1980s Johannesburg | 1980s South Africa | Joburg | South Africa | TV Eye | 1985

[@keep_it_tidy56]

Looks incredibly clean compared to the dump it became after 1994.

[@SM-tx1gg]

We lived there in the 80s it was a beautiful city and safe ! We left and went back to visit recently it’s a third world very dangerous awful place

[@janeporter818]

Beautiful

[@StreetDrilla]

astonishing, looks like new york

[@jeksixten5751]

SA is once the most richest country in South Africa

[@aheat3036]

It was once the New York of Africa but it’s been all downhill since the 1990s.

[@Jouantiese]

Lived in Helderberg that year, all of 14 years old.

[@mblack422]

Third world dump now

[@arthurmorgan5064]

A racist but prosperous country, life's dilemmas.

[@YorickReturns]

South Africa is more prosperous now. Also the murder rate is lower.

[@rbrb288]

@@YorickReturns it's always you lot

[@YorickReturns]

@@rbrb288 What do you mean?

[@davidrbrtsn]

@@YorickReturns Agreed, it's so much better now.

[@_Somsnosa_]

Not so prosperous for actual South African people though.

[@ldreams730]

Was great

[@vitaliksavonevsky6108]

What a great country once it was!

[@YorickReturns]

The murder rate was out of control in the '80s. The country was on the brink of civil war.

[@beey1718]

So apartheid was great then??

[@davidrbrtsn]

I'm a South African... We live in a great country that is much better after Apartheid. All the 'achievements' under that government were on the back of unsustainable exploitative labour policies. Half of our current government is pretty corrupt but we're doing ok. Our response to Covid-19 was the best out of all the BRICS countries by far.

[@raymondglad5593]

@@YorickReturns Yea Right. Do trolls think everybody is stupid???? Please quote the numbers and you sources and show us some real intelligence.

[@YorickReturns]

@@raymondglad5593 If I gave you the numbers, would you believe them? Why do you believe that the murder rate is worse now? Is it because you want it to be? You want the ending of apartheid to have bad consequences? Are you really interested in what the truth about the murder rate is? Are you really interested in numbers and sources?

[@StreetDrilla]

ayo!! apartheid aint seem so bad now, might implement in my own country..

[@IronSharpensIronOfficial]

Imagine North Korea and there amazing building they have however imagine not allowed to see the truths with all the work camps or here slums now imagine being able to see the slums of South Africa on this probably government made video, yes it looks nice but when you see the truth that’s when it hits!

[@fartexplosion4480]

Yeah, it's worse now. Much, much, much, much worse.

[@targeted-individualdallas-9963]

0th. HA!

[@politecorrectionsocietyest7466]

2nd

[@richardtheeighth4431]

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[@Rob_Walker.]

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[@manatee2500]

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