Two Times I Escaped Being MURDERED in Africa

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  • @serpentza
    @serpentza  3 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    I am incredibly grateful for your generous support, you're indescribably Awesome!
    My father's Channel: th-cam.com/users/survivingafrica
    For the full unedited live-stream with a big Q&A session, here's the link (it's unlisted):
    th-cam.com/video/dtSYCaYmWIs/w-d-xo.html

    • @bigfotpeesonyoutube9647
      @bigfotpeesonyoutube9647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@i-vlog1994 It's almost like blaming somebody for the actions of another person is wrong, fullstop.
      That also goes for blaming all White South Africans for Apartheid.
      And anyway, it's definitely not White South Africans making hell for the Black people there right now.
      And if White people DO leave or all get killed in South Africa, mark my words that De Beers WILL leave and so will a lot of other industry.
      It will become Zimbabwe.

    • @bendeleted9155
      @bendeleted9155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Winston, do you see parallels between the ANC types in Johanesberg and the "leadership" in big "D" cities like Flint and Detroit here in the U.S?

    • @BobbyGeneric145
      @BobbyGeneric145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Winston, if you start a gofundme to get your parents out I'd gladly contribute.

    • @captaindeliciouspants8315
      @captaindeliciouspants8315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@i-vlog1994 ok Nazi

    • @captaindeliciouspants8315
      @captaindeliciouspants8315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bigfotpeesonyoutube9647 I think you meant to say Wakanda

  • @DigitalDuelist
    @DigitalDuelist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +723

    I dated a girl from Johannesburg in my 20's. Her mom had the craziest stories! Talking about getting randomly sniped at while in cabs or taking birth control so she wouldn't get pregnant if raped.

    • @JJW83641
      @JJW83641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      😳

    • @hillarysudeikis2264
      @hillarysudeikis2264 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Anyone who thinks the Name of Lord Jesus Christ is a joke, boldly mocks and scorns Him or takes pleasure in people who do is in for a big unpleasant surprise on judgement day IF they don’t repent and follow Lord Jesus Christ. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝️💜❤️✝️!
      Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget!
      So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen.

    • @chrystianaw8256
      @chrystianaw8256 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      😥

    • @chandrakant9085
      @chandrakant9085 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      God, I hope they are fine. Why even live in such a country

    • @Gunship888
      @Gunship888 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blacks are just like that. Move away from them.

  • @sidoniomarscalle9828
    @sidoniomarscalle9828 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    My recent Uber driver was from Somalia, he said he drove taxi in South Africa and had to leave because it was too dangerous. This is a man who comes from Somalia and he even was shocked by the violence and crime, it must be horrible there.

    • @ludwigsamereier8204
      @ludwigsamereier8204 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Why didn´t he return to his former, peaceful Somalia?

    • @juicykindess3129
      @juicykindess3129 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ludwigsamereier8204lol good question

    • @merkasable
      @merkasable 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@ludwigsamereier8204 why would he? To have been in a bad situation and witnessing something worse doesn't take away the severeness of the former

    • @kaliramg
      @kaliramg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@ludwigsamereier8204this is a meaningless comment

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@ludwigsamereier8204
      Does your brain only operate in twos or are you able to understand that one situation being less horrible than the other doesn't equate to the first being a "good" situation. There IS severity involved. There can also be other options as opposed to the two presented.
      You people really need to work on your logic. It's embarrassing how primitive your reasoning skills are.

  • @pawel8365
    @pawel8365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    I lived in Randburg, Johannesburg until 2001 in exactly the way you described: 2 meter walls, electric fences, 24 hour security, iron bars, spiked fences, the lot. However the ultimate security measure was to simply pack up and leave. Haven't been back in 20 years....

    • @janetmcdonough9998
      @janetmcdonough9998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I tried go and had a failed immigration and landed back in Joburg with no money and only my handbag.

  • @Illuminated7
    @Illuminated7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I’ve lived in South Africa and I’ve got plenty of stories of escaping and observing death. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in Joburg or Capetown the danger is very real.

  • @commander31able60
    @commander31able60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1311

    "they didn't know how a revolver works" reminds me of the story of Rhodesian soldiers finding FALs with iron sights set to 1000m because their users thought it would "shoot harder".

    • @osakablinladen
      @osakablinladen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      sos

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      I keep hearing stories of people holding the mag and shooting full auto to hit something 50+m away...
      Maybe, we should supply them with sensitive explosives. LOL.

    • @bensons999
      @bensons999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I remember reading about that. Turn it up to 11!

    • @datboi3577
      @datboi3577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I'm surprised they knew how to adjust the sights

    • @ruinedrx8
      @ruinedrx8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Same thing happened with the AK’s in the Middle East lol. And I don’t remember what force it was that got ahold of m16s/m4s but they held the forward assist down to get more accuracy when in reality it was grinding down the bolt carrier

  • @loquatmuncher
    @loquatmuncher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2282

    I visited Joburg a couple years ago. The day after I arrived, I decided to go for a stroll around the neighborhood. I remember thinking it was odd that there were so many barbed wire fences in an otherwise pristine and normal looking neighborhood. I thought "hmm must be remnants of pre-apartheid days". Then I noticed that I literally had not seen another person traveling on foot for the past 45 minutes that I had been walking. At that point, I started to feel uneasy. But my naive self just thought, "maybe people just dont like to walk around here". I eventually got to a cemetery and wanted to walk around inside (I have a weird fascination with cemeteries), but the person at the front wouldn't let me wander without a guard escort. He said there were bandits who liked to hang around near the back. In hindsight I feel like I was lucky to have returned home unscathed.

    • @TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55
      @TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +686

      Bro..
      Work on your situational awareness.

    • @loquatmuncher
      @loquatmuncher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      @@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 lol...yeah i def should.

    • @busking6292
      @busking6292 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      Same thing,I used to walk around Rondabosch CT in my naivety thinking this is a nice area and wondering why every house had 7ft spiked walls and heavy-duty electric gates,apparently house break-ins are very common and in a lot of cases involve rape and murder.

    • @RuiLuz
      @RuiLuz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I have to tell you, there is nothing better than taking a stroll in places you dont usually go, even if it's dangerous, you always have a story to tell, ahahaha.

    • @takitezy7
      @takitezy7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      1 month later... are you still living there? Anything happen? Updates?

  • @Goldenskittlee
    @Goldenskittlee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    I was almost killed in SA as a baby, thankfully my father managed to escape the boot of a car. I'm happy to be in the UK now.

    • @louissanderson719
      @louissanderson719 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I know loads of white South Africans in the UK, their stories are very similar to Winston’s, or know people who have experienced it. Glad you’re out. My SA neighbours have just got UK citizenship

    • @Gunship888
      @Gunship888 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I know lots as well. Whites are targeted so heavily and the gov doesn’t protect them anymore. Very dangerous place for whites

    • @Lilliz91
      @Lilliz91 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It’s crazy cuz media is completely quiet about this

    • @ldt8904
      @ldt8904 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your father is a ninja 🥷

    • @braddo7270
      @braddo7270 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well youre very welcome here and I'm glad you're safe 🙏

  • @AgrippaMaxentius
    @AgrippaMaxentius ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I never get tired of hearing this story and I often come back just to watch it. My mom grew up in Mozambique and Malawi and she heard of things like this occuring to other Portuguese people. I have yet to visit Africa, really do want to go one day but stories like this and others always keep me very wary. Thank god your dad is such a badass and that Napoleon was around.

  • @sophsan
    @sophsan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1198

    Living in South Africa, you always have to be on your guard, no matter where you are or what you're doing. I rarely go out alone as a woman because I just feel unsafe. Here, it's common to invest in firearms for self-defense, but there has been stories of the government wanting to change the law to prohibit firearms for the purpose of self-defense... Nothing makes any sense anymore. Can't wait to get out after I finish my studies.

    • @tbone9803
      @tbone9803 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would fucking swim to Europe if I lived there. Fuck that. I can't imagine imagine being a white woman there

    • @alpark3024
      @alpark3024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      dont wait to finish your studies, get out ASAP. Your life is more important than school

    • @triggeredlonda4317
      @triggeredlonda4317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your colonizer go back to uk South Africa is for black people enough colonization

    • @What-go8ng
      @What-go8ng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      if you relax then you pay the tax

    • @mmyz7
      @mmyz7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@alpark3024 well, I wouldn't say that. You don't know her situation. To me, it sounds like it's unsafe, but if she's almost done with her study, it wouldn't make sense to waste all of the time and money she put into it if it's not so dangerous that she hasn't been harassed sexually many times. Just likely enough for her to want her to leave. However, I don't know either.

  • @lynne3895
    @lynne3895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2131

    I left SA 3 years ago so I can relate to everything your say, and it's all true. People don't understand how bad things are there... Nothing you say is exaggerated, quite the opposite.

    • @jm-je4tl
      @jm-je4tl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Where are you now? Australia?

    • @weetbix4497
      @weetbix4497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I'm seriously glad for you

    • @lynne3895
      @lynne3895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@jm-je4tl In the UK now

    • @jm-je4tl
      @jm-je4tl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@lynne3895 happy for you. Was your departure based on a physical harm that happened to you?

    • @intboom
      @intboom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@jm-je4tl if it was, she'd probably not be able to depart due to being in the ground

  • @kerriatid
    @kerriatid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    My family moved to Zambia when I was a little girl. My father was responsible for building residential schools for the UN. He had to leave the country when his mother died. Our guard tricked my Mom one night, and the power to our home was cut and they attacked us. We survived, although my mom never fully recovered from the emotional trauma.

    • @mwanakaaba1721
      @mwanakaaba1721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Where in Zambia did you have that experience? We don't have high crime rate problem in Zambia.

    • @jw-vx8im
      @jw-vx8im 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was the attack in SA

    • @mwanikimwaniki6801
      @mwanikimwaniki6801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@mwanakaaba1721 The attack wasn't in Zambia as the story suggests

    • @dinos9607
      @dinos9607 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very sad to hear about this happening to your family. Back then it was not known, as European people were misinformed by leftist leaning propagandists' mumbo jumbo hakuna matata when in reality is can be a dangerous place. Not all countries, not all regions, but a considerable part of the continent is like that so one has to be well informed. I would never bring wife or kids in any African country, there is too much danger. These societies are "under construction" so there where all is quiet and peaceful can see a sudden eruption of extreme violence. In Africa only European men of higher testosterone levels and right wing political views can survive - those who treat the locals with "distant respect" and from a superiority position, these are the ones respected by the locals. The rest will be eaten alive. In most African cultures there are no "equal relations", you are either on top or to the bottom. So as a European man since I am the most responsible I'd rather be on top than be to the bottom having to deal with irresponsible men and criminals.

    • @GasPipeJimmy
      @GasPipeJimmy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@mwanikimwaniki6801 how would you know?

  • @bobwallace9364
    @bobwallace9364 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    I can’t imagine the raw rage I would feel if my mother was ever subjected to what you’ve described. Any amount of fear I would have would be drowned out by sheer rage.

    • @agingerbeard
      @agingerbeard ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Yup, she's not even my mom and my blood is ready.

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I would instead be effective

    • @frgv4060
      @frgv4060 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nothanks9503What an idiotic thing to say.

    • @lisas44
      @lisas44 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You're a good son.

    • @amberg4131
      @amberg4131 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wonder how your opinions changed with these power issues and corruption that are going on 2023

  • @DeZ556
    @DeZ556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    I cannot imagine the feeling of working with a crew you KNOW would murder you instantly if they had the chance. Fucking hell I get why so many people are leaving SA.

    • @louisjwiese5515
      @louisjwiese5515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Most house invasions, and consequent murders and rapes, are inside jobs in South Africa. People working for a household, or who know the family, usually are the ones that organise the robberies and murders. There were some individuals that relayed the information who did alot of the independent investigations a couple of years ago. They basically conveyed that it is not a good idea to hire anyone that works at or close to your home. Essentially you cannot trust anyone. Even the people you help to feed their own families, tend to be the ones who at a drop of a hat, would have you and your children murdered for your phone... Alot of it seems strange to people in well functioning countries, but it truly is the norm in South Africa. And the South African government works very hard to hide its horrendous track record from the world. Especially with independent groups like the IRR having found that more than 80% of all ANC government officials, have been implicated in some form of corruption. It truly is a disturbing and disgusting organisation. Mandela was the exception, not the rule.

    • @DeZ556
      @DeZ556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@louisjwiese5515 That sounds absolutely horrific. My heart goes out to the good people of South Africa...

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@louisjwiese5515 even in Europe many crimes are among neighbours!. This is particularly true for the worst crimes!

    • @rattusnorvegicus4380
      @rattusnorvegicus4380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@louisjwiese5515 ...and other Govts, like the UK, US, Canada, Oz, all of Europe etc, hide these important facts from their citizens. It doesn`t fit the new narrative that involves those millionaire BLM crooks et al. We are being forced to live a lie. It takes brave souls such as Katie Hopkins to expose the truth....and then she`s silenced. I`ve spoken with so many South Africans that have crossed my path in Blighty over the last few years....they haven`t come to the YUK for the `kin` weather!

    • @tommyodonovan3883
      @tommyodonovan3883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in Victoria BC, it's heaven compared with SA.

  • @HenrikoMagnifico
    @HenrikoMagnifico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1786

    I'm glad to hear you're trying to help your parents get out of South Africa. Every day they're risking their lives.

    • @ScoobyShotU
      @ScoobyShotU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He's had 10 more years to do and is only giving a fuck when they're in danger that's not loving ur parents if I better myself and move to the US or China that id take my parents at least offer because they're in fucking south Africa. He's a selfish guy that literally helped a rapist and justifies it because he didn't Chinese my ass

    • @BobbyGeneric145
      @BobbyGeneric145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@ScoobyShotU wow what a twat. Have you ever considered that maybe his parents didn't WANT to leave until now?

    • @0dyss3us51
      @0dyss3us51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@ScoobyShotU that was a lot of presumprions there buddy

    • @juliantheapostate8295
      @juliantheapostate8295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Mike Oliver Top man. Under the burnet Republic of Texas my man

    • @juliantheapostate8295
      @juliantheapostate8295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@ScoobyShotU Does it take training to reach this level of prick-hood?

  • @nicholasmatthew9687
    @nicholasmatthew9687 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I currently have a dog who has protected me from an attacker and probably saved my life. She gave me the essential moments I needed to gather my wits (and gun) to defend myself. The guy she rushed will never have the same use of his right hand again, which subsequently played a role in later apprehending the mislead youth that broke in. I will never have a companion that I value as much as her. She’s more on guard than ever now that we’ve got kids running around that she loves. Dogs are incredible, we are very lucky to have evolved with them the way we have and to be given such loyalty. Glad Napoleon was there, and hope he was spoiled until his finale moment.

  • @OldManPaxusYT
    @OldManPaxusYT ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I grew up in South Africa (Born 1973, left thanks to my father taking us to Australia in 1984

    • @peterstephenson1592
      @peterstephenson1592 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My wife and also lived in RSA for 42 years and managed to move to Melbourne where our kids live. Best move ever, like being in a different universe. Suggest your parents try and move, will cost them and as above will take over 4 years. With his gardening knowledge he could easily star an gardening business, as I did. Good luck to them and happy to give any advice. Peter

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Zimbabwe also, it was like the writing on the wall

  • @UmamiPapi
    @UmamiPapi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +455

    It's really touching to see someone support their family like this.

    • @ApemanMonkey
      @ApemanMonkey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@dall9329 yeah, he is critical of crime. What a horrible person.

    • @dall9329
      @dall9329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ApemanMonkey he is feeding you BS and people believe him

    • @prysrek8858
      @prysrek8858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@dall9329 😂

    • @dimepia123
      @dimepia123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@dall9329 people in the comments from SA are saying otherwise though

    • @UmamiPapi
      @UmamiPapi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@dall9329 Cry more. Make your own videos if you disagree with what's shown.

  • @ibrahimkamara9508
    @ibrahimkamara9508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    I know it's hard to recount all this, but your South Africa stories and explanations are really interesting. Please keep doing them

  • @tjnucnuc
    @tjnucnuc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    This is so insane. How betrayed your dad must have felt about the murder plan. I pray you get them to the US. They need to retire in peace. A nice ranch in Oklahoma.

    • @monmaxwitnaojulgri6032
      @monmaxwitnaojulgri6032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Anywhere in the world you go, you can't escape your fate and destiny. When it's time for you to go or die then there's no escaping or any options to choose how you die.

    • @captainprototype755
      @captainprototype755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@monmaxwitnaojulgri6032 true but it doesn't help you sit on train tracks and day fate it fate, what you say is true but its a shit analagy to say that in a country you are murdered for your color, South African Myself here and ill admit, SA isnt THAT bad yet, most people honestly get along, exept in massive Cities like Joburg/Pretoria(They are super close to each other) and Durban and CapeTown etc, but in rural areas like in my hometown of Vryheid KZN things are honestly mostly chill No problems so far but the people on farms should watch out, we call it "Plaas Moorde" White Farmers are slaughtered Left and Right, but in cities we are fine for now, things will either call down or escelate or stay the same, and either way that is fate i will not hate Black people just cuase a few of em Kill white farmers, most of the black people i know are genuinly good people,
      My apologies if the term white and black people offend you but thats just the way we talk here in SA America is sensitive towards it though for some fucking reason, probably cuase America doesnt know what REAL racism is

    • @gnk-seriespowerdroid4405
      @gnk-seriespowerdroid4405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@monmaxwitnaojulgri6032 that’s like saying you shouldn’t leave a burning fire because death is inescapable

    • @madman4043
      @madman4043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@monmaxwitnaojulgri6032 Your logic is fallacious at best, because you are presuming to understand your own destiny. How could you be sure your destiny is not for a better life? To take no action because of predestination is to fatally presume you are wiser than the one who has set your path.

    • @Easyork
      @Easyork 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@monmaxwitnaojulgri6032 Yep, when its time there is no escape. Even a few miles from the Airport a plane can drop.

  • @randomvintagefilm273
    @randomvintagefilm273 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    Every white South African I know, including myself, has an "I escaped being murdered" story 😢

    • @Oli97e10
      @Oli97e10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, there's also a lot of black people that got murdered by white people in South Africa. Just saying.

    • @me67galaxylife
      @me67galaxylife ปีที่แล้ว

      ah yes the TOLERANT communist africans !!!

    • @doinksinthePM
      @doinksinthePM ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It's just sad to think of all the ones who we don't even know because they weren't so lucky. Such a travesty.

    • @DickTator6969
      @DickTator6969 ปีที่แล้ว

      except those who didn't escape...

    • @smokingjazz5067
      @smokingjazz5067 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes .

  • @OfficialH2nO
    @OfficialH2nO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    Came for commentary on wild things in China, stayed for serpentza's even wilder life story

    • @OsirisMawn
      @OsirisMawn ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same dude same

    • @giggiity
      @giggiity 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Samee

    • @jaysmusic7729
      @jaysmusic7729 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That happens when the europeans come in

  • @NDKY67
    @NDKY67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    I thoroughly recommend Surviving Africa, Winston’s father tell compelling stories about his adventures and many brushes with dangerous animals.

    • @sneakysqekysnek5986
      @sneakysqekysnek5986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Sadly it sounds like the humans are more dangerous

    • @toxicginger9936
      @toxicginger9936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@sneakysqekysnek5986 They always have been.

    • @Yungbull999
      @Yungbull999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      South Africa … is not all of Africa !!! You can’t say you survived china so that means you survived all Asia can you ?? DF

    • @NDKY67
      @NDKY67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Yungbull999 they’re just titles, don’t take them so literally. Technically it isn’t wrong, if I were to say “I survived a week in the South American jungle” and I’d only been in Peru, I was still in South America and I did survive, but if I said “I’ve been travelling round South America” and only been in Peru, then that’s a dishonest statement if I’ve only seen one country and wasn’t going to the others, but if I was travelling round Peru and intended to see the other countries, then that statement is fine. Don’t you love the English language?

    • @ewilliams4697
      @ewilliams4697 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NDKY67 Wrong, whatever you experience in Peru was in Peru and not the other 11 South American countries for you to title it as such .. Why put a continent in a negative light just because you had a bad experience in one country. Your title will discourage people who want to travel to that part of the world.. Many countries depend on tourism, so yes, titles do matter.

  • @viixxiimcmxc680
    @viixxiimcmxc680 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    As a fellow South African, I can tell you we go through ALOT when it comes to crime. It's so common that we almost normalize it when we talk about it.

    • @mastercabbage
      @mastercabbage ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Well as an American who can read demographic statistics in my own country I can see why everything is so bad over there. Hopefully we can awaken to the bleak reality that is to come.

    • @commissarkitty3553
      @commissarkitty3553 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mastercabbage i wonder what the demographic for arson, white collar crimes that steal millions from public projects, and school shootings are ? keep wearing your bedsheets over your head and stop pretending like you are well read.

    • @user-qy6tu9ip9v
      @user-qy6tu9ip9v ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mastercabbage Historical White South African crimes will not go unpunished.

    • @lostundgefunden8023
      @lostundgefunden8023 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@user-qy6tu9ip9v yes then the Bantu should be punished

    • @robertcarter8600
      @robertcarter8600 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@user-qy6tu9ip9v I respect indigenous cultures, my friend, yet I think you should restrain your cannibalistic urges while living in a civilized society.
      Or at least limit them to eating domesticated cats and dogs.
      I'm sure you'll get some relief!

  • @chrisklu
    @chrisklu ปีที่แล้ว +305

    I am from Germany and after all you have told I really cannot imagine how people can live with all this constant fear and danger. It is just unbelievable to me.

    • @napez4126
      @napez4126 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As South Africans we have normalised it all and adapted to be on constant high alert. We live behind bars and gates and walk with panic buttons and some guns. We do not carry handbags unnecessarily and keep our cell phones out of public eye. We shut all windows and doors by sunset and are in constant communication with family if we leave home. We don’t trust anyone that is black walking down our road after a certain time. Even my black neighbours don’t trust these Tsotsis or mparaparas. They will kill you for a cigarette!

    • @PumpkinHoard
      @PumpkinHoard ปีที่แล้ว

      You and all of Europe will be dealing with the same within a few decades if you don't stop the never-ending flow of mass immigration. You combine that with the unhinged racial politics...... this will not end well.

    • @LovzaNo
      @LovzaNo ปีที่แล้ว

      Germany is not as safe as it once was. The third world migrants are also a problem in Germany.

    • @psyoperator58
      @psyoperator58 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      You'll be living the same way soon

    • @Joemamma-c1f
      @Joemamma-c1f ปีที่แล้ว +149

      With the millions of Africans being granted asylum in Germany you will be feeling it soon

  • @a.d.595
    @a.d.595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    No mainstream medias talking about SA here in the UK so thanks to you Serpentza , we know what's going on which is quite horrendous.

    • @juliantheapostate8295
      @juliantheapostate8295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Aye it's shocking. It's practically a genocide and the BBC has nothing to say

    • @MrRezillo
      @MrRezillo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The chattering class everywhere doesn't want to look at this reality. it doesn't fit with the narrative of colonialism, hegemony and blah, blah, blah. It can't face the fact that the "Rainbow Nation" is as real as unicorns.

    • @maggsbufton1969
      @maggsbufton1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They WILL NOT tell the truth about how South Africa has changed….because absolutely NO rational , critical thinking person who has a sense of self preservation and wants TO live in a LAW ABIDING and ORDERED CIVIL SOCIETY….. would accept the Globalist Reset if they did.

    • @90skidcultist
      @90skidcultist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That`s surprising. Would be nice if you guys would go back and recolonize that place. All of southern Africa is strategic and rich in resources. There isn`t one successful state in that region as well. They clearly need western help. Or at least put the land in better hands...

    • @MrRezillo
      @MrRezillo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@90skidcultist "They clearly need western help". It's been done. It hasn't worked. China might do better, but I doubt it.

  • @Tommykey07
    @Tommykey07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    Wait, I thought all of South Africa's problems were solved when Matt Damon won that rugby match!

    • @life1042
      @life1042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That rugby match was rigged. They poisoned the new zealand team, the all blacks before the game with food poisoning. Look it up.

    • @captainprototype755
      @captainprototype755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No it was when Abanna Finally Shared a Ball when South Africas problems were solved

    • @connoroverall580
      @connoroverall580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Team America Matt Damon....or Goodwill Hunting Matt Damon ? 😂😂😂

    • @jonnycassh7765
      @jonnycassh7765 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quick pop Quiz; Which Western Country today has turned into a Prison country ,almost worse than China, in less than a year in the western world .
      A- France
      B- Canada
      C- Australia
      My country is not perfect , every country has its problems , but right now I would not want to be in any Western Country. The Governments there have turned into "New World Order" Tyrants ,this is scary.

    • @greenonionsalad
      @greenonionsalad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@jonnycassh7765 mate relax. you're talking about Australia yeah? Things are fine here. You just don't hear from the overwhelming majority of sensible people because it's boring and sensationalists are the ones who make the news.

  • @Swanesang91
    @Swanesang91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    We lived in Midrand in Johannesburg on a plot (large piece of land) not far from where you lived I'm assuming. My dad's an electrician and the guys that worked for him had our house broken into while we were away one weekend in 2002. The dogs were poisoned (they survived) and they stole all the vehicles he used for his business and loaded them up with all our belongings, even the curtains were taken.
    We found out it was an inside job so my dad fired all of his workers and told them if they ever returned he would kill them. The guy actually got a gun and wanted to come and shoot my dad the day on which he gave them their severance pay but one of the other employees tipped my dad off and it was prevented. What was telling was that only one guy came back asking my dad if he could stay and he said he had nothing to do with the crime. He still works for my dad. No one was ever caught for the crime
    It turned out the guys had been using the petrol cards and the company vehicles to run their own electrical businesses over weekends as well. My dad's business went bankrupt and we had to sell our house due to financial reasons and the fact that there were gunshots nearly every night from break-ins all around our neighborhood.

    • @O-townplaya
      @O-townplaya ปีที่แล้ว

      Sucks to hear that. What a bunch of assholes

    • @thomashassall96
      @thomashassall96 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sounds horrific 😮

    • @Alois_Schicklgruber
      @Alois_Schicklgruber ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Apartheid is essential in Africa.

    • @Lilliz91
      @Lilliz91 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Damn that sad. At least one worker was honest.

    • @peterdinklage-jy4dl
      @peterdinklage-jy4dl ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lol... bantus and ghouls.

  • @sneakyanimation
    @sneakyanimation ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Bro, I grew up in SA and you reminded me of many events that my family and friend experienced. My Brother is still there and it's shocking to hear some of the new statistics, esp robbers\murderers actively choosing to enter homes on a sunday afternoon so that they KNOW everyone is home. A very chilling difference in strategy.

    • @kittybitts567
      @kittybitts567 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God bless your brother to get safely out of that benighted place in Jesus' Holy Name, Amen!

    • @scottydees2748
      @scottydees2748 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hope he has a yard full of BoerBoels mate.

  • @MrLense
    @MrLense 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    I have a work colleague who's recently moved to the UK, he told of the same stories. He's recently lost his cousin to a robbery. I'm just happy for him to be able to walk around now and not have to worry about looking over his shoulder at people.

    • @alexanderharris9407
      @alexanderharris9407 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I would not go that far, England is not the place it be, but good luck

    • @mw89181
      @mw89181 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      England is not the place it used to be. It will be the new South African in 30 years at current rates.

    • @nashbullet3213
      @nashbullet3213 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mw89181 Exactly. And with Rishi Sunak working actively to goad Russia into nuclear war, it’s not exactly the best of places to be

    • @ludwigsamereier8204
      @ludwigsamereier8204 ปีที่แล้ว

      More than half of London residents are immigrants or of their descent. They elected a Paki as their mayor. Imagine the mayor of the most English city in the world is a muslim. Same thing with the present PM. The England I knew has gone down in history. Come to England? No thanks.

    • @nashbullet3213
      @nashbullet3213 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ludwigsamereier8204 London is no longer English

  • @dozerjohn
    @dozerjohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    I subscribed to Winston so many years ago for China content and now the South Africa content brings me this utter fascination not unlike discovering Shenzen back then.

    • @ShaferHart
      @ShaferHart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I second this.

    • @Artix902
      @Artix902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I third this.

    • @generaldemon3649
      @generaldemon3649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bet you guys like Fox news then with ethno centrism. They love to talk about white south African farmers as if number of their deaths actually surpass the deaths of black Africans.

    • @dozerjohn
      @dozerjohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@generaldemon3649 I like Finnegan the fox

    • @J_X999
      @J_X999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shenzhen is one of the most amazing city I've been to. Like the CCP or not, it is pretty darn cool

  • @heyitsj1834
    @heyitsj1834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    If ever I've heard a story of divine intervention, it is the events of this home invasion, from your mum insisting you go to school, to the gun not firing, to your dad coming home and deciding not to go inside immediately and always going around a corner and so evading the gun men. Wow! it may not seem that way but you (and your family) are blessed!

    • @Pignificent
      @Pignificent 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope, it was luck.

  • @clivewarner2162
    @clivewarner2162 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I've experienced the tribalism and mob mentality you spoke about. A situation can turn bad so quickly.

    • @Joemamma-c1f
      @Joemamma-c1f ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Here in Ireland we have all experienced Africans and mobs of them

    • @user-qy6tu9ip9v
      @user-qy6tu9ip9v ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Joemamma-c1f Seems like Euros are understanding what it's like.

    • @Joemamma-c1f
      @Joemamma-c1f ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-qy6tu9ip9v Its non stop immigration from Africa and its dstroying Ireland and most European countries but they keep bringing more of them here. We dont want it tho.....

  • @UTU
    @UTU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    Your channel is such a blessing, I'm sure your father's stories will be as good.
    Thank you for everything brother.

    • @dall9329
      @dall9329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the majority of white people in SA are wealthy and live peacefully mostly. People like serpentza are the kind of white South African who failed to be successful in SA and turn out to point finger and blame others. He is so critical to the point it's becoming annoying. Real white South African will disagree with most of the things he spoke.

    • @EveryoneIsStupidButMe
      @EveryoneIsStupidButMe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@dall9329 I don't believe you. Do you know how many times I've seen comments on his videos of people saying "I'm from SA too, he's telling the truth" ? Tons of people. You are the first one I've heard say the opposite

    • @dall9329
      @dall9329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Toku Mei you know what ? People like serpentza are somehow ashamed of what colonialism and apartheid did to Africa now he trying to shift the blame with video like this . Most of these crimes he mentions are legacy of apartheid and crime affects Everyone in SA .

    • @writenamehere0000
      @writenamehere0000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shut up please

    • @UTU
      @UTU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dall9329 So...all the videos of people rushing into their caged up houses cause they're being stalked outside are fake? I got friends over in SA, some get along fine, but many don't.

  • @lizelbekker6845
    @lizelbekker6845 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    Hope you will also help to inform people about all the brutal farm murders - the farmers and their families being tortured, raped and murdered for no good reason. We are still living in SA but the crime is getting out of hand. We live in Centurion, Pretoria and last week alone had 3 burglaries in one street in one night. Due to the constant loadshedding (no electricity) the people are more vulnerable in their homes. Loadshedding is due to the extreme corruption at Eskom - our energy provider. They have sindicates working at Eskom that is sabotizing the place - they are aparently connected to the ANC government so nothing gets done about it. The previous head of Eskom had to leave the country, he did write a book though. So that would also be an interesting topic. So we deal on a daily basis high levels of corruption and violent crime, dysfunctional and corrupt police, hours of loadshedding , millions of unemployed people living on social grants and the tax base getting smaller because so many educated people leaving. O yes and then SA and Russia becoming big buddies while the USA not so happy about that. If they impose sanctions on SA , i think that will be the last straw and even though we want to remain here, we will probably have to leave SA if we can.

    • @KuopassaTv
      @KuopassaTv ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Should market SA to preppers, they'd be in paradise

    • @omarsabeur9039
      @omarsabeur9039 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@KuopassaTvThey grift on Nationalist podcasts all the time

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 ปีที่แล้ว

      Farmers and Engineers.
      "White Flight" from the pig politics of South African racists, is being too civilized to describe the sheer barbarism that has been ruling the country for decades.

    • @PVT.Ramirez-x2y
      @PVT.Ramirez-x2y ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KuopassaTv what are preppers

    • @kdsowen2882
      @kdsowen2882 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@PVT.Ramirez-x2y End-of-world (as we know it ) people in The-States , preparing to fight their-neighbours to-the-death over food/ammo etc that they have stored for 'The End-Times'..(.roughly ) . They live as if it will all go-down, any-day, instead of net-working and creating organic-healthy-communities while they have the opportunity . Dave NZ (we have them here as-well, probably in many-countries )

  • @quatreraberbawinner2628
    @quatreraberbawinner2628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I know you probably don't like talking about it, but I do like hearing stories about your days in south Africa, it helps put things in perspective

  • @kittybitts567
    @kittybitts567 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It's been two years. I hope you got your parents out of there! God bless and protect them. They're strong people.

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind6072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    I listened through all of this, and living in safe, tiny Norway, it's almost unbelievable that such a thing could happen to anyone. Where I live, even if it is a neighborhood with a lot of people in difficult life situations, it's pretty much safe to keep the door unlocked, and I just lock it during night-time because I have some neighbors that just come busting in without bothering to knock and don't have the social IQ to understand I prefer to invite my guests instead of them inviting themselves. Specially the part with having to wear a gun, having armed guards, all the security etc. is so far from reality here. Even when people were rarely do armed robberies against gas-stations and similar, it's with fake guns, soft-guns or whatever they are called, and they are often simply not believed, and have to go away without any benefit from their crime, and also get caught. ANYWAY, I really felt bad for your father, and I subscribed to him and you the same time. I wish your parents could come live here, although it's close to the arctic, almost non-stop night half the year, so probably not the kind of place someone used to African climate would like. :)
    Continue the good quality content, Alv, Norway

    • @a.b.g.8490
      @a.b.g.8490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      This things will soon happen bin Norway!
      Allahu Akbar!!!

    • @thomassenbart
      @thomassenbart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      Sweden and Denmark are learning now that all people and cultures are not the same and there are consequences to blindly accepting everyone as if there were no differences.

    • @AR15andGOD
      @AR15andGOD 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomassenbart Yes, this is why we need to Christianize them before they come. Bring them in to the body of Christ.

    • @satouhikou1103
      @satouhikou1103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Safe? Not for long. China will soon be safer, inshallah.

    • @Mgoblagulkablong
      @Mgoblagulkablong 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      why do you import all of those problems into norway then...

  • @alexbear9736
    @alexbear9736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    Hey Winston, I’m Cape Town born but lived my teen years in Rhodesia. It was the norm for families to have male African staff usually living on the property and I got on well with our staff so much so that I would share their pap and yama with them. They told me how they would get given all the luxuries that white people had when the government changed. When I asked how they were going to pay for all these luxuries they looked at me in bewilderment because whites didn’t have to pay! If they wanted water they turned on the tap and if they wanted light the turned on a switch. The didn’t believe me when I told them that these services were not free until I showed them the monthly bills. Still, they believed the promises made by the political leaders and look where it led them.

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Typical story. Greed, stupidity and evil leads to the persecution of the whites and the poverty of everybody else

    • @YesbuttNo
      @YesbuttNo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      cool insight

    • @danarzechula3769
      @danarzechula3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@lobbyskids2 yes there are always those willing to take advantage of the ignorance if others

    • @deeznutzboii
      @deeznutzboii ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Average iq lol

    • @johnsmith-ht3sy
      @johnsmith-ht3sy ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That is the same something for nothing mentality is resulting in a Tsunami of Africa arriving in the U.K. Give me.

  • @MayoTiger
    @MayoTiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I enjoy how direct and honest these stories are. Despite the long videos, it's so easy to stay for the entire thing.

  • @JenniferGarcia-rb3cy
    @JenniferGarcia-rb3cy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Wow after watching this I was thinking that surely you’d have PTSD surviving so much and also you have a very protective guardian angel.

    • @serpentza
      @serpentza  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I do have a guardian angel, I am convinced

  • @boydwyatt
    @boydwyatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    Hi again mate, I got both my front teeth knocked out in a home invasion. Lucky to get out with my life. It was safer in Rhodesia during the war than after the ANC got in power in ZA. Very happy chappie when the plane wheels cleared the ground when I gapped it.......no regrets. So sad, I loved Africa..... Still got mates there, keep telling em to get out asap.

    • @serpentza
      @serpentza  3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Glad you made it out

    • @TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55
      @TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Rhodesia never die

    • @kaseywatson7281
      @kaseywatson7281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 colonialism is over buddy

    • @planesguineapigs1712
      @planesguineapigs1712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 It is possible to hold the Rhodesians in disdain and the Zanu PF. Both contributed little to society apart from wars, and in the latter providing a practical demonstration of exponential inflation.

    • @boydwyatt
      @boydwyatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @Pan-African Direct Democracy Nothing to do with skin colour. The mates I speak of are from diverse backgrounds, I was in the music industry. Thats 90% African not european . Be nice when clever guys like you have ended the crime and fixed the economies of those once prosperous countries . Then you will no longer rely on the begging bowl going out to the western countries you slagged off. PAN AFRICAN DIRECT DEMOCRACY.? Sounds like every other shonky left wing student creation that never does anything good.

  • @benleno
    @benleno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    In the words of your Pa ‘I’m kind of glad you’re not dead.’

    • @ivynyx1834
      @ivynyx1834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That was such a "Dad" comment

    • @dall9329
      @dall9329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      bro I can assure you the majority of white people in SA are wealthy and live peacefully mostly. People like serpentza are the kind of white South African who failed to be successful in SA and turn out to point finger and blame others. He is so critical to the point it's becoming annoying. Real white South African will disagree with most of the things he spoke.

    • @ApemanMonkey
      @ApemanMonkey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@dall9329 you keep copy-pasting your same post everywhere. If you have something to say, just make your own video.

    • @jerryhuang1999
      @jerryhuang1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dall9329 Go take your ignorance somewhere else

    • @SargonofQueens
      @SargonofQueens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dall9329 you are so ignorant you have no idea what you are talking about.

  • @MongiNTS3YT
    @MongiNTS3YT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    As much as our country (Namibia) likes to replicate as much as possible everything South Africa does and we are dependent as well heavily on South Africa, the crime is one thing i constantly pray we do not adopt.

    • @RovexHD
      @RovexHD ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why is Namibia relatively safe in comparison ?

    • @Lilliz91
      @Lilliz91 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ll Pray for Namibia

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@RovexHD You have to work together or die when 95% of your country is arid desert.

    • @fine9375
      @fine9375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@RovexHDnot Bantu territory

    • @Ultizer
      @Ultizer ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't think it will with Namibia's low population. South Africa has a big crime problem due to the high population with a lack of jobs. A lot of people moved to SA when it was a successful country and expected a good job. Just make sure Namibia has strict immigration policies if you get more successful, vote for the right people.

  • @shezsmith6775
    @shezsmith6775 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My family escaped South Africa. We were smuggled out of the country...my mother, my brother and I. I remember being hidden under a blanket in a car, then on the plane we were loaded before the passengers and hidden throughout the flight. I will always be grateful to the people who put their lives on the line to save a white woman and her two children (I was one of the children). To the staff of the airline (I won' mention which) they saved my life and the lives of my mother and brother. We owe our lives to them and I think about them all the time and all the people that set up that network to get us out. Even the ones that were bribed to be human and do the right thing.
    To a small child of 10 with an overactive imagination it was an adventure, looking back though, I am sure that it must have been terrifying to my mother.
    Without going into too much detail we escaped and fled up Africa and ended up in Bahrain to be reunited with my father that my mother had been estranged from.
    South Africa was always 'dog eat dog'. So incredibly beautiful, but so cruel and brutal. As a child, almost lost my life twice there. Sometimes I think that I was incredibly protected by some divine force, because I 'should' have been dead. I learned about racism, I learned that because I was white, there were those who would kill me, even though I was child.

    • @alexg4936
      @alexg4936 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we definitely need more details

    • @RandallBalls
      @RandallBalls 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alexg4936you don't need details blacks hate us all over the world

  • @mistayuto
    @mistayuto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I live in Australia and worked with some South Africans. They told me some horror stories they experienced and it's easy to understand why alot of South Africans have left the country.

    • @yamumshouse
      @yamumshouse 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They come to Australia because they get free money!

  • @kanzy1
    @kanzy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    What you described about the Crime situation, prison/fortress homes and corrupt government that doesn't help is exactly what my Country of Sudan is going through for the last 5 years.

  • @jbnacive3390
    @jbnacive3390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    Your story is really interesting and relatable , I absolutely agree about Cape Town as well. It is by far the safest part of South Africa. My Dad was into contraction and hired a lot of people, Some of them Organized a coo to kill him several times and perhaps take over his contraction and sub-contracts. Not to make it about race but I am black and my dad is also black and I want to leave this country so bad, I moved to Cape Town and it is better here . I am constantly terrified and I look forward to leave and help my Family move as well, it is wild here in SA.

    • @serpentza
      @serpentza  2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Stay safe my friend, I hope you and your family make it out soon

    • @marypoopinz3343
      @marypoopinz3343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      What’s worst being white in Africa or black in Russia

    • @daoyang223
      @daoyang223 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@marypoopinz3343 Being non Han Chinese in China

    • @jacodevnik9883
      @jacodevnik9883 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Best to stay in your country and try to make it better, is yours now, enjoy the great victory!

    • @jbnacive3390
      @jbnacive3390 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@jacodevnik9883 Hard pass.

  • @TrampasKayhill
    @TrampasKayhill 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hell yeah, I’ll subscribe now!
    I met an older man from South Africa in the small town I grew up in, in Eastern Washington.
    He owned a small laundromat so I’d ended getting to know him fairly well.
    He had some crazy stories of his own to tell.
    He saw the writing on the wall early on after the ANC took over and got the hell out.
    I’m looking forward to hearing your father’s adventures!

  • @eduardolpz386
    @eduardolpz386 2 ปีที่แล้ว +798

    As someone who grew up in Cuba, I can tell you that wherever communism and socialism go, poverty and misery follow, be it China or South Africa.

    • @habpar6531
      @habpar6531 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I'm not fan of Communism but least stuff like this never happens in Cuba.

    • @sirensaid243
      @sirensaid243 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sweden is a socialist country, just saying 🎉

    • @mikemuller3564
      @mikemuller3564 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Usa is very Cofveve 2

    • @joshua-de8ip
      @joshua-de8ip ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ​@habpar6531 yeah it did, just that the government television never reported it, but I guess there's merit in saying that if everyone is just as poor, less of this happens.
      It definitely still did though

    • @ChadDidNothingWrong
      @ChadDidNothingWrong ปีที่แล้ว

      It's like a defective religion

  • @youssefhassouni3729
    @youssefhassouni3729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    This guy should write a book about his life story.

  • @Koljadin
    @Koljadin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I had a colleague from SA while teaching English to kids in Dezhou, Shandong just before the Covid19 outbreak. His name is Clayton and he grew up in Cape Town like you.
    Great guy with a great sense of humor, and through him I learned about the stuff you talked and lived through.
    I hear you, brother man!
    Stay safe and don't let your guard down.
    Greetings from Serbia!

  • @wastedpotato4555
    @wastedpotato4555 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love my South African friends, but damn man, they've told me some insane stories, especially this older bloke I worked with years ago. That story has stuck with me for years it's so brutal.

  • @AenonEMoss
    @AenonEMoss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Winston, I hope you do a segment on the Afrikaners in the Squatter Camps. How the children have no schools. How the men were tossed out of their jobs because of B.E.E. laws. How they get ZERO welfare, and must be fed by Afrikaners charities. I hope you do a segment on "The White Slums of South Africa". People need to know.

    • @pegcity4eva
      @pegcity4eva 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Vice did a video on them

    • @sweetla4750
      @sweetla4750 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@pegcity4eva Vice???if u trust Vice I have some property for sale

    • @Gunship888
      @Gunship888 ปีที่แล้ว

      America basically has bee laws these days, blacks and other races are much more preferred than whites, especially white men. It’s wild to see whites becoming the new Jew. And someone might read my comment and think you’re insane, but mark my words: whites will be vilified and dehumanized and ultimately genocided in America and 1st countries soon.

    • @Mat-threw
      @Mat-threw ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And don’t forget to mention the Afrikaner charities are targeted and robbed and attacked. I saw it happen on another video on TH-cam a month or so ago. A charity was helping the people in a makeshift camp by serving them soup, when a group ( more like a gang) from the Economic Freedom Fighters ( political party in SA) showed up and stole everything.

    • @Dude0000
      @Dude0000 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Mat-threw they’re the ones who said that they’re not advocating for the death of all white people… yet. Seams like apart heid was rooted in wisdom, not racism😢

  • @josedorsaith5261
    @josedorsaith5261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    The rape and murder rates in SA are something to behold. It's shocking to think it was ever a functional nation with a military, healthcare system etc.
    In the past 10 years, there have been a lot of Saffers coming to my part of the UK. Went to a church that was 90% SA refugees and their stories of why they left were all horrifying

    • @godrilla5549
      @godrilla5549 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tell us more

    • @andrewdevine3920
      @andrewdevine3920 ปีที่แล้ว

      When white people were in charge it resembled other white countries. Now it resembles other black countries. It's not that hard to understand.

    • @LovzaNo
      @LovzaNo ปีที่แล้ว

      Multiculturalism does not work. End of story. The same is happening in the UK. Did you hear about the Pakistani grooming gangs? Whenever there are 'other' groups of people within a land, especially the non-white type, they see white women as easy meat.

    • @Joemamma-c1f
      @Joemamma-c1f ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@godrilla5549 Thers a massive SA community here in Ireland

    • @godrilla5549
      @godrilla5549 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Joemamma-c1f got any stories?

  • @curious493
    @curious493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Of course I'll subscribe. I am from Mozambique 🇲🇿 but grew up in South Africa 🇿🇦. Went to boarding school there from 1994 - 2007. Loved to hear how you experienced that time. Will share your parents channel with my family 🙃

  • @user-ym9ds1ox3u
    @user-ym9ds1ox3u ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for sharing your personal story of your families victory from home invasion. So sorry your family experienced this. Thank God for guardian angels ❤

  • @joanrobijn4118
    @joanrobijn4118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Fascinating stories. For people like me living in the western world, it is hard to imagine living in a place where you don't feel safe, where a human live isn't worth much and people descent into a life of crime just to survive. Thank you for sharing.

  • @shofforth1
    @shofforth1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    I have lived a very sheltered and comfortable life, however I am not naïve because my family in France especially those who were lived through the world wars … Your stories are important to know … because too many people here in North America believe communism is good.. it isn’t

    • @samwindmill8264
      @samwindmill8264 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think that many people actually think communism is good. Hell, where I live, next to the university town of Iowa City, you get a lot of what you might call "far left" types and I've seen a few people say they're communist or "Marxist Leninist" or whatever. But they're far from the majority even of people solidly on the left of the political spectrum.

    • @Gunship888
      @Gunship888 ปีที่แล้ว

      It isn’t but our universities are teaching our impressionable youth this madness. Marxism is rampant now… our world needs a nuclear war to reset…

    • @joseevaniersel7280
      @joseevaniersel7280 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isn't it unpardonable to be this clueless, stupid and sentimental??

  • @HankTsui
    @HankTsui 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This video was truly "awesome." I've subscribed to your father's channel and have already binged his entire video collection, anxiously awaiting more. The gift of storytelling clearly runs in your family. I do hope they make it out of Africa if that is their wish. As always, thanks for sharing and stay awesome!

  • @gtd65
    @gtd65 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    It's yet another "leftist" success story! I really enjoyed my time living in RSA (Joburg). One thing that I noticed, was that it would/could be quite easy to convince yourself that there was actually very little risk to your person. Everybody came across as so friendly and approachable. I always had a memory of my time visiting Zimbabwean pals from University in Harare, a guy that was the brother of a friend (a Shona Zimbabwean chap) told me about his time working in RSA. He used to go to a bar after work and really enjoyed spending the night there but was advised by one of his workmates, that he should always leave the bar by 8pm. After several weeks of leaving at 8pm, he decided to ignore the advice and stay later, it was at that point he noticed a different crowd were in the bar. At one point in the night, there was an altercation and one guy had the shit beaten out of him, he was then put on his knees and a gun was put his head. For some reason, the gun continually misfired. My friends brother never went back to that bar again and said that it was so easy to convince yourself that things were fine.

    • @DennisGeorge-cn3zu
      @DennisGeorge-cn3zu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      re 1st 6 lines - the wh ppl voted for bl rule as they put avoiding rcsm top in priority, so they got what they voted for

  • @Aurora..Borealis
    @Aurora..Borealis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    @serpentza you got me remembering my time as a teen living out on a plot in Kyalami in the mid 90's. Almost forgot about those summer nights, when they come for you... I'm lucky to have had amazing dogs who'd been shot, panga'd, poisoned and survived.... Very dangerous place.

  • @josephupton3601
    @josephupton3601 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1436

    The USA left-wing media paints the whole struggle in South Africa as being black (good) vs white (evil). Life is rarely so uncomplicated. Thanks for explaining things for us.

    • @DaniG.German883
      @DaniG.German883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      They’re trying to do that here

    • @BlueBirdsProductions
      @BlueBirdsProductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      everything in america is presented as Black and White because the media think everyone's too fucking stupid to understand any different. That's why America is such a fucking shithole and will never be satisfied.

    • @GTfour01
      @GTfour01 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      In my country, Holland, they even refuse to take in white SA refugee farmers. The biggest racists nowadays, are the white leftwing wokeidiots and the blacks themselves.

    • @jonathanvargas913
      @jonathanvargas913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It sounds very complicated in South Africa without black and white.

    • @br0k3nman
      @br0k3nman ปีที่แล้ว +124

      What on earth are you talking about? I live in California and no leftist or centrist (democrat) thinks like that. This is a fascist and right wing myth.

  • @connoroverall580
    @connoroverall580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    A very concise and accurate description of life in South Africa...... taking it day by day.

    • @danarzechula3769
      @danarzechula3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just get out

    • @DEVS_VLTIMA
      @DEVS_VLTIMA ปีที่แล้ว

      Get out, go to white majority countries and stay there so we don’t all turn into SA

    • @pablito4762
      @pablito4762 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@danarzechula3769, it's not that easy. You must find a new country which gives you visa

  • @Jordan-ns2ov
    @Jordan-ns2ov 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this is by far your best video your storytelling skills have me completely focused on what your saying, watched this like 3 times.

  • @norwegianblue2017
    @norwegianblue2017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Man, you always hear how hard it is to find good help. But to continue to work with people who conspired to have your family murdered, that is insane. These townships sound like something out of Mad Max. Glad you got out of there.

  • @ShinyFood
    @ShinyFood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    this guy is so interesting he's the kind of person my parents would invite over for dinner and share stories together

  • @brandon3872
    @brandon3872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I subscribed for your China content, but your recent South Africa series has been incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing such personal stories.

  • @Nisfornarwhal1990
    @Nisfornarwhal1990 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This was ana amazing video, ive never heard this more nuanced perspective on pre and post apartheid South Africa. Ive subscribed to the Surviving Africa channel and look forward to more content there. Cheers lad

  • @cbzzzzzzzzzzz1167
    @cbzzzzzzzzzzz1167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My husband and I just subscribed to your father's channel. Keeping you all in our prayers. That is some scary/horrible stuff you all went through.

  • @kugelfisch2222222222
    @kugelfisch2222222222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Watched all of your old Pa's story when you first showed it in his side of the homeinvasion. Incredible father you got there!

  • @TonyTones123
    @TonyTones123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Everyone in Winstons family, including the dog are absolute Alphas 👏

  • @Fr.Savage_McKiligan
    @Fr.Savage_McKiligan ปีที่แล้ว +114

    As a white male native of Detroit, Michigan, I can related to your experiences to a certain degree. Even Detroit hasn't yet reached the level of anarchy and chaos seen in SA, but the violence and culture still changes you.
    I started carrying a pistol before I was even legally allowed to, and as soon as I turned 21 I attained a license to carry. I take my gun to bed and place it on the counter when I'm in the bathroom. I wore body armor in some places, and I wasn't even associating with criminals; I was attempting to become a police officer. You adopt new behaviors, such as looking over your shoulder every few seconds, walking in well-lit areas, parking so that your vehicle faces the street so that you can escape easier, and using your environment to help you. I would refuel my car while watching the windows to see the reflection of anyone sneaking up behind me. Same with shadows in the daylight.
    Also, in Detroit it was, and probably still is, common for black residents to "punk" white people, and you often have to not show fear or they would attempt to rob or hurt you. I once had to stand in front of a muscular black man who looked like Terry Crews. He was a head taller than me and wouldn't let me enter a store after my black friend went inside first. I had to demand he move so that I could enter. He smirked and moved aside because I didn't show fear, even though I certainly felt it.
    Even today, when I travel to very safe places, small towns where family live, I cannot let my guard down. People will ask why I'm looking over my shoulder when walking near a vacant field, why I back my car into parking spots and under light poles, even when no one else is around, or why I never sit down with my back facing the door; it's a part of me.

    • @bellinghammond
      @bellinghammond ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Is "around blacks, don't relax" a global slogan?

    • @Cichlid_Visuals
      @Cichlid_Visuals ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@bellinghammond as an oakland california native, absolutely.

    • @salsa_2239
      @salsa_2239 ปีที่แล้ว

      You make it seem as if “black residents” aren’t commonly harassed by the same demographic you mentioned. Whites are victims in inner cities but to claim your experience is unique as a “white man” in Detroit is unhinged and I can tell you have many racial biases you gotta work out!

    • @Trent-m6j
      @Trent-m6j ปีที่แล้ว +45

      ​@@bellinghammondNo. In saner countries in Asia it's still "No Blacks Allowed"

    • @colinlove5062
      @colinlove5062 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude what are you even saying you just sound like you’re trying to equate yourself to Winston to sound tough. You sound like a person with a weak personal identity and your trying to take Detoits reputation to sound special. I don’t even believe you are from here. I’ve lived here my whole life and never owned a gun and most people don’t. Mayor Duggan is white and is popular because he was a political outsider who isn’t corrupt unlike most mayors of the past 50 years. He managed the city through a bankruptcy which cleared its debts not on the backs of residents or pensioners. He put money from the budget surpluses back into city services and had a friendly state and federal government partnership to get big projects financing aid and tax breaks. Crime hit a 50 year low in 2017, there’s new business downtown and in the neighborhoods, new streets lights, garbage pickup on time, schools have been reformed works in progress better. There’s a reason why all of the cities with the top murder rates in 2021 are cities from the south or border states it takes good governance from local, regional, state & federal to address systemic problems. Bad governance in America hides behind populist rhetoric it uses race and culture wars as tools so greedy politicians right and left can run corrupt governments and blame it on the other. Bad governance combined with systematic lack of opportunity breeds crime. I grew up in Oakland County until the .com bust of 2000 I lived in the second richest county in America. Most auto manufacturing jobs were outsourced but the white collar jobs running the companies remained and so did all the STEM jobs required for automated manufacturing and upgrading car’s computer systems grew. There was a boom in the 90’s in downtown and the burbs called automation alley. Getting back to bad governance American manufacturing lost out during the Cold War in part to a political strategy employed by the U.S. to fight communism. Countries like Japan and West Germany and any U.S. ally were allowed free and unfettered access to the American market for their products. If they made good products at a competitive rate the nation’s middle class boomed, Japan and to a lesser extent of impact South Korea didn’t reciprocate with free and unfettered access to their markets for US industrial products. US industry was arrogant and lost out to foreign competitors that we’re playing for real against the established giants but currency manipulation and protectionism gave Japan and countries that used the same model an unfair advantage. This coincided with a change in power in the US financial system during the 80s where junk bonds were used to finance takeovers of US & British industry where parts of the companies that weren’t making money were cut like r&d or workers benefits. As were jobs in the US because a change to stock price driven model of operation made huge profits for the financial sector those who have become known as venture capitalists now. I’ve vastly oversimplified and haven’t even gotten to China yet however having a sustainable economy with strong fundamentals is important and it’s something that the west has been outsourcing to our detriment. China was allowed to join the western sphere of influence and despite the best efforts of the CCP a market economy independent of the state was established. Outsourcing our manufacturing to China was the end of a long road of missteps with many shades of nuance and good and greedy intentions, transforming China by engaging in free trade for example. The results at home of trying to just ride the US consumer market ie the greatest economic engine in history didn’t bring any new money into the game domestically for the middle class. The same thinking that said we can keep building sprawling suburbs with no consequences for the region as a whole and it will be an economic driver was extrapolated and used at a greater scale with subprime lending, junk bonds for you average Joe. This kind of bubble economics we see it at its most extreme in China but it’s practiced here in the US too. There’s a lot of people who got screwed whose family was middle class and they followed the right path and found themselves and their city and state in an economic downward spiral. The feeling of neglect and mismanagement which unfairly for those who use it now in populist politics (although it takes generations to undo generations of harm) did start to change after the Great Recession. I’m even more encouraged now that China and Russia have showed their hand with Covid hording and the war in Ukraine’s economic blackmail the importance of having domestic supply chains is now a huge priority. But a lot of damage has been done and the electoral system especially gerrymandering puts the extremes of both parties forward because the parties design their districts. I’ve been extremely pleased with the results of the 2022 elections in Michigan and Arizona where Gerrymandering was banned by ballot initiatives in 2020 the most radical candidates lost and those in power have to appeal to the middle to win and stay in power. That means more common ground for making policy decisions and is an important step toward deescalating the polarization of politics.

  • @susanswanson4079
    @susanswanson4079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The mental image I got of that guy leaping over the truck as he was getting a whoopin' brought a smile to my face.😃

  • @vlddlv1866
    @vlddlv1866 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Fascinating story and all true, I can relate to all this for have lived in Johannesburg several years for work. Even being an expatriate executive with good options of safe housing, you are still exposed when commuting and visiting public places so that feeling of danger never leaves you. My recent visit to SA (ten years since I repatriated) proved that things are getting even worse. Very sadly so for otherwise the country would have been one of the best places on this planet.

    • @TheRealSyrett
      @TheRealSyrett 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would a girl age 22, pale white, red hair, gray eyes, physically normal.. be able to vacation there to experience the place and see things firsthand, or should security be hired?

  • @The_ZeroLine
    @The_ZeroLine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I love Napoleon’s old dog picture. I think dogs are actually the most cute and loveable when they get really old. I had a dog who almost got to 23 years old (yes, human years). I cried on and off for weeks afterward. She was small (that type of age is impossible for big dogs no matter how well cared for).
    Your story of not being selected to be killed is a perfect example of why I always try to help side by side by with all my family’s staff and let them know we don’t take them for granted or look down on them.

  • @FitzChivalry_Chade
    @FitzChivalry_Chade 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So happy I find this channel, I’m literally binge watching videos from start to end. This channel you talk about I’m going to look up. Hope it’s still up.

  • @alluvialedaempfer962
    @alluvialedaempfer962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I subbed to your fathers channel. I can recommend it to anybody, it reminds me growing up in the 80s and 90s watching very high quality and captivating story telling, no sensationalism and the whole thing is educational on top of it.

  • @mattphillips9107
    @mattphillips9107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I really don't understand how your dad could keep these creatures on after them paying to end him??? So glad I didn't grow up there, I wouldn't be alive now. Thank you for this education serpentza.

  • @vapegod3659
    @vapegod3659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Thanks serpentza had a great nightmare about visiting friends in SA and getting my head chopped off thanks to your great little story

    • @mong4491
      @mong4491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have a friends in SA, and plan visiting them. Makes you think about it....

    • @quartusbuys6831
      @quartusbuys6831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@mong4491 Think twice. Believe me. I live here. Rather let people visit you .

  • @SumSock41
    @SumSock41 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live in brazil, I can relate to many things said on this video

  • @jason4275
    @jason4275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    No way I would live in South Africa without being armed 24/7

    • @piethein6406
      @piethein6406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly they are taking all arms and ammunition away from civilians by legislation and paperwork who are not politically correct

    • @miss_pearl
      @miss_pearl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😂😂😂 I live IN South Africa, never been armed and never been harmed. That story about Cape Town is a big lie, Cape Town is the most dangerous city in South Africa. There's gang violence there and some of the townships are a no go area. This guy is just a racists who is mad that the _apartheid_ he was benefitting from was stopped. I live in Durban btw.

    • @ButteredPecan17
      @ButteredPecan17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@miss_pearl Go into all bIack areas then sweetie XD

    • @miss_pearl
      @miss_pearl หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ButteredPecan17I live in all black areas. What are you talking about?

  • @paulyg37
    @paulyg37 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    When you said, "We are going to work together to make a bright future", it really hit home. I was in my first class of primary school in 94. We truly believed that SA was going to be a rainbow nation that saw a bright future.

    • @shadowandflame99
      @shadowandflame99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      So many of us in the rest of the world hoped/believed in that future for South Africa too. It's incredibly sad how that dream seems to have turned to ashes. I hope somehow the people there can turn things around one day.

    • @jacodevnik9883
      @jacodevnik9883 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was always going to turn to shit, it was always very clear what would happen after the blacks communists took power!

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      The future of every "rainbow nation"...

    • @YouAreStillNotablaze
      @YouAreStillNotablaze ปีที่แล้ว

      @@titanomachy2217 So the immigrants should leave then? Not that I think that's the answer, but uuh...
      Sorry, I'm here in NYC.

    • @samwindmill8264
      @samwindmill8264 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      ​@@titanomachy2217 it's got nothing to do with them proclaiming themselves a "rainbow nation" and everything to do with corruption, continuing racial tensions, and poverty

  • @googlinstuff8910
    @googlinstuff8910 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It is so important that this information gets out. You have credibility, thank you for doing this.

  • @richardduplessis1090
    @richardduplessis1090 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Mapogo" has been described by a farmer that used their services as "An African solution to an African problem".

  • @witsend008
    @witsend008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I followed many of your reports about China. Having lived most of my adult life in South Africa , having seen the South Africa before Mandela and his communist cohorts came to power and the aftermath of more than 20 years of misgovern by the present ANC government I can endorse every word you spoke. Interesting : when I attempted to write a more direct and descriptive version of my comment about the negative activities of the ANC government and its effect on all of South Africa TH-cam seemed to have prevented me from doing so.

    • @seriouscat2231
      @seriouscat2231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      There are always a few key words or phrases it will catch after twenty seconds or so. To avoid that, have a copy of your comment somewhere and replace those key words with more innocuous counterparts. And reload your comment in another tab after a minute or so (right-click or middle-click the timestamp) to see if it stuck.

    • @DELTA9XTC
      @DELTA9XTC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@seriouscat2231 sometimes my comments look like literal code or hieroglyphs after editing them until they wouldnt get deleted anymore

    • @brmbkl
      @brmbkl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what did you like about the governments before Mandela?
      how were their economic policies of the predecessors able to prevent what happened with the ANC?
      genuinely interested

    • @sungan1
      @sungan1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly the only really huge problem about it was the racism/segregation other than that there was probably corruption and stuff like other governments but now the corruption has increased this is mainly one of the reasons the poverty rates have increased these increased poverty rates have lead to more people leading to crime and that is one of the many reasons why this government is kak

    • @srijanthapa1437
      @srijanthapa1437 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow a white apartheid supporter who follows serpentza

  • @AquitaineKing
    @AquitaineKing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow! Thanks for sharing that with us Winston. Must have been very traumatising for all concerned and goes a long way in explaining the hurt and deep Well of emotion that is never that far away in your eyes.
    God Bless you. Love you Guys and the work you do!!

  • @tonysmith8379
    @tonysmith8379 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting video. You're a good storyteller. Your China videos are quite eye opening. People who have not traveled much can live vicariously through your videos. Cheers from Australia.

  • @oteimoto85
    @oteimoto85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Opening a tin of sardines with a pick axe is literally a perfect analogy for the intelligence of the people now running SA.

  • @madharaboy
    @madharaboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Interesting how a series of small decisions and coincidences could add up to lives saved. Glad things mostly worked out

  • @Charles-rx5cz
    @Charles-rx5cz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    your life stories are extremely interesting. This is a favorite channel of mine and has been for a couple years. Rocking with you from Boston, MA!

  • @FREE_CHINA
    @FREE_CHINA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks for condensing the stream down to a shorter video but to be honest I watched both! Really harrowing stuff mate. A good lesson for us all not to take things for granted. Cheers.

  • @phoebeloveskpop4104
    @phoebeloveskpop4104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    You took me from China to SA and opened my eyes to another world that I was not familiar with… amazing stories and gives me goose bumps just thinking about the home invasion and the attempted plot by staff…. Cheers and keep vlogging

  • @johnwheatley1550
    @johnwheatley1550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I've already watched everything on your old man's channel - best storytelling on TH-cam, hands down. Highly recommended for evening easy-listening.

    • @Joemantler
      @Joemantler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Easy-listening", yes. He has the most relaxed way of telling about the time he was almost eaten by lions! :)
      I really do like his stories, too!

  • @stuart1001
    @stuart1001 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I met a brown South African at work in Australia. I am an Aussie. I have been friends with him for over 10 years now. Anyway, he told me stories and has shown me his stab wounds (3) I can't believe that's the way they live. The culture isn't healthy.
    He is the most placid guy and fun to be around. Glad I met him.

  • @CharlesFreck
    @CharlesFreck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Meeting a guy who grew up in South Africa (and becoming good friends with him) was wild. It made me truly realise how messed up the world is even in places you don't think of as 'dangerous' or 'sh*tholes'. How much danger most of the world lives in is crazy. It was also enlightening hearing about Nelson Mandela from a South African, instead of the school system. Funny how he was always portrayed as a hero, and then every South African I've ever met considers him a terrorist, and talks about him with more disgust then I've ever heard an American talk about Bin Laden.

    • @maadtee6281
      @maadtee6281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are they white people who say that cause they usually hate him

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a terrorist. He just objectively was. Doesn't matter what your cause is, if you use violence in pursuit of a political goal that categorically makes you a terrorist. The mainstream portrayal of Nelson Mandela is pure grade A horse shit.

    • @YouAreStillNotablaze
      @YouAreStillNotablaze ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Or you know, it could be the situation and ANC of Mandela's time is different from the situation now, it's one of those things that are pretty complicated as to how things got how they are. When you look at how they treated the Black Africans, and how hard they wanted to hold to that, of course there would be a lot of propaganda aimed at that opposition that gets passed down through generations, especially in the face of the failure in SA over so many years, makes it easier to believ that. The problem is that's too easy, and the situation is so much more complex that that.

    • @samwindmill8264
      @samwindmill8264 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@YouAreStillNotablaze Mandela was an interesting guy. He was a Marxist, but he didn't seek to govern South Africa as a Marxist or communist country when he became the leader. Of course he wasn't perfect, I mean he even named a son or grandson after Muammar Gaddafi! (As a tribute because Gaddafi had helped finance the ANC when they were still considered a terrorist organisation, as Gaddafi did with a potpourri of terrorist and insurgent groups across the world)

    • @dxfifa
      @dxfifa ปีที่แล้ว

      South Africa is both dangerous and 90% shit hole in developed areas. It shouldn't surprise anyone

  • @majorkramer
    @majorkramer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Love to listen to your stories. A lot of people do not realise how good we have it here in Canada so I'm glad to here your experience. I'm glad everything worked out for you, you seem like a good person & I wish you great present & future.

    • @basedpatriotLT
      @basedpatriotLT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      but Libbynada is welcoming more and more of these kinds of "society enrichers", so you never know how long the safety will last

    • @Gunship888
      @Gunship888 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahah have fun until you’re overran with immigrants like America Germany Sweden etc., your crime will skyrocket soon. Move further north maybe.

    • @chrystianaw8256
      @chrystianaw8256 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@basedpatriotLT lybbinada?😂

    • @basedpatriotLT
      @basedpatriotLT ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrystianaw8256 Yes, woke country

  • @Joemantler
    @Joemantler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I love your Dad's stories! His way of speaking is very pleasant, so I can listen to it while I'm doing other things. And the stories are great entertaining! Some are heard rending, some hilarious... But all the ones he has up so far are well worth listening to!

  • @emilysandstrom2476
    @emilysandstrom2476 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Exactly that happens in the godforsaken remote tiny town my husband was lured to. Lure a rich person to buy a ranch or business, kill them, and take it over since you own the courthouse. He was killed, the house was arsoned, and I stayed when I was supposed to run for them to finish the job.

    • @flyversusfly76
      @flyversusfly76 ปีที่แล้ว

      I bet that Story would be interesting to tell on youtube. Sorry for your loss.

  • @johngammon963
    @johngammon963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Telling the truth as always, you're a credit to your dad mate