I was born in 1970 (Philadelphia, USA) and remember I was 17 years old when I learned about apartheid. So much of the world didn't care enough to teach their own people about it. Hard to image it wasn't that long ago. Hector would probably be 40 or 50 years old now. Thanks for sharing this with us, it's important to never forget this happened.
Shout out to the tour guide in the green shirt. He is very thorough, educated, alert and attentive. I wish all my brothers and sisters worldwide....much health, wealth and prosperity. B1 from FBA in the US.
the first person on UA-cam to show both side of our townships, the lower class and the middle class well. thats how Big townships in South Africa usually be , they have the low and middle class. Dope vid.
Exactly especially location you can get killed in minute Edited : if you are foreigner let me be clear about it coz people don't understand as long as you have some people who are related in that area
Your balance of Soweto is the best, is easy to visit Soweto and show only shacks, just like Western media always do, Soweto with over 1 million people, you will find lot of diversity The big problem of shacks/ temporary accommodation is that even when government build new home, new arrival from SA rural areas and some far as neighbors countries make it hard to deal with the problem, during Apartheid, some land were only reserve for "White only " especially next to cities where most jobs opportunities are found, at the end of apartheid ,then most black people move from rural area to big cities and start this shacks in many areas, however some of this people are not as poor as you may think, My sister in jhb is staying in shack however she just finish building 11 rooms house in Limpopo rural area, I think for some people they stay in shack because is cheap and they do not have long plan to stay close to big cities
We appreciate what our Brother Sly is doing, he reports facts without tainting them to fit a political view. Its not the western media only who spread misinformation about our country, some black youtubers also do exactly the same. One just came in July and very prejudicial, and disregarding the positives
@@Bellissimo653 There is something called 'jealousy' which eventually leads to resentment and bitterness. SA is not the second largest economy in Africa for nothing. They are resentful of the tremendous progress we have made since 1994, and their democracies are older than us. 😳
@ Sly - this was a very good video - informative and gives you an insight into how this famous neighborhood thrives and how the people live today. Thank you for this.
Great Video!! I remember fondly visiting Soweto and this took me back to that experience. Born and raised in Newark NJ, Soweto felt like home. I had a tough time leaving all the new friends I made there.
Got to visit that place the memorial..I had planned to visit SA in June in memory , Youth Day that's when brotha Hector lost his life. Salute to the Brothas and Sistas in South Africa
I live here though born in the 80s - when I mastered the courage to go there - I couldn’t finish the tour, very emotional 😭 tear jerking ✊🏿 - my mom was part of those students & was in high school at the time.
How about God bless the world his not an apartheid God he loves the whole wide world He has created. We are interconnected in all our diversity, just saying new knowledge perspective in a pithy statement in this parallel contradiction.
i would like u to visit Cape Town. these are the 5 different locations i think you should visit cause they all offer unique experiences. Stellenbosch, Cape Flats(be sure to have a guide though), V&A Waterfront/Seapoint, then City Center(Long Street/Kloof Street/District 6). theres lots of insanely nice/historic places to visit here in Cape Town, you wont be dissapointed
Born and raised in Soweto, but now I live in Durban now. I began my entrepreneurial career there. I enjoyed that place. Thanks to God, without his blessings, Grace, mercy and power I wouldn't have survived there.
Seeing the middle part of the video really reminds me of how privileged I am. I really forget there’re these sides in my country - weird to say, o know. Thank you for this.
I took a picture of these beautiful women that made crafts in the shop across from the church. I lost my photos from that trip. I would love to see them again. I think of them on occasion.
The suburbs are also more representative of the milieu middle -class 'Black diamonds'. More than doubled in the past years, but the struggle continues.✊
Mabhubesi Ntombela, Is it really? A few of you got a little money from BEE and tenders from your connections to the corrupt politicians. Stop trying to hide the horrible reality of the country with one finger. Unemployment in the country is 70%, the young with degrees cannot find employment. The rand is almost worthless. This is the real SA, not the nice suburbs crap.
Yea our country’s debt has more than quadrupled since 2009 and the rand has never been as weak. We’re fighting global inflation and a devaluation of our currency. We also don’t make anything so things are just going to get more expensive and become more difficult.
It's quite heartbreaking to see the immense poverty that so many still endure in SA. From what I have been told, the economy has been in a spiral for decades and increased in intensity during Covid. I recall vividly the worldwide enthusiasm at the end of apartheid with the ANC taking over the government.. So much corruption and ineffective government.. What is the use to gain freedom and then steal your own people blind?
@comrade For whites yes, but for blacks no, not being able to move within your country freely, white only areas having electricity, having paved roads, like you commented, you heard but life is much better after apartheid. The economy is doing badly just like most economies in the world.
@@edith1705 I think we should be honest and admit that South Africa is not doing well socially or economically. It is entirely incorrect to say that most countries aren't doing well economically worldwide. In fact, most countries are doing far better than SA.
@comrade I agree most countries are doing far better than SA. Though those countries' are doing just as badly economically for example US, an average American works 3jobs, in UK let say one has 100 pounds do you think 100 pounds will be able to buy the same amount of products it was able to buy 10 years ago, no, in Canada many people are leaving the country because of very high costs of living. Are economies in these countries I have given as examples doing well? I don't think so, the thing is western media focuses on the negative in African countries, so that their citizens don't have time to question their own western governments. In the west people buy most products on credit, that is not a reflection of an economy doing well to me, people should have enough money to buy things with money if the economy is doing well. With the coming of COVID, economies are doing worse than before COVID in all countries I don't know of any economy not affected by COVID whether in the West or the rest of the world. Yes SA has alot of issues but their government is trying their best, if the black government is that bad how comes they have maintained being in the G20. There are so many blacks living in suburbs now.
Those mine dumps have changed shape over the years due to finding ways to extract more gold traces, which in the past was not known. So you will see them working the mine dumps professionally.
If the government was not doing anything for citizens foreigners would've come to South Africa, just imagine free water toilets and free electricity while lae abiding citizens are swimming in debts.
Did that guy just literally waste a bucket full of clean water after living the tap running over for that long??? 😭😭😭 That's just the thing with people who get stuff for free. They don't know the value of it and seem to not even care 💔
I'm a 13 year old boy who lived there all my life except I was rich I had a Mercedes and porche and a mansion and a private school and now I live in Israel but I always saw these townships
I just can't get past the fact that they were burning other Africans alive for living in their country when they themselves were refugees througout Africa during apartheid
I think that's a bit distorted . Those who were exiled were controlled in those countries and we're encamped so that they don't rain around as they please . I'm not condoning the killing of our brothers and sisters but rather clarifying the distortion . Peace be unto you 🙏🏿 we need to build each other as especially Afrikans (I spelled Afrikans intentionally)
Very informative but the SOUND was very low and I couldn't listen the guide. On two devices. Or you should give us a resume or bring yourself closer to the guide. Thank you.
Thank you sooo much for doing this video…this is not shown on T.V. so we don’t know that our Sisters and Brothers are still living under these horrible conditions…We complain about the U.S. but I’m grateful for what I have now after seeing this ! Peace👑 Kween.
Thing is; We cannot afford US liberal/democratic policies, we are a developing country unlike the US. We are not the USA OF AFRICA - liberal policies hurt us - we have to adopt conservative policies i.e. (tight border control) even though the person you trying to keep out is the same color as you - but ECONOMICS should come first before race otherwise instead of pulling them up 🆙 they’ll pull you down. ⚓️
I'm from America, NYC many of our poor African American population are actively sleeping out in the streets, in the elements, in parks, subway stations in prisons and mental hospitals. Even the workers can no longer afford the rents or raise families in the cities any more. Although many who are giving in the South have nice homes, many more are living in cars and run down shack like homes. My brothers and sisters who are living in townships in SA are tightly unified with each other, they have land and are 80 percent of population. They are moving up little by little and they will survive and in time rule the land once again. We here in the west are disunified, have no land, can not grow anything and have no chance on taking over the land. And each and every day with the open border situation the white American government turning against us more and more. Although I presently live in a decent well kept home at the moment, my future and the future of our children far as I'm concerned is in South Africa and not in American cities in which we are being gentrified iand driven out of. Many are running to the South to survive, but that move shall prove to be a big mistake and will not solve our real problem. For me the choice is clear. The new world for many in our nation and many of our children will most definitely have to be South Africa. Peace and live family.
@@JohnThomas-li2vi exactly coz in South Africa there even a house for free government built up for the people but not all of them already in those houses I think coz of a lots of problem I don't know and I hope all they will get the House to live in 😍😍😍
You now I'm so tiered to hear about Mandela do you now how hard is our lives now Mandela is dead long ago we suffering because American pop their noses in everything in South Africa now everyones life is in danger here people are dieing every minute in South Africa is not a safety County no jobs people get robbed in day light on top of that the Foreigner s and more we are over population this Country is in a mess
@@MsBhappy it's because those who gave the country the constitution are the ones telling the story because they own media. Actually our constitution is the elephant in the room , it's delaying progress and making things turn the opposite of what we want to achieve , and of course yes the agents of the slave master and coloniser are hard at work , making sure we don't become stable because a stable Afrika is a danger to the rest of the world
Townships are so dangerous they say yet you passed a lady carring a child without a care in the world. Townships are not the jungle like people make them to be.
remember always seeing the protests in Soweto-back in the day.Blacks being shot on a regular basis.Glad that there are memorials built to honour the struggle
I was born in 1970 (Philadelphia, USA) and remember I was 17 years old when I learned about apartheid. So much of the world didn't care enough to teach their own people about it. Hard to image it wasn't that long ago. Hector would probably be 40 or 50 years old now. Thanks for sharing this with us, it's important to never forget this happened.
Definitely not that long ago. Hector would be 59 years old to be exact.
Mmh until to day in South Africa especially about xenophobia is too much the country is nice but a lot of people are selfish
And ironically now the west is practice apartheid with Israel on palatine. Real hypocrites
They need to bring back Rhodesia!! Went from being the most powerful country in Africa to the shthole you see today...
It’s still happening in the US, people getting shot, too many guns. Phili is a really scary place.
Shout out to the tour guide in the green shirt. He is very thorough, educated, alert and attentive. I wish all my brothers and sisters worldwide....much health, wealth and prosperity. B1 from FBA in the US.
Yes, I like how the brother spoke very well spken
the first person on UA-cam to show both side of our townships, the lower class and the middle class well. thats how Big townships in South Africa usually be , they have the low and middle class. Dope vid.
Awesome. You are showing the real SA. Well done to the tour guide for taking you to the mokhukhu side. Not easy to record in those places.
Word!
so the other parts are not real?
Get real
Exactly especially location you can get killed in minute
Edited : if you are foreigner let me be clear about it coz people don't understand as long as you have some people who are related in that area
@@sashoright8213 haybo don’t exaggerate yohhh
Your balance of Soweto is the best, is easy to visit Soweto and show only shacks, just like Western media always do, Soweto with over 1 million people, you will find lot of diversity
The big problem of shacks/ temporary accommodation is that even when government build new home, new arrival from SA rural areas and some far as neighbors countries make it hard to deal with the problem, during Apartheid, some land were only reserve for "White only " especially next to cities where most jobs opportunities are found, at the end of apartheid ,then most black people move from rural area to big cities and start this shacks in many areas, however some of this people are not as poor as you may think, My sister in jhb is staying in shack however she just finish building 11 rooms house in Limpopo rural area, I think for some people they stay in shack because is cheap and they do not have long plan to stay close to big cities
We appreciate what our Brother Sly is doing, he reports facts without tainting them to fit a political view.
Its not the western media only who spread misinformation about our country, some black youtubers also do exactly the same. One just came in July and very prejudicial, and disregarding the positives
@@Bellissimo653 There is something called 'jealousy' which eventually leads to resentment and bitterness. SA is not the second largest economy in Africa for nothing. They are resentful of the tremendous progress we have made since 1994, and their democracies are older than us. 😳
@@benambrose8324 SA is actually the biggest economy in Africa hence the number of migrants speak for itself
I knew somebody in SA was going to scapegoat and blame the soo called foreigners for the sanity town, God grief
@@benambrose8324 actually it used to be number 1 before 1994, Nigeria took over
Kudos to the tour guide.. Nami I'm learning a ton.. Enkosi.
I like your balanced portrayal of Soweto. It houses middle and lower income households.
the tour guide is the real MVP
@ Sly - this was a very good video - informative and gives you an insight into how this famous neighborhood thrives and how the people live today. Thank you for this.
Tour guide guy well spoken and informative 🇿🇦
Great Video!! I remember fondly visiting Soweto and this took me back to that experience. Born and raised in Newark NJ, Soweto felt like home. I had a tough time leaving all the new friends I made there.
Hey!
I appreciate and thank you for sharing your experience about the Southy westy, please come visit again.
This was such balance view of Soweto of Soweto from lower classes, middle classes to higher class of Soweto.
Thank you for also showing people the other parts of South Africa. Instead of just the glitz and glam of places like Sandton ❤🇿🇦
Thou daey
Got to visit that place the memorial..I had planned to visit SA in June in memory , Youth Day that's when brotha Hector lost his life. Salute to the Brothas and Sistas in South Africa
I live here though born in the 80s - when I mastered the courage to go there - I couldn’t finish the tour, very emotional 😭 tear jerking ✊🏿 - my mom was part of those students & was in high school at the time.
Gosh, I want to give this video a thousand likes!! So much I want to say about it I might run out of space. You've gained a subscriber, bro 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This was the real deal. Thanks Sly. Soweto is much bigger than I earlier thought.
Actually way bigger
Another great video👌🏾
I like how well researched you are.
God bless south Africa 🌍
God has forgotten South Africa long time ago...
How about God bless the world his not an apartheid God he loves the whole wide world He has created. We are interconnected in all our diversity, just saying new knowledge perspective in a pithy statement in this parallel contradiction.
Tour guide fine as hell and well spoken. 😍
Lol yeah he is
You going hard man... leaving no stone unturned. I see you player👏👑
i would like u to visit Cape Town. these are the 5 different locations i think you should visit cause they all offer unique experiences. Stellenbosch, Cape Flats(be sure to have a guide though), V&A Waterfront/Seapoint, then City Center(Long Street/Kloof Street/District 6). theres lots of insanely nice/historic places to visit here in Cape Town, you wont be dissapointed
Also Gugulethu and KwaLanga.
This was great content! Thanks for showing us.
Cool video wish I was there to do the tour too!
I always appreciate your in depth explanation.
Big up to your tour guide. Bless him!
Some people prefer to buy new houses in New suburban areas instead of renovating old houses
The lady at brewery was speaking Sesotho hence it sounds different from Zulu or Xhosa
Top notch video mate 💪🏻
Very informative video,Soweto is a place to visit for sure..a town with unique history.
Born and raised in Soweto, but now I live in Durban now.
I began my entrepreneurial career there. I enjoyed that place. Thanks to God, without his blessings, Grace, mercy and power I wouldn't have survived there.
What is the name of the tour guide will visit south Africa next year for shore
thank you so much for the tour
Great video! It was very informative.
You have to Visit Credo mutwa village. Also in soweto at the Oppenheimer tower close to Zola. It's a heritage museum built by Credo Mutwa
I think i watxhed 4 of your videos today.. definately enjoying
Seeing the middle part of the video really reminds me of how privileged I am. I really forget there’re these sides in my country - weird to say, o know. Thank you for this.
I was today years old when I found out that Soweto stands for South Western Townships
Thanks for sharing this. Very informative.
Remember also that some of the people who live in those shacks owns houses in their province they are only there for work purpose..
Safe travel Sly, was there last year in April, and Cape Town. Hope you get to go on a safari.
I like how they show the guy on a bike, his life story, meanwhile real life is driving by
I took a picture of these beautiful women that made crafts in the shop across from the church. I lost my photos from that trip. I would love to see them again. I think of them on occasion.
Give it to the tour guide,he's such an informative vibe 🇰🇪
Loved the tour!
Very eloquent precise reporting from tour guide, 🌸🌻🌺
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this
The suburbs are also more representative of the milieu middle -class 'Black diamonds'. More than doubled in the past years, but the struggle continues.✊
Mabhubesi Ntombela, Is it really? A few of you got a little money from BEE and tenders from your connections to the corrupt politicians. Stop trying to hide the horrible reality of the country with one finger. Unemployment in the country is 70%, the young with degrees cannot find employment. The rand is almost worthless. This is the real SA, not the nice suburbs crap.
Yea our country’s debt has more than quadrupled since 2009 and the rand has never been as weak. We’re fighting global inflation and a devaluation of our currency. We also don’t make anything so things are just going to get more expensive and become more difficult.
You went in Sly....thumbs up!
I would like to see a similar video of Soweto that was done 30 years ago.
Yep. Well cool stuff. Thanks again, man.
It's quite heartbreaking to see the immense poverty that so many still endure in SA. From what I have been told, the economy has been in a spiral for decades and increased in intensity during Covid. I recall vividly the worldwide enthusiasm at the end of apartheid with the ANC taking over the government.. So much corruption and ineffective government.. What is the use to gain freedom and then steal your own people blind?
@comrade
Was SouthAfrica any better during apartheid when places with majority white were being funded?
@@edith1705 In many ways, YES!
@comrade
For whites yes, but for blacks no, not being able to move within your country freely, white only areas having electricity, having paved roads, like you commented, you heard but life is much better after apartheid. The economy is doing badly just like most economies in the world.
@@edith1705 I think we should be honest and admit that South Africa is not doing well socially or economically. It is entirely incorrect to say that most countries aren't doing well economically worldwide. In fact, most countries are doing far better than SA.
@comrade
I agree most countries are doing far better than SA. Though those countries' are doing just as badly economically for example US, an average American works 3jobs, in UK let say one has 100 pounds do you think 100 pounds will be able to buy the same amount of products it was able to buy 10 years ago, no, in Canada many people are leaving the country because of very high costs of living. Are economies in these countries I have given as examples doing well? I don't think so, the thing is western media focuses on the negative in African countries, so that their citizens don't have time to question their own western governments. In the west people buy most products on credit, that is not a reflection of an economy doing well to me, people should have enough money to buy things with money if the economy is doing well.
With the coming of COVID, economies are doing worse than before COVID in all countries I don't know of any economy not affected by COVID whether in the West or the rest of the world.
Yes SA has alot of issues but their government is trying their best, if the black government is that bad how comes they have maintained being in the G20.
There are so many blacks living in suburbs now.
Those mine dumps have changed shape over the years due to finding ways to extract more gold traces, which in the past was not known. So you will see them working the mine dumps professionally.
What an amazing experience
Hope everyone can see how this Goverment of us, don't care about their own people. People should open their eyes and make the change in Goverment.
If the government was not doing anything for citizens foreigners would've come to South Africa, just imagine free water toilets and free electricity while lae abiding citizens are swimming in debts.
And other nations use it as example to not fall for communism or socialist society. The people are wonderful in their hearts.
What tour group/company did you use for Soweto?
Would like to know too
you won't believe the big houses and mansions they own in the rural.. here it's strictly for work
your guide was excellent
That TOUR GUIDE tho.
Smart and articulate young man.
Great video bro appreciate it.
Beautiful video bhuti
You might want to get a second mic. To help with your work.
that's first thing I notice.
Did that guy just literally waste a bucket full of clean water after living the tap running over for that long??? 😭😭😭
That's just the thing with people who get stuff for free. They don't know the value of it and seem to not even care 💔
I’m sure the well Is full
Loved it !
Great video!!!!!!!
Great video. Blessings
Thank you for this! I went to Soweto a few times and didn't want to leave... I wanna move there!
I'm a 13 year old boy who lived there all my life except I was rich I had a Mercedes and porche and a mansion and a private school and now I live in Israel but I always saw these townships
Thank you for this
Good morning. Please do a live video because you are a gifted content creator.
I just can't get past the fact that they were burning other Africans alive for living in their country when they themselves were refugees througout Africa during apartheid
I think that's a bit distorted . Those who were exiled were controlled in those countries and we're encamped so that they don't rain around as they please . I'm not condoning the killing of our brothers and sisters but rather clarifying the distortion . Peace be unto you 🙏🏿 we need to build each other as especially Afrikans (I spelled Afrikans intentionally)
Soweto forever 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾
Very informative but the SOUND was very low and I couldn't listen the guide. On two devices. Or you should give us a resume or bring yourself closer to the guide. Thank you.
Great tour guide
Thumbs up to that Tour Guide
What's the safest city to travel to in South africa
Always change gears before hills
Fist thing the government should do is start a do not litter campaign and take pride in your streets. It really does help with better attitudes .
Thank you sooo much for doing this video…this is not shown on T.V. so we don’t know that our Sisters and Brothers are still living under these horrible conditions…We complain about the U.S. but I’m grateful for what I have now after seeing this ! Peace👑 Kween.
Thing is; We cannot afford US liberal/democratic policies, we are a developing country unlike the US. We are not the USA OF AFRICA - liberal policies hurt us - we have to adopt conservative policies i.e. (tight border control) even though the person you trying to keep out is the same color as you - but ECONOMICS should come first before race otherwise instead of pulling them up 🆙 they’ll pull you down. ⚓️
@@MrMm0p3 Facts, this is something many people do not want accept and deal with they'd rather start labeling SAns
This country in its current democratic form is literally less than 30 years old, so chile dude.
I'm from America, NYC many of our poor African American population are actively sleeping out in the streets, in the elements, in parks, subway stations in prisons and mental hospitals. Even the workers can no longer afford the rents or raise families in the cities any more. Although many who are giving in the South have nice homes, many more are living in cars and run down shack like homes. My brothers and sisters who are living in townships in SA are tightly unified with each other, they have land and are 80 percent of population. They are moving up little by little and they will survive and in time rule the land once again. We here in the west are disunified, have no land, can not grow anything and have no chance on taking over the land. And each and every day with the open border situation the white American government turning against us more and more. Although I presently live in a decent well kept home at the moment, my future and the future of our children far as I'm concerned is in South Africa and not in American cities in which we are being gentrified iand driven out of. Many are running to the South to survive, but that move shall prove to be a big mistake and will not solve our real problem. For me the choice is clear. The new world for many in our nation and many of our children will most definitely have to be South Africa. Peace and live family.
@@JohnThomas-li2vi exactly coz in South Africa there even a house for free government built up for the people but not all of them already in those houses I think coz of a lots of problem I don't know and I hope all they will get the House to live in 😍😍😍
You now I'm so tiered to hear about Mandela do you now how hard is our lives now Mandela is dead long ago we suffering because American pop their noses in everything in South Africa now everyones life is in danger here people are dieing every minute in South Africa is not a safety County no jobs people get robbed in day light on top of that the Foreigner s and more we are over population this Country is in a mess
South Africa doesn't seem safe for anyone to live in and yet it's democracy index is well rated
@@MsBhappy it's because those who gave the country the constitution are the ones telling the story because they own media. Actually our constitution is the elephant in the room , it's delaying progress and making things turn the opposite of what we want to achieve , and of course yes the agents of the slave master and coloniser are hard at work , making sure we don't become stable because a stable Afrika is a danger to the rest of the world
Cool vlog 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Where you at Sly? I am near Germiston
the shantytown looks relatively clean
Just say Peter son or Peter sen. Its actually an Afrikaans/Dutch surname.
❤️❤️❤️
South Africa can be dangerous .byt most big cities sre. The people sre very poor but slways friendly
Impressive tour. Here you can see how unequal the wealth is in the world.
I LIKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUT ITS TO QUIT FOR ME 🇺🇸
The SA government should be building proper housing and schools not just shacks
I like that people use cycles to travel !!
Don't forget to show us Philadelphia or Compton plz
Aparteid happening in Palestine as we speak. But no one is allowed to talk about this.
Townships are so dangerous they say yet you passed a lady carring a child without a care in the world. Townships are not the jungle like people make them to be.
Thanks for showing a bit of South African history. Pieterson is pronounced PeterSon.
Looks a lot like parts of Oakland Ca.
Like it open plan area
remember always seeing the protests in Soweto-back in the day.Blacks being shot on a regular basis.Glad that there are memorials built to honour the struggle
Looks better than the tent city of Hollywood California or the slums of Washington D.C in the United States.
Come to Durban
That's my township man. Dis my lokasie.
The guy has done his Homework