Featured Documentary - 28Up South Africa: Part One 

one of the most underrated documentaries ever made. This should have millions of views

I've watched all the way from 7-up and I have to say that this is the most interesting documentary I've ever watched.

This series is the best reality show ever made. I find it very thought provoking to see the path a persons life takes from childhood to adulthood. I hope 35 up is coming soon

How come this documentary was never recommended to me, RU-vid? You recommend all kinds of rubbish but leave the gems out! I am so happy that I stumbled upon this!

wow, I'm really proud and happy for Thembisile hey. She did that 🎉🎆💕

That most honest of answers at 7 years, " I sound African!" They all expressed their most honest reflection of their circumstances and state of the country at seven.

Inspiring and depressing .

No matter how we sugarcoat it, our government has failed black people the most and it’s sad

Thembisile has a job, I'm so happy for her. 😭❤️

One year to go for 35 Up. I'm looking forward to watch that.

Great doco, everyone has their own journey and challenges no matter their race or background. The South Africa has wonderful people but it is let down by its government, which is sad.

Great to see as a South African

What I. Have learned from this documentary, equality is the biggest opportunity that can break the barrier between people in other to have a better life .

I have never watched anything like this, it's soooo powerful, I'm eagerly waiting for 35 UP

I always wondered what happened to these kids, now I found it. Very well done.

The Best Documentary you will ever watch! I watched from the first one...Greatest idea! Well done AJ!

We must change our speech and try to be positive in everything we say for what you say today might affect and hunt u forever, Francis younger days he said "when you're poor you struggle and beg for sugars from neighbours" and today, he still do so...even when we had nothing, my mother always tells us to confess it that we are Rich..... Confess positively people please

hey I saw the first part of this in france in 1994.I waited in vain for the 2nd part they were supposed to come back 7 years later ,I was 18 back then .waouh ,this is a real shock.I thought it was a french documentary.bless the internet

35up this year🙌🏿🙌🏿 I waited 7 years for this! 😊

Townships are traps, what you see can limit your imagination. Big up to everyone who made it despite all the odds stacked against them

Watched fm 7 Up. Best documentary I have ever seen. In love with the way they followed all of these kids fm then till now, 28 Up. ❤

Thank you to this man to help others who are struggling the Lord tells us to help others and to share what you have with othwrs!!

I've watched all series episodes besides 7up. Really enjoyed them all.

Regarding the black boy/man in the beginning - This is what happens when you put a black child in all white schools since childhood without a strong sense of self or showing him positive images of people that look like him. This is so important. Even as a boy he tried to fit into white society as best he could. My heart went out to him. Then he grows up and clearly feels more comfortable around white people, wants to date white, yet he will never be white and society keeps telling him he is not part of white society. He is trying to integrate, while the white children grow up wanting to be exclusive and remain in their wealth and power. Building himself up as an African with a strong sense of self clearly did not happen.

I just can't stop thinking you Aljazeera for the great work you do always going deeper of the story and bringing the real side of story to us. I just can't wait for a 35UP meanwhile I will always be repeating watching

Who else envied and expected more of Katlego

I can't wait for 35 UP...

The women seemed to be more successful than the man finding jobs. That lady worked cleaning offices while going to school. She now has a job that pays the bills. The man seems to be waiting for a dream job instead of doing what the lady did.

The best documentary ever

This version is as good as the English one. Ive enjoyed watching all the participants in both versions it's real life a great subject when making a documentary.

this is an amazing series! such an interesting idea to follow people through their lives!

love this docs...i watched all great job..

It is 2021 . Are we going to get another one ?

GREAT VIDEO. THANKS ALJ.

This documentary is so powerful.

Please find them again, very interesting

Can't wait for 35

If you have a job in South Africa today, go on your knees and say thank you, because statistically, you're not special, you're just lucky.

I've been to South Africa. I read South Africa in the title, I click

In order to progress positively, We must respect, and learn from, the cyclical history of the past...

Love Documentaries keep them coming

I enjoyed this,

I love you South Africans

waiting for 35 Up

I won't die until I fulfill my dreams Shuuuuu 😢

Is 35 Up coming up soon?

Thank you so much, seen this a long time ago, always wondered if my buddies are okay

awesome

35 and up when is the series gonna start...

I love this documentary but the amount of ads is just so frustrating!

Amazing

They are 38 now.

Thembasile - so happy for her

Why would anyone want their kid to grow up without friends?

When is 35 up coming out? Was it filmed?

10:27 My man, Willie Le Roux!

Wish them all well in their pursuits, it's like a documentary of the film boyhood lol. Kat's growing up is really interesting, he's a smart and lucky guy.

All we are people

greates ever. it should be thought in school. all over the world.

Put Jesus Christ in the Center of the Country & Prayer In Schools First Not Mandela You are Saved & Blessed By God's Grace

The answer we should say is...we are South African Period!! build and be proud of your home

That boudoir painting is still there lol

Desmond and the Tutus!

The truth is sometimes so hard to accept 😩. Do you guys see the differences. The whites married good jobs/future vs black single mothers and fathers jobless unemployed. Another thing non of these whites married/dated blacks. Another thing one of the boys said: they came to our schools. Meaning the whites still feel like they own everything including the country. Another thing is the lack of unity in the black community. When one make it you are called a coconut 🥥. And those who make it; don’t go back to help their own people. Another thing English does not equal intelligence. You can be proud to be who you are and still engage in other cultures and learn other languages. Some of the whites are full of hypocrisy; you lift up holy hands claiming to serve God who is love and loves all, but yet you hate people because of the color of their skin. I love God and I am a Christian myself, but I can’t ignore racism and something has to be done. I am not South African, but I love this country so much. Africa is a continent is not poor. They are not poor. The wealth recources capital etc is not well managed. A combination of greed corruption racism the global political economy history and so many other things contributed to things we see today in certain societies.

I appreciate your work man I see now why have so many subscribers

Wow

Is 35 up documentary out?

Any update on 35 Up?

wow

When is 35 up coming up?

Al jazeera should let us know if there ever will be a 35up

eish, I am a bit concerned about Katlego.....

Hope

Watching Francis from the start, I had a feeling he would be frustrated growing up.

Where is Tshepo

Where is 35up please?

So when is 35 up coming out?

who made it ?

I don't see why black ppl can't follow in the footsteps of the girl who took the administration course. She was poor but she still took a course (she didn't even go to a university) she took a course and applied herself and got a job to earn an income. She didn't complain and blame white ppl or apartheid. Changing your mindset makes a difference!! Unlike Franz, he is a prime example of why a lot of black ppl can't get ahead. He wants all the riches and hasn't acquired any training whatsoever. The women who date him need to have some standards as he has absolutely nothing to offer them. Getting involved with men like this only recycles a pattern of poverty. I feel like Kat...I know what it feels like to not fit in with kids who look like you solely because your parents sent you to another school or you lived in a different area. There's nothing wrong with wanting the best quality education for your children. But the typical black man would label him as a sell out and encourage him to continuously blame white ppl for his own shortcomings.

That guy is the most coconutiest coconut i have ever seen in my entire life.

Katlego still thinks he's better

"Sizodla amaprawns namacalamari" yah neh esatafrika!

Sad, that at such age he had an identity, crisis, he thought to be african you had to should like an aftican.... But I am proud he reconised his true identity as he grow up... Hmmm living in a black person country, you should learn how to speak there language, as its expected in Westerns lands...

Is Katlego Mark Maponyane's son because Kat's brother is Maps? The guy on the video looks nothing like him though.

Kadleko I can relate.

Producer of this documentaries died last year 😭😭

Nothing has changed as far as I can see. The Government needs to change the names of all the towns and cities from the Dutch names to African names. Change Johannesburg, Durban. Cape Town, etc to African names like Zimbabwe.

in SA your personal progress goes backwards. you can work and work and make less money overtime but pay more for everything else.

Wait what? Kat is Maps Maponyane's brother🤯

Did that lady really refer to Namibia as South West Africa At 43:56? Wasn’t that 2013? Namibia hasn’t been called that since independence. As a Namibian that’s just sad to hear. Other wise this is a super amazing clip.

Anyone knows when 35Up is being released?

there's always the military

I have been watching the BBC 7 up series since the 1980s. As. good as the UK series was tje Russian series was awesome. I will look for this on S Africa.

Scares heal over time but a person's sense of pride and lineage is they're land. With that being said no amount of life or blood can be shade to keep once identity. African problems can only be resolved by Africans. No quarrels need to be mediated by any country, ace is an ace; spade a spade; Africa is African; Europe is European. Just be partial and draw a straight line. Think it's a major motivator for Black South Africans see no reason to compensate. With that being said it's not hard to grasp. Sorry if I spoiled the mood, video was recommended after watching a land reform docie. So I just copied and pasted

How cool it would be to learn afrikanus....

Bathong kat says he doesn't sound African haike i'sgaxa sana😂😂I wonder where is he now so that he can see this docie

kids, the power charge is 30 per month, new zealand dollar equivalent, unlimited supply up to maximum capacity of the generator. ekoti

Inglisce biliyormusunuz? Not bad hahaha.. I speak some Turkish Too

look at the killer pretending to like other closers they must have moved to Africa you can put your view if your Africa

The tumbnail is kind of meme historical.