@Applebaum is talking shit white people were sustained by black peoples tax which Chief Bhambatha ka Mancinza was beheaded and many Chiefs sent to prison in St. Helena and most were shot upon capture.
Now the idea that white people came here to be civil is stupid because the Swastika wearing Dutch descendants who now call themselves Boers were actually criminals and the scum of Europe who got put into mysterious expeditions by the Queen of England..Now they call my land South Africa...REALLYYY?
I am from USA. First, I watched this movie in Afrikaans, language I does not understand. But racist apartheid supporters understand this. How racist South Africa once was?
I heard somewhere that an apartheid law required all commercials to feature actors all of one race (so they would be all white, all black, all coloured, or all Asian, I guess). Is this true? Or was the whiteness of their commercials just related to the seperation of white and black cultures, and the fact that whites owned most of the TV's and had the most money to purchase stuff with?
That's not what I said. I don't support racism any more than you do- my point was you are a little sidetracked and seem to think that this was only us. Just by the way this is a compilation of ENGLISH ads which mostly whites spoke in those days. We have 11 official languages of which one is my mother tongue. Many many ads were made with black people for their channels back then. Go research before you make assanine comments was my actual point
Its so weird that South Africa has a Black majority population but most of their ads depicted white people...how scary. How did they justiffy this in their heads?
It looks as though white south Africans barely even put black people on tv there in the 80's?
Almost all the ads are in either an american or English accents...it says so much about how White south africans saw themselves
@Applebaum Those are actually South African accents for the most part-the only one that sounded American to me was the one set in the "west". I am only 20, so I don't remember much about life during Apartheid SA, but it does make sense that our adds were all white people...the majority of the people who owned TV's were white at the time (not saying this is true now, but the 80's were different, you couldn't sell an add if you don't know your market)
Er hello? Black people should have been their market too...its Africa!
whether whites wrongly owned all the stations or not. just because whites owned all the stations didnt mean they had to only use whites.
Segregation is insanity..Whites during the Apartheid were insane.
I know about many historical events, 20years ago is recent history, you dont have to live through something to not be ignorant about it and know how wrong something is.
@Applebaum maybe you should check - we had only 30 years of segregation, and America had it for hundreds of years. It wasn't our idea, but you make it sound like very ad in America has black people. How many series and movies have no black people - Friends, Sex and the City. Live in the real world dude.
Before those 30years of segregation whites viewed blacks as thier equals & everything was harmonious with black & white people in S.Africa? The whites were insane with white supremacy &thts real 'dude.
Im not American, you keep talking about US TV? but America is a very racist place too. The population of S.Africa is majority Black (by far) yet their advertising did not reflect that, horrifically unjustifiably shameful.
the real world doesnt have to be white supremacistic 'dude'
@Applebaum There were ads for the black market such as the famous "lunch bar" ad,however it was apartheid era and obviously the ads would be made to appeal to those with buying power. Eg.ads in USA still do not have their ads aimed at their own indiginous people and strangely enough still keep them on reservations. Anyway those were those days,now the whites in South Africa have to deal with job discrimination,which is possibly good because they start businesses & employ blacks.
haha i remember now how it used to bug me that the ol man who catches the frisbie turns it upside down as he turns to throw it back and the result is cut from view - argh!
As an American, I enjoy seeing older ads from all over the world, and this collection is actually pretty good! The Finesse jingle was also used on our ads in the 80s... and if you want more good ads check out YT user "80sCommercialVault"
@robertojosedgzmoro pero es obvio porque si, no?? en estes años la situacion politica en Sudafrica no tenia igualdad... y no es verdad, en el anuncio de 3.40 aqui, hay personas negras... Creo que en España no hay muchos anuncios para Latinoamericanos tambien, o no? En los ochentas?? hmmm
@Zeelie101 I put this together and I only watched the Monday, Wednesday and Friday night English telly. I did not bother watching (never mind recording) the Tuesday and Thursday night Afrikaans telly which were actually English programmes dubbed into Afrikaans. You are welcome to find the Afrikaans ads and put them on your channel.
@brucelauderdale Nice collection of ads, bringing back the memories. I just couldn't let that erroneous assumption go, though..
1) The majority of programmes dubbed into Afrikaans were dubbed from French, Italian, German and Japanese (and almost none of those programmes ever had English versions).
2) A lot of the better programmes showing in Afrikaans at the time were actually original Afrikaans productions; the vast majority of English programmes were non-original UK- or US-origin.
Wow, I never saw South African commercials before, especially from the Apartheid era, State of Emergency, and Nelson Mandela and his boys in Robben Island Prison.
Really made me smile - bad american accents in the frisco and mello yello ads, the "english" voiceovers with that distinctive "afrikaans" vaalie intonation. Loved Mello Yello - didn't last too long though. Oh goodness the Morkels Two-Year Guarantee Store! Good memories
ahh interesting, from what i hear, those days were better than now, and theres even blacks in this commercials, no racism here. id rather live in south africa how it was before 1994 than the us thank you very much
@uudrakgvens94 They were as likely to be made in Afrikaans as in English, as the main SABC channel, TV1, gave equal airtime in both of the then official languages. Although the SABC reduced airtime for Afrikaans in 1996, there are enough speakers, with enough money, to sustain a pay-TV channel in the language, and advertising to go with it.
Thank you so much for this. My GF was in the room next door and being English could not understand why I was so bemused seeing some TV from the 80's and how many more memories it brought back for me.
Lovely set of ads from the good old days. Shame, the Morkels lady passed away some time ago. I miss those days, when we could actually be PROUD of this country. Nowadays, this country looks like a big rubbish dump thanks to our New ! Improved ! ANC government. Proudly un-South African.
@cytotoxix i know the truth about commercials, and by judging these from the 80's you can see what path they were heading for. Globalization. Here's an example. Jamaica now has a Mcdonalds. Now, if your from this country this is just bonkers. An outside company setting up shop and all procedings, meaning money, don't go back to the community. This just tears down the structure, do you agree?
Great memories - how about posting the classic Cremora ad??? 'It's not inside...' And do you happen to have any cinema ads? Long shot, I know. ps - love your handle - Kenny Everett fan!
some white dude drops an empty Coke bottle from a helicopter and it lands in a tribal area...and the fun begins there. Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers were in it.
I remember an S.A series from the eighties called: "The Mantis Project" which starred Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers. The story revolved around a group who were stranded on a desert with limited supplies for some time.
In the Koffiehuis commercial (3:40), there are people of various race origin. How come? Was not that illegal to depicture a white, black and colored humans in one ad? I thought also tv programs had something like "this commercial is reserved for sole watching by the members of the white race group"...
It wasn't illegal to depict them in one ad, just strange the way they're depicted. I wasn't alive in South Africa in 1988 (was born there in 1991) but the idea of a black businessman sharing an office with white businesspeople is... highly highly unusual. The sad truth is most white people only ever met black people when they were acting as their servants.
So not illegal (at any point, but cross racial contamination was a reason south africa was slow to pick up tv), just a bit of a utopia!
Kannie glo ek het nou hier gesit en die hele 7 minute 29 sekondes die goed gesit en kyk nie...maar dit was heel oraait - laat my so biekie oud voel! eweee! Dankie!
lol i remember most of those ads takes me back to my childhood in SA , used to love the citi golf ads. i also remember in those days the ad breaks were only between shows and were not near as long as they are now. the quality of SA TV was pretty bad (except for the odd US import) ,boere music music on saturday evenings uugh. probably a good thing as we could play outside on those warm natal nights.
frisco tastes like shit these days and so does JOKO! and advertising milk as being healthy and chicken and steak with cheese in it? OMG they were begging 4 cardiac arrest!
Um.. my boyfriend says most of these were British ads.. There are hardly any white people in any ads in SA these days. Same situation reversed. So please all get off your high horses. The issue is getting really boring now... yawn.
Lmao. Jeremy Taylor. I still play AG PLEASE DADDY to the wife (she's a yank) she can't get over him singing "nigger balls". When she finally visited SA she saw I was talking rubbish, it really was a candy. And I hated those bliksemse Bic pens. Always leaked in my pockets. Hey who remembers Kid Colt photo comics?
as a white South African who grew up in the 1980's... yes, these adverts do bring back memories BUT c'mon folks, let's face it: these ads are spoooky! there are no black people in ANY of them... it's as if black people simply exist or didn't matter... SA might have its problems today but I would never want to go back to this vile, racist state of the past...never
yup- you're correct, posted a little corrective... but my main point ie; that these adverts portray a very strange and racially exclusive world, still stands...
As A British person I have to observe most of the accents in these commercials sound more British than South African. If not for the title of this collection and the fact I would remember them, I would have guessed these were British ads. Was it typical for S.Africa in the 80's to use English sounding voice actors or is it just this selection?
I can see why you ask but the accents are definitely South African...there are many South Africans whose ancestry is still very much Britsh and this can be reflected in the accent. No doubt some of the ad's are British/American but voiced over in SA.
Guys, do you remember a ship advert...I can hum the tune of the ad cos I was so moved by it as a child..I think it was a Robertson spices Ad...a few words I can remember..'far away lands...'
Fuck our adverts sucked.
Thewoxter 1 week ago
I thought Africans were black
lmGayAndHaveAIDS 3 weeks ago
@lmGayAndHaveAIDS Africans are people born in Africa its not about skin colour
CaptainMiller1 3 weeks ago
@CaptainMiller1 also there was apartheid so black people could not appear on TV
TheGamersCake 3 weeks ago
@lmGayAndHaveAIDS I think you're American
klempie1980 2 weeks ago
@Applebaum is talking shit white people were sustained by black peoples tax which Chief Bhambatha ka Mancinza was beheaded and many Chiefs sent to prison in St. Helena and most were shot upon capture.
Now the idea that white people came here to be civil is stupid because the Swastika wearing Dutch descendants who now call themselves Boers were actually criminals and the scum of Europe who got put into mysterious expeditions by the Queen of England..Now they call my land South Africa...REALLYYY?
Sabstance 3 weeks ago
Your accent is adorable
AngusJMS 1 month ago
Sorry WHATS SOO FUNNY ABOUT THIS?? TOTALLY MISSED IT
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I am from USA. First, I watched this movie in Afrikaans, language I does not understand. But racist apartheid supporters understand this. How racist South Africa once was?
averyhse 1 month ago
I heard somewhere that an apartheid law required all commercials to feature actors all of one race (so they would be all white, all black, all coloured, or all Asian, I guess). Is this true? Or was the whiteness of their commercials just related to the seperation of white and black cultures, and the fact that whites owned most of the TV's and had the most money to purchase stuff with?
ktxus05 2 months ago
I wish I knew what mello yello tastes liek
fpsdyl 2 months ago
That's not what I said. I don't support racism any more than you do- my point was you are a little sidetracked and seem to think that this was only us. Just by the way this is a compilation of ENGLISH ads which mostly whites spoke in those days. We have 11 official languages of which one is my mother tongue. Many many ads were made with black people for their channels back then. Go research before you make assanine comments was my actual point
ReneDynamite 2 months ago
Its so weird that South Africa has a Black majority population but most of their ads depicted white people...how scary. How did they justiffy this in their heads?
It looks as though white south Africans barely even put black people on tv there in the 80's?
Almost all the ads are in either an american or English accents...it says so much about how White south africans saw themselves
Applebaum 3 months ago
@Applebaum Those are actually South African accents for the most part-the only one that sounded American to me was the one set in the "west". I am only 20, so I don't remember much about life during Apartheid SA, but it does make sense that our adds were all white people...the majority of the people who owned TV's were white at the time (not saying this is true now, but the 80's were different, you couldn't sell an add if you don't know your market)
mortonj91 3 months ago
@mortonj91
Er hello? Black people should have been their market too...its Africa!
whether whites wrongly owned all the stations or not. just because whites owned all the stations didnt mean they had to only use whites.
Segregation is insanity..Whites during the Apartheid were insane.
I know about many historical events, 20years ago is recent history, you dont have to live through something to not be ignorant about it and know how wrong something is.
its scary how white these ads are
Applebaum 3 months ago
@Applebaum maybe you should check - we had only 30 years of segregation, and America had it for hundreds of years. It wasn't our idea, but you make it sound like very ad in America has black people. How many series and movies have no black people - Friends, Sex and the City. Live in the real world dude.
ReneDynamite 2 months ago
@ReneDynamite
Before those 30years of segregation whites viewed blacks as thier equals & everything was harmonious with black & white people in S.Africa? The whites were insane with white supremacy &thts real 'dude.
Im not American, you keep talking about US TV? but America is a very racist place too. The population of S.Africa is majority Black (by far) yet their advertising did not reflect that, horrifically unjustifiably shameful.
the real world doesnt have to be white supremacistic 'dude'
Applebaum 2 months ago
@Applebaum There were ads for the black market such as the famous "lunch bar" ad,however it was apartheid era and obviously the ads would be made to appeal to those with buying power. Eg.ads in USA still do not have their ads aimed at their own indiginous people and strangely enough still keep them on reservations. Anyway those were those days,now the whites in South Africa have to deal with job discrimination,which is possibly good because they start businesses & employ blacks.
azanianlion 1 month ago
@mortonj91 The narrator of the City Golf ad was a pomie.
azanianlion 1 month ago
haha i remember now how it used to bug me that the ol man who catches the frisbie turns it upside down as he turns to throw it back and the result is cut from view - argh!
benguelacapetown 3 months ago
This brings back so many memories wow dont forget dallas but before that your parents send you to bed ha ha, nice one
ilyaasshaik 4 months ago
"... in the center, Mr. Venter!"
h1017412 4 months ago
If you were an 80s child in ZA - you need to see these 80s adverts. hectic
lumomongo 4 months ago
In the centre, Mr Venter
smarterthananatheist 5 months ago 2
As an American, I enjoy seeing older ads from all over the world, and this collection is actually pretty good! The Finesse jingle was also used on our ads in the 80s... and if you want more good ads check out YT user "80sCommercialVault"
DanZero77 5 months ago 2
@robertojosedgzmoro pero es obvio porque si, no?? en estes años la situacion politica en Sudafrica no tenia igualdad... y no es verdad, en el anuncio de 3.40 aqui, hay personas negras... Creo que en España no hay muchos anuncios para Latinoamericanos tambien, o no? En los ochentas?? hmmm
WarrenGreig 5 months ago
Lmao, CitiGolf, we had one of those. And that's ridiculous, all of those appliances are twice as much now.
Xerxes845 6 months ago
R799 for a washing machine... my word...
rebzventlaticux 6 months ago
no ve uno a un negro ni a tiros en estos comerciales; bueno, sin dinero para comprar que les podrían vender?
robertojosedgzmoro 7 months ago
I really smaak this!
thRobhimself 7 months ago
MORKELS LOL!!!!!
MISTERMORNE 7 months ago
This video made me cringe on behalf of all South Africans...atleast technology has drastically improved haha
ScReaMiiNgPuNkRaBBit 7 months ago
@ScReaMiiNgPuNkRaBBit Be realistic. Television only officially began in SA in 1976. :-)
MISTERMORNE 7 months ago
The good ol' days of apartheid!
zimmyzimgir2 8 months ago
there used to be more Afrikaans than English ads on tv, whoever put this together only picked crap english ones
Zeelie101 8 months ago
@Zeelie101 I put this together and I only watched the Monday, Wednesday and Friday night English telly. I did not bother watching (never mind recording) the Tuesday and Thursday night Afrikaans telly which were actually English programmes dubbed into Afrikaans. You are welcome to find the Afrikaans ads and put them on your channel.
brucelauderdale 8 months ago
@brucelauderdale Nice collection of ads, bringing back the memories. I just couldn't let that erroneous assumption go, though..
1) The majority of programmes dubbed into Afrikaans were dubbed from French, Italian, German and Japanese (and almost none of those programmes ever had English versions).
2) A lot of the better programmes showing in Afrikaans at the time were actually original Afrikaans productions; the vast majority of English programmes were non-original UK- or US-origin.
JackOfAllZA 8 months ago
Good Lord. We had crap TV back then!! The KP Propaganda machine holding the good shows and ads away form us!
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SuperNicktoons 9 months ago
I am suddenly thinking of Demolition Man
BSobotker 10 months ago
everything in the 80s was beige or brown
Seamonkey159 10 months ago
They also came in RED, Yellow, Blue
BSobotker 10 months ago
r all ads in sa in english? r there any in afrikaans or other languages?
versuskn 10 months ago
are you people retarted?? Click the little red speech bubble at the bottom to get rid of the big bubble. Seriously - how stupid can you be
gobabsumnida 11 months ago
lol @ the prices in the morlkels add! I wish i could pay R899 for a new washing mashine =p And the steak house melts!! DROOOLLLZZZ
dottiemey 11 months ago
lol @ the prices in the morlkels add! I wish i could pay R899 for a new washing mashine =p
dottiemey 11 months ago
2:18 sounds like the words women describe men with
Deangist 1 year ago 5
@Deangist rofl
Stone8age 10 months ago
Haal daai kak bubble af!
murderface303 1 year ago
FUCK THIS GUY!!! I'd love to watch the vid but simply wont now!!! not gonna give the fucker the views!!!!!!!!!
therealgergory 1 year ago
lol just click on the bubble-ja dis reg click op di bubble mense
Belleraphon100 1 year ago
Please get rid of the bubble.
metrx330 1 year ago
I FUCK YOUR MESSAGE BUBBLE I'LL KILL YOU I WANT TO WATCH THE FUCKING VIDEO!
spaceball1991 1 year ago
@spaceball1991
stop being retarded and just click the button at the bottom to remove the bubble!
MrIamzain 1 year ago 8
I SHIT ON THIS MESSAGE BUBBLE AND ON YOUR NEW CHANNEL JUST LET ME WATCH THE FUCKING VID OMG WADAFAK SRSLY DUD
croocy3 1 year ago
I never quite understood why clowns are considered as friendly kind figures! to me they are scary ugly
danjorgen 1 year ago
I can't believe we have the same guys doing the voice-overs today!
daveneethling 1 year ago
Think those cats get shocked at the first three bowles, anyway. Good stuff
WGMDelko 1 year ago
There were ads on afrikaans language?
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MafiazaDC 1 year ago
Wow, I never saw South African commercials before, especially from the Apartheid era, State of Emergency, and Nelson Mandela and his boys in Robben Island Prison.
dafranx 1 year ago
This has brought back 20 years of memories all in one. THANKS
carmenlee87 1 year ago
Really made me smile - bad american accents in the frisco and mello yello ads, the "english" voiceovers with that distinctive "afrikaans" vaalie intonation. Loved Mello Yello - didn't last too long though. Oh goodness the Morkels Two-Year Guarantee Store! Good memories
flyboy30 1 year ago
In the center .. MR VENTER !!
chrisEDmac 1 year ago
Clover :-)
Christiaan956 1 year ago
Apart from the Koffiehuis ad I saw no black people
ashliski 1 year ago
THEMORKELSLADY!!!!
rudenesscouldnt 1 year ago
There's BLUETO!!! In his youth!!!
traceyleedogon 1 year ago
When that golf ad came out my dad went and got two of them, and my mother made him take one back
sculptureattack 1 year ago
its one of those kids things the citi golf ad... just bad!
SaFona100 1 year ago
"In the centre Mr. Venter"!
txgmike 1 year ago
@txgmike in die middle cyril
loverpool7 1 year ago
Loved the citi golf ad.Brings back great memories
yebbobabba 1 year ago
i CANNOT believe the koffiehuis ad aired - i certainly don't remember it! what a lag they are!! thanks :-)
kerenor30 1 year ago
I hated that Joko ad.
PenzanceGunner 1 year ago
Morkels ... your two-year guarantee store ...
Never thought I'd hear that again!!!
ttmor 1 year ago
I remember ALL these ads. Man!!
smitstachowski 1 year ago
CLASSIC !!!! what a cool trip down memory lane.....
chervanrooyen 1 year ago
ahh interesting, from what i hear, those days were better than now, and theres even blacks in this commercials, no racism here. id rather live in south africa how it was before 1994 than the us thank you very much
slimv29 1 year ago
that volkswagen ad is going to be stuck in my head for weeks
lukesmailbox 1 year ago
Where are their accents?
lukesmailbox 1 year ago
@lukesmailbox Check the ad at 7:13 china! China plate is rhyming slang for mate - I'd never heard that before I visited SA
kmfw72 1 year ago
why most adverts were in english? it is strange to me to not see adversts in afrikaans
uudrakgvens94 1 year ago
@uudrakgvens94 There were Afrikaans versions of these ads - there just weren't any in this selection.
kmfw72 1 year ago
@kmfw72 thanks :9 have u any selection of afrikaans ads?
uudrakgvens94 1 year ago
@uudrakgvens94 Sorry, no, but do a search on afrikaans advertensie and you'll find them.
kmfw72 1 year ago
@kmfw72 thanks :)
uudrakgvens94 1 year ago
@kmfw72 but were adverts in south africa usually maked more in english ?
uudrakgvens94 1 year ago
@uudrakgvens94 They were as likely to be made in Afrikaans as in English, as the main SABC channel, TV1, gave equal airtime in both of the then official languages. Although the SABC reduced airtime for Afrikaans in 1996, there are enough speakers, with enough money, to sustain a pay-TV channel in the language, and advertising to go with it.
kmfw72 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this. My GF was in the room next door and being English could not understand why I was so bemused seeing some TV from the 80's and how many more memories it brought back for me.
Thenext9 1 year ago
Lovely set of ads from the good old days. Shame, the Morkels lady passed away some time ago. I miss those days, when we could actually be PROUD of this country. Nowadays, this country looks like a big rubbish dump thanks to our New ! Improved ! ANC government. Proudly un-South African.
cytotoxix 1 year ago
@cytotoxix i know the truth about commercials, and by judging these from the 80's you can see what path they were heading for. Globalization. Here's an example. Jamaica now has a Mcdonalds. Now, if your from this country this is just bonkers. An outside company setting up shop and all procedings, meaning money, don't go back to the community. This just tears down the structure, do you agree?
Reseda1994 1 year ago
2:41 Jeremy Taylor - "noo, I just look like him!"
kmfw72 1 year ago
I'd love to see the Opel Kadet advert where, after some stunning driving, the one crash test dummy says to the other one "That was no dummy run".
rlsuth 1 year ago
7:13 Check no cheese, China! Hope it tasted better than it looked!
kmfw72 1 year ago
THey shocked the kittens in that ad.Not cool
myigloo 1 year ago
Wow, that was great! I kept saying "I remember this!" I was probably around 6 years old when these were on TV. :o
ExplodingMoon 1 year ago
What about the old 'Pick 'n Pay' hypermarket ad with the red convertible VW Beetle:
#One stop shopping, non stop saving, join the savings drive#!
TheJaking87 1 year ago
"In the middle cyril"
grnste010 1 year ago
my donder... ek voel somme oud nou :(
ettermagog 1 year ago
"koffiehuis" was already ahead , or did they just want to include the black buyers, to make more bucks :-P
orlando318 1 year ago
Koffiehuis ad,bro.
yardlet6 1 year ago
Great memories - how about posting the classic Cremora ad??? 'It's not inside...' And do you happen to have any cinema ads? Long shot, I know. ps - love your handle - Kenny Everett fan!
Sledge101 1 year ago
Morkels, your 2 year guarantee store. OMG! That Ad done my head in.
andrewmeder 2 years ago
In the centre Mr. Venter! LOVE that line!
Joashn 2 years ago
Thank you SO much for this.... :-) sentimental value surpasses anything else.....
drhemp 2 years ago
God I can't believe these ads are 22 years old. Some of them still remain fresh in my mind.
"In the centre, Mr. Venter"
victorbarovsky 2 years ago
don't you have any commercials in Afrikaans (not that I know the language)?
corrupt200 2 years ago
it was south africa in 1980s. I'm surprised the coffee add had black people in it.
alexanderjebradley 2 years ago
So niggas were banned from appearing in TV or something like that?
kondurperusix 2 years ago
So was I. Perhaps that was early 90's? Very progressive of Frisco. Who'd have thought?
Joashn 2 years ago
I Love it!! Check no cheese China, In the centre Mr Venter!!!!!!!!!
gclaires 2 years ago
I remember the Afrikaans version was: "In die middel, Cyril"
TheJaking87 2 years ago
Delightful! Bless you for the memories!
schuiny100 2 years ago
Wasn't "The Gods Must Be Crazy" a South African movie?
corrupt200 2 years ago
O shit,I never heard about it,what is the plot/>?
kondurperusix 2 years ago
some white dude drops an empty Coke bottle from a helicopter and it lands in a tribal area...and the fun begins there. Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers were in it.
corrupt200 2 years ago
I remember an S.A series from the eighties called: "The Mantis Project" which starred Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers. The story revolved around a group who were stranded on a desert with limited supplies for some time.
TheJaking87 2 years ago
Yes, shot there, sa actors, sa crew, sa funding but set in botswana. to get around the imbargo placed in sa they released it as a botswanan film
alexanderjebradley 2 years ago
weren't there some scenes from Jo-burg in that movie?
corrupt200 2 years ago
Yes, there were scenes set in Jo-berg, at the press office. But the majority of the film is set in Botswana... not filmed there though.
alexanderjebradley 2 years ago
RIP Bill Flynn
140490em 2 years ago
2:00 - who can remember this one on the radio?
tinmiss 2 years ago
hahah omg i still say 'in the centre mr venter".... china lol
kjkarenjane 2 years ago
R599 vir 'n wasmasjien?? OMFG!! :)
pappavis 2 years ago
why is that light colour cat mixing with cats of a different colour. Hasn't he heard of segregation...god damn communist
KingFahtah 2 years ago
I havn´t been to SA for about 17 years and i still remember about 95% of these adds!
Thanks man!
7:20 "In the center Mr fenter"...loool
DaviCupra 2 years ago
Maar in Suid-Afrika, hoe beter die Bantoestans het 'n klein middelklas, wat hierdie program gesien het en ook verbruik.
Jammer vir die afrikaans, maar ek was baie klein ....
raphaelcoliveira 2 years ago
Ha. Mentident P. Very appropriate for the era ie. brushes WHITER than WHITE :-)
rugbymatch 2 years ago
why did all you white folks come back to europe?
Remistro 2 years ago
watching this commercials makes me think....hm is there no blacks in SA! With exceptions from Koffee Huis
comtessen 2 years ago
Are you just pretending to be stupid or what?
misuratakid 2 years ago
dont u get sense of humour?
comtessen 2 years ago
it's from the 1980s. when technically there were no black citizens of south africa. so in spite of the comment below, you'd be right bru.
Joebycool 2 years ago
hehe, at least theres some1 with sense of humour hehe..xxx
comtessen 2 years ago
love that citi golf advert very 80s
catchthewave91 2 years ago 5
@catchthewave91 we just got rick rolld :D
Deangist 1 year ago
In the Koffiehuis commercial (3:40), there are people of various race origin. How come? Was not that illegal to depicture a white, black and colored humans in one ad? I thought also tv programs had something like "this commercial is reserved for sole watching by the members of the white race group"...
luvy1979 2 years ago
Not sure about whether it was legal or not, but no there were no whites-only commercials.
LoveDub 2 years ago
It wasn't illegal to depict them in one ad, just strange the way they're depicted. I wasn't alive in South Africa in 1988 (was born there in 1991) but the idea of a black businessman sharing an office with white businesspeople is... highly highly unusual. The sad truth is most white people only ever met black people when they were acting as their servants.
So not illegal (at any point, but cross racial contamination was a reason south africa was slow to pick up tv), just a bit of a utopia!
Joebycool 2 years ago
i love the way that guy says check no cheese china :L
1993gandy 2 years ago
In the centre, Mr Venter.... waaaahaaa! I loved those cheddar melt steaks when I was a laaitie!
arceyes 2 years ago
any one have a copy of the classic radio 5 add of guy in high rising building
luvdesea101 2 years ago
alright now by sweet
kalahariuk 2 years ago
Yay , i remember them , thx !!!!
fibsassy 2 years ago
its crazy - 20 yrs later and i can still sing along with all of them. what a great way to remember where you came from :)
shaunmm2k 2 years ago
I'd forgotten all about that Finesse ad. There was also one for the conditioner which aired prior to the shampoo one.
TheJaking87 2 years ago
MORKELS ! Your 2 yr guarantee store LOL LOL - thanks loved this....
KLE34 2 years ago
Was nice to see this again...after many years!!
ritselritsel 2 years ago
Very interesting. I suppose my parents would recognize some of those.
SterlingUliso 2 years ago
Bliksim!!! Die goed was lekker goedkoop gewees daai tyd!!
Wingerdgriep 2 years ago
Kannie glo ek het nou hier gesit en die hele 7 minute 29 sekondes die goed gesit en kyk nie...maar dit was heel oraait - laat my so biekie oud voel! eweee! Dankie!
Bodymakeover07 2 years ago
awesome
themoonskai 2 years ago
Mello Yello! Hahahaha :D
jonoBob 2 years ago
Ack!! I have ad jingles going off at random in my head now. Oh the memories!! *grins*
Tintalasia 2 years ago
lol i remember most of those ads takes me back to my childhood in SA , used to love the citi golf ads. i also remember in those days the ad breaks were only between shows and were not near as long as they are now. the quality of SA TV was pretty bad (except for the odd US import) ,boere music music on saturday evenings uugh. probably a good thing as we could play outside on those warm natal nights.
toemas8 2 years ago
frisco tastes like shit these days and so does JOKO! and advertising milk as being healthy and chicken and steak with cheese in it? OMG they were begging 4 cardiac arrest!
realeboha3 2 years ago
Um.. my boyfriend says most of these were British ads.. There are hardly any white people in any ads in SA these days. Same situation reversed. So please all get off your high horses. The issue is getting really boring now... yawn.
angelseatbetterbread 2 years ago
Lmao. Jeremy Taylor. I still play AG PLEASE DADDY to the wife (she's a yank) she can't get over him singing "nigger balls". When she finally visited SA she saw I was talking rubbish, it really was a candy. And I hated those bliksemse Bic pens. Always leaked in my pockets. Hey who remembers Kid Colt photo comics?
shiteetah 2 years ago
Wow - these ads brought back a flood of memories. Thanks, china!
DogOfTears 2 years ago
Those steaks with cheese in the centre look horrible!!
VliengWieng 2 years ago
Ag, please Blacks had their own adverts on their two own channels, we only had one that we had too share between English and afrikkans
Dranor69 2 years ago
as a white South African who grew up in the 1980's... yes, these adverts do bring back memories BUT c'mon folks, let's face it: these ads are spoooky! there are no black people in ANY of them... it's as if black people simply exist or didn't matter... SA might have its problems today but I would never want to go back to this vile, racist state of the past...never
schrire39 2 years ago 2
ps: sorry, my mistakle. yes there are some black people... but my point still stands
schrire39 2 years ago
er - dunno what eyes you had in, but there were definitly black people in those adverts....
elinorac 2 years ago
yup- you're correct, posted a little corrective... but my main point ie; that these adverts portray a very strange and racially exclusive world, still stands...
schrire39 2 years ago
MORKELS , your 2 year guanranTEE store. I remember those ads adn the woman's voice still grates me:))
KalahariSurf 2 years ago
OMG that clown used to give me nightmares!!
orkneysnorknie 2 years ago
"IT'S NOT INSIDE, IT'S ON TOP!" Do you remember the Cremora advert?
Baie Dankie, SIYAKUBONGA for putting together these adverts and sharing them with us.
They sure brought back good and not-so-good memories of my beloved, SUNNY SUID AFLIKA!
Mavovo3982 2 years ago
YEBO YES, the cremora advert!!
nkadzi 2 years ago
In the centre, Mt. Venter! Bill Flynn. RIP
looseheadprop19 2 years ago
As A British person I have to observe most of the accents in these commercials sound more British than South African. If not for the title of this collection and the fact I would remember them, I would have guessed these were British ads. Was it typical for S.Africa in the 80's to use English sounding voice actors or is it just this selection?
Kwekwe 2 years ago
That is definitely a SA accent. Just remember that narrators are normally chosen for their perfect pronunciation and clear accents.
looseheadprop19 2 years ago
Are you mad? They all sound South African. You have hearing problems.
pscucailin 2 years ago
I can see why you ask but the accents are definitely South African...there are many South Africans whose ancestry is still very much Britsh and this can be reflected in the accent. No doubt some of the ad's are British/American but voiced over in SA.
theantiusername 2 years ago
Not British, due to sanctions
maxheadway 2 years ago
OMG !!! MORKELS, your two year guarantee store............lol
djcooling 2 years ago
Guys, do you remember a ship advert...I can hum the tune of the ad cos I was so moved by it as a child..I think it was a Robertson spices Ad...a few words I can remember..'far away lands...'
komala94 2 years ago
Could be Robertsons.
But remember that was that simba chip ad.
The one where you could get the those tazzo things, that connected together like 10-toy things.
duzbingmail 2 years ago
yup, I remember that advert and the tune.... with the big, dusty ship... almost in sepia
schrire39 2 years ago