1960s / 1970s SOUTH AFRICA TOURISM PROMO FILM “GOLDEN TRANSVAAL” JOHANNESBURG PARKS XD49974

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Disclaimer: This historic film was produced during the apartheid era in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
This 1960s/1970s promo film "Golden Transvaal" was directed and produced by John Da Silva. It promotes South Africa and its national parks. It dates to the apartheid era. Film opens with a South African Airways jet plane, a Boeing 707, landing on tarmac. Main title: "South African Tourist Corporation Presents...Golden Transvaal." Planes taxi on tarmac (0:37). Passengers exit planes. “Jan Smuts Airport” from outside (now Tambo Airport, 0:36). Various shots of planes on tarmac during opening credits, Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. Air Madagascar (1:02). KLM, TAP, Pan Am, El Al airline logos visible. Airline employees in action, unloading luggage, seeing off passengers (flight attendants). A bus (1:30). Miner's Monument statue, zoom out to city (aerial). Aerial shots of city. A woman walks down city street full of skyscrapers (2:00). Woman walks in building with courtyard and fountain (2:07). Fountain in urban park. Large fountain sprays (2:24). Man rows boat with children. Flamingos in water (2:30). Sign for Lion Park, Johannesburg (2:34). A white man wearing safari hat lifts lion cub. Young woman cuddles lion cub. Car slowly passes lion herd (2:47). Sunset over highway (2:56). Neon sign montage: Rand International, Springbok Hotel, Waldorf, Regent (3:01-3:10). Closeup of drummer in a club. Woman in short dress dances in psychedelic room; others dance, too. A ballet / theatrical scene (3:18). Formal dinner setting in a restaurant (feast), couples and waitstaff visible, cutting meat (3:23). Black South African dancers in special attire (feathers on shoulders) enter clearing, surrounded by audience, including white tourists. Closeup shots of dancing (3:29-3:54). An explosion underground (3:54): entrance of industrial mine shaft. Black miners shown digging / drilling in harsh underground conditions. Molten gold descends engineered rig. Man places gold brick on stack; many stacks of gold bricks in geometric formation; a room full of gold; ship and piano made of gold (4:40). Race cars rev amid crowds, lining up on track for South African Grand Prix (4:57). Flag wave starts race; crowds observe (5:12). A car spins off track (5:19). Men at sides timing laps; a man holds up written sign to passing cars (5:32). Women lounge in swimwear on boat in harbor (5:35). Many men are sailing sailboats (5:49). A man in red jumping a horse at a horse show (6:00). Cricket players run, throw, hit; crowds watch; teammates cheer. Cricket players in green run across field (6:12-6:34). Women march in parade with drumline. Men in suits in massive masks. Mansions / designer architecture houses shown (6:49). Panning, faraway shot of city, with gardens and statues foregrounded (7:04). Statue of Paul Kruger (Church Square park). A herd of cows and cowherd (7:32). Oranges / fruit in industrial processing / machine line (7:44). Black South Africans by a painted gate. Handicraft shop display. White women twirl in beaded outfits (headbands / head ornaments, etc.). Stalactites in cave, family walking with guide. Rock formations (8:32). Hiker; woman in bellbottoms looks through binoculars (8:49). Waterfall amidst cliffs (9:10). Visitors cross bridge over rocky outcrop, bubbling pool (9:19). A baobab tree without leaves (9:30). Cars / camper on highway drive through various tunnels and rocky landscape (vantage point: both inside / outside vehicle) (9:38-10:17). Kruger National Park, Hek Phalaborwa Gate. Park rangers with rifles salute tourist vehicle (10:23). Herd of giraffes running (10:29). Bungalows in savannah area (aerial view) (10:36). Elephant with baby joins elephant herd (10:30). Hippo herd in water, baby hippo (10:53). A bird floats on water. Bird flies away from crocodile (11:07). Birds on shore (11:18). Waterbuck in field (11:24). People in car on safari (11:27). Elephant and rhino. Woman with short hair peers from car (11:51). Closeup of rhinos together (12:04). Game Parks / Molo Molo Game Reserve. Waiter serves white couple on terrace. Safari vehicle approaches giraffe, a man photographs. Closeup (12:12). Cheetahs peering through tall grass (12:28). Gazelles gather in grass. Cheetah kills and eats gazelle (12:40). Safari car approaches cheetah. Vultures fly from trees (13:04). SATOUR logo (13:25).
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[@TheLeadSled]

I absolutely love these old videos on the old airlines, jets, airports etc... This was before my time and maybe that's why I like it so much, it's like a peek into the past and how they did things.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Sure, if you like apartheid

[@christobosman5710]

@@EdKazO-Vision The best

[@davethorstry6700]

@@EdKazO-Vision Great times, and so said the natives too!

[@maureenjackson2041]

@@davethorstry6700 How arrogant of you African people HATED Apartheid thats why there was a lot of unrest there.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@EdKazO-Vision This was a great Country of less than 20 million people in those days. Who must be blamed that the half of Africa was let in?

[@ThibaultTresca]

That intro with the planes was edited beautifully

[@guidor.4161]

Brings back memories :-) Lived there from 1967-73 as a small kid...

[@franzw70]

Same 75-79 dad was at Iskor

[@artetasmuse]

I grew up in SA 80/90s, had an idyllic childhood. Live in the UK now 20 years later. I remember going back a few years ago and the stares I got were to say the least ‘you’re not welcome here’, suffice to say I’ve no impetus to go back. So sad, it was as a kid, the closest thing to heaven. I would’ve loved to grow old there as an adult, left behind many friends, but my family could see the turning of the tide.

[@shenzo2962]

Why did you get stares?

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@shenzo2962Indeed, I was there too (Oct/Nov 2023) and I didn't get any "stares" either while visiting the Cape area, the western wine country and Kruger National Park (well, some of the wildebeests and cape buffalos did stare not only at me but all the rest in our photo, safari group).

[@hendo19742]

ME EXACTLY 💯 GREETINGS FROM POOLE 👍🇿🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇬🇧 WHEN SA WAS THE SUPER POWER OF AFRICA UNLIKE THE FAILED STATE OF WAKANDA AZANIA BANANA REPUBLIC 🍌 OF SA 👀🇿🇦

[@brantdanger]

It's too bad Western Civilization turned antiwhite. Many of our countries are now a mess.

[@maseratifittipaldi]

How I miss the crisp Johannesburg mornings, when everything was clean and safe. And the lovely evenings, when you could stroll anywhere...

[@felicitynefdt9926]

Do you think it was like that in Soweto?

[@maseratifittipaldi]

@@felicitynefdt9926 There was a different culture in the South-Western Townships. The weather was the same, but attitudes differed. I often visited Soweto on weekends. Houses were built solidly, streetlighting was good, roads were fine, but people just didn't seem to care much about the environment.

[@kennethjohnson6319]

a educational travelogue of SouthAfrica in the sixties during apartheid showing the buildings the cars. the drove the entertainment industry auto racing the best part is the clothes they wore and the way they socialize with each other during that time in history

[@FidelCastro404]

What is missing is police killing innocent children in the townships...

[@comfortlee1418]

It's fair to say its an ongoing social experiment that proved that people who dont look alike won't socialise together - because nothings changed except for colour

[@greenpedal370]

I remember as a young teenager in the very early 70s we used to get these SATOUR films at school, in the movies and on TV. They were really good. I would love to see them again - it was a different world back then.

[@chrisb8362]

We had such a fantastic country, now there is nothing left. such a pity to see how everything has collapsed.

[@kingmufasa8929]

Agree

[@xolanin]

Who is “we”? Racists?

[@chrisb8362]

@@xolaninVery Shallow mind, "We" referring to every South African breathing in this country, "We are a diverse and fantastic population that inhabit this country. Get off you soap box, rather fix all the relevant problems instead of getting offended over nothing.!!

[@simphiwemadonsela6960]

@@chrisb8362 shallow mind really? You are busy saying South Africa was great back then do you also include the black townships or you are talking about the places where blacks were not allowed to

[@penzancegunner857]

@@simphiwemadonsela6960 Everyone knew what would happen when the locals took over. I'm surprised it it took them this long.

[@afenijmeijer9027]

Compare this to now. Well and truly destroyed by the ANC.

[@comfortlee1418]

Destroyed is a strong word - the ANC just brought more colour to this video. Build more stuff, created a diverse middle class, gave us a generous government and stopped the mumbo jumbo dancing

[@afenijmeijer9027]

@@comfortlee1418 Destroyed is an understatement

[@erikgroothuijzen9928]

@@comfortlee1418 The ANC never built anything. They only destroyed what was once working.

[@stanmarr4488]

Well,at least people of colour are free to walk wherever they feel.like..go into any restaurant,bank,city hall,etc. Yeah..things are not great now,but I'll choose freedom over a nice airport,any day of the year..SLEGS BLANKES/WHITES ONLY...lest we forget..

[@afenijmeijer9027]

@@stanmarr4488 There you go again. Blacks are free now, thank goodness. However why has everything been destroyed? Why? The ANC are a bunch of criminals. R1.5 trillion has been stolen by them as determined by the Zondo enquiry into state capture. That is the equivalent of R25000 from every man woman and child in South Africa. All 60 million of us. This is public money. Your and my money stolen, to keep infrastructure in place to look after the citizens of South Africa. Instead it has gone into the elite members of the ANC's pockets. Don't talk to me about WMC , apartheid being the cause of inequality and justification for destroying this beautiful country. The ANC are responsible. You are obviously one of their sycophants who are a beneficiary of this looting. Or are you just a having a racist rant because you are too thick to grasp what is going on.

[@louisevanderlinde8590]

Those were the days when South Africa flourished. The Rand was 1Rand to 2Pounds! Our economy was strong, roads were drivable, people were safe. The anc and corruption is killing this country.

[@xolisamfobo2934]

All at the expense of black people being opressed babes.

[@kagography2180]

Bet you this....maybe if we can go back to the release of Mandela...something corrupt went on behind those doors to guarantee a failing transition of power....corruption began the first day the new settlers started profiting alone from the motherland ..Apartheid wasn't cool...well no one expects understanding from someone who wasn't on the receiving end...

[@vandykmail]

Not correct. You have it the wrong way round. The rand traded at R2 for one pound, not R1 for two pounds. R2 for one pound was a very strong position, but the only reason for this strong debut was because the Rand was originally based on the Pound itself.

[@louisevanderlinde8590]

@@vandykmail yes, you're right. But the rest is correct . SA is becoming a dump.

[@oliverbruce1702]

You left out the Nazi racism of the 70's and 80's

[@andrelombard2580]

I really miss those days when there was still law and order in my country.

[@ronelcloete4939]

Ja. Toe was olie en kos goedkoop en ons strate veilig. Vandag net die teenoorgestelde. Suid Afika was n mooi plek. Nou is dit n plakkerskamp.....

[@comfortlee1418]

I heard Oranje is better than Sandton, you can check it out

[@mariomulder3153]

Comfort Lee . I heard that anybody who wants to progress in life , needs work. Can you point me in the right direction where to find a job..........you know Sandton and Oranje are expensive !

[@mariomulder3153]

Yes , a time when you could walk in the streets after dark without the dark trying to rob and murder you !

[@jonglewongle3438]

My mom had a copy of a magazine called " South Africa Panorama " lying around when I got home from school one time. Lion versus zebra on the cover, sort of stuff. Several editions over time. She almost certainly borrowed that stuff from someone in the local art group.

[@seagravedriver]

As an American, I have visited about 14 countries. South Africa is the only one that calls me back. Some of the finest people, and hunting ever. A beautiful country.

[@Nathan93Baker]

Dont. The country in the video doesnt exist anymore. It's a shithole now.

[@aheat3036]

Back then yes!… As you can see, South Africa looked like the USA during that time but now it’s a dirty crime infested 3rd world dump!

[@cortney1717]

Is sad how this country’s standards have just dropped. It was so beautiful then.

[@itsme6813]

not your country

[@jp95js]

It has only dropped for the White Africans.

[@nbud7718]

You know you have no idea what you are talking about. All this "beauty" was based on Apartheid exploitation and racism, c'mon.

[@esahm373]

Cortney, you do realise that this is a mostly-staged propaganda film? Reality looked nothing like this for the majority of South Africans back then.

[@veonvanzyl1809]

Due to drop in average IQ

[@mbon7925]

Pity the ANC ruined South Africa, Johannesburg once called the city of gold. Now we call Johannesburg, the city of squalor.

[@kagography2180]

ANC never ruined anything....the gold was finished..the diamonds were done too...what do you expect from an unjust society....sad thing its like this thing was shot in the 1800's ...they showing natives as tourist attractions and mine workers...how justified is that...love for all humanity...don't forget....never forget we agreed to allow you guys to stay

[@erikgroothuijzen9928]

@@kagography2180 The ANC never fixed anything. They only sold out the country and never worried about their own people.

[@moonstryder1740]

@@kagography2180 you agreed to allow nothing. I stay here because I choose to and because I'm born here but I can kick your *poes* into the an ambulance if you want to try and make me leave.

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

@@kagography2180 must have been quite a dream...

[@christobosman5710]

@@kagography2180 you allow us to stay ? The only good thing Mandela did was to tell you not to take us on , he knew he would have been back behind bars , please we would have trashed you , we still can today , you saw what happened with the riots in Natal , you ran when the bullets started flying .

[@wicusjansenvanvuuren2614]

When South Africa was still a good place to be. Thank you ANC for messing up everything.

[@xolisamfobo2934]

A good place to be for white people, yes.

[@simphiwemadonsela6960]

Yeah for you and your grand father our grand father and fellow blacks don't agree with that statement because racist devils were running this country buy segregation and

[@josevilas4927]

A good place to be if you were white...PLEASE...do not be so selfish others races have the right to enjoy the resources that South Africa offers. People with your attitude are the ones that destroy South Africa. Peace and love to everone there☮If all the poeple of your country cooperate regardless their race , you all be better off.

[@andz5909]

I lived under the flightpath from Jan Smuts airport in the mid to late 70s and 80s, those old jets, especially the VC-10, sure made a hell of a noise!

[@christobosman5710]

The best of times ,so beautiful and clean

[@kwenamokoailane3858]

HUH???

[@christobosman5710]

@@kwenamokoailane3858 says the blind

[@kwenamokoailane3858]

I’m really not gonna waste my time typing a lengthy reply cause you don’t seem like the type to be mentally mature nor able to view others perspective on certain topics. Find God

[@christobosman5710]

@@kwenamokoailane3858 so if you are so intelligent , witch clearly you are not , why make such a stupid comment if you don't want people to counter you , Think with that thing between your ears the next time you try to be clever .

[@davethorstry6700]

@@kwenamokoailane3858 yeah cant you see that?

[@anthonywhite8077]

To help you date this movie, the starting grid at 5:13 is for the 1970 South African Grand Prix, with Jackie Stewart in car no. 1 and Chris Amon in car no. 15

[@elfulano5884]

Driving past a bunch of lions with the windows rolled down!! Oh my!!

[@MrHmg55]

And looking in on leopards with a freshly killed meal in a totally open vehicle!

[@aheat3036]

Even the animals were happier and friendlier back then!

[@muhammedmangera2877]

South Africa was the best glory days gnow it's a state of disaster thanks to incompetent government rotten now to the core I miss the 80s and 90s

[@comfortlee1418]

It actually got nicer, we have a huge airport with a lot of planes, bigger cities, more schools, mega highways, high speed internet, lots of cars, generous government and a multi colour society - wouldn't trade for anything

[@bonolopule8543]

Say it with me... "I miss Apartheid!!"

[@thomashugo9076]

No was you just equated Apartheid to South Africa being in “the best glory days” 😳

[@hennielintvelt2464]

@@bonolopule8543 yep I miss it too

[@erikgroothuijzen9928]

@@comfortlee1418 Are you really living in RSA? More schools????. Bigger cities with more squatter camps, highways are fine but the rest are sh*t, generous government that will not be able to keep it up and definitely a multi coloured society with reverse apartheid that has stuffed up this once beautiful country.

[@zargonfuture4046]

Definitely not today... Chuckle...the new chaps in charge were quick to change all the names but can barely keep the lights on...

[@comfortlee1418]

Thats because we made a huge mistake by hiring a new chap to be CEO, only to make things worse - should probably get rid of him

[@graemebartmann7872]

@@comfortlee1418 How can you blame this guy,all of a sudden ☝️.If you didn't service your car for 28 years,would you blame the recent mechanic for the engine blowing up.

[@penzancegunner857]

@@comfortlee1418 Should have kept Zuma and the Gupta team in charge? Everything was running well back then...

[@anthonyatuhaire]

@@penzancegunner857 yeah and only white people got to live nice... Very good times hey😉. I'm sure you missed that vriekkie. Australia is next door if you keen.

[@penzancegunner857]

@@anthonyatuhaire In Netherlands. Wonderful living in a well run country. The inmates aren't in charge here...

[@alfredodecarvalho1313]

Wow so many pleasent memories of such a beautiful clean orderly country! Though not South African by birth but grew up, schooled ,had family in that beautiful paradise ! However, it has turned to mush !! Very much what is happening to the U.S. and even Europe, with strange weird ideas of strange freedoms and rights! I truly miss that country! I have returned to Europe as my parents passed away but have left family behind. I dread for their safety!

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

this is what happens when you left left-wing freaks have a say...

[@milasekoti]

You better dread when you remember how white people treated us in South Africaand the possibility that it can happen to your people too. Life's a cycle like that.

[@user-qq7ki1hl8d]

Just beautiful!!

[@brendonnel6593]

That clip of The union building is priceless. Now currently a squatters settlement. Such potential squandered. What a joke South Africa has become.

[@comfortlee1418]

Its called freedom buddy. The place is surrounded by all ranks of cops and filled with security details, but people are free to be in their country, to walk, jog, sit, sleep & eat - without fear of a random yt with micro-aggression

[@Helgardt6189]

Dankie ANC dat julle alles in SA opgefok het.

[@sifisocraigngonyama858]

South Africa used to be stunning

[@bestgradelearning9667]

unless you were black

[@Ntombelar4sure-db2yl]

Then we take over yoooooh kwasuka lokho and obtain rights to destroy the country the only we were supposed to destroy was apartheid but we instead we destroyed the country and our future. The Morden generation are hopeless but we still have a little chance to change few things these videos are opening the eye's of some of us who didn't witness this South Africa.

[@virginiabotha3545]

Those were the days when South African Airways was a decent, respectable airline, solvent and efficiently run.

[@luckynhlanhlatshabalala2475]

While other humans were strictly hated

[@kasimotorshowtv3078]

@@andrewdutoit9571 lol spatial injustice was economics ? wow

[@FidelCastro404]

Travelling to just 8 countries.. the rest of the world did not want it over their airspace.. and you talk of decency..

[@rchetty4107]

@@andrewdutoit9571 the migration of Black people to "White towns & cities" originated with the 1913 Land Act. That was part of it`s purpose. along with the concept of " Cheap black labour" Simple dishonest economics & science don`t you think?

[@rchetty4107]

@@andrewdutoit9571 crazy. The dompass was imposed on all people of colour, educated or not, employed or unemployed. Many university graduates of colour had to carry the dompass. Many self employed people of colour had to carry the dompass. What was really criminal was the system, even worse are those criminally minded to justify the criminality, like cheap black labour, that was outright theft & it was generational theft.

[@isaurasofia5400]

The VC-10 of BOAC is a killer... pure romanticism.

[@francisgeere1849]

My family and i landed at Jan Smuts airport in Feb.1965.It was almost one big room! Soo welcoming..not like today! AND to read there are squatters in the Pretoria Monument!!!!! Unreal.

[@cjb5003]

Everybody in the comments say how great things were and how beautiful and safe things were.The pinnacle time of South Africa developing into a first world country. So why on earth did you vote wrong in the referendum. Now your children and grand children have to suffer.

[@daankruger7551]

Lekker ou dae, toe was Suid Afrika nog 'n plek om op trots te wees, sonder ANC en jy kon vrymoedig rond beweeg, ryloop, window shopping doen, ag alles was net lekker, baie dankie vir die mooie herhindering

[@KevinPheiffer]

It is an odd thing for me to have just come to the realization that apartheid was more about economics than racism. This country was rich beyond! This De-Apartheid is polar. The opposite effect is being seen here.

[@FidelCastro404]

Rich.. it was propped up by loans which were paid off by the new ANC govt.. it took the ANC 15 years to pay off your dirty loan. What kind of a man fails to pay back his debt.

[@revy7870]

Yeah, when you give preferential treatment to 10% of the population, they will live in the best areas and be wealthy even among international standards.

[@hopebuhali3887]

There's absolutely no justification for apartheid.

[@comfortlee1418]

I am questioning your math right now, because this economy 10x over that period, you can pretty much see from the new millionaires.

[@comfortlee1418]

It's only considered poorer because the video only showed specific people in the video and not the whole country. Maybe when you switch on your fast internet, drive your modern car, navigate through mega highways, to your modern job, and getting lunch with your reliable currency - you'll notice the deterioration from 1970?

[@gellibrandsummit4696]

i really wanna know where i can find that song at the start, does anyone know the song name?

[@conorgraafpietermaritzburg3720]

Send this to Dudu Mnyeni.

[@comfortlee1418]

She'll probably be as proud as I am at how many airplanes come to the airport now and how diverse it looks now - milestone

[@user-rv4pc5lp5x]

She wouldn't give a s**t.

[@lorriemamoet9406]

When we still had fuel and no corruption

[@user-lf2ov1eu9y]

What a different world that my grandparents inhabited. No wonder they miss it.

[@lastnightsmusic6067]

anyone know what is the song at the start??? thanks in advance

[@jebuthomas9643]

I live in S.A. I'm not white. I preferred the old days!

[@kurtmuller1861]

The days when you were safe on the streets of Johannesburg.

[@africantraveler7004]

Yeah cause you locked up 80% of your fellow citizens in substandard ghettos & kept them there with the help of a sociopathic, sadistic police state infrastructure . That would do it

[@Christdiedforoursins1Corinthia]

Never seen the Transvaal advertised for travel.greast video love it .make me proud to live here even though things changed.

[@gustavfourie5099]

Ons vir jou Suid-Afrika!

[@jp95js]

Ons vir jou White Kaffars

[@gustavfourie5099]

@@jp95js don't talk about your queen and her empire like that, she's barely been gone for a month.

[@jp95js]

@@gustavfourie5099 Still fighting the Boer War, hey Hairyback. Time for you to voortrek . Try the Peoples Republic of China, like Jerry Goode (no he isn’t an Englander, he just changed his name to pretend to be one for living in China). He is on youtube . He is a white African warrior too. Up the Republic. Up the Rainbow Country. Haha.

[@gustavfourie5099]

@@jp95js I'm not leaving my country, askies boet.

[@jp95js]

@@gustavfourie5099 Jerry Goode is an Afrikaner and he is migrating.to the Peoples Republic of China. Now instead of eating mealie pap, he eats rice with fish heads. He calls the people in the Chinese Communist Party , his Bas now. Maybe you can migrate there too 🇨🇳🎉.

[@gogogo39]

The music of the era was great

[@joe_lubinda]

It's embarrassing how this country collapsed 😂😂😂

[@Toxicwiz606]

Hope apartheid was embarrassing too

[@zargonfuture4046]

@@Toxicwiz606 I belive it was quite comfortable for a part of the population...

[@zargonfuture4046]

@@mldo5659 Don't hold your breath...

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@zargonfuture4046 Not really. The Whites worked their butts off to build the African Super Power even with sanctions and handed it over cheaply. Look what happened after that if you don't have the education etc.

[@zargonfuture4046]

@@andrewdutoit9571 I'm in agreement with you. Afrika will never be a powerhouse just like any other country that accepts the ethos of afrikanism the majority of the countries in afrika point to this.. There are some lights of endeavor but these countries have decidedly decided to move in a totally different way in their thoughts as to how to develop their countries and are willing to do so as joint ventures, their pride is in their doing not their nationalistic ego.

[@hughsmith7996]

When it was a well run country, before mass corruption and nepotism.

[@jp95js]

No nepotism in those days. It was simple the uneducated Afrikaners got Government jobs and the English speaking whites ran the businesses. But no nepotism.

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

You cannot describe a country where 80% of the population was disenfrachised and lacked basic human rights as ”well run”.

[@hughsmith7996]

@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 Hi Adora, I strongly suspect you have never visited South Africa, the "disenfranchised" are now using rechargeable angle grinders to cut up the Railway lines to send to China for scrap. I could tell you a lot lot more😏

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

@@hughsmith7996 Hi Hugh. The whites of SA should be eternally thankful they weren’t all slaughtered for what they did to the indigenous people for so many centuries.

[@hughsmith7996]

@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 so you must have a big problem with the Americans, Australians, New Zealand, Canada etc etc. The only thing the Dutchmen did was give it a name, go on the net and see the benches in the good old USA saying “whites only only”. I still don’t understand why indigenous South Africans rob and destroy there inherited wealth advantage over the rest of AFRICA.q Re

[@nikanaughty]

Wow. It was such a beautiful place. Now it is murder and shacks.

[@lmlmd2714]

It was then too. How do you think 20% of the population were able to hold 90% of the wealth and 100% of the political power? It wasn't by asking politely, that's for sure.

[@karimjameel]

AYYYY WARRAPEN EKSE!!!! we got hit for a six back into the stone age, apartheid gov was bad but looks like they ran a tight ship, that looks more like NYC, vye into Joburg now, people just throw shit on the streets, no one has pride of their country or city nowadays, when you tell them to pick up the dirt they swear you....and thats who was voted in, say what you want, we really had gold here back in the days

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Looks like a beautiful place. Wonder what it’s like today. Oh. 😢

[@gustavfourie5099]

It's still top brew

[@mikespencer4922]

Becoming fast just as Trump called it... a shithole.

[@hopebuhali3887]

Its even better

[@graemebartmann7872]

@@gustavfourie5099 Tell me where I can get some of those drug's you on?

[@erikgroothuijzen9928]

Sh*thole. Nothing works properly any more thanks to the ANC!

[@andrewanagnostellis9491]

excellent snap shot of the Transvaal then- great memories

[@Khado819]

Wow. Didn't know Pam American Airlines used to fly to South Africa

[@johnjames6620]

I recall flying on Pan Am to the USA in the early 1980's. As we all know Pan Am no longer exists.

[@waya2378]

New York - Dakar - Abidjan - Johanesburg, or NY - Rio de Janeiro - Johanesburg

[@danielvanr.8681]

Die goeie ou dae ... the good old days.... :(

[@christoduplessis8177]

Fair to say it is a bit more built up around Jan Smuts/OR Tambo these days. That looked more Kimberley haha

[@scottdaniels7617]

I like this. What a great way of life. Too bad the tribal homelands didn’t get up to this standard. Nobody to blame but themselves

[@comfortlee1418]

Too bad we have a bigger fleet of airplanes, better houses, nicer government, lots of roads, new millionaires, tons of schools and richer cities

[@alfredol8741]

Too bad you are loosing everything every second to the future; see you in Australia

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

Quick question, would you accept the exact same scenario in Europe under Saudi rule or something? The Europeans second class citizens but a better and richer country.

[@veronicaloteryman18]

Glorious days

[@giftnkele4962]

😂😂

[@dukeofsouthafrica8979]

What’s the songs name at the beginning about the Transvaal

[@hansstrik4704]

The apartheid was very wrong, after that period Mr.Nelson Mandela came in charge, he was a very strong leader,without revanche, very sad that after his dead everything changed in a wrong way ! Let’s hope that the situation will improve again !

[@vvr881]

It's not going to improve😅🤣🤣...everything is being stolen and those in power do nothing and are probably involved too

[@aheat3036]

A certain degree of “apartheid” is needed in a country like South Africa and its decline since then proves it!

[@nthambelenigadisi6177]

@@aheat3036 What degree of apartheid is needed is insensitive of you to say that

[@kentimmins9171]

No it won't and can't...stone age given 1st world Western civilization...ain't going to work....ever!

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@Hans Strik What was wrong with Apartheid/Separate Development? It was based on science and economics. Basically the Whites didn't want to share their toilets and the Wests Liberals, Socialists and Communists influenced the gullable to give up their live to use it..

[@leahcimnamttug7186]

Man, those planes in the beginning are flying around that airport, you dig? High on the hilltop is what I’m talkin about

[@nakaikampia2170]

Everywhere that "diversity" prevails, things end up the same. There is not one place in the world thats better as a result of diversity, in obly worse. Consider that all these locations were rich, prosperous, and mowt importantly, safe, before racial integration: - South africa 1970s, vs 2023 - Brazil 1950s, vs 2023 - USA 1960s, vs 2023 - Zimbabwe 1960s, vs 2023 And more recently we see the same - London 1980s, vs 2023 - Malmoe 2000s, vs 2023 - Noerrebro Copenhagen, Marseille, California, and countless more. Diversity is the biggest lie and mistake of the modern era.

[@aheat3036]

Big American cars and beautiful women everywhere!… Damn, what happened to that country?

[@leonhue722]

It's a shithole now as stated by Trump and he's spot on.

[@legobuilder9001]

To me this video is really fascinating as a piece of cultural history, and of how people from the time viewed themselves. One of the first things I noticed was the almost complete focus on the white population. The two times when blacks are really focused on are specifically the tribal peoples. They try to avoid showing black people trying to live modern lives, or working in the cities. And when black people are shown outside of the tribal context they are never the focus. Also the part where the narrator talks about being proud of they're fore fathers and the pioneers is sketchy to me. It doesn't sound that bad until you remember the context of south african history/the colonization of africa. Also absolutley no mention of aparthied at all, completly under the rug. Which makes sense given that it's a tourism ad, but it makes the focus on the whites especially stand out to me. Another thing I noticed was how the tribal dance near the beginning was for an almost entirly white audience as well. I need to stop typing now, I've written an essay lol

[@dovheinlein3355]

Ahh yes, there were such hopes when the ANC came to power., that South Africa would not suffer the fate of other post-colonial African states. SAA has also gone downhill.

[@A.i08]

What's the the name of the soundtrack?

[@roadgent7921]

2:37 Even the Lions were more civilised back then...

[@jazzbo13]

6:50 Vootrekker Monument.

[@alanfaulkner6329]

A once great land. Now a hell hole.

[@Laughandsong]

Thank you, ANC! LOL

[@michaellawson6533]

From sugar to pure shit in a jiffy.

[@zargonfuture4046]

@@michaellawson6533 lol that should be the country's motto...

[@zeeking3929]

Great for who?!!!!

[@zargonfuture4046]

@@zeeking3929 certainly not you... But then you'll be nostalgic for now later on too... Coz it's only going to get worse if they don't stop the stealing culture that cam into power in 94. How's that electricity and water rationing I hear you all have now?

[@maswarservis]

Shouth afrikan tourism, very interested.

[@pedroreprezas]

We wanted freedom we got it.

[@johnjames6620]

What is freedom?

[@pedroreprezas]

@@johnjames6620 come and see 👀

[@justinhall7489]

What an era I only wish

[@uYahbonaEmbo]

Aah the good old days Jan Smuts and Louis Botha airports

[@felisrex1661]

It looks great, let’s move there !

[@lastcommodore2071]

The beginning looks like the intro for a 1970s TV sitcom.

[@africantraveler7004]

This video gives me Leni Reifenstahl German informercial vibes. Beautifully edited sweeping filmscapes filled with beautiful white people set to soothing music masking the vile, horrific human tragedy unfolding behind the scenes - in a land that is >80% black. Sinister & chilling

[@milasekoti]

Thank you for speaking the truth bro. Nice vid but it's not a South Africa we should go back to under any circumstances. I see lots of delusional (or they could just be racist) responses in the comments.

[@data2641]

True

[@esahm373]

It's not a coincidence. Don't forget that the Afrikaaner Nationalists were actually in support of the Nazis in the 1930s, PW Botha and BJ Vorster actually being imprisoned by the Jan Smuts government in the 1930s for their pro-Nazi activities.

[@dukeofsouthafrica8979]

What’s the songs name at 1:41

[@gdeec]

I saw the question and searched high and low and it was specifically done for this documentary, The Golden Transvaal (1949), by the wonderful Bob Adams, who made music for some South African films at the time.

[@peter.alixhuebscher1119]

Well, at least the zoo lake fountain still works,no night time color change though!

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

has regressed since the anc took over...

[@4l3x5andro]

Então, o assunto é mais complexo. O fato de o NP e seu apartheid terem sido errados e destinados ao fim... não significa que o Anc e seu governo totalitário seria a solução... Só repensar e analisar... O país tem muito potencial e já perdeu quase 80 anos sob crises e partidarismos extremos. Se passou da hora de a África do Sul buscar um caminho de equilíbrio de verdade. Que fique como lição esse bom e raro registro. O auge do regime segregacionista da África do Sul foi nos anos 60 e 70. E com um boom econômico que beneficiou todo o país, TODO o país, repetindo. No entanto após a queda de países amigos como Moçambique e Rhodesia, além do fim do padrão ouro-dolar no sistema monetário internacional em 1971, a economia do país foi severamente atingida e não voltou a ter o ótimo desempenho de antes, entrando em crise crônica nos anos 80. Sem contar a disparada definitiva dos preços do petróleo, que a África do Sul sempre foi dependente. Logo, não seria mais possível manter um estado policial por tanto tempo, com gastos em defesa crescendo exponencialmente, bem como o peso das sanções internacionais. Nisso, o fim da Urss em 1991 ajudou e muito pra que a transição para o pós-apartheid sem uma guerra civil fosse possível na Afr. Do Sul e além disso, pode se salvar a Namibia dando lhe independência sem a mesma cair como foi com Angola e Zimbabwe por ex. Que o país boer se reerga e volte a ser uma terra de prosperidade, saudações do Brasil. 🇧🇷

[@andrewdutoit9571]

You must rethink you stance of Apartheid. In a nutshell is that the Whites didn't want to share their toilets with anyone else and the Wests Liberals, Socialists and Communists convinced the gullable to lay down their lives to use our crappers. As far as the rest of your post goes, if the World stayed out of South Africa's business our Country wouldn't be a beggar state today. Apartheid/Separate Development wasn't given a chance because in those day just like today there are two cultures, a modern one and a Patriarcal, Tr!bal and semi nomadic one. The Majority in those days had more prosperity then than we have now. I hope you're proud of what you created. Ping me if you have any questions

[@gysgijsbers4202]

Everything seemed brand spanking new back then...very much run down today, we need to fix our beautiful country, much old & new infrastructure upgrade needs to happen, we are 20 million more people than in 1994, when Democracy started.

[@karllothar5656]

Better Days 🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@vry3555]

I wonder what happened to all our gold?

[@michaellawson6533]

Removed and stolen by International bankers and ANC. Why do you think they can afford not to care ?

[@vry3555]

Indeed, it was a rhetorical question. We all know, question is how do we change it?

[@KingOfAfrica90]

Britain stole it

[@vry3555]

@@KingOfAfrica90 last I looked Jacobs son also had his pockets full, the rich are all the same, regardless of nationality.

[@darthguilder1923]

O bring my terug na die ou Transvaal…

[@rastaweed1268]

The difference between black government in Africa versus others. Cleaner cities versus filthy broken streets and buildings

[@francisgeere1849]

I really find it hard to believe they watched themselves deliberately letting a place turn filthy and lower than the low.Couldnt they SEE the differences???

[@jackiereynolds2888]

I am very curious about the history of south Africa. I come from one of the many places to which Europe came, settled, grew, and became eventually became independent - like south Africa.

[@comfortlee1418]

A messy one if you look like the people in the video, but a joyous one if you were not in this video. Just a large scale change management effort

[@graemebartmann7872]

@@comfortlee1418 Change management🤣More like stealing and neglect management

[@d.marques4700]

The RSA is now not even a shadow of what it once was! Truly sad and depressive, to say the least...

[@dannyarcher6163]

Good 'ol days!

[@waltermarshall7257]

Ja nou is sal in sy moer, never to be the same or work properly again

[@leonhue722]

The ladies would have their hair elegantly done and guys would wear Jackets for ties for the flight.

[@adamanthony7465]

A system that created a generation..my generation ..fully unfurnished to deal with the reality of contemporary life in 21st century Europe...and did little to prepare the Africans across Southern Africa to deal likewise at home. Dictatorship across Eastern Europe created similar power vaccums. Yet the hope is that my own nation Zimbabwe..is increasingly focussed where focus is needed. Upward. We can and should look carefully at the Sabbath Agreement of the Zcc if Southern Africa is to transcend.

[@wernerschneider4460]

My late father was in South Africa on a group-business-trip sometime in the 1970s. During this trip, they made a tour to a National Park. The tour-guide was a black woman. Somewhere there, the visitors wanted to go to a C.R. There was only one written "Whites only", meaning the tour-guide couldn't use it. Neither my father nor the other people in the group (men and women) used the facility. They did the same in protest, what the tour-guide was forced to do: relieve themselves somewhere in the bush. This was my first experience about South Africa, when he told the story after his return, and it shaped my opinion about the country forever until the end of apartheid. Nkosi sikelele iAfrica! Power to the Springboks!

[@tdevry]

I sincerely doubt that there was no restroom for the black guide. Looking at only one instance and defining the country on this is disingenuous. What is never mentioned is that a lot of good things were done to uplift the people which wasn't done in other African countries. Free public schooling and hospitals as example. Now before you start criticising, I used to work for anti apartheid newspapers and absolutely despise discrimination, I even left the country before the end of apartheid because of that. One must however also look at the situation now and one cannot do other than conclude that freedom did not bring prosperity or even freedom. This is a country where xenophobia is normal and rape and crime is totally out of control...... If you look at the corona situation and illogical dictates from the past two years one can only conclude that people will become totalitarian and oppressive very easily no matter where or in which country they stay. Hannah Arendt explained it well.

[@lewisgreen2957]

My dad was a merchant seaman back in the 1960’s. He visited SA and they had two bars 1 for coloured and 1 for whites.

[@esahm373]

@@tdevry Well, I'm sure you know that Hannah Arendt herself held highly racist views against Black people? So, as a former self-proclaimed anti-Apartheid activist (did you face any of the typical repressions, such as being abducted and tortured for weeks - if unfortunate even murdered - that most Black, Coloured and Indian anti-apartheid activists faced during the time?), do you expect the country to be handed back to the descendants of the Cape Dutch settlers and British colonialists? Do you not understand the need for a legitimate political system? And within the realm of that legitimate political system South Africa has self-determination and the freedom to achieve prosperity and stability, but they also have the freedom to fail in that endeavour. But you cannot blame the fact that they achieved that political freedom for the failure to achieve the objectives that were associated with that freedom. In democratic South Africa the precendent for lack of accountability and impunity was set when due to an agreement with the outgoing Afrikaner nationalists the prosecution of apartheid serious criminals and corrupt officials was undermined. What kind of accountability do you expect from a country that allows mass murderers like Wouter Basson to escape justice and allows them to continue with their normal lives as if they haven't implicated in the murder of hundreds of people by their own former colleagues (not taking into account the plausible link between the HIV "outbreak" in Southern Africa in the 1980s and Project Coast)...

[@Ntombelar4sure-db2yl]

​​@@tdevryIt's not true that there ware schools I may not be that old but where I come from there were no schools no road the schools we have it was Roman Catholic churches or other churches or community built schools hospitals were also run by Roman Catholic church in most black communities maybe In the cities that is where they built those schools in most rural areas in KZN to be specific they schools we built from 1992 I started my school in 1989 and in 1993 it was the first time we saw the real school I remember it was July when we moved to the new school we were so excited we may criticize the current government but the is things that they did which made us look like humans and don't know what happened after.

[@shaunmandich7181]

A Bigone Era

[@lorriemamoet9406]

Kyalami still brought tourists to South Africa

[@chrism1102]

I can't help but draw parallels to American cities. Downtowns used to be vibrant but everyone moved to the suburbs leaving the city center a shit show. Not every city of course but it makes me wonder if it's a similar dynamic in South Africa?

[@Don-ym8cm]

When the black south Africans took the country back Why didn't they just make what they took better. It doemake sense.

[@3506Dodge]

Every single person I knew in SA has left. A few barely escaped violent attacks with their lives.

[@westerlywinds5684]

0:47 do I spot a pilot making a call on a iPhone?

[@larrypatterson5363]

It’s a shame what’s happened to this beautiful country.

[@iansmith5174]

Yes. I wish the blacks and whites could have reconciled their differences and made a thriving democracy.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@iansmith5174 both parties have to be of the same level of evolution for that to happen and clearly the blacks are still in the stage of what the whites went through in Europe's medieval period with kings and kingdoms!! they're still about 700 years behind European descended whites!!

[@EdKazO-Vision]

@@keithmoore5306 Holy cow dude. What a thing to say.

[@videoluvr4204]

@@EdKazO-Vision there is always a tad bit of truth to someone's opinion

[@keithmoore5306]

@@EdKazO-Vision it's the truth! maybe cold heartless and direct but the truth! look at Rhodesia Sudan Sierra Leone Angola and the Congo in Africa all wars to control natural resources and the power and wealth they bring by dictatorial homicidal head cases and made the Marque De`Sade and old Joey Mengele look like captain Kangaroo and mister Rodgers! in the US look at Watts Compton Oakland killago Detroit Baltimore all gang wars to control drug kingdoms! no different than the English wars on Scotland Wales and Ireland or in other parts of Europe in the 1500's 1600's or early 1700's!!

[@MK_3728]

Life was simple back then😢 compare to now

[@Rickyrab]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@Raw-Thunder]

Why was I born in todays South Africa? Why couldn't I have been born in the once prosperous South Africa? Ek virstaan nie Jerre...

[@glywnniswells9480]

We were living like kings

[@comfortlee1418]

Now we are living like gods

[@orlaghcassidy3404]

I don't think the people living in the shanty towns in Soweto would agree with you ?