I visited SA in 1981 flying in from Lusaka Zambia for a holiday in the Western Cape. It was the most beautiful place on earth and very safe as well. Things have changed for the worse since...
@@karabontseki617 It was all good. Whites always get the blame when unhappy Blacks look back into South Africa's history. The reason for this that SA has two cultures, one White and that is in this video, the other is the black culture which is patriarcle, tribal, pasteral and rural and also attractive. It's nature as that is where black people have lived for millenia. The problem is the mixing of the cultures and that is the cause of friction. In the old days Tribal leaders forbade their people from frequenting white cities and towns for fear that the black culture would be lost and they were right just as whites didn't want their culture lost which resulted in Apartheid. Now what you see in the major cities is a bastardised white black culture which isn't attractive to either black or whites. Think about it.
I miss walking without fear of someone killing ne , i miss a clean city , roads fully functional , i miss having electricity 24/7 , i miss public transportation , i miss respect for all life. I miss a city that was once the jewell of south africa . ...
@@dimitriostzellios7539 the city is definitely not what it was and South Africa is in a bad state right now, however those “good times” for you were not very nice for people or colour and that’s where you need to understand someone else’s perspective. You had electricity- a black Person didn’t, you had water - a black person didn’t , you had safety - a black person didn’t.
@@afk3957 i told. It s what you do with your freedom...and it seems all those things you are referring to nobody has them anymore. Corruption and crime is everywhere. I m sure this is not the country in mandella s dreams. He was of course a great leader. Since 1994 everything has gone bad. In global scale south africa is one of the most corrupted countries . So my friend you see once again it s what you fo with your so called freedom
My birth city… Why couldn’t they at least have just taken care of it and not let it be wrecked? I will probably visit again at some point in the future but I won’t live there ever again. I do still miss the summer thunderstorms, the bird life and the chirping crickets on warm nights.
Was born in the 80s, Johannesburg. I loved that place. But now, later in life, I understand why my mom made the decision to leave the country in the mid 90s. As a child you don't see the changes. Adults do. My mom had a tough time in our new environment, especially as a biracial single mother, but we made it. Even though my mom still misses SA today, she no longer has a reason to go back since my gran passed away 2 years ago. I haven't been back since the 2000s.
@@011THEWALL Well said, they ignore South Africa was run by nazis and who ruled with an iron fist no dissent was allowed abd suppressed every one non European was treated less than human with NO rights.
In those days the traffic lights " robots " were all printed white and black and if they were out of action a very well dressed points man would pitch and direct the traffic in a we drilled fashion, wearing white gloves. Hazard lights and hooters were used for safety reasons. Life was so different then. People were considerate. Hospitals had doctors, beds and equipment- for All. Good times
@@afk3957 I hear where you are going with this and am not going into a political discussion, but the points I mentioned applied to everyone, not only the 20 % that were paying for it.
Sadly, those days are long gone. Now it's full of foreigners out of Africa who does not care about our country!!! It's a very dangerous place to be now!!!
That is true. Poor people sold corn brooms carpets coal and sugar cane on street from house to house. Most people had gardeners who received 2 meals a day plus salary, and you could trust them, nowadays it is to dangerous to employ gardeners from street you never know if their id documents are false
That is the only good change of Jhb. The mine dumps were a health hazard but I can honestly say that whatever is replacing them is not wonderful at all. Jhb has become an open sewer and a miserable slum. I was there the other day and I would not recommend anyone going there. The Carlton Hotel building still stands but has stood empty and unused for 20 plus years. Many more buildings are standing empty, stripped of their fittings and occupied by squatters.
@@gwynt909 That is so sad, I was born in SA in the 70s and had to leave with my family. When I went back in the 2000s I was so saddened and shocked that the whole country just went down the drain. That beautiful SA is gone, forever. So sad!
@@nombuleloradebe3120 You want everything done for you, when you’re supposed to do these things for yourself. You just need another million years to evolve. Blaming everyone only supports your inherent stupidity. It’s inexcusable that you haven’t maintained what you have inherited.
Goodluck trying to Drive or Walk through JHB now without getting Mugged🤣 or hijacked🤣 The Best things Are Always ruined by the wrong People Unfortunately!
Amazing and strange how the whites were able to make the city look beautiful and clean, in spite of the sheer ugliness of the architecture. Witnessed the same in Japan. These days, even the neatest luxury mansion looks third-worldly.
It was clean because black people used to clean it and thereafter chased out of town with guns and shamboks. There was no black person in town, and only came to work here. Their home where in the Bundus, where there was nothing but scitching son and ripping cold.
