African American Couple Reacts "SARAFINA (PRISON SONG) | The Demouchets React South Africa 

I am a white South African and this movie gets me every time. I have watched it atleast a 100 times. I hate what the apartheid stood for. I hate the division apartheid caused in our people. I hate racism... I have lost friendships and family because I cannot and refuse to accept racism. I grew up in the foster care... my brothers and sister in the home were of colour, and to this day I cherish those brothers and sisters, and I refuse to cast them away because racism is alive and I am "supposed" to hate because our skin colours are different. They ARE and will ALWAYS be my brothers and sisters, even if the world does not agree to it, even if our bloodlines are different, even if our cultures are not the same... they will always hold my love. Apartheid was evil... it was wrong and they were murderers, and I do not care if there are South Africans on this platform who are going to stone me for my words... but I will NEVER stand for apartheid, and will ALWAYS stand against apartheid and rasicm and I will continue to stand with and for my brothers and sisters who feel their voices are repressed... I said what I said.

As a South African I can concur that this story is based on true events. This is our history. This is what our ancestors (death and alive) went through. I cry when I watch this.... This is my history! This is what my grandparents went through! They tell me this story every now and then.

Fam, We recorded this video 2 months ago (hence we've already made it pass 10k), but the copyrights were not allowing us to release the video. Would you all like us to continue to react to the other Sarafina videos?… excuse the noise!

I watched this movie in Ghana in 1997 and my love for South Africans deepened. I had heard about colonialism but I hadn't watched a movie so real like Sara fina. We are indeed a resilient people. Black indeed is Powerful and resilient

In South Africa we watch Sarafina every year on June 16 .. been watching it since I was in primary school now I’m in my mid 30’s but I still cry.. it hurts so much

My husband spend 15 years in Robben Island for being a freedom fighter he speaks about the traumas he endured black South Africans have been through a lot and many don't understand they tend to give us labels. They see happy people the effects still haunting us to this day and through it all we try to smile, the reason why we love our country so much because we have a common history and all of us has a story to tell, many lives were lost, people's life journeys took a different turn forever. the love we have for the country and each other is so deep. South Africa has a unique history what you see happening today in the country is forms of expressions of who we really are.

This is why i love my country SOUTH AFRICA... cause even though we had one of the worst suppression systems.. we push through.. we united.. we are strong❤️

Your faces though.... This is why I can't watch Sarafina anymore. It makes me furious

Im South African and have watched this so many times but each time it feels like it's the first time. The pain becomes fresh 😭

As a student back in the day, I can confirm that this happened. The worse was that "BLACK" police were used to whip us. We called them Baasboys. We are supposed to forgive but never forget but then we remember and it becomes difficult to forgive so we try our best.

You guys should watch the full movie

My mom was teaching at a primary school in Soweto 1976..she remembers the day.She said she did tell some high school students to not take part in the protest because she knew those student will be killed and they did kill 2 of those kids. She stopped watching the movie because it makes her sad.i remember the 1st time I watched Sarafina with her, I saw tears from her eyes n she stand up and went to her bedroom..the movie touched her

It's Official The Demouchets love South Africa☺☺

I haven't heard that song in a loooong time. South African voices are very piercing in the soul. I can never watch Sarafina again cause I get ANGRY all over again.

As a Sierra Leonean I heard this story by my late Grandma I cried so much, Together we are strong

I'm a mother of 2 boys 17 and 13 i have told them about our history and we live in a previously "white" area, I normally tell them of how this would not been possible in the past. And now we have the same people who did these crimes to our people telling us which struggle songs we can and can not sing because they don't feel safe

I am sorry Fam, I feel you. No matter how many times I watched Sarafina in years I find myself in tears uncontrollably. This is unfortunately the pain that may never be forgotten, we just learned how to live with it. I wish you can react to a Sarafina video that is not copyrighted. It's painful but we keep watching it over and over again. Our people have been fighting, even kids. They all fought for the freedom we are enjoying today. It came with a huge price, some paid with their lives.

The events are real. 1976 was bad, but the State of Emergency in '86 & '87 was hectic. The murder and torture of "comrades" as young freedom fighters were known happened daily. We fought hard for our liberation, children were at the forefront of the struggle. I was teargassed many times as a kid.

I can't bring myself to watch becoz i get so emotional about what our parents went through. And to think that Apartheid only ended OFFICIALLY 30 years ago brings tears to my eyes. We are literally the first generation out of apartheid.

This is so personal. My uncles remains were discovered 1999 at the Wits rifle centre which before it was a military base for the sandf. After so many years of not being able to trace his remains this song brings some kind of closure. A few days after his remains were discovered my grandmother passed away, at least she got a chance to see her child's lifeless bones. The apartheid was so harsh and brutal to people in this South Africa. The way my father describes it is so painful. Seeing an innocent person being hanged in front of you. Hes in his late 60s and there are days when he's just quiet and looks at his younger brother's grave. There is no level of therapy that has been able to help him 😢.

Growing up in Kenya, we watched this movie and it cuts to the core, to see our brothers and sisters so much because of apartheid! Woooo that was a lot. I still remember all the songs of the movie the entire sound track and there's something hauntingly moving about the voices, the suffering. Much love to our Mzansi people❤.

Black people in South Africa find it so hard to watch Sarafina. Makes me cry every single time. I can’t believe that one human can treat another like this😢😢😢

They were ruthless...that's how bad they wanted South Africa they wanted Africa.

To answer the leadership question: this song is an appeal to leadership. At this point in history, political activists were now political prisoners ( Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbheki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba and others who were leaders in the struggle had already been in prison for 23 years at this point, this means, there had been people born in the 60s who'd only heard the name Mandela or Mbheki and had only seen a picture or worse, knew them as names only). Most anti apartheid groups were banned by the govt of the time and were operating underground. Resistance was readying to take the shape of fighting state violence, through violence. A fatigue had settled in amongst those who were outside but in many ways, they were still resisting (boycotting, peaceful protesting etc). This is how bad it was: having a picture, a book or even music or audios that represented political activists who had now become prisoners was considered a security offence and one could get detained and tortured for terrorist activity. (If you have or are going to watch the movie, look at the difference between how in the beginning, Sarafina could speak outloud to Nelson and how in the prison scene she concedes that Nelson doesn't hear her anymore because they had k/lled a man, she even starts doubting his existence). The kids are appealing to leadership because it looked like the people had grown tired of resisting and more resistance only invited more violence from the government. Some on the outside had even grown to resent those who were in prison because it seemed "safer" inside. So, these kids are appealing to leaders because they too formed very much a part of anti apartheid resistence but needed direction amid increasingly difficult circumstances. Why kids? This answer is two fold: mothers and kids were the ones who were left after everyone went to work or exile or prison. Secondly, there is no level of appeal to the morality of a repressive and illegitimate government that could convince them that children are people too. They saw "terrorists".

South Africa had their independence just in 1994. That tells you what that country been through 😢. It is so fresh in our eyes

South Africa is a country that everybody should look at and benchmark from when it comes to colonization 💔, we fought our oppressors head on to be where we are right now.... the struggles still continues, we fought for our freedom. As much as this is hurting damn that movie 😭💔

I kindly request you guys to react to more sarafina & Steve biko

Worse part is that there are people who are still alive in that era of events, and they have to share the same country with people who did that to them and be like it never happened.

1976 will i ever forget that year i was in std 9...now grade 11...we marched everyday,we fought(in Cape Town) we were soooooooo fierce and many of my friends and fellow students died BUT WE DID NOT BACK DOWN...They whipped us,chased us, teargassed us,tortured us,locked us up,dragged us over hard cement to huge police trucks but come tomorrow we were back...lol...my poor mother was a nervous wreck..

The youth of the 1970s liberated this country! They're so fearless and sad that today those kids are now destroying this country with corruption 😢

WE DO NOT FORGET WE CANNOT FORGET!

Still haven't watched sarafina as an adult, there's too much emotions, and I could see it in your faces...

My mother, my grandma, lived through all of this, they have so much trauma till this day! They bled on me, I'm trying to not bleed onto my offspring.

I am born in 1984, to imagine this was happening in the 80s and early 90s. If I was a south African, this would have been me. Part of my story. Many of us today talk of colonialism as something of the past, something that happened to our grandparents or ancestors. But some countries like South Africa, our age mates have horrific stories of their childhood. Sarafina was an awesome movie. Thanks to Whoopi Goldberg this story went world wide

I Think yall have South African Blood....its Time Yall come Visit

Please reaction to more sarafina

Please watch the full movie. More shocking scenes that makes the country cry

My mother was arrested several times. The scars 💔 in her are real. I think of what they did to her and what she is not telling us to protect us.

Sarafina hits different. The anger is gives me 😅

I can't believe I got over the anger. Having lived in the evil apartheid South Africa. And the nerve to say, "get over it". This happened to us.

I’m a 40 y/o man and I watched Sarafina in my teen years back in Africa and I loved the songs and thought they were passionate and courageous. Fast forward after living in America 🇺🇸 for 20+ years and having knowledge of what black people have experienced all over the world and US in particular I now see this movie with different lenses. Those Africans like myself that were educated in the eighties and Nineties were never taught about slavery, segregation and Jim Crow south. I learned about it in America. Tears were flowing down my cheeks this entire video 😢 It hit me different.

I listened to this song a few years back. I went to the office ans shed tears. The thoughts that went through my mind.

Jezzz! After so many years this song still gives me chills😢

Dojacat 's father is acting on sarafina as crocodile

Hi guys i appreciate you knowing this stuff that was going on !im a black South African women ,we all went through this in real life it was scary as i was younger than 13 yrs old when i was involved in Bisho massacre i dont know how i survive !now i developed PTSD ,i always have scary nightmares when im anxious that the army is chasing me and trying to kill me !its ok to be part of revolution but at night ur on your own 😮

the lady looks like she can cry at any time, that's what we went through

First child killed was about 12yrs old,Hector Peterson There is a iconic photo of a schoolgirl ,carrying his body.They were dressed in their school uniforms.😢

This movie is played every year on June 16, Youth day in commemoration of the 1976 youth, killed in Soweto for rejecting Afrikaans as the language of instruction. The brutality of apartheid has been so watered down and sanitized that the beneficiaries of apartheid walk around with clear consciences as if our subjugation and brutality was nothing. The peace we extended to them was in vain, they still hate us, but we soldier on.

I remember in the 90s when we watch this movie, it was always silence in the room no matter how many time we watch it. Emotions always kicks in, even now is still not easy watch this movie.

This is too deep to every South African , this shaped us🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Thank you so much for covering this type of content on your channel may the Lord bless you

Everybody cries when watching this I am nearly 70 yrs so still cry. I was crying now

You have to remember, colonial programming did not see black people as human...so they did not see kids .. movie based on the June 16th uprising 1976

I don't hv the strength to rewatch sarafina. I can't watch it, South Africans, keep pushing 😢😢

I just came back from watching this, we watch this every year on June 16th here in SA. Our aunts, uncles and parents went through this. My family hates watching this, especially my grandmother, she still has trauma.

True reflection of our past. Can watch Sarafina over and over again very emotional movie

30 years later, we still have fresh wounds

In SA we watch strafing every year jts still emotional till today.most of the people who faced apartheid are still alive. Thats why theres still anger problems💢

Black people are the most forgiving people on earth, even if we've been treated badly,we still forgave and still forgive even today,may the good Lord give us strength and make us to unite and have a wonderful South Africa and the world at large, God bless Africa and the world,we are dying so we need to leave the best world ever to our children

The movie that made every kid shed tears in the country. From Ghama with ❤ ..Power to my brethren in Mzansi and America... Don't stop , keep fighting.

Have watched this movie thousand times and I get soooooooo emotional

We will never ever forget. Life was not easy at all.

It's now available on netflix

Mama africa went through alot with it children

I have experienced some of this as a young girl and watching this movie is always a pain! 😢

Imagine the first time I watched this I was 7 years old and even today I still cry and get furious when I watch it😢

I cry every time I watch it

I am from South Africa 🇿🇦,Thank you for the love yall❤❤

Hearing dis song it always cut deep evrytime 🤞🏽 we stay strong ✊🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦

i feel like crying watching this

I'm forever grateful to our forefathers. They crawled so we could walk 🥲🙏🏿

i am now 17 and I watched this movie since I was 5 years. I looked forward for youth day to watch sarafina this story brings me to tears they rarely show it now but I hope we can tell this story to our upcomming generation I AM PROUD OF SOUTH AFRICA FOR FIGHTIN FOR OUR FREEDOM LET COUNTINUE TO FIGHT AGAINST RACISM

please watch the movie, you don't have to react to it just watch it. a beautiful concept overall regardless of the somber storyline

I was born in Kenya when South Africa was still not independent. I couldn't understand what independence meant when one of ours was still not free.

Damn goosebumps 😢

This just makes me love y’all even more ❤❤

Please watch the burn burn scene. So emotional 😢

It got real serious real quick!

my grandmother was a teacher at Naledi High School in Orlando when the uprising started in Orlando Soweto, That morning they didn't know about the march until student organization mobilized other students from other schools in Soweto to go n march and they were doing it peacefully until police/soldiers get involved. she said she has never witness such evil in her life and some students she know from Orlando have never come back even today. In the 90s when we watch Sarafina she would cry n leave us watching.

Scenes from Sarafina always gives me goosebumps! It just doesn't get any better💔. Instead it infuriates you even more, thats why I no longer watch it that much. You guys should check out the whole movie, Whoopi Goldberg is there as well

Respect family❤

The very realisation that this movie was my parent's reality its so heartbreaking😢

I am white German and wanted the name Sarafina for my daughter. However, I had two boys. I watched the Movie several times and cried a lot. Maybe that's why I condemn any kind of racism. I was also very shocked when I had to declare my ethnicity in America. Something like that is against the law in Germany.

Students have always been the greatest freedom fighters! Even now

Thanks!

you guys should watch the whole movie

AMANDLA !!! Meaning power to the People 👊🏿

Honestly, this movie keeps racism in our hearts in SA. They play it every year on 16 June if not on heritage day. So that we never forget what the white man is capable of. 💔🇿🇦

Thanks a lot ❤

The people of south Africa really really suffered in the hands of white majority during the apartheid regime. I'm happy that Malema is taking a stand in that country!

There's the Steve Beko story too..played by Denzel Washington in the late 80"s..he was subsequently murdered..These are true stories...oooooo.Was cast system of APATHIED...WHEN NELSON MANDELA WENT TO JAIL..YEAHHHH..

I remember watching this movie as a child, I was so sad and traumatized despite my young age and lack of understanding of the real world. I knew I never wanted to watch it again; all I can remember right now is the music.

I was a child in the 80s, during the state of emergency. It didn't know what was happening, but my parents had to prepare the roof of the house to sleep at, because the police would come in the wee hours of the morning to arrest boys. Black people were not allowed to own properties. We were only given "Permission to Occupy. I detest Apartheid.

They never considered black South Africans as human but something less than even an animal...That's the rationale they used to justify the inhumane treatment

I'm watching this reaction in 2024 with tears in my eyes. I first watched Sarafina with my grand parents and my grandmother teared up, my granddad consoled her but I could see he was not okay himself. The apartheid era traumatized black people forever.

South Africans went through a lot 😢

You should watch the entire movie.. it is sad.. love SA.. i was young when watching it and it saddened me.. it weighed heavy seeing children going through such animosity..maaan.😔💔💔

Honestly can’t watch this movie till this day. Appreciate you guys✊🏾

" We do NOT forget!"

Y'all should watch the entire movie