South Africa - Strikes - Durban - 1973

The Durban strikes of 1973 filmed by the cameras from Thames Televisons 'This Week' programme. Mainly black South African's working at the Coronation brick and tile factory went out on strike to try and get an increase in their already pitiful wage shaking the political establishment when the strkes started to spread.
First shown: 15/03/1973
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[@jacoslabbert8738]

Just a note. Nothing is left of the South African textile production.

[@izeesh]

Buddy, may I with your permission of course point out that all things are made in China.

[@felixmbandandayitabi4536]

You are welcome to go back to Holland or France.

[@christobosman5710]

@@felixmbandandayitabi4536 no why should we , we won this country in wars , what did you do ?

[@PhansiKhongoloza]

​@@felixmbandandayitabi4536as are you welcome to return to Nigeria!

[@felixmbandandayitabi4536]

@@PhansiKhongoloza you know so little that you didn't got my country right. Anyway, during the Struggle, I was active and I worked for the ANC and Umkhoto in Bologna, Italy. I am from the Congo

[@IHBERWIUHBDSAJ]

And now a South African man is now the richest person in the world! And arguably the most influential person in the world!

[@jacoslabbert8738]

Who is feeding you with this lies? Who is your riches man in the world?

[@IHBERWIUHBDSAJ]

@@jacoslabbert8738 Why Elon Musk of course!

[@Xara_K1]

Shows u how profitable apartheid was for whites

[@nerevarinenwah3690]

​@@IHBERWIUHBDSAJ Right, the slaver with the apartheid emerald mine

[@IHBERWIUHBDSAJ]

@@nerevarinenwah3690 That was his dad. Elon Musk and his mom emigrated to Canada with almost nothing.

[@crystallittle5083]

Nice to see Mr Buthelezi. 😊

[@ambrociusmore8685]

i am indeed previledged to watch all these Videos

[@gerrald5272]

Times has truly Changed. The Durban of Today, is not the Durban of Yester years.

[@MrNDOYES]

Fortunatly !

[@dreamdiction]

@@MrNDOYES Everything in South Africa today is worse for everybody.

[@kznindaba2728]

@@dreamdiction You talking shit!!!!

[@dreamdiction]

@@kznindaba2728 You hate the fact that apartheid was better for everybody, today South Africa is the same as every other African country.

[@kznindaba2728]

@@dreamdiction Lies!!!I don't want to lie we did learn somethings from white people due to them colonizing the country but what I hate is hearing someone saying apartheid was better mentioning Black people, knowing exactly that we didn't like it and so many blacks were tortured and killed. If you said that on my face I would've fucked you up🤞🏾.I know I got anger problems but that statement would make everyone angry in my neighborhood-Glebelands,Umlazi.

[@Raw-Thunder]

I look at old videos of South Africa, and I reckon if you took away apartheid and all that shit, but kept the old government, I know it wouldn't be possible but if there were no racism I think we would be a 1st class country .

[@mukeshparbhoo636]

agree

[@Raw-Thunder]

@Pietje1 Puk1 the fuck ? Your sentence makes no sense my friend.

[@whydidtheballooneatthefox282]

Truth has been told

[@ecosseza4030]

ANC policies with old National Party leadership. Job done. First Class Country. But alas ,....ANC.

[@Edgel-in6bs]

Fucking hell, the whole of "old South africa" was based on racism, that is, enslaving entire populations to vastly benefit others on race.

[@bhekisisamazibuko1879]

The interpreter before Prince Buthelezi is so superb 👌🏾

[@keithzondi3583]

Mwelase, the speaker there was not Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi but his "cousin" (brother in our terminology) Bishop Manas Buthelezi.

[@bhekisisamazibuko1879]

At 20:45

[@AthieGovender]

The writing was on the wall but the authorities didn't read it well.

[@aemanakhtar8914]

Our holy Prophet says that " A black has no superiority over a white nor does a white has a superiority over a black except by piety and good deeds ". It hurts to see a war based on color 😔

[@rowanwatkins1580]

your holy prophet also encouraged the slaughter of millions

[@aemanakhtar8914]

@@rowanwatkins1580 If you don't have a proof please don't hurt someone with your words. I think your jesus has told you to hurt cuz he has died ( in your eyes) just because of your sins.

[@rowanwatkins1580]

@@aemanakhtar8914 www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx a detailed compilation of all the verses in the Quran encouraging violence against non-believers Islamic Conquest went on to kill millions over hundreds of years following the commands of the Quran which was written by muhammad

[@aemanakhtar8914]

@@rowanwatkins1580 I know my Quran better than you. These verses were revealed when the non-believers were harming Muslims. Read the other verses in which Allah has given us order to protect a human whether a believer or non believer ❤

[@rowanwatkins1580]

@@aemanakhtar8914 show them to me

[@cbjgdicad1]

Digging roads at that speed I'm surprised they get paid at all.

[@davidardisson7018]

Hi, what is the name of the man being interviewed 10 minutes in? Does he have any significance?

[@louvendran7273]

I'm not sure who he is. Even Buthelezi, this was before he sold out the Zulu nation. He is such an eloquent speaker such a pity what he did.

[@minenhlemakhanya219]

@@louvendran7273 how did he sell my people out??

[@louvendran7273]

@@minenhlemakhanya219 He made a pact with the Apartheid government to fight the ANC. Also KwaZulu was supposed to secede from the republic as part of Bantustan policy. He requested Richard's Bay which the Nats/fascists didn't want to part with as Rio Tinto's tax revenue was the highest in province. He declined after that. All areas that had Zulus who were significant affiliated to the ANC ended up in bloody Civil War. Ixopo, Richmond, Umgababa, the hostels and townships in the PWV etc. I have a lot of admiration for him because I was born in his reign, he is extremely, powerful, intelligent and charming but greed got in the way which led to the death of thousands. We could be killed in an outbreak at any time.

[@PhansiKhongoloza]

​@@louvendran7273Bullshit! Who told you that rubbish???? The split came when Dr Buthelezi stated that violence would achieve nothing. This statement angered the anc terrorist organisation. Mandela ordered the IFP be destroyed by force. The IFP were the victims of anc aggression. The rest is nothing but anc propaganda. Propagated by people such as yourself !

[@user-HALALTUBE1]

I wish it was better here

[@kenbird9017]

And now the whole lot are unemployed.

[@lisaaloune]

Rather die from hunger than live with humiliation in their own land…. At least they live with dignity and respected.

[@niccoarcadia4179]

@@lisaaloune Not really but I know what you mean, or trying to say. But because of idleness, no job, good people are turn to drugs and alcohol is big problem with no answer. No dignity in addiction. But they have freedom to choose to live or choose to die. That part I understand. But sad.

[@robertcarr4172]

Love the accents.

[@expose_massive_banking_crime]

they didnt pay school fees or medicine 1:25

[@felixyoghurt3291]

or rates or water

[@conradduplooy6570]

Because you couldn't invent guns neh. Kak funny how the excuses come up. You still use sticks

[@sheldon6786]

It is the cruel barely humans that invent instruments of death, Satans henchmen workers of evil. The Chinese invented black powered and used it for Fireworks. Europeans came and made it a weapon as Europe have been in war for Centuries. Cains kids fighting each other.

[@user-bv1gq3ki4i]

"The African is not a sophisticated man at this stage" WOW. lol lol

[@rohp1283]

Staggering

[@kenbird9017]

At any stage!! He has no employable skills in the vast majority.

[@krackhead84]

@@kenbird9017 hahahahah. TROLL!

[@krackhead84]

That got me too, the ignorance of the white supremacist is beyond comprenhension

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Right now drugs is big problem. Africa (SA) was slower than rest of world to be using dope. Now it is everywhere and I hate seeing positive people becomes negative people.

[@dineojennifer8233]

So the African is too simple a creature for European ways of doing things! An evolutionary lag, perhaps? Given the glacial rate of that process, the African probably still wallows there, in his pitiful pagan simplicity. I'm black, and take offence at this reminder of racist bigotry and cultural chauvinism that persist to this day, February 2021. Great footage though. Excellent archiving.

[@kentimmins9171]

First sentence of your reply is 100% accurate...look at SA in 2022!😂

[@Shola-tg6lv]

@@kentimmins9171 Bro thas racist

[@hlesko3254]

😂😂

[@siyaxaba3544]

These people were abused killed for nothing may god forgive them coz i fail to after hearing and seeing the segragation

[@harirajan4876]

Did the most black peoples in Durban speak Zulu?

[@SinakoMxabo]

Yes listening to the lady with 5 children in Clermont. The strike was bad

[@kznindaba2728]

Not most but all spoke isiZulu

[@louvendran7273]

@@kznindaba2728 Also Tamil.

[@rohp1283]

They did,and the current Black community are fluent in Zulu even if they don't speak it at work etc.

[@bee-sting]

​@@louvendran7273 😂😂😂😂 yeah right!

[@AmiUnhinged]

You mean, orange

[@siboniso4420]

We used sticks because you used guns and armored vehicles. The Irish also learnt to use guns😂

[@christobosman5710]

And who's fault was it that you didn't had the brains to develop guns ?

[@CorpusChristi-j8x]

The Irish could buy the guns. Zulus couldn't. Shonas and Ndebeles could which is why there was 15 years of war in Rhodesia

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

ONE WORLD ONE PEOPLE NO FRONTIERS!!!!

[@oldschoolcockneylover8138]

Yup lets have pedos have access to childrens areas and let convicted murderers in etc etc NO Frontiers as u say🎉

[@zigzag1947]

I really don't what we did to God,balugu taking chances all over the world to black plps

[@Alfovinable]

Who is the most evil race? The greedy? The heartless?

[@stanceteamrsassrsa7311]

Yah white people really were living the life hey

[@jeep19]

At least the white ones with money did, hard and fast. And now some of the poorer whites are living in shanty towns and squatter camps.

[@CorpusChristi-j8x]

Africans were not sophisticated due to Bantu education

[@user-zk8dy3sl5s]

Funny how just a few words turn pseudo scientific racism into a joke!

[@bee-sting]

African and European will never see eye to eye. Sorry, but it's the truth. We are all better off apart, in ur own spaces. I for one, hate oink folks, and akukho okuzoshintsha lokho. Njengoba nabo vele ngikholelwa wukuthi bayangizonda

[@robertcarr4172]

Shame man. Thats very sad you are so small minded.

[@bee-sting]

​@@robertcarr4172the small minded one is one who leaves his own space, goes around colonising people and raping brown skinned people just because they're better at everything, then turns around and says 'forget about it', without even apologising or even showing any sense of acknowledgement of wrongdoing

[@Shack01]

unions the downfall of this country

[@The.goat.of.football7-10]

😢😢😢black people have been through hell in their own land EFF is the answer my fellow Blacks Coz Mandela failed us and his ANC

[@francoisventer3875]

Eff is run by the white fundraiser and investors. Malema just a puppet

[@irishboer7124]

Been through nothing compared to the Irish.