🇿🇦Telkom Hillbrow Tower - Johannesburg Documentary✔
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I worked there as an apprentice during the early 90's. One of my duties was to replace faulty aircraft warning lights, the lights around the thinner base had to be changed by opening a small window just big enough to fit through and leaning out and around to get to the globe. When on the mast which used to sway in the wind a little, everything had to be tied to your body i.e spanners etc. Fire drills you had to walk down the stairs located in the centre. There are store rooms floors located in the thinner tube (cant remember how many) When i was there the revolving restaurant was still kitted out with the chairs and tables and we used to use the bar on a Friday after work for a couple of drinks. The tower was often above the cloud line in the mornings and during thunder storms would be struck by lighting. Eventually working there every day you become a bit blasé about the view. Should have appreciated it more.
Thank you very much for your time to write this comment and give us more insight into the tower. It was very interesting to read. I want everyone to share their experience in this comment section about this amazing structure.
Brilliant !! Good to know about one to the most prominent Joburg's landmark.
What a shame that this beautiful tower is not accessible to the public. Two restaurants gone to waste. An observation deck wasted. Why ? Just ask the ANC government. Far too dangerous for tourists in Hillbrow. Nice. I tried walking from the Holiday Inn President hotel to the JG Strydom Tower in 1982. Found out the tower was closed to the public due to bomb threats by the ANC. Today it is the ANC again who have caused this tower to be closed to the public. Viva the Revolution ! What a waste. The Holiday Inn President Hotel is now a squatters hotel.
Strijdom is pronounced "stray dom'" I worked in the transmission environment which included,. HF/VHF radio, microwave, and analogue coaxial channelised systems. I did quite a bit of work at the then JG Strijdom Tower during the mid/late 80's on the analogue data transmission (Saponet) that was carried via microwave channels. JG Strijdom Tower has been renamed to Telkom Tower.
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I had the privilege of working at the Tower for 8 years between 1988 and 1996. I also had all the keys that opened up every door in the tower, so I can pretty much remember almost every floor. All 3 lifts where high-speed lifts and at the time they were the safest lifts developed. After being in quite a few high speed stops due to the lifts safety features, it was quite nerve wracking, I still have dreams about it today. There are so many stories about this tower. One in particular is Stanley - The towers ghost LOL - met him once... Also the fire safety and evacuation procedures where efficient in those days, and while working there we had many regular fire drills. The tower is fully equipped to handle any safety issues (well it was - with the new South Africa I presume it is no longer being maintained) I personally have walked down the tower at least 10 times - thank goodness never up.
Thanks for your amazing testimony
I was a plumber for thirty years, and once a week I would service the Hillbrow Tower. John Brajevich S.A.
I love these wonderful documentaries. Keep up your good work sir. I enjoy it immensely.
Thank you very much for your support. It is only a pleasure. 😎👍
love your videos! I hope the tower opens up to the public again so we can eat there & enjoy the views once more!
I went to the restaurant and cloud nine when it was open good memories
Can you share any experiences
You nailed it keep them coming
My step-dad used to work in that tower, some of the true stories he tells are quite frightening, like the one of a guy taking a small motorcycle up the lift and taking it out onto the ledge about 1meter wide above the restaurants and below all the microwave dishes and doing a lap around the outside without any safety equipment. But that's the sort of thing people did in the 80's they weren't worried about PPE.
Feel free to share more stories Laird.😎🤣🤣
Great video. I never went up the any of the Joburg towers but when I was a young lad we went to the Roma Revolving Restaurant in Durbs. Still remember that and how odd it was going to the restroom and coming out and seeing our table gone!
I cannot wait for your podcast!!! 🙌🏼
Still working on a few podcasts. Introducing some nice features. Will drop a few more soon.
Thanks dude. I like your content.
It's such a shame that they don't allow pictures or videos from the inside whereas there isn't anything that could potentially be a public since the tower used to be open to the public before.
GREAT PROGRAM, GREAT ACCENTS, INFORMATIVE HISTORY, BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, TRUE FACE OF JOZI BUT SO SAD THAT I COULDN'T GET MARRIED UP THERE !!!
Its so sad that we black South African and other African who lives in Hillbrow we have polluted Hill-brow with our rubbish and ignorance to take care of of own environment. shame on us. Sies Maan.
Musa ukukhotha imdidi yebelungu ngegama lethu pls
@@lindokuhlehlatshwayo9215 kepha ukhuluma iqiniso simoshile thina abuntu abamnyama, nase malokishini kuncolile
You can say that again !!!
I'm sure you know but the building you mention at 19:06 was the Post Office, I remember going in there with my Dad to fetch parcels, I'm not sure if it was always a Post Office but by the building design (looks like something from the 1930's-1940's), probably confirms it.
I'm curious, whom did you reach out to at Telkom to go in and see it? I've been mesmerized by that tower everytime I pass there and wonder what it looks like.
It's just a shame that they don't allow cameras, I believe showing one picture inside would generate a huge interest.
Great video!
Pleasure brother!
sick man, was cool to learn more of my history
I am happy you learned something today.😀
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200% brother
Do you have any information on the Brixton Tower ? Would like to know more about it’s history.
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Luckily, nothing happened to you guys up there thank you for the documentary
Hey Tshepo! How are you man? It was a pitty we couldnt record anything inside, but again was an amazing experience. Thanks for your words!
I am interested to know if the entrance still had the frieze on the walls.A relative worked on those panels in 69,70
Unfortunately they are not there anymore. 😕
The video was both informative & kind of funny at the same 😁Time...Although I was abit sad to hear that Tower might Reopen to the public in 10 years😔
Hi Tandiwe the time to open was a rough estimation based on the information I got from the JDA could be more could be less. Trying to convince the head of the project to come to one of my podcasts. The costs involved in the proper revamping of the tower are huge. Just to install an elevator is R11million, including the shipment from the elevator itself from Switzerland.
@@Livinginsatv ,Wow I wasn't aware that it could cost alot more to Reopen. But I'm glad u managed to get access to the building & share your experience with us🙂....Very much appreciated ✌🏽
Always a pleasure!
th-cam.com/video/s1pgw66A7oU/w-d-xo.html I covered it on this video. It used to be a rotating restaurant like the one in durban.
720p damn
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Hillbrow was amazing in the 1980's....Fontana(24/7 food)...and the nightlife was great....but since 1990's it is full of criminals ...you cannot go there , you will be mugged and robbed lol
beautiful building but it was only open for whites only. you have to give the whole history no matter what it was, thats the only way you could have changed.
I thought is was great to look at a video about the history of South Africa without the A word. This tower had nothing to do with that part of South Africa history and South Africa is still reaping the benefits of this tower.
@@beerstein7137 the word is apartheid don't try to hide it. Besides its still around ,just more technical.
@@taharka3897 Yes, and Apartheid 2.0, as installed by the ANC, has proven to be way more damaging to South Africa than the pre 94 version ever was
Yawn, nobody cares anymore. Your victim card has expired and today you are only the victims of your own poor decisions and voting habits. For the rest of us we would like to enjoy reminiscing about a time SA wasn’t a complete wasteland and avoid partaking in your black therapy
Ask your ANC buddies to open the tower again,then you can enjoy the view again.
There is no such thing as point 70. Its point seven.
How that thing stay standing is beyond me .. talk and thin
Was build by a overseas construction company,that’s why it is still standing.
@@Helgardt6189 yeah, just like that Italian bridge who was not build by an overseas company and just collapsed
So what you are saying is that we need towers because "satellites" don't exist?
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You need to rerecord the commentary with someone who speaks English. Ta..Piss..Taries, FFS.