johannesburg, 1972

[haydenhack]

APPHAULLING!!!!



[TheATLReporter]

This video is a DISGRACE to South Africa....the fake music and the lies of everything being so tranquil and peaceful. Show the truth of 1960 South Africa...black people enslaved by ignorant racist invaders of South Africa....This is the worst video ever....A BIG LIE!

[powergozer]

@TheATLReporter if you had bothered to read the description, you would have known that i didn't upload this video myself, and that i'm definitely not an apartheid apologizer. i just wrote some music to a video... i guess you didn't get the irony about the tranquil music? i'm so tired of people like you who just start shouting and screaming without knowing what they're talking about... in any case, i'm sorry if you didn't like my music, even though i don't know why it's fake.

[breizhcatalonia1993]

@TheATLReporter I Hope you are one of these idiot self-hating whites.

[karoogus]

u right its much better now,and u are very honest.

[procamvideonewswatch]

thanks for sharing a pice of history in the form of this footage which is worth alot of money if you sell it for documentary purposes

[icuc4c]

Johannesburg is a fantastic, vibrant, exciting city, and yes a violent one! South Africa is a wonderful country with a shocking history!

[jovesheerwater]

Thanks for sharing. More please!!

[MrSydneyKing]

As an outsider of SA, who has been in Jo'Burg in the 80's and again a few years ago, I can tell you its like comparing night and day. It was such a beautiful city back then, Now it is nothing like its former great self. It scares the shit out of me now,

[marco8081a]

This just makes me sad.

[patriargentina92]

i've been there in 2006... it didn't look like this honestly. i'm argentinian, first i went to cape town and i got robbed in 5 minutes, so then in johannesburg i didn't walk at all, it seemed quite dangerous and destroyed. i don't know how it was during appartheid and i don't have anything against black people, but it seems that they were not that opressed. at school they tought me that they were like slaves of the whites, doesn't seem like.

[monk3yboy69]

@patriargentina92 I would think you are a slave to Whites if you have to work in their homes to earn a living, the men are forced to work on farms or down the mines and you are not allowed to share a room with your family on the White man's land (normally a stunning house with pool and big garden). You have to carry a passbook. You have a cerfew. You may not own land. You may not use White Only facilities. You get a second rate education....and so on. Slavery in a modern form.

[morne6969]

Show us a vid of the Johannesburg of 2011 - the one u still love so much!!

[tdevry]

I lived in Hillbrow and worked in Joburg in the 70's and it was wonderful times, remember petty apartheid being abolished round about 74 75.Having lunch in the park opposite the library ....times change but still those were memorable times and I miss it.

[DankWin]

Looks like a nice place. If only we could pinpoint exactly when it changed. Oh well, not possible I guess.

[vivekrbs]

joburg is trash city

[Marmalade000000]

I lived in Joburg for 16 years and noticed that after aparheid it changed somewhat...

[powergozer]

please note: i will remove any racist crap comments! i love joburg, the way it was and the way it is today. so get over it!

[falamimire]

I lived nearby in 1970-1972-exactly what I remembered seeing those pictures.!!!!

[maxamann]

Ah yes, before Marxist, Zionist, Looney Liberal Communism took over.

[vertxxgg]

@maxamann exactly.

[ThinkAgainHard]

Dont believe the Nostalgic posting here. Joburg is still thriving, just like any developing city it still has its bad sides. I have lived here for 6 years. If you want to see how it recently looks like: watch?v=3ygVgTiJ4jM and If you want to know how black people were treated in the 70s in South Africa: watch?v=2LE0c3iTfGk

[powergozer]

@ThinkAgainHard

spot on!!!

[herbertwarmstrong]

@ThinkAgainHard You are doing a disservice to the general public. Of course if a person is black walking around Joburg they are relatively safe. The target of most opportunistic crime is affluent whites with money and posh vehicles. That is just a statement of fact. The Jews fled Joburg closing one of their synogogues down in the centre of a hell hole. So don't try and paint it all rosies and cream.

[3821serp]

why did the white people decide to leave the CBD after the Apartheid. if they haven't left, do you think it would've been nice like the CBD in Cape Town?

[powergozer]

@3821serp

most of them left in the 80s, during the apartheid. recently they've been fighting crime quite succesfully, the CBD these days is actually quite nice again. i was there a couple of months ago - it's great, and safe to walk around in, unlike a couple of years ago.

[Spetznaz24]

Now this was a real South Africa, not the garbage dump we see today!

[Cuimris]

That's how I remember Jo'burg as a small child - it was a liveable city, packed with people (I'm guessing we were seeing Bree Street and Eloff Street), no crime (see all the parking meters! [they were getting robbed in the eighties, and had to eventually be completely removed during the 90's]). You hardly see a white face these days in Jo'burg, it's become lifeless and run-down. Thank you for this wonderful video and the memories it evoked. An amazing video with haunting accompanying music.

[tubolic]

France turns like South Africa...

[opaz79]

SA was destroyed because it was too powerful and a dominant competitor that was draining resources for its own development. Its similar to Iran that want to develop but arent allowed. SA was turned into a third world nation with third world consumtion rates. Its not a competitor anymore and all of its resources goes out of the country.

[haroakes]

@opaz79 No, It was destroyed by blacks, just like any other African country.

[pieterhildebrand]

Why did it have to end?..It was so good. It really was and you would never know if you have not been there then!!

[MrNorthernstar]

Johannesburg is still there physically it just has a different dimension now. I beleive the centre is safer than its been in a long time just white people live in racial fear and are less likely to go in. The city is so so unsustainable it keeps sprawling and sprawling. Once an area becomes run down they create a new glitzy sanitised area it cant keep doing that.

[zacharybinks1]

i remember joburg was like this, was it safer...perhaps it was, but it's gone now anyway...might they have left us bit? perhaps but they didn't and it;s all gone now anyway.....Addios Africa

[george45uk]

Thanks for the video. Reminds my of those days back then when I lived near Johannesburg.

[struand]

I would love to see a comparison video to the way it is now to really highlight the difference.

[timmiboi88]

Aw man it must have been cool to have been able to wonder round Jo'burg back then. Every time I drive through it I wish it was like this. Not this lame suburban mall culture we've got going now.

[kaffirbasher1]

What a beautiful place Jhb was in those days.

[hnorky]

And for those complaining about South Africa "falling apart"... the America my family returned to in 1982 WAS NOT the America it left in 1969. Everything had changed, and almost nothing for the better. Considering the tenuous situation South Africa was in for so long, it's amazing the country didn't descend into civil war. Sure there are problems, but SA is still in a transitional period. I just wish all Saffas would appreciate what a truly wonderful country it STILL is.

[Greggybread]

We do appreciate that the country is still wonderful. The only problem is, the transitional phase you're talking of is going to go on for a very long time and with the current way the governemnt is, it will NOT improve but only get worse

[DaSlug32]

20 000 violent deaths a year, who needs a civil war? Remove the current leadership, and the country may reach it true potential or at least get on the path towards it.

[hnorky]

Thanks for this video, powergozer. My family relocated from New Orleans to Cape Town in late 1969, when I was just a toddler. I had no memories of America, and SA was the only country I knew, and despite having so many aspects of Americana around the house from my parents, it was still a huge culture shock when we came back to America in 1982. America had changed drastically from the time we had left. Your video brought back great memories from my early childhood.

[Tiago3501]

im sorry i didn´t mean to be rude i didn´t know there was super8 back then i didn´t want to upset you, sorry, im from portugal color arrived here in 1980, but it´s weird because Tv in 1960´s was black and white right?

[powergozer]

it's ok!

tv was in b/w but of course film and photography has been in colour a lot longer. so that's that.

[Tiago3501]

how the fuck could you shoot in colors in 1968? back then it was black & white..

[powergozer]

why are you cursing on my channel. please behave.

in answer to your very dumb remark: super8 has been around since the mid-60s, so you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

besides, i didn't even shoot the video myself, which you could have known if you bothered to read the info before cursing around like an idiot.

[lovemorembigi]

This was shot circa 1972 - the cars are the clue. An awesome time to be young and living in Jo'burg. The relaxed atmosphere is evident - but working there at the time was pretty frantic. Thanks for posting!

[powergozer]

thanks for the info!

i will update the video info as soon as i have some time.

[DaSlug32]

The good old days. The streets are clean, black and white people mixing in the city - no problem.

[powergozer]

it's interesting that it looks so peaceful isn't it. of course it wasn't nearly as perfect as it looks... black and white people mixing in south africa in the 60s was not exactly 'no problem' as you might know.

but it's no crime getting a little nostalgic every now and then.

[hiawata77]

hebben jullie geen zebrapaden in zuidafrika.Die lange witte strepen op de weg,voor voetgangers?????

[dannial42]

The crossings are the same as in any other country in the world. Would not expect Zebra crossings by traffic lights but rather in the middle of a road between intersections and that is where they are located in SA and most countries.

[cinematografie]

Hey gozer,

Dit is Pieter — je had me toch de link gestuurd! Echt heel mooi. Ik heb ook bos gekeken.

[vertxxgg]

see n Kyk South Africa 1930..in my BLUEXXG....website

[dmc41987]

Good video and music. I'm half South African my mum came to England from Port Elizabeth.

[residualvolume]

I was filled with pangs of nostalgia when I saw the original ..... but now, with your music accompanying it ....... hell, now there's a lump in my throat and freaking tears in my eyes.

(middle-aged, ex-South African, Johannesburg born & bred ....moved to the U.K. back in 1970. )

[powergozer]

wow, thanks! this is probably the best compliment i've ever had!

[voyager4u]

I lived in Jo'burg 1970 - 73. What a lovely city and country.

[telcobilly]

I moved to SA in 1968 as a 10yo boy from the US. This footage is slice of history of how it looked back then. We came by ship to CT, to a traine to PE, got our car and drove to Durban. An adventure I'll remember for life. It's a shame SA has gotten so bad with the crime. People need to quit looking at the wrongs of the past . Blaming a bad system that has been gone for 15+ years isn't going to fix the violence, AIDs and bloodshed of today...excuses don't hack it!!

[powergozer]

sounds like quite an adventure! i would love to take a look in the old days, just to see what it was like.

i don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to look at the wrongs of the past though... let's just not forget the good things!

[80SAFRIKAN]

peace powergozer....... Never realized you wrote this music !!

they were defiantly the good old days, what a shame the people in power screwed things up so much in those days though, if only they had the vision of what the future could bring, there plan was destined to fail... all praises to the most high

anyways thats why i chose the music to my dads video footage....... i dont like ANY politician.....chase dem.....

one love

[powergozer]

thanks!

you don't know the amount of racist crap comments i had to remove for this video. some people just want to make everything political!

to me it's just beautiful, melancholic footage that shows that even in the apartheid days there was a normal life, with people wandering around in the street. that's what i wanted to highlight with my music. no apartheid nostalgia, mind you.

peace to you too!

[goonerfromjhb]

Beautifull, did you write the music for the video or was it inspired by something else?

[powergozer]

no i wrote it myself.. got inspired by the video, which i think is totally beautiful.

[polytour]

gosh!! if only only it would have been..., such melancholy. i love the film, i love the music

[powergozer]

thanks!

[1bosnia1]

Never Forget - Sharpeville.

[bethulie13]

"Those were the days my friend I wish they would never end" Now I know why that sound was done. Thanks for the video, where did you get that footage from. It's great!