Old school 80's adverts from South Africa

Ahhhh let the reminiscing begin

[@jacquest]

Wow..so good to see these again, thanks for the upload.

[@wihatmi5510]

You liked it more when they ignored that black people existed?

[@jamesconnolly5164]

White erasure of advertising.

[@gunston999]

I used to get irritated by some of these adverts...But now I watch them over and over..and enjoy every single moment😄

[@linushahs396]

Reminds you of when you were baas right?

[@DlcEnergy]

South Africa today is kind of like Australia if it actually went down under.

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

@abd sidik South Africa _was_ the best.

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

@abd sidik black people too.

[@kp-rh2mo]

Its true South Africa is the best. The beauty of south Africa is all the diversity. It wont be the same without everyone.

[@HIOAZA1523]

@abd sidik yeah well the ANC is the new Nationalist Party

[@roshannaidoo3792]

As an Indian growing up in the 80s, my opinion is this was the best era for south africa. Life was good, jobs was plentiful. Though I can never understand why the people who wasn't even born in the 80s that will be the ones to play the racist card. Facts is facts, life was better period. Sorry if my comment offends anyone just speaking the truth.

[@lindsayc7720]

My childhood in adverts! Wow!

[@MOHAMMEDYOUSUFOFFICIAL]

are u South African?

[@moosakajee2585]

When petrol cost R40 to fill your tank. A 2nd hand gearbox to replace my one was R250 including labour to remove and fit on my Toyota Corolla 1.6se lift back which cost me R4000. The good old days when our money had value. And parts were of breakable quality and people took pride in offering their best at their respective jobs.

[@Helgardt6189]

Those City Golfs were just the best.❤😊

[@ziyaadhoosaindelavega3081]

When money was still money

[@101boertjie]

To this day I can not stand the taste of Frisco coffee, but the adverts sure bring back lots of memories.

[@linushahs396]

Frisco is boer bush coffee

[@dinablaschczok2460]

Awesome! I just miss the Strepsils “Thoat Specialist” and Cremora: “It’s not inside it’s on top” :-)

[@hedegaard8]

Dina Blaschczok haha yes, its not insiiiiiiiide, its onnnnnnn top!!!!!

[@bikercat4138]

Good ol' days, our lives become oceans of memories, sometimes we drown in them.

[@nandspeartree7263]

I live that Cremora one, what about Black Cat peanut butter?😄

[@simeon2851]

In the days of just one channel, you had to watch the ad. 😅

[@1974spinderella]

This took me way back!!! Remembered all the songs too hehehe

[@Boerseun2000xx]

Went to morkels today. Apparently those specials aren't on anymore.

[@amandalouw2295]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@annetteelliott1494]

😁😁😁😁

[@pmedilall]

LOL... absolutely killed me :)

[@markbewlay6622]

😂😂

[@Helgardt6189]

And Trudie Taljaard the ad presenter is also not with us anymore.😢

[@riaolivier247]

Ag my liewe mense,hoe verlang dan nou weer Dankie Ria New Zealand

[@gina3498]

I remember each and every one of them.how can i not.we were forced to watch it waiting for our programmes to resume😬

[@deanwilson2796]

What a blast from the past I remember those ads

[@onweygertze9898]

miss those days

[@humanentity5890]

watching these leave me feeling eerie.

[@bpj1805]

"From as little as 21/m²" - tiles in 1980s. Interesting how some things are affected by inflation at way different rates than others.

[@marialovespalmtrees]

I remember these like yesterday. Good old days!😢

[@makha101]

Really???? Wow!!!!! Good days

[@christobosman5710]

@@makha101 Yes, the time you know nothing of ,you created a dump where you lived ,not others ,blame yourself for that ,

[@makha101]

@@christobosman5710 No. Times i know a lot about. Never lived in a dump.

[@christobosman5710]

@@makha101 So why are you complaineing ? Your brothers are still living in a dump they created today ,blame yourself for your failure's

[@makha101]

@@christobosman5710 My brothes???? What do you mean by that??? Exctacly why thise days were good for you right. Which dump your refering to. South Africa Is doing very well with infrastructure. And 'my brothers can go anf enjoy every corner of their beautiful south africa and the diaspora also moving here. Dont know what you're talking about. Dont have time to entertain your racist comments. Bye

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

"Whatever happened to Mello Yello?" It's still sold in certain places. At least I can still find it here in the US.

[@PaulineXCX]

Christopher Sobieniak i loved mello yello

[@rogermac6185]

Do you mean Donald Trump?

[@rogermac6185]

@morton christie thank you 🤗

[@humanentity5890]

@@rogermac6185 You mean what he is going to do to the dems this election? No, that's Orange Crush :)

[@ndlovuzidlekhaya5448]

Omg I remember these ads!!

[@jasonsmart3482]

As a Brit I am surprise how many of the ads are spoken in an English accent. In fact so few seem to have an SA accent.

[@christiangrey3645]

It's regional. Some have a really strong Dutch-type accent. It's really weird :D

[@mazibukomail]

It's TV, the voices are very curated.

[@MOHAMMEDYOUSUFOFFICIAL]

​@@mazibukomailexactly. 😂

[@MOHAMMEDYOUSUFOFFICIAL]

​@@christiangrey3645their English is not good rather as a Asian, our English is very good. 😊

[@sirvikalcrusader3668]

Well that's where we'll have to disagree; I'm sure anyone that anyone who has tried to understand someone speaking to them from and Indian Call centre will testify, it's like trying understand Martian!

[@Helgardt6189]

“Hulle smaak so lekker,want hulle eet so lekker.”-Farmer Brown Chickens.

[@johnreynolds5407]

I love the SA accent.

[@suppiluiiuma5769]

Unfortunately no one in South Africa sounds like this anymore. The old SA English accent was a lot better than it is today.

[@kayleencoward2442]

Are you south African John?

[@girlybrownrose1721]

It's interesting to listen to

[@LifeofMike]

Dude!!! This took me waaaaaaaay back!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@mbejmbej5668]

Jeepers I remember almost all of them, I didn't know I watched anything else besides pumpkin patch, knight rider and zet

[@DrTwoThumbs]

i'm heading towards 40, i still sing pumpkin patch.. woofels goes woof woof woof and sings a long.. woof! woof!

[@lindsayc7720]

Love this comment!

[@mbejmbej5668]

@@lindsayc7720 I think your childhood was bliss as well 😅

[@ZoeJ0Y]

Blossom margarine, you can put it on anything!

[@marshabell6372]

The good old days when we still had water and electricity.

[@skoodyjuice]

I'm pretty sure you meant to say "the good old days when we still had signs saying whites and non whites"

[@amandalouw2295]

Safe water and electricity

[@noseydaveman9940]

S P the government is better back then, way better and that’s a fact. Has nothing to do with racism

[@christobosman5710]

@@skoodyjuice yes why would I of a culture that don't multiply like rabbits stand in a line with a culture that believe in big families ,it should be my cultures previlige to be served quicker than that of a culture that has no control of multiplying. That was the main reason of two separate lines ,I wish it will be done again ,maybe a certain culture would stop making babies they cannot provide for .

[@MVBfly]

... ... ... That was racist. And not only against black people.

[@simonmccourt675]

Yahoo!!CITI GOLF..GREAT CARS.The center Mr Venter..great

[@airzulu2733]

Kentucky fried rounders now that's bringing back memories lol.

[@Helgardt6189]

And they were really big…not the mini rounders you get now.

[@1974spinderella]

City golf totally sold on just Advertising their Kwai colours lol.. N we all love it still!!!

[@davesouthwick970]

The late Ian Dury and/or Madness should have sued VW for misappropriating their image & sound 😏

[@jessijacobs8]

Wow this took me way back!! 👏👏

[@matthewmortimer1674]

Love the RED, YELLOW, BLUE

[@evoqgaming3783]

NO GREEN

[@LitoGeorge]

Its in the centre Mr Venter! Gosh, legend :):):)

[@petertlouane7068]

I wish the cigarettes adverts were on that clip, Gunston, Camel (The taste ) Rothmans King Size(Really satisfies) and the BMW mouse advert and Honda Ballade( Quality is the lasting impression). Found some on the archives for Springbok Radio

[@alphaomega3499]

Rothmans extra length, fine taste and the best tabocco money can buy gives you full king-size flavour. Rothmans king-size really satisfies. All over the world, men rate Gunston great. Camel: I was walking through the thick jungle of Borneo...

[@louisvanderwath8536]

good old days

[@danielcoetzee5793]

LOL Those people who installed green toilets and baths from Italtile have all been "renovating" again in the 90's....!

[@sindileziki447]

5 kg automatc washing machine for R899, can we go back please.... :(

[@therealmdhw]

At 6:46, that old man is throwing back the Frisbee upside-down. Like that's going to fly...

[@shmuli9]

There was the same "Finesse" advert on US TV, so I suspect they just did a voice-over for different countries.

[@WayneKitching]

I was little when the ad aired and didn't pay much attention to it. Now I think the girl is hot.

[@shmuli9]

@@WayneKitching Indeed. She is sort of a cross of of Olivia Newton-John and Kim Cattral.

[@mvondrau]

Do you have any of the Melrose Cheese ads from the 80's. The Slogan was, "Oh Boy, Mum Remembered Melrose!".

[@jimbojims]

Wow what a flashback What about the Tex bar advert? And my favourite the rascals sweets ad lol

[@waterbeing3197]

Rascals...the candy coated fruity pops with flavor that never stops!

[@juanborrego7421]

I never seen these adverts during the Apartied!

[@Helgardt6189]

Where were you ? On the moon ?🤔

[@Helgardt6189]

Apartheid NOT Aparthied.

[@juanborrego7421]

@Helgardt6189 Oops sorry I Misspelled the word?

[@alphaomega3499]

You have an uncle in the furniture business... (complete the phrase)

[@MickVisser]

Joshua Doore

[@hazelgulwa3355]

Remember the bic ad. My childhood 🥹

[@luisfernandomendezvargas5856]

I’m from Colombia and I want to live in SA

[@ranielpangilinan727]

The song Hard Times was made in South Africa before Paramore.

[@apeculiarmingvase3800]

South African English sounds a lot like a mix of British and Australian.

[@alphaomega3499]

I'd say like a cross between New Zealander and Dutch

[@marialovespalmtrees]

Kentucky rounders taste nothing like they did 35 yrs ago. They were the best thing on earth!

[@YankeeNationalist]

The Volkswagen one was so 80s

[@silvercloud1276]

Koffiehuise and Frisco, always love them both !

[@mthokozisithabethe6885]

1987

[@1710Mel]

I bought the Blue Citi Golf.

[@YuusukeOnodera]

6:34 Matchmaker, Matchmaker, So easy to choose!

[@paulfreed6394]

Anyone remember "EGGs...give you the edge" in the saloon?

[@user-tf2dt2hk8l]

''Spaniards, ey?'' Fuck, I died.

[@michellek601]

I always thought the voice for the toothpaste guy wasn't his....

[@jasonwilliams9485]

Ahhh… The times before civilization died in South Africa.

[@tribalpeacock]

Stuff your civilization! This is black Africa... Whether you approve or not

[@jasonwilliams9485]

​@@tribalpeacock Approve? I've never been there, and I don't plan on ever being there so, I don't care what you do with yourselves...

[@tribalpeacock]

@@jasonwilliams9485 then why even comment on us? You do you and let us be.

[@jasonwilliams9485]

@@tribalpeacock Because I am a free man, who lives in a free country, and I comment on anything I please...

[@christobosman5710]

@@tribalpeacock it means bush for you ,so why are you still in the cities and towns ,your homelands are waiting for you

[@alphaomega3499]

Lexington, Gunston, Camel. Remember those?

[@johnazhderian5734]

There was a time Detroit USA was a great city. There was a time when South Africa was a great country. Unfortunately, the keyword is "was."

[@ubaidullahellahi8177]

Ja it was a great country for whites who assumed they were superior, however the new south Africa is great and better for people of colour

[@johnazhderian5734]

@@ubaidullahellahi8177 Both Detroit and South Africa are seen major economic declines.

[@ubaidullahellahi8177]

@@johnazhderian5734 we might be in a current period of economic decline it's not as if the apartheid era didn't get to experience this issue, however the current south Africa is still a better place for people if colour

[@rockysablue]

@@ubaidullahellahi8177 well it was supposed to be. However the ANC is just a corrupt party of elites that cream off the business of SA. The people in the townships are no better off. The police fail, the Army, all national businesses. All because of corruption. Yet the ANC are still in power. Mandela would not be happy with what this country has become.

[@ubaidullahellahi8177]

@@rockysablue the ANC is still in power as they still enjoy the support of the voters such as myself, no doubt their are greedy and corrupt individuals within the anc, however to state that people in the townships which is an apartheid scar are worse of is incorrect as if you compare the townships of the apartheid era to the present democratic one more people now have decent home with running water, sewage and electricity, their is more infrastructure and jobs, the townships of the apartheid era were just labour camps for cheap labour in the cities and mines, the only characteristic of townships in the present era which is the same as the apartheid era is that it is still a centre of poverty and inequality

[@nevilleprinsloo]

OH my sack, a walk down memory lane!!

[@raytheron]

The problem with white SA accents is that there is no single one; it all depends on where the speaker is from: those in Gauteng speak differently from those in Natal, whose accent again differs from that of the Western or Eastern Cape. On top of that those of us who grew up Afrikaans have a different accent again, and even then it also differs according to where we grew up. SA English IS closer to Standard English, I agree, but not so close that I have ever been mistaken for an Englishman! LOL

[@chloe7seven22]

Totally agree. The accent closest to Brits is if you went to a private school, preferably in the Eastern Cape where the 1820 settlers landed - those English there are quite pedantic about pronunciation. I was a brownie and a girl guide there and we were clipped over the fingers when we misspronounced and I wasn't even in a private school. You're 100% correct.

[@jellothere]

Ray Theron why is that a problem?

[@waterbeing3197]

Ray Theron Awe my bru dis dydelik

[@chloe7seven22]

@@jellothere Yeah Jenine I'm starting to get confused here to. What does anything here matter at all? We all sound weird to everybody else. Good cheer to you girl

[@Helgardt6189]

Good old days when you still had white tv ads.

[@Josh-Kai2626]

I owned a blue and white city golf

[@TheCheeseandrice1]

"Check no cheese, China.....!!"

[@Helgardt6189]

What happened to Steak House Melts ? Gosh i miss those.😢

[@emmacassidy8482]

They're just like british adds in the 80's

[@brucesmith6942]

Dooby Dooby dooo.... Rofl. Brilliant!

[@WayneKitching]

The one germ in 6:02 looks like the poo emoji!

[@sreyasdesai4865]

I like the tennis ad

[@robertisham5279]

A shadow of its former self.

[@sunsetsun-qt3uw]

I search the olhssonns beer ad i dont know if exist ,im from Argentina and in the 90s ,we had many cans of that beer

[@kmakiable]

I remember very well, I was still a lighty though

[@breizhcatalonia1993]

it seems that english was more used than afrikaans on the commercials, right? because I have searched for them and i can't find anyone.

[@4exgold]

2 of my favourite ad series were for Bar-One and Cremora, sadly not in this compilation.

[@Elixir404]

" Its not inside its on top" :D

[@sreyasdesai4865]

finesse is cool

[@knokkelmann1]

were rhodesian tv adverts same as the ones from sa? these countries were similar to each other right?, or at least the cultures of the white population in both countries were? thanx. greets form poland

[@tribalpeacock]

I think you mean Zimbabwe... Rhodesia was a symbol of colonial domination

[@kmfw72]

No, Rhodesia got TV in 1960, South Africa only got it in 1976 with advertising starting only in 1978. Plus Rhodesia faced sanctions earlier so many products weren't on sale there.

[@Alainmontpellier1000]

@@tribalpeacock I think you mean Rhodesia... Zimbabwe is a symbol of a failed state.

[@airzulu2733]

Not forgetting the SAA ads fly SAA where know ones s stranger. Now it's all gone . And at that time SAA were in the top 4 of airlines in the world

[@Sabundy]

It's hard to now believe SAA was ever a top airline

[@JacanaProductions]

Remember some of these ads were just modified US ads.

[@fuwa9616]

Europeans created these ad agencies, and even in the 90s, when there was no more laws, Europeans still couldn't find africans capable of working this job. Its 2022, those ad agencies are gone and there are still no africans in South Africa ads.

[@Guusje1983]

1:11 looks like some electric shocks

[@ingedagte]

Ongelooflik, ek het al vergeet ek ken hierdie advertensies. Iewers vêr in my brein weggebêre...

[@ZoeJ0Y]

Goodyear tyres!

[@threetowers5695]

so Christmas came around and an argument arose about my sanity, any1 remember an ad about butter and a maintenance guy spreading butter on a table corner and taking a bite out of it? it was on tv and magazines.

[@chica476]

Rhodesian farmers face the same consequences in Zimbabwe today - and like you said, most have moved to other countries like Nigeria or Kenya where the gov't allows them to build agricultural monoliths while paying little or taxes.

[@mangarda]

In surprised that they're all in English. Don't they speak Afrikaans more than English there? Or is it like, they use English on TV, and Afrikaans at home?

[@jackmacfakie1387]

Black South Africans refused to learn Afrikanns. The advertisers were pragmatic and put the ads in English.

[@sljenneker]

Anyone got the Virginia! Virginia - the wine to enjoy??

[@ihsanmodak3916]

Whatever happened to Mentadent P Such a great toothpaste with Zinc Citrate...don"t see it in the shops anymore

[@lholland2416]

Don't know about you lot but the Clown on the Bic ad scared the shit out of me think l'd have stabbed him with that pen if he had come near me when l was a kid lol

[@kadirbalic9089]

L Holland

[@Phippsta]

That Koffiehuis song is catchy! :D Is scary that it's the only advert to feature a single black person in a Black majority country mind!

[@4exgold]

ahead of their time in Apartheid SA realising that black people also had TVs and also liked instant coffee

[@Phippsta]

Ohh, scary, as in how 10% of the population suppressed 90%, by denying them any chance of human rights/ representation, including the right to vote. Then again, I wouldn't imagine you would like the fact that you, the minority, is no longer ruling the roost.

[@tobiej.v.vuuren2076]

Phippsta Appartheid has been over for 20 years now Whites and Blacks have equal rights now. The government is mostly black and the population too. We all generally get along peacefully day to day

[@Moneytane1976]

By the late 80s they were trying to mainstream blacks, and the worst apartheid rules were gone. This is Botha De Klerk era and Blacks drinking coffee was hardly Zulu Inkatha. Besides, they probably drank coffee too.

[@cory8606]

On the black language channels they had black actors on commericals

[@czerpinska]

Morkels!!!

[@mthokozisithabethe6885]

The Mobil Garage advert was a good musical sadly it's not featured

[@martinengelbrecht5384]

I am looking for the Kodak advert a monster man comes into a shop and the whole shop shakes. Please help me find the advert.

[@ezioauditoredafirenze2779]

actualy the south african white south african accent of today sounds different of the white south african accent from a the 60's-90's it sound actualy a little british but i dont mind

[@robertisham5279]

How did it change?

[@brianackerman879]

Ek soek daardie ou Strepsils ad met Dracula. My gat afgeskrik to ek n laaitie was lol

[@yaghiyahbrenner8902]

hahhaa second that.

[@dixonpeters6884]

Advertisements: tricking people to want stuff they don't need

[@markbewlay6622]

Your 2 year guarantee strore.. 😅

[@karolynko]

Steak house melts look interesting, I bet they were messy as hell. & like my beloved hot pockets I'm sure there is danger of volcanic lava burning the roof of the mouth!

[@WayneKitching]

They were hugely disappointing. They only had a thin cheese layer, none of the oozing cheese like on the packaging and ads.

[@karolynko]

@@WayneKitching that's a bummer, I'll stick with hotpockets then haha!

[@Helgardt6189]

They became smaller and smaller over the years…and then vanished from the shelves.😢

[@moosakajee2585]

Should read "and parts were of unbreakable quality. Sorry for the typo error.

[@chica476]

hopefully Orania will inspire a true Boer Freestate.

[@shmuli9]

Hoekom nie 'n Boere-staat in Antarktika instel nie?

[@airzulu2733]

I used to like the Jik ad .