South African TV 1980s
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Ripped from a DVD in 2023. DVD compiled by UA-cam user RGC198, from a VHS video tape recorded by me.
***Due to the trend of comments on here, I need to mention, that this footage was recorded from the erstwhile SABC Astrasat analogue satellite service in 1997, as part of an historical television retrospective, broadcast one evening on SABC 3.
I am not South African, and was not in South Africa in the early 80s, when this programming was the norm, on the TV channel for "Europeans" prior to partial abolition of Grand Apartheid 1986.
[There were separate channels for "Africans" during that time period featuring different programming and advertising reflecting the ethnicity of the vast majority of South Africans.] ***
Fascinating insight into a lost time and place, thanks
The Lost World
Keep in mind South Africa did not have television until the mid 1970’s. There’s a documentary on UA-cam about the how first television station began.
they weren't sure if they would stay....
Yep, South Africa didn’t have television until 1976.
Damn even my country had TV since 1959
Hwat?! How?
if is southAfrican ¿where is the Black people?
3:01 Its really interesting how all the TV presenters and narrators all have anglicized accents. In that speak very proper English. It was the same in Australia back then too and other commonwealth nations. Its long gone now.
Even in the UK funnily enough, provincial accents weren't really accepted until the 1990s. Speaking of Australians though, some of the old cockney Londoners before the 1960s used to have a slightly Australian twang on TV which has completely disappeared today.
So sad
It's called the transatlantic accent and was a thing in America too back then, think Frasier.
I liked the accents They were like that in New Zealand also Very professional
Canada never fully mastered the transatlantic accent. If you go back to the war or before the war, there is a similar accent but with a very slightly Irish (I think) influence that prevents it from being a true transatlantic accent.
South africa looks like australia back then
Australia is deteriorating too. It’s 2nd World now not 1st World anymore.
much better than aussi
@@BigJFindAWay NWO (New World Order)... their moto is order out of chaos... destroy modern civilisation and then rebuild it with them as the saviours ...
@@BigJFindAWayis there a first world country today?
Yes there are some First World countries still left but they’re almost all in the Far East or the Persian Gulf. Switzerland is possibly First World too, along with a few tiny European micro nations like Andorra or Liechtenstein and maybe a couple Caribbean island nations like the Bahamas.
Wow!! Incredible recording. Thanks for sharing. From memory, I don't think South Africa analogue TV ever included Band 1 frequencies. The accents in some of the commercials sound more like what could be expected to hear on British TV.
You copied my VHS tape to DVD, so thank you. They used an extended band 3 and UHF (these bands are still used for digital), They never used band 1.
You might find a similar thing in Australian ads from the same period.
I think of alot of Americans thought white South Africans were of British descent and spoke English as their native tongue, no clue.
Easier to sell world wide.
@@Spillers72I'm American and must say that most of us know absolutely nothing about SA, even that it has more whites than other African nations. I've worked with some SA's who've moved here to flee the conditions there and they all speak English as if it was their primary language, though many of us think they're Aussies.
Half of the TV time was divided between Afrikaans and English -- only English (mostly USA shows &brands) shown here.
The whole Afrikaans broadcasting segment ignored
Good.
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland?
@@StrangeScaryNewEnglandbad.
dis jammer
@@frikkiethirion8053 I used to watch Quincy dubbed into Afrikaans in the 80s
This is cool! My Grandpa is from Cape Town SA. I'm American from California. My Grandpa lived in Santa Barbara for years because it reminded him of home.
Reminded him how? 🔶️⬜🔷️
@@KonradvonHotzendorf I was told because it has a similar climate, and terrain.
@@KonradvonHotzendorf He passed away in 2003 when I was 22, he was born in 1903 so lived to be 100 years old. My Mom would take me down to visit him.
We made more TV memories with 4 and 7 hours of TV a day. Now we have tons of channels 24/7 and no memories.
@@zsifk3212 to quote Pink Floyd..."50 channels of sh1t on the TV to choose from."
Forget channels, SA don't even have electricity.
@@alanthom4641back then you had 2 bad channels. Amazing+
@@envitech02 Isn't it pretty much a 'third world' crap hole? No solid infrastructure, shit economy, terrible government?
@@envitech02and i wonder y the whites aren't still leaving to go back to Europe where there's electricity & heating, i wonder why?
I lived on the south coast in South Africa from 1968 to 1979... This video is what it was like when I lived there..sad what it has become.
What was it like for the blacks back then ?
Blacks had their ancient, non-Western cultures, religions languages, and general way of life to fall back on.
@@backinthegame34 The same as it is now, and the same way it was for them hundreds of years before that.
It is still the same with more modern buildings
@@backinthegame34 Going by footage I've seen, they don't appear to be any better off now, than they wore 30 years and I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are much poorer, but it's difficult to get objective data.
If I'd been told that this was Australian TV from the eighties, there would be very little to make me think that it isn't (other than the currency). It's weirdly familiar.
That’s what the whole southern African was expected to turn out like Australia. Thank goodness it did not turn out that way.
@@tmajec Yeh it totally turned out better 0.0
What about the accents? 🇿🇦🇦🇺
South Africa was just like Australia and New Zealand
…if you were white.
@@robw0127the guilt stopped working quite some time ago.
@@robw0127 quite right, same with aboriginal Australians
Canada as well.
@@brick6347what do you feel guilty about? coward
This was interesting to see. Thanks for this.
If they had to have Police File now on TV, it would be neverending.
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Ummm the dockets would be missing, and them criminals would be released only to join the police force...all air and no force...😊😅😂...
most of the people on it would be the anc politicians
😅
As a black man who lived in South Africa during the 1980's, yes apartheid was not good but at least the country was very safe for everyone, and the economy was good. After apartheid my family and I had to leave the country since it became too dangerous and foreign investment stopped flowing into the country. All top industries started to all fail and corruption was rampant. My white, Jewish, Chinese and Indian friends also fled the country.
What a liar!!! How safe was it for anti apartheid activists? Eugene Terrblanche stayed. Where did you go?
lol you aint black
@@Mo-yd8xc What makes you think he's lying?
South Africa certainly doesn't appear to have improved in the last 30 years. Perhaps it has for a few, now very rich politicians, but not ordinary people, whatever their colour.
@@alunjones3860 great point. South Africa is one of the most dangerous and corrupt countries in the world. If we are a rich person, black and especially white, your life is in constant danger.
@@alunjones3860 great point. South Africa is one of the most dangerous and corrupt countries in the world. If you are a rich person, black and especially white, your life is in constant danger.
Forgive me Lord for taking those days for granted...
It's good you ask for forgiveness for taking those days for granted because they are never ever coming back.
Sad but true
@@karabontseki617 Yes, any African government will ensure that hell is for all.
LMAO
@@karabontseki617 Obviously not, this aids ridden junkyard has long been destroyed never to return to its former glory.
I have a question. Why is it particularly good to ask for forgiveness for something that is not coming back? I don't see the logic in your reasoning.
Eskom was cash flush and the lowest cost producer of Electricity in the world!
My family left Cape Town in 1989… seems like a lifetime ago, it is sad to see SA is now a failed state. Thank you for a sweet childhood memory.
better than a nazi state..
Not quite a failed state yet.
Then why u still here seething
the Big Lie can't exist without exaggerations and revisionism
😂 fallido para los racistas
RSA had its use by the West towards the Soviet Bloc which is one reason why it survived until just after the end of the Cold War. Yugoslavia was another. Very useful to the West for its non-aligned commitments. Once the Wall came down Yugoslavia was thrown aside by the West onto the trash heap.
Yugoslavia and RSA had one major flaw, they were built upon an ethnic/racial fault zone. They were countries existing on borrowed time. Had the Cold War gone on so too would they.
Excellent insight.
I glad to see the educated person. Where are you from?
true... the double standards of the west.
The exact same thing, but with opposite results, happened to the mafia in Italy. Italy had the largest communist party in the West and had a semi-aligned policy, so the rest of the West needed a tool to keep it in line. Once the USSR ended, the mafia returned to being a group of gangsters like there are everywhere
Maybe i missed something in the news, but last I checked the Republic of South Africa still exists today and it never disintegrated like Yugoslavia. At least I still have my RSA passport and last time I went there few months ago the country still seemed to exist. If you are gonna theorize about the classic "America/CIA conspiracy theories" like in every other cheap Hollywood spy flick that's cool dude, but at least get some basic facts correct. Greetings form a Croatian/South African-American😉😃
Wow, SA had German Mainzelmännchen cartoons in between TV ads (4:36). Never knew they were sold to foreign TV broadcasters.
Li'll Boycottbrecher.
I also was astonished about them.
Gudn Aaamd!
Aside from that it was always told, that West German Companys never supported the Apartheid State back in those days, except Bayer, BASF, Mercedes Benz, Deutsche Bank...etc.😂😂
4:36 was Mainzelmannchen, an ad-break bumpers mascot for ZDF (Zweite Deutsches Fernsehen) in Germany (then West Germany). Had no idea he was spotted elsewhere...
Reminds me of a friend I once had. Phillip was from South Africa. In fact, from Cape Town. He immigrated to the US at 16. His father had been hired by DuPont. He became a full US citizen and later accepted to University.
He then applied for scholarships as an African American.
Guess how well that went over?
Well, tell us! Elon Musk is a famous and successful African immigrant.
@@richardjames1812 I won't go too deep. Apartheid is still a touchy subject, and what went on in SA is none of my business. Nor, have I seen Phillip since about 1996. But since you asked....
At the time, "African American" was still a pretty new term. I'll add in that similar terms like "Italian American," "Polish American," etc, I don't really remember hearing (in my area anyway) until it became trendy in the 1990s. I myself am of mixed British/ European/ and "Native American" decent, and I too don't like putting one's ancestral heritage in front of "American" either. I think it causes division. I am not a "Scottish American" anymore than I'm a "Hungarian American."
My forebears were. The Hungarian branch came through Ellis Island not long after it opened. The Scottish branch got shipped here kicking and screaming after the second Jacobite Revolution (those German usurpers just can't take a joke, can they?).
Anyhow, I'm just an American. If a two word classification must be used then I'm an American Scot. Not the other way around.
Despite bloodline to The Bruce, he is not my heritage. Nor are bagpipes and haggis. My cultural heritage is George Washington, rock and roll, and cheese burgers and I'm damn proud of it. Enough said about myself. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Ok, just a bit more since it's relevant...
As for the "native" part, it's a misnomer anyway. If you're born here you're a native. If you're from the 500 tribes you're "indigenous" or "aboriginal." I'll just stick to saying my great grandmother was pure Shawnee and that suits me fine. I wasn't raised in the culture so I don't legally claim it. I got enough of the DNA to get a nasty case of the chicken pox and some food allergies, but not enough to keep my hair or get a decent scholarship. Phillips's scholarship application is our point anyway.
Phillip's argument (he was pre-law by the way, and doing this a lot so to make a point) was the application read for "African Americans."
Phillip is of Dutch and English decent. He's white. He has ancestry on BOTH sides of the Boer War. He was BORN in South AFRICA as were generations in his family tree. The man is a native AFRICAN!
The application did NOT read "for dark skinned Americans of sub-Saharan Continental decent", it read "African American." Yes. We all know what it MEANT, but it is NOT what was STATED.
( I fell like John Houseman in The Paper Chase )
Furthermore, Phillip was a legally immigrated and Naturalized US Citizen.
Thus, by simple definition, an African American.
He was denied the scholarship on tne basis of his skin tone.
Ironic isn't it?
He came from an apartheid nation to a supposedly free one and gets separated because of his skin colour.
He sued.
He still did not get the actual scholarship.
He did however get a settlement.
In the end, he dumped the University and attended U Penn instead.
I will not divulge the initial university for fear they'd sue me.
I hope that satisfied your curiosity. 😀👍
@@stevedallas4942 Thanks! I also have white friends in the US that are of ZA origin. We joke about this all the time. I am glad your friend took it seriously and it's good to hear that he got a settlement. The points you made do very much expose the silliness of such efforts. An Algerian immigrant to the USA would presumably have the same issues. Would a native born American with one black grandparent apply? How cold this be proven? Will work move to an apartheid - era racial categorization system? The silliness of it all is apparent.
@@richardjames1812 Agreed! 👍 We'll end a lot of division in the US when all just start once again being Americans.
Curious note?
I've been, let's say, "lost in bureaucratic confusion" twice.
In the first, I'd lost my social security card and went to get a new one. I also hadn't been able to get credit and didn't know why. The answer? I'd been accidentally declared dead for two years! If you think that's crazy, the S.S. office had a standardized form and process for correcting the error! If my wallet hadn't been stolen I might never had known! Curiously, the IRS didn't stop taxing me during my "demise."
The second was a bit scarier...
This also went on for years.
Somehow I'd also been mistakenly documented as British. Despite my mother presenting my birth certificate it didn't matter. I'd never even set foot on that island!!!!! It took as long to straighten that out as it would've taken had I actually been an Englishman with an expired visa as accused. This mistake however only screwed up my passport, not my driver's license or voter registration!?!?!
This suggests to me that, even a decade ago, anyone could come here, drive and vote. I seriously doubt I could have, during that confusion, gone to England and done either (with the UK's current status I'm not so sure, I probably could).
I've since bought a St George flag just to be a smart@$$. Nobody here knows what it is anyway.
@@stevedallas4942 seems philip wanted a free life like his fellow african americans. why must everything be race . he sure knew how to play the race bait and get free money. what about all the white americans who dont get scholarships , is that racism
That was great to watch! My best friend in the 80's was from Cape Town and he lived in Durban as well. He and his familly moved to my small town in Ohio.
I nearly got sick when I heard "Just R59 for two nights in New York🤣🤣
Yip, the ZAR is now one step above the Zim dollar.....
How many U S dollars was 59 Rands back then?
@@user0307 It was R1 to 3 U S Dollars so I hear. Unbelievable.
@@davidihlenfeldt2726 So 59 Rand was like 180 USD?
@@keithlarsen7557 yes. I hear so from the older people because I was 8 years old in 1980
"All New Mazda 323" haha
Such an old car now.
Yeah it was wild seeing what is old being new
good car...
Oh, it now comes back to me that it was my first car, and I had lived in South Africa 2 years before 😂
Beautiful record.
The South African country seemed functional, but it was known that, economically (and morally), it could not be sustained for much longer.
Good mentions of old cars, Mazda 323 and Ford Granada, which still look beautiful today.
It was always going to end the way it did. The smart ones got out. Apartheid has been replaced with systematic corruption. South Africa is a rich country with vast resources.
morally it needed help - FINANCIALLY IT WAS ABOVE AND BEYOND AND COULD HAVE BEEN SUSTAINED FOR CENTURIES - but come take a look now - the beloved anc have destroyed this country and left its people even worse off - but you live in your bubble is fine madod
😂😂😂😂😂
@@halfdome4158 WHATS THE JOKE HALFDOME - ARE YOU HALFDONE? WHAT KARMA SAID HERE IS UNFORTUNATELY TRUE - WE GOT AWAY FROM THE HATE OF APARTHEID AND GOT STUCK WITH GOVERNMENT BEING FILLED WITH CORRUPT THIEVES THAT JUST KEEP LINING THEIR COUCHES WITH MONEY WHILE THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE GO DOWN THE TOILET
@@karmatrainingThere, the States simply decided to raise their self-esteem in defense of blacks and imposed sanctions on South Africa, from which he died.
I just loved the 80’s ♥️♥️
Imagine being in the South of AFRICA and not seeing one person of colour on your television.. loved those times but society was abnormal..i was conpletly ignorant to what was going on.
white people made tv, why must we show your face on our creation? look you dont even give us jobs with BEE?
Imagine classical music being played on TV today.
person of color? You mean African
Then you wouldn’t be watching television at all because all persons are persons of colour.
@@BigJFindAWay round of applause for our local comedian!
An ex-work colleague in 2005 showed me a photograph of his home before he left SA for good. With iron gates, razor wire and spot lights his home looked a prison to combat such high rates of crime. It’s hard to believe this video is from the same society. He said things went downhill rapidly there in 1995.
@@garyfoley946 1994 to be exact.
Why do you think that happened? I bet 200 years of colonialism and keeping 90% of the population as slaves caused it.
We have South African Jewish friends who fled South Africa due to the persecution of “white” people and deterioration of civilisation.
It's Normal invaders should not sleep calmly
@@Ercan-fc2oqcorrecto 😂
Back when S. Africa was a decent country. Look how clean it looks. Now its hell
decent for white people
@@anarky_jay and coloured and mixed since they don't have ro live on dangerous shitholes homemade by the ANC.
And what exactly do you mean by «clean»?
@@anarky_jay Who.created south africa? Exactly
@@easterworshipper730 We all childs of god
This country was forced to give up and destroy its nuclear weapons that gave it independence.
Thank god for that
Never should have done it. Big mistake.
@@OquadrinheiroYeah now it’s a shithole.
Yes
@@DPonerFor Africans back then, it was still a shithole for them.
I wasnt born until 2008 in Pretoria so this is all new to me but Dad loved it thx 🇿🇦
All the best to you.
@@frankgradus9474Thanks very much
Damn! How is the life in there?
@@phuchong5267 Not bad but could be better
Wrong flag
Seems like the typical Commonwealth anglo saxon country , I believe things are quite different today , I read somewhere that 36 homicides take place daily in Johannesburg
It was mainly Boers that had political power in SA
There's a difference between Afrikaners who held most political and military power and those of British descent who tended to focus on business.
Ofc, Dutch and German are Anglo-Saxons, along with French from Normandy.
The Portuguese contingent that rounded out Afrikaner mix (Dutch, German, French Hugenot) is the outlier.
@alexanderstefanov6474 Not unlike French Canadians dominating the federal government of Canada for over a generation.
@@t.b.g.504 that's mainly due to the fact that Anglo Canadians are not bilingual for the most part
@@t.b.g.504 most Quebec ridings exclude themselves from the government by electing the Bloc. GTA and Montreal immigrants dominate the federal government.
It’s so sad what’s happened with South Africa today
Forced imprisonment, armed intimidation and racial segregation are hallmarks of Western democracy
Ah. 😢 the feels. Holy crap. If time travel was real, I would be back there.
Are you black ?
During Apartheid?
Tell me you're white without telling me you're white
SA is the canary in the coal mine to Europe and the US.
PERFECT analogy
When folks say "Apartheid was better" what they really mean is that they missed the days where completely segregated white communities didn't have to deal with the fact that the state actively stripped black people of their land, access to education, access to basic public services, access to housing, and citizenship and then cramming them into tiny reservations which made up less than 15% of the country' total land area, devoid of any investment or infrastructure financing, and then being shocked that those regions were cesspools of crime and violence. Why were they? Don't worry about that
They are fundamentally saying they miss the days where mass black impoverishment wasn't their problem even though they actively supported a state that did it. What's crazier is how Apartheid is not Jim Crow, apartheid literally ended barely a generation ago; memories of the state police brutalising black kids is still fresh in the minds of many in the country. Pure cognitive dissonance and thinly veiled racism.
@@AweSean-wv3xo Are blacks better off now?
@@AweSean-wv3xo You make it sound like a bad thing 😏
@@AweSean-wv3xo So who created all of these things in the first place? Are you implying blacks were in SA, and had education and public services before the arrival of europeans? Why leads you to believe the two could ever coexist with each other? Is it racist to notice the natural order?
Back when the country had an infrastructure and was still a 1st world country with a functional economy...so sad to watch these.
And apartheid and systematic opression! So sad!
@FUSIONJAZZMAN420 unfortunately that too, one would have thought the country could have kept going though...unfortunately the country ended up being ran into the ground.
@@FUSIONJAZZMAN420 As did most of the world, it's just that in South Africa it was made to be about race, not class.
A morally wrong country that was unsustainable - where 90% of the population had no rights
@@FUSIONJAZZMAN420 And what the country has turned into after they were abolished showed exactly why they were a necessary evil.
It's a shame what has happened to South Africa.
Yes people getting their freedom is shameful
@@KonradvonHotzendorfSome people can't handle electrification, let alone freedom.
It’s a shame what was in 80
No thanks to the criminal, Nelson Mandella and the ANC.
No thanks to the criminal, Nelson Mandella and the ANC.
When everything worked & no power cuts...wonder why?
Thank you anc
because the jesuit order and its xionist agents were still in their place.
The same reason the rest of Africa is in the toilet.
I'm South African by the way.
Everything worked????? Which SA was that? One in your dreams? White Ignorance or Privilege or stupidity ?
this word BLACK tell you something?
South Africa was a much nicer place back then.
what caused the change?
@@AnonYmous-mw5lc Change in it being less a much less nice place? The ANC, as the ruling party, is pretty much incompetent.
@@AnonYmous-mw5lcwhite people stopped running it
Everywhere was a much nicer place back then at this point 😅😂
It depends...if you are white, sure.
Took me back to my childhood
The Rand was stronger than the US $ and the £ back then...
Police File was always interesting to watch.
A buddy of mine was missing from work from Monday to Wednesday, and I joked we'd see him on Police File on Wednesday night... I was right.
He was arrested for wearing camo, which was illegal back then, in a police sweep through Hillbrow in Jhb.
He was being filmed in the back of the police truck when he suddenly got up, hands cuffed behind his back, ran at the camera shouting "I won't be on your News!" and kicked the camera.
Ahh, the good old days...
The Rand was absolutely not stronger than the USD or GBP in those days, or even now- what planet are you born?. SA was under major sanctions from both for it's racist bullshit. And now the Rand is even more worthless.
I can't even fathom being arrested for a style of clothing patterning. What a shthole
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland It was simple: Terrorists wore camo, so camo was banned.
Dallas soundtrack just gave me the shivers😂😂😂...Usually back then i should have been in bed,but i tried my luck and got the belt..Oh for some of you that dont understand when we were younger we had a curfew mine was at 8pm.
LOL for us it was Hill St Blues!! ;)
Same for me back then 😊
Taxi for me 😂
Dallas was epic!! Those days not many had tv's and when you heard the Dallas theme you scrambled to a house you could watch it. Yeah, the good old day neh! 😊 oh my word, the Ding Dong commercial is super epic too!
The details in that crime report show are more useful than the vague description that we see in today's true crime shows.
Why can't we have a show like that today?
Because we would all become right wing
The 80's was a good time
Para los racistas si 😂
Apartheid: *remember that I exist*
if you were white
The 80s were wonderful.
@@xz7981 sure thing racist
Used to be the shining country on the hill; now it's an open-air toilet. I wonder what made all the difference....? 🤔🤔
1980s S. African TV commercials were similar in content to Britain or Australia. Ah, those were the days the country was orderly. . .
Because it was part of the west and it’s pioneers are british and dutch
Why couldn't they stay in the west, what were they doing in Africa that's not their land or home. The Caucasus mountains was their home not Africa
@@Truthseeker580 only the khoi San tribes are from that area meaning that any other despite of their races are not from their that includes other africans
@@Truthseeker580 the south of africa is only a home to khoi sans
South Africa was wonderfull
For whites...
for white people
Wonderfully racist.
*wonderful
Ah the good old days! /s
Compare this SABC to the joke that exists now hey?!😂
Looked unseasoned and boring, wtf was that music?
I love the joke that it is today. Jokes on you
In both cases, the broadcasting is a full controlled from the govern...
So sad to see what a cesspool South Africa is now
No it's not 😂
@@jarrodb4867the blacks should pay reparations to the white man. Because they have destroyed everything he has built.
@@Eastbridge2100 you didn't finish elementary school... did you ?
@@jarrodb4867 you’re not playing with a full deck….. are you?
@@Eastbridge2100 still working on your GED? Or did you give up?
1st world to 3rd in less than a decade!
What a shame
South Africa was always 3rd world.
But before you go pointing fingers, note that the USA, Canada, UK, Western Europe? Australia and NZ used to be 1st world and now are very much 2nd world.
Thank you anc
That's Africa for you.
Incompetent
@@BigJFindAWay wow you are very much deluded - South Africa was 1st world at one point the Rand was stronger than the US Dollar 0 but its ok you are obviously confused. the current regime has pushed the country into junk status - robbing the people and all state owned industries blind.... but like I said you are deluded and confused - probably also never resided here. good-bye
Looked like Austrália or New Zealand
It looked like S.A. then and still is S.A. today!
much better than any british common wealth hole.
The problem in S.A.was to many natives they couldnt be butchered into obscurity and submission as im Aus. and N.Z. you see.
@@johntheball yes to sad! The thing that happend in S.A, it did here in Brazil and Latin America....we had a very european culture but then the other cultures started to become majority.
@@gustavogoncalves3900 No eres parte del club wey
I was born in 1972, I remember none of the ads before the Baygon ad at 4:39. I do remember feeling sorry for the bugs... And being excited for Tarzan's car: The Mazda Tree-to-tree, and watching Dallas from next to the door frame whilst I should be in bed. I have no memory of: "The Young Kennedy". Ding Dong Dairy Bell made me post this comment and to click away. Too much hurt of what I lost. Incidentally: The OP seems like a KZN-bra and not from Cape Town nor Jo'Burg. I just get that feeling...
That Baygon ad is a good summary of how they were running things, despite all the misty eyed racism in the comments here.😢
Thanks ANC, just thanks!
Yes, thank you ANC for liberating SA from state-sanctioned white supremacist terrorism 😊
When a party is in power that long, corruption is inevitable. The great heroes of the anti-apartheid fight turned out to be not so good at actual governance, and with a large chunk of South African voters now having no memory of apartheid days but only of ANC malfeasance, the bloom is off the rose. Maybe having a coalition government will help.
I believe that
Ahhh...the good ol days!!
"good"?
@@lawsonhellu4718 Adjective - Good = to be desired or approved of, having the required qualities; of a high standard. Noun - that which is morally right; righteousness, benefit or advantage to someone or something.
@@brucemcdonald8529 Still it does not correspond to what south africa was back then.
Forget about it if you don't get it. I don't have to expand on it.
This was when south Africa was in order..
you mean when apartheid was still in place?
@@livphobiaYes, that was order
@@livphobia yes, blacks are incapable of running a desirable civilization
@@livphobia Yep it was nice for white people and now its a nightmare for everyone.
Can you imagine if they handed over governance to the tribes in the 50's?
Good thing they held on long enough to build loads of infrastructure so that it would take the ANC longer to destroy everything.
@@livphobia Yes shill, that's right. When apartheid was in place.
Fascinating! Imagine spraying insecticides on the walls of your kid's bedroom? The commercials just make these videos. Imagine being halfway around the world and watching "Dallas"? They must have thought American family life quite dramatic and upper class.
Imagine letting insects bite your sleeping child
Looks wonderful, They must have developed very well
They did.
The South Africa i want to remember.
Yeah you want to remember the war crimes on humanity, and you call yourself jesusmysaviour, do you really think Jesus would help ignorant people like you, he wouldn't shake your hands or look at you.
The white one?? (I'm white. Just making a joke)
Well keep remembering about it.
O those were the days ❤❤❤❤❤
How man got hacked apart and graped since this commercial 😢
Whites were always so innocent and harmless 😊
@@fofivefella2254 seems to be working out for yall, mud boi
@@fofivefella2254 we are, your existence is proof, enjoy it while you can
@fofivefella2254 working out for you, isn't it?
what was the first piece of music during the ad for "Golden Leaves"? The announcer mentioned 3 composers but not sure who wrote that one in particular.
@13:56 the slums and the squatter camps were there in the 1980s.
People lived in ramshackle houses without electricity even back then.
The Dairy Belle advert made my day. We used to have the best TV jingles.
When everything worked there were no power cut the South African rand was worth something South Africa wasn't riddled with crime beautiful days sadly long gone I wonder what changed??? Even politics was better back then
Worked for white people
@@paulwheeler4283 You know what changed.
@@norman8125 sadly I do yes
yes because the South African Security forces, aka the Gestapo, kept order. 😂
Back when South Africa was a great place for all people to live in.
Lol! Are you serious! Trying to revise history I see. SA was great for whites, hell for black people.
Except those who were regarded as subhumans ofcaues😂
White heaven
@@WalterWhite-bc8ck Setting fire to people that displease you is just the culture of course.
You have to be really lazy to make that kind of comment.
Europe too is becoming Africa
Good.
Womp womp
@@jarrodb4867jump off
South Africa is in Africa, your eurocentric bullshit is absurd there, what the fuck are you talking about whiteness if this is not your country or continent, everybody can see how these people are lying to colonize your land.
Yep the weather is heating up year by year.
10:40Now that was a fine car. Fords in South Africa were often to specifications not seen in the UK; i think there was a 3 litre V6 Cortina!
Oh right sovietskov piotrovich, enjoy your fetish life in your masters Britain.
V6 Cortina was legendary car that we did not have in nz
Looks nice back then,
Very civilized and pleasant
Haha the way he checked out that girls arse at 0:37
And then promptly kisses his gal after.
me too
Doesnt matter where you go, sexualizing women is the mainstay of the advertising industry.
I do that...keeps he guessing...😂
In the 1969 trial Nelson Mandela confessed the terrorist indictment..
What’s the old name of the city that used to thrive is SA?
South Africa is MUCH better now 😂😂😂😂
Amazing to believe it was an actual country once.
So South Africa basically used to be an actual Wakanda? I’m so confused right now 😅
A very pale imitation of Wakanda…
@@SWalkerTTUsounds more like a African version of United States for me.
Not even remotely close to a wakanda
@@lawsonhellu4718 more like San Francisco in the early 90s then?
@@creativecatproductions Kind of
I remember Shell strips use to kill flies like mad. Watered down, today
That Bayer spray looked a little scary
Now Europe looks like Africa
Good.
Guy likes colonialism
@@jarrodb4867spoken like a true Cuckold!
Sadly.
@@Mach5Johnnyspoken like a little dick racist 😅
Anyone know where to find more DairyBelle adverts? Wanting to make a compilation of 'em.
If anyone can send some links in the replies, I thank you in advance, cheers)
Some of the comments here are crazy to read
A first world country
@@gustavo042Like this one.
@@FUSIONJAZZMAN420 How so? It was a civilized nation and an economic powerhouse.
Have you ever even been to South Africa?
@@incumbentvinyl9291Was it a fair nation for everyone? ...
@@wagnerrodrigues_1986 I would say that it was neither fair nor free, but that doesn't change the fact that the living standards were better for everyone and the country was far more productive and safe.
Some people value a freedom to vote over food on the table. While not an intelligent decision, it's human nature, especially as you're hoping for a brighter future, one that obviously never came. Now South Africa is a corrupt junkyard ridden with aids, sad but true. Perhaps the most alarming development is that things are only getting worse. South Africans recently voted against Mandela's ANC party in a manner where they did not get a parliamentary majority for the first time since the days we're talking about in this thread. The country has been slowly spiraling out of control since the reign of Nelson Mandela. Sadly, I will never visit again.
The Mazda 323 was a pretty good car. Sporty too!
Bring back the glorious South Africa and Rhodesia.
Start a new country in your back yard.
@@backinthegame34 Build your own civilisation? Sorry, you can't.
Pathetic. You sound exactly like the austrian painter
@@showbizsam4440😂😂they have China and India building their countries now
@neilrichardson7454 There's a wonderful episode on Rhodesia in the British TV series Unreported World.
Filmed at around peak-Mugabefail, back when the Xanadu PF leader was bulldozing homes to protect democracy.
The UK documentary maker asks, "Was life better fot the ordinary black man back in the days of Rhodesia?"
And the colonial cousin being questioned couldn't even try to deny it.
Before the other bros took over 😂😂😂😂😂 now realty has set in
The facade fell apart
Western Europe in the same direction as Southern Africa
The only right way
Ridiculous comment.
@@jimjiminy5836 ridiculous is you
True, what happened to RSA 30-40 yrs ago is now starting in England, Sweden France and Italy
0:58 'you have no idea how bad it can get'
4:36 What's a Mainzelmännchen doing there? Did German ZDF license them or did South African TV just outright rip them off?
wow very good adds for south africa when western people made sout africa great
Ok. thanks for that mister "we are good at everything".
To think it wasn't even 50 years ago and yet it's such a different world from now ... how quickly things change!
It shows that civilization needs vigilance to carry on. We shouldn't take it for granted.
The Republic of South Africa no longer exists, just as Atlantis does not exist...
And how does it not exist?
A better place back then. Instead of ending apartheid the way they did, they should have divided the country into two countries, one for whites and one for the other lot. Would have worked better than the mess they have today...
Nah, whitey should just leave
@@jarrodb4867they have 😂
Good 😂@@connoroleary591
Nah they should've divided the country into the various ethnic groups of South Africa
Apartheid was doomed at the beginning when they keep whole native population poor and don't let even chance for talented youth to have good education. They should keep apartheid for a while with improvement of living standart and education system in bantustans, then slowly integrate them into a rest of the country. In that case everyone would be pleased: government would have more taxes, economy increase.
As an American, this comment section is reminding me WAY too much of comment sections on crime stories here, which is not what I would've expected from a block of commercials. Jeez...
Seu país patrocinou esse crime contra a humanidade. Cara, não sei se sua natureza lhe permite compreender o que vou dizer, mas o Carma que o povo americano acumulou ao longo de sua existência talvez tenha atingido um ponto em que apenas com sua extinção possa ser pago.
Está falando besteira, África do Sul foi dada nas mãos de genocidas, Mandela era um deles, estaria a maioria dos negros da África do Sul sofrendo de "karma" por isso?. @@AMBG83
Too much mostly peaceful looting
@@peixeaquatico3644 Quem faz apartheid não é genocida?
Karma não existe, várias atrocidades foram feitas contra negros após a saída de europeus das colônias, isso seria karma par aos governos(socialistas) que tomaram conta dos lugares? Não. Apartheid era uma forma de opressão, mas era melhor do que o governo(formado por terroristas) vindo após ele, uma opressão não justifica a outra@@anarky_jay
Never Forget what they took away from us !
Ethnic tension is not new nor unique to any culture.
13:54 Duke Ellington (robbery suspect)
Good thing we kept all those old VHS tapes nê? That said, some things are best left in the past...
Fascinating!
And now the country is a Third World sewer. what happened?
The Rand dropped into the Sewer and keeps dropping. Every currency on the planet will collapse and a one world currency will replace all currencies still around by that time.
It's still better to where you are.
@@backinthegame34 Not by a long shot. However, if you like the highest rate of rape in the world, the mass murder of the White Boers, a failed economy, randy AIDS-ridden bums roaming the streets, and a buckling power grid, not to mention submental racists like Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa for president, then SA is the place for you.
@@liamsandal6360Womp womp
Whites lost power
Make South Africa Great Again 🙏🏻
The music at 8:06 made me think about sailing ships when I realized they had used it extensively in the BBC series The Onedin Line ... dang, how some music sticks in our brain even after decades. But don't ask me what I had for supper yesterday :-D
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