The Dangerous Hillbrow at Night, Johannesburg✔
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History
Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb laid on government owned land called Randjeslaagte that now makes up the Johannesburg CBD. It was a triangular shaped piece of waste land not used for farming and the future suburb lies in the northern apex of the triangle. The origin of its name is simple, the suburb lies on the brow of the east west mountain ridge that crosses the Johannesburg CBD. It was laid out as a suburb in during 1894-95.
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Hillbrow gets mixed reviews. On the one hand people won't go near it. They speak about extreme levels of crime, high-rise apartment blocks jammed with migrants and refugees, hijackings, murder and prostitution.
Hillbrow, they say, is a place of alarming crime statistics and new year parties where couches, fridges and TVs get thrown out of windows. An inner-city lawlessness reigns unchecked. Some call it the crime capital of the city.
BBC Two ran a documentary in 2007, called Law and Disorder in Johannesburg revealing the state of lawlessness in parts of the city, particularly Hillbrow; Lauren Beukes' Zoo City, is set in Hillbrow.
On the other hand, others remember it differently. During apartheid, and predominantly a white neighbourhood, it was known for its tolerance; regarded as one of the few 'grey' areas, where different ethnic communities hung out in a politically progressive and cosmopolitan society. It had a hip, artistic and creative community, and the streets buzzed until all hours.
And things have changed since 2007.
Now community initiatives try to curb crime and keep the streets clean, like Ekhaya Neighbourhood; walking tours are offered by organisations such as Dlala Nje, a regeneration programme trying to change the face of Hillbrow and Ponte - the tallest high-rise cylindrical building that dominates the inner city skyline, along with the Hillbrow Tower with its highly visible pink ball; the violent crime rate is down, and new year's celebrations are less chaotic.
Buildings have been reclaimed from their hijackers (groups of criminals who take over buildings from their landlords by force) and remodelled. But not all the buildings are safe, or clean. The improvement, whilst happening, is gradual.
Hillbrow relies heavily on civic partnership, policing forum volunteers and the community for its improvement as there is evidence of police corruption - drug deals go down in full sight of police vehicles, children play in parks whilst drug dealers do deals, prostitutes walk the streets.
The suburb is still troubled by poverty, overpopulation and crime.
As a visitor, get in touch with Dlala Nje, the Lutheran Community Outreach foundation, the Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust, or Joburg Places - for walking tours. It is not safe to walk through Hillbrow on your own, but those who have been say that if you get the opportunity, you should go.
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You can't see anything at night. Go during the daytime. That's when it's sad.
This guy is a bit too excited
I SPENT SOME TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA AND I USED TO WALK THROUGH HILLBROW AT NIGHT AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENED TO ME. HOWEVER IVE SEEN PEOPLE GET MUGGED BUT ITS NO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENS IN ANY MAJOR CITY. THE GUY IN THIS VIDEO DOESN'T APPEAR TO KNOW THE AREA WELL....THERES A STEREOTYPE ABOUT THE AREA THAT IS OFTEN EXAGGERATED. STUFF HAPPENS SO YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL BUT ITS NOT AS BAD AS ITS MADE TO SEEM
Having lived for over 3 years in Hillbrow back 50 years ago, I can tell you that Hillbrow was the place for artists, writers and creative people and was far, far safer to walk around than the no-go zone it has now become. However, people should be aware that Hillbrow covers a very small land area, about a square kilometer, and its claim to fame in those days was that it was South Africa's only high rise area.
I totally agree.
was a foreign student in SA for four years....walked Marabastaad at 8pm alone...my first time in Jozi CBD l was dropped off in hillbrow alone and had a R7000 DSLR camera on me and l had to get local folk to talk on camera...nothing bad happened to me.
I fell in love with the CBD after that day. I actually miss jozi
most accurate description yet
It actually doesn't look that bad at night, better to go there during the day. It's not a safe place though, anyone would agree.
The only dangerous person I saw was you skipping red traffic lights.
😂 😂 😹
Damn noise from that old bakkie, no-one gonna hijack that piece of junk, for sho!
🤣
Just drove through today (daytime) interesting place. But not unlike Chicago’s south side, parts of Jersey or South Central Los Angeles even.
Wtf.. looks like an American hood
American hoods look like our suburbs please 😹😹
Yes, we are quite developed too 😌
@@CAN-kv6kc no they look more like Cape flats
Don't compare SA suburbs with American ghettos🙄
@@legowhall2370 tsek American
@@CAN-kv6kc American hoods look like the suburbs in your area🙄
I wonder which village is that
The place can use additional lighting and housekeeping . Those stats are not false as it is reported cases . I have seen robbery occur while a TH-camr wasps recording . And heard of two complaints in Jeppe . Mostly they are after ladies bags and cell phones .
i salute you guys for your courage and bravery
even by car are dangerous?
or stupidity
Hillbrow r.i.p.
Driving in a taxi huh lol yeah ....Thats why theres no *danger* poser
Easy to talk tough on the internet, bet you wouldn't walk around there at night
Pipe down tough guy.
@@Ltcoombs1 Who me ...obviously not im not an idiot lol
Only a druggie will walk there at nyt
@@Ltcoombs1 ppl p
I'm only on watching this video cuz my friends and I were attacked by almost ten men last night just after the rugby world cup.. That was my first and last time in those streets in the night time.. Thank God none of us were hurt
What's up with so much noise from your car🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
An old rust bakkie I had😂😂 the engine eventually died.
@@Livinginsatv 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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the person yu were driving with doeznt really know where really action takes place,there are hotspots,u shudv turned right at the robot(@9:29)& joined a street called quartz,thatz the street where thez high crime,ask any1 frm Hillas abwt a building called Vannin(its full of thugz)theyll tell/show u the real action,thatz where they hide,not this vid wch jus showz ppl walking njee.As of today jus witnessed atleast 6/7 robberies @qurtz...so next time when yu want to do something betta than this vid,get someone who know places en peopl,of hillbrow and do a proffessional documentary abwt this place and its ppl.u left the viewers hanging,they wanted to see the real thing,whilst the place i mentioned(quartz strt,,,u cannot stand fo 30 mins withaut witnessing robbery,drug sllng,two-finger(pickpocketing),Vice,guns etc i cannot finish typng... ayyi
I stayed there for a while in the 80’s. It was rough then but you could walk the streets at night. There was a night club at the top of a flight of stairs that the bouncers would assault drunks before they threw them down them. I paid by the month at theHuguenot Hotel on Claim St, and drank there mainly. Saw a few fights. I would ask the white barman for a beer, he would turn around and tell a little black guy to get it, the little black guy would hand it to the barman who would give it to me. I also frequented the Gypsyville Tavern around the corner run by a notorious hard Galswegian called Danny Bonner. We got pissed up a few times in that place and went for a late party drink in Soweto. People there were drunk and friendly. I thank God I am still alive sometimes. The things we do when we are young and drunk and adventurous.
Thanks for your comment Kieran. Very interesting.
so did i i am mafuta, or andre who are you kc
I used to hang out in the Huguenot as well in the eighties bet i'd recognise you in an old photo As you mentioned so much of what I remember Used to hang out with a guy called Marcus and lived in Alexandra st brerea -- I was glad to get out in the end during my time the white barman was either gus the italian or kiwi the NZ guy said he was ex SAS but they all said that or they were IRA on the run
Hachi Maru I think it might have been the Newzelander. A guy in his 40’s. There was a big blond old guy always at the bar that used to take the piss out of him. The barman beat him up one night.
Do you remember the guy who had the JCB’s? It may have been McGee. Quite a character.
I lived at the hotel. Used to get work from the Scottish recruitment guys at Hilltop shopping and business centre.
Do you remember the night club at the top of the stairs? Rough as fuck but a good laugh.
And the Portahouse Stakes. Great.
@@hachimaru295 he’s still waiting on a reply mate
"Gee Jou Hart Vir Hillbrow."
This really doesn't look much different from a typical US city in terms of blight. Try driving through Over-the-Rhine, the Bronx or north St. Louis and it literally looks like a cartoon ghetto.
😂😂. You guys are funny
I think it won’t be safe for me at all to go there.. but you made a great work to share so much useful information about it
If you up grade this place to a redlight district like in frankfurt germany or amsterdam neatherlands, it could be a place for a goodnight life but of course you need good security first. If you made a nice strip along some road with strip clubs night clubs and brothels it could make good business. The repperbahn part of town in hamburg germany use to have a bad reputation back in the days and now it´s one of the known redlight districts in europe.
crazy how these guys are stopping at the red robots
Hillbrow kinda Looks like hackney (London endz) or de Bijlmer (Amsterdam endz)
Hackney is a playground compared to hillbrow
@@skakshaun9339 ik, dem flats are looking similair
ja hillbrow lijk op bijlmermeer holland amsterdam
People have been milking this city to its last drop man many have come n gone n it keeps getting worse day by day
Looks just like New York City Lmao
I am glad you got my joke🤣
Livinginsa tv lol
Johannesburg is “The New York of Africa”.
@@flip1sba johànnesburg will just be johànnesburg new York Wil be new York
@@luoyi8537 but still the economic powerhouse of all African cities.
You guys just a shot a red robot lol
I would never have stopped.
These are areas where we normal people don't feel like staying but passing thru i don't have any.problem
Don't judge until you know what made those people abnormal, as you call them.
@@legend_m1016 ur absolutely right.evryones goes thru that
It looks like east Hastings Vancouver
This is sad, but was to be expected, after the change in power. I lived in Hillbrow for a year in the early 80s (Kapteinstreet) and worked in the Carlton Hotel. You occaisionally heard gunshots at night, even then. Sometimes you could see the bulletholes in windows of stores. White people were allowed to open carry handguns then, and many did. Still, I felt safe anywhere, any time. Black people had to be out of town at night, unless they had a permit from their employer and were commuting to or from work. News has rung out to the world telling what a sh'thole SA has now become.
Good for you yet there were gun shots all around Joburg townships from the same people who governed in the 80,s riding is yellow vans terrorizing citizens. You of course didn't see that because you were protected. I did.
@@legend_m1016 Not really, if black people were shooting each other in the townships the yellow vans didn’t care much about that and if they were shooting at anyone it’s probably because they were up to no good.
nghlula lah mangfuna ukudla kweznja kuphela
Shutdowns on criminals for put bad area and put military to clean up this area instead of police
kkkkk lol
Ita not bad anymore now its better
Omg put some grease on that clutch pedal
The Russian accent is beautiful this guy was probably smoking a cigarette and wearing adidas during the filming
accent is not Russian its Afrikans the racist white folks language.
@@kdeez4971 Nope, sorry but that comment tells me that you've never really heard an Afrikaner accent. Also, generalising Afrikaners as racists is further indicative of your lack of knowledge.
@@kdeez4971 Uhm Noooooo Not Afrikaans and sorry unfortunatly im not white i am african ! Racist comrade
You all got it wrong the Accent is Portuguese his from Portugal.
This is Los Angeles
Worse my friend
His never been there but he says worse what joke u heard stories
Hillbrow often gets criticised go to small street my friend.
...lt is bad, l agree, but not the worst in the world...
Stop painting people bad
Shut up
Yeah they like painting people bad out here
Hillbrow is nothing compared to Cape Flats and Compton, La etc in America. There's big gangs in America.
You got no clue mate then. Not saying that's safe but shit goes down terribly in hillbrow
@@tristankeuning boss I grew up with bad friends, thugs, gangsters you name it. This place is nothing to me!! I'm like 2pac not scared to die and have no fear in my heart. I use to walk with my one homie in the night in Hillbrow with my phone and gold chains. They look for easy targets, I did boxing since 2010. Not afraid of nothing! But now I changed I don't go all these places anymore.
@@tristankeuning if a place was that vicious you wouldn't see no one at the street.
@@tristankeuning u don’t Joburg boy 😂😂😂😂
@@morefifacollege8971 u watch too much tv
Well, it is definitely not an analog of New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx or otherwise), Los Angeles, or most other U.S. cities that you mentioned. It is, however, an interesting video. The car you're riding in adds interesting audio elements. LOL
Andy Anderson the car sounds bad
Yeah 😂😂 nobody wants to steal that thing from the Sound of it 😂
suprised they didnt jack this dork 😂
Hillbrow is safe South Africa is not im always walking in hillbrow loving comunity ...this guy is seeking views .. hillbrow actually cool
Statistics say otherwise
thanks for wasting everyone's time here.
Dead city.
Of to Australia
I don't why whites complain you have choice to move out either Europe USA or Australia if still love Africa mybe Cape Town coz is segregated there you fit in nice.
@@tfmkhonza5084 I live in the United States and I have the right to criticize your city because I have been to Johannesburg and I have encountered the neglected and unresolved issues of the cleanliness of the city, which is full of debris. To the crime problem in this city Throughout my time in the city, I have been warned by my friends and local guide to be careful not to walk alone in this city. This is the sad things your government should handle. What I blame you and your government is because you should pay attention and solve the problems that arise for your country to develop, your comment is like you are proud to be an undeveloped African country like any other countries in this continent is, Why don't you take the comment to improve your country? You guys, you don't improve as today, is because you are only angry with these criticisms.
@@veronicalake4140 as if America is any better. Joburg depends where you stay. There are places for wealthy ppl.
What danger u r showing to us. wasted our time......and also u lost ur sleep.........
pull out something valuable there will be someone with a gun right at your window