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I also loved here 2002 during the Mbeko regime, it was clean and well organised . The water front has disappeared from tourist destination. A really shame how we Africans manage enviroment.
Looks awful! Cannot recognize it. It was a very harmonious area and now it’s a mess. Durbanites are indeed vey nice and gentle people. Hope the beaches are still beautiful
I was Born there , but didn't recognize it when I went back in 2017 after leaving in 1979 , I plan on going back cause I have Family and Friends living in Chatsworth and still have faith Durban and South Africa will rebound albeit painfully. Stay Positive and be Good to one another.
Most of the towns and cities in Africa are shit holes, all they had to do was take over and keep everything going but the chose to put the money in their pockets!!
the other thing you should keep in mind there's an overwhelming number of African foreigners who are all over the place now...Point CBD is literally ruined by them...not to sound xeno or anything though
@@trevonkahlisit is zeno to say it’s ruined by them, it’s more complicated than that but this isn’t the place to argue about that hey just look into it yourself
Be careful while walking with your camera like that in South Africa. You can be attacked or robbed any time and by anyone. Don't be too relax and talk to everyone in town. Those ones you are talking to, are the ones that will rob you. I am scared on your place, the way you are so relax and talk to anyone like that. Bruh South Africa or Johannesburg is a place whrere you can be gunned and loose all your belongings so next time, please don't move in the streets like that. Be guided by people that you know very well. EVen if you are big with muscles, slender gunmen can point you guns and take everything from you. I lived in South for more than 12 years and now living in the US in Muncie Indiana, so I know very well this country how people are being robbed and killed. It's a beautiful country but some useless people are making that country very dangerous. Don't don't be too relaxed while walking and talking to everyone in the South African Streets. Those street guys who are pretending assisting you, are the ones that will rob you. Be careful I repeat. If you don't trust me, and continue doing what you're doing, one day you will remember my writting here. This is not to scare you but to let you know about how you should behave in South African streets. Joe Mbuya
Notice all the burglar guards on the shop windows. Yup, it never used to be like that. And the worse part is that people living there do not think that this is a problem.
Left in 1994 and have been back to visit friends and family many times. Every time I visit I am so thankful that we left. So sad to see what it is today.
Maybe u shouldn't have left😀 But it's fine, everyone has a right to choose. But I believe one day things will change for the better or new places will be built, like Sandton and many other nicer places being built as we speak. I believe every country has gone through this dark page,even the European and American countries, Germany for example once went through dark days but it came back stronger 💪 Look at Dubai, a dessert channeled to what it is today,so as many other countries. My own observation though 🙂
@@Walk_Africa I don't recall any country declining like South Africa unless it was hit with a nuclear weapon. Actually, even after being hit with a nuclear weapon Hiroshima and Nagasaki recovered much better than South Africa after the ANC took over. You can't be serious -- there is no possible way South Africa will ever be what it was.
@@user-dy7ob7gh2n Just that I don't want to reduce my channel to polical battles. I would have told U the reasons beyond all this. Let's leave it here today.
I went to Durban on holiday in 1989 and stayed in a basic but clean apartment on Marine Parade, on the seafront. I have to say I feel dismay at watching this video and seeing how the place has changed and become essentially a broken, Third World city where its inhabitants eke out a living as street vendors selling the same junk to each other. And it offers a grim insight into what major cities in Britain (my country) may look like in a few years' time when the dwindling white populations (already a minority in London, Birmingham and Manchester) have packed up and left. We're ordered to celebrate the diversity that none of us voted for but there doesn't seem much to be cheerful about.
I guess there isn't much choice but to embrace the changes of life. Everything is changing every day, maybe for the better or worse. The best to do is to try to adapt though it may be difficult. I hope u will visit again. I would love to do videos in your country. Wanna see the differences and similarities. When time comes I will be there.🙂
@@Walk_Africa Yes, there's something in what you say and perhaps I paint too negative a picture, but it comes from the insecurity that change brings about - particularly when so much of it seems to be to the detriment of the native population. I would like to visit South Africa again after so long - I made friends among both black and white people there. I hope you make it to Britain one day to do some filming here - if you end up in north-east Wales, let me know, you'd be welcome to call round!
A country with SO MUCH potential, but ruined by the inability to rule fairly. Greed, power hungry leeches, have made this beautiful country into the mess it is today. So awfully sad
Please don't come to Cape Town and do a walk video. If people see how nice it is they will all move here and ruin it like the all the other cities in South Africa 🤣😂
It is full of a lively vibe. Lots of poverty, but lots of initiative and entrepreneurship. Some places are not well maintained, but it takes two to tango, citizens, and Municipality, to keep up the maintenance. Durban has changed, but I like it now, it's more real, it has personality, it's alive.
What a terrible disappointment. In the 80's and 90's Durban down town was clean. I worked there around the Workshop.Now looking at it since I left SA,......it's so sad! The streets and pavements are filthy and not to mention that they are selling items on the pavements!! Slum!!!!
Lovely vlog - great to see my home city vibrant and alive again after the Covid pandemic. I love the hustle and bustle of the quintessential African city. To all those yearning for the pristine Whites-only parts of Durban from the apartheid era, grow-up and stop whining for the "good old days" because it was "good" for just a small percentage of the people🥰🥰🥰
@@ellismeah8110 Proper change doesn’t happen overnight. I’m sure the vast majority of people are quite happy being full citizens in their own land. Believe me living on the outside of a beautiful place doesn’t compare to the experience of living on the inside even if the inside is far from perfect. Let’s be honest the reasons for Durban’s less than stellar appearance are not simply the ANC or Black people the concentration of wealth in the hands of the white people who stole it has quite a bit to do with it.
City council needs to pay okes to clean up the litter and cut the grass. If the place is attractive it attracts businesses and people who can pay rates.
Durban South Africa will never become a great city if there are no rules and laws. Everyone is out selling on the streets. Go to Dubia and see their street.
The people don't care about cleanliness, can't walk around the city, ever so filthy, gone are the days, when you could walk peaceful and do your shopping, completely destroyed 😢😢😢
@@Sthmohtwenty have you been to London or NY? White people,see themselves as white rather than South Africans and therein lies the problem. Get involved in civic pride initiatives rather than complain.
U.I feel u l😀 These people make tons of money. U won't easily see it. But they have plenty of customers. Proof to that is the product they sell. Fruit and vegetables. These deteriorate if not purchased in time. They have have fresh juicy stuff every day. Though I am not a fan to stalls on pavements but these guys make money. The taxis u see are parked waiting for a turn for loading people. There are areas were people will be getting loaded and those taxis park waiting. The ones honking they have people who hop on hop off. U wouldn't understand it if it's Ur first time to see this. But will make a video about this to help u about Ur question 👌
@@Lusobrasileiro-t5o Those women u say are obese here we say they are fit, curvy and healthy. Genetics 😊 Many of u confus obese and natural fitness of African people. U have a lot to learn about black African people. I don't deny that overweight people are here but not those u see in large numbers. Organic fruit and food keep most of African people this way. *Not based on world research but my own knowledge as a black African* Thanks for watching 🤝🙂
@@Walk_Africa I'm sorry but you are completely wrong. I was born and lived in Mozambique and there was no obesity epidemic there. Today I live in Brazil and unfortunately there are a lot of obese people here because of a wrong diet, like fast food and a sedentary lifestyle. This is a huge public health problem.
It seems like the people are very poor and they come to town and set up their little shops on the sidewalks to do business. This is so sad. You see trash everywhere.
Hi🤝 Not so sure about the *very poor* Phrase ,what I know some of these people selling here are taking their kids to universities with this money they make here, some have great homes where they come from. It's business and they make a good living from it. Fruit and veg markets have high profits compared to grocery shops. They drive these people,never underate them if I were u. Yes some of them are less privileged and get less but they won't go to bed with empty stomachs. Africa is designed this way though I believe some improvements must be done. About trash it's what needs to be seriously attended to. Given the attention its a minor problem to solve. My own observation though.🙂
No no money? No jobs? THANK U african national congress (ANC)government You turned our country into literal HELL, our/your people are jobless, starving, suffering...yet you dont care
I think that if you are from a more economically developed area you probably believe your situation is the norm and have no sense of what it takes to live or come from less than ideal conditions. Whatever the case your comment may not mean to be insulting but it is is.
I'm born in Dbn but I would shit myself if I had to walk in that filthy hectic place right now. Its soooo sad to see how foreigners have messed our city
You can blame Apartheid for this. The people were never taught how to clean up after themselves. They still feel disenfranchised. The ANC has not enfranchised them. They are more poor now than ever.
Awesome video first time watching an African city. Looks great. Many viewers complained that it wasn't what it used to be, it was much cleaner. To me it looks fairly tidy. Africa.... the place where civilization all started. The accident Egyptians; the great pyramids; the great pharaohs; Jesus...etc.
Yes living in an oppressive regime can be great. Especially if you’re in the minority that can enjoy the privileges. For everyone else this is an improvement.
Once upon a time our city was spotless clean thn our government opened borders millions of illegal immigrants came to South Africa thn disaster started 😂😅🤐
Everybody works. It doesn't mean when they walking here they have nothing else to do. Some are on night shift..some are on day offs..some are on leave..some are going to work as they walk ..and many are already at work as they are selling their products..I hope this answers u my friend 🤝🙂
Even though it favor the U.S everybody are sellers and not enough buyers that's way too many merchants i understand they just trying to make money to live but how lmao that's crazy
Can you show us West Street . Thise back streets were always busy .Some of the people commenting may have lived in SA all their lives and never ventured into some of those parts of the city.
@@Edwards.Teach.1 The Third World includes all countries of Africa (except South Africa), Asia (except Japan), and Latin America and the Caribbean, and some states and territories of Oceania Can we argue this state and make our own assumptions because we want to prove a point? Come on mate😊
Hmm...I don't see the problem, as far as I can see watching the video, Durban looked like this 20 years ago when I lived there. I don't see anything wrong with that. I liked Durban. 😊
Hi .I have been there but will come again when I am in Durban. Here is a video in Umhlanga ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cpD2xVUMrA8.html
You must be talking about the ghettos and skid rows. Remember this is the downtown of the third largest city in South Africa. The downtown of any big city in America is better than this current Durban. I left Durban in 2004 after leaving there for 10 years. The Umhlanga Rocks taxis he's looking used to be near ML Sultan Technikon and the fire dept by the market. It's now way too dirty. I know every single place in this video. I never expected Durban to degrade up this level. They even changed the street names1
@@passZword No there plenty of places in the U.S. that are not great looking not just “ghettos”. And the U.S. is not alone you can find places like this in France, the UK and Germany. Remember that this is just one section of the city.
@@YeeLeeHaw If you are going to trash an American city you should probably try and be factual and make it a southern city. Places like Chicago and Detroit have much less crime and infrastructure degradation than many southern cities most of which have higher crime rates than the rest of America. I also don’t know if I’d use an American small southern town as a barometer of peaceful existence I mean there’s a reason those places are dying and it’s not because they are such wonderful places to live.
😂 funny just whatched y tube chanel 😢 where he is showing million dollar houses for sale in gated community whith golf ⛳️ courses 😅 looks like rich are doing well in south Africa 🇿🇦 😅
Beautiful Black & Bronze people everywhere, I love & respect the indigenous People of Azania they had to go through so much HELL!! at the hands of all different types of Mentally ill jealous racist European Neanderthal terrorists that forced there way in to the country, May the Great Ancestors bless them all Beautiful Black people.
Neanderthal terrorists? In the age of human evolution hundreds of thousands of years is nothing.. And less than that (less than 75 000 years) homo sapiens came out and repopulated the globe. I live not 80km from such remains. And homo sapiens is you and me. The fact you infer Neanderthal slur shows your entitled perhaps institutionalized racism.. Check you privilege buddy. ;)
