South Africa in the 1960s

a look at life for the white minority and black majority in these times, thankfully times have changed. good shots of the sea voyage down, crossing the line ceremony with a baby and a dog!! lots of old cars and fashions. shot by a talented amateur on 16mm kodachrome

[@niruramparsad8565]

Life was good back then 👌everybody looked happy.

[@lovemorembigi]

Those were the days! Good times!!

[@seanpst7659]

Has it ever occurred to you that none of the people in the footage ever saw this footage.

[@michaelroebuck1340]

It was more British than Britain. People dressed up to go see a film. East London was like UK 1920s

[@thatdude3340]

Good old days

[@mariewalker4010]

Lived in Durban as a child in 63 to 67 we emigrated there and I absolutely loved it beautiful city I'm 70 now and would love to go back to see it again

[@MeiPeaches]

It's note the same anymore. Unfortunately.....

[@moniquedefranca5759]

Dont. Your heart will stop. Its really a mess.

[@mariewalker4010]

@@moniquedefranca5759 thanks yes I've been told by several people

[@fraseredkins2509]

Memories are such and life is short.....

[@uegotohell1598]

Beautiful place, not like nowadays.

[@zindagi2851]

👍Thank you for sharing that. It was good to see Durban in the 60’s and in colour 🇿🇦

[@user-bv1gq3ki4i]

Crazy that most of the people in this footage have passed.

[@goonerfromjhb]

Thank you for uploading and sharing this, I'm from Joburg but my Mom & family were from Durban, I called my Mom over just to watch this...thoroughly enjoyed it

[@charlesmeadows1850]

There has always been segregation, throughout the world, not just on colour but social class and even gender. The mistake SA made was to proclaim apartheid and enclose it in their laws.

[@123472724]

I don't want to sound rude, but these were the best times.

[@jeandrephilip3738]

Not rude its the truth

[@Neobrian30]

Best times to exploit black people and deprive them basic human rights

[@gabrielbarros9341]

for white people...

[@user-md8lz4jb9p]

Neo Brian TUT TUT YOU BASTARDS WERE GIVEN SOUTH-AFRICA ON A PLATE LIKE SPOLIT BRATS AND DID YOU BUILD ON IT NO OF COURSE NOT YOU PLUNDERED IT UNTIL NOW I BELIEVE THERE IS NOT MUCH LEFT. “ HE WHO GRABS MUCH HOLDS LITTLE”

[@karengreen7436]

I agree 100000000 percent...miss those days SOOOOOOOOOO badly!!!

[@myrabrown8570]

While South Africa has a racial past we don’t need to make this video racial. It’s interesting for me being born into the 21st century to see these images. Thank you for sharing

[@Daud76]

Finally someone who speaks sense and not turning the comments section into a racial fiasco.

[@quartusbuys6831]

I hear what you say, it's just a pity nothing of this is left! Only ruins.!

[@MrQuick-ld7fr]

Racist past? Hey, search "Dendera Temple to Hathor" No one painted our art brown yet to lie about another race making it. And Cleopatra of ancient Egypt is white. Those others ATTACKED US CONSTANTLY. We owned those lands FIRST. That's why they were fly bitten savages still. North sentinel island = Pure sample of race. 30 thousand years pure.. No fire making yet. GAME OVER.

[@Nomad006]

Valid point ,but I feel like that doesn't really apply to majority of the population. Non-white people were seen as subhuman purely based on the colour of their skin, so for them it was literally impossible to have their experiences documented outside of any racial undertones.

[@MrQuick-ld7fr]

@@Nomad006 LIES!! LIES!! We were teaching them and they ASSUMED what we believed. They behaved on their assumptions because they were TRIBAL. North sentinel island. PURE DNA SAMPLE. They don't even have fire yet. LIE SOME MORE. Others MADE YOU..

[@indodaengaziwa6274]

I'm here for "these were the good ol days" comments

[@rogermac6185]

A democratic South Africa is good. Nothing during Apartheid can ever be considered good.

[@kenbird9017]

Guess no one will ever be able to say that again!

[@dantewalters5209]

Yeah, today is much better. Top 5 in the world for all serious crimes. Endless corruption. Junk status x 10. Worse poverty and a bleak future. Do you expect us to say those were bad days? After 28 years at the helm, your elected govt has done nothing to improve your situation.

[@Helgardt6189]

Shame !! Do i sense a inferiority complex 🤔🤔

[@capeofstormz5974]

Look at S.A. now.These WERE the good ol days.

[@elfulano5884]

I must say, whenever I see a South Africa video here on KZbin, I notice the comments sections can be quite lively.

[@NotKimiRaikkonen]

You should see our parliament.

[@davethorstry6700]

@@NotKimiRaikkonen when they are awake?

[@vanmartin3920]

How come Johannesburg is one of The dirtiest cities in Aftica now?

[@tfmkhonza5084]

Lol because of past Apartheid

[@Rudzani]

Because the families that barely earned a living wage during apartheid moved there for opportunity and didn’t find it?

[@christobosman5710]

@@tfmkhonza5084 ? What have apartheid to do with the cleaness of a place You create your living space ,don't blame apartheid for your filfiness

[@paulgomes4300]

I'm sure a Nazi who was around in 1940 would say the thing about Berlin.

[@Helgardt6189]

Because all the whites moved out… taking their good manners and cleanliness with them.

[@RedShirtArmy]

Ah, the old days of civilization. Yes, thankfully that has been destroyed by democracy and equality, right?

[@nicolesummers8139]

My dad was born amd raised in south africa, his family were Jewish dutch immigrants who left holland after ww2. Then in the 1960s he moved to the US, thats where i was born and raised and still live. He doesn't talk about his upbringing there much, i dont push but ive always been really interested in learning about where that side of my family came from...

[@kerryo57]

THANKFULLY TIMES HAVE CHANGED??? For WHAT the BETTER? ????

[@karengreen7436]

Um..no

[@patmunoo887]

@@karengreen7436 one evil replaced the other

[@catherinedavy1022]

I was born in 61. Thank you for this.

[@Reazzurro90]

@rmo18 With this kind of attitude, then I guess it was right for the apartheid government to have resisted. Apparently they simply should have refused to compromise with the ANC at all. Perhaps South Africa today might still be a country where there is civilization.

[@CillaNeill]

I believe racial segregation would have disappeared naturally without the total collapse of infrastructure and the disappearance of a middle class....

[@Nedankinde93]

Table Mountain looked so much better without the tampons.

[@friendlypiranha774]

@Nedankinde - do you know that the original plan called for 17 of those tampons at the foot of Table Mountain. Thank goodness that never happened.

[@user-db8kj8so7f]

Wow this is great i grew up in america never thought people enjoyed life as we did in america back in the 60s .

[@nthabisengsello6428]

Wtf

[@charro509charitablegiving2]

Americans are pretty inward thinking about the world, we are told at school we are the greatest and most free country on earth and no one is greater than us. I had teachers tell us how bad people have it overseas. One geography teacher about 1972 said in South Africa if you were anti-apartied you'd be made to stand on a box til you collapsed and then your ankles were broken. Yes she taught us that.

[@Helgardt6189]

@@charro509charitablegiving2 that teacher Is a twit.Never heard such nonsense 😡

[@tashabridger9952]

@@charro509charitablegiving2that’s because the corrupt, lying, propaganda machine called MSM, told the rest of the world countless lies about South Africa. As they still do today and so many watch the “news” and believe the absolute BS!

[@Math617261273]

The last shot, beggining at 9:29 is not from South Africa, it is from a tourist ship from South Africa visiting the Madeira Island, that is near from Africa but it is a Portuguese territory.

[@charlestruter7171]

Perhaps that is why at 9:28 there is a banner on the screen stating: "Madeira"

[@DustinTheNinja]

Great audio

[@jimbobjones1858]

Yeah, best on YT!

[@juche54]

great shot of nelson mandela at 0:41

[@Leo15730]

Standard 8 mm footage ??

[@sirveillance9080]

Would somebody switch that lawnmower off in the background. Perhaps I could watch this then.

[@harrionl]

Eish, the soundtrack 😞

[@bryanhurd9955]

Those cars are older than 1960

[@jeffmorse645]

Yeah, that's 1950s.

[@jeandrephilip3738]

Some 40s

[@davethorstry6700]

@@jeffmorse645 mostly 40s

[@fraseredkins2509]

Little boys in Tenerife not afraid of the sharks

[@2blakandbold]

Sick!!!!

[@Helgardt6189]

Great !!!!

[@shaqdizo7678]

The only problem with black south Africans didn't want to adopt into a modern Life style that's why most black south Africans looks like people out of place hanging around downtown Durban acting like Shaka Zulu.

[@Soulthinker2007]

It is identical to the American South in the same period.

[@bee496]

Its a amazing how hell can look like heaven hey

[@davethorstry6700]

You mean like all the present day cities, not to mention the townships

[@tdevry]

Amen to that

[@nnfefe9451]

That was then

[@omegamale7880]

7:39 So Santa Claus is from the south pole?

[@johnroberts262]

changed ok, apartheid in reverse.

[@rogermac6185]

Do you experience Apartheid in 2020?

[@tfmkhonza5084]

John Roberts keep on dreaming

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoods8202]

@@rogermac6185 policies such as BEE are literally reverse apartheid just without the separatism

[@GlenRwodzi97]

What’s with the people washing the kids on the boat?🤣

[@lorriemamoet9406]

Looks like a tourist's movie ?

[@Leo15730]

Lorrie Mamoet..... Yeah. Looks like a good old standard 8mm footage !!

[@superkoosification]

If you are thankful about the fact that south africa has turned into just another zimbabwe, there must be something wrong with you

[@wardusmcdi7166]

superkoosification is w

[@davethorstry6700]

Everyone knew it would except the wokes

[@mariopani3424]

Real South Africa. ....The best times of what was an amazing country ruined by De Klerk and the corruption of ANC

[@OscarHadebe]

South Africa would be far as a country had these despicable and diabolical souls chose equality and fair treatment to all. I’m convinced that by now we would be the greatest country in the world if we all worked together! But this will never happen. Not the South Africa that I know.

[@davethorstry6700]

People were happy until they were told not be by despicable people! Everyone had work. People had respect for each other. Crime was low. COL was low.

[@davethorstry6700]

The cars in Durban are not 60's they are much older, 40s early 50s

[@metrodomus3058]

Never forget what was stolen from you

[@gaguy1967]

the projector sound is annoying

[@friendlypiranha774]

That's before the days of iPads and cellphones, before the days for DVDs and CDs, before the days of Betamax vs VHS, before the days of Sony Trinitron TVs and Philips cassette players... Those were the days we listened to the whirrrrrrrrrring of the silent movie 8mm home projector; essentially our only 'media' entertainment back then... AND WE LOVED IT😍😍😍

[@gaguy1967]

@@friendlypiranha774 i think it is added for effect. Thanks for answering 5 years alter

[@screamingblues]

I agree with zozottine - thanks for the film but please stop the arrogant piousness. Cheers

[@adwest68]

Fifthy ''s, i think

[@moochieface12]

rich man's heaven is the poor man's hell, same shit all over the world!

[@erichoyman2839]

Nice country powered by European

[@MerciaLeping]

Where are my people? I don't see my people here!

[@tommillia7816]

Now I understand Mandelas pain Even More...

[@davethorstry6700]

He was a card carrying communist and never denied it.

[@LloydZeeman]

Hi Steven - please will you share you contact details with me so that we can discuss using some of this footage? Thanks

[@dereklawler8804]

That is the 1950's not the 1960's

[@Zirious23]

This weasel commenters needs deeper research, his statements are very hollow.

[@erichoyman2839]

Nice country powered by europeans

[@gustavocarvalho2300]

The best times in South Africa

[@Cerl84]

You people longing for the good old days should learn to be quiet. You have no more say about the matters of South Africa. Study this film well.

[@karengreen7436]

I know cause it's all been f*&/## up by certain people!

[@walterjrwhite7352]

White monopoly capital

[@davethorstry6700]

@@walterjrwhite7352 Yep, thats what makes the world go round. FYI about 450 thousand strong white business is where the tax base comes from to keep SA ship afloat while it is floundering and listing with fat cats of another race.

[@Bozewani]

@residualvolume What is your opinion of apartheid? Do you support it?

[@karengreen7436]

Hell yes!!! Bring it back!

[@patmunoo887]

@@karengreen7436 you are responding to a comment made 9 years ago lol

[@christobosman5710]

@@patmunoo887 Nine years ago it was already stuffed ,what's your point ?

[@lawsonhellu4718]

@@karengreen7436 And can I know why?

[@emilyraley4268]

strange video

[@davethorstry6700]

It is a old 40/50s basic 8mm cine camera, thats how they all were in those days.

[@nangamsonkweba2990]

Those evil days

[@davethorstry6700]

I saw all the people with broad grins and luaghing and happy

[@Justmyopinionlol]

All these houses were built on rivers of African blood.

[@zell863]

No. Nordic race come in and build high standards. And than black from North come in to work and enjoy same standard. You should thanks to Nordic race to be there. If only they would like come to Balkans.

[@davethorstry6700]

Is that why we have the biggest Indian population outside of India. Blacks did not want to work, to let go of traditions. Indians subjected to the same apartheid, have risen to the heights of success, why is that? In fact they already had in the 60s.

[@erichoyman2839]

Cape town should be separated of black south Africa

[@thebadstation8416]

Or maybe the Europeans do this in Europe instead of a continent they aren't native too

[@davethorstry6700]

Its going that way aloing with the Northeren Cape, nothing can stop it. Work in progress