the country.
I think you might just be spot on with that guess. That was probably the first domestic home video recorder in South Africa. That one had the analog clock on it. Kids from today will scream with laughter if they ran into one. Even I found it a bit comical back in the mid eighties. I was fortunate enough to get a N1700 for free from a friend around 1990. It was a beast of a machine. The video quality was quite acceptable, to be honest.
The religious deliberation about halfway through. South Africa was quaint wierdo ? No. They used to also have those interludes on Australian TV. I remember one of these [ as completely distinct from tele-evangelism ] on a regional TV channel in this same era [ late '70s ] in Australia and the religious theme was about getting things done. So this balding cleric pulled out a circular card with " TUIT " printed on it as if to castigate the concept of seeking reward by rushing things through.
News that are so non representative of demographics of South Africa especially coming from “public broadcaster” thank God for democracy we see progress in Morden world 🌎
@Sebastian Guevara yeah black and white people were separated during apartheid but they were already separated long before Apartheid even came into being in 1949. South Africa is not even comparable to America because in America black and white people arrived at the same time and were integrated from the start in terms of where they lived but in south Africa there were about 8 black tribes that settled on certain parts of what we now know as South Africa and they created mini country’s or territory’s such as Zulu land and so on. And when the whites arrives they took over the rest of South Africa which had not been set up as tribes. So even before apartheid came into being that “racist” structure of segregation was already in force before 1949. And even during apartheid each tribe or group of people had its own leader so the black tribes had tribal leaders and there own tribal governments and white South Africa had its own government to that happened to have some powers over the black tribal territory’s. So there you go the so called racist structure was already there all apartheid did was make it into law.
I have heard that these days the whole of Joburg now looks like a bomb went off.
Its all true.....it is a pig sty but 20x worse....it stinks actually......sad state of affairs indeed....
@@annetteelliott1494 Have you been there recently? I was there last in 1972!
Indeed
certain parts of it yes and certain parts no.
😂😂😂
Wow I was 10 years old when this was broadcast and when I left school one of my jobs was working in the bioscope in the Carlton centre . I used to catch a train fron Florida to Joburg , was so easy and no problems. I miss my younger days in Florida, Florida Lake , Joburg and Hillbrow. Thanks for the memories :)
I still live in Florida, Madeline just above Goldman, 😊 believe me, it's heart breaking what we see daily now. Entire Goldman street a rotten dump now! No more meticulously arranged jewelry store with velvet lining display in the window.No more shoe stores I think it was Edworks back then, no more Ok bazaars, no more Edgars on the corner.All the big bank branches closed down.It's like taking a drive down to hell from time to time, drugs OPENLY offered to a middle aged woman on the pavement in Goldman now....
Yvonne Banning...beauty! Brings back fond memories. Especially the news tune......WOW!!!
I was clearly too young back then to appreciate her beauty ! She was born the same year as my mother. I could only find one article of her on the internet, I see she passed away in 2009 at age 65.
A great piece of history. Lucky you saved it - I presume on VHS. I was born Aug 1977 ! Somewhere I have the first 30s of the opening of the SABC in 1976. Thanks for posting.
Definitely not VHS.
Most likely Philips n1700 or n1502
The quality is too high for VHS. Both video and audio.
I remember that day. I walked through the Carlton center a couple weeks later when a plastic coating was being added to all shop windows to prevent glass flying about the next time. I saw the crater in the concrete were the bomb had gone off. A large flower pot had been put over the spot to disguise it. That was a long time ago now.
Maybe you can try going again.
...judging from the video, This country was beautiful back then, compared to what it is now, it's totally vice-versa, the ANC has failed us big time thy can't maintain the infrastructure, just to maintain NOT building , I was born in the late 1980s, nowadays you can't even walk freely on the streets of CBD, your life will be in danger...
Nice to see some honesty.
Its easy to build a eutopia when 90% of the country works for the remaining 10%.
Regardless, i am sure those in the townships would have a different view. Yes the ANC is failing. However, as much as it fails, it is still a better pick than the government of that era shown in the news.
Was it worth it? Just to change the colour of the rulers' skins?
People spoke so calmly. Almost like they were on something. Even though there was an explosion, there was no sensationalism.
Noticed it too? Also hardly any real distinguishable accent as of today of the witnesses.
Because they are from sa, had it been americans, can you imagine the dramatis personae
@Ashley k people in RSA were pretty used to these kind of attacks happening.
Current news loves making people afraid
Because it was back when people weren’t such wussies and the news didn’t sensationalize everything but instead just say the news.
And were normal people
Carolyn, this is really valuable history gold. Not much of this around anymore. I don't think the current SABC cares much for this history. If you have any more recordings, please upload.
ZS IFK don’t have anything more unfortunately. Yes it is quite a blast from the past.
Yes please..... Please. Please..
@John James Johannesburg has new name..... URINEVILLE
@John James yes.... 2012......thats SHITVILLLE..... Saw people crapping on the green grass...... My wife lost it and blurted words that would get us locked up while the crap lay and get dry. I know what you mean bro... I belive it's now officially SHITVILLLE amongst thinkers like us..
@@FZ2HELL indigenous contributions
Notice how well spoken the News Reader is, Nigel someone, and how eloquently he pronounces the Afrikaans names. Good training, not like our lot today.
Yeah like Queen Elizabeth ii = the eleventh, and the Duke = the Duck of Edinburgh.
Alyce Chavunduka and Khanyi Dhlomo were just as good if not better
He mispronounced Gaborone though.
Thanks for sharing this piece of history. What an insight into the South Africa of thar day.
Check how clean the streets around calton is.
I think you mean 'were'.
After some research, I suspect this broadcast dates from Thursday 25 November 1977. The Concorde's flight was on 22 November. Also, on Wednesdays, the late news was in Afrikaans.
ZS IFK you may be right. I based it on the bomb at the Carlton centre.
@@carolynlewis1903 This is what got me as well. Wikipedia has it as 7 December, but other sources place it as Thursday, 24 November 1977, which is more in line with this news bulletin. Once again, thanks for the video, it is gold.
The ¹st Air France landing of a Concorde at JFK Airport was on 19 October 1977, which is actually a Wednesday, but they speak of Tuesday - well that's according to my calendar for 1977
@@wernerbloemwagen6878 I just love historic research. It's like a mystery. I'll check it out. Thanks
The Carlton Centre bombing occurred either on 25 November or 7 December, according to various sources. Probably 25 Nov is correct, if you factor in the dates of the Concorde landings.
Amazing - incredible nostalgia - please post more if you have
Luke Gordon unfortunately that’s all I have. Glad you enjoyed it.
Interesting at 07:35, that the Americans feel a close sense of community with South Africa in general.
Some Americans and South Africans have said that there should be more cultural exchanges between the two countries. (No politics. South Africans staying in the USA, and Americans staying in South Africa (e.g. 6000 in Cape Town) can have a blending.) South Africans generally tend to have a fascination for all things American. The two countries have also had similar histories. For instance both started out as partially Dutch and then British colonies.
It also seems that often whatever happens in the one country also happens in the other. For instance, in 1994 both countries moved more away from isolation and into the international community. In South Africa it was with the first democratic elections, and in the USA it was with the Soccer World Cup. (And then, South Africa moved more towards that with the 2010 Soccer World Cup.)
Now it's a genocidal xenophobic and corrupt shithole.
@@Yamaauw America was always that though.
@Awesome Welles Who is talking about South Africa, and why do you say that?
This is amazing footage - I hope there is more
I really like the epilogue!
Downtown Joburg looked better then after the blast than it does in 2024
I was a aprentist in 1964 And qualified in 1967. As a plumber and was never without a job until 2012. Now a pensioner at 78 Jr's. Old. But unfotunelatly Those were the days.
The streets look so clean and orderly and the quality of the newscasters are so much better than what they are today!… It’s obvious that South Africa has regressed tremendously since then.
Rubbish this was all a charade, how did the townships look? Just cause the white areas looked good does not mean the whole of SA looked good. The NP are cowards for only building a good life for only 8 million people instead of the whole 40 million in the country at that time. Anyone can make a good life for just 8 million people nothing special there
I really hope you aren't a racist
@@SegaMegadrive 😂 Call it what you like… It’s the truth!
@@SegaMegadrive 😂 Call it what you like… It’s the truth!
Well I agree with him and I do not support apartheid. The ideal thing would have been that the life standards and rights that whites enjoyed were fully extended to blacks and other communities. Instead, the life standards of both blacks and whites dropped after Mandela and Motlanthe, but there is racial equality.
The intro music for the indent appears to be Johnny Pearson's Work Force (1973).
0:53 - _Police and ambulance were on the scene almost immediately._
I'll take "Never-heard statements in post-apartheid South Africa" for 200, Alex.
And fire brigade ! Today Johannesburg fire brigade is non functioning! 2 to 8 fire engines work at any given time!
@Ošklivý Bogdanov Well, I suppose they're improving then.
@Ošklivý Bogdanov Well, you know what they say about what the difference between a tourist and a racist is....
@Ošklivý Bogdanov Hehe
Even in those days we were far ahead of the world in civilization ,everything we did was done in a civilized way ,the epilogue says it all
Thank you so much it brought back soo much memories..the good
old days, love it
Good? What was so good for them?
@@legentilmuyombo4533 cleanses and piece , need I go on , look around you , or do you like to live in filth .
Aar yes, at 14:14 with the Concorde. Good plane that, retired in 2003.
I saw one taxing along the runway at Heathrow in 2005. I then saw another one at the aircraft museum in Seattle, USA. One thing about them, is being much smaller than what they appear - a little bigger than the Boeing 737.
Aquarius1011 oh? I didn´t know they were that small, interesting, thanks.
A year after my birth year.Damn , goosebumps.
Drama!
24:00 Amazing: the test pattern and easy listening tracks are more entertaining than 99% of the shite on the telly these days! 😆
I keep thinking that I hope that German Shepherd's paws were not cut by the glass
4:19 Smit murders. Case is still not solved and doubt if we will ever know who did it. There are so many theories and speculations.
4:19 Smit Murders of Springs, 1977.
Notice that it actually made the national news.
@@dannyarcher6370If Robert Smit was alive...
I just love the first jingle on the test card after the epilogue: Virginia, the wine for men who enjoy being men, Virginia!🤣 Great memories, I had a few days left of std 5 , thank you.
This country was beautiful
I remember Pastor Bill Price,cause he preached at the Lighthouse Christian Centre,in Parow,Cape-Town.
This video was recorded,when my older brother was born in that month of 1977,on Christmas Day.
I love Pastor Bill Price. he speaks well in this epilogue.
good old days
i feel like going back to those days joburg was very very clean but know terrible
Dankie Carolyn Lewis. Die smit-egpaar se moorde is ook in Hermann Giliomee se boek, "Die Afrikaners 'n Biografie" bespreek. Ongelooflik die materiaal is bewaar. (Engels of te nie...)
Gosh I was in early 20s. Yes how our lives have become total nightmares
I was 8 in '77.
Todays 'Freedom Fighters' used terror as a weapon back then, so we called them Terrorists.
I often traveled SAFELY by bus from Malvern to town during the school holidays to see movies near the Carlton Centre.
23:37 I would love a translation for this commercial.
Roughly translated, they are saying:
There's a bonus.
There's a bonus.
There's a bonus!
Mmmm a big big bonus!
There's a bonus in your future with defence bonus obligations. Now for sale at your nearest post office.
There's a bonus.
There's a bonus!
There's a bonus!
Mmmm a big big bonus!
Get your bonus for the future. Help our land and help our people.
(something) beautiful good morning for our land and for our people. La la la la....
Bonus is the winning investment.
@@Daud76 Thanks so much!
@@pimlicoicehouse8870 No problem at all! 😊
In Ireland from around 1990 until 1997, RTE 1 & RTE 2 (named Network 2 between 1988 to 2004), used to broadcast the national radio services during the testcard after they would closedown for the night. RTE 1 would broadcast RTE Radio 1 and Network 2 would broadcast RTE Radio 2FM. In 1997, RTE 1 and Network 2 would show teletext pages with their respective radio stations on each channel. RTE 1 began full 24 hour broadcasting from September 1998 and Network 2 I think when they reverted back to the RTE 2 name in 2004 (the first time since 1988 when it was named RTE 2 originally from November 1978). I am very surprised that South Africa didn't have television until 1976. Ireland had television since 1961 (Since the 1950's if you count people living along the border with Northern Ireland or on the East Coast where there was television from Wales). By 1976, RTE Television was 15 years old, fully in colour at this stage, and plans for the second channel RTE 2 were under way. However, RTE still closed at around 11 o'clock at night, and didn't start again until 4 o'clock in the afternoon the following day.
South Africa didn't have T.V. until the late 1970's because the churches, National Party and the Broederbond
though t.v. would endanger peoples morals and the blacks and others would get ideas. Also before T.V. was finally introduced into South Africa the government sent a team to the U.K. get information and to investigate how set up a t.v. network. The government had to set up different channels for different ethnic groups with there own languages and also set up bilingual channels for whites in Afrikaans and South African English (even thought the news in English sounded something like a British news bulletin).
@@swissnorvanzyl3734 To this day, Auckland Park studios still use UK sockets because all their old gear came from the UK.
Apartheid was wrong but back then South Africa was a first world country that was the equal to Australia and New Zealand.
The ANC have been in power for thirty years now and they turned what was a first world country into a third world slum.
How is that a good thing? The road back to recovery for South Africa will be a long and painful one. Getting the ANC out of power will be a welcome start on that long journey.
Well, for what its worth, the same Western nations that forced Rhodesia and South Africa to hand over their beautiful countries to communists, are now headed down the same path. Karma is a bitch.
I wanted to pass my thoughts about senor Nelson and his friends but the youtube AI forbade it. They dislike ideas counter to manufactured reality.
What were you going to say?
@@BMan78 you tube won't allow him to say anything negative about m andela, their hero
@@christobosman5710
You mean how Mandela SPECIFICALLY said that he will now use violent means to stop Apartheid because his peaceful means meant nothing to the barbaric Afrikaners?
Mandela announced it personally, and now you and your ignorant posse want to call him a "terrorist" when you won't even bother with the whole story.
WOW! Now we get to see what the SABC-TV closes down back in its infantry. That's South African TV gold (the opening day of the SABC-TV in 1976 is worth more than gold than this closedown recorded a year after!!!) Moreover, in the 1980's before the current ZA flag, when SABC closes down, do they still use the same "South African flag national anthem film with the lyrics scrolling up" or is it different to the 1976/7 one? Also, in the Afrikaans version of the national anthem, do they show the same film of the old ZA flag with lyrics scrolling up, but the lyrics are in Afrikaans?
Yes to the last question. From what I can remember, yes also to the second last question.
Trent Jordan to the south African black masses that equals to south African broadcasting cabbage
A quarter of the people in this video are prolly Long gone by now
Like yesterday. Great footage
You guys need to make an effort to find more logos from SABC channels.
I've also got hundreds of VHS tapes to go through, to see what I could upload. But, to find time to do those sort of many things, and my two VCRs fairly recently dropped.
I'm just having difficulties, running into brick walls, all the time, trying to convert my vhs tapes to digital.
Pik Botha was so young then. How time flies by
I'm too young to remember this news tinkle - but thanks to Funny People II, I recognize it.
I was 3 months
Same here!
Looks better after a bomb then as opposed to now!
Test pattern comes at 11:11 pm or 23:11
Hookup audio with Songboek from 11:11 PM - 01:45 AM , THEN AT 1:45 AM to 15:00 PM on Radio 5
What the music title in the testcard scene?
(testcard scene: after 23min 30sec)
Music list:
1. 23:30
2. 24:15
3. 26:51
4. 28:58
No. 4 is Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, but played at breakneck speed.
The second one was Hallo, Wie, Geht's? By the Benno Wagner Orchestra and Choir
Before the rot set in
Amazing find, Carolyn. On what video format was it captured? Hardly anyone had a VCR back in 1977.
Hi yes they had a Philips vcr. This was before beta or vhs. Tape was square. I ended up sending it to the UK to be digitized as the one person I found in SA who had a machine discovered it was not working when he offered to transfer the footage for me.
@@carolynlewis1903 It's gold. I was born in 1980. So interesting seeing how news was covered around that time. The Biko court coverage is really interesting.
They provided news to South Africans South of England, West of Australia.
Why they didn't show the face of Steve Biko whom they ( Afrikaners) have assasinated just two months ago.
They couldn't as Mr Biko was a banned person: in those days, if you were banned as a person you could not be quoted much less represented in any media.
Ons was vroeër 'n behoorlike land.
A "behoorlike land" that disenfranchises 90% of the population to the benefit of a foreign minority?
A "behoorlike land" where dissidents would be abducted and ruthlessly assaulted until they die from severe brain injury?
@@esahm373 You mean what's happening on a grand scale today......??
04:20 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smit
Wow I was 2 months old back then.
Good Epilogue that.
23:38 song?
This was actually an ad jingle
@@arama06318 oh. can you write the words, i struggle to hear them. Do you possibly know a link to the ad?
How things change huh
Many thanks! - Do you mind if I use it (possibly) in some artwork for a course I am doing with the Open College of Arts (University of Creative Arts)? If you ever hear of any footage of Bilton and Potroast or Strike a Match with Alan Field, I would love to have it. SJ
Sarah-Jane Field sure go ahead and use it :)
21:24 Anthem, 26:51 Song
I would like to know,(or if anyone know),what Music Background was played at both the beginning and End of the Epilogue?
When the epilogue came on, I thought it was Eric Idle at the start of a Monty Python sketch.
It seems that the audience rating is good right after the ending🙃lol
Thank you so much for this interesting recording ! Is there anything with Michael de Morgan ?
Baie mooi!
What is the video format this was recorded on? Access to the original tapes may have better success at proper restoration.
this feels very british
and i know they were a british colony so shrugs
I will wanna go back 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
In yo 💀 😂😂😂
Go back
24:14 love this song ❤
Me too, this is a High quality version of the song! ua-cam.com/video/Ug1-pvUubYU/v-deo.html
Gold!
They tried to blow up a solar power exhibition with a bomb in a pot plant? Was the pot plant's name Gwede Mantashe? The personality & motive are a perfect match 🤣🤣🤣
Around 6 mins it explains why we have a international problem right now.
The irony of the epilogue as majority population was largely ignored/alone/lonely. Such enabling bullshit
Ons was vroeër 'n behoorlike land.
This is like a little piece of nostalgic white history, really interesting.
Wow SABC had style. Wish they included everyone. Having apartheid was just awful and damaging, stunting growth for so many
Did they play music all the time when the testcard was on?
Robbiewa6451 yes they did
I remember a time when it was just a boring continuous beep sound
Herman Dormehl That’s our (America’s) test pattern.
Normally, the background music was an SABC radio station.
@@WayneKitching Correct, and in this particular recording, since this was from a Western Cape feed, this station in particular was "Good Hope FM", which is still around to this day:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hope_FM
When did SABC TV start broadcasting 24 hours?
I think it's fascinating that such a modern country, that could be compared to any other Western country (even a higher living standard)*, only introduced TV so late!
*For its White population
what song is 26:52 ??
Wanda Arletti - Zanzibar (1970)
ua-cam.com/video/bXwXTR0bg18/v-deo.html
@@davidhoryzon8206 Catchy tune
Who's the newsreader, and the lady hosting as well?
Presenter is Yvonne Banning and newsreader Nigel Kane
@@carolynlewis1903
Thanks for posting, and also for replying, Carolyn. Did you work for the SABC yourself?
As an accent enthusiast (I'm a foreigner, but I try voice recording as a hobby.), I wonder how you'd describe the differences between a British RP and that of the pair of broadcasters mentioned in your reply. Are they and Shirley Veal British themselves working for the SABC? (like Tony Jay, who worked for Springbok Radio)
Hi no I did not work for the SABC. The accents of the reporters would be described at the time as South African English and most probably of British descent but thats just me assuming.
And us blacks we were not allowed to own a house in suburbs and flats don't blame us blacks
why this jump?
Bernard kuhn if you are referring to the picture jumping then it’s because the tape was very old and so too the machine used to play it so that we could convert it into digital.
VHS tape.
Thanks for that. It was great going back in time to when Oinga Boinga was still civilised, in spite of the ANC trying everything in their power to ruin the country.
ANC were “making trouble” for a reason, to end the racist apartheid system.
Hey look, a racist poes. How enchanting
@@augustineminimbi5668 You mean POS?
@@BMan78 no, poes. An Afrikaans word relating to an intimate part of a woman's anatomy
@@augustineminimbi5668 Ah, I see. Gotcha. I thought you were trying to call him a “piece of shit” but that works as well.
Cliff Saunders!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Was this recorded on the Philips N1500 format?
Betaman hi - I know it was a Philips. No idea what series though.
Carolyn Lewis Ah ok, thanks! It’s an amazing find! Unbelievably rare to have a VCR back then
I think you might just be spot on with that guess. That was probably the first domestic home video recorder in South Africa. That one had the analog clock on it. Kids from today will scream with laughter if they ran into one. Even I found it a bit comical back in the mid eighties. I was fortunate enough to get a N1700 for free from a friend around 1990. It was a beast of a machine. The video quality was quite acceptable, to be honest.
@@betaman7988 video 2000?
Capità Collons de Catalunya Perhaps, although I didn’t think it was out in 1977. I’ll have to check that
21:26
The news theme sounds like some dodgy cop show tune
shame, where you from?
0:13
Yah i think the anthem is way better now.
Die stem van Suid-Afrika
God Seën Suid Afrika
The religious deliberation about halfway through. South Africa was quaint wierdo ? No. They used to also have those interludes on Australian TV. I remember one of these [ as completely distinct from tele-evangelism ] on a regional TV channel in this same era [ late '70s ] in Australia and the religious theme was about getting things done. So this balding cleric pulled out a circular card with " TUIT " printed on it as if to castigate the concept of seeking reward by rushing things through.
*Sad violin* Poor newsreader Nigel... He tries to think of the new words....
Sal altyd die beste wees van begin tot 1994 . Na 1994 is dit net 👎👎👎👎👎👎. Nuwe suid afrika TV is 👎👎👎👎👎👎. Bring trug die sweet 80's 😍💖💃🕺👍👌
Only animal minded humans who misses what only worked for the few.
Im born on 1976
SIT TOT DIE VLAG WAAI
Is it true that apartheid was better and less conflicts than today ?
News that are so non representative of demographics of South Africa especially coming from “public broadcaster” thank God for democracy we see progress in Morden world 🌎
And also mass poverty
@Sebastian Guevara do you even know how South Africa was ran during apartheid???
@Sebastian Guevara yeah black and white people were separated during apartheid but they were already separated long before Apartheid even came into being in 1949. South Africa is not even comparable to America because in America black and white people arrived at the same time and were integrated from the start in terms of where they lived but in south Africa there were about 8 black tribes that settled on certain parts of what we now know as South Africa and they created mini country’s or territory’s such as Zulu land and so on. And when the whites arrives they took over the rest of South Africa which had not been set up as tribes. So even before apartheid came into being that “racist” structure of segregation was already in force before 1949. And even during apartheid each tribe or group of people had its own leader so the black tribes had tribal leaders and there own tribal governments and white South Africa had its own government to that happened to have some powers over the black tribal territory’s. So there you go the so called racist structure was already there all apartheid did was make it into law.
@Sebastian Guevara Does the truth hurt ?
If by progress you mean the standard of living dropping substantially for everyone then yeah…”progress”
LOL...my 6th birthday