Yup, 30 years ago this area was safe and pristine. Just shows what destruction and damage a new government , interested only in lining its own pockets, can do.
This area of Joburg is cleaner and safer than São Paulo city centre in Brazil. In this video what we can see is people searching anything to do, picking up materials for recycling, selling auto parts, and of course submitting to illegal activities (criminality). Due to a high level of unemployment and poverty. I can not see people getting high with drugs look like streets of USA and Latin America cities.
It's sad, if the aparthied gov were inclusive the country wouldn't be here. So that's your ppls fault. The liberation had to happen and these are the consequences of the former gov. Now all are suffering not just one set of group.
It's because they're all socialists of some flavor. Socialists concentrate power into a single party and don't believe in the separation of powers, corruption is always the result.
I remember being a small boy walking those streets and there was not one piece of rubbish, there were city workers cleaning the roads, fixing them, and the robots (traffic lights) all worked as they should have. The SA government are destroying a beautiful country and the people are letting them.
I worked with a guy who was from SA here in the UK. Without me asking he said the same. He said SA was a nice country with little in the way of slums and crime was heavily controlled. It changed and became a place he wanted to leave due to guns, crime and government corruption. Others from SA say the same.
What do you expect look at Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. As a kid in the USA I knew it was a bad idea to give the country to the Africans. Should have split it up.
@@Norm-ih2rq I'm not trying to start shit or nothing but are you saying apartheid should have never went away? I'm legitimately curious. I've been researching SA and saw that when the government took farm land away from white SA and gave it to black SA without any compensation I believe. The zinger is they gave farm land to people who had no idea how to grow food so what does the retarded SA government do? They have the balls to plead with those same white SA to come back and teach their NEW farmer how to farm....I mean you can't make this up. The world is full of silly sallies.
It was never a first world country, just look at the literacy rates before and now and the government tortured so many political prisoners and was just plain cruel and inhumane, I think to this day ppl don't know where their loved ones are like the victims of Chile's Pinochet, the ANC is corrupt though and needs to go.
Let’s talk facts, this is a small immigrant neighborhood in Johannesburg, the immigrants came when black Africans reclaimed their land, this looks like Philadelphia, or Oakland, California, or Skid Row, California, or the west side of Chicago, and it’s so many more neighborhoods that look like this in the US that I probably couldn’t count them, Johannesburg is twice the size of New York city, and it’s a beautiful city, you have a Rosebank, do you have Stanton city, do you have waterfall city, and in 2010 they built the subway system, which makes New York subway system look like a pile of💩 it’s clean and safe, and I love how they spray down the seats before new passengers, Kim board, plus they have a high-speed rail system that most white south applicants didn’t want, probably because they didn’t want progress in South Africa but the black leader ship built a high speed rail system that’s clean and modern, so let’s stop with the propaganda videos. South Africa is doing fine lol the US doesn’t have high speed rails 😂😂😂
SA is just showing its true color being an African country after the Caucasian government left. You have to admit the British people knows how to run a society with local touch. They succeefully held together and ran Hong Kong, South Africa, India, Burma, Egypt , Guyana. I havent seen an African country that could thrive by themselves in the last 100 years.
*So, why can't America"anglo country" cleanup kensington Ave in Philadelphia, Pennslyvain, former British colony now "supposedly riches country in the world" where majority of addicts roaming street, living in hug tents, openly injecting drugs in public,urinating and defecating on the sides of the streets, who are mostly "white Americans", that not exception but rule in most American cities run by both democrats and republican governments? "America's opioid epidemic is the largest in the world"*
India is doing far better than England too. we've beaten them in GDP. claiming as the 5th largest economy of the world. if it wasn't for the looting. England wouldn't have even reached where it is now. A peanut sized country can't even manage it's own inflation and economy.
Be serious, when the UK leaves they knock everything over on their way out the door. Most countries don't spot them doing it. Even Ireland, they divided into north and south creating decades of trouble and poverty. In India Pakistan, they just made that on their way out the door. Once Ireland figured out the trap the UK left on their way out the door they out a stop to it and thrived and do better than the UK. South Africa still hasn't realized it's in a trap. Britain ran things dreadfully and didn't have the class to do hand overs with the countries best future in mind.
The lovely Freedom that Mandela was talking about.Born frees are so lucky thank you to the ANC who else would give the youth drugs and prostitution with a touch of poverty.🇿🇦
@@jerrywagner4690She killed a 14 year old boy on suspicion of being a Spy for the Govement. Had his throat slit and burned if I remember correctly. This was the main reason why he left her...
The only common thing with Kensington in Philadelphia is illegal dumping, if your message was to point drugged hopeless people, NO they don't have a common denominator. 95% of people here seem very sober and busy in their hustles. Good coverage in all.
You obviously haven’t tried walking through Johannesburg after the sun goes down, it’s almost identical to Kensington except it’s MUCH more dangerous and the drug gangs roaming the streets will kill you for R50…I have been there and speak from personal experience. I would suggest you go check it out yourself but you probably wouldn’t survive so I’d rather not. 😡
Most of the people I saw here were not even high it was just ordinary people walking by...the area is dirty for sure but i wouldn't call those people zombies ...
I agree with u ..go watch Streets of Philadelphia on UA-cam...That is worse there is a lot of zombie..this is nothing compared to Streets of Philadelphia....
@@albertm222 New Orleans had the 8th highest homicide rate on the planet next year only two countries with higher homicide rate than the US is Brazil and Mexico
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 well done ANC! JHB CBD looks amazing! Nice touch with the day time hookers. 👌🏻 Crime,disease and drug addiction is always an award winning combination. 🏆
I actually just had an appt with my doctor who is South African and we were talking about Johannesburg now versus 30+ years ago. His biggest worry is the crime in SA is out of control. He told me his sister lives in an area that's safe bc its patrolled by private security firms and the residents pat for it automatically through their taxes or wtvr. He was in Johannesburg in January and he told me the electricity went out multiple times, needless to say over 35 years ago that shit didn't happen. Clearly the corruption in SA is rampant and everyone is feeling it. Such a beautiful country but tough to live in.
Philadelphia should be changed from the brotherly love to the brotherly scum because Philadelphia look just as bad or worse. The only difference is the color of the people.
@@maursummers498not everywhere in the USA looks like Beverly hills, go to parts of new Orleans and you'll find it looks just as bad. You don't need to be pro CCP to criticise the USA
So sad. My wife was born in the beautiful country of Rhodesia. Her family had to sneak out in 1981 because once it became Zimbabwe you were not allowed to leave the country. They had all of their possessions shipped in a container to Australia, then they claimed to be going on vacation there and never came back. Once the breadbasket of Africa, now the basket case of Africa. South Africa appears to be rapidly going down the same road.
My Greek family used to have a business in Rhodesia. They also used to live there part of the year and vacation too. That changed of course and we just moved back to our island, what a shame.....
@@truesouth6532 That is true. DA ran the city for well over a year and did absolutely nothing. Mr Mashaba at least tried to sort the disaster out when he was mayor.
To cecha naszych czasów to można zobaczyć i w USA i nawet w Canadian jestem z Polski u nas tego nie ma. Był czas kiedy chciałem emigrowac do tych krajów ale mi się nie udało,no i chyba dobrze.
Dear lawd! The once beautiful and magical Joburg is down the drain. This is SO sad! Thanx for the video. It made me jump up immediately and work. Imagine living there? 😳
Same thing I said where are the zombies?? Everyone is moving at a normal pace, active, lively… yes it is littered and there are lots of closed businesses but that title was a reach I’m still waiting for the Zombies at 8:59 I pray he’s not talking about the handicapped person shortly after that time slot 🥺
I have always said it, when you get huge numbers of black people living in one place, you will find paradise. They just make everything better. They just cannot help it,its what they do. Even in America, you go to a mostly black city you will find paradise.
I grew up not far from these streets. We had beautiful parks, wonderful restaurants, safe passage and respected the environment. Today this is what it has become. Filthy and rotten. Designed by the anc.
South Africa will go down in history as the first country to progress from a third world nation, to an advanced one …and then decline back to a third world one again in less than a century..and 1994, when the ANC took over, will go down as the tipping point.
@@lamjr444 Blaming no electricity and water in SA on colonialism when SA was the first African country without colonialism. Classic victim behavior. Germany has water and electricity as well and their colonies didn’t yield any profit.
@@sigmasaviorgoatboy yeah cause other cities don’t have poor areas in them…Whatever dude. Every large metropolitan city whether it’s ran by a democrat or a republican has bad parts in it and it’s always so pathetic of petty little people like you getting on here and trying to paint everything so one-sided.
There is a correlation in all these areas and the problems we are having in many American cities in a nut shell : poverty , crime , drugs , homelessness , sex trafficing....etc
Its messy but i see no drug addicts hunched over or people unconscious laying on the sidewalk. I dont see tents on the sidewalk where people live. Its many steps up from the USA.
@@captseamus I live in Detroit and it is actually on a strong upswing since Mike Duggan took office as mayor. He built a big budget surplus and he is using $8 million of that to offer free removal of dead and diseased trees for all residents. Still far from perfect but mayor Duggan has done more for Detroit in the last few years than the past almost 50 years with the previous mayors. In fact most abandoned houses have been demolished and replaced with either urban gardens or tree plantings. GO DUGGAN!!!!
@@NunyaBizznaz never said he was, plus I don't think that being African has anything to do with whether or not someone is apt to be incompetent or corrupt. I was just taking a sec to give a little shout out to the leader of my home city. Capable and honest leadership is something that we have not seen in Detroit for a very long time.
South Africa is a beautiful place and most of South Africa looks much better than this. This is just one bad area America looks worse than this but all of America don’t look like this in every city you can find a neighborhood or a place that looks worse. South Africa looks 10 times better than America so be proud of your country.
The traffic lights don't work?? The infrastructure isn't as bad as I thought, and for a slum, the roads seemed good. A little maintenance, sanitation, police patrols, and public rehabs/shelters could help
This looks just like Philadelphia, but not as bad it’s hard to tell the difference except for the color, the people everyone walking around, like zombies, push the shopping carts high on drugs
shocking how much it resembles locations in US… it seems as if the opium wars of france and england in late 19 century china is being done to us by our own governments… very sad and alarming how similar it looks to be in SA :/
though watching more this just looks like regular poverty alcohol stores disrepair but no drug zombies or possible dead bodies like on worse blocks in many US cities large and small ☹️
Not really all over the world. But those places where independence came too quickly and the new administration lack of vision, strategy, and plans, to take the country to the next level. Instead, take backward steps by appointing relatives and close friends to move state assets into their own pockets. Now with China loans turboboosting them, they can move more Chinese money into their pockets and let the next administration make local people pay with their savings.
Too bad it’s a communist/criminal party running this 💩 hole and more closely resembles the MAGA party that tried to criminally take over the US government but not surprising ignorant people will project their shortcomings onto others though.
Amazing transformation. Sadly, in the wrong direction. I have driven and walked many times on these very roads. Still, the africans have got exactly what they wanted, which ultimately should please them.
I remember catching Combi taxis from DF Malan drive into the CBD to go to Doors or Alcatraz and walking all of those streets. Granted the CBD was never quite that salubrious....it had an edge to it....but it certainly didnt look like that.
What about Roseburg, what about waterfall city, the truth is that area is an area of immigrants from all over Africa, Johannesburg is twice as big as New York City, is so many nice areas, but of course white propaganda will find one bad area essay that is all bad, it’s all propaganda, and all lies
I spent some amazing times in Jo'burg back in the day with the love of my life Roy Welsh a SAP officer, we used to go to the Carlton & President and then head off over to th eCave Inn in Alberton for a meal then back in to the city to Athens by night. I can not believe how horrible Jo'burg is today...it's heartbreaking and Iam so glad I am thousands of miles away from it all..
What city you talking about. Many city centres look amazing. I want to know where you live because if you visit any city centre in Japan, Korea, China, anywhere in Europe, Australia and New Zealand their cities look awesome
Why is South Africa experiencing this kind of filth? What happened? Is it because of street vending or what? I’ve argued in my native nation of Zambia that street vending is not good as it’s the major source of filth & airborne diseases like cholera. People should be encouraged to trade from markets & we should not allow start to believe the words of the South Apartheid person who is quoted to have said that a black man can’t rule himself
People don't mind filth in sa...drive pass some homes, people actually have a dump pile few meters away from thirr door...so why would the streets be Clean?
see, you are doubting it yourself. You need to clap your hands three times and say out loud "Apharteid come!" And the problem will magically get solved:)
This looks exactly like Philadelphia but Philadelphia is worse people walking around on drugs, looking like zombies it’s Tresa, Paul Enola Park, people, Lebanon, the roads and highways and Oakland, California and Los Angeles. California is really bad but you don’t have the people walking on the streets like that.
Corruption and incompetence has played a huge role in the collapse of service delivery in Johannesburg. And all thanks to ANC rule. Time to vote them out forever
This doesn't represent the whole country stop being dramatic. This part of Johannesburg has really gone downhill to most South African people dismay, those of us who grew up in Johannesburg it's painful to watch what has become of our once beautiful CBD
@@rapulemathibr3221 yet the woke still call us xenophobic when we complain. Just a few days ago not so far from there, there was a trap house raid in one of the flats and the people (all foreigners) were fighting with the police.
@@truesouth6532 they disrespect the police so much simply because police takes bribes from them so wen they see police they just see bunch of hungry idiots who cn b bought easily police are to b blamed for dat
@@rapulemathibr3221 very true, those are their clients. It's just us the citizens who are having to bare the brunt of all this. You're right, the police are they're clients.
Why do certain people make every area they live in look like a dump. Why dont they just get it and change. Of course not all of them are like this, but a good proportion are. Its discouraging and disheartening, because you know people can do better than this.
I don't understand your title. That is not Kensington in Johannesburg. I know Kensington very well. I lived there and went to Jeppe Boys High School and also Queens High School. I left when I was about 21 yrs of age to move to family in the Cape. Erich now living in New Zealand.
i think he mean to say that south africa is the Kensington of africa... and by the way, not sure how long ago it was that you lived in kensington johannesburg but it also degraded a lot... a few of my mates and cousins also attended Jeppe boys and girls school.
Yup, 30 years ago this area was safe and pristine. Just shows what destruction and damage a new government , interested only in lining its own pockets, can do.
It doesnt even look that bad. No tents. No bodies falling out. People look clean and hardworking. Not near as bad as my American city
The crime is the biggest broblem in this place, this part of Jozi shady I avoid it as much as I can
This area of Joburg is cleaner and safer than São Paulo city centre in Brazil.
In this video what we can see is people searching anything to do, picking up materials for recycling, selling auto parts, and of course submitting to illegal activities (criminality). Due to a high level of unemployment and poverty.
I can not see people getting high with drugs look like streets of USA and Latin America cities.
True,
Honestly see little diference from dems controlled cities in u.s.
I used to walk those streets safely in the 1980's - even at night. Then came liberation...
lolllllllllllllllll
"liberation"
Me too, it's sad. The WEF are turning the West into the same shithole.
Ok
It's sad, if the aparthied gov were inclusive the country wouldn't be here. So that's your ppls fault. The liberation had to happen and these are the consequences of the former gov. Now all are suffering not just one set of group.
all countries that continue to be governed by liberation movements are in decay; criminality; drugs; lack of jobs 🇲🇿
Facts!
Yes because a slave will always be one. No liberation will change that.
It's because they're all socialists of some flavor. Socialists concentrate power into a single party and don't believe in the separation of powers, corruption is always the result.
@@atiqueteimporta7972jfc
Black power looks so atractive! Such a independert and happy life!
@ExileDesu😂
Better than white power
@ExileDesu now that's funny I don't care who you are!!!!!
Willy sniff will love this Terrible situation and Blame it on who🤔🤬 He boils my pisssssss.Hope Chris Rock Rocks him back to where he wants to BE !!
Now they are exactly what they wanted to be: an african country 100%! I don’t understand who doesn’t see how beautiful it is!
How dare you point out the obvious! You're a racist!
If it was 100% African they wouldn’t even have the bridges, electricity, cars and large buildings lol
@@somerandomperson6511 It is just a question of time! Short time, I would say!
exact 👏👏👏
look how dirty it is
Studied and worked in Johannesburg.
Robbed at gun point in these streets, happy to be alive and out of the hell hole.
Amazing
I remember being a small boy walking those streets and there was not one piece of rubbish, there were city workers cleaning the roads, fixing them, and the robots (traffic lights) all worked as they should have. The SA government are destroying a beautiful country and the people are letting them.
I worked with a guy who was from SA here in the UK. Without me asking he said the same. He said SA was a nice country with little in the way of slums and crime was heavily controlled. It changed and became a place he wanted to leave due to guns, crime and government corruption. Others from SA say the same.
@@johnclarke2997 Yeah its not even a secret or something, there's video's on youtube of SA in the 80's and 90's.
What do you expect look at Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. As a kid in the USA I knew it was a bad idea to give the country to the Africans. Should have split it up.
@@Norm-ih2rq I'm not trying to start shit or nothing but are you saying apartheid should have never went away? I'm legitimately curious. I've been researching SA and saw that when the government took farm land away from white SA and gave it to black SA without any compensation I believe. The zinger is they gave farm land to people who had no idea how to grow food so what does the retarded SA government do? They have the balls to plead with those same white SA to come back and teach their NEW farmer how to farm....I mean you can't make this up. The world is full of silly sallies.
I love it so much that traffic lights are called robots
It never ceases to amaze me when watching these pedestrians walk. No sense of situational awareness or self-preservation whatsoever.
From a First world country to a Third world country in 25 years! Well done ANC and those who still vote for them !
Race means more than anything I’m afraid.
It was never a first world country, just look at the literacy rates before and now and the government tortured so many political prisoners and was just plain cruel and inhumane, I think to this day ppl don't know where their loved ones are like the victims of Chile's Pinochet, the ANC is corrupt though and needs to go.
Let’s talk facts, this is a small immigrant neighborhood in Johannesburg, the immigrants came when black Africans reclaimed their land, this looks like Philadelphia, or Oakland, California, or Skid Row, California, or the west side of Chicago, and it’s so many more neighborhoods that look like this in the US that I probably couldn’t count them, Johannesburg is twice the size of New York city, and it’s a beautiful city, you have a Rosebank, do you have Stanton city, do you have waterfall city, and in 2010 they built the subway system, which makes New York subway system look like a pile of💩 it’s clean and safe, and I love how they spray down the seats before new passengers, Kim board, plus they have a high-speed rail system that most white south applicants didn’t want, probably because they didn’t want progress in South Africa but the black leader ship built a high speed rail system that’s clean and modern, so let’s stop with the propaganda videos. South Africa is doing fine lol the US doesn’t have high speed rails 😂😂😂
No ...but they have constant electricity
@@jarodwilson4946 the whites built all of the infrastructure of this country and now the blax are destroying it.
SA is just showing its true color being an African country after the Caucasian government left. You have to admit the British people knows how to run a society with local touch. They succeefully held together and ran Hong Kong, South Africa, India, Burma, Egypt , Guyana.
I havent seen an African country that could thrive by themselves in the last 100 years.
*So, why can't America"anglo country" cleanup kensington Ave in Philadelphia, Pennslyvain, former British colony now "supposedly riches country in the world" where majority of addicts roaming street, living in hug tents, openly injecting drugs in public,urinating and defecating on the sides of the streets, who are mostly "white Americans", that not exception but rule in most American cities run by both democrats and republican governments? "America's opioid epidemic is the largest in the world"*
Botswana and Rwanda are actually doing rather well.
India is doing far better than England too. we've beaten them in GDP. claiming as the 5th largest economy of the world. if it wasn't for the looting. England wouldn't have even reached where it is now. A peanut sized country can't even manage it's own inflation and economy.
they suck because they never got a chance to learn how to govern themselves, because surprise, a bunch of foreigners had invaded their land!
Be serious, when the UK leaves they knock everything over on their way out the door. Most countries don't spot them doing it. Even Ireland, they divided into north and south creating decades of trouble and poverty. In India Pakistan, they just made that on their way out the door. Once Ireland figured out the trap the UK left on their way out the door they out a stop to it and thrived and do better than the UK. South Africa still hasn't realized it's in a trap. Britain ran things dreadfully and didn't have the class to do hand overs with the countries best future in mind.
The lovely Freedom that Mandela was talking about.Born frees are so lucky thank you to the ANC who else would give the youth drugs and prostitution with a touch of poverty.🇿🇦
More fair and just.🤡👹☠️
If I remember right his wife Winny was not a good person,am I wrong or did she do some pretty fucked up shit?
@@jerrywagner4690She killed a 14 year old boy on suspicion of being a Spy for the Govement. Had his throat slit and burned if I remember correctly. This was the main reason why he left her...
The only common thing with Kensington in Philadelphia is illegal dumping, if your message was to point drugged hopeless people, NO they don't have a common denominator. 95% of people here seem very sober and busy in their hustles. Good coverage in all.
I 100% agree with you...this person's title is misleading and a lie
They would all rob your high estrogen ass in a second lol
Yeah. This is nothing like Kensington. Few places are.
You obviously haven’t tried walking through Johannesburg after the sun goes down, it’s almost identical to Kensington except it’s MUCH more dangerous and the drug gangs roaming the streets will kill you for R50…I have been there and speak from personal experience.
I would suggest you go check it out yourself but you probably wouldn’t survive so I’d rather not. 😡
The look
Interesting how Asia with a similar a colonial history to Africa has been so much more successful with far fewer resources.
it's the mindset of the people
Well, asian nations are looking and learning what not to do. It's good to remain homogenous as society.
Yes it makes you wonder
Why dont you say it out loud..
@@robertosborne7542 Do we need to say it out loud?
Most of the people I saw here were not even high it was just ordinary people walking by...the area is dirty for sure but i wouldn't call those people zombies ...
True he or she can't call those people zombies they look very much normal accept the area is so dark and dirty
That comment is real my brother. Couldnt ser any high propõe even a single One.
And it’s not even Kensington
we can agree that he is full of sh!t. disrespectful
I agree with u ..go watch Streets of Philadelphia on UA-cam...That is worse there is a lot of zombie..this is nothing compared to Streets of Philadelphia....
The irony of a “Vote ANC” poster on one of the street lamps. You get what you vote for it seems.
They need more time 2024 the story will continue 😮
any advice who they should vote for
Johannesburg used to be beautiful back then. You must be brave to drive around that place and thanks for the video,it brought back so many memories.
It’s another guy driving around the US and trust me. Philadelphia looks much worse than that, the only difference is the color of the people
and when is that 🤣🤣🤣
@@jarodwilson4946 I agree about Philly. But this also looks better than parts of New Orleans, Houston, LA and Chicago.
@@albertm222 facts 💯
@@albertm222 New Orleans had the 8th highest homicide rate on the planet next year only two countries with higher homicide rate than the US is Brazil and Mexico
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 well done ANC! JHB CBD looks amazing! Nice touch with the day time hookers. 👌🏻 Crime,disease and drug addiction is always an award winning combination. 🏆
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks to Nelson Mandela 😘👴🏿🐷
Looks like Philadelphia, but not as bad, the only difference is the color of the people
@@taylorsmunich5360 smh, White SAns think certain things are exclusive to SA, such typical narrow thinking
DA was in charge for the last 8 years
All that old beautiful architecture going to ruin. Extremely sad to see.
I actually just had an appt with my doctor who is South African and we were talking about Johannesburg now versus 30+ years ago. His biggest worry is the crime in SA is out of control. He told me his sister lives in an area that's safe bc its patrolled by private security firms and the residents pat for it automatically through their taxes or wtvr. He was in Johannesburg in January and he told me the electricity went out multiple times, needless to say over 35 years ago that shit didn't happen. Clearly the corruption in SA is rampant and everyone is feeling it. Such a beautiful country but tough to live in.
Yes there is good and bad.
There is no good. The good ended when Mandela won.
They are turning our country into a slum. We elect bad leaders
Have seen the decline in America?
Chicago for a start.
@@gregwoolley6105 same demographic
This looks exactly like the predominantly black parts of the cities in the United States, I'm starting to think there's a pattern emerging.
Hahahahaha
You mean the hands that build America ?
Of course you got that right , only on our black neighborhoods around the globe 🌎 . This shit gotta stop
@@htx1873 hahahaha
The Johannesburg's Municipality slogan of Johannesburg being a world class city should be changed to Johannesburg,the World Class slum
Exactly
Philadelphia should be changed from the brotherly love to the brotherly scum because Philadelphia look just as bad or worse. The only difference is the color of the people.
And i guess if u go to LA in USA u wont find places like these.......
Soon to go the way of Rhodesia. So sad. Praying for my SA friends
Note to self: Never ever give something good to those who may not value what I have built.
Haven't they made great strides in the last 30 years?
Die goed is pateties
Looks better than some places in the United States.
Ikr
How's the weather in China?
@@maursummers498not everywhere in the USA looks like Beverly hills, go to parts of new Orleans and you'll find it looks just as bad. You don't need to be pro CCP to criticise the USA
@@patrickwilliamson29 our democrats are just like the anc...selfish, stupid, and greedy. with the same results of poverty and destruction.
So sad. My wife was born in the beautiful country of Rhodesia. Her family had to sneak out in 1981 because once it became Zimbabwe you were not allowed to leave the country. They had all of their possessions shipped in a container to Australia, then they claimed to be going on vacation there and never came back. Once the breadbasket of Africa, now the basket case of Africa. South Africa appears to be rapidly going down the same road.
My Greek family used to have a business in Rhodesia. They also used to live there part of the year and vacation too. That changed of course and we just moved back to our island, what a shame.....
A result of power to the people supported by the every thing for free mentality.. how will they pay for the Wild promises they make to the people. ???
Proudly brought to you by the ANC.
😂😂😂😂
DA was in charge for the last 8 years. Idiot
With the help of the DA
@@truesouth6532 That is true. DA ran the city for well over a year and did absolutely nothing. Mr Mashaba at least tried to sort the disaster out when he was mayor.
@@leonardolupini3484 my point exactly that's all we were asking from them for now the other stuff takes time but definitely not cleaning.
To cecha naszych czasów to można zobaczyć i w USA i nawet w Canadian jestem z Polski u nas tego nie ma. Był czas kiedy chciałem emigrowac do tych krajów ale mi się nie udało,no i chyba dobrze.
The worst hoods in Canada aren`t even close to this. We have a rule in Canada , the streets are for vehicles and the sidewalks are for pedestrians.
Dear lawd! The once beautiful and magical Joburg is down the drain. This is SO sad! Thanx for the video. It made me jump up immediately and work. Imagine living there? 😳
I have been abroad 6 years ago
I use to drive around.these places .its gone worse. GOD HAVE MERCY
This is nothing compared to what is happening in Kensington Avenue Philadelphia bro. That is hell 💔
yea philly start to look like a 3th world country
Come here and I think you would say different
Try Portland Oregon
Same thing I said where are the zombies?? Everyone is moving at a normal pace, active, lively… yes it is littered and there are lots of closed businesses but that title was a reach I’m still waiting for the Zombies at 8:59 I pray he’s not talking about the handicapped person shortly after that time slot 🥺
@@Kaibaby1992 Damn Kai bro this it's just a normal daily routine compared what I've seen in Kensington it's heart breaking 💔
I have always said it, when you get huge numbers of black people living in one place, you will find paradise. They just make everything better. They just cannot help it,its what they do. Even in America, you go to a mostly black city you will find paradise.
Stop. Just stop
You cannot stop the truth, little buddy!
It's white people's fault of course. Maybe reparations will fix this?
It;s time to take your meds Jerry 😄
@@tareetodd The truth will set you free.
Good grief! 😳 This looks like Kingston Philadelphia in the USA! 😬
Minus the extreme drug use
I grew up not far from these streets. We had beautiful parks, wonderful restaurants, safe passage and respected the environment. Today this is what it has become. Filthy and rotten. Designed by the anc.
Just a huge cesspool now. Well done ANC!
South Africa will go down in history as the first country to progress from a third world nation, to an advanced one …and then decline back to a third world one again in less than a century..and 1994, when the ANC took over, will go down as the tipping point.
These streets symbolize SA. Rot, decay and chaos.
jo burg is beautiful. SA is beautiful. one of the ugliest places and dreadful places is the Netherlands and London
@@lamjr444 Be that as it may: They at least have running water and electricity.
@@johnmajor9564 so you know what? go there
@@johnmajor9564 all that colonizing they did. they would have dropped the ball if they didnt have those things lol
@@lamjr444 Blaming no electricity and water in SA on colonialism when SA was the first African country without colonialism. Classic victim behavior. Germany has water and electricity as well and their colonies didn’t yield any profit.
A big mess it is now . Years ago it was safe and nice to walk through but not today sadly
So glad for them they showing they can do it themselfs.
What’s this area looks like one to avoid dare to imagine what it’s like at nighttime 😟
Truly a rainbow...nation
Nice video but very sad to see the place in ruins.Vetri EC Komani 🙏🇿🇦🙏
It seems such a lovely and safe place to live.
Nice and smooth video
It actually looks a lot like something you’d see here in the US
Because our govt is as corrupt as theirs & in the cities that look this bad, if not worse, are more corrupt than SA.
In LA Seattle Portland and Chicago, all democrat run cities
@@sigmasaviorgoatboy don’t forget DC, Philly, Baltimore
@@sigmasaviorgoatboy There are other commonalities as well.
@@sigmasaviorgoatboy yeah cause other cities don’t have poor areas in them…Whatever dude. Every large metropolitan city whether it’s ran by a democrat or a republican has bad parts in it and it’s always so pathetic of petty little people like you getting on here and trying to paint everything so one-sided.
Cry, the beloved country...
Was it worth it, MаndеIа?
There is a correlation in all these areas and the problems we are having in many American cities in a nut shell : poverty , crime , drugs , homelessness , sex trafficing....etc
Looks better than America from what I have seen in Kensington Philadelphia on UA-cam
Kensington is one small neighborhood. Not a giant slum like this
@@EdWard-ie5wn yeah but America is a giant slum at the moment
Its messy but i see no drug addicts hunched over or people unconscious laying on the sidewalk. I dont see tents on the sidewalk where people live. Its many steps up from the USA.
This
This is not Kensington, it's Johannesburg Downtown.
End street. Under M2 flyover....
@@crok22 ....there are two Kensington's in Johannesburg, why would he be talking about the USA?
Looks like some places in Brazil.
Like São Paulo's downtown and other places too.
Lots of degragation.
That still looks far better than much of Detroit😂
Give it time... Detroit has 50 more years on Johannesburg.
@@captseamus I live in Detroit and it is actually on a strong upswing since Mike Duggan took office as mayor. He built a big budget surplus and he is using $8 million of that to offer free removal of dead and diseased trees for all residents. Still far from perfect but mayor Duggan has done more for Detroit in the last few years than the past almost 50 years with the previous mayors. In fact most abandoned houses have been demolished and replaced with either urban gardens or tree plantings. GO DUGGAN!!!!
@@andrewbatts7678 Duggan isn't African, there is the difference.
@@NunyaBizznaz never said he was, plus I don't think that being African has anything to do with whether or not someone is apt to be incompetent or corrupt. I was just taking a sec to give a little shout out to the leader of my home city. Capable and honest leadership is something that we have not seen in Detroit for a very long time.
Holy crap. Looks like street in kennsington ave in America. Amazing similar yet Africa they aren't all on fenty and tranq
This isnt wven the worst.
No they do inhalants ,easier for them to get. Chrome paint and glue mostly. They do these videos but don't show the bad parts.
Reminds me of Kensington Street in Philadelphia, USA
Minus the Zombies
This is the real South Africa we know 😔 and live in😔🇿🇦
nobody's country is perfect. you can go right to america and find places that look bad
this is not the only version of the real SA. my area is far much cleaner and beautiful, and guess what that's what I know and see everyday.
This is a small part of Johannesburg . Most of South Africa does not look like that
@@lamjr444 difference is it didn't look like a shithole
South Africa is a beautiful place and most of South Africa looks much better than this. This is just one bad area America looks worse than this but all of America don’t look like this in every city you can find a neighborhood or a place that looks worse. South Africa looks 10 times better than America so be proud of your country.
The traffic lights don't work?? The infrastructure isn't as bad as I thought, and for a slum, the roads seemed good. A little maintenance, sanitation, police patrols, and public rehabs/shelters could help
This looks just like Philadelphia, but not as bad it’s hard to tell the difference except for the color, the people everyone walking around, like zombies, push the shopping carts high on drugs
Shelters never work. Take a look at San Fran and pretty much every other slum/drug fuelled pit in LA.
They would rather steal the money
I hope you're joking. Those problems run very very deep. They'll destroy anything they're given.
Wasn't the chase scene at the beginning of "Dredd" filmed there?
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTY 😢 💔
You took the words right out of my mouth 😔
I recall Joburg 30 years ago. It was like paradise compared to this sh...t hole of today.
America, you're next!
Yeah right.
I can't believe as a student last year I used to stay there 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It was so horrible, you will never find peace if you stay there.
Really, I am sure it was interesting living there.
@@AfricaTekk It was hell
Why is that
@@kodaaa1820 Well South Africa has the most murders and crime rates in the world.
So sad to see this happen in any part of the world but it seems to be spreading all over the place
shocking how much it resembles locations in US… it seems as if the opium wars of france and england in late 19 century china is being done to us by our own governments… very sad and alarming how similar it looks to be in SA :/
though watching more this just looks like regular poverty alcohol stores disrepair but no drug zombies or possible dead bodies like on worse blocks in many US cities large and small ☹️
W Polsce spokój 😂
Not really all over the world. But those places where independence came too quickly and the new administration lack of vision, strategy, and plans, to take the country to the next level. Instead, take backward steps by appointing relatives and close friends to move state assets into their own pockets. Now with China loans turboboosting them, they can move more Chinese money into their pockets and let the next administration make local people pay with their savings.
"It seems to be spreading all over the place" wherever this race in in charge of anything.
Under that bridge has so much happening. Nice drive tour bro👊
Under that bridge is a mess
Looks like downtown San Francisco
This is just like some streets up here in America but down there have livelier colors on the buildings
What a beautiful democrat city, it reminds me of Chicago, LA, and Kensington PA
Kensington is a Philadelphia neighborhood.
Too bad it’s a communist/criminal party running this 💩 hole and more closely resembles the MAGA party that tried to criminally take over the US government but not surprising ignorant people will project their shortcomings onto others though.
I didn’t say Kensington was a city fool I said it reminds me of of all of the democrat U.N hell holes that are run into the ground on purpose
Johannesburg has become a world class third world city.
Does the whole country go to the rats?
Amazing transformation. Sadly, in the wrong direction. I have driven and walked many times on these very roads.
Still, the africans have got exactly what they wanted, which ultimately should please them.
Thanks for the video yha so many memories came back... But what happened to our beautiful jozi guys yho can't believe my eyes
World Cup Africa 2010: It's Time For Africa!
I see a future America here.
Kensington in Philadephia,USA is proper #zombieland
Vancouver Canada, makes Kensington look mild.
from third world to nuclear Power & first world back to third world less go!!!
I remember catching Combi taxis from DF Malan drive into the CBD to go to Doors or Alcatraz and walking all of those streets. Granted the CBD was never quite that salubrious....it had an edge to it....but it certainly didnt look like that.
The good old days. We had so many awesome alternative and metal clubs. I used to practically live in Zeplins.
Wow! I thought I was looking at San Francisco!
Honestly still looks cleaner amd safer than Buffalo.
I was there over several years in the 90s and I can tell you the decay has continued, no improvement at all
I think this is Brazil's bad ending.
picture quality is superb , what camera you use?
The ANC rulers and cadres must be ousted from rulership!!!
ANC out!
What did the DA do in the year they were in charge? Or were we supposed to wait 28 years for them to clean joburg?
@@truesouth6532 The are other parties besides ANC and DA
@@truesouth6532 I think it's going to take longer than a year to fix that shite hole
@@AfricaTekk there may be other parties but a coalition is led by one party
Running back to their sub Saharan roots
Quite a contrast from the Sandton area that is called the richest square mile in Africa.
What about Roseburg, what about waterfall city, the truth is that area is an area of immigrants from all over Africa, Johannesburg is twice as big as New York City, is so many nice areas, but of course white propaganda will find one bad area essay that is all bad, it’s all propaganda, and all lies
I spent some amazing times in Jo'burg back in the day with the love of my life Roy Welsh a SAP officer, we used to go to the Carlton & President and then head off over to th eCave Inn in Alberton for a meal then back in to the city to Athens by night. I can not believe how horrible Jo'burg is today...it's heartbreaking and Iam so glad I am thousands of miles away from it all..
Looks just like every other huge inner city. Just goes to show this is a world wide phenomenon. The law of entropy at work.
What city you talking about. Many city centres look amazing. I want to know where you live because if you visit any city centre in Japan, Korea, China, anywhere in Europe, Australia and New Zealand their cities look awesome
The cars seem nice and new ...
Even the traffic lights are fkd. ......
Looks like Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis. Actually cleaner.
Why is South Africa experiencing this kind of filth? What happened? Is it because of street vending or what? I’ve argued in my native nation of Zambia that street vending is not good as it’s the major source of filth & airborne diseases like cholera. People should be encouraged to trade from markets & we should not allow start to believe the words of the South Apartheid person who is quoted to have said that a black man can’t rule himself
People don't mind filth in sa...drive pass some homes, people actually have a dump pile few meters away from thirr door...so why would the streets be Clean?
see, you are doubting it yourself. You need to clap your hands three times and say out loud "Apharteid come!" And the problem will magically get solved:)
This looks exactly like Philadelphia but Philadelphia is worse people walking around on drugs, looking like zombies it’s Tresa, Paul Enola Park, people, Lebanon, the roads and highways and Oakland, California and Los Angeles. California is really bad but you don’t have the people walking on the streets like that.
Illegal foreigner
Corruption and incompetence has played a huge role in the collapse of service delivery in Johannesburg. And all thanks to ANC rule. Time to vote them out forever
Looks like Chicago, Los Angeles, Philly, Detroit..........
Things are not so bad, wait for another 30 years!
This place looks 10X better than Kensington PA.
So glad I moved out of SA back in late 2005. Dodged a massive bullet there.
Why are the streets so DIRTY??
My goodness SA has gone down hill..
This doesn't represent the whole country stop being dramatic. This part of Johannesburg has really gone downhill to most South African people dismay, those of us who grew up in Johannesburg it's painful to watch what has become of our once beautiful CBD
Foreigners has messed it all up it used to b beautiful
@@rapulemathibr3221 yet the woke still call us xenophobic when we complain. Just a few days ago not so far from there, there was a trap house raid in one of the flats and the people (all foreigners) were fighting with the police.
@@truesouth6532 they disrespect the police so much simply because police takes bribes from them so wen they see police they just see bunch of hungry idiots who cn b bought easily police are to b blamed for dat
@@rapulemathibr3221 very true, those are their clients. It's just us the citizens who are having to bare the brunt of all this. You're right, the police are they're clients.
Why do certain people make every area they live in look like a dump. Why dont they just get it and change. Of course not all of them are like this, but a good proportion are. Its discouraging and disheartening, because you know people can do better than this.
Now look at footage from the 1970's. Could compare Joburg to European and Scandinavian quality of living and safety back then...
Funky town.
I don't understand your title. That is not Kensington in Johannesburg. I know Kensington very well. I lived there and went to Jeppe Boys High School and also Queens High School. I left when I was about 21 yrs of age to move to family in the Cape. Erich now living in New Zealand.
i think he mean to say that south africa is the Kensington of africa... and by the way, not sure how long ago it was that you lived in kensington johannesburg but it also degraded a lot... a few of my mates and cousins also attended Jeppe boys and girls school.
He meant Kensington in Philadelphia USA. Known for being “zombie land” cause of the hectic drug use.
In the USA they do have many similar to this one in the video
Philly is worse than this BY FAR.
Just like every country run by black. Nice, clean and safe.