Durban 1981 archive footage

[@davidsouthwick6802]

People relaxing in parks with no fear of being robbed & killed, people swimming in the sea without worrying about dysentery, clean streets with no plantlife lurking at the intersections. We've come so far in 30 years..

[@kes136]

What about segregation, no educational rights and inequality? The biggest ignorance called racism never ends...

[@nashsingh1349]

ANC.... Said that SA was too European, in too many ways.... They had to make it look like Somalia....

[@suzanibafazi8661]

I am a Gaffer 🤷🏿‍♂️ that was born just before the new South Africa 🇿🇦 started but ANC failed to deliver as much as we are in a free country 🇿🇦.If you put someone in POWER 💪🏿 for years and they don't deliver then you must remove them klaar.

[@nashsingh1349]

@@suzanibafazi8661 SAFFAR....!!!

[@davidsouthwick6802]

@@suzanibafazi8661 I feel your pain. I voted for change in 1994 & hoped for the best, but the new order has been a huge disappointment 😞

[@carmenking3493]

Durban looked so beautiful clean and safe back then. Not one minibus taxi in sight, how lovely.

[@nicoleharrington9086]

There is. Look carefully at 00:15

[@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373]

@@nicoleharrington9086 Was a Kombi, dear, not a minibus...

[@oliverh.547]

unbelievable, so rich and so clean

[@moerer57]

Amazingly clean & well maintained👌

[@1slicka4nd]

Amazing.

[@RenataZattara-hx7ru]

I lived in South Africa till 1980 it was so beautiful. I visit family every few years and I am very sad to see how the country has deteriorated. But I must say Europe is not so bright in these days. 🇮🇹🇿🇦

[@UbomiLife]

I wonder how the locations looked back then

[@RenataZattara-hx7ru]

Unfortunately we were not aloud to visit them in those days. I visited Soweto with my son on one of our visit in 1992 but we imagined visiting the museum. Have you visited it?

[@kes136]

Well at least the oppressive and inhumane laws especially against the south african indigenous people has stopped. Hope racism and ignorance can be destroyed in the hearts of people.

[@TheRealDarthVadar]

Because they let too many foreigners in

[@almadlicka2410]

At least 82 murders per day/150 carjackings per day/140 rapes per day. Need to be very observant. South Africa is a very dangerous cuntry. FACTS. So now it's ok you saying?

[@davidd1720]

Landed there with family as a kid aged 7, from the UK, that same year. Still remember being driven along Marine Parade, thinking everything looked so tropical and vibrant.

[@nareshsingh3394]

I'm mid 70's Durban was a beautiful city,l was safe,the city was clean,everything worked.....wrong people are in charge now never again will my city be admired it is like shit now

[@FrederikGeyser]

Hi I grew up in Durbs and can't agree with you more ! It's so sad....

[@RobertCarlBurns]

I was there,then, the days of my life always hazy always beautiful always 21

[@lynettemartin7215]

Sad gone are those beautiful days where everything was clean and safe now its just disgusting

[@robertdexterscholtz6007]

That is the year I moved to Durban when I was 19, and spent ten of the happiest years of my life. Not sure about now, but what a place it was back then...

[@UbomiLife]

Yes I'm sure it was. Too bad my family was not allowed to live there back then

[@nicoleharrington9086]

Too bad i wasnt alive when Durban was beautiful (i was born in 1991)

[@vijayjagannath2870]

Parked your car and went to the cinemas. no one interefered woth your car.now, you dare to go into Town

[@ianhunt4147]

It was beautiful

[@aderiangreen6999]

Beautiful back then

[@rubengroen976]

I love South Africa. I am white. You all miss the point. Everyone longs for a time when the majority of the people who lived in die land didn't live like us. It was unsustainable and worse unfair. South Africa can still be changed but, use you're heads. Lift everyone up and encourage quality immigration. Europe is no bargain. We have a beautiful country with great weather. Build a better country and they will come!! Ons vir Jou Zuid Afrika!

[@mikerilling6515]

Nonsense it is you who misses the point The white people brought civilization to the area The locals had it for thousands of years and all they manage to do is build a mud hut White people civilization took the locals from the Stone Age into the space age, and the smart locals joined in with the white people and became quite wealthy, so even became millionaires, and they were bringing more of the locals along to lift everybody up Because that’s the thing about colonization, they bring in civilization, and everybody who chooses to participate is lifted up Rhodesia four generations was doing so well that National Geographic put out an issue and had to admit that Rhodesia was the Switzerland of Africa because going into Salisbury would be like going into any top tier European capital white people brought a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, which was unheard of in the area before white people paved roads Railroads hospitals schools, drinking water into the homes, plenty of electricity and air conditioning stores with fully stocked shelves of all the filling stations no trash on the sidewalk no graffiti on the building and the people who chose to participate were ecstatic. It was communism it was attacking Africa in the late 50s early 60s, and then politicians in the west that turn their back on Rhodesia and South Africa and now both nations are basically assessable and they are slowly returning to the Stone Age

[@rubengroen976]

@@mikerilling6515 you can't go back in time. We need to make the best of a bad situation. I refuse to give up on this country and live in the past. Dalk is dit omdat jy nie Afrikaans is nie. Ek sal altyd Afrikaans wees.

[@dreamdiction]

In the 1992 referendum, the only constituency which voted "NO" was the city of Pietersberg, every other part of South Africa voted YES for South Africa to become the same as every other post-colonial independent African country which is a slum ruled by crime gangs. Everything that has happened since 1993 shows that the previous system was necessary for the benefit of all races.

[@Tee-e4i]

@@mikerilling6515name one local who become a millionaire? Why didn’t you stay whenever you came and leave locals to their ways ?

[@BradleyMortan]

A true South African

[@alanhealth8132]

I got married in 1981, Durban WAS a beautiful city, now a filthy crime filled dump. Infrastructure crumbling.

[@FrederikGeyser]

Got married in Durbs 1982. ....and today you see only the ugly remains of a once no1 world class tourist destination after more than 20 years of ANC control. So so sad....

[@mikerilling6515]

White People built such a beautiful civilization ❤

[@kes136]

Yes Europeans maybe advanced in construction and infrastructures though the natural elements and the blessings of the nature in Africa are a collective manifestation of the african indigenous people. When combined makes a beautiful country done with mutual respect and no racism. Take into account ancient Indians where actually the first to construct temples, which first influenced Greeks and then the Romans, all of Europe and the West.

[@JamesOrr-v5g]

have you heard of Argentina, it is full of whites, English , Germans and Jews and it is a complete mess.

[@steveleroux6116]

The ungrateful destroyed everything that was working

[@kes136]

@@steveleroux6116 true people of God regardless of ethnicity would never condone prosperity over the oppression of others. There is nothing grateful about feeling superior to others.

[@jungbolosse3034]

So full of yourself

[@chrisgrow22]

music title?

[@LollyClarke]

South Africa will never go back to its beautiful self, majority rules, leave if you can

[@scottwilliam6141]

Wow it looked like Australia in the 70s. What happened?

[@alanhealth8132]

Corruption in Government took over.

[@brendankohler1000]

The ANC happened. African national cancer.

[@saabirkarim]

ANC Happened, bred entitlement, then greed and Corruption.....just basic human dignity, cleanliness went out the window, you can see the locals don't care, just dump dirt everywhere, look at the beaches today in dec 2024, they leave it filthy, no sense of pride. its sad!

[@AndrewduToit-wl3tn]

Wow, wasn't Durban beautiful?

[@rosemaryowen1298]

Can I use the footage without the piano

[@Footageforprocom]

Please, contact me at [e-mail].

[@superconscious.]

💖

[@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373]

🟧⬜🟦 There was only one ''rich'' South Africa until 1980, because during the 1970s many things happened that went against the maintenance of South Africa with that (very expensive) separation regime. The minority government should have dealt with this without expecting anything in return from the US, the UK and the UN... anyway, that time for resolving things has really passed.

[@SiphoZonele]

Beautiful SA, now it's fucked by the same people who wanted liberation 😮

[@WendyOwen-b2e]

So ordered, peaceful and civilized. What happened. God help us

[@alexsandrodesouzagoncalves3373]

South Africa was missing an island...

[@jungbolosse3034]

Apartheid

[@JackN13_]

Apartheid government ran things much better and I say this as a black person

[@siyabongamthembu2689]

Traitor

[@jungbolosse3034]

You can offer your free labour in exchange for whipping no problem then at night leave city and go sleep in your shack in the township, good times.

[@faridasolomon1498]

We called it paradise

[@jacaranda100]

Are you aware that the video is lacking visuals?

[@felixyoghurt3291]

Such as ?

[@jacaranda100]

Well, the first time I tried viewing it it was blank. Maybe my phone was the problem.

[@savypadayachee4587]

SA come back to its old self no fear more respect 💯

[@andrekruger8545]

I was in the navy in 1980 and stationed in Durban on strike craft back then our job was to keep the a.n.c out of south Africa and to keep everyone safe it seems that our effords was all in vain thank you de klerk you traitor

[@deserteagle7032]

😢

[@ZarbulkSales2]

ER Collins Bus

[@Joaocatalocatalo]

Why was ZA such country back then and today its such a rubbish's ?

[@Joaocatalocatalo]

Apartheid ..... they say ....

[@Tee-e4i]

They missing the times when they had slaves working for them.

[@nashsingh1349]

SA is more racist, now, than ever before....

[@warren1743]

BS

[@Tee-e4i]

@@warren1743 Says people who grew up not able to wash their own underwear, you missing being a "pure skin" god selected race. that's the true BS"

[@Tee-e4i]

@@warren1743 Ah, it's nonsense simply because it unsettles your spirit? What a fascinating revelation. Could it be that what you truly miss is the era when you could thrive on the relentless labor of others, all while conveniently labeling them as lazy? And, of course, the irony of your 'uncursed' glow being the supposed beacon of all things civilized is just the cherry on top, isn’t it? The audacity wrapped in self-righteousness is truly inspiring.

[@MoonHoax-md6mp]

The slaves are still working for us! 😂

[@ferozyusuf2572]

First things first, there's no minibus taxis running around in hundreds like mosquitos, these menaces have decayed our beautiful country....

[@niloytalukder5323]

Present Day RSA shows what happens if independence is interpreted as arbitrariness