Durban (1962)

Durban, South Africa.
Durban is a renowned holiday resort. L/S crowded beach where a beauty pageant is taking place, - girls in bikinis walk along a catwalk, with onlookers sitting in deck chairs. The winner of Miss Durban competition kisses the compere. There is a cutaway shot to four well built men - 1960's hunks!
There are people trampolining at the beach, sand surfing, and sailing boats. At the beach young men surf the big waves. Tourists walk along the front and are taken for a ride in rickshaws pulled by people in traditional ceremonial African dress with huge horned and decorated head-dresses. Look quite scary.
Note: see also CP 415 Cuts.
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[@garyvahl7658]

Comes enjoy Durban today, spend the morning slipping over leaking sewerage, followed by a swim in the sewerage in The Indian Ocean. Enjoy a good evening mugging on the beach front in the evening followed by a Cr@ck deal down Point Road

[@h4y13y6]

can’t believe this is south africa, durban looks so different now🤌

[@brantdanger]

In the days before White Erasure.

[@Tee-e4i]

It looks how it supposed to be.

[@critical_analysis]

@@Tee-e4i You mean cesspool?

[@AndrewduToit-wl3tn]

​@@Tee-e4iYes, that's progress, like it's always has been. Whites create something and then the Majority mob it and the Whites move out. So basically Whites are the Pioneers where others follow. Must be terrible always playing catchup.

[@Tee-e4i]

@@critical_analysis no ma’am I mean the original dominant genes.

[@gerryk101]

Look how neat and clean ,Well mannered ppl enjoying a beautiful organized place. And they say Apartheid was wrong . The state of Durban now is so bad that you can't walk on the beach of fear you'll step on a used needle .or get mugged .

[@going1917]

Although apertheid looks bad, you gotta admit everything looked cleaner then what it looks like now..

[@henda1538]

Because it catered for less people

[@going1917]

@@henda1538 not racist or anything, but the Europeans are more well organised than their African counterparts.

[@50-O]

@@going1917 says nobody y’all can’t even wash y’all legs

[@AAA-hd7nb]

​@@50-O I'd rather be around ppl who don't wash their legs than a city full of crime. Baring in mind, durban smells alot worse than it did back then.

[@Yu-hx5jo]

​@@AAA-hd7nbWhite boi spotted. Shameless pig, don't worry the whites are dying race anyways

[@dantaylor757]

This was a country worth preserving. What a sad sell-out it was.

[@louisgronbeck769]

Great days !!

[@pmambongwe8640]

Good old racist days

[@fardiiix]

​@@pmambongwe8640those were the days you could walk outside without thinking you would get robbed.

[@KasiGamez]

Msunu we great days dolo lika yihlo

[@critical_analysis]

@@pmambongwe8640 Yeah, as if today is a wonderful period of great progress right? Let me reiterate, NO African nation will progress till it solves the rampant corruption, raises education standards, eliminates crime and distances itself from inter-clan/tribal rivalry. Many African nations have been independent for so many years, where they stand now? Ok, forget about apartheid, what are they doing with the Chinese businesses? Just for some good buck they are sold out to the Chinese; Hence, the points raised above are not solved, African will remain in dark for another millennium.

[@stoltmain123]

nobody is fat only normal peoplle.

[@elsicario3268]

Incredible. 60 years already!

[@Yu-hx5jo]

eww 🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@Samsamo888]

​@@Yu-hx5joshut up

[@specto2490]

Lol. I dunno how to react to that last part. Runner can run for miles or they like on holiday themselves. Lol.

[@alfredol8741]

😂

[@dank7256]

Oh how it has fallen.

[@suzanneroelofsz1873]

How fantastic!

[@thekurdishgirl6538]

really that was amazing days, wish l had a time machine

[@praguhbis]

They would not allow you.

[@thekurdishgirl6538]

@@praguhbis what you mean?

[@breogan8121]

@@thekurdishgirl6538 apartheid laws only white people allowed

[@Yu-hx5jo]

​@@thekurdishgirl6538you are muslim

[@andrewdutoit9571]

​@@breogan8121Don't be bitter, what you see here is the White Culture, Blacks did their own thing in those days.

[@Tony605]

Good all days when everything was working.

[@michaelgerardcondon8531]

Beautiful ❤❤❤

[@charlswanepoel1065]

Aaahhhhh those were the days.

[@girlgreenivy]

Wasn't South Africa under apartheid law during the 60s

[@Giorgio_Cerrini]

​@@girlgreenivyThat's exactly what he meant if you didn't get it.

[@andrewdock7288]

Beautiful ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@johnm84]

South Africa was a great then unfortunately it's not now and it's horrible now.

[@felix121984]

No it's not !

[@ntsakom2903]

2:29 onwards sound like a national geographic commentary......

[@jae7044]

Back when South Africa was a functional country

[@Z_u_b_s]

Back ? Or black ?

[@hirotwo2018]

Back when South Africa was a 1st world country

[@Sachin_Playz24]

bro apertheid sucks

[@rohp1283]

In those days Durban was a white man's paradise.

[@fuzzy9294]

I was on that beach today, walking my dog along the promenade. The whole beachfront has been upgraded and modernized since then, it is a fantastic beachfront. This morning the municipality was pressure cleaning the paving and clearing windswept sand. I go there often, the demography of the people there is more or less correct for South Africa. I was born in 1952 in Addington Hospital that overlooks the scenes in this video. This morning an Indian man came up to me and spoke to me about my dog. We had a friendly conversation. He is in his 70's, same as me, he was a very friendly, to think that for most of his life he would not have been allowed on that beach unless he was selling refreshments to white people. It happens all the time with black and Indian people, truly humbling.

[@markchatten9484]

Meanwhile back in the real world beachfront hotels in Durban are closing due to high crime and low tourism.

[@fuzzy9294]

@@markchatten9484 What's your point? What I described did happen. It is real and is happening despite the high crime and low tourism. I have been going to Durban's beaches for 72 years. I you like I can tell some more nice stories, may help you think up some more nasty stuff to say.

[@brantdanger]

I guess all the farmers feel truly humbled as their families are being murdered too.

[@fuzzy9294]

@@brantdanger Those farm murderers have achieved their political goal. They have made you hate almost every person in whole world even someone just walking along the beachfront and greeting a stranger.

[@lannguyenthi2423]

Hay quá

[@dragonpesable]

Не сильно отличается от видео с довольными немецкими нацистами.

[@al3xk3l88]

А ты не сильно отличаешься наличием ума

[@lukem9159]

How is your military conflict going?

[@FiniteMan1933]

Incredibly based 🗿🤝

[@andrewdutoit9571]

​@@FiniteMan1933People having fun and not having the worry of being robbed or worse is based? You must examine your priorities because something is wrong there.

[@patricksaunders1840]

It's sad it could have been multicultural then without apartheid 😢

[@Lovelylove4everyone]

Being democratically scared to walk around now.

[@ntokozoguzunene1973]

Where were black people

[@Expose_bankers_and_auctioneers]

enjoying their own pass times

[@1slicka4nd]

It's fd up now.. For sure. 😅

[@rodrick005]

life changes my fellow blackoes

[@IO-zz2xy]

Wonderfully white when everything worked and no crime and filth.

[@nashsingh1349]

Yea, wonderfully white... When even us, very moderate, peace-loving, non-violent Indians were looked at as we were dirt and absolute filth... How you must have enjoyed your wonderful superiority...

[@l.joseph1521]

Exploiters have no shame at all.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@L. Joseph Exploiters my eye, what you talking about. Do you think they did it for buchshee?

[@Expose_bankers_and_auctioneers]

and in 2024?

[@michaelgerardcondon8531]

Ignorant comment . It's the anc and your fellow comrades that are exploting the country

[@masiwakhekhalimesheboyaben4109]

looks so much better today with the new promenade and all the black people running around.

[@Tony605]

But Durban been destroyed.

[@felixyoghurt3291]

Yeah, such diversity now

[@UFOhunter4711]

Better dung than a knock off german

[@johanvandermerwe4620]

Yes on a warm day it looks like a ant colony on a spree on the beach😮

[@paulo2346]

​@@johanvandermerwe4620like a large and fast wave

[@misterkaren]

The days of apartheid look beautiful Just joking F this

[@mr.centrist5789]

It DID look beautiful then!

[@3506Dodge]

You resent the success of the past.

[@dudeinc6291]

@@3506Dodge i agree, they prefer chaos and destruction. its in their genetics. we have different creators.

[@FYVIEmusic]

This. Watch this.

[@molebogengmbhense9744]

Bathong this comment section kaze bathathwaphi abelungu

[@mosquesintamilnadu557]

கொடுமை

[@MEMEEARTH184]

Cha abelungu babecanasa boh

[@jasonsamuels9032]

Lmao

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Apartheid was a good idea but it was applied bad most of the time, where it was intended to give their own countries for black people became into a brutal discrimination segregation system with the racism that we see in the end. But anyway I don't support apartheid in anyway because it divided SA in different countries.

[@Shola-tg6lv]

Bro what?

[@FiniteMan1933]

​@@Shola-tg6lv bruh that's what I'm thinking

[@Jayanimagic]

Bruh from google: aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Meaning it wasn’t good at all, SA just needs to incorporate a better education system, create a lot more jobs and help the economy, then this place will be as beautiful as it was back then.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

​@@JayanimagicYou mustn't believe GOOGLE as it has distorted History. Apartheid was created to protect the White Culture. What you see in the video is White Culture run by White people, what you have today is White Culture run by Blacks who are trying to Africanise what they got for free and that's why the degradation.

[@AndrewduToit-wl3tn]

​@@Jayanimagic That's BS, there was no chance that the Whites would rule for ever. At the rate the Country's economy was growing the Whites would have needed help to run the Country. That's why there were University's in the Homelands to produce educated Black people to assist but, the West, Socialists, Liberals and Communists didn't want a strong South Africa as all they wanted was under the ground, to hell with the people...

[@thembankosi5418]

Not at all, where were colour film in that year?

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Well not in TV's but most cinema things were in colour.

[@godlesssociety498]

7% of the population taking over the entire beach. I was in Durban a few months ago, I was impressed at how many blacks were enjoying the beach while all the whites were locked up in their boat club in point. Even in umhlanga it's the same, and it's better like that.

[@andrewdutoit9571]

In those days the Majority weren't like they are today. They didn't do the beach and swimming thing as they were mostly in the rural areas.

[@Shola-tg6lv]

@@andrewdutoit9571 yeah cos it was illegal for them go there Not to mention they were forced into those rural area

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@Shola-tg6lv You wrong, do your homework. Nobody put the Majority into the rural areas, that's where they originated from. The Zulu's came mainly from the Valley of a thousand hills in Kwazulu Natal, the Xhosa from Transkei in the Eastern Cape etc.Our Black people have Tr!bes, Heritage and a specific Cultures, unlike the teppid African Americans who's culture is given to them by the Constitution. For example, in the late 1950's, if you put Pedi in charge of a work team of Zulu's for instance, you will have War as no other tr!be told a Zulu what to do, in some instances that can still applie today. As far as beaches go, Blacks didn't do the sun bathing and swimming thing. Some of the best beaches are in the Eastern Cape, just GOOGLE them and see how many Black people are sunbathing. Also, their Elders didn't want to mix with the Whites as they were fearful that they would lose their culture. So don't be fooled, do research on the tr!bes of South Africa as It's quiet interesting.

[@Jaylio]

@@andrewdutoit9571 why are u censoring tribes? Anyway white people don’t have a culture in Africa and should all be deported back

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@Jaylio Tr!bes was censored because my posts get deleted.. GOOGLE Boer and Afrikaaner and see how long they have been in South Africa. We have been here just as long as the Whites have colonised America and twice as long as the White Auastralians but not a word has been said about them returning to Europe. Using your logic all Blacks must leave Europe, America, the Caribbean, South America, Indonesia et al? I don't think so. Anyway, the World is envious and jealous of the White African as we have been placed in Africa by God, read about our origins.

[@mensilak]

all those racists!

[@andrewdutoit9571]

Yes, motorsport was a favourite in those days.

[@minksyz]

My grandfather was in his teens back then and wasnt racist he use to make a ton of black friends behind his parents back because he believed racism was wrong and so do i

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@minksyz Racism was practiced both ways. But it wasn't Racism from the start as you experienced. Whites wanted to protect their culture and heritage and the Black Indunas prohibited their folk from frequenting White towns and areas for fear that they would lose the Black Culture, which has resulted in a bastardised culture of both! I was born in Natal in the 50's before the Socialists badmouthed all who didn't agree with their philosophy.

[@paulmessenger9836]

The subject is getting boring

[@Tony605]

No ECOLI ON THE BEACHES. EVERYTHING WORKED. RACE CARD LIVES RENT FREE IN THE BRAINS STILL.

[@phutimanamela368]

I had to watch the video again looking for the 'better' people are on about. I couldn't find any, even the models

[@matshepokhumalo7368]

what the hell???!!! this is pathetic!

[@andrewdutoit9571]

Jelousy makes you nasty.

[@minksyz]

Jelous?

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@@minksyz Must be...

[@elsicario3268]

u r more pathetic

[@sbongisenishangase9194]

Yerrrrrr! Racism aint dead yet if John Shackleton speaks like this! Is it that hard to accept our differences and move on with life...learn from each other? Gosh!

[@zakariakhan5717]

How pathetic...

[@MohamedOsman-nm7pd]

Now it looks better but not safe