Thank you for this. It has touched me in so many ways. My parents were born in the 40s and I hang on to all their stories. My dad passed away last year
Actually, most of us didn't abuse or hate. It's the reason 68% of white South African's voted to turn their world upside down in a referendum - the result was the total emancipation of the blacks and the legalisation of the ANC as a political party. South Africa's white people righted the wrongs.
So, the matter is much more complex. The fact that the NP and its apartheid were wrong and destined to end... does not mean that the ANC and its totalitarian government would be the solution... Just rethink and analyze... The country has a lot of potential and has already lost almost 80 years in crises and extreme partisanship. It is past time for South Africa to seek a path of true balance. May this good and rare record be an example of learning. The heyday of South Africa's segregationist regime occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. And with an economic boom that benefited the whole country, the ENTIRE country, again. However, after the fall of friendly countries like Mozambique and Rhodesia, in addition to the end of the gold-dollar standard in the international monetary system in 1971, the country's economy was severely affected and did not return to the excellent performance of before, entering a chronic crisis. in the 80s. Not to mention the definitive rise in the price of oil, on which South Africa has always depended. Therefore, it would no longer be possible to maintain a police state for so long, with defense spending growing exponentially, as well as the weight of international sanctions. In this sense, the end of the USSR in 1991 helped a lot to make possible the transition to post-apartheid without civil war in the AFR. From the South and beyond, Namibia can be saved by giving it independence without it falling like Angola and Zimbabwe, for example. IN the early 1970s, precisely, there was the end of the Bretton Woods system (or gold-dollar standard)... and together, in 1973, the oil crisis on the part of OPEC, exactly the asset that the country was not and never it was self sufficient. Understanding the moment of change and adapting was crucial, but the NP government at that time missed the opportunity to reform the country. May the Boer country rise again and become a land of prosperity, greetings from Brazil.
Things STOPPED working that is why the NP gave up over to the ANC. Because the National Party destroyed South Africa. I saw it. You cannot torture people like the white government did and humiliate them and then expect all to be well. 1976 was the beginning of the end as Vorster tried to ram Afrikaans down the throats of black students even for subjects like Maths.
+Keith Dunlop Dream on Keith Dunlop. It was the British empire's official decision to support the black marxist ANC terrorist groups because they believed they could 'control' South Africa from the hallowed halls of London's old empire-buildings -- and now those Marxist blacks are the ones who are destroying South Africa. Ultimately, the British empire has destroyed all of Southern Africa from the day they decided in London to turn their backs on their ethnic-cousins on the entire African continent.
How sad hey, I would have loved for my folks to have been treated like human beings. With respect and dignity. Without being pushed around by savages with guns and grenades in their hands behind fancy suites. Yeah, that would have been great.
The '70's was what I consider to be SA's "Golden Years". It was a time when, even though there was racial segregation, both Black and White society was thriving, the black 'middle class' was strong and on the rise, the white population was stable, the exchange rate was 73 cents to the US$, our education system was one of the best in the known world, and very little antagonism existed. Yes, there were still fanatical groups, from ALL race groups. It was also a time when the Apartheid (segregation) policies were starting to be questioned, and by 1981, apartheid was just a law that was no longer enforced, leading to the 86% majority referendum vote for its abolishment in 1986, and yes, this vote was the last "whites only" vote in SA. Since the vote, SA has been in decline, both Black and White middle class has diminished to a fraction of their former numbers, and the first "democratic?" vote of 1994 ended the chance for SA to survive into becoming a 1st world country. Crime is unbelievably high, with murder rates being one of the highest in the world. I cry for the country we could have had...
Sure they were The Golden Years - if you were white. The hell and deaths that the black population went through was in many many cases unimaginable. People uprooted from their homes and literally dumped in a so called "homeland" in the middle of nowhere hundreds or even thousands of km away. No food, just metal huts, no water. Not just a few people, millions of people. People humiliated in the street because of the pass laws, arrested and deported back to these dumps in their own country. Never mind no vote, no human rights. I personally saw an old man of 80 made to run across a field full of stumps being "chased" by a police bakkie at 2 - 3 feet distance after being forced to strip by young white police in their smart blue uniforms. He had been sitting beside a small river in Victory Park, Johannesburg minding his own business on Sunday afternoon. He had probably fallen foul of the pass laws. And it goes on and on. While we whites braaied on, created a future that is now. I was watching from the safety of a wealthy white garden across the road. We were partying. He was being tortured. Ja! Lekker man!! Ons vir jou Suid Afrika! Sure it was good. Those were the Good Old Days.
Nice footage I was born 1971. I remember very little of Johannesburg CBD as it was I am working in the CBD at the moment and I can still recognise some of the parts of Johannesburg in the film footage. I can only hope that some of the glory of what was Johannesburg will return in the future.
Did they ever apologize for their wickedness? They (white people) hated and abused innocent people who did them NO HARM at all! No glory will ever return woman, all the GLORY goes to the Messiah who will appear very soon and smash all things on earth. You are so caught up with big and beautiful buildings, well guess what!? Buildings, money, good clothes, cars and nice roads ARE NOT GOD. Repent sinner and live for Jesus Christ!
The original music ? : "in times gone by" - i think is the title - .Listen to my heart as it beats for you and its telling you the things that i never could and its leaving doubt on the line for you and in my baby's eyes i live it all again - the fear- surprise-everything ,...........( and i wouldnt change anything)x2 was changed for some reason but it was the best and reflected our memories in south africa at that time very well. Good memories keep forever.
Thank God I downloaded the old version with it's org music but I'm now having trouble opening the harddrive. I can't believe they've changed the music to this old "Blank" stuff.
@@akirpichnikov I copied the old video and music, to an old hard drive that now needs repair so I cannot open it at this time. I forget all the songs. I think there were three or four that went with this video. One was a modern English singer. I think "Master Jack" as sung by Four Jacks and a Jill was another song. I'm an American living in South Africa and never heard most of these songs, but fell in love with them. I think the owner of this video had a complaint of copyright and had to take the song down, but too bad they took all the songs down. My guess is that it was the newer English song that got them in hot water. My wife was in the music industry here for over 20 years and that's her guess. She helped me produce my dream album I've always wanted to do, but couldn't. Not every American has connections in Nashville or LA....lol. I want to give you the Mp3 version of my album. I hope you enjoy it. It's mostly Christian Classic Rock/Country/ and other styles such as jazz and worship. If you like up temp... songs 3, 6,7,8, 10, and 14 might be more for you. There is something for everyone. And hey.... if I find a copy to that old version of "Up Town" I'll be sure and share it with you here. You can subscribe to my channel if you like the music. It's under my name. God bless! Link to album: th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_ncD4ftpvJQfZGO7sXcazjuYsAh2viVw1U.html
@@akirpichnikov I just learned that TH-cam made him take the music down because of an Amy McDonald track that was on there. You should buy her album if you can figure out the name of the song that was on there....it was pretty good!
@@thommysides4616 thank you very much for the detailed reply! the music was excellent so is a video - very nostalgic, but also many places recognizable. Despite slow progress in SA it may have positive repercussions - many places are frozen in time. Cars were better back then. Once again, Thank you, i will listen to your music
I'm talking about Johannesburg what else? I have a south African passport yo.. but I live in UK now on a visa. I was born and raised in the Johannesburg hood :)
In some ways, it was better in those days. Then again, I was still a child and the world usually looks better through a child's eyes. The 70's were fairly stable up until about 1976. Started to get worse then. The mid-80s were a nightmare. Again, some things are better today but not everything. @debeerpaul, yes no tele then. That came in about '75 or '76. That a BIG deal. The state still controlled the media though.
Why the new soundtrack? This new track sucks big time!!! I loved what you had before. It really made the whole video come to life. This new music puts you to sleep. Great music for a one horse town but not for a world class city like Joeburg. Come On!!!!!!!!!!
You are right in that immigration has not really helped. The total population of South Africa has almost doubled since 1970 from 22m to probably over 50m today. The ANC government could have been even worse (and there may be worse to come) but the policy of disenfranchising whites through BEE is atrocious, demoralizing and racist. The gain to Aus, the US and the UK as well as other countries economies from the skills exodus from SA has been huge. Imagine if they had stayed and contributed!
They wouldn't contribute unless they could keep black people as second class citizens. That's why they left. That's what they couldn't stand: to see the black man in power. So they left, and from overseas they did and still do what they can to destroy the country so they can say "see what these blacks are doing?".
Look at the country now. Apartheid is gone thank God the anc didn't have to scratch from the start. You share you racist views but fail to say thank you, other countries had to start from nothing. The black man after all these years proved them right. I dont understand your point. Only those super rich can leave anyway. Where is the black universities, the black economy? You still speaking English. At least the afrikaners were proud of what they created. Tell me, what did the black create after all these freedoms huh? Fucking racist
Thanks for sharing ! Unfortunate that some feel this to be a political platform. I have never lived in Johannesburg but whenever I I travel there or pass through I'm amazed at the development and modernity.
+A Stuijt - Yes boy! You can restrict my movements, deny me an education & opportunity, tell me who I can or cannot marry, deny me the right to vote along with my dignity. BUT mess with my Meat? Then we gonna have a problem Son!!!
A Boer filmmaker's viewpoint of the city dwellers of Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a *Xhi, a Kalahari desert dweller who tries to send back to the Gods that pesky coca-cola bottle which fell from a noisy sky-bird and now was plaguing the peace and tranquility of his tribe . This is one of the most iconic movies made by a Boer with a very strong sense of humour and on a very low budget. He even plays a role in it himself: he's the dominee showing up on a horse in the middle of the desert looking for a 'little bushman' who could help track the police to a gang of wanna-be terrorists who were less than skillful at their chosen profession... *Xhi's stated opinion when he first sees a white woman is from his viewpoint:'she's far too big and would take a lot of hunting to keep feeding her, she drapes herself in cobwebs and she makes very funny sounds.'.. There also are scenes of Johannesburg's life-style at that time in this movie - and compares it with the life in the Kalahari desert, and the adjacent tribal towns.. It was filmed as a comedy, but also provides an insight into the way people lived in South Africa in those years. There's the comedienne who also became a film-maker later, Katinka Heyns, speaking to a pretty young journalist played by Sandra Prinsloo - who is sitting in a café planning to become a teacher in an independent African state because Johannesburg life is driving her crazy: Katinka says to the teacher next to her: "Does the noise in my head bother you"? The teacher goes to the independent state and has some amazing adventures - but Xhi's attempt to return that pesky Coca Cola bottle to the Gods, is the key story. A moving and touching look at the pretty, dainty San people who then lived in the Kalahari desert and who were the first Nation of Southern Africa. Somehow, they had a pretty good handle on their continent, and how to survive in it without destroying everything... [Full Movie] The Gods Must Be Crazy II - TH-cam. LEGend ... www.pinterest.com/pin/452752568760655153/ --
Actually your ignorance is stultifying. There are many people in South Africa who are NOT Jewish but have Jewish-sounding surnames such as Levy or Levie or Lewies. Don't sound off until you've checked your facts. Afrikaner surnames can be very easily traced as they have always maintained extensive family records on their own history in South africa.
In addition to this there was rape, and robbery but still, far far less than now. The currency started to decline in 1970 along with the introduction of Grand Apartheid. In fact much of the bad stuff you describe started in the Vorster era. The army was super strong true. The racist policies of the ANC regime are as despicable as the racist policies of the National Party. Neither has helped SA much for rewarding people based on their race rather than their capability.
Perhaps you have a rosy memory Burdennn. I was there then. It was wonderful in many ways and what you say is partly true, but not fully by any means. The white hospitals where clean and bright, but education and health standards for blacks were pitifully bad. The police were not corrupt as they are now, but they were brutal and ugly in their behavior - I saw it again and again and again with my two eyes. Yes, the streets were very well kept and there were very few strikes (not none!).
Thank you for sharing these movies taken by your father. What strike me most is how very similar the urban environment appears to how the big Australian cities looked during the same period. I'm not taking just about the cars, many of which I identified as sourced from Australia before that country cuts its trade links but the even the style of housing you can see in the background. Now onto the 'difficult' subject. The scenes of the city centre streets look almost as overwhelmingly white, northern European as did the Australian street scene at the same time-this was before the introduction of the 'multi-cultural' society by the Whitlam government of 1972-75. What this suggests to me is how very rigidly enforced the pass laws must have been to maintain such a degree of segregation. That can be the only conclusion I can come to given that the black population even then so outnumbered the white one. I can make no moral judgement on the matter. I didn't live there nor have I ever visited South Africa. At least common decency prevailed and the regime was dismantled with attempts to build bridges along the way. Good luck to South Africa!
Another gem that's turned into a pissing contest by racists. As usual always the dregs of the "superior" group they so love and defend. OP, thanks for sharing.
reminds me of Cuba, painted over grunge and rusted surfaces. The city scape not being maintaned, living spaces being used as a primitive shield and water shortage becomes a problem, old vehicles painted over, instead of proper maintenance and being used as a primitive way of transportation. Colorful paint never hides rough reality of primitive way of life, which eventually became a tourist spot to the wonderland. Hope no-one will refer on racial issues as tourists majority are white race, and imaginable "freedom" of Che Guevara is not always works, just another political ideology or prepared path by global world conspirators for the masses to choose. Divide and qonquer, seems worldwide order rooted back to the ancient times, but citizens just follow "prepared" slogans of their rulers around the world, and finally just to find out that even such issue as globalization is just a well organized game between politically opposed players as USA and China. Quran would be an answer from God...
Here is the elephant in the room: Before relatively recent contact with outside cultures, Subsaharan Africans did not invent the wheel, did not invent writing, developed minimal art, or agriculture, lacked musical instruments beyond simple percussion, and came up virtually empty in terms of math, science, and technology. Why the absence of invention and development? *THE AVERAGE IQ OF A BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN IS 68* www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289609001275 The absence of sophisticated invention or innovation prior to the human diaspora out of Africa, or in SubSaharan Africa since that diaspora, suggests a deep distinction in the way that humans inside SS Africa think in comparison to how Eurasian humans learned to think.
I was born in Johannesburg in 1964 and lived there til I was 7..1972...happy memories ..thanks for posting
Baie dankie vir hierdie film / Thank you very much for this film. :) Kudos for well chosen songs in the revamped version. :)
I don´t think any of those motorists at the beginning were worried about being hijacked.
Thank you for this. It has touched me in so many ways. My parents were born in the 40s and I hang on to all their stories. My dad passed away last year
Did they ever apologize for their wickedness? They (white people) hated and abused innocent people who did them NO HARM at all!
Actually, most of us didn't abuse or hate. It's the reason 68% of white South African's voted to turn their world upside down in a referendum - the result was the total emancipation of the blacks and the legalisation of the ANC as a political party. South Africa's white people righted the wrongs.
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Thank you sooo much for for adding this vid ............
This guys dad saw the city in a light not many do, thanks Mr Michael this footage is awesome...and Jnr...the music is awesome!
9:13 black people wore suits and ties and were rich back then. Don't see people using different streets or shops. Weird.
So, the matter is much more complex.
The fact that the NP and its apartheid were wrong and destined to end... does not mean that the ANC and its totalitarian government would be the solution...
Just rethink and analyze... The country has a lot of potential and has already lost almost 80 years in crises and extreme partisanship.
It is past time for South Africa to seek a path of true balance.
May this good and rare record be an example of learning.
The heyday of South Africa's segregationist regime occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.
And with an economic boom that benefited the whole country, the ENTIRE country, again.
However, after the fall of friendly countries like Mozambique and Rhodesia, in addition to the end of the gold-dollar standard in the international monetary system in 1971, the country's economy was severely affected and did not return to the excellent performance of before, entering a chronic crisis. in the 80s.
Not to mention the definitive rise in the price of oil, on which South Africa has always depended.
Therefore, it would no longer be possible to maintain a police state for so long, with defense spending growing exponentially, as well as the weight of international sanctions.
In this sense, the end of the USSR in 1991 helped a lot to make possible the transition to post-apartheid without civil war in the AFR. From the South and beyond, Namibia can be saved by giving it independence without it falling like Angola and Zimbabwe, for example.
IN the early 1970s, precisely, there was the end of the Bretton Woods system (or gold-dollar standard)... and together, in 1973, the oil crisis on the part of OPEC, exactly the asset that the country was not and never it was self sufficient.
Understanding the moment of change and adapting was crucial, but the NP government at that time missed the opportunity to reform the country.
May the Boer country rise again and become a land of prosperity, greetings from Brazil.
when things actually worked , and there was order
Things STOPPED working that is why the NP gave up over to the ANC. Because the National Party destroyed South Africa. I saw it. You cannot torture people like the white government did and humiliate them and then expect all to be well. 1976 was the beginning of the end as Vorster tried to ram Afrikaans down the throats of black students even for subjects like Maths.
+Keith Dunlop Dream on Keith Dunlop. It was the British empire's official decision to support the black marxist ANC terrorist groups because they believed they could 'control' South Africa from the hallowed halls of London's old empire-buildings -- and now those Marxist blacks are the ones who are destroying South Africa. Ultimately, the British empire has destroyed all of Southern Africa from the day they decided in London to turn their backs on their ethnic-cousins on the entire African continent.
And the same oligarchy continues, for the time being.
its because of sick liberals like you
A Stuijt Absolutely! The most concise and thorough summary I’ve read.
Can't get enough of those retro Anglo and Euro cars!
I'm just sad that i will never know JHB and Experience it like my folks did. Would of liked to stay in a city apartment like they did.
How sad hey, I would have loved for my folks to have been treated like human beings. With respect and dignity. Without being pushed around by savages with guns and grenades in their hands behind fancy suites. Yeah, that would have been great.
The '70's was what I consider to be SA's "Golden Years". It was a time when, even though there was racial segregation, both Black and White society was thriving, the black 'middle class' was strong and on the rise, the white population was stable, the exchange rate was 73 cents to the US$, our education system was one of the best in the known world, and very little antagonism existed. Yes, there were still fanatical groups, from ALL race groups. It was also a time when the Apartheid (segregation) policies were starting to be questioned, and by 1981, apartheid was just a law that was no longer enforced, leading to the 86% majority referendum vote for its abolishment in 1986, and yes, this vote was the last "whites only" vote in SA. Since the vote, SA has been in decline, both Black and White middle class has diminished to a fraction of their former numbers, and the first "democratic?" vote of 1994 ended the chance for SA to survive into becoming a 1st world country. Crime is unbelievably high, with murder rates being one of the highest in the world. I cry for the country we could have had...
Sure they were The Golden Years - if you were white. The hell and deaths that the black population went through was in many many cases unimaginable. People uprooted from their homes and literally dumped in a so called "homeland" in the middle of nowhere hundreds or even thousands of km away. No food, just metal huts, no water. Not just a few people, millions of people. People humiliated in the street because of the pass laws, arrested and deported back to these dumps in their own country. Never mind no vote, no human rights. I personally saw an old man of 80 made to run across a field full of stumps being "chased" by a police bakkie at 2 - 3 feet distance after being forced to strip by young white police in their smart blue uniforms. He had been sitting beside a small river in Victory Park, Johannesburg minding his own business on Sunday afternoon. He had probably fallen foul of the pass laws. And it goes on and on. While we whites braaied on, created a future that is now. I was watching from the safety of a wealthy white garden across the road. We were partying. He was being tortured. Ja! Lekker man!! Ons vir jou Suid Afrika! Sure it was good. Those were the Good Old Days.
Dave Sherwood has
good insite of jozi in the old days ,shot 5 yrs before i was born!
cant even walk outside your own home now. thats how scary it has become
Nice footage I was born 1971. I remember very little of Johannesburg CBD as it was I am working in the CBD at the moment and I can still recognise some of the parts of Johannesburg in the film footage. I can only hope that some of the glory of what was Johannesburg will return in the future.
That is great Andrew. Thanks for watching.
Did they ever apologize for their wickedness? They (white people) hated and abused innocent people who did them NO HARM at all!
No glory will ever return woman, all the GLORY goes to the Messiah who will appear very soon and smash all things on earth.
You are so caught up with big and beautiful buildings, well guess what!? Buildings, money, good clothes, cars and nice roads ARE NOT GOD. Repent sinner and live for Jesus Christ!
The original music ? : "in times gone by" - i think is the title - .Listen to my heart as it beats for you and its telling you the things that i never could and its leaving doubt on the line for you and in my baby's eyes i live it all again - the fear- surprise-everything ,...........( and i wouldnt change anything)x2 was changed for some reason but it was the best and reflected our memories in south africa at that time very well. Good memories keep forever.
Thank God I downloaded the old version with it's org music but I'm now having trouble opening the harddrive. I can't believe they've changed the music to this old "Blank" stuff.
@@thommysides4616 what was the old music - i also like it much more! current track is just dull
@@akirpichnikov I copied the old video and music, to an old hard drive that now needs repair so I cannot open it at this time. I forget all the songs. I think there were three or four that went with this video. One was a modern English singer. I think "Master Jack" as sung by Four Jacks and a Jill was another song. I'm an American living in South Africa and never heard most of these songs, but fell in love with them. I think the owner of this video had a complaint of copyright and had to take the song down, but too bad they took all the songs down. My guess is that it was the newer English song that got them in hot water. My wife was in the music industry here for over 20 years and that's her guess. She helped me produce my dream album I've always wanted to do, but couldn't. Not every American has connections in Nashville or LA....lol. I want to give you the Mp3 version of my album. I hope you enjoy it. It's mostly Christian Classic Rock/Country/ and other styles such as jazz and worship. If you like up temp... songs 3, 6,7,8, 10, and 14 might be more for you. There is something for everyone. And hey.... if I find a copy to that old version of "Up Town" I'll be sure and share it with you here. You can subscribe to my channel if you like the music. It's under my name. God bless! Link to album: th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_ncD4ftpvJQfZGO7sXcazjuYsAh2viVw1U.html
@@akirpichnikov I just learned that TH-cam made him take the music down because of an Amy McDonald track that was on there. You should buy her album if you can figure out the name of the song that was on there....it was pretty good!
@@thommysides4616 thank you very much for the detailed reply! the music was excellent so is a video - very nostalgic, but also many places recognizable. Despite slow progress in SA it may have positive repercussions - many places are frozen in time. Cars were better back then. Once again, Thank you, i will listen to your music
How beautiful. Contrast it with today.
TODAY BECAME A TRASH CITY..SO SORRY...
Track 1 is by Amy McDonald and it's called The days of being young and free
What is the name of the first song please?
The Days of Being Young and Free - Amy McDonald
Atmospheric and most subtle ...
Brilliant !
Amazing we didnt even have tv back then.
I'm talking about Johannesburg what else? I have a south African passport yo.. but I live in UK now on a visa. I was born and raised in the Johannesburg hood :)
In some ways, it was better in those days. Then again, I was still a child and the world usually looks better through a child's eyes. The 70's were fairly stable up until about 1976. Started to get worse then. The mid-80s were a nightmare. Again, some things are better today but not everything. @debeerpaul, yes no tele then. That came in about '75 or '76. That a BIG deal. The state still controlled the media though.
Why the new soundtrack? This new track sucks big time!!! I loved what you had before. It really made the whole video come to life. This new music puts you to sleep. Great music for a one horse town but not for a world class city like Joeburg. Come On!!!!!!!!!!
I agree. TH-cam did this because of copyright issues on the Amy McDonald track. The new music is pretty slow. More Vosburg than Johannesburg ou maat.
@@SuperSouthAfrican Amy is the more modern British singer....am I right? If so....it figures! What was the name to that song of hers?
Can you at least put another song in her place and then keep the rest of the original video as is.....please!!!@@SuperSouthAfrican
@@thommysides4616 I see sadly it's been deleted from Vimeo
You are right in that immigration has not really helped. The total population of South Africa has almost doubled since 1970 from 22m to probably over 50m today. The ANC government could have been even worse (and there may be worse to come) but the policy of disenfranchising whites through BEE is atrocious, demoralizing and racist. The gain to Aus, the US and the UK as well as other countries economies from the skills exodus from SA has been huge. Imagine if they had stayed and contributed!
They wouldn't contribute unless they could keep black people as second class citizens. That's why they left. That's what they couldn't stand: to see the black man in power. So they left, and from overseas they did and still do what they can to destroy the country so they can say "see what these blacks are doing?".
@@juliansandes well said my friend
Look at the country now. Apartheid is gone thank God the anc didn't have to scratch from the start. You share you racist views but fail to say thank you, other countries had to start from nothing.
The black man after all these years proved them right. I dont understand your point. Only those super rich can leave anyway.
Where is the black universities, the black economy? You still speaking English. At least the afrikaners were proud of what they created.
Tell me, what did the black create after all these freedoms huh?
Fucking racist
I left Johannesburg in 1970
They didn't bother using indicators and every second car was blue.
Good Video my guy...
Thanks for sharing ! Unfortunate that some feel this to be a political platform. I have never lived in Johannesburg but whenever I I travel there or pass through I'm amazed at the development and modernity.
Those farmers preparing the meat were not even wearing gloves...
+Africa Azania Luti O my. If this is the only thing you can see wrong...
+A Stuijt - Yes boy! You can restrict my movements, deny me an education & opportunity, tell me who I can or cannot marry, deny me the right to vote along with my dignity. BUT mess with my Meat? Then we gonna have a problem Son!!!
Africa Azania Luti s
Hope they washed it with Omo at least😂
good song
No taxis!
but good video man.. it is great for history
DIE BESTE TYD
Sheeww hard to believe
A Boer filmmaker's viewpoint of the city dwellers of Johannesburg as seen through the eyes of a *Xhi, a Kalahari desert dweller who tries to send back to the Gods that pesky coca-cola bottle which fell from a noisy sky-bird and now was plaguing the peace and tranquility of his tribe . This is one of the most iconic movies made by a Boer with a very strong sense of humour and on a very low budget. He even plays a role in it himself: he's the dominee showing up on a horse in the middle of the desert looking for a 'little bushman' who could help track the police to a gang of wanna-be terrorists who were less than skillful at their chosen profession... *Xhi's stated opinion when he first sees a white woman is from his viewpoint:'she's far too big and would take a lot of hunting to keep feeding her, she drapes herself in cobwebs and she makes very funny sounds.'.. There also are scenes of Johannesburg's life-style at that time in this movie - and compares it with the life in the Kalahari desert, and the adjacent tribal towns.. It was filmed as a comedy, but also provides an insight into the way people lived in South Africa in those years. There's the comedienne who also became a film-maker later, Katinka Heyns, speaking to a pretty young journalist played by Sandra Prinsloo - who is sitting in a café planning to become a teacher in an independent African state because Johannesburg life is driving her crazy: Katinka says to the teacher next to her: "Does the noise in my head bother you"? The teacher goes to the independent state and has some amazing adventures - but Xhi's attempt to return that pesky Coca Cola bottle to the Gods, is the key story. A moving and touching look at the pretty, dainty San people who then lived in the Kalahari desert and who were the first Nation of Southern Africa. Somehow, they had a pretty good handle on their continent, and how to survive in it without destroying everything... [Full Movie] The Gods Must Be Crazy II - TH-cam. LEGend ...
www.pinterest.com/pin/452752568760655153/ --
Levy is Jewish, not Boer name! Selfinjured stupido.
Actually your ignorance is stultifying. There are many people in South Africa who are NOT Jewish but have Jewish-sounding surnames such as Levy or Levie or Lewies. Don't sound off until you've checked your facts. Afrikaner surnames can be very easily traced as they have always maintained extensive family records on their own history in South africa.
Amy Macdonald - The Days of Being Young and Free ...
Yes, mainly Putco and by foot in the good old bad old days!
In addition to this there was rape, and robbery but still, far far less than now. The currency started to decline in 1970 along with the introduction of Grand Apartheid. In fact much of the bad stuff you describe started in the Vorster era. The army was super strong true. The racist policies of the ANC regime are as despicable as the racist policies of the National Party. Neither has helped SA much for rewarding people based on their race rather than their capability.
JO'BURG, JO'BURG
Perhaps you have a rosy memory Burdennn. I was there then. It was wonderful in many ways and what you say is partly true, but not fully by any means. The white hospitals where clean and bright, but education and health standards for blacks were pitifully bad. The police were not corrupt as they are now, but they were brutal and ugly in their behavior - I saw it again and again and again with my two eyes. Yes, the streets were very well kept and there were very few strikes (not none!).
It looks like an American city more than anything else. Except for the trains and driving on the left, I'd believe it was California.
Thank you for sharing these movies taken by your father. What strike me most is how very similar the urban environment appears to how the big Australian cities looked during the same period. I'm not taking just about the cars, many of which I identified as sourced from Australia before that country cuts its trade links but the even the style of housing you can see in the background.
Now onto the 'difficult' subject. The scenes of the city centre streets look almost as overwhelmingly white, northern European as did the Australian street scene at the same time-this was before the introduction of the 'multi-cultural' society by the Whitlam government of 1972-75. What this suggests to me is how very rigidly enforced the pass laws must have been to maintain such a degree of segregation. That can be the only conclusion I can come to given that the black population even then so outnumbered the white one.
I can make no moral judgement on the matter. I didn't live there nor have I ever visited South Africa. At least common decency prevailed and the regime was dismantled with attempts to build bridges along the way. Good luck to South Africa!
Another gem that's turned into a pissing contest by racists. As usual always the dregs of the "superior" group they so love and defend.
OP, thanks for sharing.
What an observer the man was, great.
A bit freudian mayby?
You must be very proud.
reminds me of Cuba, painted over grunge and rusted surfaces. The city scape not being maintaned, living spaces being used as a primitive shield and water shortage becomes a problem, old vehicles painted over, instead of proper maintenance and being used as a primitive way of transportation. Colorful paint never hides rough reality of primitive way of life, which eventually became a tourist spot to the wonderland. Hope no-one will refer on racial issues as tourists majority are white race, and imaginable "freedom" of Che Guevara is not always works, just another political ideology or prepared path by global world conspirators for the masses to choose. Divide and qonquer, seems worldwide order rooted back to the ancient times, but citizens just follow "prepared" slogans of their rulers around the world, and finally just to find out that even such issue as globalization is just a well organized game between politically opposed players as USA and China. Quran would be an answer from God...
"[C]learly pointing at the racism inherent in society". That's the exact antiwhite opinion we have come to expect from members of the tribe.
Here is the elephant in the room:
Before relatively recent contact with outside cultures, Subsaharan Africans did not invent the wheel, did not invent writing, developed minimal art, or agriculture, lacked musical instruments beyond simple percussion, and came up virtually empty in terms of math, science, and technology. Why the absence of invention and development?
*THE AVERAGE IQ OF A BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN IS 68*
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289609001275
The absence of sophisticated invention or innovation prior to the human diaspora out of Africa, or in SubSaharan Africa since that diaspora, suggests a deep distinction in the way that humans inside SS Africa think in comparison to how Eurasian humans learned to think.