White South Africa votes in 1992 referendum (25 years ago) 

You should make a video on it! In those times whites were closer to 20% of the population, but still it's pretty strange to look at this. Even today some parts of cities remain mostly white, though it has been changing. That society was interesting in other ways too, even among the white minority there was the Afrikaner-English divide, which didn't like each other a lot of the time. The Afrikaners were a slight majority so they pretty much ran things, as you can see on the Dutch-looking flag and Afrikaner-centric anthem of the time. And their international isolation led to other interesting things, like secretly developing nuclear weapons (probably working with Israel), and then getting rid of them because they didn't trust the post-apartheid government with them.

It worked though, south Africa is just bandit country in comparison now... complete mess

@@nickmagee-brown739 I can see why one might think that, but if it had really "worked", the standard of living for everyone would have risen such that there wouldn't be rampant poverty and violence in it's wake. That is the objective of western capitalist societies, stability through self interest with everyone having a stake in it, responsible for and owning their own success. There was no shortage of resources there. Apartheid only improved things for some, and not enough for the majority, so no, it didn't "work". It just controlled people by oppressing them, and it's left terrible psychological scars that South Africans are still paying for.

@Korucuk kataloški broj according to who!? You!?

@@themudpit621 How exactly do you "oppress" some one (a majority, no less) if you hand them their freedom on a silver platter and embroiden it with gold lacings and fill it up with the fat of the land. The Afrikaner people was also "oppressed" by the mighty British Empire while the world looked on. Along with each and every other indigenous nation in Southern Africa, including the mighty Zulu nation. The Afrikaner nation did not subdue or subject one single tribe or nation in South Africa. All these nations were all subjugated with brute force by the British Empire and forcefully amalgamated into one undesirable "Union" against their will. This "Union" was equally hated by white and blacks alike but became desirable after the British left for convenience sake. It was the Afrikaner who cast off the yoke of the British Empire and declared their freedom. The first thing that the "Apartheid" Government did after they claimed their freedom, was to DECLARE FREEDOM for each and every other indigenous black nation and tribe that was subjugated by the British and began to dismantle the British concoction of the "Union of South Africa", the little "empire within and EMPIRE" which the British created. Not only did the "Apartheid Government" grant these nations freedom, they also spent Trillions of ZAR currency in uplifting these peoples to "lead them to independence" building them infrastructure, industries and giving them back their land and their dignity (which the British took from them). So, how exactly is that "oppressing them"..!!!?? No one in history ever did the same for the Afrikaner people..! No one ever declared freedom for the Afrikaner in the same way which the Afrikaner did for every nation and tribe "oppressed" by the British Empire. And no one ever did what the Afrikaner did to uplift these peoples in "leading them to independence". What did the British do for Swaziland and Lesotho when they handed them their freedom and independence? Did they spent a single Pence to help them stand on their own feet (like the Afrikaner did to the other nations they liberated from the British)???? Before you make sweeping statements, please find out first whether it has any truth in it!

vali68 chrysler the mistake you guys always make is to lump people together

@@sandilemasemola6593 South Africa is falling to pieces. And has been for a long time now. Looks like it could be too far gone now.

@@sandilemasemola6593 the funny part your 'you guys' response does exactly that, lump ppl together lel :)

Ikr

Mandela himself failed the black people of SA.

Hope is the cruelest of all emotions, for it prolongs suffering.

LOL, after 25 years of failure and murder, you still have hope?

Such a stupid, misjudged and misguided excitement.

I thought folks gave up on that 'rainbow nation' pipe dream by now.

tell that to the occupants of kleinfontein and Orania

Best ever

@@crazychicSHENA in what way? The country is crumbling, it went from one of the wealthiest countries and a nuclear power with an incredible independent military and engineering/manufacturing industry. Into a failed crime ridden state, with no nukes, glorified militias filled with obese people, no industry of their own and crumbling rusting crucial infrastructure.

How so?

@@tvrtvr6984 Are you really that offended by black people? 🤣

@@tvrtvr6984 Wealthy for who? Better for who? Not if you were part of the 90% .

Like what

what kind of infleunce ??

Yeah come on...like what?

@@HateTheIRS South Africa is a country of firsts. First heart transplant, CAT scan, radar gun, we produced oil from coal, dolos, more efficient solar power, computerised ticketing, automatic pool cleaner, Pratley putty (which was used on Apollo 11), retinal cryosurgery, Q20, electric street lights, one of a few countries in the world in the 70s who had a sophisticated nuclear weapons and nuclear energy program, countless military weapons like assault rifles, fighter jets, tanks, pistols, missiles, the largest mining hub with South Africa being a major gold, diamond and platinum miner/producer plus major agricultural exports and this was all while SA had sanctions

Uh what? 🤨

LOL How’s diversity working out for ya in the lovely “Rainbow Nation” these days?

Lekker vir my as 'n kleurling julle konte

They where using received pronunciation like the B.B.C..

Lots of us speak like that. Most coastal English speakers have accents that closely approximate the Queen's English, especially in Natal.

There are also various South African accents.

How Dare You How Dare You and other countries in the world are perfect examples of why they should

Then why are they in africa? Go back to europe and practice what you preech

@@Luca-nu2zg The stranger has no strength in a strange land. Africans are following the rules of European countries. Do the same, if not take a hike the mountains are still there.

@@Luca-nu2zg only if europeans didn't colonize all of africa

🤣🤣🤣

You miss institutional racism?

@@ryancruz1876 Why would he miss institutional racism when SA still has that towards whites?

And the southern U.S. once had slavery. I imagine that you would have liked that for South Africa.

Not too late to leave. Not sure if you will survive the developments that are to come. The wealth will be in the hands of a few Blacks, just like in Apartheid. Imagine your granddaughters being married to ANC men just to put food on the table

@@ryancruz1876 Cant you read ? He never said that, you inferred that from your own racist lenses.

Most people in these places were black these videos show polling stations where only whites could vote.

Yeah, I'm not certain but I suspect this was government controlled media - not exactly in their best interests to inform the public.

Probably because they didn't need to state the obvious. They've been talking about ending Apartheid for years. Any South African watching the news that day knew what the referendum was about.

@@freezafeesh9251 The president at that time was in favor of ending Apartheid. SA television had probably been talking about the contents of this historic referendum long before this day came, so I think they didn't need to state the obvious and just covered the election itself.

We should have been told the truth the national party never gave me a choice if I had known I could have taken my family out of this messed up country and immigrated and would have been settled now I feel we were lied to.

How about giving people more democratic rights like deciding how the workplace is run so that people become work with democratic processes in their every day life.

the country has gone to far back, it will never go back to like during apartheid years,which was best times, no crime, clean streets no potholed streets, which party will fix it,

@@eisbeinGermany i agree that the country was thriving like that of a developed nation. However is it fair that only one race benefited whilst the others suffered? At the end of the day, its pure coincidence as to what race we are born. So would you feel the same way if you were born as a non-White?

@@san12X How do you know it is pure coincidence? And whether it is 'pure coincidence' or not, what difference does that make when there are immutable racial differences which can never be surmounted?

@@InqvisitorMagnvs I don't quite understand what you are trying to saying but nonetheless would you feel the same way if you were born a different race than you currently are?

dis rayzuz

Same

yes stay far away from SA,its a dangerous crime riddled country now, when white people still ruled it was safe and clean,now its only crime, dirty streets

The great 'Boers Only Country Club' was destroyed forever. Why cant the Blacks, Coloureds & Indians except their former hellish lives??? What miserable lives we Boers live now that Blacks & Coloureds control the Government & Indians control the Economy 😭😭😭

​@@chj5328coloured have white culture

What's so funny about them? You must be black or a black appeaser

These whites are crazy😂

Cbreazie Nutz and you’re uneducated? Black

Aw Bbo my fellow white brother, I go to Hilton and yes sire thy is BLACK

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Call it what you like. It's a free country now.

europeans having a referendum to decide whether or not they should allow Africans to vote in Africa? What kind of nonesense is that? Would europeans stand for that? Then why should we? If you want to practice racism then do it in europe, not Africa.

I think youre a bit confused

@@tyrone9953 in what way ?

@@56364 an insanely racist way

@@Lagiacrus1996 explain ?

Farm murders? In your imagination?

You are a vile individual

Wonder if those that are still alive today had their chance again....if they'd vote differently...I'd say yes. They effectively voted to become irrelevant and second class citizens in their own country.

Yes, apartheid was the worst mistake that South Africa ever made.

How else would apartheid have ended?

@@ryancruz1876 why you want to end something so beautiful?

@@bokonoo77 You meant disgusting

@@NoName-hg6cc It is ugly for a stupid people

@@bokonoo77 It is beautiful only for idiots

You got that right and if you like then you're more welcome to return to your UK

Go live in Russia. You'll like it there. Lots of oppression against minorities.

I'm loving the reverse poverty. I'm now the new Black Johan Rupert . Can wait to marry off your daughter and granddaughters and we give you colored grand kids. Dude, times have changed. It's better you go to a more white country where your opinion and vote counts

Yes, they did, we all did

It's been widely acknowledged that the SABC was biased towards NP rule during the pre 1994 period.

Bankrupt.. Our national debt 100% of our annual GDP.

Sorry baas the gravy train went up in smoke

It went bellyup the moment you enacted Apartheid. Your former leaders were no different in ideology to the EFF. If they opted to educate Black people on the economy, and how to participate and run in it, then we would've been a global force today. But now your leaders created a radical population, who only knew violence. They breeded fighters, rebels, not intellectuals. It's yours fault. It's all your fault.

@@lemonnlimelight2760 France is 98% of GDP. The UK is 85% of GDP. The US is 133% of GDP. Canada is 118% of GDP. Japan is 254% of GDP. 100% isn't all that bad.

@Unknow Forever4545 is that the very best you have. You funny

South Africa was a global embarrasment and a global pariah in the aparthied years, you seem to forget that.

The great 'Boers Only Country Club' was destroyed forever. Why cant the Blacks, Coloureds & Indians except their former hellish lives??? What miserable lives we Boers live now that Blacks & Coloureds control the Government & Indians control the Economy 😭😭😭

Apartheid and racist S.A. was an embarrassment to the whole world.

The great 'Boers Only Country Club' was destroyed forever. Why cant the Blacks, Coloureds & Indians except their former hellish lives??? What miserable lives we Boers live now that Blacks & Coloureds control the Government & Indians control the Economy 😭😭😭

Then move.

It's never too late to leave because your daughters and granddaughter are mostly going to marry ANC men, just to be fed and put bread on their tables. You will have beautiful grandchildren

Based Korean

Thank you for your hate filled comment, Adolph.

I'm loving the reverse poverty. I'm now the new Black Johan Rupert . Can wait to marry off your daughter and granddaughters and we give you colored grand kids. Dude, times have changed. It's better you go to a more white country where your opinion and vote counts

@Scalwag4087 I didn't screw up the country and South Africa fell from grace way before I was born, not sure what issue you have with a 2 year old being born at a great time of change but keep screaming into the void I guess 😀 😉 👍 👏

I don't think they miss oppressing blacks or indians or coloureds. Thats why they voted Yes in the first place, to abolish apartheid. I think in their minds they miss a country where there were less crime, and less corruption. In other words, when they voted they expected everyone to have equal opportunities but in 2021 not much has changed

@@gerritkruger4014 and sadly poverty is still an unfortunately problem being fueled by politicians.

Visit Durban, South Africa, you will love it, as the city has a large thriving Indian population and the surrounds are beautiful.

@@gysgijsbers4202 it is on top of my list of places to visit. Will visit it one day..

Jews lived first in Palestine

Jews are native to Palestine

@@tthkkkkk They departed around 2,000 years before the emergence of Zionism and the subsequent establishment of the apartheid state of Israel.

@@clonecommanderbly7408 Most Israeli Jews today are not descended from the Jews who inhabited Israel 2,000 years ago.

What a biased and ridiculous statement to make.

Obey His Commandments and watch His blessings falls upon you.

@@jeannievanbiljon91 Jesus said "Come to me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest". He said all who are heavy laden. Not just whites. Not just blacks. Not just asians. All who are heavy laden.

Your Contentent is a shithole, We made it better

Man Bro what you made better? taking the resources away from Africans to built up your industries? trade with human flesh for centuries? africans didn't chose their continent to be a shithole! and europeans never made it better, the just made it suitable for their colonial ventures.

Bandile Bheswa Funny how many blacks flee african opression under black rule they run after the whites to europe and Australia - ha ha ha

We never asked for white civilization.....Africa has the highest great cities made by gold and stones of which you whites have stolen and kept it in your home country museum.....you will pay for this one day.

Sithembiso Dube Proof? And think of it this way: Would you rather be a second-class citizen in a economically stable country that can still put food on the table OR A first-class citizen but has no food to provide with since the country is in ruins?

KMTForChina no, continue to do your research. those were a collective chain of events.

South Africa ended apartheid in 1994, with elections. In 1992 was a referendum about that.

Well done Jacob.

Starvation for South Africa! w00t just like Zimbabwe.

Plutonius X why are you people so obsessed with Zimbabwe? Like it's the only country in the world that's having economic problems or something. You're living in the past. Mugabe beat you, move on. I'm sorry to have to inform you but people aren't starving in Zimbabwe, that's just wishful thinking on your part: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-25ote6Ig07I_.htmlZimbabwe_2017_bumper_harvest There are still whites in Zimbabwe and they are doing fine, nobody bothers them: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KRdXNJV50mI_.htmlwhite_people_in_Zimbabwe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xO-DLl11xWs_.htmlwhites_in_Zimbabwe_shopping_mall

Mugabe didn`t beat me at all and I thankfully never have or never will live in Africa. Plenty of Africans are starving in Zimbabwe and the only preventing even worse starvation is tons of foreign agricultural aid into Africa. Nobody bothers the white in Zimbabwe? Do you honestly believe such Mugabe propaganda? Whites have been beat up and threatened for decades, perhaps that is the reason there is less than 500 white owned farms left in the former breadbasket of Africa.

Hlala kwabafileyo

Curtis DeLor Your claim to support left-wing values and social progressivism is undermined by your nonsense, racist, and non-empirical "reverse apartheid state" talking point. I agree that about neoliberal ANC policy, particularly with the likes of Mbeki, Ramaphosa, and so on, though not universally so -- hope you're not advocating for the über-neoliberal DA to replace them, however!

Thank goodness they did not go for full blown left-wing socialism. It's amazing that people could still believe in socialism after the 20th century. Socialism punishes achievement and rewards failure. No wonder it destroys economies. The inequality in South Africa is the result of socialist policies like minimum wage policies. I'm all for subsidized education, though, because we do have a huge legacy to overcome. However, Equality needs to refer to opportunities, not outcomes. The more you focus on outcomes, the more you kill the goose that lay the golden eggs. It is not the place of the state to build houses for people and give them grants - especially not in a state where only a minority pay taxes. People need to be encouraged to better them self through affordable education and find decent jobs so that they can contribute to society, not become dependant on the state and be a drain on the economy.

Scraping Yines Absolutely not! I just want genuine party of left-wingers to replace them and implement democratic socialist policies. No apartheid of any form, just blacks and whites living together in harmony, and no neoliberal economic policies.

The crime of Apartheid *was not* seperation, but the forced nature of it. Likewise, you can't *force* people to integrate either. We're a country of many cultures. The best way to ensure people live in harmony is to just allow them the freedom to associate with whomever they want. The more you force intergration/segregation, the more you promote ethnic tension.

Scraping Yines No, I am simply advocating peace between all races and democratic socialism.

It was always a third world country...

@@Luca-nu2zg Only if you were part of the white elite which only made up like 8% of the population. If 92% of the population lives like a 3rd World Country, in my eyes it's a 3rd World Country.

The great 'Boers Only Country Club' was destroyed forever. Why cant the Blacks, Coloureds & Indians except their former hellish lives??? What miserable lives we Boers live now that Blacks & Coloureds control the Government & Indians control the Economy 😭😭😭

A third world country is where 10% of the people hold oppressive power over 90% of the people. South Africa under the whites always was a third world country.

It's never too late to leave because your daughters and granddaughter are mostly going to marry ANC men, just to be fed and put bread on their tables. You will have beautiful grandchildren

And the sad part is how many white Afrikaans people fell for the corrupt NP Pik Botha DE Klerk story about the yes vote, today so many white people in South Africa are regretting voting yes, DE Klerk sold us out, I voted NO, I went to the SA Army, waisted so much of time on the South West Africa border, I was one of the white people from South Africa who fell for Ben Voster who proclaimed that Russia Cuba was going to capture the country, the so called red iron curtain,

I dunno... we seem to report mass gun murders dispassionately, like they are traffic jams or something.

Yeah they voted to die

10% of the population would have never held power forever to think so is absolutely delusional

Seeing what happened I wouldn't have bothered voting. Then & there would have packed my bags and left instead of having to leave decades later anyway. The ship was sinking then, the water was up to the portholes. Now all you can see is the mast flying the new SA flag, port & starboard lights went out a long time ago.

So just keep Apartheid?

Desperately sad. What on earth possessed a majority of the White voters to vote "YES", and how many of those that did have since lost their jobs, been murdered, or left the country ?

Sigmund Leid was the best day ever

Very sad.

You are a disgusting human being.

Very Happy you bora trash

This kids is where the destruction started !!

Kingm,your so right!Most still don't understand it.They voted for communist revolution!

@@rynhardtvanrensburg2187 I voted a big fat NO as I knew what was coming. Wasted my time. Luckily I left when I did.

@@peterr7530 When did you leave? Guessing you won't ever go back to live there🤔

@@richardmadden8742 Left in 2002. Went back once on holiday for about 3 weeks. Still has some beautiful areas but I will never go back. Most of the country is overrun by crime and corruption.

The day apartheid and racist evil died.

Kont

​@@SymphonyBrahms I'm glad you think racism is dead... It's still pretty much alive and today not mainly from white people

@@SymphonyBrahmsYes, but weirdly South Africa appears to not have benefited from its brave new world.

@@SymphonyBrahms Literally all it did was make the top 10% leave or die in poverty. IT did literally nothing for the remaining population.

thats the day the white people sold themselves out , and now are crying long tears, still cant believe white people voted yes to stop apartheid, black lived better before June 94,thy had work food ,, now thy don't have food or work,

Pietersburg/North Transvaal shown at 7:58 was the only region to vote no.

And on that referendum day the white people sold themselves out to communist ANC cadres, thinking that black people will let them still rule the country

@@jakobhopfer1997 Probably due to it being on the Zimbabwe boarder and having some first hand insights in to what the future would hold.

It is, or was, also a very conservative area.

Cool story bro

One mustn't judge history by today's standards.

This is the civilized comment I was scrolling to see! 👍🏿

Were you hopeful after voting yes?

@@lu881 What do you think?!

Then again, if the reforms had, as a result, not continued, then the country's economy would have still continued to go down due to sanctions. In the late 1980's the outside world was so hostile towards South Africa. Yet, there were countries, like elsewhere in Africa, with far worse atrocities. But, that didn't mean much, or anything, to the outside world. And, the two countries who picked on South Africa the most, were the two countries who had the most to hide, namely the USA and Australia.

One can what hypocrisy there was, in those sanctions. And, it was whites towards whites. That shows again that one mustn't stereotype, including towards whites.

I heard that a majority no vote would have led to more sanctions.

There would have been a civil war

if it was a no vote country would still of been in white people's hands,not like now with the veil ANC< they are evil, before 94 SA was clean and safe, one could walk late at night alone in street

@desertdetroiter ther will come a day when you will cry for the whites to return and they won't.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 truestory @jaybs1962

@@Bea_remembrance get you head out of your behind

Some turkeys voted for racism. They got what they deserved.

Uh what? 🤨

Too bad that the Boers can't terrorize people anymore. Boo hoo hoo.

@@SymphonyBrahms Too bad the British Empire cannot terrorize the world anymore...! Stopped DEAD in their tracks by a handful of farmers...! Ha ha ha! Too bad (for you) the the British and the Germans can't run their concentration extermination camps any more..! Boo hoo hoo! (4u) Ha ha ha (4us)

Some of us knew, and we warned and warned.... But we were sweared at in terrible ways.

@desertdetroiter this is accurate

@34L H445 yeah because us black South Africans loved apartheid, we were marching rioting and dying in the streets because we wanted to show out admiration for the glorious government

@@gtproperty4197 aaa fur vark steakes....we no by now that nobody voted yes !!! Only 68%

So what if they knew? It's amazing how you think that your useless referendum meant anything. It didn't. It was inevitable that we were to realize freedom in our lifetime whether you like it or not

@Delon Duvenage so....what happened in the meantime....did the time bomb went off???

We should've just dropped the bomb on ourselves. It pains me too much to see what South Africa has become.

@@Arnz01 Are you really that offended by black people?

@@ryancruz1876 you shouldn’t be surprised most of the whites we have here are disgustingly racist. It’s just sad if only we could unite to make this country better but they would rather complain from their high walls and comfortable salaries

@@hassanduale8028 I mean whites are the only ethnic group that carrying south africa you know that right?

yes but only for a certain race

Because you did not go to the Bantustans

Rnelson....Nope. That's far to generous.

@desertdetroiter could have been though

We used to be better than the USA, stronger business economy, stronger currency and stronger military, now we lack all of it because of what the blacks have done

yes,, white people sold themselves out, by voting yes,

"Hendrik van der mescht" you're one of the freaks who would choose for minority whites to yield indefinite total control over the whole country, your anti-human barbaric beliefs about black people will never receive majority support amongst whites ever again

Agreed they only have themselves to Blame they should have voted no but they voted yes and that’s why South Africa is ruined now

im sorry if we did, i signed a petition today the bring white south african immigrants into the us, if that makes you feel better.

Viper Excellent solution.

Imagine black minorities in Europe partitioning countries, doesn't make sense

Apartheid SA gave the Bantu (Black people ) homelands. In total, ten homelands were created in South Africa. These were the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Venda, Gazankulu, KaNgwane, KwaNdebele, KwaZulu, Lebowa, and QwaQwa. The homelands were designed for specific ethnic groups.

Joe Mcnamara We dont need anymore illegals

Have you ever been in Africa?

Have you ever been in Africa?

@@lu881 Why? doesn't look like that now!

@@CheshiredGrin Which part of Africa are you referring to? Or are you talking about all of Africa? Which would tell me that you've never set foot in Africa.

@@lu881 post pics of where you mean google maps areas I can see...

jon b Compasion and Empathy??? If they were those words, they would have stayed in Europe. Black South africans were the ones who had compasion and empathy. They should be Happy all Mendela wanted was peace and not revenge.

jon b SA has always been majority black so that point is invalid

@@laurettembabazi-mbaga3724 Mandela was a terrorist, look how SA is being destroyed today .

@@raczyk a white European leaders are terrorist

Shame! Do you miss privileges

He/she misses them😂​@@moiketsimutsi6119

​@@moiketsimutsi6119no we miss being able to walk outside without being robbed and stabbed to death for a cellphone, we miss a clean land look at the state of Pretoria and JHB cbd it's filthy! We miss the country growing, all your government know what to do is steal. The list goes on. You just stare yourself blind against apartheid and cannot see what this country is coming to. I'm very glad if you think black people have more work and a better life today than they had back then!

Yup. Look at those areas in 1992, you should see them now. Crime riddled rubbish heaps. It is very sad. A failing country we have inherited.

@@dantewalters5209 Then move. Iran would like you.

@@SymphonyBrahms What an immature response.

They don't like that truth. The apartheid was already inevitable over. Mybe the best thing this referendum possible achieved is allowing for a peaceful transition without a civil war. Otherwise, Apartheid was inevitable done

But it's the truth. You found Africa in a dump and it's occupants loved that dump. Now its occupants have taken over and it's returning to a dump. If you don't like the dump, just leave because things are never gonna change.

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Trouble is they continued the same country with new branding.

​@@jamiearanyou're both right

YES!🤣

Yes! The better South Africa - there was such a beautiful time.

@@Arnz01 i doubt that

@@Arnz01 If so where was the majority of South Africans?

Kunene, Have a look bra. That is how normal people who can behave them selfs come together, and look how clean are the surroundings !!! Incredible hey. !!!