Pietermaritzburg's Decline and Resilience: Exploring Urban Decay and Revitalization

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Welcome to our RU-vid channel! Join us on a poignant journey through Pietermaritzburg's CBD, a once vibrant city renowned for its rich heritage and stunning Victorian infrastructure from the 1800s. In this video, we uncover the neglected beauty of Pietermaritzburg, shedding light on years of mismanagement and neglect that have left the city in a state of disrepair.
Starting our exploration from the peaceful residential road of Killarney, we traverse through the streets, capturing the mix of well-maintained and neglected buildings. From the police station to the Natal Museum and Natalia Building, we witness the contrasting states of these historical landmarks.
Moving to Jabu Ndlovu Street, we encounter the bustling shopping district intertwined with the sad sight of littered streets. The flow of traffic from surrounding townships reflects the challenges faced by urban areas like Pietermaritzburg.
Continuing our journey, we venture into Timber Passage, where barber shops and convenience stores reveal the evident neglect plaguing the area. Finally, we arrive at Church Street, once a vibrant hub of commerce, now overshadowed by its rundown state. The retail stores, City Hall, and Municipal Library still stand as testaments to the city's history, but their grandeur has faded over time.
Pietermaritzburg's history dates back to the 1800s, shaping the development of KwaZulu-Natal and playing a pivotal role in the colonial era. Despite its decline, the city has produced notable celebrities, showcasing its cultural contributions to the world.
In this video, we delve into the untold stories of Pietermaritzburg, capturing its spirit and resilience. Let's shed light on the past, appreciate the present, and work towards revitalizing this once-thriving city. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts in the comments below. Together, let's preserve our cultural heritage, revitalize urban spaces, and bring Pietermaritzburg back to its former glory.
Tags: Pietermaritzburg CBD, Victorian architecture, Neglected infrastructure, Mismanaged city, Urban decay, South African heritage, Historical significance, Pietermaritzburg tourism, City neglect, Cultural preservation, Urban revitalization, Declining cities, Urban planning, Environmental degradation, Neglected streets, Civic responsibility, Townships traffic flow, Littered streets, Local news, World news, SABC news, Pietermaritzburg attractions, Pietermaritzburg city.

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@theoramcharan8536 5 месяцев назад

I was born in Maritzburg and lived there for 23 years. My parents were born there, and are now buried there. The city holds such powerful memories for me amd this is heartbreaking to see.

@mariecoetzee6309 10 месяцев назад

Sorry, but you can only blame the ANC. 😢😮

@davidthomas9123 Месяц назад

Blame the people who vote for the ANC

@Truth... 19 дней назад

@@davidthomas9123 yes, same thing

@juulclark2651 9 месяцев назад

Pietermaritzburg used to be a delightful little town! The handover to the ANC was the biggest mistake ever made!!!

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Couldn't agree with you more

@jn8922 Год назад

You know what's so sad? Apartheid kept a lot of black people out of Puetermaritzburg in the height of its beauty. It didn't look like a trash heap. You know if people could actually see how beautiful it once was, I think they would know what a tragedy it's current situation is. It's a decaying city. Crime is out of control. You see all those barber shops and nail parlors? Not all of them are legit, they are fronts for foreign drug dealers. We used to have fountains in Church street... Vagrants started having a bath in it and the fountains were removed. Opposite the AS Chetty building which houses the Municipality, there's just weed smokers. The roads are in a pitiful condition and driving there is like a driving game dodging potholes. There was a lot of history in the city - like plaques that had the names of fallen soldiers that fought in the Anglo Boer War... But they were stolen. No offence to you brother but you should have gone down town to film the shocking state of the area opposite Brookside Mall, called the Jika Joe Squatter camp because this video doesn't show the true state of the town. Puetermaritzburg used to be a university town with many young people around the Scottsville area. Now that area is reputed for drug dealers and crime. It's a tragedy indeed to see how much Puetermaritzburg has collapsed.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

I couldn’t agree with you more, I wish I could freely go to the areas you mentioned but I am afraid if I’m not accompanied by at least SAPS as I use valuable equipment to take these videos. It doesn’t look like the administration cares because most of the administration is not even from the area😓

@YouWell2 Месяц назад

are you suggesting they kick black people out of town back to the townships, perhaps?😏

@mphelorodney6057 9 месяцев назад

It's so painful, every other city is like that.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Sadly 😔

@ramennaidoo162 Месяц назад

I still live in PMB. I schooled got married in PMB and now I am a grand dad. As a youngster I remember fondly when we used to go into the city to watch the Azeala festival floats and the Rag fundraising floats. In the evening we used to do window shopping eating ice cream and fish and chips. Today, we are scared to even walk out of our house to sit outside during the summer nights. The city has deteriorated badly since the ANC took over. This city will never be like it was before.

@timfromdurban Год назад

In the mid 80's my father took me to PMB as an outing. He told me to spot the litter. No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't see any. So sad what it's become.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

I was also crushed when I witnessed footage from the early 90s

@chocon8818 10 месяцев назад

@@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Dude, you are not crushed enough about what was going on in the South Africa of the 1990"s and years before. Yes, the cities were clean, spotless and safe, but black people could not live in them. Black people were place in the pits of society, could not own anything, no decent education. When the majority population took over in 1994, they were not educated enough, or have much self-love to improve the terrible conditions of the majority, hence violent decaying cities. Things are terrible now, but a least you have the liberty to do better now. Longing for the good old days, will make on old dog weep.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 10 месяцев назад

@@chocon8818 You couldn’t have said it better, black South African people are a welcoming nation, they were stripped of their wealth, they only started being perceived as poor only when the white nation arrived in this part of the land

@gustabeumer688 9 месяцев назад

@@chocon8818 Go back to school and learn some history lessons.

@davidmiles-hanschell 9 месяцев назад

For sure!@@chocon8818

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

I was born and bred in Maritzburg. I was forced with heavy heart to relocate, many years ago to Yorkshire, England, the land of my ancestors. My family (including my very elderly parents) still resides in old sleepy hollow so I visit regularly and have first hand experience of the decay. I visited the Commercial Road Cemetery recently. I felt like dying. My heart and soul still dwell there. This is the city of, among others, Alan Paton. Cry the Beloved City! Pitymaritzburg ... I weep but cling onto the Hope that the city will be returned to its former glory.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

I don’t blame you, this is a beautiful country, and trust Me, this is the most welcoming nation in the world, we just have these few leaders who are controlling everything! There is no way the Europeans would have invited here if there was no potential

@DaisyCatToo 5 дней назад

Maritzburg reminds me of a UK city crossed with Los Angeles. It's strangely familiar due to the architecture, I suppose. I'm from Birmingham, England.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 5 дней назад

@@DaisyCatToo very interesting

@mljcombrink8484 9 месяцев назад

Soooo sad....PMB was once a neat little town....😢

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Great town

@not.likely Год назад

They can't look after anything

@neilmeadows8641 6 месяцев назад

The streets I wandered as a boy. Sad to see PMB's evident decline.

@juliamilford1979 9 месяцев назад

thank you, well made, thoughtful and honest video. The government is to be held accountable, but individuals also need to take responsibility and have more pride in their city.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏 you couldn't have said it better, the people of the city need to contribute to cleanliness of the city

@yolandelyle 9 месяцев назад

This creates so much sadness within me😢. I am a South African citizen,now living in Europe. This explains why many South Africans left South Africa and living abroad!!

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Yah, I hope things are better for you abroad🙏

@mazambane286 Год назад

Once called the Garden City. Now there is not even a decent piece of lawn left.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

PMB Shouldn't be the capital city of KZN, that's my story and I'm sticking to it🙋🏾‍♂️

@ramennaidoo162 Месяц назад

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 As I see it, there shouldn't be any capital cities in South Africa. The ANC goons have ruined that status of every province. The very same leaders are now blaming apartheid for the decay in the cities. As I remember it, the whites used to fear and respect their elders and leaders of the city, the blacks, on the other hand, don't give a damn of their leaders. The blacks of this country are gone bone lazy.

@YouWell2 Месяц назад

couldn't grow a single potato if you tried, Mazambane mfowethu😕

@2RealQuestions4SouthAfricans Год назад

The greed of others has made Maritzburg into what it has unfortunately become. I know it saddens your heart but continue your journey and bring the good vibes for others around you. Hope it is all we have somedays. SharpSharp!

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Hope I was able to show what is happening in Pietermaritzburg. Thanks for watching 🙏

@sanjayr7977 Год назад

Thank you Sir for all that you do. Watching this video was truly an emotional experience for me. I was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1962 and still live here. Other than for about twelve years the bulk of my years I have lived in PMBurg. I have seen this city change first hand and it truly saddens me. I remember when I was a kid and we used to go window shopping at night as a family. Right now the best thing about PMBurg is the road out of here.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

The is a truly beautiful City in South Africa, but it is running in ruins, it's very sad 😢

@milesbrown8016 10 месяцев назад

Like the rest of the country

@muhammedk470 6 месяцев назад

I also remember doing window shopping uptown Church Street at night. By the 90's, shops started installing burglar guards. The malls slowly started taking over thereafter.

@muhammedk470 6 месяцев назад

I also remember doing window shopping uptown Church Street at night. By the 90's, shops started installing burglar guards. The malls slowly started taking over thereafter.

@muhammedk470 6 месяцев назад

I also remember doing window shopping uptown Church Street at night. By the 90's, shops started installing burglar guards. The malls slowly started taking over thereafter.

@garydurandt4260 9 месяцев назад

A question, and this applies not only to South Africa but all of africa. When africans got their independence they inherited the "white man's culture" i.e. commonly referred to as 1st world. i.e. schools, hospitals, roads, sewerage, houses with picket fences etc etc. In a hypothetical situation, if they could have wiped the slate clean and got rid of all this, and started again, how would they have wanted to live? What would they build to replace it because it is quite clear that what is acceptable in their culture is different to what is acceptable to the european culture, just as the european culture is different to the indian or chinese cultures. This is not a racist remark it is merely an interest in what the african solution would have been to what they "inherited"

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Number 1 let's start by highlighting that Africans are a loving, trusting and welcoming by nature, Africans are a perfect reflection of the Jesus that the western only "preach" about. So with light of the above, Africans compromised ourselves to exploitation from all the nations of the world, Africa is striped off everything you can think of, peace, economy, freedom education, health and wealth, the western did this so well that African don't know who they are, they were strippe off from their beautiful culture and a new world order was introduced to them of the Jesus who comes from Africa, but surprisingly blue eyes, straight brown hair and light in complection, if the world doesn't believe is this Jesus they will parish right? Yet the western are the advocate of supremacy in Africa. In conclusion Africans don't have anything, what you see is not theirs, because what was theirs was stolen from them. In a nutshell Africa would have been prospering if inferior western civilization was not forced on Africa and now this is the product. In fact westerners owe Africa everything you can imagine

@annebursey3541 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing. My home city. Its just shocking and so sad to see. No pride left 😢

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 8 месяцев назад

Lovely City but unfortunately it is deteriorating💔

@margaretbalaam6497 9 месяцев назад

Heartbreaking is all i can say 💔💔💔

@paromik600 8 месяцев назад

I did my postdoc from UKZN, Agric campus in Carbis Road. One of the best countries in world to settle in. Really, I feel sad looking at the detoriating conditions of PMB. Beautiful city.. Beautiful people.. I dnot know wheather nandos outlet is till there or not near the Checkers outlet opposite to Glenn allenn housing.. tahts where I used to stay.. Tandoor.. the Indian resto and yes the church street where I used to visit every sunday.. miss those days!

@acid823 8 месяцев назад

Keeping your city clean requires very little effort. This for the ones claiming it was the unqualified people. Rich people litter too. If every citizen was obliged to sweep their own sidewalk every day, plus fines given to litterbugs. There wouldn't be cleanliness issues. And every community would shine. I also noticed most ZA cities struggle with litter in an unbelievable way. Which makes me think there is either no garbage collection/cleaning or a lot of impoliteness or both. I guess both. Even a butt is litter and even a small weed growing from the kerbside is a sign of neglect

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 8 месяцев назад

Thank @acid for the comment🙏 but the point is that the city’s infrastructure is taken care of by the Municipality and Pietermaritzburg municipality is failing, garbage is blatantly neglected and that is the problem and not all parts of the city is like this

@colleenfoster1171 9 месяцев назад

It is so sad. I went to school and University here.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

The lost Glory

@jeremyrogers4839 10 месяцев назад

Can't sleep. Really love your post. Grew up in PMB. That was actually a blast from the past. And present.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 10 месяцев назад

Where do you live now?

@jeremyrogers4839 10 месяцев назад

@@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Fish Hoek.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 10 месяцев назад

@@jeremyrogers4839 This used to be a very beautiful place, I think that is why it qualified to be a Capital City, but I guess politics didn't praise it!

@sphesihledlamini5110 2 месяца назад

I used to walk in those streets daily going to and from school early 2000 now you won't even believe the filth, decaying side walks, can't even believe these are the same streets we used to walk, the pace of deterioration is unbelievable, a sad site indeed.. shouts out for posting this video and shame the municipality

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

Pietermaritzburg Decay: Service Crisis & Lost Victorian Glory ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5cXHUh4n5GQ.html

@Don-pk2uy Год назад

Another "good story" by the ANC

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

😰🤷‍♂️

@leonhue722 Год назад

People must understand that we have a 3rd world government that does not understand 1st world business, science and technology so to be able to successfully govern. This is why it's essential that The private sector should co manage municipalities so to restore them all back to acceptable standards enabling the people to enjoy an acceptable standard of living.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

You are speaking positivity, we need more people like you in our society 🙏🙌

@Jay-rd3hn 10 месяцев назад

Why people living in the same area are not getting the city where it should be, no one will come from anywhere to build a better life for the people of South Africa 🇿🇦. South Africans should start loving their own country and build it to be a better country for them not private sector. Same government should wake up and smell the coffee ☕️ start working not for particular places that was looking good when it was in times of cheap labour. When people talk about the bad and atrocities of apartheid you would hear people say move on but they still bring up the past how good city was in but now you using black and white cameras 🎥 then now you use colour cameras 🎥 that has lenses and everyone is free to talk as long as they respect each regardless of their race not based on race. During apartheid most people didn’t show chase their talent now people should blame not only government themselves for depending on government and foreign governments for better future while they have hands and minds to work their lands and they are not sanctioned and no one is preventing someone to be what he wants to be. Most black people like me are waiting for government to help them instead of meeting government half way by making sure their country is safe working together with police to make sure no one is doing anything illegal in front of their eyes and white citizens of this country are always blaming current government for not doing right when they had opportunity to work with current government in 1994 but they chose not to work together with the government and now they are blaming government. Majority of children today are studying office administration, PA, teaching and communication instead of studying mathematics, science, technology, accounting, mining and be entrepreneurs, inventors or manufacturers.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 10 месяцев назад

You couldn't have said it better

@bryanhurd9955 10 месяцев назад

WHAT!!! Pmb still exists, wow

@leonhue722 10 месяцев назад

@@bryanhurd9955 I actually spent sometime there at the castle barracks during my national service.

@mahlalempini Год назад

Finnaly someone talks about this city its a fucking warzone for people in the streets

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

True continuous mismanage and decline it's totally sad 😢

@lenfordmxolisidlamini6881 9 месяцев назад

Kwandonga zibovu madoda!! Lafa elihle kakhulu. I used to arrive midnite from Joburg and take any lift to Imbali without any fear, but now criminals rule the town. It's bad guys

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

The good old days 💔

@kubenkain7169 9 месяцев назад

Pietermaritzburg was the place where Apartheid policies were applied in the harsh manner possible. eg: pavements in the main streets were marked off for whites to walk on only. Transport hubs were pushed far out of the centre of the city etc. The corruption and the rot in the administration began way before the end of apartheid. The council was very much an old boys club. The destruction of the CBD as a commercial center was started when the Mayor at the time pushed through a plan to pedestrianize the CBD with contracts given to an Australian group for the paving etc after his tenure he then feathered a nest in Australia and emigrated. The botched CBD planning had to be undone as it blocked access for service vehicles and emergency vehicles. This inner city rot is not on post-apartheid shoulders. It started when Rhodesia fell and PMB became a little Salisbury. Look at the fantastic development around the CBD that was presented during the "Old Boys Club" days. PMB is still beautiful and clean just not in the center anymore. What is really sad is that PMB is a center of learning at international standards and this is not marketed enough.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

You have a slightly different view from others and sound like someone who has knowledge of the history of the city. I personally think that the current municipality is failing in the city. Nothing is currently properly maintained you find potholes and burst pipes right Infront of the municipality building. Look at the condition of church street which is supposed to be a shopping hub 30 mitres from the officials office and garbage that is barely collected 😔

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Ypu are either blind or you can't see. I pity you.

@YouWell2 Месяц назад

PMB beautiful and clean...you must be an ANC propagandist 😂 we can callout the atrocities of apartheid without distorting current reality, chief.

@charliewest1221 Месяц назад

Take pity on this kubenkain fella. He is sadly deluded.

@helenevice6920 2 месяца назад

The mistake like all other municipalities was entrusting ill experienced people to manage the city. Unfortunately lack of experiences, planning and looting has led to these circumstances. I was born and bred in Pietermaritzburg back then it was clean and well managed. Its very sad to see such a beautiful city brought to ruin.

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Yes, Helen, political affiliation and affirmative action superceded meritocracy. This was the ideology that prevailed in the post '94 dispensation. History will chronicle that this was the ROOT of the problem. What one sees now is the FRUIT - over-ripe, rotting fruit.

@jeromevoller8185 9 месяцев назад

I am so disgusted to see Pietermaritzburg gone to the dogs, such filth and no one seems to care. Our Ancestors are screaming from their graves, Man has got no respect for the land .

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

unfortunately this is the reality of Pietermaritzburg and it doesn't seem like things are getting any better💔

@CandyK01Myron Год назад

“Resilient local community“ is the same one that drops all the litter… smh

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Let's be positive that things will get better

@ziaDOG56 9 месяцев назад

so sad to see the decline of Pietermaritzburg...I lwent to high school in this city and lived there for 12 years of my life.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Where do you live now?

@ziaDOG56 9 месяцев назад

I live in New Zealand's biggest City - Auckland - lived here since 1998. A beautiful country still miss SA sometimes.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

@@ziaDOG56 You should have the memories of a good Pietermaritzburg, because now, the places that are supposed to be taken care of are at total disgrace

@ziaDOG56 9 месяцев назад

yes indeed...lived in PMB from 1979 to 1991...good times! agree the city needs a major restructure and agree that the municipality needs to partner with those in the private sector who have the expertise to prioritise and follow through with an action plan to revitalise and make Pietermaritzburg stand proud once more...

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

@@ziaDOG56 Thanks you so much, you could have said it better. Thank you so much for contribution🙏

@screwybit8118 Год назад

My family was originally from here 3 generations all lived near than layer in here and honestly while I wasn't born than I already know it would break my mother and grandmother's heart to see this , my uncle too if he was still with us

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

I guess you left the City, where are you now residing?

@screwybit8118 Год назад

@@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Currently in Durban , Queensbury northdene , but my family namely mother and grandmother want to go back to there hometown even for a visit , let's hope things get better before that

@nedor64 Год назад

Cultural enrichment made P Maritzburg a good example of what can be achieved through diversity. Keep up the good work.

@mazambane286 Год назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 The place is fucked through exactly that!

@blaynetheblade5055 Месяц назад

I still live in pmb. It's not only the shortcomings of an inept and unqualified, apathetic local government to blame. It is also the large majority of citizens who just don't give a damn and absolutely and astonishingly live in other peoples filth. The apathy is eye-opening. Its sad but true.

@SangMarocain 7 месяцев назад

❤beautiful city, love from Morocco

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 7 месяцев назад

Much appreciated 🙏

@djbillye4943 8 дней назад

90s was the best era growning up in pmb.lived in west st,boom str,berg str.sad to see it look this way.😢

@larrymeyer2917 9 месяцев назад

This is the result of stealing from your own country, refusing to hold your representative to account for the lavish lifestyle that drains the municipality coffers.

@stephenswanepoel3722 9 месяцев назад

Bro its like this all over South Africa, But not in the Western Cape. PLEASE VOTE FOR THE RIGHT PARTY THIS TIME. THEY HAVE COME TOGETHER LET US SOUTH AFRICANS ALSO REALLY COME TOGETHER FOR OUR FATHER N. MANDELA.

@lizellepretorius6458 Месяц назад

I was born in Pmb in 1975 in the old Grey's Hospital, grew up there, studied and worked there. My precious childhood memories and footsteps all stayed behind in Pmb along with my heart. So so soooo very sad and difficult to watch this video. It was such a lovely and beautifull city. Now look, and still people vote for the ANC!! What are they thinking? Now Zuma is taking over KZN!! EVEN WORSE! We can kiss everything we ever loved and care about goodbye. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Месяц назад

Trust ME, things were better for black people when Zuma was in power! He is majority in KZN only! And has new administration of younger people, let's give him a Chance. Things were only good for white people only during apartheid an let's not shy Away from that, the apartheid South Africa benefited whites only, lest black people in the bantu education, and these are the products

@yogibeer6686 Год назад

Victoria must be glad that she is being removed.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Nothing seems to be getting better 😔

@sophiaschrenk1511 9 месяцев назад

Sad

@NMNM-og6dz Год назад

Born in Pmb and still reside here , it's breaks my heart to see what our city looks like , I will give Pmb another 50 years for it to be ghost town , city and environment no longer sustainable ,

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Obviously you have lost hope in the City😔

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Find the mustard seed and believe ...

@BuhlebzNetwork 11 месяцев назад

This is sad My brother to our Cities that we used to be proud of in this state I no body cares from the government's side and is not only Pietermaritzburg in fact all the old cities excluding Capetown.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 10 месяцев назад

But this city is the pits, and trust Me I’ve been around especially KZN😏

@YouWell2 Месяц назад

some years back, when i moved to PMB, i could not understand why residents my age at the time were steadfast in wanting to leave...this was before the current hopelessness. after a year and half or so I had also decided to skip town😕

@koenakubheka9489 2 месяца назад

Only a NEW government can restore Pmb to its former glory.

@mountainwood3082 Год назад

Привет из Сибири) Очень красивый город, спасибо за рассказ.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Very beautifully, but it is very mismanagement, but originally it is indeed a beautiful city. Thanks for watching 🙏

@nox6885 2 месяца назад

Im not an ANC voter. But lets not kid ourselves, blaming the ANC fixes nothing. In fact i would go as far as saying it hinders progress, because Maritzburg and like all of South Africa has far more deeper laying issue that has been present for centuries. Another point is that, like the Eastern Cape, prominent people dont invest back to where they are from and that needs to be addressed. PMB is a historical city with friendly people but the locals must take a stand or risk seeing it all vanish. Great video bra

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

Its a collective responsibility

@BrunoMalan 8 месяцев назад

South Africa is now free, including to remove the ANC from power and chart a new path. Ps: I'm not from RSA.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 8 месяцев назад

Very impressive you seem to be informed about South Africa’s politics 🙏

@muzomuhlemncwabe6411 9 месяцев назад

I was was born in Pmburg but left mid 80's for greener pastures but from time to time I still visit. Filth is unbearable. Where are the people I went to school with can't they be in positions of power to change the dire situation. So called mayor is a Disgrace

@muzomuhlemncwabe6411 9 месяцев назад

Thanks my brother for highlighting sorry state of affairs in my old hometown of Pmburg. ❤

@pyotrtchaikovsky9097 Месяц назад

Keep on voting the ANC, EFF AND MK

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Месяц назад

Who must they vote? Western Cape still belongs to internationals under the leadership of DA🤷‍♂️

@Silveradoroad 7 месяцев назад

Very sad how the city is now

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 7 месяцев назад

It is

@mlubinda1620 2 месяца назад

Bafethu, sayeka lana esizalelwe khona sazoleqa oo-victoria what-what ngobani. Ngubani ozokhuluma nge-development eyenzeke eSkopo naseMbali lana ooMama bethu nathi esizalelwe khona. The mud and srick houses replaced by RDP houses. ❤

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

CBD are the gateway to a City, CBD is the mother of everything hamba yonke indawo you will learn this, most likely usebenza khon eThaweni not eMbali

@Tracertme 2 месяца назад

Thank you for this short video it is rather sad to see, very little has changed since I last saw it in 1982. I will always love South Africa 🇿🇦 I just hope its future does not follow those of Zimbabwe and all other Northern African countries. I have so many childhood memories the smell,of the land, jacaranda trees that used be prolific in some streets. South Africa could still be a great nation, just not with the present government it would seem.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

Definitely changed, all infrastructure is deteriorating! Our country is governed by a Mafia government even our freedom of speech is slowly being ripped off

@usharoux8877 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing my opinion is there should be a no letting policy or get fined

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Do you think that will work anywhere in the world, I'm just imagining because even piracy is not allowed but🤷‍♂️

@bottas5665 9 месяцев назад

This the sad story of many towns and cities in SA..Greed and incompetant cadres the main contributor...

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 9 месяцев назад

Sad 😒

@ShafieAtibu-ul8lg Год назад

I live in the city,government workers are very lazy

@leanhoven Год назад

Problem with south africa is people migrate to developed cities instead of building the derelect ones up

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

The people who migrate are forced to. There expertise, experience and energy in their jobs are overlooked in preference to ineffective people. They have no choice but to seek better prospects else where. Talk to these people. They never wanted to leave.

@Patshes 9 месяцев назад

🆒😎👍

@subashinibhika3930 Год назад

P. M. Burg was known as the city of flowers and it being the capital of Natal it's a disgrace I'm lost for words to describe this era, wake up mayor do something productive and positive 😁

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

It’s very sad 😢

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Where have all the flowers gone? Shrivelled and dead, gone to graveyards every one. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

@adriancoetzee2725 19 дней назад

So sad to see what Timber St. looks like now 😞

@user-qm8py4fm5j 9 месяцев назад

Let's vote these gangsters out

@peterlarsen1000 8 месяцев назад

Depressing. Rosa Larsen

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 8 месяцев назад

Yeh💔

@bngmnh3583 2 месяца назад

...these creatures destroy everything they touch

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

That sound so discriminatory😨 you mean the Blacks and their government?

@hanstroskie4555 9 месяцев назад

Such a shame, but we all know who did this

@brucekirby2111 6 месяцев назад

This is just bad management and incompetent governance. Where does the money go?

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 6 месяцев назад

Very good question, Durban tourism is just a fairy tale 🤔

@catherinethemba 2 месяца назад

TSEK ANC!!!!

@Comrade_Tokoloshe 2 месяца назад

I'd have appreciated it if you had given the old street names along with the new.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

I’m new in the city, I’m accustomed to what I found in the city, next time will will do a video just about old and new names of the streets if that make a difference

@Comrade_Tokoloshe 2 месяца назад

@@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Thank you, I lived there thirty years ago.

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Jabu Ndlovu Street (Loop Street) Langalibalele Street (Longmarket Street) Peter Kerchoff Street (Commercial Street) Masukwana Street (East Street) Hoosen Haffejee Street (Berg Street) Church Street (unchanged) Pietermaritzburg Street (unchanged), Retief, Boshoff, Boom, Burger, Prince Alfred, Pine, Victoria Streets (unchanged) Please correct or add where necessary)

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 6 месяцев назад

See another sad video of dire state of Durban beaches 🚮😢ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sHjVuw6MS9c.htmlsi=1vKrU2h31RKjb4Bm

@LM-rg9lj 10 месяцев назад

this is too sad..can watch da full video...i know PMB better then this

@shepardonly Год назад

You need to see the real side of this story

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Please enlighten Me of the real side

@shepardonly Год назад

The reality is you need to be escorted by security guards if you want to record and document footage on the lower end of the city. The place is utter chaos, filthy, stinks of urine and......I rather leave it there.

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

@@shepardonly Especially if you are minority, I would highly discourage you from doing that, even I get scared sometimes

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

@@shepardonly Especially if you are minority, I would highly discourage you from doing that, even I get scared sometimes

@Cam_made_Tee Год назад

@@shepardonlyI do have footage but I can never upload it. I live in the city and I have been a photographer for 10 years, so I have actual footage of those parts of the city, outskirts where drugs are, basically everything that adds to this perspective we are talking about. Even interview/talks with people, youth mostly. Drugs just make the whole situation worse…

@joanlynch9258 Месяц назад

Just about all our cities are in a very bad state and it will get worse.

@user-bg3ng5td3u 2 месяца назад

Municipality is Sponsoring a team in kzn

@charliewest1221 2 месяца назад

Yes, while the potholes are mutating into 'dongas'.

@davyngoveni1494 2 месяца назад

cANCer

@moyrawoodward2291 2 месяца назад

Please everyone - DO NOT vote ANC! Thirty years -- and what do we have?

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

Detection in PMB

@mossfairy3060 Год назад

Viva ANC viva ...

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 Год назад

Viva✊🏽

@LM-rg9lj 10 месяцев назад

😂 yah neah

@Truth... 2 месяца назад

Beautiful city destroyed by ANC

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 2 месяца назад

Why you say that? Are you assuming that the Msunduzi Municipality is ANC?

@Truth... 19 дней назад

@@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 follow the trail of destruction

@user-qb7md2hl5k 6 месяцев назад

what has called this???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

@thebeautyofsouthafrica6987 6 месяцев назад

I’m not getting you?

@alexindustrials8742 9 месяцев назад

Filthymaritzburg, Pitymaritzburg

@alexindustrials8742 9 месяцев назад

I came visiting, I am disgusted at the decay of beautymaritzburg. It is soul shattering to experience the soul of a city decay to the worst that I have seen, we change the street names, but look at how our stadiums and open sports places are looking like pitymaritzburg has chronic constipation, the ANC mind is like the filth and decay of a once glorious accolades of all sorts and sporting spaces. Wake up Maritzburg , be the change by making the change. A once proud maritzburgher