Durban South Africa 1960's

Paradise Found

[@jimcrawford5039]

I remember Durban as a beautiful city in 1961, 62 and ‘63 as a young seaman from UK. Met a lot of lovely people, white & black, loved the Afrikaans language, the Zulus and the country. Sad to hear that it is not as nice as it was. Cheers from Australia.

[@johnmcclelland2876]

my folks generation, but i recognise some of the old haunts from when I was a little boy, thanks for posting, keeps the memories alive

[@sirvikalcrusader3668]

I lived in Durban in the late 80's and loved it. Brilliant movie postcard.

[@d.marques4700]

City of Durban, as it used to be! One of a kind!...

[@danielpeter3642]

Very true...had the apartheid government treated everyone fairly and equally, it would have stayed that way...some of the crimes were : no equal rights, no equal education, no equal jobs and likewise equal pay structure, blacks were confined to rural areas and not allowed to attend or visit restaurants, theatres, museums, parks, drive-ins, amusement parks, basically everywhere you look it was whites only. That government had really messed things up badly

[@patrickbrown2821]

Those were the days .......... no longer regrettably as it was , today it's a total wreck , downtown has been destroyed by squatters, pimps,drug dealers and thieves !

[@oriettoberti2501]

Si stava meglio quando si stava peggio.

[@zanelevezi1667]

Gone are those good old days and gone is the once adored Durban

[@brendanribbs3434]

So sad patrick!!

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

That's what happens when you run a country that practices Apartheid...tis similar to baking a cake with the incorrect ingredients...you can't escape the original sin hence our home is in this state

[@christobosman5710]

@@vineshnaidoo9402 Im glad somebody answered you on the same comment you made and put you in your place ass hole

[@helenmcdonnell2585]

The sound track cracks me up along with the stills, even if they aren't all in the 60's. Memories of better times that are gone forever.

[@byroncurrin227]

Greatest times...Durban 1960-1980s

[@willieterblanche9417]

It just bring tears to my eyes if you see how destroyed our lovely town is now I remember those lovely times at the beach front

[@rolandpotter479]

Do you remember when those blacks,Indians and coloured were not allowed on the beach And were forced into areas. The whole system was evil just to benefit the whites. The sickening whining of the whites is a bad joke. The system was for the few so trying to make the economy work for everyone is nigh on impossible. Remember the whites are responsible for this mess.

[@willieterblanche9417]

Wake up

[@willieterblanche9417]

They are savages in a hundred years from now they will be on my level and I will be a hundred 💯 years ahead they will never be where the Civilized people be not ever they are born to be headed like sheep

[@garethbuckeridge6910]

@@willieterblanche9417 and find yourself in Mandela's utopia of a Rainbow Nation 🤣🤣🤣

[@pangajavalinaicker7601]

It's depressing to think way back then and now!

[@boho9999]

Remember walking along West Street window shopping at midnight with kids,,All beautiful curio shops n ice creams ,,,now it's a hellbhole

[@karaborantsoai9540]

LoL 🤣🤣days were good

[@JJosephS1]

Truly beautiful. Crime ridden, poverty stricken and dangerous now.

[@shirleybachoo8005]

I'm from Durban SA... Was not born then but so clean n neat beautiful city.... Today you can't walk on streets you will get mugged... Filthy n scary..

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

That's what happens when you run a country that practices Apartheid...tis similar to baking a cake with the incorrect ingredients

[@tonynz9954]

@@vineshnaidoo9402 A cake always tastes better if you leave the sultanas out.

[@christobosman5710]

@@vineshnaidoo9402 excuses excuses as all ways shame .

[@noeldoyle4501]

@@vineshnaidoo9402 Apartheid was imposed badly, and, as the negative effects became a nuisance to everybody the White government used violence instead of good sense to cure the problems. Needless to say the whole system was overturned soon afterwards. Apartheid could possibly have helped the differing cultures to live their diverse lives, in their own way, in peace.

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

You'll are the tainted detractors that got us here....well done

[@tonywebb532]

In Dec 1966 I stayed at the Palmerston Hotel for a couple of weeks before I started my military service. Had a great time.

[@saragora3331]

I was born in 1979.

[@jimmyvardan8756]

Its Now called DIRTBIN.... Crime & Grime is the Theme....

[@user-tp8zc8gc5f]

It's the days of the devils now, they just destroy everything, it's a shame we have humans like this now days, I was born and brought up in those days as it was beautiful Durban in the 60tys, moved to JHB in 99 , still appreciate my roots back then

[@user-vd5fm7zg1q]

Lived there until 1987, best years of my life BUT now ar 74 glad Im in a safe country. I would have been one of the many homeless

[@jp95js]

So sad they way Durban has developed now. It isn't safe anymore.

[@DB-tt6mr]

Hey JM Developed isn’t the right word 😒😒😊 Think the word you looking for is destruction 😡

[@jp95js]

​@@DB-tt6mr Dam floppies have ruined a paradise. Oh for the good old days . I should have taken the chicken run years ago.

[@mikerilling6515]

Beautiful days gone forever

[@tonynz9954]

PARADISE NOW LOST !!

[@victoriadhlamini1516]

Paradise of men who thinks they are gods on earth. How did you fall.?

[@tonynz9954]

@@victoriadhlamini1516 They did not fall. They stupidly handed it over .

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

That's what happens when you run a country that practices Apartheid...tis similar to baking a cake with the incorrect ingredients

[@andrewdutoit9571]

​@@vineshnaidoo9402 The problem is Culture, what this video depicts is the White Culture run by Whites. The mess you see today is the White Culture run by Blacks. They can't do it successfully because it's not their Culture.

[@mrplumtreeandfamily9899]

Rimind me old days nice song what a content I did subscribe

[@oriettoberti2501]

The paradise in Africa!

[@RubyBlackburn-de2pw]

What a beautiful place Durban was 😢😢

[@estellebotha7331]

We stayed on the Bluff for 28yrs. My two boys learn to surf in Durbs

[@user-ze9to3ef1f]

We also. Gerbrantzer str not far from mall. A few streets down was the drive in and up was thompsons cafe. Spoornet house my husband was a traindriver

[@draterlarebil4506]

Remember the big top,on the beach in the 60s. Ice cream, beach buggies and beautiful beaches and people.

[@michaelroebuck1340]

Spent our honeymoon there in 1968. Still together. Huge change all over Africa. Done a lot of moving around since '68.

[@MyKfactor]

Still live here. Beach promenade is world class. Better than ever just ruined by vagrants.

[@JJosephS1]

In other words a real Sh _ _hole now.

[@atatterson6992]

You're delusional dude. What, are you trying to get some more whyte victims to come visit you? The entire planet knows you lie... shameful, you could get people killed.

[@siobhanquinlan6922]

Fantastic

[@TheFrankles]

1960s - no apostrophe = as in nineteen sixties

[@brendanribbs3434]

Europe and the USA take heed.

[@user-lf5cp9bk6e]

Die goeie dae in Suid-Afrika!!!!!!!!

[@ThefiletemusicNet]

muy buena

[@guytero8812]

So very sad what Durban looks like now. Rubbish, sewerage everywhere in the streets. Crime riddled Durban.

[@user-to8iz5jx2c]

C'est la ville de mon enfants. 😘

[@Charlenegonya3627]

😢

[@mikerilling6515]

White people built such an incredible civilization ❤ with a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, hospitals, universities, public schools, railroads plenty of clean, running water lots of electricity with air conditioning paved streets no trash on the sidewalks no graffiti on the buildings at the filling stations and then crumbled I wonder what happened

[@jimcrawford5039]

Forgot to say, I believed that everyone had a job back then, still believe it!

[@andrewdutoit9571]

Remember 'The Cuban Hat' roadhouse on the Marine Parade.

[@Tony605]

Good old days. Now all destroyed.

[@moerer57]

& it's taken just 30yrs to the present situation. How does one explain that? Its when you have corrupt & inexperienced people trying to run a country 🤔

[@murraykyle1643]

Not a lot of photos from the 60s.

[@harishparbhoo2968]

Do you have a problem with the music why don't you upload yourself n put your own music 60 70 80 my decades I grew up now l am living in a caged up house like a prisoner in my own house night life is gone

[@olgamarshall8965]

To much people now.

[@davidroux7987]

Note the complete absence of stinkers

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

Good times for the minority yet the rest suffered.....😔

[@tonynz9954]

Really ? We had many Indian friends under apartheid who did very well.

[@christobosman5710]

So what were you doing there if you didn't like it , why didn't you go to India or was it too nice living among whites where you don't have to pay tax

[@tonynz9954]

@@christobosman5710 Good comment.

[@christobosman5710]

@@tonynz9954 👍

[@vineshnaidoo9402]

The Indoctrinated ....tis the best explanation viable...

[@vladimirkolovrat2846]

It's sad to a place so in need of enrichment by diversity.

[@jimmymshali6661]

if can. please go. to Europe and make this noise

[@raziaabdul1348]

Why that music

[@dereklawler8804]

Whoever compiled this has used photo's from the 1950's/60's/70's and 80's

[@bidhorse247]

I compiled it in memory of my brother and yes I used photos from the decade before he was born and the decade after his passing...So it may not carry any authenticity for you it does for me...

[@atatterson6992]

Is that a problem? Still shows the "pre black" success of a nation.

[@RubyBlackburn-de2pw]

We lost a city to the ?

[@atatterson6992]

No, they lost an entire nation. No Wakanda to be found

[@rameshmahabeer6393]

If we had equality for all no matter the colour of our skin. All were equal in the eyes of the Lord. We need to humnle ourselves and pray for our country God bless

[@danielpeter3642]

Show all the photos where it says "whites only "...

[@joycechetty1230]

True, was white man’s paradise then.

[@tonynz9954]

@@joycechetty1230 Now it is every race groups hell. Lol !!

[@user-yb1pq4tm4q]

Something is not visible "infringement of the rights" of "unfortunate" blacks

[@neelananthony4794]

Lol.. Apartheid wasn't good but now we all suffering,, no jobs, crimes,, loadshedding... People are using police uniforms and hijacking people,, disgraceful country

[@atatterson6992]

@@user-yb1pq4tm4q Good black people were MUCH happier then... ask. You see what the bad blacks have done to the entire nation. They can even keep electricity in homes. Which is better?

[@robertchutney]

Why the american country music?!? :-(

[@bidhorse247]

Listen to the words dummy Duuuuuh!!!!

[@simonlee9432]

Irish, not American. It's Van Morrison.

[@atatterson6992]

WTF does it matter Beavis? You're wrong anyways

[@izzeystarz7578]

You did. And your cronies. Not the majority of the original inhabitants remember.

[@globaltrends111]

I'm sure the blacks were not allowed to live here...if yes then I don't care if there's crime

[@andrewdutoit9571]

@sanelengobese4496 In those day the Blacks were in the rural areas where they had resided for centuries. What you see here is White Culture run by Whites. It works.

[@thetruthhurts5780]

Anc made SA better,in everyway...

[@andrewdutoit9571]

True, for Africans. What you see here is White Culture run by Whites. What you see today is White Culture being raped by Blacks.

[@rohp1283]

take your word for it re the pics. I see the number plates on the Beattle are Blue and white. Now I recall that more recently (most certainly after the 60's), it was made compulsory in SA to change from yellow and black to blue and white number plates. Hence my take that the pics are not as early as 60s

[@bidhorse247]

The VW Beatle was a popular 60's car which is why it cracked the nod :)

[@nirdeshrughubir9466]

you are so smart to notice that

[@deserteagle7032]

😢

[@mikerilling6515]

White people built such an incredible civilization ❤ with a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, hospitals, universities, public schools, railroads plenty of clean, running water lots of electricity with air conditioning paved streets no trash on the sidewalks no graffiti on the buildings at the filling stations and then crumbled I wonder what happened