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!
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.
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.
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✊🏼🇿🇦
I'm sorry to hear that sis, it's not even like we are forgiving we were sold lies in the name of freedom and we took them instead of facing more deaths, its so sad
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💪
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.
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.
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
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.
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)😊
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
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."
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
@@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 🇿🇦
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🇰🇪❤️
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 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.
@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.😓
First time i watched,i was 15. I have memorized every word in the dialogue and every song. To answer your question, yes this is real history of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa.
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 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.
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. 😭
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
@@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?
@@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
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.💔
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 😭
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
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
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!
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 ❤
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
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.
That burial site is called Avalon and it is the biggest in South Africa. In the last song they are pleading to GOD to have mercy on them because of their poorness. When it was released it reminded us the 1976 SOWETO uprising. By the way the Producer Mbongeni Ngema was buried yesterday(5January 2024)due to his involvement in a car accident last year. R.I.P. Israel Mbongeni Ngema(1955-2023).
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
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.
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.
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.
Sarafina is a mild version of what actually happened. This was the most horrific thing to ever be experienced by human beings in the hands of other human beings😢
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. 😢
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 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
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.
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
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.
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"
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
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.
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.
Ive watched this movies so many times since i was child. I literally know it word for word and it still makes me cry. My dream is to tell a story like that one day
What should I react to next?
The burning of the police officer by the students to revenge him
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!
The guys sitting on armoured cars at the graveyard were not security. Those were the police
The Hippo Car with soldiers on top, was there just incase there's violence, more would have been killed, prisoned & electrocuted to death
Today we are celebrating this day it is called Youth Day every 16 June South Africa is rich with History
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.
Well said. 🥺✊🏼
U curated the movie 💯. This movie will always be engraved in our hearts ❤️ as South African
Great explanation 👌🏾🫶🏾
Which is wat the content creator should have done before creating this video😢
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No matter how many times you watch Sarafina, the shock and hurt doesn't get any better
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It hurts so bad😭😭😭😭🤞🤞
It hurts the same all the time...😢
Bruh 💔
True 😭
The teacher died 2 weeks ago. What an amazing actor 👏 RIP Patrick Ndlovu aka baba Moloi
I was in a taxi when I heard about it so sad great actor 😢
OMG thanks for this update amazing actor
Really? So sad. May he rest in peace 🙏
RIP champ ...this movie was everything when I was young, shaped my entire character
Ooh God, "Mr. Kunene"?
May he rest in power!!
Sending love from Kenya!
"When we Africans are happy, we sing, when we are sad, we sing too"
Sarafina is the definition of that proverb❤😭
😂😂😂
@@tshepangmugandi8174 bathong morena o tshegang
All the black community is the same. I am Haitian, we sing in every circumstances. 😢
@@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
This is the biggest African movie ever made in my opinion. Please never let this movie die. 🇿🇲
Facts
It will never
Thanks for Zambia and zambian people for helping black South Africans to defeat this evil apartheid. Zambia played a major role
@@lebogangmoeketsi1614 we were, we are and will always be brothers and sisters, one africa 1 love, power to the people✊
@@tor6328 but unfortunately I am not a supporter of 1 Africa, I support free trade amongst Africans but with borders.
We can never forget! Sarafina needs to be broadcasted Every FREAKEN Year.
One day you guys shall be the Big Brother of Africa and the world, like you rightfully should be.
I believe it is in the month of June
Kare Bona!
It used to be aired every June 16th on sabc 1. Don’t know why they stopped
As it should be
95% OF THE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS WILL GO BACK AND REWATCH IT
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.
Facts!!🙂
Watched it two weeks back
Facts
Now you know that's facts!
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✊🏼🇿🇦
Wow I’m sorry to hear that
I'm sorry to hear that sis, it's not even like we are forgiving we were sold lies in the name of freedom and we took them instead of facing more deaths, its so sad
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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💪
One love❤
My love for Zambia and it's people ❤❤
Can you please eat some nshima with kapenta and beans for me?
@@PlayShorts3😂😂😂 for me too
South Africa and Zambia are 2 different countries with two different apartheid experiences
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.
no, racism was not acceptable and that is why the youth fought. they fought because they did not accept this to be normal.
I too was 6 years back in 1994 when I watched it
Black South Africans I love you ❤the most resilient people I know ✊🏾❤🇿🇦
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We love you back ❤❤✊✊
Thank you
❤thanks
Thank you ❤
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.
My gran also took My Aunt and Uncle to Thaba Nchu..A trauma my family will never get over
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!🙌🏽
Silimele ngempela, I couldn't have said better myself
We can never forget!
Even now is very hurting
Mood changes immediately nd we think deep once reminded….😒
This is a deep reaction 8:20
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.
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
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.
Watching Sarafina on June 16 is as South African as it gets😂
Hi I'm south African, this movie won't ever die bc we celebrate it like the passion of christ.
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)😊
Thank you for the break down. Now I have to watch the movie.
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
@@felvr705 thanks for this additional information. 🙏
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."
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Am I the only one who still cries when watching Sarafina...more than 10years now but I still cry my lungs out
😢😢nope. I also still do
No I also cry a lot this is painful
The pain never goes away
That’s why I only watch it once a year on June 16. Even this video is making me cry😢
Even I'm crying right now 😢
This movie makes me so emotional. I grew up watching it in Kenya.
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Me too. It is a childhood memory, i still cry even as an adult when rewatching it. Our history as Africans is too painful
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.
@@Yv1o5 Awww 🥰
Winnie is the Mother of our Nation
@@duchesstyra I enjoy visiting SA and have stayed in Mbombela and Marloth Park most of the time when going to Kruger.
Thank you Mbongeni Ngema for documenting our dark history...
Ugqatso ulufezile! Lala ngoxolo Dlokovu siyabonga😢
As a Nigerian sarafina is one of my favorite movie.... I've watched it over a thousand times.....
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.
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!
I had the same processing of emotion just like you
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.
The funeral song is very deep and yah it quite surprising that they did not play the movie on June 16
That's not xhosa it's zulu
@@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.
@@reneiloeIndeed it's Xhosa bro.
@jammychatz3100 qhubyiwe wena
This movie will make you cry a thousand times, Africans we really are survivors🙏
Do you think we have learnt from it?
@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 then there's people like you🤷♀️🤷♀️get a grip honey😢😢
@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 ma ken baie😏
@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298once again humanbeings like you will choose to focus on the negative 🙄
@@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 🇿🇦
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🇰🇪❤️
What south Africans went thru during apartheid only God knows!!
Heartbreaking 💔
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 😢
Today we celebrating that day. "The Youth day"🇿🇦✊🏿✊🏿
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 ✊✊
@@Day537wooow, never knew that history existed in Namibia 😢
@@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.
@@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
@@DSATSDeGangYano 🙂🙂you are welcome 🙏
I cry everytime I watch this movie, the pain never goes away. South Africa 🇿🇦 our land ❤
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
This is exactly what South Africans went through , that is why we hate being used and we always fight back, we are good people just very impatient
The very reason we are always drinking and partying- we are traumatized
True
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.
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.
Exactly 💯. Was in class of 1976.
Manje nifuna kube njani?
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.
@@clarence493they should’ve paid for what they’ve done
@@clarence493 accountability…
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🇿🇦✊🏾
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.
ITS THE DAY OF AN AFRICAN CHILD IN ALL AFRICAN COUTRIES
Yes it's Youth day
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.😓
That chant at the graveside is a very powerful battlecry.
Amandla = The power
Awethu = is ours!
Yes, it was, it will bring tears to your eyes, I love my motherland of "Africa!"
Please also Google Naomi Campbell saying "Amanda" at Winnie Mandela's funeral
First time i watched,i was 15. I have memorized every word in the dialogue and every song. To answer your question, yes this is real history of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa.
RIP to those young freedom fighters who stood their ground for US free South Africans of to date
As a Nigerian I watch this growing up, almost every day.
I advise u not to watch everyday. For the hatred towards whites will rise.
Fun fact: crocodile (real name Dumisani) is doja cats father😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂eish
@@katlin1615 🤣🤣🤣
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.
@@Kre8iviT27 still his seed
@@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.
This has to be the realistic reaction video I have ever seen on any UA-cam channel. Emotions and everything ❤
"THAT'S HOW IT WENT DOWN IN CERTAIN PARTS OF AFRICA"😢😢😢
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.
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. 😭
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
@@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?
Even coloured people, don't forget us too
True but y'all hate us even tho we went through the same shit
I loved your reaction 😂❤ you weren't ready.
I wasn’t not at all fam
@@ThatFireLA can't wait for your reaction after watching the whole movie 🥲
@@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
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.💔
I'm in my late forties. I lived through some of it. Can you imagine writing exams with the army in the school premises?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Than there's ppl who say SA should go back to this, and those are black ppl
@@Jay-gq1mo very infuriating Jay
@@Jay-gq1mo those people have been captured chief
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 😭
This still makes me tear up every time I watch or people talk about it😪😪and yes it is a true story
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
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
I watched this movies more than 10 times.. ....The best to ever come out of SA based on True events ..🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦.
#Movie
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
That "Damn!!" 1:41😂😂😂😂😂killed me
Our parents went through the most. Thank you Mom and Dad
Awesome review Bro, thank you for being respectful.... We see the compassion.... Keep going Man !!!
Yes it is a musical and the music is outstanding! This movie should never die. It is historic and powerful.
im kenyan. this is south africa true story ...real life there till atleast 1992. even today..there is racism still
There is racism everywhere.
Where is racism did experience it SA
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!
@@nomagcisacawe3297 what's with the negativity? You should have kept this comment to yourself.
@@minenhlemaphanga9548 And you should have kept your opinion to yourself.
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 ❤
The guy with Dreadlocks yelling "Burn burn burb" is Doja Cat's real father btw,😹
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
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.
That burial site is called Avalon and it is the biggest in South Africa.
In the last song they are pleading to GOD to have mercy on them because of their poorness.
When it was released it reminded us the 1976 SOWETO uprising.
By the way the Producer Mbongeni Ngema was buried yesterday(5January 2024)due to his involvement in a car accident last year.
R.I.P. Israel Mbongeni Ngema(1955-2023).
Very appreciative for the info. Also the symbol they form at the funeral is Hebrew!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I remember the first time my mother had us watch this i was a teenager. It Forever changed me as an African.
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.
Sarafina is a mild version of what actually happened. This was the most horrific thing to ever be experienced by human beings in the hands of other human beings😢
They were attacking that teacher because he was teaching a syllabus that was issued by the boers
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. 😢
I am South African we fought for our freedom and we still fight of the belief of our freedom...,🇿🇦🇿🇦
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 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
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.
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
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.
The cinematography of this film is crazy now that I’m watching your reaction. I think I watched this in 93/ 94 🇿🇦
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"
Watching it for the 100th time now and I'm going through this range of emotions, it's intense😢
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
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.
He killed the scene.... one of the most underrated actors
Firstly, RIP to Mr. Patrick Ndlovu 🙏🏾
This scene got me crippled and emotional, Crocodile's death was greeezzyyy
I've watched this movie so many times and every time I watch it I get so emotional
I get emotional whenever I watch Sarafina but I think it's important that it be shown lest we forget
Doja Cat takes after her dad ,they are both talented dancers.
Fun Fact : The actor playing Crocodile is Dumisani Dlamini, Doja Cat's father. 😊
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.
I was not part of 1976, but when I'm watching Sarafina believe me still getting emotional and angry at the same time.
5:55 It's based on true stories. There were many like Crocodile.
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..🙌🏽
Some of us lived through those years. We can forgive but never forget. The smell of teargas and all. This is one of the greatest movies ever...
The actor playing the role of that teacher with afro died last month
That’s sad 😞
Ive watched this movies so many times since i was child. I literally know it word for word and it still makes me cry. My dream is to tell a story like that one day
You will break once you see the prison scene. This movie is deep.
Really deep 😥