I was clearly too young back then to appreciate her beauty ! She was born the same year as my mother. I could only find one article of her on the internet, I see she passed away in 2009 at age 65.
The streets look so clean and orderly and the quality of the newscasters are so much better than what they are today!… It’s obvious that South Africa has regressed tremendously since then.
Rubbish this was all a charade, how did the townships look? Just cause the white areas looked good does not mean the whole of SA looked good. The NP are cowards for only building a good life for only 8 million people instead of the whole 40 million in the country at that time. Anyone can make a good life for just 8 million people nothing special there
Well I agree with him and I do not support apartheid. The ideal thing would have been that the life standards and rights that whites enjoyed were fully extended to blacks and other communities. Instead, the life standards of both blacks and whites dropped after Mandela and Motlanthe, but there is racial equality.
...judging from the video, This country was beautiful back then, compared to what it is now, it's totally vice-versa, the ANC has failed us big time thy can't maintain the infrastructure, just to maintain NOT building , I was born in the late 1980s, nowadays you can't even walk freely on the streets of CBD, your life will be in danger...
Its easy to build a eutopia when 90% of the country works for the remaining 10%. Regardless, i am sure those in the townships would have a different view. Yes the ANC is failing. However, as much as it fails, it is still a better pick than the government of that era shown in the news.
I was a aprentist in 1964 And qualified in 1967. As a plumber and was never without a job until 2012. Now a pensioner at 78 Jr's. Old. But unfotunelatly Those were the days.
Because it was back when people weren’t such wussies and the news didn’t sensationalize everything but instead just say the news. And were normal people
Carolyn, this is really valuable history gold. Not much of this around anymore. I don't think the current SABC cares much for this history. If you have any more recordings, please upload.
@John James yes.... 2012......thats SHITVILLLE..... Saw people crapping on the green grass...... My wife lost it and blurted words that would get us locked up while the crap lay and get dry. I know what you mean bro... I belive it's now officially SHITVILLLE amongst thinkers like us..
Wow I was 10 years old when this was broadcast and when I left school one of my jobs was working in the bioscope in the Carlton centre . I used to catch a train fron Florida to Joburg , was so easy and no problems. I miss my younger days in Florida, Florida Lake , Joburg and Hillbrow. Thanks for the memories :)
I still live in Florida, Madeline just above Goldman, 😊 believe me, it's heart breaking what we see daily now. Entire Goldman street a rotten dump now! No more meticulously arranged jewelry store with velvet lining display in the window.No more shoe stores I think it was Edworks back then, no more Ok bazaars, no more Edgars on the corner.All the big bank branches closed down.It's like taking a drive down to hell from time to time, drugs OPENLY offered to a middle aged woman on the pavement in Goldman now....
A great piece of history. Lucky you saved it - I presume on VHS. I was born Aug 1977 ! Somewhere I have the first 30s of the opening of the SABC in 1976. Thanks for posting.
I remember that day. I walked through the Carlton center a couple weeks later when a plastic coating was being added to all shop windows to prevent glass flying about the next time. I saw the crater in the concrete were the bomb had gone off. A large flower pot had been put over the spot to disguise it. That was a long time ago now.
After some research, I suspect this broadcast dates from Thursday 25 November 1977. The Concorde's flight was on 22 November. Also, on Wednesdays, the late news was in Afrikaans.
@@carolynlewis1903 This is what got me as well. Wikipedia has it as 7 December, but other sources place it as Thursday, 24 November 1977, which is more in line with this news bulletin. Once again, thanks for the video, it is gold.
The ¹st Air France landing of a Concorde at JFK Airport was on 19 October 1977, which is actually a Wednesday, but they speak of Tuesday - well that's according to my calendar for 1977
The Carlton Centre bombing occurred either on 25 November or 7 December, according to various sources. Probably 25 Nov is correct, if you factor in the dates of the Concorde landings.
I was 8 in '77. Todays 'Freedom Fighters' used terror as a weapon back then, so we called them Terrorists. I often traveled SAFELY by bus from Malvern to town during the school holidays to see movies near the Carlton Centre.
I just love the first jingle on the test card after the epilogue: Virginia, the wine for men who enjoy being men, Virginia!🤣 Great memories, I had a few days left of std 5 , thank you.
Dankie Carolyn Lewis. Die smit-egpaar se moorde is ook in Hermann Giliomee se boek, "Die Afrikaners 'n Biografie" bespreek. Ongelooflik die materiaal is bewaar. (Engels of te nie...)
Interesting at 07:35, that the Americans feel a close sense of community with South Africa in general. Some Americans and South Africans have said that there should be more cultural exchanges between the two countries. (No politics. South Africans staying in the USA, and Americans staying in South Africa (e.g. 6000 in Cape Town) can have a blending.) South Africans generally tend to have a fascination for all things American. The two countries have also had similar histories. For instance both started out as partially Dutch and then British colonies. It also seems that often whatever happens in the one country also happens in the other. For instance, in 1994 both countries moved more away from isolation and into the international community. In South Africa it was with the first democratic elections, and in the USA it was with the Soccer World Cup. (And then, South Africa moved more towards that with the 2010 Soccer World Cup.)
Many thanks! - Do you mind if I use it (possibly) in some artwork for a course I am doing with the Open College of Arts (University of Creative Arts)? If you ever hear of any footage of Bilton and Potroast or Strike a Match with Alan Field, I would love to have it. SJ
I remember Pastor Bill Price,cause he preached at the Lighthouse Christian Centre,in Parow,Cape-Town. This video was recorded,when my older brother was born in that month of 1977,on Christmas Day.
Aar yes, at 14:14 with the Concorde. Good plane that, retired in 2003. I saw one taxing along the runway at Heathrow in 2005. I then saw another one at the aircraft museum in Seattle, USA. One thing about them, is being much smaller than what they appear - a little bigger than the Boeing 737.
Hi yes they had a Philips vcr. This was before beta or vhs. Tape was square. I ended up sending it to the UK to be digitized as the one person I found in SA who had a machine discovered it was not working when he offered to transfer the footage for me.
@@carolynlewis1903 It's gold. I was born in 1980. So interesting seeing how news was covered around that time. The Biko court coverage is really interesting.
In Ireland from around 1990 until 1997, RTE 1 & RTE 2 (named Network 2 between 1988 to 2004), used to broadcast the national radio services during the testcard after they would closedown for the night. RTE 1 would broadcast RTE Radio 1 and Network 2 would broadcast RTE Radio 2FM. In 1997, RTE 1 and Network 2 would show teletext pages with their respective radio stations on each channel. RTE 1 began full 24 hour broadcasting from September 1998 and Network 2 I think when they reverted back to the RTE 2 name in 2004 (the first time since 1988 when it was named RTE 2 originally from November 1978). I am very surprised that South Africa didn't have television until 1976. Ireland had television since 1961 (Since the 1950's if you count people living along the border with Northern Ireland or on the East Coast where there was television from Wales). By 1976, RTE Television was 15 years old, fully in colour at this stage, and plans for the second channel RTE 2 were under way. However, RTE still closed at around 11 o'clock at night, and didn't start again until 4 o'clock in the afternoon the following day.
South Africa didn't have T.V. until the late 1970's because the churches, National Party and the Broederbond though t.v. would endanger peoples morals and the blacks and others would get ideas. Also before T.V. was finally introduced into South Africa the government sent a team to the U.K. get information and to investigate how set up a t.v. network. The government had to set up different channels for different ethnic groups with there own languages and also set up bilingual channels for whites in Afrikaans and South African English (even thought the news in English sounded something like a British news bulletin).
I've also got hundreds of VHS tapes to go through, to see what I could upload. But, to find time to do those sort of many things, and my two VCRs fairly recently dropped.
@@christobosman5710 You mean how Mandela SPECIFICALLY said that he will now use violent means to stop Apartheid because his peaceful means meant nothing to the barbaric Afrikaners? Mandela announced it personally, and now you and your ignorant posse want to call him a "terrorist" when you won't even bother with the whole story.
I think you might just be spot on with that guess. That was probably the first domestic home video recorder in South Africa. That one had the analog clock on it. Kids from today will scream with laughter if they ran into one. Even I found it a bit comical back in the mid eighties. I was fortunate enough to get a N1700 for free from a friend around 1990. It was a beast of a machine. The video quality was quite acceptable, to be honest.
WOW! Now we get to see what the SABC-TV closes down back in its infantry. That's South African TV gold (the opening day of the SABC-TV in 1976 is worth more than gold than this closedown recorded a year after!!!) Moreover, in the 1980's before the current ZA flag, when SABC closes down, do they still use the same "South African flag national anthem film with the lyrics scrolling up" or is it different to the 1976/7 one? Also, in the Afrikaans version of the national anthem, do they show the same film of the old ZA flag with lyrics scrolling up, but the lyrics are in Afrikaans?
@@carolynlewis1903 Thanks for posting, and also for replying, Carolyn. Did you work for the SABC yourself? As an accent enthusiast (I'm a foreigner, but I try voice recording as a hobby.), I wonder how you'd describe the differences between a British RP and that of the pair of broadcasters mentioned in your reply. Are they and Shirley Veal British themselves working for the SABC? (like Tony Jay, who worked for Springbok Radio)
Hi no I did not work for the SABC. The accents of the reporters would be described at the time as South African English and most probably of British descent but thats just me assuming.
@@WayneKitching Correct, and in this particular recording, since this was from a Western Cape feed, this station in particular was "Good Hope FM", which is still around to this day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hope_FM
They tried to blow up a solar power exhibition with a bomb in a pot plant? Was the pot plant's name Gwede Mantashe? The personality & motive are a perfect match 🤣🤣🤣
Roughly translated, they are saying: There's a bonus. There's a bonus. There's a bonus! Mmmm a big big bonus! There's a bonus in your future with defence bonus obligations. Now for sale at your nearest post office. There's a bonus. There's a bonus! There's a bonus! Mmmm a big big bonus! Get your bonus for the future. Help our land and help our people. (something) beautiful good morning for our land and for our people. La la la la.... Bonus is the winning investment.
Bernard kuhn if you are referring to the picture jumping then it’s because the tape was very old and so too the machine used to play it so that we could convert it into digital.
They couldn't as Mr Biko was a banned person: in those days, if you were banned as a person you could not be quoted much less represented in any media.
A "behoorlike land" that disenfranchises 90% of the population to the benefit of a foreign minority? A "behoorlike land" where dissidents would be abducted and ruthlessly assaulted until they die from severe brain injury?
Thanks for that. It was great going back in time to when Oinga Boinga was still civilised, in spite of the ANC trying everything in their power to ruin the country.
News that are so non representative of demographics of South Africa especially coming from “public broadcaster” thank God for democracy we see progress in Morden world 🌎
@Sebastian Guevara yeah black and white people were separated during apartheid but they were already separated long before Apartheid even came into being in 1949. South Africa is not even comparable to America because in America black and white people arrived at the same time and were integrated from the start in terms of where they lived but in south Africa there were about 8 black tribes that settled on certain parts of what we now know as South Africa and they created mini country’s or territory’s such as Zulu land and so on. And when the whites arrives they took over the rest of South Africa which had not been set up as tribes. So even before apartheid came into being that “racist” structure of segregation was already in force before 1949. And even during apartheid each tribe or group of people had its own leader so the black tribes had tribal leaders and there own tribal governments and white South Africa had its own government to that happened to have some powers over the black tribal territory’s. So there you go the so called racist structure was already there all apartheid did was make it into law.
@@nick-her9275 The crime was always high, the white race was shielded from that at the time. Now it's open season for all and sundry. The economy was stable again for the few whites, now its stable for all. Its easy for things to appear stable if they are designed just for a tenth of the population , while the rest are treated as cattle.
@@brianmuvuti2102 The Republic of South Africa was never yours ,yours are the homelands where you originally came from ,you came in the Republic looking for work only not to claim it as you did ,today it is a shi.. hole ,proof me wrong
Exactly like the propaganda we nów experience daily : the ENTIRE country and economy failing (SAA the latest casualty) but all we hear is how well it's going with South Africa
@@christobosman5710 Apartheid the world called for separate culture development the world needs desperately today? No, we don't want an apartheid nor a separate culture development. We have been through that we don't want to go back.
@@christobosman5710 We are no longer divided between socialism vs. capitalism. We are now divided between democracy vs. authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Socialism vs. capitalism is a 20th century thing and we are no longer in the 20th century. We are in the 21st century now.
@@marcosjuarez7809 what don't you understand in my comment , the world is in a mess today because cultures differ , certain cultures must be kept seperate , look what happened in Cyprus, look it up and even their was very little difference amongst those cultures, we don't even like the same music and a little thing like that can cause friction , i stand with what i said if the world followed our system in the good old South Africa of seperate culture development the world would have been a far better place to live in today , now proof me wrong with facts that you can back up as the truth as I can do .
