South African Adverts Early & Mid Nineties

[@rianamohamed300]

We used to hate watching ads as they interrupted our program, but now we watch a clip with just ads 😂

[@050wickey]

So true lol

[@jcgeldenhuys2084]

But get irritated when the video gets interrupted by youtube adds.

[@jacquimunns2093]

Never happy hey ? 😜🤭😂

[@shelley-anneharrisberg7409]

True! 😂😂

[@carolinahenn3126]

And then later on we began to appreciate the ads for a quick sprint to the bathroom or kitchen😅

[@MuNky1022]

As a 90s kid I could remember every single one of these ads. Bang, right in the childhood.

[@theeverydayguyfrancobreott5798]

Ah😊 ... the good old 90,s... those were the good times... times when everything was in order and working properly...

[@bassmelodies1592]

Water ❤❤❤❤

[@caramazzola2399]

Good times for who, exactly?

[@Reeseseses]

​@caramazzola2399 I was born in 99. I have no idea how it was in the past so I make a habit of asking everyone. Black white Indian and coloured. And they all say the same thing. The only issue back then was the police brutality. Otherwise everyone was seen to. Propaganda is the reason we hate eachother so easily. Simpler times were in the past because technology has ruined life as we know it. If you can't see that as a world wide truth then you live with blinders on

[@bri1085]

Wouldn't even say it was great, just more optimistic times

[@ethembenioldagehome]

Brings back a lot of good memories. I never thought I would ever say that about a video compilation of adverts🤔🤣

[@tobelakonkwane4229]

It's ironic and sad how Musica did a 2020 ad in the 90's and actually being out of existence in 2020 💔

[@theblueexorcist8731]

What did they think wil happen with those prices in south Africa

[@Mjwara]

@@theblueexorcist8731 Together with the general changes with technology.

[@UWG3]

Yeah, Game is headed the same direction as well. Charging 1.5x or even twice the price of the same items other places sell is a good way of going under. I remember always checking Musica's PC and PS3 game prices back in the day but their stuff always stayed at full price 2 years later.🤦‍♂

[@theblueexorcist8731]

@@UWG3 Bt games was always cheaper than musica everything they sold was so overpriced we're I lived I had musica and CNA next to each other even the CNA prices was cheap lol

[@UWG3]

@@theblueexorcist8731 Yeah but I grew up arm and couldn't get to a BT outlet whenever I wanted. Only found out about BT Games around 2011-2012-ish but even if I knew still couldn't afford( or run🤣 ) the games so places like Musica, CNA and local tech shops that had branches everywhere was all I had access to.

[@winterblommetjie]

I still want a Parker pen...lol

[@ImadeUlook]

Me too 😂

[@leanelouw5455]

Jeez it takes me back! reminds me of the days where the doors could still stand open of your house.we played outside freely as kids should and buying groceries meant more bags than 1. Even the air outside was different. Blessed to have been apart of that era.

[@BugattiBoy01]

What changed

[@colmcgillveray1010]

When you could live in your racist paradise?

[@jackdoe3889]

Yeah? Above all the good ole times with no kaffers running around?

[@louiseventer6580]

​@@jackdoe3889Wow, somebody can't let old ways go. Thanks for using that word, even in my childhood (80's and 90's) I was not allowed to use that disgustingly degrading word. Not everyone is a racist...everyone calls for change, but they make sure there is no possibility for change.

[@jackdoe3889]

@@louiseventer6580 You are not the sharpest tool in the shed now are you? It was a sarcastic swipe at the "Good ole times" that person referred to.Even using the word "apart" (heid) Good ole times for the Boers, perhaps less good for the vast majority of the population. To have a Saffer refer to apartheid era as Good ole Times is as inappropriate as it would be for a German to say the same about the Nazi era. Now sit down, have a rethink and maybe it will dawn on you. Not holding my breath though.

[@RK-ln6kg]

Brings back memories. I always looked forward to these advertisements.

[@againstthemachine86]

So much creativity in the 90s.

[@GatsbyDen041]

Of all the ads, the Russells ad is bringing back the most nostalgia

[@sandystrauss6892]

Good memories.....when quality was still around.

[@CMONCMON007]

You brought back so many childhood memories that were so far back in my mind I completely forgot these ads but seeing them again just jolted back to me memory like seeing an old school mate after decades whose now a lot older

[@AntTheDogGuy]

some of those ads will be etched into my memory forever! But i cant believe there wasn't a Joshua Doore ad in there, it was one of the most iconic jingles ever, not good per say but iconic nonetheless, "You've got an Uncle in the furniture business, Joshua Doore" 🤣

[@EstelleBoy-sc2jm]

Lovely memories.

[@shanadelahaye1213]

These remind me that I'm old now! I'm also reminded of how white tv was back then!

[@fuwa9616]

Yeha, and it was also better, maybe there is a correlation when Europeans and Japanese control society and how nice it is.

[@ashleydavis7448]

Takes me back to dial phones, and when tv stopped broadcasting at 12😂

[@essie29cptsa]

How times have changed😉

[@johanrautenbach7459]

The accuracy of 2020 is uncanny

[@True_Blood_89]

There was so much to say about this video, but in all honesty the thing that stood out the most is the prices on that Russells commercial...that furniture will cost you an arm and a leg now

[@flymachine]

It’s nuts, feels like I watched these yesterday, truth be told though I was absent for many of these as it was my rebellious partying years. Thanks for the memories.

[@R34-q7h]

Ads back in the 90's seemed so cheesy but warm at the same time. Wow, miss those days life was simple.

[@thato596]

Ah yes 1990s were the best . Some advertisements i remember

[@ATHADEFTERO]

Good old days before the ANC effed up SA..

[@camischar3692]

Lol i remember the wood ad. Infact i remember them all .

[@AyaGumede]

Funny how I used to hate these so much and try avoid them, but now I spend hours watching old commercials on KZbin lol

[@jameswebster5672]

Paint companies advertised a lot!

[@flipster7285]

Was hoping to hear about my uncle in the furniture business!!! Realising how old I'm getting.....

[@carollakay2911]

Joshua Doore 😂

[@johangrey9420]

5:40 I thought the mayo ad narrator was gonna start crying 😂

[@skopp888]

😂

[@jeaninefeldtmann423]

Haha, in the Dulux ad I instinctively looked at the guy at the bottom of the screen as he jumped before the rest... Guess my Dulux trampoline OCD issues grew up with me 😂

[@Slippery_Pickle47.3]

Pity about the Dulux CEO passing away in 2021, he could of done with another coat 🙄

[@shaunchapman3915]

Can we just talk about Russles Sunday sale 😂 those prices are ridiculous in those days

[@LarioJoubert-mp8bh]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@melonie_peppers]

I'm pretty we still have that set in storage someware. I wonder if it works

[@Wizardofwords-g7v]

The old cars and number plates!

[@itsmeyoufool37]

Aah the days when you could actually watch your tv

[@annetteelliott1494]

Even with dstv now there is not much to get exited about except good sport now and then.....

[@MrRemmington]

I havent seem nor thought of the first advert since i was a kid. Now i recall why. It freaked me the f out as a kid.

[@jn8922]

The quality of the ads was so different. They were clever and memorable. You can see how values changed in South Africa. The ads these days are more narcisstic, less humorous and they don't focus on family values - they rarely tell stories we can relate to.

[@Lois-m4u]

First ad for the wood oil is so good.

[@Mjwara]

The Musica ad was so close to how 2020 would end up like, although they didn't know that the Covid pandemic would end up being a thing by then.

[@3dhotshot]

80's still the golden era !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iamagi]

For that apartheid vibe?

[@austrobok2958]

NO, they were funnier! @@iamagi

[@waltjie]

Beautiful good old days!!! ❤❤❤ SA still had electricity 😂 Imagine!

[@BobyourUncle]

Anyone else notice that a cheap hifi still costs the same in 2023 but furniture is 10X more expensive?

[@MrJBA79]

Double, not ten times. I just bought new beds and base sets and they were surprisingly reasonably priced.

[@dapperappel]

@@MrJBA79 Just checked. It's close to 7X more expensive for similar furniture as in this ad. Double is miles off mate. You sure you didn't buy plastic chairs at the Crazy Store?

[@MrJBA79]

@@dapperappel retailers are slitting one another's throats to get the cash. I refurnished my home for a song. I bet you my house looks better than yours because I don't look out at my furniture with regret. But by all means, go buy more shit you clearly can't afford and don't let me stop you.

[@jn8922]

You talking about furniture... I can still remember bread being R2 and tinned beans being 80 cents 😂😂😂 Remember when sms's first came out and were R2... Crazy to think how insane inflation is.

[@scribblecartoons4461]

90's South African ads are built different

[@ihatelife486]

They were built white.

[@d3bzvnzyl_12]

@@ihatelife486 and what does that mean? 🤣

[@OffGridInvestor]

I thought they were GOING TO sell ford falcons in south Africa but NEVER realised they ACTUAL DID! Good vehicle that can handle rough roads and hot weather. I've had several and currently drive a propane only version of the last shape (3rd last model).

[@Loneranger670]

In 2023 - Chickens don’t taste so good (anymore) cause they don’t eat so good (anymore) 😂😂

[@qu3592]

Been searching for a Bakers Eat Some More advert that aired between 1995 and 2000. I have the jingle in my head but I can't seem to remember the whole thing. I got fond memories of those days 🥲

[@Gasp665]

I want to find the original, "I want to be a Simba chippie" just so the wife understands why I sing it sometimes!

[@qu3592]

This one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qojPg5WFfL2MppIsi=ur1sEN4VFUGMjlvf

[@artvandelay1993]

2020 where we are in space but still use CD to listen music

[@Dominion-e2c]

Absolutely brilliant 😂❤😂❤

[@SoniaJbrt]

I remember watching the Parker Pen add and wishing I had R50 000 to buy my Dad a gold Parker Pen for Father's Day. Think I was 16 then. Still wish I had the money to buy a gold parker pen for my Dad. Don't think he knows it.

[@jn8922]

That's so sweet. I doubt anyone's dad wants a R50 000 pen (I know my dad would ask me why I wasted so much money on a pen 😂😂😂). You should tell your dad the memory of wanting to buy that for him when you were 16, it will probably mean a lot to him.

[@tanichiro]

its crazy to think how similar South African commercials are to Australian ones and to the untrained ear you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in accents

[@powsvalentine]

because of colonization

[@Gasp665]

Many ads are just voice overs of the same ad shown in many countries or just redone following the same script but local actors. Think the sunny sky's & Holden versus sunny skys & Chevrolet

[@AndreiTupolev]

Ford Falcon XR6? You learn something every day. I always thought it ended with XR4

[@popsicles2294]

It’s the yt people crying about the good old days in the comments for me 😭🤣

[@khanyi8512]

Fr

[@McChonk]

Never knew that race had anything to do with reminiscing about the past, keep your small minded comment to yourself 🥱

[@astrakruger282]

Bitter racists will never forgive the end of apartheid. Most of them want it back.

[@caramazzola2399]

As soon as I saw this video I knew the boere would be singing die stem in the comment section

[@eliasmatsoso6822]

@@astrakruger282the irony 😂

[@Richard-dt4ft]

There is something that these ads have in common.. they all stand apart yet are tied together somehow…

[@heucatia]

Lmao yes, by the whiteness.

[@samuelnkanyane4289]

If only Musica knew it would be closing it's doors in 2020.

[@newvision1964]

They've been trying to sell us stuff we don't need to impress people we don't like for as long as I can remember 😂😢

[@mikerilling6515]

Speak for yourself I need that Parker Pen and the roasted chicken put on my dinner table from a sweet grandma type

[@astrakruger282]

Back when South Africa still had borders, and the Home Affairs Department was not owned by Nigerian Criminal syndicates.

[@ihatelife486]

Instead it was own by European colonizers.

[@astrakruger282]

@@ihatelife486 better than being owned by criminal foreigners.

[@samhaine6804]

​@@ihatelife486 the dutch and bantu peoples began colonising south africa at the same time.

[@Spacekriek]

10:27... 2020, the festive season... Nie heeltemal nie. :)

[@aliservan7188]

Some of those ads were the stuff of nightmares

[@lawrencenannes4260]

Loved ur back in time memory trip❤🎉

[@blesner]

I was a kid during this time. The good old 90s. South Africa was the greatest place on the planet and now it is a festering cesspool.

[@kingmufasa8929]

I haven't watched TV in over 20 years. The ads are not all familiar

[@PrinceAlhorian]

These ads clock in closer to 30 years...

[@promise4599]

Ahhh… the good Ole days 🙌🏼

[@umaimabaig1511]

Awesome memories

[@radovend2023]

I remember the dolls one :)

[@Tars_1981]

The best times.

[@heucatia]

You misspelled white.

[@MrSmith77]

Cant believe how ‘White’…everything was 🤣

[@CMONCMON007]

Now you see ads they only cast black people

[@ihatelife486]

​@@CMONCMON007Rightfully so.

[@litote9]

@@ihatelife486 racist

[@heucatia]

Lol In Africa! The liberty of it all.

[@debbiearrow1334]

Proud to be a nineties baby...When the world was still in a better state

[@jonathandavis8599]

Same words have been uttered for generations.

[@debbiearrow1334]

@@jonathandavis8599 well I feel all generations were great, except the 21st century, the human race and technology is destroying mother earth

[@ocean-sg9br]

no it was not.

[@brandonroome1667]

@debbiearrow1334 It has been far worse than this 😂 many many times

[@user-fp6rn2km4i]

​@@debbiearrow1334you're part of the problem if you're calling it mother earth.

[@edwrickmoodley6179]

When everything was high quality but low res. Quality over resolution!

[@idreesemahomed403]

The best decade😍

[@clivepilusa7734]

This is the South Africa we want

[@ihatelife486]

Cry about it

[@deviantmoore9744]

You're never going to get it. Cry.

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

@@deviantmoore9744 Watching the Melanin enriched beg and fail as they always do wherever they are on Earth is a good runners up prize.

[@yorkshire_tea6875]

I was born in 2006 In the UK. Why was this recommended and more worrying why am watching it all?

[@peeps977]

Yes, the time children could be children and we had freedom in SA. Thank you NP and ANC

[@The_Darkest1]

Is it just me or is that for real Arnold Vosloo at 2:30? 😱😱😱 Just looks so much like him, but with hair

[@sekoaib]

Furniture was R1600 back in the day🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MarnusvdMerwe]

The 90’s were the best of times to be a kid!

[@lookforitcx]

Absolutely. Wish we could go back.

[@slut4luna]

unless you were a black person right

[@MarnusvdMerwe]

​@@slut4luna Cannot speak for black kids, however, I assume it would be good as well. Apartheid over, access to world class schools, quality infrastructure, little corruption. Somewhat better than Government services now.

[@moonstone3578]

​@@slut4lunastop always complaining don't you get tired of being a victim all the time?

[@khanyi8512]

@@MarnusvdMerwethat wasn’t the case from most to all black or poc kids in the 90s tho…

[@jarednaidoo2829]

Good old days when a 4 piece and corner table cost R1499🥲

[@Mndranam]

10:25 is supposed to be us rn😢 we've not commercialized extraterrestrial travel 😅

[@gurbudurk9713]

"where we push our rubber to the limit." - Viagra motto

[@libumbelufundo6118]

😂 I’m guessing Africans didn’t exist back then. Damn

[@user-fp6rn2km4i]

They did, they just lives separately and didn't make anything.

[@lindz3695]

​@@user-fp6rn2km4i You know they were excluded on purpose.

[@user-fp6rn2km4i]

@@lindz3695 so what?

[@user-fp6rn2km4i]

@lindz3695 if I come to your house are you going to let me come live with you?

[@lindz3695]

@user-fp6rn2km4i So stop waking up every day, angry that Africans are free in Africa. 😆 lol.....I mean, really.

[@KrugerFS]

Wil net terug gaan vir daardie pryse XD

[@TheDominoeffect27]

Hey OP, any idea where to find an archive of these old ads? I'm looking for an ad that was made for the 1999 cricket world cup. In it there were representatives for each country, my dad played the Australian 😅. The VHS tape is long since lost

[@Gasp665]

Sorry no. These just happen to be on old VHS tapes I rediscovered while cleaning out a cupboard & still had my Phillips Stereo VHS player to see whats on them. I have see other SA advert listings on KZbin. Am sure someone will rip off some of my entries & add it to theirs. Such is the KZbin way these days.

[@super86brandon]

I grew up in the 90s on the other part of the world. In comparison these commercials are very cute (but the good year one, we had the exact same one) compared to our straigh-into-your-face style. They’re very creative but well.. we had probably more black people in ads despite our country being maybe 98% white at the time.

[@fullstop15]

Russells proud furniture supplier to the orkney snorknie film set.

[@arkuis]

The Musica add set in 2020 feels a bit ominous for them, they become defunct in 2021 following the 2020 COVID pandemic.

[@craignaidoo202]

The golden years 👏

[@leesmith2300]

Yeah .the good old days.🎉🎉🎉

[@ericvermeulen9853]

Selling a writing pen like a Ferrari 😂😂

[@cliffordelbourne4995]

Today all i see is Insurance adds and bloody alcohol adds.

[@cloudstrife8791]

At 1 point everything was lottostar and dot/pet-sure. Kinda tragic

[@MatthewDuminy]

I cannot find the Buffalo Herbs and Spices one anywhere!! Does anyone have a link??

[@uubee4443]

I'd never go to the beach and put that stuff on my wood

[@heucatia]

🤣

[@AirWolfAT6]

That furniture from Russell's made me nauseous.

[@ryanabel4027]

The same feeling i get when i watch the ads of today😂😂😂😂

[@renchiaarendse3042]

Nostalgia

[@Helgardt6189]

Have anyone noticed how the tv ads today is just BBBEE ? it’s enough to make you sick.

[@belteshazzarinbabylon6047]

The last glory days of South Africa

[@kabelomakanatlengsundra456]

Apartheid is the glory day ????😂😂

[@_BBAGG_]

​@@kabelomakanatlengsundra456the segregation was pretty kak, but you can't deny that the 90's was pretty much the last time our Economy was actually thriving

[@kabelomakanatlengsundra456]

@@_BBAGG_ economy wise, yeah. But, this isnt just segregation we're talking about here. These are the dark ages for every other race than white people.

[@belteshazzarinbabylon6047]

@@kabelomakanatlengsundra456 Yup. South Africa was one of the top nations in the world economically, technologically, militarily etc etc. Now it is a joke just like all African nations because Africa has an average IQ of 65-75 whereas Europe and Europeans have an average IQ of 100-105. Letting people of 75 IQ run a country built by people who are of 100IQ results in what we see today. A banana republic where black people cant make it unless government gives them endless handouts and advantages to try to uplift them. Like BEE etc etc.

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

@@kabelomakanatlengsundra456 Clearly

[@MrCites1]

Now they likely don’t have TV in South Africa

[@Leehuss5582]

Notice the colour of the SUN, to GenZers THAT was what we saw what YOU see is not the sun..

[@chrysiedontknow]

This was when South Africa was still a nice place to stay in

[@forevertheaii]

If you had the r(W)ight skin colour.

[@chrysiedontknow]

@@forevertheaii and if you colored the same thing

[@chrysiedontknow]

It was just that black people was affect with apartheid it was coloured black and indain , so keep your damn word for yourself and apartheid it over 30 years ago 😒 and now the coloured people are treated like dogs voetstek man

[@roshannaidoo3792]

I think the skin colour comments will always come from the ones who actually never grew up in the 80s. The problem is the youth of these days listen too much to politicians who will always hang on to apartheid era of what I'm assuming was bad in the 50s 60s 70s etc...but 80s was a game changer. Even if you ask elder black folk they will also say it was a much better time. Jobs were plenty, crime was at an all time low, education was top notch. As an Indian I can assure that even though we couldn't get a director position but also at a general worker wage it was enough to have a mother stay at home look after the kids and still not worry about going hungry. It was still enough to basically live carefree. The 80s will always be something that only the ones who actually lived through it and living through today's society will know the difference in quality of life. The main difference is money was never a problem in the 80s if you didn't like a certain job leave it and another was waiting for you. You had choices, fair enough non whites couldn't get the top CEO position but they still were fortunate enough to run a household without ever worrying where next month's rent is gonna come from. So if you think today brings you freedom then talk to people who were blessed to live through the 80s. Now that was freedom. So before listening to a politician listen to your elders.

[@Slippery_Pickle47.3]

@@roshannaidoo3792 and that environment forced many Indian people to start their own businesses and be their own CEOs. Much like the BBBEEE policies of the day have forced many white people to work for themselves. The white population has gotten proportionally richer due to this, and it would appear that those negatively affected the most, are those the legislation alleges to uplift. The thing I think we’ve lost the most since “freedom” is a sense of community, when people looked after their neighbours. No everyone build high walls to insulate their homes from the outside community. And your neighbours getting robbed is none of your concern, as long as you’re safe. A pervasive spirit of Kaliuga has infected our society on every level. And the love and kindness of many has grown cold, in order to serve self ambition. 🤔

[@nicovandermerwe2747]

Imagine buying an expensive pen

[@jacobgeorge3142]

Does anyone remember a tropika juice ad with a camel? Please send link of clip

[@janrdoh]

Add block seems to be faulty, I just watched 12 minutes of adds.

[@llewandelport5921]

Any chance you have the pinenut(soda drink) advert

[@flipster7285]

Don't forget the Fresca ads.....

[@Karen-ig6bp]

Gee ons Nog! Toe!

[@shaloam93]

that Musica ad. Shame