South African TV 1980s 

Forgive me Lord for taking those days for granted...

Back when South Africa was a civilized country.

Beautiful record. The South African country seemed functional, but it was known that, economically (and morally), it could not be sustained for much longer. Good mentions of old cars, Mazda 323 and Ford Granada, which still look beautiful today.

My family left Cape Town in 1989… seems like a lifetime ago, it is sad to see SA is now a failed state. Thank you for a sweet childhood memory.

Dallas soundtrack just gave me the shivers😂😂😂...Usually back then i should have been in bed,but i tried my luck and got the belt..Oh for some of you that dont understand when we were younger we had a curfew mine was at 8pm.

The entire world owes this nation an apology

If they had to have Police File now on TV, it would be neverending.

This was interesting to see. Thanks for this.

Back when the country had an infrastructure and was still a 1st world country with a functional economy...so sad to watch these.

Wow!! Incredible recording. Thanks for sharing. From memory, I don't think South Africa analogue TV ever included Band 1 frequencies. The accents in some of the commercials sound more like what could be expected to hear on British TV.

SHELL how I long for your presence😢

South africa looks like australia back then

Ah the good old days! /s

We will never get our OLD South Africa back

Eskom was cash flush and the lowest cost producer of Electricity in the world!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="276">4:36</a> was Mainzelmannchen, an ad-break bumpers mascot for ZDF (Zweite Deutsches Fernsehen) in Germany (then West Germany). Had no idea he was spotted elsewhere...

Thanks ANC, just thanks!

"All New Mazda 323" haha

Some of the comments here are crazy to read

Fascinating!

The only issue here is the all white shows and advertisements being displayed. We had shows for people of colour and related Ads. Show them also so that we can have our own nostalgia

When everything worked & no power cuts...wonder why?

I just loved the 80’s ♥️♥️

Ahhh...the good ol days!!

Imagine being in the South of AFRICA and not seeing one person of colour on your television.. loved those times but society was abnormal..i was conpletly ignorant to what was going on.

I wasnt born until 2008 in Pretoria so this is all new to me but Dad loved it thx 🇿🇦

Compare this SABC to the joke that exists now hey?!😂

The 80's was a good time

I nearly got sick when I heard "Just R59 for teo nights in New York🤣🤣

Haha the way he checked out that girls arse at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="37">0:37</a>

What’s the old name of the city that used to thrive is SA?

O those were the days ❤❤❤❤❤

The Rand was stronger than the US $ and the £ back then... Police File was always interesting to watch. A buddy of mine was missing from work from Monday to Wednesday, and I joked we'd see him on Police File on Wednesday night... I was right. He was arrested for wearing camo, which was illegal back then, in a police sweep through Hillbrow in Jhb. He was being filmed in the back of the police truck when he suddenly got up, hands cuffed behind his back, ran at the camera shouting "I won't be on your News!" and kicked the camera. Ahh, the good old days...

That sounded like Eric Idle reading the news at the end.

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Dallas was epic!! Those days not many had tv's and when you heard the Dallas theme you scrambled to a house you could watch it. Yeah, the good old day neh! 😊 oh my word, the Ding Dong commercial is super epic too!

Interesting.

Looked like Austrália or New Zealand

The South Africa i want to remember.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="834">13:54</a> Duke Ellington (robbery suspect)

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢....

Bring back this day please.

Back when South Africa was a great place for all people to live in.

1st world to 3rd in less than a decade!

GREAT COMMERCIALS

Listening to their complaints makes me wonder what would they saw about how SA turned out to be

This was when south Africa was in order..

super

Shows south africa perfect when white 😮

Devil failed these folks

Interesting news story during the Apartheid in South Africa.

I don't recognize any of this. Maybe before my time.

Weird how all the announcers and actors speak in British RP

They’ve all got English dialects ?

Yoh abelungu.. this is so weird

Boers the audacity they have 😂😂😂one day will be properly free

Lol navy blue valiant was a getaway car

Seeing apartheid nostalgic comments is sickening

Ahhh such great memories hey, wow how life has changed so much. It really feels like we're living in the Twilight Zone... they've crashed the dam universe

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="36">0:36</a> impossible in real lfe 😅

Malema should watch this , he's probably gonna curse you out

We lived in a country where the majority of the population were denied their humanity, jailed and murdered if they protestested, reviled and dehumanized and people in these comments harken back to this time as glorious wow😂 SA will rise and prosper again and this time for all South Africans! PS I am white and this is my lived experience

White people built such an incredible civilization❤

Did you really expect to treat the indigenous people like animals forever? SMH

Police file

And on your left you have the Cape Town Bergie. Over years its has evolved and developed human rights which allows the average Bergie to build its shelter wherever it sees fit. Using any materials it finds in the wild

I'm guessing Mandela was still in jail at this time.

Well who ever paying these people to appear in these commercials has the right to have whoever they want rather it 🤔be black ⚫️ or white.does it even matter no not at all.

On the day of Judgement, the Lord Jesus Christ will judge in perfect righteousness. All racial hatred & religious hypocrisy galvanised by the apartheid government will be dealt with. For now - forgive, love & live harmoniously. Vengeance belongs to the Lord.

Lovely, thank you. Like my country 🇫🇮 use to be white ❤ Greetings from the Nordics, Finland. Still most people are locals, White, love it

But you're Bleck!

SAP >>>>>>> SAPS

Life was good being the oppressor wasn't it

Well, it doesn't seem too surprising 99% of people in the commercials are white.

British People

South Africa is not a failed state or 3rd world country , the post-apartheid government had done so much for South African people who were being oppressed at that time , RDP housing , social grants ,black owned businesses and opened opportunities that black people didn’t have during “good South Africa “ People who say this was a better South Africa are who are mad that black people in South Africa can earn and live the same lives as they do . Corruption, violence , crime is something that happens everywhere in the world, in all governments it’s not a South African or an ANC thing. So stop hiding your racism behind these words , you are angry at the concept of equality . South Africa still has beautiful ,clean and safe places

Where de black people at?

Weird how I thought all Africans were Black

White South Africans remind me of Americans by making every social question a moral issue.

What nonsense is this?glad these days are over and will never happen again

This would have been the best country if anc never got involved...

Thank you that time is gone. My mother was thrown from a bus for sitting in a whites only seat with a baby

For all those crying about being oppressed n stuff, please remember that spiderman wasnt in english or afrikaans. Pffft, i had to guess what was going on... all the while praying that bop tv would start already cos that saturday tv2 rendezvous was really getting boring. You could only play with a stick for so long in the backyard before u literally died of boredom. Commodore 64 was for rich kids n stuff... fun times