Featured Documentary - 28Up South Africa: Part One

[@queengkzi3942]

one of the most underrated documentaries ever made. This should have millions of views

[@theomaluleke6793]

eish bruh.... and m always recommending it to my friends

[@nkosinathindlovu3059]

@Naledi Remotely 28Up Part three is the final film of the series. I think we can safely say that it was deliberate instead of it to appear as a mistake, that 35Up was not released

[@cppmj]

my thoughts exactly

[@mercynyamisa1958]

You're right

[@adekorir]

I've watched all the way from 7-up and I have to say that this is the most interesting documentary I've ever watched.

[@hhansen3120]

Have you watched the others from Russia etc?

[@buzzlightyearandco]

Yeah I really love this documentary

[@mogabriel5238]

Same rip to Shane, Linda and Bonita

[@justinhall7489]

Agreed

[@justinhall7489]

@@hhansen3120 please send link

[@nzappazapp8360]

This series is the best reality show ever made. I find it very thought provoking to see the path a persons life takes from childhood to adulthood. I hope 35 up is coming soon

[@GuguladiM]

wow, I'm really proud and happy for Thembisile hey. She did that 🎉🎆💕

[@ayandamazeka4586]

same and I wish only the best for her going forward

[@thinasingalakha884]

I am rooting for her and the other black people. I hope that one day they will all make it.

[@Similo]

When her younger self said "Ngizoba iphoyisa... ngizokudubula kahle" she finished me yoh lmao. So good to see people move up hey.

[@akhisunjeya9935]

I wonder where she is today 2022

[@priscamolotsi]

How come this documentary was never recommended to me, KZbin? You recommend all kinds of rubbish but leave the gems out! I am so happy that I stumbled upon this!

[@theomaluleke6793]

i wonder if they will recommend 35up

[@anelisiwemsomi2425]

Thembisile has a job, I'm so happy for her. 😭❤️

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

That most honest of answers at 7 years, " I sound African!" They all expressed their most honest reflection of their circumstances and state of the country at seven.

[@bmproc81chi]

Facts!!!! When he answered that question with a question "Do I sound African?" Very deep!!!!!!

[@ngalahansel6066]

Except being African goes more than hpw you sound. His answer reflected the inferiority indoctrination that Africans were getting. Notice his markedly different response at 14

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

One year to go for 35 Up. I'm looking forward to watch that.

[@br9gaming37]

I can't wait

[@akwesiboachie9913]

And they better give it to us

[@mogabriel5238]

Same crazy doc

[@ndumndum1000]

I just hope they all doing well in life

[@minnieheaven4969]

Then covid happened

[@toemas8]

Great doco, everyone has their own journey and challenges no matter their race or background. The South Africa has wonderful people but it is let down by its government, which is sad.

[@LuckyLucky-xp2sz]

toemas8. Sadly the whole continent has bad leaders. O hope it changes for us some day.

[@nomadiclife2919]

Good leaders in Africa who refuse to drink the international cool aid get killed. Like Muamar Gaddafi

[@austineokeke3676]

We must change our speech and try to be positive in everything we say for what you say today might affect and hunt u forever, Francis younger days he said "when you're poor you struggle and beg for sugars from neighbours" and today, he still do so...even when we had nothing, my mother always tells us to confess it that we are Rich..... Confess positively people please

[@tonywalton1052]

+Austin smith Changing speech...

[@nantaleharry8805]

I totally agree with you our words manifests in the sand way we put them out

[@hadijahahmad7725]

Austin smith ithink you are right

[@Jeremiah0809]

I knew he would be frustrated growing up since I saw him the first time.

[@ibrahimousmantidjani3028]

Very true 💕😊😊

[@sizwembokazi8725]

Inspiring and depressing .

[@Happylifeisyou]

What I. Have learned from this documentary, equality is the biggest opportunity that can break the barrier between people in other to have a better life .

[@mdumiseninsibande3071]

True

[@renemalika22]

The Best Documentary you will ever watch! I watched from the first one...Greatest idea! Well done AJ!

[@nokwandasthokomkhize5218]

No matter how we sugarcoat it, our government has failed black people the most and it’s sad

[@ntlakaniphongwane3802]

your analysis and interpretation skills leave very little to be desired

[@niranjandesai6766]

If blacks and whites got equal rights then how has your government failed you guys?? There is no apartheid now. You, me both equal. It's good thing right.

[@nokwandasthokomkhize5218]

@@niranjandesai6766 we are not economically equal. Apartheid excluded black people from the economy,they took everything and put it in their name. Without money/economy black people are still not free. We’re free on paper but not in experience. How does it make sense to you that stolen wealth is still kept with the thief but we must forgive each other? Where is the justice?

[@niranjandesai6766]

@@nokwandasthokomkhize5218 but that's how the world is right? All of us got our skin colour naturally. It wasn't achieved. As of stolen wealth, idk because I was not born then. Maybe we are lucky to be born in good family. But now again if segregation happens or taking families wealth and giving it to minority thing happens then history will be repeated. Here in USA a person has to work hard and achieve his success. Govt won't stop a hard-working person. I am a chartered accountant because I have worked hard, not because my family was rich. If our country was Chinese/Russian then people won't be able to grow their business without permission of govt which they would rarely allow. There is always a new and good start. Any family which was affected by apartheid can send their kids to govt schools which might be cheap. They all have right to education. But they can't demand money us because in current generation we are not in debt to them. Maybe our ancestors were but they are long gone.

[@TheBigten2]

That's right they should have never let those people stay on their on land.

[@welekid]

hey I saw the first part of this in france in 1994.I waited in vain for the 2nd part they were supposed to come back 7 years later ,I was 18 back then .waouh ,this is a real shock.I thought it was a french documentary.bless the internet

[@nkosinathivince337]

I have never watched anything like this, it's soooo powerful, I'm eagerly waiting for 35 UP

[@annahboshielo]

35up this year🙌🏿🙌🏿 I waited 7 years for this! 😊

[@sam3407]

Is it out yet?

[@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593]

😂

[@annahboshielo]

@@sam3407 nop, nothing yet. 😔

[@annahboshielo]

@@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593 😭 it's been a long wait

[@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593]

@@annahboshielo Maybe they are working on it . Ausi waka. .

[@kitsontuli2713]

Great to see as a South African

[@mrsdoubtfire534]

I always wondered what happened to these kids, now I found it. Very well done.

[@macusinenhlanhla6378]

I just can't stop thinking you Aljazeera for the great work you do always going deeper of the story and bringing the real side of story to us. I just can't wait for a 35UP meanwhile I will always be repeating watching

[@antonymutinda3050]

Is it thanking or thinking...mind your grammar

[@johnvaldez1514]

Thank you to this man to help others who are struggling the Lord tells us to help others and to share what you have with othwrs!!

[@christopherdale7017]

This version is as good as the English one. Ive enjoyed watching all the participants in both versions it's real life a great subject when making a documentary.

[@rubyvakauta6938]

Watched fm 7 Up. Best documentary I have ever seen. In love with the way they followed all of these kids fm then till now, 28 Up. ❤

[@ndamonoshikoyeni1981]

I've watched all series episodes besides 7up. Really enjoyed them all.

[@bestofrkellyrkellysongs6822]

Go back to 7 up. You'll enjoy

[@girl8410]

This documentary is so powerful.

[@beth-bi9yv]

this is an amazing series! such an interesting idea to follow people through their lives!

[@austinchanda468]

The best documentary ever

[@bestofrkellyrkellysongs6822]

Who else envied and expected more of Katlego

[@pantherhunter2035]

Townships are traps, what you see can limit your imagination. Big up to everyone who made it despite all the odds stacked against them

[@pantherhunter2035]

Ground floor.

[@rosycspencer]

The women seemed to be more successful than the man finding jobs. That lady worked cleaning offices while going to school. She now has a job that pays the bills. The man seems to be waiting for a dream job instead of doing what the lady did.

[@rafangille]

i mean he is an actor, work is less reliable. as opposed to her going to school & pursuing a more practical career

[@rodrigoe.gordillo2617]

True i mean he didnt work in more than 2 years...

[@Flourish_today]

@@rafangille He can still find something else to bring in money as he pursues his acting gigs. I wonder if his acting now

[@QueenMalwane]

I can't wait for 35 UP...

[@user-eu2me4bp7j]

Regarding the black boy/man in the beginning - This is what happens when you put a black child in all white schools since childhood without a strong sense of self or showing him positive images of people that look like him. This is so important. Even as a boy he tried to fit into white society as best he could. My heart went out to him. Then he grows up and clearly feels more comfortable around white people, wants to date white, yet he will never be white and society keeps telling him he is not part of white society. He is trying to integrate, while the white children grow up wanting to be exclusive and remain in their wealth and power. Building himself up as an African with a strong sense of self clearly did not happen.

[@xyg6543]

Nice to see a sensible comment on here. Some of the other comments are so full of hate.

[@ButternutBanyana]

I know, he is ridiculous. I went to private schools with white kids in Botswana, but because of the racial structure of Botswana, I never saw whites as above me.I was smarter and got better grades than most of them so never had the inclination to be around white people or socialize with them. The smart kids were mostly black or Indian. The wealthy were black so I never had any cultural confusion in the suburbs of Gaborone(capital of Botswana).

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

So why did the Communists in the ANC keep pushing for this nonsense instead of allowing people to segregate themselves?

[@Chartoise]

This is how black people keep each other down. If you speak the language properly, if you are rich or if you are not racist against white... They call you a traitor. Say you're not really black and stuff.

[@thekgi1349]

I went to so called white schools but I am still very much proudly black and African- it is all about how the parents raise you and the language you communicate with in the house my father insisted on the African language. I don't it is a problem that he associates with white people just as long as he does not lose his sense of self.

[@kiuk_kiks]

I just had this recommended to me in 07/24. Still pertinent after a whole decade.

[@amanresom1034]

I love you South Africans

[@nature7648]

Can't wait for 35

[@axziz0094]

Dj Mengo1531 same

[@appiahallan]

[@johnguzman1987]

I've been to South Africa. I read South Africa in the title, I click

[@leoblack1163]

Where are you from??

[@ayandagwabeni5613]

Please find them again, very interesting

[@rollyherrera623]

In order to progress positively, We must respect, and learn from, the cyclical history of the past...

[@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593]

It is 2021 . Are we going to get another one ?

[@Swanesang91]

If you have a job in South Africa today, go on your knees and say thank you, because statistically, you're not special, you're just lucky.

[@Anna-os3sd]

Wow. Is is that bad? I'm Kenyan btw

[@nomcebo_nothile]

@@Anna-os3sd Yes, it is. South Africa is a mess at the moment.

[@Flourish_today]

Same as Uganda.

[@gorvenmatebesi3977]

35 and up when is the series gonna start...

[@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593]

Waiting . Please tag me

[@beingnadiablack7189]

I won't die until I fulfill my dreams Shuuuuu 😢

[@michaelacheampong8796]

waiting for 35 Up

[@shortafricandramasfilms5522]

love this docs...i watched all great job..

[@GAMEBOY5253]

GREAT VIDEO. THANKS ALJ.

[@Lungzbee]

Why would anyone want their kid to grow up without friends?

[@marzodesignz9503]

She lived in the ghetto all her life and i think she witnessed a lot of her peers going astray because of their choice of friends. I think she's scared of her son making the wrong choice of friends that could screw his life.

[@appiahallan]

Fear

[@ayandagwabeni5613]

They are 38 now.

[@hlalisiwe.teressazuma569]

Any signs of the 35up documentary?!

[@wonderingstar29]

The answer we should say is...we are South African Period!! build and be proud of your home

[@josephwebster2909]

Thank you so much, seen this a long time ago, always wondered if my buddies are okay

[@86liljo]

Is 35 Up coming up soon?

[@S62bhas]

Put Jesus Christ in the Center of the Country & Prayer In Schools First Not Mandela You are Saved & Blessed By God's Grace

[@chiyenyumba7135]

Why nothing should be put at the centre religion isa personal choice. Africans have own traditions and beliefs

[@Anonymous-td9iv]

When is 35 up coming out? Was it filmed?

[@aphiwemntungwa5740]

Wish them all well in their pursuits, it's like a documentary of the film boyhood lol. Kat's growing up is really interesting, he's a smart and lucky guy.

[@suzipam1234]

Thembasile - so happy for her

[@LissaAnja]

I love this documentary but the amount of ads is just so frustrating!

[@Food-Fashion-travel]

The truth is sometimes so hard to accept 😩. Do you guys see the differences. The whites married good jobs/future vs black single mothers and fathers jobless unemployed. Another thing non of these whites married/dated blacks. Another thing one of the boys said: they came to our schools. Meaning the whites still feel like they own everything including the country. Another thing is the lack of unity in the black community. When one make it you are called a coconut 🥥. And those who make it; don’t go back to help their own people. Another thing English does not equal intelligence. You can be proud to be who you are and still engage in other cultures and learn other languages. Some of the whites are full of hypocrisy; you lift up holy hands claiming to serve God who is love and loves all, but yet you hate people because of the color of their skin. I love God and I am a Christian myself, but I can’t ignore racism and something has to be done. I am not South African, but I love this country so much. Africa is a continent is not poor. They are not poor. The wealth recources capital etc is not well managed. A combination of greed corruption racism the global political economy history and so many other things contributed to things we see today in certain societies.

[@dennysmith7862]

Evelien... POLITICIANS... like babies nappies... MUST be CHANGED REGULARLY and for the SAME REASON!!! (Robin Williams R. I. P.)

[@theomaluleke6793]

eish, I am a bit concerned about Katlego.....

[@thinasingalakha884]

Lol, why?

[@ngwatomosadi1531]

Yeah me too. I wonder if he's still friends with the guys from the private school. Being a BEE partner is very serious.

[@bgsonsthriving.]

Love Documentaries keep them coming

[@qondohmbokwana9013]

"Sizodla amaprawns namacalamari" yah neh esatafrika!

[@mfundonkosi3780]

😂😂💔

[@Therainqueen]

That boudoir painting is still there lol

[@markbomvana1668]

Is Katlego Mark Maponyane's son because Kat's brother is Maps? The guy on the video looks nothing like him though.

[@hinyikiwilemithi4855]

Yes. That's Maps Maponyane's brother

[@hlempheabielsemelane3358]

Even I shocked coz his speak perfect setswana

[@Anna-os3sd]

Oh yeah. Thanks for this ...I just looked him up!!!

[@malungisamaseko3155]

It seems Marks appears in the video, inside a car. 😊

[@isaacmugisha8118]

Al jazeera should let us know if there ever will be a 35up

[@uloakuowualah7454]

When is 35 up coming up?

[@Jeremiah0809]

Watching Francis from the start, I had a feeling he would be frustrated growing up.

[@beingnadiablack7189]

With tears I agree

[@mdumiseninsibande3071]

Opportunities are everything

[@anelka10]

I enjoyed this,

[@comradejohn5302]

Producer of this documentaries died last year 😭😭

[@tumimoses9766]

Sorry to hear that😞

[@86liljo]

😥😥😥

[@hlalisiwe.teressazuma569]

So is it gonna carry on tho?! 👀

[@rashmika9742]

Desmond and the Tutus!

[@interfear1]

10:27 My man, Willie Le Roux!

[@Mrs.T305]

I don't see why black ppl can't follow in the footsteps of the girl who took the administration course. She was poor but she still took a course (she didn't even go to a university) she took a course and applied herself and got a job to earn an income. She didn't complain and blame white ppl or apartheid. Changing your mindset makes a difference!! Unlike Franz, he is a prime example of why a lot of black ppl can't get ahead. He wants all the riches and hasn't acquired any training whatsoever. The women who date him need to have some standards as he has absolutely nothing to offer them. Getting involved with men like this only recycles a pattern of poverty. I feel like Kat...I know what it feels like to not fit in with kids who look like you solely because your parents sent you to another school or you lived in a different area. There's nothing wrong with wanting the best quality education for your children. But the typical black man would label him as a sell out and encourage him to continuously blame white ppl for his own shortcomings.

[@qoako9695]

What a simple cow you are.

[@Frankowillo]

@Qoako: What an ignorant fool you are. Stupid people like you think Empowerment means Entitlement. You're too stupid to know the difference.

[@spa33meister]

Kat doesn't even speak his mother tongue. Most people speak at least three languages in South Africa. Except whites, they speak one or two (English or Afrikaans). Kat is being brought up as though he is white, he doesn't see himself as black. He further ostracizes himself throughout the series. I don't care that much about the psychological harm he is doing to himself, but I'm worried about the anti-black sentiments he will pass onto his children.

[@TheSandile1]

You are fool.Are you black?

[@leoblack1163]

Very typical of a white person to say black people should forget about the past and stop putting the blame on the actions of white people that disadvantaged black people in the first place. The Caucasity !!!

[@boitumelomotaung9898]

Wait what? Kat is Maps Maponyane's brother🤯

[@theomaluleke6793]

lol bruh!!!

[@blkshield9734]

@Yes i do remember him on the first document series that is father was Marks Maponyane

[@Mr300millz]

It's insane that one of these kids became Willem Alberts aka The Bone Crusher.

[@itumelengmosailane1192]

I appreciate your work man I see now why have so many subscribers

[@isabellehutson1427]

Sad, that at such age he had an identity, crisis, he thought to be african you had to should like an aftican.... But I am proud he reconised his true identity as he grow up... Hmmm living in a black person country, you should learn how to speak there language, as its expected in Westerns lands...

[@tinathomas8593]

@@elanavantonder8163 search and figure it out

[@wakilinathannjoroge835]

Or he just realized the other side will never accept him just because they attend the same schools and live in the same neighbourhoods.

[@serepecmarijo5319]

greates ever. it should be thought in school. all over the world.

[@Mss_Muthoni]

Is 35 up documentary out?

[@babmzn868]

That guy is the most coconutiest coconut i have ever seen in my entire life.

[@kahlilsykies9139]

I've seen them as bad as him. But your right man. He's a pathetic joke.

[@milkboy8025]

i can tell you that being in his position is not easy. As i am in a similar position living in cape town. I have had a similar experience as a black south African male .

[@Mrs.T305]

Stop the divisiveness

[@Mrs.T305]

Milk boy they'll never understand

[@clarhck6]

Wow so in South Africa you say coconut? I'm America we say uncle Tom or Oreo lol

[@ayakaabrahams1002]

Did that lady really refer to Namibia as South West Africa At 43:56? Wasn’t that 2013? Namibia hasn’t been called that since independence. As a Namibian that’s just sad to hear. Other wise this is a super amazing clip.

[@sistergoodstuff]

The ignorance and disrespect is not surprising- fellow Namibian here

[@jaiyaalexandra144]

I'm a South - African and I was shocked.

[@Mathilda5xp]

@@sistergoodstuff One of the most beautiful countries on the African Continent! The indigenous people are so friendly! I was asked to apply for a teaching job there, but I refused because I am very happy in my present teaching position in New Zealand.

[@ngalahansel6066]

I'm Cameroonian and for a minute there, I thought she was referring to a host of countries and not Namibia. That's so poor of her

[@Jeremiah0809]

Where is 35up please?

[@tshiamishogopane633]

Scares heal over time but a person's sense of pride and lineage is they're land. With that being said no amount of life or blood can be shade to keep once identity. African problems can only be resolved by Africans. No quarrels need to be mediated by any country, ace is an ace; spade a spade; Africa is African; Europe is European. Just be partial and draw a straight line. Think it's a major motivator for Black South Africans see no reason to compensate. With that being said it's not hard to grasp. Sorry if I spoiled the mood, video was recommended after watching a land reform docie. So I just copied and pasted

[@elanavantonder8163]

Where are you from?

[@tshiamishogopane633]

@@elanavantonder8163 South Africa, FS and you?

[@elanavantonder8163]

@@tshiamishogopane633Gauteng but Western Cape now, I was just curious, thought maybe you're from a different country.

[@lxxndo]

Katlego still thinks he's better

[@hinyikiwilemithi4855]

Just like his brother Maps Maponyane

[@hotchick8320]

Lindo Ntuli I’m glad they discriminated against him so he knows who he is

[@-Natefo-]

Ah guys, I don’t think they think they’re better. I just think they’re introverted. Most introverts tend to give off that “arrogant” energy but it’s not because they think they’re better most of the time they just want to be out of there.

[@theomaluleke6793]

@@hotchick8320 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@conclusively1]

Nothing has changed as far as I can see. The Government needs to change the names of all the towns and cities from the Dutch names to African names. Change Johannesburg, Durban. Cape Town, etc to African names like Zimbabwe.

[@salzwell25]

Yeah, then it will go the same way as Zim.

[@tinaye8638]

I agree

[@blkshield9734]

First changing names cost money 💵 but some street names are been changed and we can't always keep changing names because government which is in power will also want to have their own names which means will be spending lots money as County on names

[@Fauxkat69]

How is changing a name going to put food in anyones mouth?

[@tafa___dzwa]

Amazing

[@danluis2377]

So when is 35 up coming out?

[@bonganinqume]

Any update on 35 Up?

[@hyro1112]

in SA your personal progress goes backwards. you can work and work and make less money overtime but pay more for everything else.

[@griseldawccd1860]

dude in the denim white fr 😭

[@katherinedorsey3426]

Ya. He found it “weird” that he couldn’t get into the club because the Non-White quota had already been met, but all of his white friends went in straight away. 🤣🤣Poor thing.

[@tsholofelosharonmbele4318]

Bathong kat says he doesn't sound African haike i'sgaxa sana😂😂I wonder where is he now so that he can see this docie

[@phindilemthiyane7692]

Hope

[@Mathilda5xp]

Yet you still vote for the ANC??

[@eldios831]

Kat is a nice person

[@spa33meister]

You must not be white.

[@RaySmith79]

awesome

[@chikwueanyaegbunam3355]

are we expecting 35up? i think it's Due. Please?

[@khalilsesay3607]

look at the killer pretending to like other closers they must have moved to Africa you can put your view if your Africa

[@amanresom1034]

All we are people

[@Unruly6ixx]

there's always the military

[@since9523]

Kadleko I can relate.

[@mathewkemboi6803]

Hope 35 ' up is coming soon..

[@timfronimos459]

I have been watching the BBC 7 up series since the 1980s. As. good as the UK series was tje Russian series was awesome. I will look for this on S Africa.

[@stumblebassstumblebass3661]

This is 😞. The current generation that are non blacks parents are planting these in their kids and not a good thing which is why they don’t want to accept or still get on with the black people in South Africa. Is a bad habit traits coming from the parents(Non-black). Non black parents in South Africa should stop putting these in their kids head in this current generation because their kids pick up their behaviour and pass their parents behaviour to the next generation. Appreciate and love one another. The education starts from home period !

[@eWachira]

Anyone knows when 35Up is being released?

[@nkosinathindlovu3059]

Probably never

[@86liljo]

@@nkosinathindlovu3059 why?

[@nkosinathindlovu3059]

@@86liljo I think the South Africa Up series was cancelled after 28Up, it could also be that the participants lost interest. And it has been two years since it was due for a release.

[@oigotr3773]

in 2019 there was a radio interview with the creator and some participants of the series. From the interview it didn't seem like anything is canceled and further filming is in plans. Probably corona pandemic happened, hopefully they are still planning an update. To get to the interview search: 702 Azania Mosaka speaks to Angus Gibson and the subjects of his 1992 documentary series '7Up'