Black people built this town through their hard labor and were underpaid by the white regime apartheid government, while the white minority was protected and life was good. No wonder you'll be crying out here as for black man there got nothing to really lose hence they lost their lives a long time ago. A black man would rather strive to get something to his stomach than worry about infrastructure.

Thank you anc for destroying a perfectly good multi cultural area

These days Hillbrow is a no go area 😢

Went to the movies in Hillbrow and saw the "Rocky Horror Picture Show"...ate at Bimbos often and enjoyed the vibe...well, ALL the GREAT days in SA are gone now...only the leftovers now...ANC is having a ball lol

... jou sente, jou droome, jou toekoms vol gaate.... well absolutely just that... "your future full of holes" ! What a tragic mess South Africa has become. Nelson is turning in his grave at what his ANC bunch of criminals have inflicted upon the land. - Just another car hijacked gunshot survivor living in exile now !

When I worked in Midrand I ventured into Hillbrow a few times in the late 70's, it was the place to go to get a late night meal when everything else around had closed. It was an exciting place with the best of vibes. It was also a place that received many emigrants from Europe and the collapsing neighbouring countries as the first place to setup in SA. In those times, the friction between the Porras and Lebs was well known and we stayed well out of their way. Now I live on the other side of the world.

Beautiful... beautiful...a beautiful song for city that was once a Palace of Dreams...😅

I and my sister lived just off the Tower a few metres away. In place called Dunn Robin... So cool we used junaught out to the the German beer hall. And on the way back we'd stop iver😢 for an ice-cream 🥞 pancake...Hah. I don't remember the name but, we also used to Razzle at an Hotel's Disco in the mainstreet Oh. God, Hillbrow was the safest place in South Africa then. We would also visit the revolving Restaurant ontop of the Hillbrow Tower...😊...When we felt rich. 😅. Whata a beautiful place Hillbrow was then... everyone just about knew everyone else living in the vacinity... Now all we are just have living memories of the good times past... 😢😮😊😅😂.

When i was a Kid, I lived in Finsbury Court

Chelsea Hotel.. Evoid playing..Great.Bellanapoli night club..memories. Dump now.

Late 70's l lived in High-Point... 24th floor. .. Hillbrow was a very cosmopolitan place. Who remembers Cloud Nine disco at the top of the post office tower.. and the revolving restaurant.? Breakfast at Cafe Wien... on the balcony.? Ah! Good memories. 😊😄

The brow was a nice place to go for a good time

I remember fontana high point all hour service❤

I remember high point fontana all nignt

It was a posh area of Jo'burg in the early 1970s mostly Brits and Germans living there and respecting the area.

How can one whose head is fixed in the right place let such good facilities and infrastructure go to waste now it has become an immigrants paradise.

death of a city 😭😭😭

Viva ANC vivaaaaa!

I could only be friends with people I could trust... not many friends these days

After the jol we'd always go have a curry-wurst at the wurstbude before heading home. Good times.

What a shame to see it in this state today😢

Good choice of music.

90s life was an absolute treasure.......

Kom ons wees eerlik en reguit hier vandat kaffer oorgevat het is als moertoe maak mens sad nou se hul is hul land maar hul kan vokol oppas nee wat kaffers jul sal nie regkom vok terug bos toe

A toilet today. Free toilet that is.

I grew up in Bez Valley, and used to stop at Fontana late at night on weekends...Hillbrow had a happening VIBE...pity it's all ruined now. In 10 years time Cape Town will look like Hillbrow...so, go NOW whilst you can still walk round and NOT get robbed, mugged or shot lol....by 2035, South Africa will look like Zimbabwe....

But hilbrow is better now there's life now

Whites move out and everthing turns to crap…the fate of all cities in South Africa.

Ons Land se probleme het begin to mamdela uit die tronk ontsnap het. Hy was die grootste fout

((( Destruction by Design )))

The current state of Sa is not surprising. You give a country's sophisticated financial system, cities with proper infrastructure and systems to govern them effectively, to a Anc freedom fighters, who sees it as their turn to eat and you have the muck and the mess we currently swimming in. This country will be run into the ground and those that effed it up will leave quietly to see the rest of years out in somewhere like Russia (which is a popular destination for Anc cadres)

Anyone remember Bimbo's? Lekker Hillbrow, Cafe Wien. Went to the flicks then went for coffee and koek afterwards. Los Angeles now. But those were the days.

jammer zuid afrika hillbrow maar ook holland gaat kapot die mooi tyd van jaren tachtig zeventig is weg,

I wonder how many of those eateries allowed Black people to patronise them.

The whole of south africa is going tge same way not 5 years ago barely had cars in our main street now its taxis and just blacks everywhere dam shame our country was stolen like this in fact its crimanal

People who haven’t been evolved fully aren’t worrying about Western civilized structure and it’s my new details of neatness, cleanliness, and logical order. What I see is a return to the bush. The beautiful city was for another world long past……like human stalagmites begin to crumble when their creators have long left the scene. SA,s only real hope might be the Chinese. I State this with trepidation. The Chinese would simply erase it all and start over again. What’s worse? The memories had by the beautiful remnants of golden days, or the final solution that will be instilled by the conquering East? Sociologists had to’ve know and quietly warned their leaders that all this was not to be. The numbers were showing the population disparities in b-w population ratios and the natural resources running out. So why be there? The flight was started in the early 1970’s. I know this because many emigrated to Philadelphia PA at that time. Hillbrow was indeed lovely. I enjoy the old footage shown here on YT.

GESONDEIT

as a decent man I wuld never say anything against those beautiful years I spent close to it -BEREA- THEY WERE THE BEST I HAD in my life/GRACIAS BRUDAS

The picture that shows Chelsea was from Jerusalema

Many time I went there to exclusive books with my parents

I we don't do introspection as African no one will save us from ourselves every where we dominate the place become hell with drugs crime and filthiness I heard a lot of people who knows Hillbrow before we take over look what it's look like today.

Lived in hillbrow for 2 years 76 78 loved it wouldn't live there now it's ruined it was spotless you could walk home on your own in the dark what a shame

Spent many happy hours in the Hillbrow record shop in the early to mid eighties. The book shops were good back then too, not like the rubbish that fills the shelves of Exclusive Books these days.

Hillbrow's past was vibrant, its present is gnarly, but it's future will be better than its past because it will actually have trees and gardens. This will take a while I know. But the consciousness of South Africans is coming together as one. They just need to stop talking negative shit all the time.

Lucky me. There at the right time and the right age.

Hillbrow in the mid eighties was not too bad. Good restaurants like RJs was open and the cinemas. But not now. Will it ever be restored?

Why the song in Afrikaans though?

💔💔💔

First time loving an Afrikaans song. Don't even know what they're saying

dit verbaas my dat die woorde is in Afrikaans. die waarheidt is, die Afrikaaners haat Hillbrow! Dis die plek van daardie uitlanders! gy my nie joe kak...it was the only place in the whole of South Africa that was open on a Sunday.