My FIRST TIME REACTING TO SARAFINA CROCODILE’S DEATH SCENE!! | TFLA REACTION

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  • @ThatFireLA
    @ThatFireLA  Рік тому +125

    What should I react to next?

    • @gcwilisiyabulelagcwili6092
      @gcwilisiyabulelagcwili6092 Рік тому +23

      The burning of the police officer by the students to revenge him

    • @levinatesta3523
      @levinatesta3523 Рік тому +11

      America had the slave trade & Africa had colonial labour, exploitation, taxation, racism, paternalistic practises, abitrary violences, political illegitimacy....we all went through injustice cause of our skin colour. We still going through them in different ways. Look at Mau Mau Revolution, apartheid, gold coast war, Nigerian resistance, battle of adwa etc each country in Africa has its stories starting from the resistance against colonisation and later the fight for freedom/ independence . We still soldier on bro. Amandla!

    • @biggeststeppa1
      @biggeststeppa1 Рік тому +8

      The guys sitting on armoured cars at the graveyard were not security. Those were the police

    • @pulengmokhethi3586
      @pulengmokhethi3586 Рік тому +3

      The Hippo Car with soldiers on top, was there just incase there's violence, more would have been killed, prisoned & electrocuted to death

    • @oscarmoagi2549
      @oscarmoagi2549 Рік тому +8

      Today we are celebrating this day it is called Youth Day every 16 June South Africa is rich with History

  • @faith5703
    @faith5703 Рік тому +834

    No matter how many times you watch Sarafina, the shock and hurt doesn't get any better

  • @Ericowen291
    @Ericowen291 Рік тому +586

    As a Nigeria🇳🇬 I understand this is, the main reason South Africa celebrate youth day, June 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The response of the organisations in exile can be understood in the context of the events that took place on the day.

    • @minenhlemaphanga9548
      @minenhlemaphanga9548 Рік тому +5

      🙏

    • @nkosithethilebonga4992
      @nkosithethilebonga4992 Рік тому +43

      The movie is a representation of actual historical events. Apartheid was brutal, cruel against black people. Black youth had had enough and coordinated an uprising against the white minority rule. They wanted freedom.

    • @siphelelekomani627
      @siphelelekomani627 Рік тому +5

      Thank you . Spot on🤝

    • @HiddenKeyElement
      @HiddenKeyElement Рік тому +19

      Just as we understand the Nigerian civil war that took place a decade earlier. Peace to Biafra.

    • @sinethembathusi583
      @sinethembathusi583 Рік тому +3

      ❤👏

  • @fifireflucs9871
    @fifireflucs9871 Рік тому +337

    The teacher died 2 weeks ago. What an amazing actor 👏 RIP Patrick Ndlovu aka baba Moloi

    • @sethabilezulu5348
      @sethabilezulu5348 Рік тому +10

      I was in a taxi when I heard about it so sad great actor 😢

    • @bongsjumbam
      @bongsjumbam Рік тому +7

      OMG thanks for this update amazing actor

    • @tisabanda9497
      @tisabanda9497 Рік тому +6

      Really? So sad. May he rest in peace 🙏

    • @marymagdalenebengle
      @marymagdalenebengle Рік тому +1

      RIP champ ...this movie was everything when I was young, shaped my entire character

    • @philemonsigei6305
      @philemonsigei6305 5 місяців тому +2

      Ooh God, "Mr. Kunene"?
      May he rest in power!!
      Sending love from Kenya!

  • @MM-et5kz
    @MM-et5kz Рік тому +570

    Sarafina is a musical, but with a very deep and painful story line, based on true events. It is essentially about a school girl (teenager) named Sarafina with dreams of being a musical / acting star, but surrounded by the pain and negativity of Apartheid. She found inspiration to hold on to her dreams from a few key characters like Miss Masombuko (Whoopi Goldberg’s character). It is based around the 1976 student riots that happened in Soweto and pretty much all around in South Africa (around the time Steve Biko was imprisoned, tortured and killed). At the time, the older generation had pretty much given up the fight against apartheid (due to most of the political heros being imprisoned, killed or in exile in other countries). So the youth (people from as young as 7 years old to 18…still in school) fought back by resisting the oppressive Bantu education system (basically an education system training them to be nothing more than garden boys, mine-worker and maids, and essentially slave labourers). They resisted being taught false history that demeans black pride and being taught in the oppressors language (Afrikaans). That is why a history lesson (bullshit that the teacher was “authorised by the government” to teach) started such a riot, after passionate black teachers like Miss Masombuko had already opened the students eyes and she was killed by the police and army for empowering young black minds (much like why Steve Biko was killed…he was too dangerous to the establishment for his ability to empower minds and not for carrying guns). Like Nelson Mandela said “Education is the best weapon we have against the oppressors and the oppressive regime”. The students knew it and how important a good education is back then and they fought for and died for it, and the Apartheid government knew it and tried to suppress it with extreme violence to kids. That is why Sarafina is still so powerful today and also why it is so sad because the current government is also really providing a sub-standard education to most poor, black South Africans. This fight is not really over, but now the violence is no longer coming from white police shooting kids, but young black kids killing each other and falling victim to crime due to sub-standard education and a government that is failing them once again.

    • @tshegomolefe17
      @tshegomolefe17 Рік тому +8

      Well said. 🥺✊🏼

    • @buhlefemela2776
      @buhlefemela2776 Рік тому +23

      U curated the movie 💯. This movie will always be engraved in our hearts ❤️ as South African

    • @samk220
      @samk220 Рік тому +6

      Great explanation 👌🏾🫶🏾

    • @siphesihlesibiya5515
      @siphesihlesibiya5515 Рік тому +12

      Which is wat the content creator should have done before creating this video😢

    • @judithmuna1068
      @judithmuna1068 Рік тому +1

      ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @brunokim7022
    @brunokim7022 Рік тому +317

    95% OF THE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS WILL GO BACK AND REWATCH IT

    • @dimphodimplesmarata9456
      @dimphodimplesmarata9456 Рік тому +7

      It's the generational trauma in us. My grandmother would watch this movie every other week. I could never watch in again after finding out it was based on real events.

    • @nosijacobs917
      @nosijacobs917 Рік тому

      Facts!!🙂

    • @siyabulelasomhlahlo4853
      @siyabulelasomhlahlo4853 Рік тому +1

      Watched it two weeks back

    • @badgee
      @badgee Рік тому +1

      Facts

    • @iam_aphe
      @iam_aphe Рік тому

      Now you know that's facts!

  • @artymsoja2883
    @artymsoja2883 Рік тому +395

    "When we Africans are happy, we sing, when we are sad, we sing too"
    Sarafina is the definition of that proverb❤😭

    • @tshepangmugandi8174
      @tshepangmugandi8174 Рік тому +1

      😂😂😂

    • @artymsoja2883
      @artymsoja2883 Рік тому +7

      @@tshepangmugandi8174 bathong morena o tshegang

    • @maryazaelledevy
      @maryazaelledevy Рік тому +4

      All the black community is the same. I am Haitian, we sing in every circumstances. 😢

    • @eric2916
      @eric2916 Рік тому +4

      @@maryazaelledevywe need to change that mentality too if you hear us say Africans Haiti is included too cs we know where our people were taken

  • @tor6328
    @tor6328 Рік тому +408

    This is the biggest African movie ever made in my opinion. Please never let this movie die. 🇿🇲

    • @mashkingmzwinky5190
      @mashkingmzwinky5190 Рік тому +10

      Facts

    • @cleommaletsoenyo9685
      @cleommaletsoenyo9685 Рік тому +6

      It will never

    • @lebogangmoeketsi1614
      @lebogangmoeketsi1614 Рік тому +15

      Thanks for Zambia and zambian people for helping black South Africans to defeat this evil apartheid. Zambia played a major role

    • @tor6328
      @tor6328 Рік тому +2

      @@lebogangmoeketsi1614 we were, we are and will always be brothers and sisters, one africa 1 love, power to the people✊

    • @lebogangmoeketsi1614
      @lebogangmoeketsi1614 Рік тому +4

      @@tor6328 but unfortunately I am not a supporter of 1 Africa, I support free trade amongst Africans but with borders.

  • @anastasiachaloba3160
    @anastasiachaloba3160 Рік тому +511

    This is based on a true story during the apartheid times , am Zambian but we southern Afrians understand very well what our brothers and sisters went through 🇿🇲🙏 united we stand divided we fall💪

    • @ThandiSM
      @ThandiSM Рік тому +2

      One love❤

    • @artlover7934
      @artlover7934 Рік тому +16

      My love for Zambia and it's people ❤❤

    • @PlayShorts3
      @PlayShorts3 Рік тому +15

      Can you please eat some nshima with kapenta and beans for me?

    • @lawrencegauti9108
      @lawrencegauti9108 Рік тому +4

      ​@@PlayShorts3😂😂😂 for me too

    • @tee3294
      @tee3294 Рік тому +3

      South Africa and Zambia are 2 different countries with two different apartheid experiences

  • @duchesstyra
    @duchesstyra Рік тому +382

    Black South Africans I love you ❤the most resilient people I know ✊🏾❤🇿🇦

  • @mathapelolegacy
    @mathapelolegacy Рік тому +275

    We can never forget! Sarafina needs to be broadcasted Every FREAKEN Year.

  • @NoniModi
    @NoniModi 7 місяців тому +26

    I was born in ‘86. My mom was imprisoned when she was 8months pregnant and forces to eat pap mixed with cockroaches because she was a freedom fighter. My uncle developed psychotic ptsd through the trauma that he witnessed seeing friends being buried alive.💔😭this movie never stops hurting! SA citizens are very forgiving and resilient✊🏼🇿🇦

  • @mpusepitso2580
    @mpusepitso2580 Рік тому +103

    My mother was a victim and it's a long story but she managed to escape from Soweto to Free State Botshebelo where most people hid. I thank God that she's alive and yesterday we spend the whole day hearing stories from when she was young and worked for the whites. You'll cry hearing the stories and what she's been through.

    • @tshepi2606
      @tshepi2606 Рік тому +5

      My gran also took My Aunt and Uncle to Thaba Nchu..A trauma my family will never get over

  • @mslafif
    @mslafif Рік тому +181

    This was a heavy movie, and the reality was even heavier!! Growing up in Botswana our hearts broke for South Africans, we are one people ❤ #happyyouthday

  • @sowemove26
    @sowemove26 Рік тому +130

    You see us dancing and joking around all the time cos we have to live! The past is too painful we move but never forget what they did to us!🙌🏽

    • @fikile529
      @fikile529 Рік тому +14

      Silimele ngempela, I couldn't have said better myself

    • @AllthingsHealth_
      @AllthingsHealth_ Рік тому +4

      We can never forget!

    • @mandlayende5526
      @mandlayende5526 Рік тому +4

      Even now is very hurting

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 Рік тому +10

      Mood changes immediately nd we think deep once reminded….😒

    • @moughmokgerehli
      @moughmokgerehli Рік тому +3

      This is a deep reaction 8:20

  • @vuyomat25
    @vuyomat25 Рік тому +133

    I watched this movie in 1994 and I was 6 years old. My mother told me this was their reality during the peak of apartheid. A lot of kids died. South Africa has come a long way. This movie told a true South African story of a time when racism was just acceptable.

    • @nsambambuta1349
      @nsambambuta1349 Рік тому +2

      no, racism was not acceptable and that is why the youth fought. they fought because they did not accept this to be normal.

    • @siyabulelasomhlahlo4853
      @siyabulelasomhlahlo4853 Рік тому

      I too was 6 years back in 1994 when I watched it

  • @realnigga7878
    @realnigga7878 Рік тому +98

    Everyone that acted on this movie is a legend today😊...this was revolutionary 😢You can't help but cry...thinking back on what our people went through

  • @abdallasa7077
    @abdallasa7077 Рік тому +71

    Watching Sarafina on June 16 is as South African as it gets😂

  • @minenhlemaphanga9548
    @minenhlemaphanga9548 Рік тому +176

    1.For the context for this scene: Miss Masombuka (Whoopi Goldberg) who was the history teacher was found to be teaching this class about white supremecy, so she got taken away by the police and mùrdered. Now this male teacher stepped in as the new history teacher, as you can see the kids were not having it.
    2. Yes this is based on a true story.
    3. This movie was based before Mandela was released from prison. (Hence "Freedom is coming tomorrow" was the motto of this movie)
    4. Instead of slavery, we suffered apartheid, as demonstrated in this movie.
    5. You have to watch the movie (hope you go live so we can watch it with you in real time)😊

    • @trenee23000
      @trenee23000 Рік тому +13

      Thank you for the break down. Now I have to watch the movie.

    • @felvr705
      @felvr705 Рік тому +31

      Agreed. But just a correction we also suffered under slavery..When the Dutch landed in the Cape they made the Khoisan slaves. They also imported slaves from Malaysia and India. You will often hear in Cape Town some coloureds are referred to as Cape Malay

    • @minenhlemaphanga9548
      @minenhlemaphanga9548 Рік тому +10

      @@felvr705 thanks for this additional information. 🙏

    • @barbarapeller
      @barbarapeller Рік тому +8

      Yes, and I visited the church where this part of the scene at in Soweto. I also got the visit the island/prison where Mandela was housed at "Robben Island."

    • @gugumasombuka853
      @gugumasombuka853 Рік тому +1

      🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @user-qp7hw1ni8u
    @user-qp7hw1ni8u Рік тому +62

    The movie Sarafina is based on a true story that was happening here in South Africa during apartheid, written by Mbongeni Ngema, and depicts the student uprisings that took place in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. For us South Africans it is an emotional movie to watch. And this is why we celebrate June 16 youth day. June 16 is celebrated as Youth Day in South Africa. It commemorates the Soweto Uprising that occurred on June 16, 1976, during the apartheid era. The event holds significant historical and cultural importance in South Africa.

  • @reneiloe
    @reneiloe Рік тому +96

    The Xhosa funeral song says “I suffer just like this, I surrender to you Father, oh my God, amen”.
    The prayers and songs truly make the context heavier and heartbreaking, especially because the movie is just a glimpse.
    Quite surprising that the movie wasn’t broadcasted yesterday which is a first 😂 with everything that we as the youth experience today, we probably needed a reminder of the ‘76 uprisings so we become motivated to take a stand against the country’s government.

    • @londekamoloi2230
      @londekamoloi2230 Рік тому +3

      The funeral song is very deep and yah it quite surprising that they did not play the movie on June 16

    • @jammychatz3100
      @jammychatz3100 Рік тому +1

      That's not xhosa it's zulu

    • @reneiloe
      @reneiloe Рік тому +8

      @@jammychatz3100 the lyrics say “ndihlupheke ndinje”, “ndizilahlela” which makes it Xhosa because of the ndi- prefix. If they used the ngi- prefixes (e.g. ngihlupheke, ngizilahlela) then it would make it Zulu. My hearing and the online lyrics could be wrong though, my apologies if it’s actually Zulu.

    • @thuthukanisjaka2597
      @thuthukanisjaka2597 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@reneiloeIndeed it's Xhosa bro.

  • @SallieAndrea
    @SallieAndrea Рік тому +93

    This movie makes me so emotional. I grew up watching it in Kenya.

    • @duchesstyra
      @duchesstyra Рік тому +5

      ❤ 🇰🇪 🇿🇦

    • @margiemaggie
      @margiemaggie Рік тому +2

      Me too. It is a childhood memory, i still cry even as an adult when rewatching it. Our history as Africans is too painful

    • @Yv1o5
      @Yv1o5 Рік тому +3

      Watched it in Kenya too growing up in the early 90s. We felt the pain and the struggle of our sisters and brothers in South Africa. We were all in celebration when Mandela was released from prison. My parents picked the name Winnie for my little sister.

    • @duchesstyra
      @duchesstyra Рік тому

      @@Yv1o5 Awww 🥰
      Winnie is the Mother of our Nation

    • @Yv1o5
      @Yv1o5 Рік тому +1

      @@duchesstyra I enjoy visiting SA and have stayed in Mbombela and Marloth Park most of the time when going to Kruger.

  • @RatoLik
    @RatoLik Рік тому +49

    Am I the only one who still cries when watching Sarafina...more than 10years now but I still cry my lungs out

    • @carolletebele3639
      @carolletebele3639 Рік тому

      😢😢nope. I also still do

    • @user-ld4kk4ll8y
      @user-ld4kk4ll8y Рік тому

      No I also cry a lot this is painful

    • @ladyj2002
      @ladyj2002 4 місяці тому

      The pain never goes away

    • @paulatyali9773
      @paulatyali9773 3 місяці тому

      That’s why I only watch it once a year on June 16. Even this video is making me cry😢

    • @Popsmoa7764
      @Popsmoa7764 12 днів тому

      Even I'm crying right now 😢

  • @PULCHRITUDE123
    @PULCHRITUDE123 Рік тому +32

    As a Nigerian sarafina is one of my favorite movie.... I've watched it over a thousand times.....

  • @cynthiazungu1235
    @cynthiazungu1235 Рік тому +41

    No matter how many times I watch Sarafina I have tear in my eyes. it's such an emotional and very deep movie reminds me of all the stories my Mom used to share.

  • @katlehochabalala8948
    @katlehochabalala8948 Рік тому +27

    The very reason we are always drinking and partying- we are traumatized

  • @neotemana
    @neotemana Рік тому +33

    Dude this is a very small glimpse of what happened on this very day back in 1976, when thousands of school children were brutally murdered for rising up...and somehow the government at the time felt that children with stones and rocks posed a threat to armed military men

  • @confidencediaries21
    @confidencediaries21 Рік тому +11

    Hi I'm south African, this movie won't ever die bc we celebrate it like the passion of christ.

  • @margiemaggie
    @margiemaggie Рік тому +14

    I watched this movie as a child, i cried, colonialism and apartheid was the worst thing that happened to us Africans. Even with deaths, our South African sisters and brothers still stood firm. We read and taught of this in our History class, they shall never be forgotten.Lots of love from Kenya🇰🇪❤️

  • @salkanini6277
    @salkanini6277 Рік тому +36

    What south Africans went thru during apartheid only God knows!!

  • @nonhlanhlamahlangu8427
    @nonhlanhlamahlangu8427 Рік тому +71

    Fun fact: crocodile (real name Dumisani) is doja cats father😂

    • @katlin1615
      @katlin1615 Рік тому +5

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂eish

    • @nonhlanhlamahlangu8427
      @nonhlanhlamahlangu8427 Рік тому

      @@katlin1615 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Kre8iviT27
      @Kre8iviT27 Рік тому +7

      It's sad that he had nothing to do with her growing up. He would brag about her in the media once she hit stardom but he never had a relationship with her.

    • @stifler5062
      @stifler5062 Рік тому +7

      @@Kre8iviT27 still his seed

    • @Kre8iviT27
      @Kre8iviT27 Рік тому

      @@stifler5062 and he is still a deadbeat. All he did for her was ejaculate. He didn't raise her or teach her about his culture at all. Her success had nothing to do with him.

  • @carolineblom6900
    @carolineblom6900 Рік тому +16

    This movie always makes me cry. As a young South African I will always be grateful for what my forefathers went through in the quest for freedom 😢

  • @joelbooksz
    @joelbooksz 6 місяців тому +6

    As a Nigerian, I saw this movie so much, I memorised the scenes from the songs to the dialogues and monologues. Everything. I cried every time.

  • @simply_elkentra2323
    @simply_elkentra2323 Рік тому +53

    This movie will make you cry a thousand times, Africans we really are survivors🙏

    • @masterks2984
      @masterks2984 Рік тому +1

      Do you think we have learnt from it?

    • @fatimawindvoel2253
      @fatimawindvoel2253 Рік тому

      ​@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 then there's people like you🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️get a grip honey😢😢

    • @Scavenger-hr7km
      @Scavenger-hr7km Рік тому +1

      @@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 ma ken baie😏

    • @AllthingsHealth_
      @AllthingsHealth_ Рік тому +10

      ⁠@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298once again humanbeings like you will choose to focus on the negative 🙄

    • @lebohangthebe-hp4gw
      @lebohangthebe-hp4gw Рік тому +7

      ​@@AllthingsHealth_ i dont know weather he/she whos always comment in Negetive on UA-cam when it comes to South Africa, dont mind that Person he/she doesnt understand that day he/she knows nothing about that world thank you 🇿🇦

  • @2090AJames
    @2090AJames Рік тому +64

    Today we celebrating that day. "The Youth day"🇿🇦✊🏿✊🏿

    • @Day537
      @Day537 Рік тому +19

      Yes. Because of this we too celebrate 16 June in Namibia as 'The African child' s day'. Their blood watered our freedom too. Freedom from being taught in Afrikaans and being taught with uniformed men around everywhere. Amandla ✊✊

    • @DSATSDeGangYano
      @DSATSDeGangYano Рік тому +2

      ​@@Day537wooow, never knew that history existed in Namibia 😢

    • @Day537
      @Day537 Рік тому +5

      @@DSATSDeGangYano Namibia was a province of South Africa After the German Era. Same education system and same treatment of apartheid. Same story of sharpville happened in Katutura. When schools were closed due to riots in SA they would intensify the army in Namibian schools. In 1994 we were the last standard 10 to write The Cape exams. Most Namibian politicians were jailed in Robin Island.

    • @DSATSDeGangYano
      @DSATSDeGangYano Рік тому +2

      @@Day537 wooow!!! Thanks a lot with such info, funny I researched and you are spot on, I guess I was not taught the whole history but I just know half of it

    • @Day537
      @Day537 Рік тому +1

      @@DSATSDeGangYano 🙂🙂you are welcome 🙏

  • @15th_century
    @15th_century Рік тому +20

    Im a South African and i get emotional everytime i watch this movie...i would have done the same if i were a black student living in that time.

  • @bassonhaakuria5469
    @bassonhaakuria5469 Рік тому +13

    I was 9 years when I first watched this movie but up today I still cry when I watch this movie. Two countries where affected by the Apartheid Error, South Africa and Namibia. This Movie is a reminder of what the African Black Child went through. We use to watch it every year on African Child Day.😓

  • @capta9151
    @capta9151 Рік тому +63

    I was around 8 yrs when I first watched Sarafina, watched it 5+ times since then. However in this reaction in particular I shed a tear, quite rare for the masculine dude I am. You're goated for this one TF! Danko!

    • @MrSpensit
      @MrSpensit Рік тому +5

      I had the same processing of emotion just like you

  • @lastpreacher9093
    @lastpreacher9093 Рік тому +40

    South African blacks have been through a lot. Apartheid was really cruel and violent. A crime against humanity. It’s sad that after all this bloodshed and resistance, the conditions of black people has not changed much and suffering is on the rise again. Black Politicians have forgotten about the “people” and are enriching themselves while white people, privileged under apartheid, are having the best of times since they still own the land, economy as during apartheid days. Freedom remains elusive to the ordinary people. 😭

    • @lozi4163
      @lozi4163 Рік тому +2

      To say nothing much has changed is not true at all and SA is destined for better future with BRICS. The old trick of just saying black leaders are bad is lazy thinking and approach ignoring the global system and its complexity in how they keep developing nations at their knee. Nothing can change from a negotiation that took place in 1986 to 1990 because you cant have power when you already compromised. We completed phase 1 and things are about to get more interesting

    • @lastpreacher9093
      @lastpreacher9093 Рік тому

      @@lozi4163 Dream on, it’s your right. The stark reality is that unemployment is at its highest. Lights are constantly off, the country is in darkness for many hours of the day, everyday. Drinking water is a problem. Shacks and informal settlements are mushrooming. Living spaces are filthy with littering the order of the day. BRICS is no magic wand and it’s at its very infancy. The nation remains divided and no sign of meaningful unity in sight. Should I go on?

  • @fuxxi_n8232
    @fuxxi_n8232 Рік тому +16

    I think what ppl need to realize is that most millennials and a few gen z on southern Africa are the children of parents who went through and experienced colonial oppression. Their wounds are still so fresh but they try. They still except ppl from other countries. I always love it when my parents tell me their stories because it helps me understand what they went through so we could be free.

    • @blouberg5254
      @blouberg5254 Рік тому +1

      Good thing our kids no longer adopt English names

  • @bonganikhuselo1496
    @bonganikhuselo1496 9 місяців тому +7

    i am a black South African.. this is deep always when i hear these songs or watch movies get emotional always 😭😭😭😭 But i love my country🇿🇦✊🏾

  • @moholera2340
    @moholera2340 Рік тому +81

    Thing about the movie is these things happened for real and not too long ago, people who experienced these first hand are still alive. The worst things is they keep being told to move on, most people are traumatized but the reconciliation was too quick and didn't take into consideration what those people went through. A lot of old generation South Africans still feel cheated and habour resentment for whites, personally I don't blame them. Our parents went through so much.

    • @annamojapelo2292
      @annamojapelo2292 Рік тому +6

      Exactly 💯. Was in class of 1976.

    • @clarence493
      @clarence493 Рік тому

      Manje nifuna kube njani?

    • @kgomotsomogale245
      @kgomotsomogale245 Рік тому +5

      Painful part is when The TRC was introduced,the horrors of how our parents and grandparents were tortured and killed,worse how they used us against eachother.

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 Рік тому +6

      @@clarence493they should’ve paid for what they’ve done

    • @khanyi8512
      @khanyi8512 Рік тому +4

      @@clarence493 accountability…

  • @stefanwilliams5478
    @stefanwilliams5478 Рік тому +21

    "THAT'S HOW IT WENT DOWN IN CERTAIN PARTS OF AFRICA"😢😢😢

  • @jesseymsami7695
    @jesseymsami7695 Рік тому +2

    My country Tanzania, though it is in East Africa, we supported the freedom struggles of all our Southern brothers and sisters, from Mozambique all the way to South Africa.

  • @fuxxi_n8232
    @fuxxi_n8232 Рік тому +5

    Im from namibia and we were a mandate territory of South Africa while they were still under apartheid. My mom made me watch this when I was like 6 years old. I remember that I couldn't even watch it without crying and I'd say plz mommy can we stop but she always tell me that I needed to know.

  • @khulekaninyuswa721
    @khulekaninyuswa721 Рік тому +17

    RIP to those young freedom fighters who stood their ground for US free South Africans of to date

  • @mmvelase60
    @mmvelase60 Рік тому +22

    Today is June 16 Holiday in South Africa, and this movie was made specially for this day. Local TV channels will be playing this video today.

  • @nkatekomhlarhi638
    @nkatekomhlarhi638 29 днів тому +1

    I cry everytime I watch this movie, the pain never goes away. South Africa 🇿🇦 our land ❤

  • @priceelesslove8846
    @priceelesslove8846 Рік тому +10

    As a Nigerian I watch this growing up, almost every day.

    • @TsatsiIllustration
      @TsatsiIllustration Рік тому

      I advise u not to watch everyday. For the hatred towards whites will rise.

  • @zie4229
    @zie4229 Рік тому +18

    This still makes me tear up every time I watch or people talk about it😪😪and yes it is a true story

  • @UpJumpsDaParty
    @UpJumpsDaParty Рік тому +65

    That chant at the graveside is a very powerful battlecry.
    Amandla = The power
    Awethu = is ours!

    • @barbarapeller
      @barbarapeller Рік тому +3

      Yes, it was, it will bring tears to your eyes, I love my motherland of "Africa!"

    • @tseepi5019
      @tseepi5019 Рік тому

      Please also Google Naomi Campbell saying "Amanda" at Winnie Mandela's funeral

  • @MphoLucia13
    @MphoLucia13 Рік тому +12

    I didn't know my grandmother because we were told she had passed, only met her 2 years before her death. To think she was out there fighting gave up on her children for their own protection and for SA to be what it is today it's 💔💔💔 this movie gets to me very single time.

  • @vuyomat25
    @vuyomat25 Рік тому +16

    You will break once you see the prison scene. This movie is deep.

  • @82pattycake
    @82pattycake Рік тому +35

    That is Avalon Cemetery for Blacks in Soweto. Quincy Jones was one of the producers of the soundtrack, if I'm not mistaken. A lot of support from the Black American movie industry went into this ❤🙏 You must also watch Cry Freedom based in the life of Steve Biko and his death under the security police with Denzel Washington. Funny enough these were banned in South Africa, my parents were from the Transkei so we could watch it at the then only Cinema in the dummy state

    • @esthersserwanga
      @esthersserwanga 10 місяців тому +2

      Cry Freedom. I watched that movie as a young girl growing up in Kenya and it forever changed me. The world doesn’t hear as much about Steve Biko as it does Nelson Mandela but the two men were cut from the same cloth. May they forever rest in peace.

  • @swarelomatlou6804
    @swarelomatlou6804 Рік тому +19

    They were attacking that teacher because he was teaching a syllabus that was issued by the boers

    • @neemaadam
      @neemaadam Рік тому +1

      When I was younger I was angry at the teacher, but as I am now grown with kids that depend on me I can understand what he was also going through, too as an adult in that era. The Boers were literally in the corridors listening to what was being taught and carrying off errant teachers to their deaths. 😢

  • @mthokozisindlovu402
    @mthokozisindlovu402 Рік тому +6

    This has to be the realistic reaction video I have ever seen on any UA-cam channel. Emotions and everything ❤

  • @vbnmdakane
    @vbnmdakane 6 місяців тому +3

    Thank you Mbongeni Ngema for documenting our dark history...
    Ugqatso ulufezile! Lala ngoxolo Dlokovu siyabonga😢

  • @thulanidlamini2233
    @thulanidlamini2233 Рік тому +81

    I'm in my late forties. I lived through some of it. Can you imagine writing exams with the army in the school premises?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Jay-gq1mo
      @Jay-gq1mo Рік тому +25

      Than there's ppl who say SA should go back to this, and those are black ppl

    • @thulanidlamini2233
      @thulanidlamini2233 Рік тому +12

      @@Jay-gq1mo very infuriating Jay

    • @andilemashego8392
      @andilemashego8392 Рік тому +5

      @@Jay-gq1mo those people have been captured chief

  • @karisnck9776
    @karisnck9776 Рік тому +25

    im kenyan. this is south africa true story ...real life there till atleast 1992. even today..there is racism still

    • @minenhlemaphanga9548
      @minenhlemaphanga9548 Рік тому +2

      There is racism everywhere.

    • @lebohangthebe-hp4gw
      @lebohangthebe-hp4gw Рік тому

      Where is racism did experience it SA

    • @nomagcisacawe3297
      @nomagcisacawe3297 Рік тому

      Obsessed with South African affairs. Telling the world about events that you never experienced. Tell us about the racism that brought about the Mau-Mau!

    • @minenhlemaphanga9548
      @minenhlemaphanga9548 Рік тому +6

      @@nomagcisacawe3297 what's with the negativity? You should have kept this comment to yourself.

    • @nomagcisacawe3297
      @nomagcisacawe3297 Рік тому

      @@minenhlemaphanga9548 And you should have kept your opinion to yourself.

  • @mphosithole8756
    @mphosithole8756 7 місяців тому +1

    I went to the theatre two times to watch Sarafina while I was still in high school in 1995, and again in 2018 I went to watch the new cast, and I am telling you, it is touching. I bought a DVD as I believe this is a classic & wanted my children to watch it as well; we watched it over and over again. Big ups to our icon, Mbongeni Ngema & may his soul rest in peace❤. I also auditioned to be part of the cast. It was a pity. I could not wait to hear the results as it was late & home.was far while my boys were still young, and they had to find me home after creche. MphoS

  • @ntokozolindokuhle5265
    @ntokozolindokuhle5265 Рік тому +3

    My mom was part of all this she still cries when she talks about Everything god bless black people god bless south Africa we have suffered enough

  • @matomemalatsi3559
    @matomemalatsi3559 Рік тому +30

    I loved your reaction 😂❤ you weren't ready.

    • @ThatFireLA
      @ThatFireLA  Рік тому +9

      I wasn’t not at all fam

    • @noluvosigaba8411
      @noluvosigaba8411 Рік тому +2

      @@ThatFireLA can't wait for your reaction after watching the whole movie 🥲

    • @jaynewanjira3541
      @jaynewanjira3541 Рік тому +2

      @@ThatFireLA I cannot believe you never heard of Sarafina movie. Yes, the events were from a true story that happened in South Africa as they had not yet gotten their independence and when Nelson Mandela their president was in jail. Also the "security" as you called it was not really that. Those were white military who were used to disperse rebel students from demonstrating. Try and think of what blacks went through here in America like 400 years ago through slavery. Whatever the whiteman was doing to blacks is what was going on in South Africa but on a lower level but still ugly. So yes, it was a movie from true events that happened and Whoopi and all the cast were perfect. It was in the movie billboard #1 for months I think. When I watched this movie from Kenya I think I was in college or something, about 19-20 years old. So please watch it and prepare yourself mentally the way you prepared yourself when you watched the roots movie but this one is milder but still very very emotional and ugly too. Sent you the link for the full movie free. Enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/tvNLaffaSaQ/v-deo.html

  • @nonhlanhlangomane608
    @nonhlanhlangomane608 Рік тому +23

    Good day ThatFireLA please do take time to watch the movie. It is all about the history of South Africa It is based on true events.

  • @slowupshandis
    @slowupshandis 10 місяців тому +4

    I was about 11 years old when I first watched this movie and at the end of the movie everyone in the house was sobbing uncontrollably. A truly heartbreaking movie to watch. I choose not to watch it ever again...I can't deal 🙆🏿‍♀️. I'm even in my feels as we speak just thinking about it 😭

  • @Tlhogiphakedi
    @Tlhogiphakedi Рік тому +6

    I watched this movies more than 10 times.. ....The best to ever come out of SA based on True events ..🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦.

  • @nomazizizembe8662
    @nomazizizembe8662 Рік тому +8

    Watching from cape Town township south Africa where I stay all my life still stay there I can relate to the movie I was born in the early 80s I watch the movie so many times

  • @Real_Pope
    @Real_Pope Рік тому +10

    The guy with Dreadlocks yelling "Burn burn burb" is Doja Cat's real father btw,😹

  • @davidfortuin4146
    @davidfortuin4146 Рік тому +19

    Fun Fact : The actor playing Crocodile is Dumisani Dlamini, Doja Cat's father. 😊

    • @cc35506
      @cc35506 Рік тому +2

      If im not mistaken he met her mother whilst touring for the Sarafina broadway in the US. Because it was on broadway for some time before it was made a movie.

  • @GfoxSim
    @GfoxSim Рік тому +4

    Yes it is a musical and the music is outstanding! This movie should never die. It is historic and powerful.

  • @zukokili1569
    @zukokili1569 Рік тому +7

    It is in a cemetery and the lyrics in the song are, " as poor as I am , I give myself to you! " The man who spoke in the funeral reminds me of Archbishop Bishop Desmond Tutu. Guns and school shootings are a thing of the past it's nothing new.

  • @4apolanco
    @4apolanco Рік тому +25

    It was an awesome movie, you should watch the whole thing. The Broadway play was even more powerful and excellent, I remember seeing it those songs sang live where amazing specially "Freedom is Coming Tomorrow"

  • @Palesa-Amanda
    @Palesa-Amanda Рік тому +4

    Thank you for actually taking time out to watch parts of that movie, this movie symbolizes the core pain and suffering our ancestors, grandparents and parents had to go through for our freedom 🇿🇦❤️this movie is deep bro ✊🏽

  • @zanoxolochristopher3946
    @zanoxolochristopher3946 Рік тому +4

    The first time I watched this movie I cryed I don't know whats wrong at that time but my grandma tells us all about it 😢😢love your videos all the way from south Africa ❤

  • @napemogotsi9910
    @napemogotsi9910 Рік тому +6

    I’m 39 watching this again gives me chilies, I remember in my primary year will have army roaming the streets with nyalas( used to call it Casper) mellow yellow 😢today is youth day and there’s nothing to celebrate cause the youth is still suffering

  • @truesouth6532
    @truesouth6532 Рік тому +5

    On this day (16 June) 1976, students took to the streets to fight against the then government and laws. Many of them were killed. This movie is centered around that day and every year on June 16, we commemorate.

  • @SinethembaSine-xd5cr
    @SinethembaSine-xd5cr Рік тому +5

    It's actually what happened My Guy.. Not just a movies. This was 76. Which why we're celebrating June 16. Thanks for the reaction to this..🙌🏽

  • @tandolwethumali9466
    @tandolwethumali9466 Рік тому +3

    Literally just got emotional, I've watched Sarafina only twice growing up and I'm 28 this year, Its still painful to watch.... This was South Africa in real life back in the day.💔

  • @oohzulu
    @oohzulu Рік тому +11

    Awesome review Bro, thank you for being respectful.... We see the compassion.... Keep going Man !!!

  • @TheOneWhoGotAway569
    @TheOneWhoGotAway569 Рік тому +8

    I get emotional whenever I watch Sarafina but I think it's important that it be shown lest we forget

  • @Nportiazulu
    @Nportiazulu Рік тому +3

    Our parents went through the most. Thank you Mom and Dad

  • @miriammmamoitoisehloho3055
    @miriammmamoitoisehloho3055 Рік тому +7

    This is how we used to live bro, I was a student in those era studying whilst there's soldiers with rifle's next to you and running from soldiers all the time

  • @mphosa995
    @mphosa995 Рік тому +8

    I was surprised when I found out that the man who played crocodile is actually Doja Cat's father...😁😁😁

  • @mimim868
    @mimim868 3 місяці тому

    You were so excited on your intro, and I felt for you because I knew this would eff you up. I watched this around 8yo, and we watched it so many times that I have some of the script memorized.

  • @susanwanjiru6050
    @susanwanjiru6050 Рік тому +5

    I've watched this movie so many times and every time I watch it I get so emotional

  • @viviannaledi9592
    @viviannaledi9592 Рік тому +6

    Wow Big Ralph eish this got me 😭😭I couldn't hold tearing up watching this hole video it real hit Home,,, Thanks for your reaction towards this day called June 16.

  • @sinotandopuzi5752
    @sinotandopuzi5752 Рік тому +5

    We grew up watching the movie, as it would play every year on Youth day (16 June) on our local TV channels, and it still plays until now.

  • @kaymsiza5486
    @kaymsiza5486 Рік тому +5

    I was not part of 1976, but when I'm watching Sarafina believe me still getting emotional and angry at the same time.

  • @hesmlurh2467
    @hesmlurh2467 Рік тому +5

    Firstly, RIP to Mr. Patrick Ndlovu 🙏🏾
    This scene got me crippled and emotional, Crocodile's death was greeezzyyy

  • @Phoka1018
    @Phoka1018 Рік тому +6

    He killed the scene.... one of the most underrated actors

  • @barbarapeller
    @barbarapeller Рік тому +6

    I had the privilege of visiting the church where this scene took place, Soweto, South Africa. It was an awesome experience, we were able to write our names on the wall there. And yes, I have the movie and they burned him to death.

  • @lebogangchuoa9826
    @lebogangchuoa9826 15 днів тому +1

    lol 😂I like this guy’s reaction he’s so speechless 😂😂😂

  • @minenhlembhamali6877
    @minenhlembhamali6877 Рік тому +3

    I'm South African 🇿🇦 And I was 8 years old the first time I watched this movie ... I'm now 26 years old and I still get emotional every time I watch it

  • @TheHuny85
    @TheHuny85 Рік тому +11

    Doja Cat takes after her dad ,they are both talented dancers.

  • @nonhlanhlangomane608
    @nonhlanhlangomane608 Рік тому +3

    You can search 16 June 1976 South Africa. Today we are remembering and honoring our brothers and sisters as it has been passed by law for this day to be a remembrance in South Africa.

  • @noluli7430
    @noluli7430 Рік тому +2

    This was during my time we were forced to learn every subject in Afrikaans and the history was not our history,it was European 's.S o we lost our minds and said enough is enough..Many of died, I'm crying now it touches my heart in big way, I'm a South African 65yrs old.

  • @StephShero-lv2gz
    @StephShero-lv2gz Рік тому +2

    I remember the first time my mother had us watch this i was a teenager. It Forever changed me as an African.

  • @BPK0307
    @BPK0307 Рік тому +8

    Base on true story mate

  • @BrimanTV
    @BrimanTV Рік тому +6

    The actor playing the role of that teacher with afro died last month

  • @lukhanyisonkomonde3371
    @lukhanyisonkomonde3371 Рік тому +1

    I am South African we fought for our freedom and we still fight of the belief of our freedom...,🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @tisabanda9497
    @tisabanda9497 Рік тому +2

    Sarafina is one of my favourite movies. It is so sad yet full of resilience and lessons. It was a really tough time for us in Southern Africa and we Zambians are proud of having stood by our brethren 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲