Gold City, Johannesburg (1950s)

A film from the Adventures in Africa Series about Johannesburg in South Africa in 1950s. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

[@moisrama1]

I wonder where Loretta is today

[@Cyanideism]

Yeah I had the same question, wouldn't even know where to start trying to find her. Did she finish school? Where did she go from there? What of the little opportunities were available to her? Would be interesting to talk to her now in retrospect.

[@carterpaul2688]

She probably worked as a maid later on.

[@jp95js]

@@carterpaul2688 But Loretta’s own Kids now have Government jobs that used to be almost exclusively for the White Afrikaners/Lol.

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

@@carterpaul2688 nothing wrong with that. European knowledge is there for the taking. Japan and China don't rely on whites to teach them, and neither should Africans

[@jeffmorse645]

She's probably in her late 70s by now.

[@ndunal]

Wow, what an insight into 1950s SA African family city life

[@Cebo88]

Disturbing it is. Racism makes me want to holler.

[@ndunal]

The missionary's last remarks summed it all up

[@dollarmanduets8025]

Loretta ...hard working girl 📈🔥

[@caz9719]

Interesting how Apartheid is glossed over with almost casual disregard for the iniquity it was. Makes the situation seem like this was some sort of Bantu Utopia.

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

Bit like bbbee laws and farm murders are ignored today right

[@caz9719]

@@vincentvanwyk5522 I have no idea what you are referring to. Perhaps re-write in a manner that others bedsides yourself know what you are trying to say.

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

@@caz9719 it couldn't have been clearer. But then again maybe you're a victim of media glossing over stuff in our modern day

[@richardsampras4574]

it was a bantu utopia

[@DragonsAndDragons777]

​@@richardsampras4574yeah, certainly better for everyone then than now

[@msizinkosi3481]

2:08 the so-called "missionary" lady is lying saying in a Bantu/Black home a girl child is considered "less important" therefore she has to do more work than a boy, the nerve of these people they have been lying since they docked ship here

[@sydro1600]

That shit blew me bro🤯 I was like hold on a second, what the hell is she talking about?🤨

[@msizinkosi3481]

@@sydro1600 its crazy absolute horse shit

[@Cebo88]

They would say such in order to hide and justify the fact that they are responsible for the plight and pain of a Black person.

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

No affirmative action high paying jobs them unlike today. Sadly incompetence and victimisation go hand in hand

[@ngalahansel6066]

I also thought I misheard her. The opposite was rather true about the work load between boys and girls

[@tumim6864]

10:08 The lady claims that the dancing is of rejoicing but, loosely translated the girls are singing "These people are disrespectful. They do not love us. We will beat them".Having to sing and be paraded... We expressed our struggles through song.😢

[@missmillib]

I also noticed that, and they were talking about this missionary and her cameras.

[@QueenofZamunda2023]

I could not have lived like this. I respect my grandparents for putting up with evil. Today, Loretta would not be cooking boiling porridge for a grown man with two hand at the ass of dawn.

[@yolonjaba197]

Interesting that THAT'S what you find problematic about all this

[@ndunal]

Was that little Hughe Masekela at Donaldson Centre lol

[@thishaomuhle8483]

Looks like him

[@rupstarapasteer1209]

I recognize that mr who plays pennywhistle for mango groove.

[@ndunal]

Classroom situation, Bible lesson, girls kissed on the lips in a dramatization of a christian lesson wow

[@missmillib]

This is a propaganda film, not a news story and in the first minute is a huge misconception about why girls apparently work harder than boys. It's simply not true that "girls are not as important as boys", abantu don't have that conception in our culture. Loretta "working hard" is ingqeqesho, not just randomly deployed labour for girls.

[@malebitsatimbuktu3352]

Missionary gaze of Afriaka

[@maxwellndlovu4461]

At 6:04 that approach is not a correct approach into finding a solution to that Mathematics problem. The product should be bracketed and the Ratio bracketed.

[@Sibr-uq6ml7wr7j]

Wat'n pragtige land was dit nie!!! Baie geluk Aan Die Afrikaner Boere!!! Groete van die russiese broers Uit Siberië!!!

[@WTG194]

Google Everett C Parker the producer, very interesting

[@jp95js]

Those African kids look so happy in their bare feet.

[@ngalahansel6066]

Stop with your arrogance and condescending attitude. At 11:39 you can clearly see that they are wearing shoes so I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve with your backhanded comment but it's exposed your lies

[@zedianerkatwishi3930]

I see white kids looking so happy in their bare feet in today's new South Africa. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ-YlGSprpljis0

[@beerstein7137]

At that time in South Africa even white kids went to school bare feet during the summer, that was the way of life. In fact it was a challenge amongst boys to see who can resist the cold the longest before wearing shoes during the winter