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Yes you asked if you should do more of these stories, pls do. They're very interesting. I've lived in Mexico, till I was six and then we moved to Canada for a bit to make enough money to get a start in Bolivia, where we lived for about three years, which is very close to the Amazon rainforest, now we live in Canada again, but growing up, I was very much into exploring the wild like you mentioned you did. Great stories, would love to hear more!
Black South African and serpentza is spot on. Every member of my family has been robbed. I was robbed at knife point, experienced a break-in and nearly got hijacked by fake police.
Watching a stadium full of black South Africans chant "kill the Boer" was an eye opening experience to the hatred that fuels that region's politics. Watching American media excuse it as 'part of their culture' was an eye opening experience that I don't hate our media enough. I think I do, but I don't.
If you think you hate the corporate media enough, double it. Then you just might be halfway to the proper level, for they truly scum set out to divide and sow distrust.
Unfortunately the locals have no ability to rule or administer a nation state. This was proven after the fall of Rhodesia, Haiti and most other African states after their independence. There are a few groups in that part of the world with the skill and nerve to rule and impose order - Kagame and the Tutsis for example but that is the exception not the rule.
Winston, I am South African Chinese. I grew up in Johannesburg and also lived and worked in Hong Kong going to China. You have experienced both cultures so extensively. Truly resonate and love your content. I live in Canada now and always good listening to your views.
South African here. Survived 4 attempted hijackings, one home invasion (beaten to a pulp), a shootout when the restaurant I was eating at was robbed, 3 explosions (during apartheid when the ANC's terrorism campaign was in full force). Lost a colleague who was robbed in his house and hacked to death with an axe.
My trip to south africa, I got in a cab at J-burg. As we were going through a dodgy area a woman kind of half walked in front of the car and the driver clipped her. He hit the gas and bailed and I was like ''shit man is she ok Should we go back?'' and he said ''it's a set up my friend, if we stopped they would have robbed us''. Beautiful place but very scary.
Makes me wonder if US zoo lions are trained to roar majestically? 🤔 I went to a zoo there where one roared repeatedly and it was powerful and not like a complain at all. The lion looked majestic af too. Maybe they sound like complaining at night?
Yeah, these are just very interesting. It's just unfortunate that south africa's like this.Glad to see he made it out. Hopefully, it becomes a better place one day
His dad's stories would be very, very different. In those days South Africa had law and order and was a very rich country. This type of lawlessness has flourished because of the useless governing party, the ANC. And let's not forget the low IQ majority who keep voting for them.
@@andrewsmith9179 Yes violent crime is worse here than a lot of places, but this narrative is highly dramatic and mostly nonsense. You certainly don't have to leave the entire country to live somewhere a lot safer than Johannesburg. I have to think back to at least 2008 or so for the last time somebody I knew was the victim of violent crime. Emigrants will always look for reasons to justify their decisions. And South African emigrants are infamous for their moaning because they inevitably don't have the wealth to live the same lifestyle they had here for peanuts.
His dad is really cool and interesting. He's also very responsive in the comments so if you have a question regarding him or Winston as long as it's not to intrusive he will probably answer you
The day before I immigrated to the US, there was a armored truck robbery by the bank I was at. The guy at the ATM next to me was shot in the leg. In the 90's, we had multiple farm attacks on our farm. My parents would sit at the windows in the dark house and shoot at the people shooting at our house with AK's. We hid under our beds as kids whenever that happened. It happened a few times. Twice they shot at our house after putting our fields on fire. I've seen bodies twice while walking to school in the morning too. Our neighbors were murdered. The wife was "assaulted" and they both were decapitated with barbed wire.
That is so sad. I hope you live in a peaceful place now, if one can be found. America can be dangerous but only in certain big cities. The rest of the country can be pretty nice with some areas being very nice.
@@chudiksc because people who weren't born yet, when bad things happened long ago, are told that they have to hate other people. I call them the stupids of society. The world is filled with them. Evil people that just want to harm others without understanding why.
@@musa_khalil Most definitely not lies. My evidence is evil people like you who do these kinds of things to other people... for no reason other than stupidity.
Expat, left 3 months ago to Australia. Winston is spot on. Have meen hijacked by gangsters, gun against my head. Been robbed while I was asleep in my house. Grandfather murderd brutally on our farm. Been in a gun crossfire. Mother was robbed and held at gunpoint in my brother's house while she was there alone, they took her engagement ring off her hand themselves, threatend to cut off her finger if she resisted. Horrible things happend to my wife aswell when she was younger. I just kindof blocked it all out, cant even remember it all. Love the place, hate the majority of people.
@@mr.skrywer7983 Love the place, love the people. Dis moeilik om te glo dat jy en jou familie AL hierdie dinge beleef het. Ek is 63 jaar in SA en behalwe vir 'n paar inbrake, het nie ek of enige van my familielede enige van die dinge oorgekom wat in hierdie video gepropageer word nie. Jammer vir jou, maar sterkte met die verlange (dit sal kom) en die aksent daar oorkant wat jou ore sal laat tuit.
Funny fact: The reason why so many people have a wrong impression of what a lion's roar sounds like is in large part due to the "Metro Goldwyn Mayer" intro that was seen at the start of so many movies and other media for decades. You know the one. In that clip they replaced the lion's roar with that of a tiger - because it sounded more impressive. But tigers and lions sound nothing alike. This original error in perception propagated through later media. People expected to hear that kind of sound when they saw a lion on screen, so directors kept using tiger sounds. Now whole generations who have watched far more movies than nature documentaries have been unintentionally gaslit on this topic :P There are loads more similar examples of wrong sounds in movies and media being intentionally used, but I find this one particularly memorable.
I remember my first day working at the Dallas Zoo. I was walking by the big cats when a big male Lion said good morning from maybe 10 feet away. I'll never forget the instant shivers through my bones.
They do this in the USA with eagles as well...dub some menacing tougher sounding bird call in place of what is an actually pretty pathetic sounding eagle call.
My family and relatives have been carjacked, home envisioned, attacked, robbed at gunpoint, shot at. You will always know someone in your circle where this has happened. Winston is not exaggerating.
@@bogususer2595You got it mixed up bud most Americans say that when people who come here wanting to turn the US into those shit holes. Bring your culture not your government.
Hello Winston. I'm Czech. One man from my church moved to South Africa some 30 years ago, when life wasn't so good here. He found a good job there, got married, had two kids there. He liked living there - it was actually his wife who wanted them to move to Czechia with him as she didn't feel safe and she was afraid for their children. It's about five years ago that they moved, so I'd say the situation isn't getting better there since you lived there, it keeps getting worse. So, the wife and both kids are learning Czech language now, and maybe they are getting used to a bit lower living standards, but at least they are not living in violent country and they are not hated for being white (yet).
Eastern European countries are mostly white, nationalistic and have a strong ethnic and cultural religious identity, so they most likely don't have to worry about that.
You sound like a genuine person. Please read on what apartheid was all about. As a black south african born in 2000 i may have a different view from the older people but South Africa to me is not as bad as they make it yes there is crime but they make it seem as of its a active warzone. My point is that you can not oppress the majority and keep the wealth for the minority and expect a good outcome. 30 yrs is not enough to undo 100yrs of damage
Winston, your experiences remind me of my years in Haiti. To have a home and to see it all crumb, then turn worse and worse each waking day is something that is too hard to just simply swallow. I feel your pain as it is also my pain as well, my friend.
I lost 13 friends and acquaintances in 9 years through murder. I got away twice. Burgled 6 times in 2 years, lost 300 beehives to political arsonists and finally left South Africa. Glad to be in a safer place now.
Good lord you have some major cajones to hang on as long as you did. Glad you finally got out. Problem is, wherever you found refuge at, South Africans will be coming to you eventually.
One thing I love about South Africans that I meet is nothing can break their spirit. Every single one of them will regale me with unbelievable stories of street shootings, hold-ups with guns, home invasions and near-death experiences, etc. Yet, they will always smile, cracks jokes and carry on with great humour despite the shit they have been through.
@@carmenschubert5001 That's the impression that I get. One of my friends made a comment about laying in bed at night with his wife and you'd suddenly hear gunshots go off and they would just laugh and go "That'll be another shootout then". I guess when you're in that kind of environment all the time you just have to laugh and carry on.
I used to work with a South African guy, now living in rural England in peace. He went bsck with his young family to visit his parents and told me how scary it was. Hyper vigilant and hyper aware at all times. He said he thinks a lot of people there have PTSD
Hyper Vigilant and Hyper Aware, always Keeping an eye on your 6 - is what keeps you alive in this world, no matter where you live. No matter who you are.
@@cattysplat The dangers of London are overrated. In central London, the places most people want to visit, almost all of the time in almost all places it's fine and you're safe, even now. In certain areas and at night you probably aren't, so they are generally avoided.
I worked with a white guy from South Africa, Roy, and I really miss talking to him. He was a very hard worker and down to Earth. He went through the steps to become a citizen, legally, and spent tons of money doing it. Him and his wife just recently left the US to go take care of her parents in the UK, but I would love to go grab a beer with him, just to chat about life. I hope you’re doing well Sterling
I'm from Europe; worked with an amazing woman from Jo'berg (as she called it). Wonderful person, so kind, experienced a world of bullsh1t in Johannesburg that she really did not deserve. It sounds like hell to be honest. She left with her hubby when she found out she was pregnant. Born and raised there, fled three years ago at 33 because the place was so corrupt and dangerous.
@@GridironwarplansI know this is probably the longest shot in the world, but if it’s the same Roy, we had the same hair stylist too. Tell him to reach out to her to get my number. He will know who I am
I don't know, South Africa had everything going for it. Rhodesia too. There's no good reason for those countries to be the way they are. Rhodesia was the "breadbasket of Africa"... now look at it. They can't even feed themselves anymore.
South Africa has much more resources and land. It has mines, it has deep sea ports. It's population density is much lesser. It's economy was really great in 1991. Bangladesh was a hell in 1971 and it has improved a lot since then. There was nothing except for poverty and starvation.
I am South African and in South Africa and it is in fact a shithole for all people forget about Race ,and it punishes people that actually follow the law, criminals carry AK47s and we have to go through processes that can take a year to arm ourselves to protect our families, Our police system is equally corrupt and enforce laws on the average working person while taking money and selling confiscated weapons and bulletproof vests to the criminals. all of this is verifiable . keep talking and sharing God Bless
And yet no one can figure out why the UK (was) so nice and now there's barely any descendants of the UK left in SA it's a dump, truly confounds the mind...
Forget race? Hmm... SA crime is on par with Detroit, Memphis, Baltimore, Chicago there's one similarity if you look at demographics!!! Be political correct as much as possible!!! Will never fix the problem!!! Look at most sub sahara Africa even more dangerous then SA, they only record 5- 20% of crime that's why it seems lower!! But actually much worse
@@GlenFarmer-c6i I'm not trying to be politically correct I couldn't care less whether I offend black people or white people or anybody the reality is in the states you talking about cities specific areas.... in South Africa nowhere is safe you not safe from criminals you aren't safe from police, maybe in some bush in Africa you would never know how many people are killed but we aren't some bush and we definitely rank in the most dangerous countries and the other difference between us and the states is that black people hold the political power in our country through a welfare state and a majority uneducated unemployed populace. pull the identity politics out of your eyes !
Lived in SA 45 years ago for 4 years. Worked in Rhodesia in 77 and was told by resident who lived there, to get out of SA because it will be the same there as it was in Rhodesia. After dealing with a Totsi at work and getting stabbed twice, fortunetly I got the upper hand, I'm pretty strong. Our house got broken into where I had to protect the family. That was the final straw for me. We gave the house and car away for people to take over the payments, sold all the furniture and little savings we had and headed back to Canada in june 78. My Best Friend ever was a boer named Koos Pretorius I will see Koos in my way out of this world.
Crazy that it was so bad even back then. I always assumed things became so bad recently. Also that must’ve been a great/ interesting experience living in Rhodesia in 77. What was it like?
@@lockeandrand I worked for API in Joburg at the time, had two weeks off, and a Guy I knew asked me if I wanted to repair a blow moulding machines in Gwelo and Salisbury , I agreed. We were flying in a Sessna 6000 and landed in Gwelo, I was shocked at the size of this airport in the middle of nowhere where your not allowed any guns, took us 20 minutes to taxi to the airport. It was 45 degrees celius and the humitity must of been 100% Man the sweat was running off me like somebody hosing me down. The big thing in Gwelo was the Clock in the middle of the road in town. Repaired the blow moulder and modified some German can't fix machines, so anyone could repair afterwards. Went to Salisbury and stayed at the Miekles Hotel were I met some interesting people. They were at war with the Hutti's and the Zambezies. I heard some really grizzly stuff that these guys saw and dealt with. These guys told me SA is next and if I had children to move out of SA because it is next to go. They said the ANC will take everything, so a smart choice would be to get out now. I must say Rhodesia was Beautiful with Flamboyent trees where red Flowers grow on top and of coarse the Jackaranda trees and the smells of beauty everywhere. but there was nobody on the streets, it was like a desert, the reason was the people were fighting at night. I also had my life flash in fron of me a couple of times as well, where your whole life flashes in front of you in milliseconds, the wierd thing is the person who brings you into this world will also lead you out of this world in my case anyway.
@@freddyeltigre2327 very interesting write up, thank you. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting 2 Rhodies, one from Bulawayo and the other from Salisbury. I heard that by 77, 78 the writing was on the wall and everyone who could tried to get out. I saw videos of people being forced to travel in armed caravans with the military to travel between cities or even in the countryside. Would you say that is true? That by 77 people were starting to realize the war was going to wrong way? Or were people still optimistic? And I can believe the grizzly stories- I’ve read a few memoirs about the Selous Scouts, RLI and Rhodesian SAS. Incredible men. And unfortunately your friend was right- the ANC are nothing but a bunch of thugs. And the rise of the EFF.. the country is doomed
@@lockeandrand Funny you should ask about the attitude of the people, for the most part they were optomistic that things would come for the better. But most wanted blacks out , no matter what it took to do it. Well after the stories I was told at the meikles hotel I didn't blame them. The Rhodesians already had it bad at the time the whole world was against them and everything was sanctioned to make their lives more miserable. Most went to SA and started over again there! I don't know about the Caravans, I'm 80 but I think you might be right!
I have to comment on the truth about guns in South Africa - for many years now, it is very difficult to obtain a gun license in South Africa. We all had to do competency tests in order to keep our guns for self protection in our homes. Very few people were lucky enough to be able to keep their guns - only if they had a very good reason. We have a business and my husband couldn’t even renew his firearm license although he was a captain in the defence force. We had to hand in our firearms and they were (hopefully) destroyed by the police. Many police stations were ‘robbed’ and guns stolen by criminals. Very often homes are targeted where it is known that the owners are in possession of firearms and the homeowners beaten and even killed and their firearms are stolen. So you are vulnerable with or without firearm in South Africa.
Governments that want to disarm law-abiding citizens are not doing so to "protect" the public. Strict gun control laws simply enable criminals to prey upon the populace without having to worry about their intended victims being able to defend themselves. When the criminal element has to guess whether or not their intended victims are armed they tend to be a bit more judicious in their actions. That strict gun control in SA has only contributed to a massive increase in violent crime.
That is why in PNG we praise police brutality to criminals. You said they raided police station to get guns this way worse than PNG. Is it because the police are less brutal or is it because criminals outnumber police? Otherwise, I believe this is a result of corruption.
thats the issue with gov imposing extreme gun laws. the guns end up in the hands of criminals and the good ppl who actually need the guns dont have any. any gov who does that is a gov against its people
I've worked with several South Africans who are now living in Canada. They complain food and housing are more expensive in Canada. But as the one fella said, "What price tag can you put on your family's safety?".
Many, many South Africans are moving back because cost of living is so high in the Anglosphere that dealign with the crime here is a better alternative. That's how bad it is living in the West.
@@paullombard00 make more money then or live below your means. The problem with people is they don’t want to down grade their lifestyle. You cannot expect to move to Canada and start over at the same level you were back home. I quit complaining a long time ago and just found ways to get skills that make me more money, problem solved
A lot of South Africans emigrated to Australia. I was standing in the line at a supermarket and these two South African ladies met up for the first time since moving. They were like “Oh hi you moved to Adelaide too? Yeah totally, it was just getting to crazy in South Africa.” Then they were swapping “war stories”, “…I remember when my Mother was shot in the street” It freaked me out how casual they were talking about it, like Winston says it happens all the time. Bit of a culture shock for Australia where gun crime isn’t really a thing.
Mate we have gun crime all the time in Aus...There's a gangland shooting every other week in Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane. Happens all the time but the cops and media don't talk about it too much.
@@staggeringdeath8479 I moved to the UK in 2007. Things were better then. Now, this country has completely sold its identity.. You would not believe how bad it is, there is almost no semblance of English culture anymore.. Truly appalling..
Our family moved to SA from the US in 1968. I did 80% of my school there. We ended up on the South Coast in Amanzimtoti. I graduated in '76 the year of the Soweto riots. I stayed for another 3 years and even drove ambulance for a short while. 3 trips to the morgue woke me up at 18-19 years old. It sounds like it got a lot worse after I left in 1979.
A chap I worked with told me a story of someone he knew in South Africa. This man lived near a pub and several times his car got stolen by people wanting to get home from the pub. Each time it would be found abandoned and he got it back. Eventually he put a poisoned bottle of whiskey in the glove compartment. Next time the car got nicked it was found full of corpses!
@@Sniperboy5551 Yeah, poisoning people is totally based. It's a crime we can't put landmines in our front lawn to keep kids from stepping on it. How ridiculous can you be? Sure those people were deserving of a just punishment like jail or a fine but murdering them is beyond excessive. In every civilised country you'd go to prison for that and rightly so!
I am ethnic Chinese, born in Johannesburg and having lived there for 19 years. The family left to immigrate to Canada during the Apartheid era (in 1970), which I remember to be peaceful with low crime rates in the cities. From what I've seen recently on the internet, SA has devolved into some third world country. Every so often, I fall to my knees to thank God we had left. Going back just to visit? No way.
@@voertsek8404 Nah. He worked as a typesetter for the Chinese (Taiwan) Consulate. When he retired, he asked the family, "Stay in SA or go to Taiwan". I couldn't speak Mandarin so Taiwan was out. We decided on Canada.
Two of the kids I grew up with ended up murdering people. One was hanged. My mother and sister in law were both robbed at gunpoint. Three of my mother's friends, all older women, were murdered on their farms. My cousin's husband was kidnapped , beaten up and left for dead in a ditch, his car, wallet and shoes stolen. My sister in law's family had a home invasion where the robbers stripped the house while they pretended to be asleep. I could go on but it is getting boring...
Im Polish and now im living in UK, Scotland. I have friend at work and he is from South Africa. He told me a lot of stories about his old country. Simpy madness what is happening in there.
@@simplyballing1592 nope. South Africa is not a safe place to live, especially Johannesburg and Pretoria. Every time you step outside you run the risk of getting robbed or kidnapped. The only safe places to live are in the rural areas or in the Cape provinces.
I was born in England 1947. My family moved to SA when I was a baby. We left for the US in 1957 because my Dad hated the government and predicted the place would get very ba some day. Guess I am very lucky that my dad had the smarts to get out of there before it went so bad.
I would guess that every South African (or close to this) has at very least met at least one person who was later murdered. I think the closest murder to me was my 83 year old next door neighbour, who got stabbed in their second home invasion/ house robbery, for instinctively trying to defend his wife when they got too rough with her. We also came quite close to having that kind of unwelcome visitors, although the alarm was going when the kid they sent to smash the kitchen door in was attacking it, so I don't think we'd have had a long incident if we had. (That said, me and an uncle of mine were standing on each side of the door with knobkierries, ready to hit him as hard as possible when he broke in, so we might've been "punished" by the rest of the gang if he'd succeeded, but we damaged him too badly.) A friend of my brothers that I only met once responded to the alarm going off at his parents place on a farm near Greytown. He was one of these "karate pacifists" and very liberal in a good, kind way, so although he had a gun he just ran into their place, and all the attackers he could see there ran away. And then instead of shooting at them, he ran after one to catch him alive, got him down on the ground, got him under control, and then one of the rest of the gang he hadn't realized were there, too, came up from behind, and shot him point blank in the head. Your filling station shop story reminded me of something similar I encountered. It was in broad daylight, and I think the robbery had been a few hours ago by the time I got there, but the woman behind the till told me all about it. Frightening stuff. The professionals tend not to just kill for killing's sake, but you never know. I'd forgotten ... wow ... Farmer friends of ours, years ago, were attacked by a gang at night. The daughters were in the cottage in the garden, and one went to the main house to get a coffee or something, and was met at the door by the attackers (17 years old at the time, I think she was). The one with the handgun pushed in into her stomach in a way that caused bruises afterwards, and told her to take them to her parents. They went past her brother, who was busy playing some computer game in the office, wearing headphones, so didn't hear a thing. She took a chance, and shouted before they got to the bedroom door, "Pa, daar's mense hier ... " (Dad, there are people here). This woke her dad up and made him suspicious enough to move toward the door as he got up. Then as the girl opened their bedroom door, she finished her sentence, saying , "En hulle hou my vas", while breaking quickly away into the room, and grabbing the pull switch for the light as she went. At this point, her dad was behind the door and the guy with the gun was turned away from it. Dad just attacked, and grabbed the gun hand and held on for dear life. Luckily as soon as this happened, the other four members of the gang fled, so there was just this one with the gun. He was really strong, so it took both hands to hold that gun hand. The farmer's wife ran to the bathroom, where they had a handgun (don't know why it was there), and ran back and took a shot, which missed and went through the wooden floor, so the farmer shouted at her not to shoot. The shot alerted the son, who had a home made self defence weapon made of a pipe with an enormous bolt welded onto the end of it, and came running up with that. Between them they managed to beat up the gunman to the point where he let go of his weapon, and was down and injured. And then something terrible happened to this farmer, our friend. He snatched that weapon from his son, and started to lay into the attacker on the floor with all his might. I think I'd better stop here with something vague. He had feelings he'd never had for another human being before, and afterwards the memory of them was a horrible thing for him. The kids pulled him off, brought him back to reason, back to being himself. The story kind of ended happily ever after. The police caught some of the other gang members and they all got long sentences. I had forgotten about that. How does one forget something like that? And now I'm remembering the lovely man who worked on my brother's farm, who became sad (was always happy, always glad to just be alive) when the tsotsis murdered his brother while stealing his disability pension. There would have been no reason to kill him. They must've done it just "for fun". OK now I've really had enough of this.
@@ginchen33 It's possible. I hear there's a bit of a kidnapping plague at the moment, although the cops are apparently cracking down on it, and have had some success. I heard Portuguese butcher was kidnapped the other day, and was later rescued, and the perps arrested.
Please share your stories. I have been following for years and was first introduced to your channel through the China content, but hearing about life in SA is just as interesting
Hello, I am Brazilian and I live in England. To me, it is like you have described Brazil. It’s exactly the same there. I have South African friends and they have told me these same stories. I have experienced most of your stories in my life with family and friends. Furthermore, there’s also a lot of death in traffic, which every family have experienced the loss of someone due to the car accident. It’s a crazy and very stressful life living in a country like that. 😢I find it weird when people ask me why I don’t live in Brazil
Not all regions in Brazil are like a criminal anarchy with no police like what serpentza mentioned. Rio de Janeiro is definely on the list of most dangerous places to be in, some cities and municipalities of the northeast region of Brazil. As i'm someone from the South Region of Brazil, I've never experienced such badly crimes as he described in South Africa, not on part of my family, I guess no one I know of has been a victim of such absurds, I can definely say though, some of them have heard of people who got into situations they couldn't get out. Brazil isn't all hell but no heaven either.
I've had the pleasure of working with quite a few South Africans who had moved here to Australia. Every one of them had stories like this. Many of them had left everything behind. Some had even walked off their family farms to come here and start again.
South Africa's loss is Australia's gain - a lot of skilled farmers have migrated here and work in our rural regions on farms producing food. We should have more visa spots available for these valuable "new Australians".
Once the Black communist leadership completes it’s agenda, SA will meet the same tragic fate of collapse and complete decimation of what little social structure still remains. Occupied Rhodesia will look as a paradise in comparison. Shame, shame, shame.
My Dutch man, Im Scottish... worked for a company that was part of the Shell corporation.. and there was a job oppertunity for him in JHB... My heart sank when he was seriously thinking about it....thankfully, it ended up falling through and he stayed here in the Netherlands... im so glad we didnt go...he didnt understand the severity of living over there. Sorry all this has happened to you, but the voyeuristic nature of humans.. I would love to hear more of your stories.
I think you are one of the best commentators on RU-vid. I have only been watching your channel for a year or so now, but I find myself watching multiple videos at once. No frequent hard-cuts, no hyperbole, no yelling or annoying influencer dialect, generally unbiased and very interesting personal anecdotes / topics. Thank you for your dedication to truth & congratulations on all your success.
I lived in South and Central America so i can relate somewhat to this. When I came back to Europe the thing that I appreciated the most was being able to go out at night without the risk of being murdered.
@@cam5816Central America goes from the south border of México to the south border of Panama (Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, etc) Everything below Panama is South America (Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, etc)
Hi Winston, she sounds like she was a lovely individual and it clearly still hurts you to talk of her death. I’ve followed your clips for many years and I appreciate very much the content both you and milk post. It must be heartbreaking to have a homeland probably no longer safe enough to go back to. My best wishes for you and your family.
I have friends there and asked if I could come visit and each time they say, “no, there was a shooting” and the tribes or gangs are running mad. It’s a shame.
Hello, I had a very good friend in England that was from south Africa. He went back because he couldn't get a visa for his wife even though her grand parents came from England. Well, he told me some of the things that went on. His family lived in a gated area with armed guards. This was in. Johannesburg. They were white. They also carried guns everywhere they went. He told me once that you had to be careful just driving under bridge s, people would throw rocks down to smash your windscreen so you crashed or killed yourself, to steal what ever you had. A really nice block.
As a former beekeeper in SA I was always aware of those on bridges, especially while moving bees at night. At the last moment before going under the bridge I would switch lanes.
My uncle lived in south afica he former S.A.S in ww2 so when they trid to take his farm in force it never went well for them in the end when he dieing of cancer he moved all stuff he could to the uk sold the farm to them but before he left he burned down hiis house and coverd the land in chemcals so nothing will be able to grow there for the next 200 years .... So he got 60.000 pounds out of south afica and they got worthless land
A small price to pay to remove a devil from our lands. My country may not be perfect right now, but at least 5 or 6 generations down the line it will prosper. For now our people can work on lifting the curse your uncle and others left us and I just pray none of the descendants of your family ever touch the soil here again.
Same here, my friend's dad and one of my dad's friends who I respected was brutally killed, but I will never leave. The thing that I don't understand is that a lot of farmers still don't have locks on some of their doors, no burglar bars, no security at all
You're bringing back memories: 5 armed guys with guns on me in restaurant because I did not want to hand my mobile phone, caught and forced to give my pin numbers to my cards, and having been in the border war, 5 cars stolen around 40 car window break-ins; cops that wanted bribe money at most pull-overs; and I escaped The Big Disease - many friends were not so lucky. And then just all the hijackings and other stuff I missed, because I took care and it happened to others.... And the fences, and alarms in every house, and load shedding, and general depressive antagonistic political situation. All the sacred stuff and places that has gone to waste. I've been wondering for a few years whether I should keep my SA citizenship (as a foreign resident). I think I am going to let it go.
The only reason I would ever keep mine as a foreign resident is that if I wanted to go to Russia, I could use it to go to Russia for 90 days with no visa, but that's about it.
I lost my SA citizenship because apparently, I needed permission to keep it. So, unfortunately, I am no longer able to visit Eswatini, Gambia, Guyana, Saudi Arabia or Senegal without a visa. These obscure countries will be sorely missed, or I'll just apply for a visa on my Mexican passport. Saudi Arabia is the only one worth a bother, and you can enter on a US visa, which I have/need anyway. I can even enter South Africa without a visa and have consular protection because I'm not a citizen, so if I ever visit and all hell breaks loose, I can approach the Mexican embassy for help. I did the research and found that I effectively only lost access to 4 countries - none of which I ever planned to visit, but I gained 50, including most of Europe, and I have a card that allows me access to China without a visa. Compare your citizenships and see if it's worth keeping.
I am German but grew up in Brazil. Lived there 34 years. Our apartment building was located 150 meters from the entrance o Sao Paulo's 2nd biggest Favela called "Paraisopolis" (Google Maps that shit and you'll see its size...). I saw a lot of bad shit happening over all those years... but South Africa is waaaaaaaaay worse.
My family in brazil got home invaded, tied in chairs with gun to their heads, robbed at gun point in the street, car stolen, home break in-attempts, etc. Seems like the same to me. These countries have so much to offer but at great cost
In America if someone has been through even a single one of these experiences they're considered tough. Winston has been through dozens of them. By American standards he's the Terminator.
This is why we left South Africa in 2001. The streets also look so dirty and litter filled! Now with all that is happening here in the UK, I fear the same thing happening here!
It's stories like yours Winston which is why RU-vid is so popular. You wouldn't hear these stories on main stream media. Thank you for sharing and I'm so sorry for your losses. I'm glad that you survived and stayed awesome 😎
Quite the opposite actually I'm sure this country is known for such things. Its very rare to hear good stories about SA in other countries especially outside of Africa
My grandparents were living in South Africa for a while and they had their entire house robbed and cleaned out while they were away for a few days- their maid had collaborated with her boyfriend to steal everything when she knew they were going on a trip. It really sucks because my grandparents had really taken good care of her and gone above and beyond to help her out, I think her boyfriend forced her into it.
What's harrowing is the amount of resemblances with my own life living across the ocean in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. How many times I had to escape gun fights on busy highways, was robbed in my house - and shot in the face - and on the streets, couldn't trust the beach water (depending on the place and the currents not even Copacabana or Ipanema are safe) or would risk diseases. It has nothing to do with race or even poverty and everything to do with weak institutions and corruption from bottom to top of administration.
Honestly not that odd, I live in Gqberha in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa and i've got a few stories myself that are very similar. The biggest problem is that the police and judicial systems here have been thoroughly infiltrated by the criminal element. We have murderers getting out of prison in as little as 6 months here.
The fact that you described it as Odd tells me what kind of country you live in. If it's the us go spend a night in El paso and just across the border it sounds like a war zone some nights.
I saw a video from South Africa where an entire street was lifted off the ground and then slammed back down due to a subterranean explosion. It was truly horrific. I hope they address this issue and take measures to ensure it never happens again.
I mean if you've seen any news about South Africa, you know for a fact that'll never happen. It'd take Western intervention and occupation to fix South Africa and even then they'd probably be just as corrupt and nothing would get done.
I’m Australian and we have lots of you here, my private school was full of them. Just out of control crime were the stories. Hence why they came the Aus.
Ain't it wild that the people who tried not focusing on identity will soon be forced to focus on it to keep their society safe. It seems as if the more the world recognizes the "pattern", the harder they force it on us. Backlash incoming
My grandfather told me a story once where he and his friends visited south africa to watch a rugby game. He told me one of his friends was shot with an air rifle while he was waiting for a taxi. When you mentioned the taxi battles it reminded me of that story. Im guessing he may have been waiting for a rival taxi company. The casual violence in that country is truly astounding
Your father is a fascinating honorable man Winston, I could sit and have a beer with that man for days on end. People like yours made South Africa into what was and should still be a beautiful land. What they've done there is beyond disgusting and criminal.
LOL... growing up i was robbed more times than i can remember, i was robbed as a young child of my bicycle right up until as a grown man robbed at gun point of my wedding ring...when i leave my home, i constantly have to look over my shoulder, i live as a wanted man in my own neighborhood
20+ years ago, a South African refugee by the name of Kim du Toit published an essay titled "Let Africa Sink" .... it's shocking, depressing and sobering.... definitely worth the read. Written over two decades ago, it's more prescient than most of what's been written recently concerning Africa. It's on youtube (for the moment- I'm sure it'll be cancelled as soon as very many people search for it....)...
Im from South Africa. Am 33 atm. And everything Winston says is true. This is a beautiful country but... itvalways feels like the grass is greener elsewhere. Problem is... this IS my home. I will miss it should I leave. But I swear it aint the easiest thing to explain to others.
@@nova3530onytyou should leave. At least try it. If you don't like how is it somewhere else, you can come back whenever you like. Nobody is stopping you.
@@jamesgreen3616 It's just hs a lot of beautiful nature, an diversity and cool cultural stuff, which is tainted by teh violence and the corruption, if you wanna go to Africa go to Zambia which is safe to travel.
Still live in South Africa and it's getting worse by the day. There are daily drive by shootings, assassinations at shopping malls. Constant scenes of crime such as the ones you would see in a movie. Jewellery stores are robbed often and cash in transit heists very common. ATMs get blown up. Living in South Africa is a constant trial of survival. It's not uncommon to drive on a main highway and see a body hanging from a tree on the side of the road. Drivers drive towards oncoming traffic when they do not want to follow slow moving traffic. There are no laws here, basically, crims run the country. There's also the construction Mafia that extorts money from companies. There is so much more that it would require writing a book.
As an American, originally from Togo in Africa 🌍 it's a shame that not a single black dominated country is able to achieve the standard called "Developed Country". Anyways, it is what it is 😊
@@downieduck2414 I'm not a Muslim but take a look at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey. At least some Arab nations are doing well enough but nothing from Africa.
if you aren't Finnish, you basically just (even unconsciously) import your mentality to Finland. If enough people like you come to Finland, it will become like the country you have left.
My family and I left in 1997. I have to say, I literally still dream of South Africa of old. May God bless everyone still living there and keep them safe.
@@sanelemwelase That is the obvious conclusion but, no, I don't. I never believed in seperateness, let alone apartrheid. I believe in a functioning democracy. My family immigrated to SA from Botswana (where I was born) for work opportunities in the 60s, but we decided to leave SA when systems started falling apart. In hindsight, we should have stayed in Botswana. I still hold firm to the belief that I shall return home to end my days in Southern Africa. Thanks for the comment.
Every S African ex pat I've ever worked with has been super friendly, kind and hard working. Such a shame that they are not wanted in their home country.
Says who? We never asked them to leave, and would welcome them back! I cannot imagine leaving here and living in Australia. So boring, and so hot! My British born late mother-in-law went to live there with her daughter. She returned after about 6 months, saying it was so "provincial" and boring! Never boring here in SA
My cousin had the same problem, he lived in South Africa and he had his home invaded twice by armed robbers. He and his family fled Africa, they left most of there stuff,the car and just fled to the uk
I grew up in the mountains of Colorado. Outside at night, I could hear mountain lions screaming up on the hillside. It was freaky and yet the coolest thing EVER! We have lions at our local zoo. You can feel a lions roar. Impressive but silly sounding.
Yes she was not the saintly little wifey of the poor oppressed "hero" Nelson Mandela we were told of who stood by her man, through thick and thin, the respectable house wife and mother the movie "Mandela" portrays her a being!
@@barb.gerhard9501 the "real" Nelson Mandela was no saint either, despite all the propaganda. That said, a real saint would never had had any credibility with the masses, so the transfer may have been more violent. It was an agreed lie that served everyone;s purposes.
Have been living here all my life, 8th generation. Have been robbed etc. Will never leave and let the evil win. Just like so many others we will stand.
@@lili_m7991 All of South Africa experienced the mythical "white privilege" as the country was prosperous when whites were in charge. Now it is a crime-ridden, illiterate hell hole for everyone even though the "preferred race" is in charge. The place would still be a barren wasteland if it wasn't developed and modernized by the Dutch.
I had a lumbar puncture once, I was 6 weeks old though. I did infact have meningitis and would have died if my mother listened to the first doctor who said I would be fine. So, very happy to be here with you guys today.
@@MyCatFooed they gave my wife one but the hole continued to leak. She went home with a headache and by night she couldn't stand up because of the pressure at the top of her head. They had to do a blood patch where they took blood from her arm and injected it into the LP area, and the relief was INSTANT.. She stood from The gurney with no pressure anymore. To go from screaming when walking (bring dragged really.. She couldn't walk) to perfectly fine in seconds.
I was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Rhodesia and South Africa. I have been living in Cape Town since 1984 - currently living in a village called Melkbosstrand on the outskirts of the city. I have never been mugged, raped, held at gun point or anything like that. I also do not personally know anybody who has had any such experiences. My house has no walls around it, no burglar bars, no alarm with armed response and my guard dog is a French Poodle. I also do not own a gun (it was stolen 26 years ago due to my own negligence - I left it lying around unattended with workmen in the house) and I have no desire, nor do I see a need, to ever own a gun again. I have travelled fairly extensively and I am aware that South Africa has many challenges, but I love my life here and would not want to move anywhere else. I have many friends in Johannesburg who also love their lives there and have no desire to live elsewhere. Every country and city in the world has its problems and challenges - just don’t be stupid and stay away from the dodgy areas! To the viewers I say: come visit Cape Town - you will not only be fine, you’ll be really pleasantly surprised!
Who would've thought that living away from the main city where all the crime goes down would be safer? You do realize a majority of the population does not have that opportunity because either their bound to these ares by birth, family, job, financial reasons etc
45 years in this country and no drama in my life and I don't live in fear and very sharp with situational awareness. I lived in London for almost twenty years, regular stabbings,yob culture, road rage, home invasions,rapes, terrorism so what is this fellow on about!
No, you're native South African telling some liar stuff to convince foreigners. From what I read in the comments, You country is much dangerous than the most dangerous country in the whole of Pacific.
Yeh I worked with a fellow civil engineer who grew up and worked for a bit in South Africa and he had many similar stories. How annoying and frequent it was to turn up to his construction site and people had been hung from the building's frame overnight and he couldn't get on with work until the police had taken them down. Random animals being about if you left the cities. How his best friend was a security guard and got his throat slit from behind for his shotgun and shoes. The perp would then go on to try and rob a convenience store with the shotgun and got gunned down by the clerk. Or how when he was out surveying to build a water treatment plant he came under fire from a guy with an AK but he and his buddy, both of whom spent a lot of time down the gun range, outshot him with revolvers, he ran away and when the police turned up they released dogs to chase him down. Half an hour later the cops turned up with the perp to identify him, a hole blown through his abdomen from a revolver hit and his kidney hanging out his back. Hours later, after the survey, they went to the police station to find they had chucked the perp into a packed jail cell, without medical attention, where he died before they readied his paperwork because they give medical attention after writing them up "so people don't treat the police station like a hospital" the cop explained to him.
It's just nuts! One of my good biker friends was transferring cash from one location to another for his company. I expect someone on the inside tipped off one of his dodgy mates and on the way down the road he was jumped by a van full of armed people who not only wanted the money, but wanted him to get in the van with them as a kidnap. The only way he got out of it was to hand them his gun and insist they let him go because he has nothing else on him. He could have died that day. One time he was at traffic lights and someone snatched his prescription sunglasses off of his face. He jumped out of the car and chased him down the road, firing shots at him! Police pulled him over once, when the officer walked up to his window it turned out he only wanted to admire his car and ask if he could take it for a blast around the block. He allowed him to do it and the cop actually came back and said "Nice car bru", apparently this happened more than once!
Stayed in the UK for over a decade. I'm glad I came back home and that trend is increasing. For those who want to leave, I support you. For myself, I'd rather try and fix these problems in whatever capacity I can.
Scotland is a pretty violent country when compared with many of our European neighbours, and we also have a massive drug problem, so I wouldn't describe us as 'low-crime rate'. But it's true that we're no South Africa.
@@tokoloshimampara9932 That’s an exaggeration, I lived in Cape Town and Johannesburg and Joburg is just a world away from Cape Town, but of course it’s nowhere near as safe as the UK.
The difference between Scotland and South Africa is in South Africa you can legally shoot back😀 All it takes is passing a test so difficult 50% of armed police are unable to.
You started the first story so romantic and captivating with Lions in your garden, the loud roar. I couldn't even imagine what was to come later in your amazing description. I was not terrified of the lions roars. But I was completely shocked at the amount of violence you suffered in South Africa. Thank you for sharing this, I am so sorry about your friend as well. I hope you are OK and happy whenever you are. PEACE TO THE WORLD.🙏❤
USA here and we've got whole cities that exist in their vile ruins of 60 yrs. Everything he spoke of ( including the Lions!) happens here too. Detroit knows!!
Here in California, some many years ago, I had a friendly conversation with a Nigerian immigrant who worked as a security guard in a CVS Store. He told me about the Islamic Nigerian Government persecuting Nigerian Christians in Biafra, Nigeria. A half century ago, we donated money to UNICEF to care for starving children in Biafra.
Thanks! I as a born and bred Canadian (Québec) I lived inSouth Africa for two years 2009-2011. I saw two corpses, one on road and another a murder. The tension there is so high that one can never really relax, not anywhere (home, camping, mall bank etc.). @serpentza I've watched so many videos of yours over the years (I rode my bicycle across China in 2009) andoved your adventures with C-milk. This video is one that touched me most eventhough I've heard so many similar stories from South Africans.
I lived in South Africa 23 years.. I had to laugh at the video title, I live in a small city where crime is low, don't understand why people want to live in JHB, Durban and CPT when they are extremely dangerous, especially since they can afford to live in a smaller, quieter place
I lived and worked in SA from 90 to 95. I loved it and most of the people were extremely friendly & courteous and I have many stories about their generosity and kindliness. Having said that I was mugged in Small Street, Jo'burg, always heard gunfire in Hillbrow, Jo'burg when we went out there, had my grocery shopping stolen by a drunk border guard on the Lesotho side of the SA/Lesotho border and heard many stories of a similar kind. I would love to go back but know that isn't possible. It breaks my heart to hear what has become of SA and all the wonderful people I knew. "Cry the Beloved Country".
I appreciate your South Africa videos very much, when you talk about your experiences they are very honest and it is clear that it comes from the heart and that you lived this life. you are welcome to do many more episodes about South Africa and your thoughts about that part of the world and what is happening there.
