Boy, did we hate those ad breaks back then with a seemingly endless string interrupting the programming.....! Who would have thought back then that 33 years later you would click to tune in purely to watch a string of adds....!? Life's funny like that....!
Daniel Coetzee there are good reason for ads break. Because channel logo disappeared after 10-15Min of program show. It’s help with Plasma and OLED Screen Burn-In.
I wish to find at least documented information about the rivalry between Boer & Brits in South Africa. During the oppression and today. How do you guys get along?
@MrMyopinionsmatter My great grandmother was the daughter of one of Gen De Wets brothers....she was interred in the Krugersdorp concentration camp and told how the Brits put broken glass in the mealie meal (pap)….so ...theres one instance of the origin of the hatred....
@@jjcale539 Really? Then my family was descended from a long line of Mayan royalty and they were conquered by the Spaniards. Nothing personal because we knew Montezuma was no match for Cortez and so, we ran for the hills.
It's easier, from my observations as English speaking in South Africa, for a Dutch person to understand Afrikaans, than for an Afrikaner to understand Dutch. I incidentally have a Dutch/Afrikaans Dictionary that is about 1 cm thick. With that understanding - it is also with speaking. Often it's not necessarily what the Dutch person said, but how it was said - the accent.
+Kelly Dunn What do you mean by saying 1987 rocks? Do you mean that it Rocks because Black South Africans weren't included in the South Africa's television ads?
you need to wakeup....you are still in the past if you cant stand why not find a place where u will be free of us "Daakies" your hatrate for us"Daakies"will take you no where but age you faster.....we are happy and thats what matters and we will build our rainbow dream and it doesnt matter how long it takes us so pls you need to join us or stand aside simple
I am sure Anton Olwage just wanted to share the memories of TV in the 80 and how it has evolved. Trust us to turn this into a racial conflict. But i enjoyed it, (the ads not aparteit)
Idk.. BUT if u have a dirty mind,.. it's super OBVIOUS on what he's portraying at.. lmao if youtube was created back then.. and it was mostly for channel adverts.. this COMPANY would surely be demonitized**_In a basic-.nuthsell.. the guy at _**_1:58_**_ was holding a paint roller brush standing like a pp_**
You should check oaut the 60's ad where a woman lies next to a vacuum cleaner complete with a red ribbon on it. The ad reads"get your wife a Hoover this Christmas"..... Lol.
The adverts looks like a badly (broken) Dutch dubbed, bizarre that Afrikaans was very similar to Dutch but there is a mix with English, and even Indonesian words on Afrikaans as well (baie and piesang). A very good adverts, btw, even though on apartheid era and even some economic sanctions at South Africa at this time. I'm from Indonesia and I enjoy your video.
Well, it's wonderful that at the time, people weren't suspicious of older men kissing children. Today peole automatically assume the worst, almost as if it is invetable that a crime would be committed.
Fun fact, the toilet tissue at Checkers was priced at R 9.99 At the time 1 U.S. Dollar cost approximately R 1.96 Therefore 4 rolls of twin ply toilet tissue was approximately $ 5.10 in 1987 if purchased at Checkers. $ 5.10 today is approximately R 95.50 The actual cost of a comparative deal at Checkers today is half the price at R 43.00 This also makes no allowance for inflationary increases during this same period, this particular example is an exception though.
This is a very short version of the reason why, there is a very long legal explanation, in those days it was illegal for the various retail supermarkets to advertise branded goods due to the strange competition laws, so each product had to have the brand names obscured. I my younger days in advertising I remember spending hours doing this, invariably after an aspiring account executive gave us the products to “dress” the night before the TV shoot. Oh happy days! In the early late 80s or early 90s the competition laws were relaxed and the supermarkets could advertise freely with the brand names on display. So the voice over artist could now stop saying, “Famous name fizzy cola”, and rather say “Pepsi” for example. TV commercials that only advertised one product at a time could say the product name. Strange but true.
Thanks Kevin! I now work as a lawyer in the UK and, though it's not my area of law, being used to the liberal advertising regime here that sounds pretty draconian. Thank goodness times have changed
@@abinashmishra329 the coloreds are multiracial South Africans (part white, part black). Under apartheid they were a bit better off than blacks, though they still were oppressed
03;28 VHS video cassette tapes for R12.99 each....! I still have a ton of these tapes with programmes taped from live TV and paid channels (movies, documentaries, rugby etc). I can't get myself so far as to just chuck them into the garbage as I do not have any use for them anymore.....! Some have only been used once or twice and are still in good condition. Anyone with a working video recorder who can appreciate them is welcome to them. The charity shop is not allowed to sell if it has taped programming on.
the only bad thing SA back then had if im understanding history right, was racism. if only it didn't exist, at least as law, then SA would of been a great country. it had an amazing economy and quality of life
The prblm was the majority in a race that undermined another one with greed and also manipulated the indigenous group to split and develop differences against each other. If a Boer says he hate Brits while he also hate Blacks it makes me wonder if he would ever be fit in any National harmony activity like singing the diversified National Anthem. I love SA history for it is real, I do not encourage favouritism based on race nor tribe. If we still undermine others' mother tongue or have much favour on others mother tongues, harmony will not be easily achieved, in essence it would always be a vicious cycle of blame
Oh my WORD!!!! Someone shares old memories with no intentions but to remember what was aired years ago and what happens???? It's racist again..... If you don't want to see it go watch some other video. The world don't have to come to a stand stil because of apartheid! The world is now getting tired of the so called apartheid victims that still cries and blames. Its not like you did anything to better yourself after apartheid ended... So please stop. Anyway, great video.
TV started in SA in 1977... I still remember listening to the radio in the "pre-TV" days... we had an old black and white one which lasted for years and years. Good memories
Shelley Hugill Reading up about that on Wikipedia, it seemed the government at the time was very concerned about introducing TV for a long time due to what influences it might bring.
I can well believe that Christopher Sobieniak. Even after the introduction of TV, it was still very 'conservative' and strictly controlled by the SABC. I find it quite amusing, the number of programmes that were shown but dubbed into Afrikaans. Million Dollar Man, Grizzly Adams, Thunderbirds... What they couldn't control was the number of illegal videos which flooded into the country, mostly British comedy recorded (badly) from Christmas specials by expats returning to South Africa on holiday.
That's wrong, Afrikaans is only spoken by Afrikaaners they live all over SA, mainly of Dutch, German and French background. It's a dying language mixture of all those languages similar to Flemish.
Anybody noticed how many people post on this video about Afrikaans as if it was just now discovered. As if it's unbelievable that there is a language in South Africa sounding similar to Dutch. Omg.
Of course Afrikaans developed from Dutch. That's why you can easily understand dutch if you speak Afrikaans and it's easier to learn German (related to Dutch) for Afrikaans speakers than for instance English speakers.
Dat is waar, Belstar. In Den Haag kon ek binne enkele minute tot verhalen kwam. In Noord-Nederland (Groeningen) hebt mijn begript van Duits meer gehelp. OP die Grens met Belgie het ek een skryfster van jeuglektuur ontmoet. Haar woorde aan mij was dat vroeger was die dubbele ontkennede "nie" van Afrikaans ook eers een streekstaal daar -eeuwe geleden. (1) Dit is eigentlijk een groot jammerte dat Nederland nie schole aan die Kaap gevestig het nie. (2) Daarbij moet die Engelse-only-language nie vergeet word nie. (3) Een verder saak is Nederland se ondersteuning van om Wit mense/ Apartheid dood te maak.
No, there were TV programs and commercials in English at that point in time as well. Where were you then? in Lisbon? Madeira? Or, you were either too small then, or not born yet?
I'm from SA. It was not all Afrikaans. It was split between Afrikaans and English, as the only two official languages back then. Today we have 11 official languages that include the African ones.
In the mid 80s, you started getting more channels that were more representative, TV 2 and TV 3,i remember, but normal TV when I was a kid only started at 5pm....and only 1 channel. Later they introduced school holiday TV where TV started at 2 or 3pm and lunchtime. Most people listened to radio in the 70s and early 80s.
nobody complained about balance in lingustics during apartheid. why should ya'll complain that a country whose consumer market comprises of majority black people is using their language to communicate with them. Go to the Netherlands you fucking crackhead- bigfoot neanderthal.
A little late, but if you still want to know: The two on the stage are displaying the shirts, asking if the other can see a difference between the shirts. The presenter says their clients asked what's the difference between the new ABC laundry detergent and some other brand (I'm assuming he was referring to the "best" detergent on the market). The lady then says she can't se a difference and asks if there even is. He then says the difference is the amount of money you will save buying ABC (the stamp says GROOT BESPARINGS = BIG SAVINGS) He then says you not only save money, but will still have your laundry be clean and white. Back to the two on stage; the one says the women can't see a difference and asks the other if he can see. The presenter then ends with, "why pay more? Buy ABC".
Good register. The South African country then seemed functional, although economically (and morally) its system was already unsustainable. Well, historical context aside... apparently these ads were shown on a channel for the Afrikaans and English community (although there are native speakers in 2 ads in this section), just as there were other channels where they advertised for speakers of other native languages.
I guess that the lady at 3:00 is coloured! because she is speaking afrikáans and black south africans don't speak it! now, I wonder.... if there was a racist political segregation like Apartheid back then, why White people put some coloured woman in their TV ads?? I thought it was for White people only... so afrikáners actually weren't THAT racist against the other races, I mean... they were only against black people or what?
+Amanda Bellini the structure of apartheid was to devide and concour... so you would say... White > All (*but Afr > Eng) then Indian > Coloured > Natives (* Zulu > Xhosa > Sotho... etc) which was sad times really.
+Amanda Bellini These commercials were also made towards the end of apartheid, so you've got to take that into consideration. In the years leading up to apartheid being abolished, apartheid was becoming less and less tolerated.
The thing about apartheid-era SA is that white people were legally at the top and everyone else occupied different strata below them. Bi/multi-racial/"colored" people, South Asian people, and East Asian people (except the Japanese and maybe the Taiwanese, people from those countries were decreed honorary whites) got less legal priviledges than white people but more than black people. All the few nonwhite people in this batch of ads seem to be in menial/subservient positions compared to the white people (in the same ads). The colored/black lady at 3:00 seems to be some sort of flower-seller, and the black people in the jazzy piano ad are all background musicians/singers for the white couple who are singing at the piano.
@@sardoruzbek6409 Pretty much yeah. But the English eventually pushed for non censorship and won. Nowadays anything can be seen on national television.
wow kinda trippy to see how tv was in the year I was born... it's so weird to see just white ppl in all ads. but damn, look at those prices...yoh. hahaha. 👍👍
hahahah 01:19 the old cool curtsey....lol the sexism....i cant! OMG Mystique by Lentheric --- 04:24 n geur wat mans sal onthou a frangrance men will remember!!!! Kwaaaaa
This language isn't Dutch and has very little mutual understandability (most white South Africans are Huguenots, unfortunately French was lost), in 1905 this was recognized as the world's newest language. Flemish is the closest, and if a Belgian speaks slowly it is just possible to understand them. Dutch is very old-fashioned and rather grandiose while Afrikaans is modern and phonetic. There are five nations that can read each other's newspapers, Norwegian, Southern Danish, Dutch, Flemish and South African. German (Saxon) is even more old-fashioned and heavy-weighted than Dutch although many Dutch speak directly to the Germans with little effort. These five are the Anglo-Saxon group; only 14% of Southern British are overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, blonde hair, blue eyes, fine bone-structure: David Beckham, Kate Moss and Twiggy. The English are only called Anglo Saxon because of the barbarity of the Dark Ages there. In other words its an insult. The real England is Jutland which used to be called Engeland, Land of the Angels. The five languages are uniformly ugly, forcefully direct and double-negatived, and following King James 1 and his Bible are quite differentt to English. French is the strongest influence on Jacobean English, spoken by 2.25 billion people on earth. Afrikaans is very direct, explaining the tactlessness and lack of diplomacy the white South Africans are famous for. (And the failure of their minority government to explain its position internationally and consequently their obliteration as an over 500-year-old nation. The Portuguese genetic inheritance is always there.) If you can't communicate you're dead and this language is a barrier to communication, they fell out with the English speaking world and so they're finished, having made a pig-headed virtue of standing alone.
Boy, did we hate those ad breaks back then with a seemingly endless string interrupting the programming.....!
Who would have thought back then that 33 years later you would click to tune in purely to watch a string of adds....!?
Life's funny like that....!
Daniel Coetzee there are good reason for ads break. Because channel logo disappeared after 10-15Min of program show. It’s help with Plasma and OLED Screen Burn-In.
Hating the youtube ad breaks just as much now! But memory lane stuff!
Hey! The mother in the Casio advert was my catechism teacher! Ha ha ha! I never recognized her in it before. Brings back memories :'D
You are lying
@@jandevry3985 Why would I lie about something like that? 🤣 What would be the point? She was a really nice lady, by the way.
@@JennRose7 The probability is very small
@@jandevry3985 Not really. We're not talking Hollywood here. Anyway, believe it or not. Makes no difference to my life either way.
@@JennRose7 You are an angry little girl
This sounds almost exactly like the official Dutch spoken in Belgium, especially like 1980s Belgian Dutch.
Very funky how there's a colored screen animation between each ad as opposed to a regular black screen!
Omg 00:30 is my brother. Was randomly wondering if some of his ads are on here
My Afrikaans is kak but did that Standard Bank ad say 12.5% interest???
Damn that’s insane!
Yes it said 12.5 Rente
Dankie vir dit ,dit bring trug baie memories van my kindheid
Was lovely to see these again. Did my schooling in Afrikaans because of the Anglo boer war my grandfather hated the British.
I wish to find at least documented information about the rivalry between Boer & Brits in South Africa. During the oppression and today. How do you guys get along?
@MrMyopinionsmatter My great grandmother was the daughter of one of Gen De Wets brothers....she was interred in the Krugersdorp concentration camp and told how the Brits put broken glass in the mealie meal (pap)….so ...theres one instance of the origin of the hatred....
@@jjcale539 Really? Then my family was descended from a long line of Mayan royalty and they were conquered by the Spaniards. Nothing personal because we knew Montezuma was no match for Cortez and so, we ran for the hills.
@@linkskywalker5417 yes and I can prove it
@@jjcale539 What's your proof? I ask because I think your claim is ridiculous
The psychology behind these ads were quite interesting coming from a 20 year old point of view
wel grappig om te zien ik kom uit nederland en ik kan did gewoon verstaan
It's easier, from my observations as English speaking in South Africa, for a Dutch person to understand Afrikaans, than for an Afrikaner to understand Dutch.
I incidentally have a Dutch/Afrikaans Dictionary that is about 1 cm thick.
With that understanding - it is also with speaking. Often it's not necessarily what the Dutch person said, but how it was said - the accent.
People dialogue, we cn make south Africa great like never before
We sure can if we all work together and stop hating others
Ivanka
Dankie vir die samestelling, Anton. Ek wens meer mense wil hulle ou videos begin oordra na TH-cam.
Baie dankie, ek gaan so bietjie TV1 nuus oplaai, nogal baie interessant.... :)
Hier is nog een - Ou Suid Afrikaanse TV Nuus - Netwerk TV 1 - th-cam.com/video/ZlqrY0B1dx8/w-d-xo.html
Where are the days? Buying a gold watch at American Swiss for under R 100.00?
Those were the good old days.
Yeah, before the Cyberdyne robot apocalypse of 2028.
If you were white and rich, yes
@@LiuLoki- You didn't have to be completely white or very rich to enjoy old South Africa. That said, is a police state ever a good thing?
Like the catfood at 78c a tinnie.
You never getting them back though
This is too #brilliant not to share!!! Wow! 1987 Rocks! #with socks#
+Kelly Dunn What do you mean by saying 1987 rocks? Do you mean that it Rocks because Black South Africans weren't included in the South Africa's television ads?
Why Can't we have the same prices now? That will be very Nice :-)
Hyperinflation and debt unfortunately.
you need to wakeup....you are still in the past if you cant stand why not find a place where u will be free of us "Daakies" your hatrate for us"Daakies"will take you no where but age you faster.....we are happy and thats what matters and we will build our rainbow dream and it doesnt matter how long it takes us so pls you need to join us or stand aside simple
And earn the SAME salaries as back then - h*ll, no thank you, bro!
SALGShaka It will never happen at this rate, you are taking steps down not up, wake up.
It’s the ANCs fault. VOTE THEM OUT
I am sure Anton Olwage just wanted to share the memories of TV in the 80 and how it has evolved. Trust us to turn this into a racial conflict. But i enjoyed it, (the ads not aparteit)
I liked the ads and the prices
paused at 1:59 - how did that get past the advertising standards authority?
haa haahahahaha
Andy Iverson What got past them? Sorry, I'm a bit slow at noticing stuff.
brcaa the sailor is holding his white paint roller at an "erect appendage" angle against his white trousers
Idk.. BUT if u have a dirty mind,.. it's super OBVIOUS on what he's portraying at.. lmao if youtube was created back then.. and it was mostly for channel adverts.. this COMPANY would surely be demonitized**_In a basic-.nuthsell.. the guy at _**_1:58_**_ was holding a paint roller brush standing like a pp_**
Andy Iverson ... PFFFFFF. Oh, my God, thank you for pointing that out. That is quite hilarious, indeed 😂
You should check oaut the 60's ad where a woman lies next to a vacuum cleaner complete with a red ribbon on it. The ad reads"get your wife a Hoover this Christmas"..... Lol.
The adverts looks like a badly (broken) Dutch dubbed, bizarre that Afrikaans was very similar to Dutch but there is a mix with English, and even Indonesian words on Afrikaans as well (baie and piesang).
A very good adverts, btw, even though on apartheid era and even some economic sanctions at South Africa at this time.
I'm from Indonesia and I enjoy your video.
95 percent of words are come from Dutch, with some comes from English, Malay or other nearby African languages such as Xhosa or Zulu.
Psychologist: Apartheid Santa Claus isn´t real, he can´t hurt you
Apartheid Santa Claus: 0:02
I was thinking the same thing, he looks as if after taking off his Santa stuff he puts on an AWB uniform.
😂👍
@@DavidRinkevich its de Kock in his santa uniform to lore ANC terrorists hahahaha
Well, it's wonderful that at the time, people weren't suspicious of older men kissing children. Today peole automatically assume the worst, almost as if it is invetable that a crime would be committed.
South africa was the best in the 80's now it's a Flippin banana
Baie dankie (I've not a had a chance to say that for decades). Brought back a lot of memories from my childhood.
That means you haven't spoken Afrikaans for ages or you no longer live in South Africa.
Fun fact, the toilet tissue at Checkers was priced at R 9.99
At the time 1 U.S. Dollar cost approximately R 1.96
Therefore 4 rolls of twin ply toilet tissue was approximately $ 5.10 in 1987 if purchased at Checkers.
$ 5.10 today is approximately R 95.50
The actual cost of a comparative deal at Checkers today is half the price at R 43.00
This also makes no allowance for inflationary increases during this same period, this particular example is an exception though.
Some old tv ads gave me a good laugh 😂
I miss the old South Africa.
wait a god damn minute
Disgusting...
Take a ride on Metrorail Western Cape and say that to the Cape Coloureds boy
Fuseg shlama
Says every white person who lived through Apartheid. Life was much different for us people of colour.
Damn...look at those prices :(
Crusader 2.0 _ Loading but the Rand was worth more back then
Damn wish I could be a kid back in the day again
We will never see these old days again pitty😂
Does anyone know why the Pick n Pay advert blanked out the brand names of all the products advertised?
well spotted!
Hahaha that is the first time I notice that! 😊
This is a very short version of the reason why, there is a very long legal explanation, in those days it was illegal for the various retail supermarkets to advertise branded goods due to the strange competition laws, so each product had to have the brand names obscured. I my younger days in advertising I remember spending hours doing this, invariably after an aspiring account executive gave us the products to “dress” the night before the TV shoot. Oh happy days! In the early late 80s or early 90s the competition laws were relaxed and the supermarkets could advertise freely with the brand names on display. So the voice over artist could now stop saying, “Famous name fizzy cola”, and rather say “Pepsi” for example. TV commercials that only advertised one product at a time could say the product name. Strange but true.
Thanks Kevin! I now work as a lawyer in the UK and, though it's not my area of law, being used to the liberal advertising regime here that sounds pretty draconian. Thank goodness times have changed
@@mjribes Which pick n pay advert? I can't find it. Can you please send me a link?
beautifull perfect south africa
I kept expecting a show to start, The bold and the Beautiful, or something.
3:02 A black woman in a commercial made during Apartheid?
Difference is she speaks Afrikaans fluently and she could've been colored not black
She is definitely coloured
She is coloured not black. All these ads were excluding black people!!!
@@BentleyBohemian_96 What's the difference?
@@abinashmishra329 the coloreds are multiracial South Africans (part white, part black). Under apartheid they were a bit better off than blacks, though they still were oppressed
I like those ads :D
03;28 VHS video cassette tapes for R12.99 each....!
I still have a ton of these tapes with programmes taped from live TV and paid channels (movies, documentaries, rugby etc). I can't get myself so far as to just chuck them into the garbage as I do not have any use for them anymore.....! Some have only been used once or twice and are still in good condition.
Anyone with a working video recorder who can appreciate them is welcome to them.
The charity shop is not allowed to sell if it has taped programming on.
Do you still have those video tapes? I'll gladly take them off your hands.
im black but South Africa was fucking beautiful
TokenBlackGuy If you was white yes
Thing is, SA is such a shithole now I think that it is safe to say the average black man lived a better life during apartheid than now.
Just look outside of the crime ridden cities and at the country and it is still at least naturally beautiful
the only bad thing SA back then had if im understanding history right, was racism. if only it didn't exist, at least as law, then SA would of been a great country. it had an amazing economy and quality of life
The prblm was the majority in a race that undermined another one with greed and also manipulated the indigenous group to split and develop differences against each other. If a Boer says he hate Brits while he also hate Blacks it makes me wonder if he would ever be fit in any National harmony activity like singing the diversified National Anthem. I love SA history for it is real, I do not encourage favouritism based on race nor tribe. If we still undermine others' mother tongue or have much favour on others mother tongues, harmony will not be easily achieved, in essence it would always be a vicious cycle of blame
SrSander I Wonder why a lot of these SA commercials only have white South African while so far I only counted 1 commercial with black South African.
@@KaedeAnimation probably because of apartheid
The whites had an amazing economy and qualify of life. The blacks were forced into poverty.
@@alteumaen4820 yeah that's why i'm saying that it would of been better if there wasnt any racism
I didn't get the innuendo on the Crown Micatex ad with the paint roller at an angle when I was 10 years old in 1987!
Very cool to watch! But what was that little girl doing at an ATM at night by herself??
very smart but weird scary unusual atm
En kyk waar is Enterprise nou
Oh my WORD!!!! Someone shares old memories with no intentions but to remember what was aired years ago and what happens???? It's racist again..... If you don't want to see it go watch some other video. The world don't have to come to a stand stil because of apartheid! The world is now getting tired of the so called apartheid victims that still cries and blames. Its not like you did anything to better yourself after apartheid ended... So please stop. Anyway, great video.
Always that tired old card.... Cause the facts show themselves daily
Why is a VHS tape more expensive than nappies?
3:25 reminds me I need to get some more video cassettes ;)
Check a young Minki van der Westhuizen in the pain advert! Mooi!
Matthew Wilkes Minki was 1 year old in 1987...
Nobody cares or knows her.
Pain or paint advert? I don't think it was her.
Is it true that there was no TV in South Africa until some time in the 1970s?
Yes, it is true.
TV started in SA in 1977... I still remember listening to the radio in the "pre-TV" days... we had an old black and white one which lasted for years and years. Good memories
Shelley Hugill Reading up about that on Wikipedia, it seemed the government at the time was very concerned about introducing TV for a long time due to what influences it might bring.
I can well believe that Christopher Sobieniak. Even after the introduction of TV, it was still very 'conservative' and strictly controlled by the SABC. I find it quite amusing, the number of programmes that were shown but dubbed into Afrikaans. Million Dollar Man, Grizzly Adams, Thunderbirds... What they couldn't control was the number of illegal videos which flooded into the country, mostly British comedy recorded (badly) from Christmas specials by expats returning to South Africa on holiday.
Shelley Hugill I don't suppose anime got in any quicker.
Sjoe! Daai VHS tapes is goedkoop!
Even the paint was only white!
I'm America. do they only speak Afrikaans around Johannesburg. I thought South Africans mainly spoke English.
This was in the 1987... so yeah
Awesome.
That's wrong, Afrikaans is only spoken by Afrikaaners they live all over SA, mainly of Dutch, German and French background. It's a dying language mixture of all those languages similar to Flemish.
Cool. I love South Africa.
jeffy john Nope South Africans mainly speak Zulu and Xhosa. Afrikaans is spoken by a very small percentage of South Africans.
Just look at the prices of products back then...
Anybody noticed how many people post on this video about Afrikaans as if it was just now discovered. As if it's unbelievable that there is a language in South Africa sounding similar to Dutch. Omg.
How much of S.A. TV was broadcast in Afrikaans compared to in English? I thought a greater percentage of people spoke English(?).
Roughly 50/50 on SABC there was African programmes on TV2 I think, Bop TV was African/English, Mnet was mainly English, as far as I can remember.
The good old days before this inept ANC were unbanned. Look at the prices when the Rand had value. Currently a large and holy mess.
Daakies.
you really are a dumb poes heh
And earn the SAME salaries as back then - h*ll, no thank you, bro!
I still cannot understand how people can blame the ANC for the Rand,s value. Do you have any idea how money works ?
Die dae to ons nog 'n ekonomie gehad het.
This language sounds like dutch but broken i can understand this but not well so strange.
betarage that’s because Afrikaans essentially is Dutch. The Boers in South Africa are of Dutch descent.
Lol Dutch sounds like Afrikaans but broken I can barely understand ut
@@abinashmishra329 nope, you are very wrong
Of course Afrikaans developed from Dutch. That's why you can easily understand dutch if you speak Afrikaans and it's easier to learn German (related to Dutch) for Afrikaans speakers than for instance English speakers.
Dat is waar, Belstar. In Den Haag kon ek binne enkele minute tot verhalen kwam. In Noord-Nederland (Groeningen) hebt mijn begript van Duits meer gehelp. OP die Grens met Belgie het ek een skryfster van jeuglektuur ontmoet. Haar woorde aan mij was dat vroeger was die dubbele ontkennede "nie" van Afrikaans ook eers een streekstaal daar -eeuwe geleden. (1) Dit is eigentlijk een groot jammerte dat Nederland nie schole aan die Kaap gevestig het nie. (2) Daarbij moet die Engelse-only-language nie vergeet word nie. (3) Een verder saak is Nederland se ondersteuning van om Wit mense/ Apartheid dood te maak.
By the 80's, all television there was in Afrikaans?
No, there were TV programs and commercials in English at that point in time as well. Where were you then? in Lisbon? Madeira? Or, you were either too small then, or not born yet?
I'm not from South Africa, I'm from Colombia, and I wasn't around at that time.
I see; Thought you were Portuguese living in South Africa.Thanks for your reply.
I'm from SA. It was not all Afrikaans. It was split between Afrikaans and English, as the only two official languages back then. Today we have 11 official languages that include the African ones.
Divan Roets Afrikaans is also a African language 😉
Pure curiosity, so there were no black commercials on black networks in the 80s? Not trying to start anything, I'm just wondering
Cameron Dees Apartheid....
In the mid 80s, you started getting more channels that were more representative, TV 2 and TV 3,i remember, but normal TV when I was a kid only started at 5pm....and only 1 channel. Later they introduced school holiday TV where TV started at 2 or 3pm and lunchtime. Most people listened to radio in the 70s and early 80s.
I bet there were some small ones but the people who could afford televisions and such were whites
3:19 looks a lot like the No Name brand sold in Canada. Interesting.
I just heard about No Name today. To us Americans, it's quite the spectacle. XD
Had to look up what that was. Indeed the coincidence is quite strong there.
Or is it not coincidence...?
Here in America, we had Price First (from Walmart) for a short while.
Blue packaging with no frills.
Why can't we go back to those days but except the racism and discrimination part??
Because the system in those days was built on racism and discrimination
@@alteumaen4820 lol I only learned this years later. I was blind.
@@alteumaen4820 It was a European colony. Blacks shouldn't have been there in the first place. The Bantu weren't even there when Europeans showed up
@@tinton3w So are you saying that there was no one living in the entire area that's known as South Africa before Europeans were there?
You removed my comment
I was saying that the dutchies rejected the British Queen,made a republic and then....
Gave it all away without a squeak.
That's my seeing aswell. I cant forgive what the previous generation pissed away what my forefathers gave us
Everything was in afrikaans back then and now everything is in zulu...when will we find a balance?
nobody complained about balance in lingustics during apartheid. why should ya'll complain that a country whose consumer market comprises of majority black people is using their language to communicate with them. Go to the Netherlands you fucking crackhead- bigfoot neanderthal.
@@mrs.albertcamus7930 not all blacks in south Africa speak or like zulus AND the guy is CLEARLY indian DUMMY
Afrikaans = Dutch
Zulu = ?
@@mrs.albertcamus7930 I think your mind cracked . Go back to bush and be a good pet. You are bad pet. BAD pet!
These are from African television programs, there were likely ads in Zulu and other languages
Ha ha the prices get me.
Fokkit Afrikaans is darm maar 'n mooi taal.
Support for Afrikaaners, from USA
What is the second advertisement for? And what are they saying?
A little late, but if you still want to know:
The two on the stage are displaying the shirts, asking if the other can see a difference between the shirts.
The presenter says their clients asked what's the difference between the new ABC laundry detergent and some other brand (I'm assuming he was referring to the "best" detergent on the market).
The lady then says she can't se a difference and asks if there even is.
He then says the difference is the amount of money you will save buying ABC (the stamp says GROOT BESPARINGS = BIG SAVINGS)
He then says you not only save money, but will still have your laundry be clean and white.
Back to the two on stage; the one says the women can't see a difference and asks the other if he can see.
The presenter then ends with, "why pay more? Buy ABC".
Good register.
The South African country then seemed functional, although economically (and morally) its system was already unsustainable.
Well, historical context aside... apparently these ads were shown on a channel for the Afrikaans and English community (although there are native speakers in 2 ads in this section), just as there were other channels where they advertised for speakers of other native languages.
Beautiful people
R1.25? Wow! can't get anything for that today!
RIP beautiful South Africa
Rot in hell racist apartheid South Africa
@@abinashmishra329 and live long crime paradise SA
lol...Why were video tapes so expensive
Sisonke Mtati probably the only thing not made locally at the time
Beautiful old times.
Wat het van prosa geword?
OMG if only things were still like that and not cost an arm or leg
Die goeie ou dae toe ons nog enterprise worsies kon geniet😂
Ok this game was fun. But can I go back home now...
Ah fuck, the good old days :(
I forgot just how bizarre South Africa was back then. So happy we are no longer like that anymore.
No but now its a Night mare 😈
@@olivebelgians809 if now is a nightmare then back then was a crazy bad nightmare
Yes. The mass theft rape and murder surely have made people love the new sa.
I guess that the lady at 3:00 is coloured! because she is speaking afrikáans and black south africans don't speak it! now, I wonder.... if there was a racist political segregation like Apartheid back then, why White people put some coloured woman in their TV ads?? I thought it was for White people only... so afrikáners actually weren't THAT racist against the other races, I mean... they were only against black people or what?
+Amanda Bellini the structure of apartheid was to devide and concour... so you would say... White > All (*but Afr > Eng) then Indian > Coloured > Natives (* Zulu > Xhosa > Sotho... etc)
which was sad times really.
+Amanda Bellini These commercials were also made towards the end of apartheid, so you've got to take that into consideration. In the years leading up to apartheid being abolished, apartheid was becoming less and less tolerated.
The thing about apartheid-era SA is that white people were legally at the top and everyone else occupied different strata below them. Bi/multi-racial/"colored" people, South Asian people, and East Asian people (except the Japanese and maybe the Taiwanese, people from those countries were decreed honorary whites) got less legal priviledges than white people but more than black people. All the few nonwhite people in this batch of ads seem to be in menial/subservient positions compared to the white people (in the same ads). The colored/black lady at 3:00 seems to be some sort of flower-seller, and the black people in the jazzy piano ad are all background musicians/singers for the white couple who are singing at the piano.
Had a good laugh.
i was told this week that S.A. is a decade behind the modern world.
Shew - appreciate that i no longer reside there.
***** the weather here is not WARM. Wet, cold - soo opposite S.A.
Snow yesterday - rain today.
We are also happy that you no longer reside here.
Ok 78c for pampers cat food. Today its 15 rand. So that's an increase of about 2000%???
wow, those prices!
Is da 'n visskil?
Ha ha ha ja hoor dit nou eers :)
Die een op die linker kant het n langer piel?
+ShaunJW1 lol!!!
+ShaunJW1 BWAAHAHAHAAHA
Old South african ads in afrikaans languages
Ek kan die Crown Micatex ad baie goed onthou. Was die eenigste kans om n girl in n bikini te sien haha.
Why?
@@sardoruzbek6409 Because of censorship
@@debeerpaul Because the Boers had an extremely conservative ideology and were very religious?
@@sardoruzbek6409 Pretty much yeah. But the English eventually pushed for non censorship and won. Nowadays anything can be seen on national television.
5:19 if anyone wants the background music, it's here: th-cam.com/video/byOV1gxYvW0/w-d-xo.html
wow kinda trippy to see how tv was in the year I was born... it's so weird to see just white ppl in all ads. but damn, look at those prices...yoh. hahaha. 👍👍
Best country before 1990
Best country....but only for white people
GAIL kerr YOU ARE SHIT
And have a look at it now after 'integration' lol
Now it is close to worst country for all people.
From Apartheid to Aaphardheid.
Haha i love me some white tears
I liked the language and prices. But the gate in comments is spoiling everything.
O had to watch those prices again and again. Can of cat food for under R1? Wow.
How much would it cost now?
P Neron over R30
P Neron not sure though
Die tyd toe daar nog Afrikaans advertensies was! Nou is selfs die kommentaar
van Afrikaanssprekendes op hierdie raar Afrikaanse video in.Engels.
Dutch??
Afrikaans
like deustchaland language switzerland and austria using too(official language)france belgium french
How did SOuth Africa even have an economy in this timnes auf the General Embargo?
It used to be quite self sufficient and most things were cheap compared to nowadays and there didn't seem to be a shortage of imports.
Commercial in Afrikaans!
hahahah 01:19 the old cool curtsey....lol the sexism....i cant! OMG Mystique by Lentheric --- 04:24 n geur wat mans sal onthou a frangrance men will remember!!!! Kwaaaaa
Why South Africa speek deuch?
This isn't Dutch. This language is called Afrikaans
Because most of the original European settlers came from what is today the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium).
This language isn't Dutch and has very little mutual understandability (most white South Africans are Huguenots, unfortunately French was lost), in 1905 this was recognized as the world's newest language. Flemish is the closest, and if a Belgian speaks slowly it is just possible to understand them. Dutch is very old-fashioned and rather grandiose while Afrikaans is modern and phonetic. There are five nations that can read each other's newspapers, Norwegian, Southern Danish, Dutch, Flemish and South African. German (Saxon) is even more old-fashioned and heavy-weighted than Dutch although many Dutch speak directly to the Germans with little effort. These five are the Anglo-Saxon group; only 14% of Southern British are overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, blonde hair, blue eyes, fine bone-structure: David Beckham, Kate Moss and Twiggy. The English are only called Anglo Saxon because of the barbarity of the Dark Ages there. In other words its an insult. The real England is Jutland which used to be called Engeland, Land of the Angels. The five languages are uniformly ugly, forcefully direct and double-negatived, and following King James 1 and his Bible are quite differentt to English. French is the strongest influence on Jacobean English, spoken by 2.25 billion people on earth. Afrikaans is very direct, explaining the tactlessness and lack of diplomacy the white South Africans are famous for. (And the failure of their minority government to explain its position internationally and consequently their obliteration as an over 500-year-old nation. The Portuguese genetic inheritance is always there.) If you can't communicate you're dead and this language is a barrier to communication, they fell out with the English speaking world and so they're finished, having made a pig-headed virtue of standing alone.
Seep 57sent ha ha ha
A question for Dutch and Flemish people on the comments. Can you guys understand this?
Die goeie ou wit dae
Apartheid days in sa..... Best of times, .....
For a tenth of the population
Wow
melaka and indonesia has nethernland language at the past before malaysia and indonesia independence