Cape Town 1980 archive footage

Archival footage shot by a filmmaker while visiting South Africa in 1980.
It contains stock footage of Cape Town: gardens and streets in the Table Mountain national park, the Cableway, cityscapes, the harbor, Noordhoek Beach, surfers, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Point, Dias beach, Cape Peninsula, Bo-kaap district, Green Mosque, Groot Constantia (historical winery, a market, Afrikaans Language Monument), and more.
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[@aheat3036]

Wow!… Looks neat, clean and orderly!

[@PerthSoftware]

Looked!

[@vaughangarrick]

@@PerthSoftware rubbish...Cape Town looks amazing today and is impeccably clean

[@cmennenger]

my heart breaks for my SA brothers and sisters.

[@gilcruz3755]

OMG.....the beautiful and the majestic Table mountain !

[@Helgardt6189]

Good to see no squatters,rubbish and buring mountains and veld fires….this is how South Africa should look like.The state this country is in now is to cry from.

[@noelgibson5956]

South Africa looks like a lovely place. I must try to visit one day.

[@0825411237]

It doesn't look like the way It does in this video anymore.

[@noelgibson5956]

@@0825411237 Lol yeah i kind of suspected that.

[@CrimsonCrystalRoses]

Cape Town is wonderful today too

[@0825411237]

@@CrimsonCrystalRoses good joke

[@roybean7166]

@@noelgibson5956 looks the same today, obviously all races allowed all over. But looks the same with a lot, lot more construction. It a great place when virus under control. Plenty tourists.

[@aceofspades1202]

To be honest Cape Town is still the cleanest and safest in South Africa right now

[@maskedone215]

Not for Long!!! Once the ANC and EFF get hold of it, everything will fall apart just like JHB!!!! a fsk Up!

[@takeanotherlook2065]

It’s history now

[@petersmith6458]

Until the ANC destroyed it all

[@gratefuldead3750]

it was like nazi germany, and you are nazi supporter. After british rule Ireland only recovered 50 years later becoming part of the European union.

[@tangomike15]

These days you can’t even enjoy a drive along the full length of Tafelberg Rd. When it needed to be repaired for safety, the government just closed off half the road rather than do what our taxes pay them to do. For several years now it’s in that state, because I guess they don’t see the worth of beauty spots. Luckily I’m old enough to remember riding my motorbike along the full length under the moon and stars.

[@Gg-yp1cj]

They are putting that money in their back pocket

[@Gg-yp1cj]

I remember rollerblading everywhere in the early 1990 it’s was safe clean no razor wire

[@loatilelebala6749]

Lol in an apartheid society.

[@tangomike15]

@@loatilelebala6749 nope, sorry to disappoint you. I was only 13 in ‘94.

[@IansDrumsandBass]

​@@loatilelebala6749Yeah it was great! 😊

[@awesomewelles9174]

Clean and neat.

[@honourableI1]

All of our countries will have these classy old videos showing the beauty of when we were majority. O well. Hordes of Blacks are diverse and the politicians,say diversity is a strength.

[@mikewild9614]

Unfortunately politicians don't have the will of the people at heart. They are controlled by the very rich snowflakes who have no idea what life is like outside of their bubble. The UK saw this very clearly with Brexit.

[@malcolmbartram5273]

@@mikewild9614 brexit is bullshit. Which EU country shall ge ruined first by globalism? Sweden Spain UK Ireland France. I think people will find the liberals will deliver for Europe what the liberals delivered for South Africa

[@Gg-yp1cj]

It’s not the strength they are taking what they didn’t work for.

[@Gg-yp1cj]

Liberals just wanna take and hide behind politically phrases , this world will learn fast after the circus has screwed it up.

[@FN-ib8wd]

The whites never were the majority in SA, the Apartheid regime was cruel. 8% of the population controlled the majority black population which on purpose was divided.

[@Leon-qb3nw]

Hi people from capetown

[@user-jr2ue9nu6y]

Make South Africa Great Again

[@etnarongiselva8361]

The good times in Suid Afrika, with organization, safety, cleaned streets. But infortunalety , borders wars and economic crisis (end breton woods), arruined the system... yes, the apartheid was created with serious and several wrongs.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

Don't be too harsh on Apartheid, all the Races progressed there under bar none to the point of being one the most advanced society's on the Continent and indeed the Globe. Compare our Country in the 1960's to most of the Eastern Country's except Japan.

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

@@andrewdutoit9571yeah

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

@@andrewdutoit9571South African apartheid was far less restrictive and more moderate than Israeli apartheid is today. Under South African apartheid Africans had self determination and African tribal lands with self rule and they had much more rights than Palestinians in Israel enjoy. Also the real native people of South Africa are the “coloured people” not the black Africans and the coloured people were a minority group even smaller than the white minority and the South African government protected their rights, now after apartheid coloured people have little representation

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

@@andrewdutoit9571ultimately the solution to apartheid would have been a 2 state solution where Afrikaner’s keep the west cape, Pretoria, orange free state and other historically Afrikaner towns with large Afrikaner populations, and split the rest of the land between the coloureds and the blacks and allow both to create their own state

[@gratefuldead3750]

​@@andrewdutoit9571it was like nazi germany, and you are nazi supporter. After british rule Ireland only recovered 50 years later becoming part of the European union.

[@sweetmielie]

Hi I'm curious where the footage in the last minute is from of those tall concrete pillar-like structures? Thanks for sharing this footage

[@tangomike15]

That’s the Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl.

[@neilvanjaarsveld3]

Taal monument in Paarl

[@rashidahoosain3070]

I think that's the paarl Taal Monument

[@moonstryder1740]

Wow my city looked AMAZING before....thanks mandela!

[@christobosman5710]

What have mandela had to do with the building of Cape town apart from looking out of his jail cell

[@buhlemoyo3019]

are you dom

[@Andrew-oo8jk]

Not your city.

[@christobosman5710]

@@Andrew-oo8jk at least I fought for it , what have you done except plying a keyboard warrior ?

[@christobosman5710]

@@buhlemoyo3019 no why ,are you dom ? You must be if you think he had something to do with the building of Capetown .Learn the real history .

[@Pfsif]

When SA was a first world country and an embarrassment to the Globalists.

[@gratefuldead3750]

it was like nazi germany, and you are nazi supporter. After british rule Ireland only recovered 50 years later becoming part of the European union.

[@janejames9173]

😊😊

[@yourcreditmanager]

Looks a bit more recent than 1980… 84/85 maybe?

[@Ronster169]

the GOOD days before cANCer

[@lawsonhellu4718]

You mean the days when segregation was still a thing? Rather live in a dangerous city.

[@dmtryblessed]

@@lawsonhellu4718i would rather live in a white ethnostate

[@bongani9972]

You belong in Netherlands or Germany...relax

[@bongani9972]

@@dmtryblessed Prefer you relocate

[@FN-ib8wd]

@@bongani9972 Why should a racist belong to the Netherlands or Germany?!

[@maseratifittipaldi]

These were the days when a job did not mostly consist of salaries, wages and demands.

[@vaughangarrick]

For the stupid comments...Cape Town is still a beautifully kept city and is clean and looks better today

[@niceguy1601]

Why don't you just show what south Africa use to look like for other South African show the world

[@IoRoberto]

da goo ol' days...

[@mogamedfakier3592]

2024 and look what it looks like outside the castle...a squatter camp the ANC messed up our country but hold the DA also accountable

[@jamesbyrom9346]

Back when it was civilised

[@maureenjackson2041]

I wouldn't call using live ammunition on unarmed school children, denying people basic human rights civilsed.

[@ngalahansel6066]

There's nothing "civilized" about being evil to a group of people who did nothing wrong to you. I hope you know what was done to mixed race people in District Six of Cape Town?

[@moonstryder1740]

@@maureenjackson2041 funny thing is, what you had described now happens far more frequently. We used to give these incidents names like 'the sharpville massacre'. Today we stopped doing so as we ran out of names. Civilized was rhe correct word Mr James had used.

[@christobosman5710]

@@maureenjackson2041 school children were throwing bricks at motorists idiot killing innocent people and they didn't use life amunition ,get a life or go back school that's to say if you had any education before

[@christobosman5710]

@@ngalahansel6066 they got removed because of all the criminal activities taken place in a decent area ,drugs gangs murders knife stabbings drunk parties ,learn the history before you comment

[@4l3x5andro]

Então, o assunto é bem 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 um exemplo de aprendizado 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. 🇧🇷

[@ngalahansel6066]

I'm not even South African but to hear the ignorant (or perhaps arrogant)statements saying how clean it was is rather disturbing. At what cost was that image kept? People were killed and forcefully kicked off their lands for the racist govt to do with the land as they saw fit. That was the case in District Six where I live. In Johannesburg, graves of blacks were dug up and thrown away like rubbish for a golf course for white people to be built.Let's not be so insensitive to the pain that majority went through for a handful to live in luxury.

[@christobosman5710]

Talk about your own country ,don't comment on things you are clueless about

[@peaceplumbobs]

agreed.

[@ngalahansel6066]

@@christobosman5710 I'm sure that's what the govt of the day said when thousands rallied in London and across the world calling for Mandela to be released and for apartheid to end. No I am not clueless. It was a painful experience and the world stood behind SA to help end the bestial actions of the racist apartheid govt. So no,I won't keep quiet because injustice anywhere is injustice regardless

[@christobosman5710]

@@ngalahansel6066 it s clear that your brain is not working ,you need to be fed with a spoon , all these years instead of using your own brain witch is rusted up by now you have followed others , first of all my clueless friend , the Republic was not theirs it belonged to the Boers , the blacks had their own homelands ,they entered the Republic of South Africa only to look for work , that is Why they didn't carried I'd documents in S A but carried a pass , with idiots as you all around the world that was brainwashed by their governments believing the bull shit that you were fed instead of using that thing between your ears called brains you played in their hands as the puppits you were that they controlled , you and many idiots like you are the reason people are suffering in S A today witch have a murder rate of 76 per day , black outs at a daily basis and a corrupt government , if apartheid was so bad , why didn't the black people moved out of the country that was not theirs and moved back to their own homelands where they are not part of South Africa ? But I guess this part of our history doesn't sute you , or you are to stupid too look our history up and just want to flap your lips which you think make you look clever , During Apartheid black people from other black country's jump out electrick fence 24 000 volts ,risking their life's to enter South Africa , these are true and documented that can be proven , so by trying to defend your commend by your stupidity you just make a fool of yourself Infront of the world , look at Firing line with William F Buckley Jr The question of South Africa before you make a fool out of yourself ,that is to say if your brains still have the capibility to understand , it is on you tube . I hope by looking at that it will prevent you next time from looking like a fool .

[@andrewdutoit9571]

​@@ngalahansel6066 It was only in the Sixties that trouble started in South Africa when we left the Commonwealth and became a Republic. If we didn't our Country wouldn't have progressed to the point of being a Super Power. All peoples regardless of Race progressed under Apartheid, bar none. Look at what happen to all African States that were abandoned by Whitehall, they all became failed states. There isn't one that maintained the standards of that under White management. But it seems karma is a b@stard, the chickens have come home to roost in Europe.

[@devanneschalkwyk9255]

I vote for the Apartheid government with no Apartheid. That would be a masterclass, we would probably be one of the best countries in the world especially with all our natural resources. Yes, Cape Town does not look like it did then, I do prefer that cleaner and safer feel, except obviously for the inequality.

[@mikerilling6515]

Such a beautiful place until moondela and his anc thugs destroyed everything

[@tomerpilo5193]

whole lot of far right people cry about the death of apartheid

[@js9273]

No they'd just rather people voted for competent politicians to run the place.

[@ngalahansel6066]

It's sad bruh

[@etnarongiselva8361]

It depends. The old regime had its flaws and it had its good points. Institutional organization, full employment, excellent schools, prospects for financial growth for everyone, a consumer society, for everyone too... even if not equally, but much, much better than any other country on that continent... to the point that migrations came from the communist ''paradises'' of Zimbabwe, Moçambique to try their luck in the land of the ''segregationists'', well, it was not for nothing, something worked and well. Finally, however, there was a downside... That was so fundamental, that it left that regime unsustainable... pointing out 2 things... the attack on the individual liberties of blacks, such as the right to free property and also being able to negotiate their land/vehicles/real estate outside the banstustans... it was a example of this... another was the police state, which was necessary due to numerous laws and regulations to guarantee separation... this proved to be not only unfair, of course, but also very expensive and wasteful over time... and yes, it negatively impacted economic development... In the end, the lesson is that certainly, the ANC does not represent the answer to overcome the mistakes of the NP and its apartheid... South Africa deserves to be better and decently conducted... on the steering wheel.

[@WalterWhite-bc8ck]

Funny how they don't show us the other side of the mountain... Delft Langa Nyanga Mitchellsplain Dunoon as if those People's history doesn't matter😢

[@joe_lubinda]

Don't worry racists, you can always move out of Africa to northern europe.

[@owencash819]

It's God's land and the Black Africans refused to share it. You are so hateful!

[@joe_lubinda]

@@owencash819 refused to share it? There's over 5 million white people in SA 🥴 and they control the economy. What more do you want? You big whiney baby.

[@brakaponter]

The own black people say they lived better then. Facts. Work and security, except if you were a revolutionary (the kind of people who once they got the power have robbed in the last 20 years SA to the botton and driven the country to be one of the most dangerous countries in the whole World. From Spain with love and respect for the 80´s SA (black and whites).

[@joe_lubinda]

@@brakaponter if the blacks you talk of were better off why the hell did they fight to end apartheid? Bruh if you're not a person of colour especially a South African you need to STFU and sit TF down in your Spain. Black people had no human rights and were not allowed to own businesses, wealth or get good education so don't you come here saying black people loved apartheid, which black people told you that? The apartheid government stole SA's wealth and kept it amongst white people only so if you're gonna talk about running SA to the ground don't forget to include the racist corrupt apartheid government.

[@Mary.Quantum426]

That's what the Northern Africans are doing every day now - trying to get to Europe. Makes you wonder why they would want to do that?