KwaMagxaki - What Is It Really Like To Live There?

I drove through KwaMagxaki township in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). The township was established in 1985, its said to be the second highest income black township in Nelson Mandela Bay’s townships. #gqeberha #portelizabeth #southafrica #sharethebay #kwamagxaki

[@MagdaleneBonapart]

Beautiful place. 🙏👍

[@aphiwesuka4743]

I love this video 🎉

[@olivemeni2838]

Thanks for the lovely content, and for showing Gqebera.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Truly grateful, God bless you 🙏🙏🙏

[@terrismzantsi9648]

One of the beautiful Townships in Mzantsi.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Yes that's very true, beautiful and clean... 👌👌👌

[@subzeromidnight5388]

That was quite short😅. But to answer your question, Kwamagxaki is the best place to raise a black child if you want to have suburb lifestyle and not pay suburb rates and taxes and maintaining xhosa culture. The place was built in the late 80s for the new black middle class under apartheid government.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

I thought as much but then again people general view up to 3 minutes, so I thought a short, sweet and precise one would be OK, thanks for watching, bless🙏

[@LuFromThe041]

Also do a video of Kwadwesi.

[@jabulanithema1467]

To be honest, I have never heard of this township before, yet it's so beautiful. Watching from Pretoria.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Apparently it's very beautiful classy and clean, it is in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape.

[@thandokazimagopheni8004]

The beginning of this video is my street, aka the main road through KwaMagxaki called Ralo Street. I live here and to be honest, it was such an amazing and safe suburbial township up until 2015 when petty crimes started coming up. Now we have amaphara. But fun fact for some, KwaMagxaki was actually called Lakeside up until 1994 and got a name change to KwaMagxaki as I believe (stand to be corrected) the first resident here were the Magxaki family. This area was specifically designated as an area for first black police officers and soldiers during the apartheid time since they were not safe within the New Brighton townships. From 1985 it expanded to all black government employees such as doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. and eventually black upper middle class professionals. Basically a "you made it" type of area before moving to the white surburbs.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Thanks Thandokazi for that brief and interesting history of the KwaMagxaki... Apparently it remains one of the most beautiful Suburbia Townships that I know in the Eastern Cape, very clean and beautiful, do you perhaps know of any of the Celebrities that came out of this townships, if so please share some names, as we celebrate this beautiful neighborhood. 🎉🎉🙏🙏

[@thandokazimagopheni8004]

@@thegreatafrikanchannel No problem. Yeah, we've got a few celebrities: Masasa Mbangeni (actress on Scandal, The Republic), Luthando Shosha (aka LootLove presenter from Live and Channel O), Siyabonga Ngwekazi (aka Scoop Makhathini, actor & presenter), Olwethu Leshabane (blogger; also was on RHOJ), Ziphozakhe Zokufa (Model & Miss SA 2014 after Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World), Siyabonga Deli (aka Ta Fire, comic social media actor) Nambitha Ben-Mazwi (actress; she grew up between here and New Brighton before moving to the UK; Ben Mazwi street named after her grandmother) and lastly Kuhle Adams (presenter).

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Thanks so much for sharing @Thandokazi Magopheni, you have a rich history of that place and your way of writing is interesting. Do you perhaps write books?...
Many thanks for your time 🙏🙏

[@siyandakobokana8697]

Kwamagxaki I once stayed in Frans street and the place was extremely beautiful I hope that it is still preserved because I have heard that there has been a degeneration

[@zazimazi9265]

​@@thandokazimagopheni8004isn't dini nondumo from kwa magxaki and lonwabo tsotsobe

[@sihlemondi6363]

It's very clean...

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

True, it's very clean👌👌👌

[@Spokie23]

❤Thank you for this video made me miss my granny so much.

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Truly grateful fam, enough respect 🙏🙏

[@siyandakobokana8697]

I think there needs to be a history of such beautiful black townships

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Totally agree with you on that, do you perhaps know of someone with better history of townships around PE maybe?

[@TobaniNgwenze]

Zwide

[@thegreatafrikanchannel]

Are you from Zwide?

[@TobaniNgwenze]

Betram Road

[@lonwabobudaza5493]

Gxak Town