1970's South Africa

A glimpse into the past. A time it seems when things were better across the world.....however This video does not show the struggle for the majority of black families and the stories of workers hostals, brutal police, pass books, broken homes and suppression.

[@fckeu88]

Some people might disagree, but this country must be given back to the Boers. They didn't colonize it, they built it. European civilisation.

[@luciatheron1621]

...with cheap local labour...

[@byroncurrin227]

I was 10 years old and used to go into Joburg center with my friend who was 9....we used to go to the movies on Saturday morning. It was such a great bus-ride, and then safely walked to the Coliseum or Majesty movie-houses. After the MORNING-movie we walked to the OK Bazaars and shopped a bit, and then took the 20 minute bus ride back home, Joburg was SO safe...what a great time I had....I wish Joburg could get back to the 70's with NO crime....everyone could then enjoy themselves....wow....

[@jonathanklein9296]

Miss Zambetti

[@eisbeinGermany]

will only get worse

[@brentsumner6548]

Good luck trying to do that today!! I was +/- 4 years old when this video would have been made. Now its just dome & gloom

[@Lawrko1]

A new VW Beetle cost R1500, a new house R8000 and the Rand bought 1.50 USD - everybody had a job. South Africa will never see those good times again!.

[@siyabongahumphrey2395]

shit I agree with you 100% there back then my dad owned a car at the age of 22 and bought a house when he was 32 and he was married. I'm 23 and working a shit job though I went and matriculated at a predominantly Indian school i m losing hope as his success at a young age was my inspiration to him it's as if I'm not taking life serious and not realising the struggles I'm going through. it was better when whites ruled the country besides the discrimination but economically they knew what they were doing after all they gave us civilisation

[@siyabongahumphrey2395]

shit I agree with you 100% there back then my dad owned a car at the age of 22 and bought a house when he was 32 and he was married. I'm 23 and working a shit job though I went and matriculated at a predominantly Indian school i m losing hope as his success at a young age was my inspiration to him it's as if I'm not taking life serious and not realising the struggles I'm going through. it was better when whites ruled the country besides the discrimination but economically they knew what they were doing after all they gave us civilisation

[@TheKaveshan]

Siyabonga Humphrey as a non white...I have to agree with you in some sense

[@lastsly]

and apartheid was rife, good times???

[@lastsly]

really brother ? a house where ? In the townships?

[@KhemaySekhmet]

Amazing how clean it is ... you now go into JHB city centre and you want to vomit from the stench of rubbish lying in the streets.... and it is everyone else's fault

[@daleandrews367]

The difference is of course it was built and maintained by Europeans for Europeans. Once Whites start to leave everything, of course, predictably starts to fall apart.

[@kingmufasa8929]

KhemaySekhmet people were all well dressed and clean. Wow. Think they took the apartheid thing out of proportion!

[@kingmufasa8929]

JockBaloney why the hate. All races can be evil, the people in this video were all weal dressed, clean and respectful. The young boys even made way for the guy with the bicycle. Seems that apartheid had a few glitches, but was taken way out of proportion! Stop your hate!

[@alfamaniacs]

@@iamshotcaller5869 why is it so clean?

[@andreungerer3531]

@@iamshotcaller5869 Wow, never read so much shit as what you posted here.

[@anthonyjamesnell7997]

These were days when everyone generally felt and was safe and the streets were clean. Nowadays, my heart bleeds for my country and I prefer to be silent about her present agonies.

[@anthonyjamesnell7997]

NOPE! Sorry to disappoint on that one, Fidel. I am very much concerned about ALL of my countrymen. AFTER the ANC CAME TO POWER IN SA IN 1994; THE NUMBER OF BLACK ON BLACK MURDERS; ACCORDING TO THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE IS 24 206 /per year, ACCORDING TO INTERPOL IT IS 47 882/per year; THE OLD STATS REPORT THAT FROM 1950-1994 THERE WERE 7039/per year! The NEW SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE CLAIMED 26 000 MURDERS FOR 1996(2 years after Apartheid ended) WHILE INTERPOL CLAIMED 54 000. THERE IS A DESCREPANCY OF 10 000 BODIES/year BETWEEN GOVERNMENT(ANC) AND MRC FIGURES: Violent crime In the past seven years (1994/95 to 2000/01), violent crime increased by 33%, the highest increase in any crime category (Sibusiso Masuku, p.18. FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE: South African crime trends in 2002). What is violent crime? Sibusiso Masuku distinguishes between two types of violent crime: Interpersonal violent crime - “murder, attempted murder, serious and common assaults, and rape”; and Violent property crime - “all categories of robbery, i.e. robbery with aggravating circumstances (armed robbery, car hijacking etc.) and common robbery” (PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE: Addressing violent crime in South Africa, Institute for Security Studies. Published in SA Crime Quarterly No 2, November 2002). www.frontline.org.za/.../murder_southafrica%20(5)...I SUGGEST YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THIS STUDY.

[@garyfrank5866]

Anthony James Nell im assuming you assuming the population remains constant

[@krishnagovender9661]

thats the problem,those days were your days at the exclusion of the majority,who up to this day live in squalor.if you had thought then,to share and respect,we would have been in africa,what america was to the rest of the world.but racism. bigotry and the like will fail any country.look at america now,no different from the shit hole countries it doesnt want to deal with

[@krishnagovender9661]

and you mother was a man

[@crazychicSHENA]

Anthony James Nell the Europeanized cave your country

[@rodsinclair2573]

Under Apartheid, no taking into accounts its rights and wrongs, you were at least safe to walk the streets. I used to go into Pretoria at night when I was 14 and 15 years old and not once did I ever feel threatened or in any sort of danger. Had it been in the "new" South Africa, I doubt I ever would have made it to town and back unscathed.

[@blackpoweramandla5671]

Rod Sinclair well our fathers were not allowed to travel they were killed by your people. Viva Tsotsi republic vivaaa. Make sure you rob them

[@lastsly]

such ignorance is disappointing

[@denztv756]

Rod Sinclair you had the privilege as a white man that's y u walked in peace. Now I walk in peace

[@z11542]

Keep lying to yourself.Tiaan. Look at how great your people made South Africa.

[@z11542]

Sorry i made a mistake in the thread.

[@aussiebushgirl1829]

It showcases how hard the minority worked to make this a first world country. Sadly, it's now reverted to a third world country! :'(

[@Azrael-me1tm]

aussie bushgirl read the description

[@marcogram1216]

So what? They built it. There was literally NOTHING or NOONE there before the Whites arrived. Now look at it. A dump.

[@usakindatheartflower6229]

+Trump is Eric Cartman capitalism is the only way, once socialism starts beggers and frauds happen, no one works and it turns into the shit hole it is to day

[@locobadger3376]

Trump is Eric Cartman kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6vckpRoqcuqeM0

[@waynemclaughlin96]

Trump is Eric Cartman So being a lazy Welfare bum is better then is that what you're saying? Having no pride in yourself is that what you're saying is better?

[@mistermax3034]

Civilization. SA will never be the same.

[@iamshotcaller5869]

I assume you're referring to the savagery of apartheid. I'm glad it will never be the same like that. Finally civilized for most citizens.

[@alfamaniacs]

@@iamshotcaller5869 why was it so clean?

Iam Shotcaller do you live in SA ? Anyone who calls what is happening there now civilized is deluded

[@laurenjamieson8411]

@@iamshotcaller5869 "savagery of apartheid" in what way? The black population boomed during apartheid.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@diegosalazar5188 my opinion, I did find that the union of south africa was better, as most blacks live well, other nationalities as well

[@scarabash]

Thanks for the memories..those WERE the good old days and they ARE GONE forever

[@maureenjackson2041]

Life was good gir the European people of South Africa and yes they're EUROPEAN. If you were a Non European you suffered all the injustices apartheid brought with it.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@amapianototheworld9180 What's Fucken Racist about it?

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@maureenjackson2041 Maam, were do the uneducated people live in your area?

[@panzerfaust1322]

@@amapianototheworld9180 naw… I don’t believe ‘in-group preference’ is “racist”… in fact “racist” it’s actually just a made up term that you can’t even find in older dictionary‘s…now “racist” is just a term to gaslight and derail conversations… just like if you were to call someone a “nazi”…. It’s just hyperbole …. There is no National Socialist Party in Germany any longer … you get it, I’m sure. I don’t think anyone no matter what color should be treated badly … everyone deserves their own homeland. And frankly… Everybody self segregates naturally anyways by and large. I’m not implying that what happen in South Africa or even the United States with slavery is good… What I’m stating is I didn’t do it back then and if y’all want to self segregate now by all means be my guest.

[@naidoo307]

@@maureenjackson2041 yes and no most non whites are not happy living today in SA 😮

[@markhenley3097]

This feels like a confusing mix of American West Coast and London.

[@queenbitch4151]

Poor loser, you like East Asians because you can't get a white girlfriend. Sad

[@markhenley3097]

@@queenbitch4151 No I just think Western civilisation since the 1960s has been in downfall. Nothing about Asians.

[@anonrandom7765]

Yes, Western civilization is on a downward trajectory. Why? Because of our own altruism. We're letting non-Whites come in and ruin what we've built. Simple as that.

[@anonrandom7765]

@@queenbitch4151 Where did he say he liked East Asians over White women? I agree with your sentiment though. White women are the highest plane of perfection possible. There is no upgrade from a White woman. More White people can only be brought into the world if White men and women stay true to each other and don't participate in miscegenation. I pity the men who buy into lies and out of their own pathetic impotence, go for non-White women while condemning White women. This happens especially with East Asian women who these beta males believes are somehow more "conservative/wife material". It's sad. All true White men worth anything should stick to White women.

[@laurenjamieson8411]

@@anonrandom7765 precisely.

[@percybriscoe9886]

What a wonderful time it was. I was 16 years old. People loved and respected each other. House windows open. No fences. No malemas or mandelas of this world. Safe to drive and walk in Johannesburg. Cars had no turbos. Arabs tried to kill us with their crude oil embargoe. But there was Sasol 1. We made our own fuel from coal. We survived all the world sanctions. Praise God i got to grow up and live in my country SA during these wonderful times.

[@rosskardon7195]

During the Apartheid era, as a South African citizen, did you miss not being able to travel to Kenya and Tanzania, and therefore not being able to go to the Serengeti in Tanzania, not being able to go to the Masai Mara in Kenya, and back then, did you resent not being able to go to see the great wildebeest migration during the Apartheid era, when South African citizens were banned from visiting these countries?

[@waswe4204]

@@rosskardon7195 What rubbish are you talking about? We could go most places and the equivalent was in Kruger Park and Botswana, clearly you have not lived there during those times. I went to Botswana, to Zambia, to Mozambique, Rhodesian Namibia, there are migrations in those places too. Let me explain to you about "Apartheid" if it wasn't for the Europeans the Africans would have had continual tribal wars for 60 years, and look at South Africa today, highest murder and rape rates in the world. Look at the stuff up Tanzania and Kenya are today.

[@rosskardon7195]

@@waswe4204 I am very glad that in July of 2019, I skipped a going to a Rolling Stones concert in Philadelphia even though I had a ticket and instead, I went on a wonderful safari trip in Tanzania to see the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and wildebeest migration. I am very glad I went on this safari in Tanzania before the entire world shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Since you have never been to Tanzania to see what I saw, you still don't know what you are missing.

[@waswe4204]

@@rosskardon7195 What a clueless person you are - I have family in Tanzania and a cousin in Kenya. Typical clueless Yank.

[@rosskardon7195]

@@waswe4204 Thank you for your reply and letting me know about your family in Tanzania and your cousin in Kenya. I will greatly appreciate it for you to send me your replies to let me know about what it really like to actually live in Tanzania and Kenya. Believe it or not, I am well aware about most of Africa, the real Africa, is not the safari wonderland tourists like myself go to see. And again, thank you for your reply and to inform me like this.

[@RichieRouge206]

I was born in Newcastle Kwazulu-Natal back in 1977. Such a crazy but utterly wonderful country. Although I now live in the UK, my heart belongs there. I wish I was my age now, living in the 70s there... great video

[@sunnyguest6526]

and now

[@mariomulder3153]

Visited Newcastle a few weeks ago, not the same anymore. It's a shithole, sewage drains overflowing everywhere due to poor maintenance, some streetlights been out for years. Municipality overcharging for utilities, cost nearly as much as renting a home. If you have a death wish , visit the provicial hospital, they will make a plan to finish you off. Drugs freely available and I'm not talking about the rural areas.

[@AL-jx8qy]

RichieT5 I agree with you.

[@abdulazizabdulrahman6767]

That's wonderful

[@annetteelliott1494]

It's rough, its tough, but I'm still alive.......can't afford to leave, maybe it's a good thing....☺☺

[@AldousForestTheLast]

Looks like America. Don't let the same thing happen to USA as it did to South Africa.

[@tsmith3771]

You obviously DO hate non whites - hence you apartheid era South African flag in your profile. Blame YOUR people's decades of mass oppression for what's happened in South Africa. You crap country and America are the 2 most historically racist countries in the world yet you can't understand why the problems which exist now are a result of your former policies. BTW - WHY are YOU talking about the West? If you are a South African why are YOU not focusing on who "we" should let in? that means that YOU have left SA and are living in another country. so it's OK for YOU to move to another place but nobody else should - unless they are white? We need to not let people like YOU into the west with your racist, savage, medieval, anti human apartheid views. We could do without you and your poison - we have enough idiots already without having to cater for apartheid worshipers in the west

[@leon34002]

I hope you live long enough to see a change in power for what you call a fellow minority will become the oppressor of you're children. he will hail from the east where he will be seated there by very same people who you support and appalled. you will remember of this text you'll know we have won.

[@kerryerasmus499]

My answer to you T Smith is, go to South Africa today 2018, then lets see how difficult you will find supporting the current black Govn. Unless you are just a bull shitter and won't accept the truth.

[@hisbeautifultruth5931]

Tommy Vercetti -- Prove what you claim using modern I.Q testing and not 1800s.

[@lukasrojko3392]

It's already happening in Paris, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles....

[@Antipodean33]

I thought blacks and whites didn't mix under apartheid, but here are blacks and whites going about their business and everyone looks healthy, well fed and dressed very well

Antipodean33 strange that isn’t it 😝

[@lancealbon46]

It’s called propaganda, or today labeled as “fake news” because although I disagreed with apartheid, it was NOT as bad as it’s made out to be today.

[@zugzug9969]

Everyone knows the truth, except the blacks. Because they have been lied to by their power hungry leaders. ANC was a great party, now they corrupt. EFF can be a great party, but they very Racist. DA can be a great party, but they too white for most blacks. COPE seems to be more level headed, but they under supported like most other smaller parties.

[@andreungerer3531]

@@zugzug9969 Are you delusional or on drugs? None of those parties were/is great.

[@andreungerer3531]

Apartheid ment we didn't need to drop to their low level of standards...

[@eileeneclark9011]

Very 70s....looks like some American cities.....clean....no trash....people biking & cars/buses ....NO RIOTING....NO DESTRUCTION....how nice & peaceful....2/25/18....

[@casspirmk6338]

No rioting? No blasts? Well, on that footage - yes.

[@AR25326]

American cities are filled with trash, roads are cracked.

[@roybean7166]

I presume you are american, and don't know much about South africa. If you did know, you will know that the country was actually in upheaval, plenty rioting, destruction, and war. Sanctions against us, the country was on the way to destruction. What you see here is a sanitized version of the country.

[@dumitriman]

It's like the person behind the camera new that he/she was taping important evidence. This video is golden.

[@lovemorembigi]

Johannesburg circa 1972 - good times! A ray of ancient sunlight captured on this excellent video - thanks for posting!!

[@onkabetsebopape7338]

I'm black and have to say it was beautiful back then even though we were treated unfairly. at least it was safer compared to now. I'm not saying bring back the apartheid government. I'm saying put white people in power and see things take shape

[@mkubheka7174]

Emancipation of mental slavery is what is needed. You need it too.

[@virvisquevir3320]

Makaziwe Kubheka - No. Competence is what is needed. Let the competent run things, whether they are white, black or Asian.

[@maseratifittipaldi]

I don't think it is just about white and black. It is more about quality, I think. Because of our gangster political party system - and particularly about the worst gang S.A. has ever seen ( the ANC) - political parties only look after themselves. The ANC deploys its members to areas of responsibility of which they have no clue whatsoever. All they are interested in is their own money, status, perks, luxuries and enjoyment.

[@jacovandenberg213]

Tell if you can see any black person in this video that are being treated bad? Not even close to the same as whites are treated today

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Needs prerequisite requirements for write of suffrage: 1) have an income at least at a basic level. 2) have a house. 3) have read several books and treatises written by the founders of South Africa's colonial government, on the subject of governance. Have to pass a test held every 3 years on all branches and levels of government and government restraint. Sincerely white, blonde hair, blue eyed American. This assures a basic level of competency and restraint when voting, both by interests in maintaining employment, and by having read why the government operates the way it does, and what to be wary of.

[@AlexEvtush789]

I miss old South Africa. And I miss Rhodesia too.

[@pmambongwe8640]

It's your cheap labour messing up our cities

[@Edgel-in6bs]

And, no doubt, the KKK, lynching and slavery

[@kaizerkhan2293]

From a First World country to a third world country in one generation

[@smr4712]

made england look like junk status lol

[@MrGibo2000]

I sat and watched this in stunned silence. Where are those Days. We have lost our Country. SA seems to be dying a slow sad death.

[@garethbuckeridge6910]

Will go the same way as Zimbabwe.

[@mysterydude1520]

It is unfortunate that South Africa is no- longer a safe and clean town. BEAUTIFUL facilities that once stood are now rundown or abandoned. To cope with crime houses have fortified themselves and look like jails now. Ongoing strikes have recently plagued South Africa have effected all kinds of things such as transportation to water, sewers, and trash pickup. Infrastructures are no longer being maintained, so they are now corroding.

[@eisbeinGermany]

and now its even worse

[@clovis-ti1yv]

I would rather go to SA in this time period than now. It’s been crossed off my travel list thanks to the end of apartheid. SA is now just another lost cause in Africa.

[@IndentureTrustee]

@PanQuakes lol tell that to my friends who keep blacks as slaves in lybia.

[@CandyGirl44]

Good we don't need your racist type here

[@CandyGirl44]

Good we don't need your racist type here

[@PeterNgola]

@1741clovis now the whole South African economy has collapsed because you did not bless them with your presence. Lmao

[@pravinjugwanth7359]

You just want to sponge of the hard work of the disenfranchised people . Sorry you lost out lol . Now we travel and holiday all around the world, how the tables have turned.

[@drevil5001]

Its amazing how clean the streets were back then. Its not exactly rocket science to sweep a street but yet the ANC can't even manage that.

[@Ponerology]

South Africa and Rhodesia should have gone to war with the west. They could have held fast, threatened using nukes if necessary. South Africa is a lesson for the whole Western world.

[@markhenley3097]

That would't be possible. But certainly, South Africa and Rhodesia should have tried harder to work together, since the SADF was a powerful force which could've easily annihilated the Commies pouring in from Zambia and Mozambique, while Rhodesia simply didn't have the numbers. Really Rhodesia's days were numbered once the revolution in Portugal happened and the idiot Vorster cut off oil.

[@crazychicSHENA]

You Whites can't on our Land's beat us you think you can but you can't 🔫😱😂

Black and Irish Crazy Chick Biracial goddess. Our land ? Really ? So you mean the US ?

[@casspirmk6338]

West? Really? Nkomo was supported by soviets, Mugabe by chinese, all mess has come from east. Westerners imposed sanctions, but deadly force threat was imposed by commies.

[@Ponerology]

Shiraz Adams It is indeed.

[@charmskzn1880]

First thing I noticed is how clean the city is. Today no matter what day or time you venture to a major CBD all you see is streets filled with rubble for it's believed "littering creates jobs". People use to receive quality and speedy municipal or government services, whereas today when you enter any municipal or government department you are firstly greeted with over crowded rooms, nobody that can guide you to the correct counter as signs are non existing, rows of people waiting to be helped at" snail pace by two clerks" instead of ten, as eight work stations are closed due to lack of staff. If the government and council department place people at all these empty service windows, desks, offices, as it was 30 years ago , thousands of people will have jobs, and the public won't have to sit in queues all day waiting.

[@eisbeinGermany]

now its worse

[@ruditrollip4834]

Wish South Africa was still like that

[@aninabrand1982]

this is the Joburg I was born in, grew up in and loved. RIP

[@garthmartin6953]

The one where blacks were oppressed?

[@southernsal3113]

I was from kzn. I was fortunate to come to Joburg on a school excursion in 1989. Got to see its wonder just in time! The ruining started about a year later!

[@davmar5648]

Yes,, This is a great piece of film of the time when my family went out to live in South Africa. Yes It doesn't show the other side of White rule I agree, but I do know a lot of Black and coloured South African people who are old enough to would love to go back to white rule where safety was there and they could put food on the table everyday. Today's South Africa is a very unfair society. Wealth has come to a lot of Black families but extreme poverty has arisen since Black rule to many Races especially whites. Voting is not fair and people are threatened by there own kind. Yes, this was a rime when there was control but there were no illegal aliens from front-line states brining in Unemployment like there is now. There was border control. I really hope that this beautiful country does not go like Rhodesia did. That would be a crying shame especially for the people of this country.

[@annetteelliott1494]

My maid of 34 years says the "apartheid" years were better....much better....

[@pravinjugwanth7359]

@@annetteelliott1494... And you believe her? How old are you? What a joke.

[@placidwaters2415]

@@pravinjugwanth7359 Yes, I believe her.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@annetteelliott1494 i don't believe it.

[@PeteboyE]

@@pravinjugwanth7359 My maid said the same thing

[@virvisquevir3320]

Wow! Is any other African country, or Asian country for that matter, so nice and clean and organised? And I thought apartheid South Africa was only violence and bloodshed and repression. Everybody walking around dressed nicely. Everyone looks calm and happy...

[@hopeodyssey]

The Strydom tower, in Hillbrow, with a beautiful revolving restaurant way at the top, was quite something! I laughed seeing the bench outside Truworths on Eloff St, I used to work there, in accounts; I loved the rainy afternoons, on the way home after work, the heavens would open up and the rain would come down in bucket loads; It was hot and everything was fresh. I can still recall that heavenly African rain, the smell; it had a magical feel to it; Cape Town Foreshore is well developed since those days;

[@jeffmorse645]

South Africa should have just said no to the pressure from the rest of the world. Kept the homelands and protected what they had built. No one was capable or willing to overthrow the government by force.

[@TheodoreAndor]

Look how orderly and clean was so beautiful. ...invite anyone to come and see now

[@7775dawn]

Back then there was electricity , no taxis , people was driving slow cared for one another i realy mis these days

[@stevealexR1]

Very interesting to "compare and contrast" as to how it all went so wrong!

[@etnarongiselva8361]

Good and rare record. The heyday of South Africa's segregationist regime was in the 1960s and 1970s. And with an economic boom that benefited the whole country, the ENTIRE country, again. However, after the fall of friendly countries such as Mozambique and Rhodesia, in addition to the end of the gold-dollar standard in the international monetary system in 1971, the country's economy was severely affected and did not return to the excellent performance of before, entering a chronic crisis. in the 80s. Not to mention the definitive spike in oil prices, which South Africa has always been dependent on. Therefore, it would no longer be possible to maintain a police state for so long, with defense spending growing exponentially, as well as the weight of international sanctions. In this regard, the end of the USSR in 1991 helped a lot to make the transition to post-apartheid without a civil war possible in the AFR. From the South and beyond, Namibia can be saved by giving it independence without it falling as it was with Angola and Zimbabwe for example. May the Boer country rise again and become a land of prosperity.

[@andrerothweiler9191]

As I was a kid in Europe, I heard that SA was Eden on earth. Clean, warm climate and mixed population. I always dreamed to be there. Now SA is much worse than my country Ukraine and we have a war but still is much safer here. Sad...

[@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373]

OK. This post hasn't aged well...

[@bonganikhumalo9563]

Showed my father this video, his reminiscences of how Joburg used to be so clean in those times.🥺

[@airzulu2733]

Friday nights in Hillbrow and then sat shopping and the flicks. Sunday was like sport , braai and spending days with family and friends . Just an amazing place was Joburg .

[@rowanwatkins1580]

Jislaaik, it looked so much nicer

[@hedgehog9475]

What a wonderful place it was!

[@RandomGRK]

I work in Jhb central. Doesn't look like this any more...Quite sad really

[@afrilanta]

This is such a valuable video! Certainly a part of our heritage. Thank you for posting. I was born in the '60s and remember so much of these scenes.

[@pitbullpowersystems8704]

orderly society

[@oriettoberti2501]

And clean steeets.

[@themadmgtow5196]

while not defending aparthied in anyway i question how a first world country sank to become third world and poised to have a civil war once Ramaphosa starts his land confiscation program.

[@zamokuhlezulu3783]

It turned slaves into sons, and as such, the status of son-ship meant that we are all entitled to the inheritance. what appeared like a huge load enough for the family was suddenly too small to even put on the table. smaller numbers with rights = bigger slice...... huge numbers with rights = small slice

[@TheUltimateNatural]

South Africa was never a first world country. The majority of its population lived in squalid poverty and in shacks.

[@brandenvandermerwe5352]

@@TheUltimateNatural now your just talking utter shit. In 1988 South African Rand was R1.24 to the USD. That is how strong our economy was. It took the ANC 2 years to fuck that up. 26 years later and we are considered junk status!

[@djpirano787]

As a young black man, I wish Johannesburg CBD could be like this today and people of my race had equal opportunities with every other race and not get inhumane treatment like they were treated in the 70’s this clean beautiful CBD some of us never got to see, today honestly Hillbrow is disgusting.

[@caesar3909]

Me too brother, me too...but th only way for that to happen is for us to remove the ANC who have allowed our cities to become what they are. DBN & JHB should be one of the most beautiful cities in Africa

[@djpirano787]

@@caesar3909 I agree, have you seen how clean Cape Town CBD is

[@candysmith8724]

Reminds me of Detroit, MI...once was a beautiful city and now in shambles after 50 years of democrat rule. SA looked beautiful then...the whole situation is so sad. God bless the people who are struggling their now. Love from Texas, USA

[@crazychicSHENA]

Ikr like Jim crow time you could run the other like minority's for Free 😂

[@pacifistidentitarian549]

@@lucianogardelli10I grew up in South Africa , It is a race thing

[@roybean7166]

@Luciano Gardelli You obviously know nothing about Sa. It is a race thing, race, you could say, permeated everything. Unfortunately it was like that. From top to bottom. Even the benches you see those ladies sitting on. Was a sign on every bench, no blacks allowed. It was crazy, stupid.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@lucianogardelli10 It's a race thing, not a Democrat thing. In apartheid South Africa black people had to have a permit to leave Soweto and go into Johannesburg. They were not allowed in most places which had signs that said, "Whites only". If they went into the store they were arrested. I wouldn't pay any attention to anything that this person from Texas said. Texas is a state full of right wing Republican crazies who would shoot you if they don't like the way you look.

[@61sunset]

​@@roybean7166 Happened in quite a few countries.

[@CampX4]

Not much of this is left now, its all gone. Very sad. Glad it is on video. Thanks.

[@ruthvanstaden5284]

Thanks for sharing. Those were the days. You could sit and eat your lunch in the library gardens (now Beyers Naude Square). If I remember correctly, there were roses that actually grew in those gardens. I haven‘t been near the JHB CBD for more than 15 years, but according to google maps there’s not much left of the “gardens”. It’s mostly paving. I noticed graffiti on the walls and the front facade of library is cordoned off with fencing.

[@drevil5001]

Its amazing how clean the streets were back then.

[@kimlee5328]

I agree, it doesn't show that side, the side where there was enormous assistance by the then current government for: Free Housing for the poor Free medical for the poor Free education in all rural area, the poor Basic services actually existed everywhere Jobs were abundant Protests were not riots with looting and destruction of property But hey,THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT CORRUPT, just strict, and safety for all was paramount

[@shaling19bigsis]

OMG! What happened to our beautiful country!? Cant recognize it anymore. I wish I lived in the 70's to have experienced this...

[@rodlevin5615]

Was the best country in the world to grow up in

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Except for black people.

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

I can say one thing for sure: The sidewalks and streets looked very clean.

[@roshannaidoo3792]

Yep, south africa once was a great place to live, I can't speak for the 70s as I wasn't born then but the 80s what a time to be alive, maybe I was too young to understand the politics but still never did I hear my parents or grandparents moan and groan about things being bad. Even upto now they keep saying those where the good old days. Plenty jobs, no crime, less stress. I'm just glad I got to grow up during that Era. And why is it the ones that play the racist card is the ones who where born after 94. Yet you will never see an actual older person who grew throw that period cry about it.

[@rosskardon7195]

During the apartheid era, did you miss not being able to visit Kenya and Tanzania, not being able to visit the Serengeti in Tanzania, the Masai Mara in Kenya, and therefore not being to see the great wildebeest migration?

[@roshannaidoo3792]

@@rosskardon7195 No. why?

[@rosskardon7195]

@@roshannaidoo3792 In July of 2019, I am very glad went on a safari trip in Tanzania to visit the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater to see the great wildebeest migration, before when the next year in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic shut down the entire world. You have no desire visit to Kenya and/or Tanzania to see the great wildebeest migration? You don't know what you are missing!

[@roshannaidoo3792]

@@rosskardon7195 lol I wish I had that luxury and finances. Wouldn’t mind travelling but economic situation unfortunately will dictate how far we can travel lol and enjoy life.

[@rosskardon7195]

@@roshannaidoo3792 Thank you for your reply and pointing this out to me. Because of how I did not even become a modest self-made millionaire, a filmmaker like Steven Spielberg, or Ron Howard, let alone that I did not become a self-made billionaire like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, or Sir Richard Branson, and that lived my entire lifetime as an average working person, I consider myself to be a worthless loser in life!

[@stefan610]

Precious. Nobody seemed to be dragged around with chains around ther necks. Everyone in this video seems quite happy. Even the opressed. And the city looks so clean.... Can't we have some of that back, minus all the political mistakes that were made? Thanks for sharing!!!

[@airgunningsa3771]

i miss that old south africa.

[@0825411237]

Better days

[@feizalmoolla1946]

Fun seeing those cars.Thanks for the upload

[@abdulazizabdulrahman6767]

I'm from Ghana but I'm highly impressed about the look of South Africa even in this present era, I badly wish to visit there if I could get the opportunity to.

[@E.T.F.B_]

Now is not a good time to visit

[@eisbeinGermany]

stay far away from the country

[@samrez-5530]

look how beautyful it was at this time!!!! wow so sad now

[@leonsmuts1526]

Just amazing how clean the sidewalks were ...

[@chrisgray4651]

That is so good to know! Meanwhile 5 miles down the road the majority black population were living under the sjambok and pump action.

[@lindareeves551]

What a pleasure it was to go to Cape Town from the suburbs, by bus. It was safe, it was clean and people treated each other with respect. It can be like that again. ❤

[@Scotseasy]

Glory days.

[@iamshotcaller5869]

Savagery at it's finest!

[@camiologytv7149]

back when things were running smoothly in our economy, and not one black soul in this video is being miss-treated.

[@SpitfireMLG]

@@Official_Baba_yaga Hey genuinely curious, if it was so bad for black people in South Africa, why did millions of black people immigrate to South Africa during apartheid? Logically if they were so mistreated we would have seen an exodus of black people? It doesn’t make sense

[@SpitfireMLG]

@@Official_Baba_yaga Well logically if millions of black people moved to South Africa during apartheid then that was probably because they envisioned a better life for themselves there… Under apartheid. Why else do people migrate? In your neighbour example, a neighbour would move house because they envision a better life for themselves elsewhere and they would move to where they would live a better life

[@SpitfireMLG]

@@Official_Baba_yaga Reverse apartheid? What on Earth are you talking about? Convenient way of trying to change the topic of conversation I suppose lmao

[@SpitfireMLG]

@@Official_Baba_yaga unless you can find a believable alternative the most logical will be presumed. Lmao

[@SpitfireMLG]

@@Official_Baba_yaga lmfao seethe harder

[@riazsal8521]

What a beautiful sight .... no shit for brains taxi drivers on the road, truly a beautiful sight👍👍

[@rynoscheepers4156]

Beautiful! The streets were clean, the rand stronger than the dollar, and there were trains too!!!

[@nancyp7301]

Oh what a time, safe clean streets. A white person would not dare walk on these streets today.

[@iamshotcaller5869]

You're being a selfish jerk. It's safe for whites and much safer for the majority of the population. That's what matters most.

[@alfamaniacs]

@@iamshotcaller5869 why was it so clean back then?

[@TheFraterSaturni]

Lost South Africa. Very pity that we'll never more see it so.

[@jerichoraia]

Showed this to my dad's friend (he's an Afrikaner) and I could see how nostalgic he was. Also I must say this country was super clean and things seemed to go well but the only problem is the racism and discrimination against South Africans of colour..

[@pravinjugwanth7359]

Thanks for at least acknowledging. It's the first step to healing

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Yeah, the Afrikaners would like apartheid and racism back.

[@trallalala-zb7jo]

@P T afrikaners its white dutch people

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

So no racism in South Africa today where everyone is equal except if a white man and a black man applies for the same job with the same qualifications ... well almost ... the black man always gets the job ... yeah right!

[@trallalala-zb7jo]

@@Daisy-tl2lh lol This rapists have no job

[@tevinbengtson3978]

Lovely!!! Clean & civilized...

[@cayminlast]

Sure brings back the past, recognize many places with vivid memories of my youth.

[@AlbionTarkhan]

Clean, orderly, graffiti free, crime free. Looks like it was a great place. What happened?

[@virvisquevir3320]

atque scientia europa universalis - Cultural Marxists happened.

[@bristolboer2910]

The ANC happened

[@riccs93]

@@virvisquevir3320 hahahaahhahahahaha, idiot

[@whitesox9671]

The world forced the white government to give the country to a black government under the rule of a communist President Mandela. Promises was made of a better life for everyone.....lies, lies, lies. Look at the rest of Africa. No successful, prosperous country exist where there is a black man in power. Not one. The same happened to South Africa.

[@ifechimichael6006]

@@whitesox9671 not 100% true there are some prosperous country such as Botswana, Mauritius and the Seychelles but for the most part you're right.

[@anthonysalgado5118]

Look how clean it is.

[@thommysides4616]

I loved the original sound/music track you had on this video. It was awesome and went right with the video exactly. Can't you please try posting it again like that. Keep this one up, but post the original version too. Use a different title pic, but bring back the old sound track....please!

[@syllfrankena]

Hi, Is there any chance we could get in touch about this clip? Would love to know more where it came from as I'd like to use it in a documentary.

[@Milla8cleo]

Aww I loved going to Joburg when I was little. We would dress up and shop at Gratermans and it was a treat.

[@MarkHoward660]

The good old days

[@iamshotcaller5869]

Now you have to share your freedom. The better new days!!

[@prepschoolkid]

Where did you get that information from?

[@ninjafb5832]

I was born in da 70s south Africa as a country was more advanced in da 70s than now we seem to be going backwards not forward

[@dawnmorris3718]

I agree with Clitmint. We white people advanced Africa.....oh but hey we can always tear down what we built and return the country to what it was.....oh please! I just wish there was NO racism in the world....it would be a better place! So hou jou bek!

[@iamshotcaller5869]

We whites with "guns" stole African resources and oppressed natives, is what you meant. And you can't do diddly there without threatening others first. So shut up. You wish there was no racism? lol Ae you drunk? It's a European concept.

[@crazychicSHENA]

@Sonnenrad not White's invented racist worldwide

[@gajimafeet]

notice how clean everything is -ie the streets and railway lines

[@13thDimension]

Thanks for sharing

[@carlos.a.vcarvajal6119]

Beautiful city ... what happened ????..

[@josesilvat.3898]

Nelson Mandela...

[@salihalash4111]

Bullshit

[@crusader2.0_loading89]

Cultural enrichment

[@antonferreira483]

Jesus...the roundabout at the bottom of Adderley Street! Full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes! Anyone else here who grew up in Cape Town in the 60s?

[@roybean7166]

Me, I grew up there. 60s, I was a small kid, 70s, I remember it well. Am still here.

[@Thebudokid87]

It doesn't matter what anyone says. The history and statistics of South-Africa have been recorded and cannot be undone...And it concludes that South-Africa was a richer and safer place for all citizens

[@danielcoetzee5793]

Those "workers hostels" talked about in the editorial description, are still in operation today after 25 years of independence.....! However, the Y.M.C.A. hostels for young men coming to find work in the cities, are long gone...! (There was one just out of view around the corner from the Braamfontein Civic Centre at 03;07 in the video). Even today, 45 years after these videos, millions of migrant workers from rural communities and other countries on the continent, still flock to the cities for work. The govt. doesn't provide hostels or housing for them all, but some mining companies still do.....; are they still responsible for "broken families"..? At least they do not require "permits" to work in S.A. and they are not required to carry pass books with them. That's progress...!

[@Jhampa108]

yes true. thanks for commenting

[@Jhampa108]

The whole world has changed since these times , people don't see that

[@shanonjhall]

KarmaCoconuts It's true, the whole world has. And everybody's too busy watching TV "programming" to give a shit. What happened there is happening globally due to a hand full of people pulling strings to poison it for all. I hope they burn in hell.

[@moshow93]

KarmaCoconuts Yes. Western countries are turning into third world shit holes due to immigration and leftist culture. East Asian countries are becoming highly advanced do to careful long term planning and cultural hemogeny. The middle East is being torn apart by Israel's mercenary army and Africa is still a shithole...just with alot more people.

[@mariomulder3153]

everybody being programmed via TV and it's being done for the governments own personal agendas. I wish people will just wake up and start thinking for them self

[@crazychicSHENA]

hangar2247 white Christian are racist nationalist nazist

[@crazychicSHENA]

hangar2247 like your mom 😭

[@olmissalumnilee5874]

I lived in Capetown 4 years it's an amazing beautiful filthy dangerous wonderful place

[@Jhampa108]

thanks for the comment

[@AdamIsailovic]

All those countries in decline....and no one see the connection. So many good countries destroyed by greed and psychopaths.

[@patrickharding4831]

Looks like anywhere in Australia today.

[@hloxyman9346]

Now SA it's a dump site

[@MrKane101111]

Nice video.

[@krazykirl1129]

Wow!! Every colour & creed looks so well presented. Seems really hard to believe that this was Apartheid times. Really weird.

[@krazykirl1129]

@P T Well observed Captain Obvious! Perhaps stick to the actual content next time. Or let me guess, you lived in the slum in South Africa in the 70's and are slowly working your way around KZbin because you now have the opportunity to access technology which you can now afford? 🤔

[@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373]

Understandable... but... There were several mistakes, especially economic ones, in the old south african regime. It was unsustainable. The film only shows 20% of what the country represented then.

[@mrsaturdaynightspecial3055]

So sad, it's all lost now.

[@henry6591]

its like the perfect model city, where all races live together peacefully.

[@lennox285679]

that is impossible and will never happen

[@Clifffields]

anderson.paak room in here fit so well to this

[@joshuatreebje]

Gee there's many different opinions on here. I don't really want to get involved in an argument. I live in Australia and have a friend who grew up in South Africa, he left in 2002. He told me what many on here are saying, that under apartheid crime was much lower than it is now. One of the reasons he left south africa was because of the crime, he told me his house was broken into and cleared out 3 times in 6 months. He also told me he believes the current government is corrupt.