1959 SOUTH AFRICA TRAVELOGUE LAND OF ENDEAVOR 50214
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2016
- Disclaimer: This historic film was produced during the apartheid era in South Africa. It contains propaganda elements that explicitly or tacitly endorse racism and racial separation. It is presented solely for historical purposes, to help document in part a period of terrible repression.
Presented by Caltex, this 1959 profile of South Africa presents an outline of South African history is followed by descriptions of the Union as it existed in that decade: the Boers and agriculture; measures to advance the Bantu; the Cape Malayas and Indians; mining and industrial developments. New towns. The film completely ignores apartheid.
At mark 1:20 is how South Africa came to existence. In 1652, small group of Dutch colonies established the first European settlement at the southern tip of the land. Renamed by the Portuguese from Cape of Storm to Cape of Good Hope. At mark 1:45 is the vast, wild and unexplored world. There is a hippo, elephant, and different animal varieties. At mark 2:02, is mass migration to the South Africa. At mark 2:30, the soil is tilled. At mark 2:52, the map of South Africa is seen. At this mark, all the states united and become South Africa. At mark 3:15, the flags are seen. At mark 3:40, a farmer from the Orange Free State talks about farming in the country. At mark 4:05, is his maize plantation. Maize is used for powder, and gun powder. At 4:44, sheep are seen. More wools are harvested form them. At mark 5:15 is indigenous cattle. Today, they have become a chief source of beef and leather. At mark 5:40, a lady is seen harvesting grapes. At mark 6:06 is the wine making company. At mark 6:25, dancers are dancing. Fruits of many varieties are produced and exported as seen at mark 7:08. Apart from the city’s fruits, thousands of citrus are exported each year. At mark 7:25 is seen a plantation for orange. At 7:33, train transport these fruits. Banana, pawpaw, sugar cane and lots are also produced at mark 7:50. Now lets see timber at mark 8:08. Timber is also produced in the country as seen at 8:15, supplying almost 2/3 of the country’s need. At mark 8:30, lumbers are seen. 9:10, it is seen how the land has been wasting away, and losing its fertility but today there is proper care of the soil. 9:40 is a Bantu doctor, Dr. Joseph Massuka. He talks on modern surgery and old medicines. 10:30, the ancient life is seen. A warrior is seen making a spear for ceremonial use. 10:50 is the Bantu village. At mark 11:36 are children of the city. 11:44, they are singing. 12:03, the bantu kids are at school and are taught on ways of their culture. Every year there’s more bantu student taking a higher education and getting new professions at mark 12:27 like teaching and doctors. 13:00, the bantu are dancing in their culture. At mark 13:50 is a man who runs a small printing business. He talks about his other people and how they’ve been brought up to work in various profession line. Fishing is seen at mark 14:45. Frozen foods are also exported. At mark 15:33, the member of the queen’s carnival is seen. At mark 16:00, Joseph Talip talks on the ancient religious faith. At mark 16:28, a man is seen making cap. Craftsmen are seen at 16:45. Dancers are also seen at mark 17:10. 17:40, the Indian population mostly concentrated in the town is seen. An Indian shop is seen 17:48. 18:10 are places for religions of any type. At 18:20 are old India customs. 19:00, is a man in his fourth year at a university of economics. He talks on standard of living of the country. New plants, new roads, trains, dams, water system and how all this existed as raw material for eachother. At mark 20:05, workers and production line are developing. 20:42, manufacturers are conducting tests on their products. 21:05, industrial future of South Africa is talked on. At mark 21:35 is a mining house in Johannesburg. Peter Weisberg a geologist here talks on gold mining in Johannesburg. 22:08, the mining site is seen. He talked on difficulties, as seen at mark 22:33. The miners are mining 22:50. 23:08, gold bars are been transported from the site. 23:15, is Uranium mining. 23:28, is coal, iron and manganese mining. 23:48, the ore where these resources are processed is seen. At mark 23:55, steel is been processed. Copper is also mined for power lines at mark 24:22. Also comes Crimore in which million is mined. Titanium 24:48 is also mined.
At mark 24:55 is a site for mining diamond from the desert site. 25:36, these precious stones are sorted. A diamond mine at Kimberly is seen at mark 25:55. 26:45, a beach is seen where people are enjoying their leisure. 27:18, the wildlife is seen. Modern life in South Africa strips in to align with older culture.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com
Highly educative- way better than what we've been taught at school
You have been taught communist inspired revisionist history!… In other words, you’ve been taught lies!
Except it’s not true
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Thank you for your index in the commentary! EXCELLENT effort, above and beyond what the vast majority of TH-cam posters care to do! Stiil listening to the video , mind you! God bless all the peoples of South Africa! Freedom , security, nationhood for all!
A land of promise !
Wonderful country ! Rainbow Nation ! Colourful landescape !
Different from elsewhere ? Created ,materialized ,proved from fishing ,farming ,industrializing to vibrant and interesting country . I wish I can visit and live there for sometime .
Wonderfull country and nice places :- The cape ,the bay, Constantia ,Leith Road, Pears, Franschhoek , Pretoria , Johnansburg,, Durban etc..
Their is no black in a rainbow .
Thank you!
thank you for what? for propaganda?
Fantastic! The mawkishness of a Jam Handy educational short with the insidious horror of Russian propaganda. Those field hands just look so darn happy to work!
Yes, they are even happier to work today....; that is to say, if they manage to find payed employment with nearly 50% of the population of 60,6 Million people UNEMPLOYED and totally dependent on State Welfare...!
Yes, I'd say that the majority of people in "South Africa" are far better off today than they were in 1959 (if you believe the insidious horror of government Russian propaganda of today).
And if you do not like the facts then it is always very easy to call it "propaganda" especially if you offer no "real facts" to set the record "straight".
(my guess is you've never even been to South Africa, not now or in the past and rely totally on the BBC for your impressions and opinions of the country).
There was so much promise 😪
When watching this remember it is in part just a film to paint South Africa as a more stable country than it really was in an attempt to persuade the West to continue overlooking the racial discrimination that the Europeans were already abandoning. Remember this is happening during a time when many European nations were granting their African colonies freedom. That is why there is so much emphasis placed in this documentary that South Africa is a mature "nation". Why the global industrial output is so stressed. It is produced by a nation becoming painfully aware that their policies are becoming increasingly frowned upon by their fellow European brothers. Don't be swept away by cheap nostalgia. Beneath the seemingly ever-prosperous industries and trade, socially the wheels were already coming off as other racial groups were growing impatient with the Boers' reluctance to allow for blacks to integrate into the urban environment, and a white minority growing ever fearful of a communist uprising as the waves of independence were moving across the African continent
would love to see a how the same infrastructure looks today
Google earth is your friend ... take a google drive .
Nothing left of it mate.
NOTHING of that anymore, NOTHING!!!
I would love for your people to give back the land
@@mansamusa6505 What land? The white people of South Africa NEVER EVER took land that belonged to someone else. All tribes in South Africa were settlers and settled on land they identified as unoccupied and belonging to no one. So did the whites. For example: the Zulus have no claim to Venda land, the Swazis have no claim to Xhosa land and the Tswanas have no claim to Sotho land. And in exactly the same way, NO black tribe has ANY claim to WHITE land. You clearly have NO clue of the REAL South African history. It must be terrible to live a life of such unbridled ignorance just spewing Russian propaganda from the previous century.
And since 1994 a steady decline!!
All the ills and the norms of Africa is now in the rainbow nation. Corruption fraud crime incompetency and poor governance
Rapid decline 😢
Yes since the DA controlled the Western Cape it caused the whole country to decline
Those were the days my friend. We thought they would never end. Now the Republic is in decline. Crime? Well don't ask.
you racists have no idea of the truth about Apartheid. You were litraly keeping my people as slaves!
Dude they raped the continent of all resources it is a total garbage hole now.
I believe we have potential as rough as a process was our economy is now merged and now we as a country can now thrive
@@kamogelok5315 right. it's virtually a third world country with legacy infrastructure. eskom cannot even keep the lights on.
The majority of the people are already doing what they are capable of. Universal Law applies. Transformation is a Law. Humankind cannot intentional impact it. It happens by itself. It happens every day...by itself. If humankind is unhappy with its outcomes, crime thrives..😂
SO NICE TO SEE HOW THINGS WORKED 500% during those years. WHAT A SHAME WHAT IS GOING ON NOW!!!
Useless blacks rule , that is what happened .
No signs of strife or discontent.
1959.
1957.
?
Crime was really low then.
Thanks allot "the Courtney's"! Lol
Department commerce adverts..this is not how we lived we were poor even though we were white
😂 You were poor even though you were white. Do you think you have to be white to be rich? How ridiculous you are. You do not know Mansi Musa. He was richer than the Europeans. He preceded your history by hundreds of years.
We sound like a manufacturing country for overseas 😢
well just over 30 years ago thats virtually all China was.
in fact South Africa its much better than penal colony Australia
Always have been untill 94 when the black idiots was given the country .
"Bringing forth its rich harvest of mature nationhood". Now, 60 years later, South Africa has in many ways regressed. Such a waste.
you call this disgust.ng propaganda mature nationhood? when your people were keeping my people like slaves on this land
Really 29 years of wast with the ANC
How the heck does South Africa seem better 60 years ago…
Whites ruled , that's all .
Better for who?
@@SwenkoMargiela better for everyone especially for the right full owners of South Africa that won this country in wars , the republick of South Africa belonged to the whites blacks had their homelands , blacks only came into the Republic looking for work the Republic wasn't theirs , they had to carry passes the same as a passport that foreigners has to have when visiting another country , now try to proof me wrong on this with facts , I would like you to try .
It was not better. Please educate yourself
Ja Baaas !!!
Looking back at what my land was makes me happy, looking at what it is makes me frustrated
all those who. see. this. nd. that. in our they can. leave our country. tsek
I do not want to see disclaimers, history is what it is! ~
Yeah, of course. Nowhere in the film "Apartheid" is mentioned. As Hitler Germany never mentioned KZ-Camps in their "Wochenschau". But hey, it is what it is. We don't want to hear that.
This video is produced by periscope for white population consumption.
The truth about South Africa is that the land is peopled by the Khoi San, Khoi-Khoi and the Bushmen later called Hottentots in the West of towards Kalahari Desert and the Zulus and Vendas in the West and Central of present SA.
They are largely nomads and farmers in small scale way before the Portuguese seamen arrived in the cape followed later the Dutch voyagers, none of these people know what was going in the interior and hinterlands before their arrival.
The first Dutch that came to the Cape in the mid-17th century, was to establish a stop-over for his peers. He met the Khoi-Khoi at the beach as they arrived, after initial strange interaction, they exchanged meat and fresh water, this was told the Khoi-Khoi leaders to their Children and grand children and even the Dutch voyager team leader recorded the interaction in his person diary which a few historians have written about.
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Anyone still propagating the ‘empty land fallacy’ in living in fools’ paradise.
On Crime, the Apartheid system built on what it inherited from the colonial system, and created two unequal societies in SA, one was the white Suburb which is well groomed and low crime area, well policed, blacks are not allowed in except as maids and servants with passes and another society called the Black Township(similar for colored and Asians) riddled with poverty and crime which even the local newspapers are not allowed to report the crimes in townships to give a false face that all is well with SA at the time, all dissenting voices are arrested and imprisoned.
So if you grow up in white suburb definitely crime has increased compared to today but if you grow up the black townships crime has actually reduced as they are better policed now.
The same way Anglo-Boer war concentration camps were bad for the Boers and the British were monsters for trying such, same way Apartheid was really bad for the Africans the Boers are monsters for trying such nonsense.
White south African were fed large doses of racism growing up, none of them knew that Nelson Mandela was a university trained and practicing Lawyer in 50s and 60s, they were told he is a terrorist that should die in Prison. Let that sink in!
Please educate yourself.
Sounds about right. I read allot of Wilbur Smith books especially Rage and it closely resembles what you say. I'm also sad about the rape of all of Africa and the destruction of the ancient forests, elephants, and San people that were absorbed into the rest of society by force and their culture destroyed.
@@andrewbetances1203 Yeah, but 30 years after Apartheid , SA is the epicentre of crime with slums for example in the Cape Town flats . Just saying that this is not mainly relevant to Apartheid.
Rubbish...: Äpartheid" wasn't "built on the Colonial system"....!: In fact it was the exact opposite of the Colonial system..!
South Africa is an EMPIRE of no less than 11 nations created and brutally FORGED TOGETHER by the British Empire into ONE Colony, which the called the Union of South Africa, This they did by systematically overpowering each and every tribe and nation in Southern Africa robbing them of their land and nationhood and subjugating them to the British crown by brute force through wars of conquest and the barrel of the gun. The last to fall were the independent Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
Apartheid was a system which did the exact opposite...; it sought to REVERSE Colonialization and to dismantle the Union and break up the Empire. The first thing that "Apartheid" did was to FREE all the nations subjugated by Britain and to return their land to them which was taken away by the British Empire.
It was the British Empire who took their freedom away and subjugated them, NOT the Afrikaner. It was the British Empire who took their land from them, NOT the Afrikaner. The Afrikaner endeavored to set the nations free and return their land to them, NOT to "OPPRESS" them like everyone was lead to believe (by BBC and British propaganda).
The Afrikaner himself was brutally oppressed by Britain and fought hard and long for their freedom. And they thought everyone else would appreciate theirs as well
Prior to the British "Union of South Africa", there were NO Zulus or Xhosas (for instance) in the interior of the land (Orange Free State and Transvaal) neither were they in the Western Cape.
The Xhosas were confined to the Eastern Cape along the South Coast and so were the Zulus, in Zululand.
Apartheid endeavored to honor the tribal territories as they existed before the establishment of the British Empire and return the land accordingly.
And "Apartheid" went even further...; instead of just dumping the land on them (like the British did with Lesotho and Swaziland), the Afrikaner undertook to lead these nations to independence, spending BILLION of S.A> currency on building industry, infra-structure, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges etc. etc. to make them viable.
Apartheid South Africa launched one of the biggest housing schemes the world has ever seen to provide housing for black people in South Africa. The built an entire City (Soweto) and planned a second on (Norweto) which was eventually cancelled due to opposition.
They also built the Biggest Hospital in the Southern hemisphere (Baragwanath) or any where in Africa or Australia, South America etc.) as well as schools etc. etc.
Apartheid did NOT perpetuate colonialization, the African people did it themselves...; while professing to "HATE" colonialism, they elected to keep the British Colony together and resisted breaking it up and dismantling the colonial unification with all their might...!
(a little hypocritical and convenient I might add).
The southern tribes (Zulus and the Xhosas etc.) had NO claim or rights to any of the land to the North and the interior before or during British occupation. Only after the formation of the "new South Africa, they gained rights and passage to the entire "South Africa" as per the old "Union") from the Zambezi in the North to the Mother City in the South...! NOT any time before 1994...!
It is a MYTH that Black people occupied the entire country form the Zambezi to the Cape of Good Hope prior to the arrival of the Whites....! Blacks simply did not have the numbers...!
South Africa is a vast country with wide open spaces (even today with a population of over 61 Million people).
When the white people arrived, the interior of the country was wide open and vacant for the best part. The black population was small and widely dispersed. It consisted of pocket of people concentrated in certain areas
They simply did not have food supply to sustain large populations. What "farming" they had was mostly subsistent farming, mainly the keeping of a few livestock which roamed freely in pursuit of grazing. The people were nomadic and they followed the animals to grazing pastures.
It all changed, however, with the arrival of the "Boers"(.e. farmers from Dutch decent) in the interior..!) The Boers immediately set out to establish farms and to plant crops. And for the first time the blacks had access to a huge food supply and their numbers exploded overnight, growing exponentially.
Prior to the arrival of the white farmers, NO ONE tilled the soil and planted crops. The Boers introduced Maize to land which became the staple food for the black population.
And the blacks came looking for work on the farms and in the mines and in the towns which the Boers established. No one forced them to come or to work. They came looking for a living...!
The Boers did NOT have "maids" or "servants"...; the British "masters" did. Don't fault anyone who offers someone else employment to feed their families. They ere not "servants" or "slaves"...! Stop wit the propaganda and the pity party...! They worked for a living, voluntary...!
The black populations of S.A. would NEVER have reached the size and the numbers they do today, was it not for the food production by the white farmers.
In 1959 (when this video was made), the black population was about 9 million people, out numbering the whites by a ration of 3:1. (today it is around 25:1).
This is after more than 120 years after the arrival of the white farmers in the interior and the establishment of food production farms. It is also after the massive influx of people from Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Malawi etc. which flocked to S.A, to find work in the cities, factories, farms and the mines established by the Boers.
Imagine what it was back in 1850 BEFORE the INFLUX and before the population exploded due to food production on industrial scale introduced by the Boers..? It couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred thousand or so...!
And the Zulus and Xhosas were confined to the South coast areas, and the Swazi and Sotho in Swaziland and Lesotho to the south and to the east of the country next to Mozambique. The Venda and the Tswana further to the far north etc. etc. And in very small numbers.
There was NO population in the interior that exceeded 1 Million people before approx. 50 years after the arrival of the white farmers in the interior.
In fact, the first area that exceeded 1 million people in South Africa was the Western Cape where the Dutch farmers have been growing food since 1652...! That is a FACT which would surprise the vast majority of people. Contrary to what everybody is made to believe or would like to believe...!
No one has ever even stacked two stones on each other to build anything before the whites arrived. They build temporary shelters out of sticks before that. They only started to build mud huts after they saw the farmers building houses. There were no roads or bridges. They haven't even invented the wheel yet before the Europeans came. And no one tilled the soil and planted crops.
So just how did they fill the entire country as you would like us to believe and sustained their numbers...?!
Stop, with the butt hurt and thinking with your emotions. And stop with all the hate and propaganda of the past. Consider things rationally and face the facts straight on...!
Apartheid did NOT suppress or oppress you. Apartheid freed you from the British oppressors and gave you your freedom again...!
And Millions of White people voted "" Yes" in the referendum signing away their dreams of self determination for the sake of peace..!
Just how or we doing on the peace front...?
@danielcoetzee5793 You can't make this shit up!
You have proofed my case when I asserted that white South Africans under Apartheid were fed large doses of pure and undiluted 'racism' growing up.
So concentration camps of the 1902 anglo-boer war was bad but Apartheid was very good.
So to you Apartheid is the BEST thing that happened to south Africa, yet millions of people were displaced from their homeland, hundreds of thousands were imprisoned, forced into exile, killed in prison, forced to work in white farm for free, families torn apart by single male hostels for black miners.
Any, are you related to Dirk Coetzee, former head of police branch Vlakplaas, who openly admitted to killing uncountable number of people and roasted their bodies over a beer party to maintain Apartheid and how old are you?
And now? Have a look and LET THAT SINK IN!
Sadly there is evidence of inequality through and through.
No one or nothing is “equal” but South Africa was so much better and prosperous back then affecting everyone’s life positively.
Another victim of the plague
Land of apartheid.
Propaganda at its finest!
South Africa in 1959 had a lot of nice things to be used in good propaganda. Such propaganda of 2022 South Africa wouldn't be possible.
Truth sucks doesn’t it when Neanderthals can’t run shit
Can you imagine the scale of the misinformation if you are correct? Even Hollywood would marvel at it! But unfortunately that's how it was in those days.
Says a black racist idiot , where is your proof that this is propaganda ?
these comments are vile
It's a white world out there.
Very cool video but you can see the racial discrepancy in the video,particularly in the beginning where they say bantu tribes moved South while the Europeans moved inwards,which is not true lol.
If it is not true as according to you have you got proof in what you are stating because it can be proven that it did happened , if you don't have proof you should rather stop flapping your lips
lies lies lies, Europeans find us here, we did not arrive at the same time
Bring your proof the whites can proof that it happened otherwise stop flapping that thick lips of yours .
2023 all f#/ked.
Arg history in the eyes of a white man. Mxm
So what is your history , the tokolossi ? That is about all you had , no sport no brains sweet blue f... all .
Total propaganda .. historically false
Well this is inaccurate History. Just pure propaganda.
Yes, any film made in this era by the South African Government is going to be -- full of lies!
Where is this inaccurate history ? Today you still have witch doctors 🤣
@@PeriscopeFilm uh-huh, sure
@@PeriscopeFilm No lies, maybe just selective truths. That approach is still being used by just about any government out there.
Europeans brought commercial knowledge into a lush and fertile country. The technology from Europe was more advanced and this caused the unbalances. Results? Master and servant. Not a matter of skin colour but who had the commercial and technological prowess.
True, don't forget fragile ecosystem easy to destroy by yanking resources out
And left a trail of destruction of the people and the country as they do everywhere. TMH will not forget this and has a great judgment waiting for them.
The reality is that the same people that knock the colonizers are now running around in Gucci and Armani!
Floppies have destroyed it. Dutchmen destroyed it before the Floppies. Ta
Land of apartheid.
Hey, we didn't mercilessly slaughter our natives, like the USA, Canada, New Zealand or Australia
The best time