Agreed. There's no doubt that the Joburg inner city in the 80s was in wildly better shape than it is today, but despite the rosy and stable images in this video, by 1989 the city was already in decline and the "white flight" had begun. As early as the middle 80s there was the beginning of companies moving out of the CBD to Sandton (and to Parktown, to a lesser extent). Shopping was moving out of the CBD as well with big new malls supporting the suburban growth (Cresta, Killarney, Rosebank, Sandton). Even in 1989 it was generally considered unsafe to walk alone in the inner city especially around Park Station and Joubert Park. The 5 star hotels like the Joburg Sun and Landdrost were already struggling to attract visitors because petty crime and muggings were increasing. Look at the end of the video with the guy walking down Pretoria Str in Hillbrow. Clearly Hillbrow looks vibey and fun, yet at 35:09 you can see see dodgy characters lurking in the doorways, sleeping in corners. Already by then the Nigerian drug dealers had started moving in and muggings were becoming more common. Overcrowding of decaying flats was beginning to become a big problem in Hillbrow at this time especially once the Group Areas Act wasn't being enforced. Heck, look at 27:07, he's in a leafy suburb (Greenside? Norwood? it's hard to tell), and already the houses are surrounded by massive walls. Joburg was and is an amazing city, and I still hold out hope that the inner city will turn around, but the rot set in long ago and it will probably take even longer for it to recover.
@@argopunk Please do explore as much of the inner city as you can. It's full of amazing hidden gems and a lot of it can be seen safely if you use common sense. How amazing it would be to have a time machine though.
The only thing that kept Joburg so bright & clean in the 80's was merciless segregation - it was maintained by an army of slaves who could not live in the city that they served. It was always an artificial bubble ready to pop at any moment due to enormous economic inequality.
@@ryancmtHello, thanks for the informative comment, this topic is very interesting. I just would like to ask, why the "white flight" started in the 80s from the inner city of Joburg to Sandton? And why the inner city wasn't too safe during the 80s? Can it be said that by the mid-1980s apartheid had faded and law enforcement could no longer maintain racial segregation as it had before?
Sadly corruption has destroyed a once magical country
Barbarism in the first degree and they are ruling a country.
Thank Veraaier De Klerk for that!
Tell DA😢
I've been watching videos of Jo-Burg's current state. It's interesting to contrast the current state of the CBD with how it was in the 80s.
Agreed. There's no doubt that the Joburg inner city in the 80s was in wildly better shape than it is today, but despite the rosy and stable images in this video, by 1989 the city was already in decline and the "white flight" had begun. As early as the middle 80s there was the beginning of companies moving out of the CBD to Sandton (and to Parktown, to a lesser extent). Shopping was moving out of the CBD as well with big new malls supporting the suburban growth (Cresta, Killarney, Rosebank, Sandton). Even in 1989 it was generally considered unsafe to walk alone in the inner city especially around Park Station and Joubert Park. The 5 star hotels like the Joburg Sun and Landdrost were already struggling to attract visitors because petty crime and muggings were increasing. Look at the end of the video with the guy walking down Pretoria Str in Hillbrow. Clearly Hillbrow looks vibey and fun, yet at 35:09 you can see see dodgy characters lurking in the doorways, sleeping in corners. Already by then the Nigerian drug dealers had started moving in and muggings were becoming more common. Overcrowding of decaying flats was beginning to become a big problem in Hillbrow at this time especially once the Group Areas Act wasn't being enforced. Heck, look at 27:07, he's in a leafy suburb (Greenside? Norwood? it's hard to tell), and already the houses are surrounded by massive walls. Joburg was and is an amazing city, and I still hold out hope that the inner city will turn around, but the rot set in long ago and it will probably take even longer for it to recover.
@@ryancmt Thanks for the informative response. Yes, hopefully the place can recover someday soon.
@@argopunk Please do explore as much of the inner city as you can. It's full of amazing hidden gems and a lot of it can be seen safely if you use common sense. How amazing it would be to have a time machine though.
The only thing that kept Joburg so bright & clean in the 80's was merciless segregation - it was maintained by an army of slaves who could not live in the city that they served. It was always an artificial bubble ready to pop at any moment due to enormous economic inequality.
@@ryancmtHello, thanks for the informative comment, this topic is very interesting. I just would like to ask, why the "white flight" started in the 80s from the inner city of Joburg to Sandton?
And why the inner city wasn't too safe during the 80s?
Can it be said that by the mid-1980s apartheid had faded and law enforcement could no longer maintain racial segregation as it had before?
Great clips of Hillbrow at night 1989 towards the end, made watching this patronising nonsense almost bearable
17:40 Animals?
This did not age well
South Africs should have been separated into 2 states.
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This was no doubt paid for by the ruling party at the time
The propaganda did not pay off. They wasted time and money 😅
For you it is propaganda, for us a disaster
Such sickening nonsense which is south African