A South African blast from the past

As we ready ourselves for the challenges of the new year, wondering what life will bring, what with the state of world politics, the global economy, and the state of the enviroment with global warming and all that jazz, to name but a few.
I thought I would take the day off and step back in time and revisit a time when life was simpler, slower, less rushed, people had time for thier families, men were gentleman and a promise was kept and sealed on a handshake, woman used to cook like thier mothers and not drink like thier fathers.
It just felt good to slip back in time and relive a time long forgotten, I just had to put together a little montage to share with everyone who, like me, just needs a little time out now and again.
Hope you enjoy it.
P.S This is for the old grey haired farts like me, the under 30 crowd, this is all brand new to you.

[@sydneyvenkanna5762]

I'm Indian, true back than life was better, we never had fences or walls around our houses, life was great,

[@andreventer9231]

👌🏻👍🏻

[@chap666ish]

Oh my word. "Braaivleis Rugby Sunny skies and Chevlrolet".... take me back to the 1970s. When did I become this old? :-(

[@richardsharpe2966]

During my time in South Africa I had many happy memories from that fine country also enjoyed listening to Springbok Radio as well. Gedurende my tyd in Suid-Afrika het ek baie gelukkige herinneringe van daardie fyn land geniet ook luister na Springbok Radio as well.

[@louisbothma3165]

☺☺☺☺☺...

[@JunjouShaneru]

Come on everyone let's not fight about the past. We all have one thing in common, the most important thing, we LOVE South Africa.

[@lynettenortman8823]

I loved Springbok Radio!

[@Teacher-lj6in]

Grew up on it!

[@lushzele8788]

I still call that classic the "OLD SPICE" song.

[@stuartcampbell3861]

Who remembers Mark Saxon and Sergei,the Creaking Door,Inspector Carr Investigates etc this really brings back childhood memories of Springbok Radio. damn time flies when you live long enough

[@richardhersey5554]

Yep, remember it well - "I'm right behind you, Mark" and something about the smell of almonds.................

[@rachael-777]

and...10 o'clock tales :)

[@mark3863]

Lux radio theater, Squad cars, The Navy Lark, The men from the ministry, The Goon show and so many more. Remember when SAA was one of the best air lines in the world.

[@goolamchohan6592]

good old days.will never get them back again.

[@bonniebole]

Civilization! Even the ice creams are not the same anymore! There was quality back then - both in the products and the people.

[@williamsegal156]

Right on. Well said.

[@guytero8812]

Heartbreaking memories of the old Springbok Radio

[@estellawobker3568]

I really miss Springbok Radio 😪

[@hands_onpromo]

This was when SA was still SA!! Dick Mackridge

[@AfricanFlightStar]

Thanks for the memories, great to see & hear al those again! Paul, ex Durban 1956 - 1984.

[@fredglitz]

I remember as a child in the 1950's jumping out of bed to listen to "Uncle Eric" Egan. His line was "Good morning kids" , he was the South African version of Mr. Rodgers

[@OldSchoolRasslin]

The Good Old RSA. It was a nice place to live back in those days, for whites, blacks, coloureds. Everyone was happier back then than today.

[@drdreshny]

OldSchoolRasslin seriously u r including blacks in that statement, u surely not black 🤔🤔

[@onionpeeling5822]

OldSchoolRasslin how do u know if they were happy !?

[@Retsler54]

I bet corruption was much less in 1970s South Africa. The country was also much more secure for everyone.

[@augustineminimbi5668]

@@Retsler54 Moosa Dinath would tell you otherwise

[@rayl8688]

Oh rubbish. You obviously never suffered under apartheid

[@Tiger-lg5of]

My Mother took me to Springbok radio studios in Johannesburg . What a safe city it used to be.

[@davidwilliamson9982]

shit it takes me back to my old school days

[@williamsegal156]

Thank you Stan. Great post.

[@nigellaycock8148]

Loved Every Minute of it - from another old grey haired fart.

[@Scotseasy]

Much loved, and so fondly remembered, Springbok Radio.

[@Giova6035]

Those were the good all days, when as kids, we were real kids, not like today .......where kids are parents and parents are the kids

[@xxstigmataxx]

Makes me miss the good old days

[@richardsharpe2966]

I lived in South Africa on and off for some years now. Lived in Cape Town Port Elizabeth and in East London. I have many found memories of Springbok Radio as it had some great programmes and great shows as well. Ek woon in Suid-Afrika op en af ​​vir 'n paar jaar nou. Geleef het in Kaapstad Port Elizabeth en in Oos-Londen. Ek het baie gevind herinneringe van Springbok Radio as dit het 'n paar groot programme en 'n groot shows so goed.

[@78XT500]

Thanks for the memories!!!. Fly safe.

[@henryvanderwesthuizen2549]

now I have a tear in my eye

[@jaguarfight12]

Most fondly remembered.

[@yusufkarriem246]

This will always be classic to me

[@goinglocal1]

omg i sure remember the Wall's icecream PA34Driver lol and the Chappies, thanks soooo much for the post :D I get homesick every now and then!!

[@matthewmortimer1674]

I like the Chevy part with the '56 chevy bel air.

[@wilnadewet3155]

Brings back a lot of memories 😪

[@asa1973100]

Wonderfull - just wonderfull

[@Scroadmaster]

Excellent Station

[@hebneh]

I didn't know until recently that the Chevrolet jingle was used in Australia and South Africa with different lyrics. In the USA, where I'm sure it originated, the first line was: "We love baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet!"

[@heilanicolaisen1575]

Wow brings back good memories

[@hcbnett]

Beautiful .. brings back good memories..feels like yesterday ....SAA no longer operates...LOL .. have a COKE !

[@brianmorrison9168]

I lived in SA in the 80’s and enjoyed Springbok Radio I remember with great fondness a couple of comedies adapted from UK versions and in my opinion, both were better than the originals .. ‘The Men from the Ministry’ and ‘The Navy Lark’ I liked Taxi too, but that may have been an older programme being repeated. I even liked some of the adverts ... sad I know !

[@Bonzalytis]

thanks stan, good old days indeed!

[@hoplite46]

Miss the old days

[@reinettedewet4792]

Wow fantastic

[@jaguarfight12]

It is sad to see that racism and injustice in the past is now being used to justify racism and injustice in the present. Pity we can't all just get along.

[@pietvermeulen5847]

I've been trying to find a sound clip of the Richelieu Brandy ad which used to play almost through the night - something which has surfaced in my memories over the last few weeks.

[@heilanicolaisen1575]

Piet Vermeulen If it wasn't for Richelieu the wine growing Afrikaners would not have been in South Africa. So the Duch put the French wine farmers in between their farms because they were worried that the French would start a state of their own. Well it worked ag siestog.. however we the Frensh positioned ourselves well ..and did well and later a decade later listened to the most popular radio station in South Africa -Springbok Radio - until the likes of John Berkovitz - John Berks -Long John Berks-(trained Jew that worked at a US radio station) decided to bugger it up for a reason.. We the South Africans had no qualms with the Jews or Moslems or other religions in the past but it seems that propaganda from a certain quarter took a hand, and money and politics talks. I can only sing the song 'Why why why Dehlilah..we gave u refuge you gave us stink, so go to where you will find yourself very soon. I believe in God not Jesus, Mohammed or the rest, and have good a reason to say it. Time will tell, however it is very short and good luck. John whatever you say won't matter any other response will be considered for good or trash by ordinary old Springbok Radio listeners [e-mail]

[@DDG2023]

Wtf did I just read.

[@mikepieke89]

WOOOT! Hardly any of the brands in the ads exist today. All have been replaced by European (German) products. Nonetheless, good revenue for Springbok, which kept me awake for a decade.

[@andyrick123]

No, the teaching of Afrikaans, along with English, was/is to allow communication to take place. It was/is more sensible to teach two common languages (one being a world language) that to attempt to teach every one of the other living languages in the country. Vide: India, Canada, Cyprus, Nigeria - ie states that have more than one language group.

[@NarnianLady]

Just a question: I see they advertized for SAA flights to Europe.. this looks like normal relations. but I had thought they were under sanctions..?

[@peternicholson233]

G.M. motors. In Australia it was " football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. South Africa braai fleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet. Eisch.

[@Tiger-lg5of]

General Motors , Opel, Vauxhall same thing.

[@user-hj3ec7ol4z]

Great share

[@saozzie]

You are missing the point my dear man. None of the flash-back adverts have anything to do with apartheid or racism - just an innocent trip down memory lane. Thanks PA34Driver for uploading it for us. I greatly enjoyed that, with a ping of sadness of times gone by (not of apartheid gone - as it should be gone - but of time itself). But look, yes, under the ANC South Africa has gobe to ruin, and it's getting worse. The prognosis is bad, very bad. Get out if you can.

[@CapitanoGUC-gf6el]

good old days

[@LawrenceGGreen-bt3tu]

With a 1L bottle brandy, 2L Coke and my 3L Ford Cortina 😋

[@heilanicolaisen1575]

Springbok Radio - until the likes of John Berkovitz - John Berks -Long John Berks( why is that wiped out in my comment..

[@andyrick123]

Let us suggest you take a long trip into the rest of Africa, then come back and tell the SA black population how unlucky they are not to be living in the Congo

[@goinglocal1]

@steinwaygrande1 you should watch pip freedmon ballad of a traffic cop...you will love it im sure :D

[@petervanniekerk3872]

Want a real blast from the past? Remember the original KTV presenters from MNET? Which was your favourite? Google KIM FRICKLETON YOU TUBE for a nostalgic trip when TV was far better!!!!!!

[@Ahfx777]

i thought you loved the UK, I get the "how great the uk is" lecture every day...

[@keaganhendricks9242]

im looking for mobil vacation advert

[@Royster1992]

I guess South Africa in the past was pretty much like America in the past. LITERALLY. only a little more extreme with politics.

[@sreyasdesai4865]

@ 3:00 walls popular no more times change

[@goinglocal1]

@steinwaygrande1 me from when i was born till 1979 and too old to go back :(

[@corbinkh]

Things sure have changed....what a pity....

[@sidnaysithole3019]

I don't see the ad's targeted for black's in the 80's!!!! WHY?????

[@briantw]

Because you didn't upload any, you entitled f u c k. Not everyone is in this world to serve you.

[@freegratuits]

For real...thank you so much for pointing this out. It's so horrific to see this: It's like Germans speaking proudly of the time around WWII when life was great. The world would flip. But Black South Africans can't.

[@wildboybaby1]

O My GOD , What The Fuck Has Happend To this Country.

[@rashidgafoor9779]

It was hit by tsunamis & other natural disasters all under the name of ZUMA

[@andyrick123]

Only one country speaks Afrikaans and I appreciate it of little value outside SA, but that's not why I included the language as one that should be taught - it happens to also be the first language of many other South Africans OTHER than a section of the white community. BTW - you are using the wrod "we" and "our land" yet you write elsewhere that you're not 'black' - isn't it about time you declared your interest?

[@andyrick123]

You appear to be living in the USA. Are you/were you a South African? I was getting at you for the attack you made on another correspondent who was simply recalling his childhood - we all do that - nothing political intended until you dived in to preach your anti-white rhetoric which is just as offensive and racist as the rubbish preached during the apartheid era.

[@idbosman]

my goodness why so stuck in the bloody past? loads of simple minded people and simple entertainment...

[@andyrick123]

I have NEVER written apartheid was ok - you are guilty of jumping to a conclusion simply because I question your experience. I suspect you're a politically motivated 'bleeding heart' - nothing wrong with that provided it's declared and debaters aren't responding under the impression you're speaking from personal/family experience.

[@freegratuits]

It was given back to its rightful owners :-)

[@freegratuits]

Not me. I was a kid around the same years as you and I never saw my mother because she worked as a maid in a white family's home and we were not allowed to visit. My uncle was in and out of jail for trying to fight for political rights. When we tried to play outdoors, the SA police and army would drive by and shoot at us with guns and teargas. It was still good to be a child, but SA white lauding those old days without acknowledging the misery of 80% of the population is plain wrong.

[@theSaint-1964]

freegratuits..Bullshit..you were probably shot at for necklacing your own kind..for throwing rocks and petrol bombs at innocent passing motorists and burning down your schools...and 24 years after the demise of Apartheid you are still doing the same 😄😄😄

[@gerberjoanne266]

"I thought I would take the day off and step back in time and revisit a time when life was simpler, slower, less rushed, people had time for thier families..." I assume this applies only to white South Africans.

[@andyrick123]

If you're so sensitive to white people writing about the past in SA wouldn't it be instructive to follow the same rule yourself? It strikes me that when its white folks - they being nostaglic and racist but when black folks do its being realistic and assertive. Who are you to decide who is 'decent' or not. I'm no racist either. I asked you whether or not you you're a South African - a civil question asked so that those you are arguing with can test your actual experience.

[@johnkoen1180]

Andy Rick fuck ypu

[@freegratuits]

The problem is you don't read. You sit in your new exiled life thinking back to the days 85% of the population was squashed on less than 10% of the land - most of it barren. The days a black person had to call you madam, even if they were older than you. The days 85% couldn't vote and poverty levels were insane. You have absolutely no idea of the structure of apartheid and how detailed the NP was in making sure even if there was a mutiny, blacks would suffer still.

[@freegratuits]

She never lacked for anything but her own family and the ability to raise her own kids and be able to go home. But no, she was stuck raising you for 44 years (guess it takes long for you to grow up) and was passed down from your father to you like she's furniture and now you're proud that you give her your cheap charity. You did her ABSOLUTELY NO FAVOURS. Don't ever convince yourself of that.She could've become a doctor or something greater but your govt's laws kept her locked as your slave.

[@freegratuits]

Funny, white people can recall the days of apartheid and compare those shiny days to how much they hate SA now and they are not racist. But I comment that those days were evil - like Nazi Germany, and I am being racist. You're so wrong about my ethnicity, where I come from or where I live. Stop guessing.I'm not guessing who you are because that means nothing compared to what you say. What's really tragic and actually scares me is that you guys think apartheid was ok. Really, tragic. Really.

[@Tiger-lg5of]

You are very evil, and insane.

[@Igloo3471]

Time for your carer to come take you back to asylum and give you your meds.