Sincere apologies for mentioning something that sparked a race thing. It was not intentional - It was merely an observation. I truly hope that SA will finally break the shackles of intolerance, and to all who are proudly optimistic - I genuinely salute you and hope that SA goes from strength to strength. You are stronger than I, as I left after 32 years of living in this amazing country. My heart will always be in SA. You deserve happiness x
Why look at the colour of the actors skin its about selling a product i dont agree about what happened in apartheid i just wish we could all just get along and say wow that was a good add or no it didnt do it for me its up to us the new generation to show them we can live in harmony
i dont know if you remember it was around 2003/2006 there was an add where it looked like the tv turned off and a kid apeared inside the tv.. do you remember??
In the centre, Mr Venter... they don't write them like that anymore! Thanks for posting, It's hard to believe that in all those ads, the amount of people of colour (around 5%), is now the amount of white people in SA ads. Will racism ever go away from SA? I seriously doubt it.
@blackangellucyfire I think you are missing the point. I am dead against racism, I left SA due to being passed over for so many jobs cos I am white. History repeats itself without education- I agree that talking about it may be wrong - but sweeping it under the carpet is just as bad. Your profile name says a lot to me. Maybe I should change my name to Whiteangel? You have actually brought the race issue up, just by using that profile name. I rest my cae. Geniet jou dag.
Thanks for uploading a slice of my childhood! Great to step back in time with some 80s classics - and also to see Paul Slab and the late great Bill Flynn, who helped start my career. Legends.
Thanks for uploading a slice of my childhood! Great to step back in time with some 80s classics - and also to see Paul Slab and the late great Bill Flynn, who helped start my career. Legends.
Just goes to show what you people know. The blacks had their own television stations Tv2 and TV3 (and maybe TV4) and they played their ads with blacks only on there. I remember watching a replay of the ads during school holidays and they'd show everything in one go, in some of the black South African languages. Don't comment if you didn't grow up in South Africa cause you will never know first hand what it was like. I'm saying this as a Proudly Coloured South African!
@Ashtarot77 And you would also know that black people wanted their television in English. Paradoxically, forcing black people to learn 'their' own languages reinforced the apartheid system by not allowing them to learn adequately a language that would allow them to participate economically with white South Africa. After 1970, the goal was to create a completely separate white and non-white South Africa...
That ad with the kittens got my intrigued on how they managed to get the kittens move from bowl to bowl and all I can think of was a electric shock or something.
To those ppl coming to complain about not enough black in the ads / too many whites in the ads... this was SA back then and who CARES!!! I came here to enjoy - so shut up or log out! And in case you wondered - Im proudly coloured! Good and Bad - what happened back then MADE me what I am today!
FWIW, in those days all the ads were shot twice, once with white audiences in mind, and again with black audiences in mind. Shot for shot, but with black actors. The Frisco and Cremora ads spring to mind especially.
A true reflection of apartheid. Seven minutes compilation of South African adverts and no blacks (except for a 5 sec glimpse in Coffee Huis). I hate it.
@diezel0218 How is it any worse than the token-diversity we see everywhere on TV nowadays? Trot out the one black person for the photo shoot… at least this accurately reflected the times. Apartheid South Africa was a place where whites controlled 90% of the money. Of course they're going to be in 90% of the ads. What were you expecting when you came here? Or did you just watch it to complain about it?
I like an advert for Lecol juice. The song was so catchy "Catch a red and catch a green and catch a blue and yellow too. Catch a Lecol in a bottle, there's a flavour just for you"
@rdt1970 Nice question. First, this was the 1980s, so you do the math. Second, the advert for "Koffiehuis" was actually quite diverse, which was fairly interesting to me. Must have been ahead of its time.
@maxamann your reply just has to be one of the BEST ever classics!! I have started to wonder if we ARE in Africa as we now have adverts that don't have a single white person in them.
The one with the cats caused quit a stir because they actually put a small electric current through the milk to shock the kittens. Things were different then.
Sincere apologies for mentioning something that sparked a race thing. It was not intentional - It was merely an observation. I truly hope that SA will finally break the shackles of intolerance, and to all who are proudly optimistic - I genuinely salute you and hope that SA goes from strength to strength. You are stronger than I, as I left after 32 years of living in this amazing country. My heart will always be in SA. You deserve happiness x
22Phantasm 1 week ago
Talk about a blast from the past. Just remember that Everything needed to happen exactly the way it did to bring awesome SA to where it is today!!
anthonypearse1 1 week ago
Why look at the colour of the actors skin its about selling a product i dont agree about what happened in apartheid i just wish we could all just get along and say wow that was a good add or no it didnt do it for me its up to us the new generation to show them we can live in harmony
pixienel 1 month ago
i dont know if you remember it was around 2003/2006 there was an add where it looked like the tv turned off and a kid apeared inside the tv.. do you remember??
mazafuzle 2 months ago
Suddenly I feel 8 years old again yay =D
dottiemey 3 months ago
In the centre Mr Venter! OMG, good times. There was only one ad in here that I didn't remember.
kathfor 3 months ago
In the centre, Mr Venter... they don't write them like that anymore! Thanks for posting, It's hard to believe that in all those ads, the amount of people of colour (around 5%), is now the amount of white people in SA ads. Will racism ever go away from SA? I seriously doubt it.
22Phantasm 4 months ago
@22Phantasm LOL dude it will go away when people like you start bringing it up every 2 minutes (just like you did now)
blackangellucyfire 1 week ago
@blackangellucyfire I think you are missing the point. I am dead against racism, I left SA due to being passed over for so many jobs cos I am white. History repeats itself without education- I agree that talking about it may be wrong - but sweeping it under the carpet is just as bad. Your profile name says a lot to me. Maybe I should change my name to Whiteangel? You have actually brought the race issue up, just by using that profile name. I rest my cae. Geniet jou dag.
22Phantasm 1 week ago
@22Phantasm lol Ek is 'n wit boere meisie. My profiel naam het glad niks met die kleur van my vel uit te waai nie liefling. :D
blackangellucyfire 1 week ago
memories ((^_^)) hehe
zanaelf 4 months ago
Oh my word!!! The memories! haha.
MsGinxy 5 months ago
Thanks for uploading a slice of my childhood! Great to step back in time with some 80s classics - and also to see Paul Slab and the late great Bill Flynn, who helped start my career. Legends.
GIDVOX 5 months ago
Thanks for uploading a slice of my childhood! Great to step back in time with some 80s classics - and also to see Paul Slab and the late great Bill Flynn, who helped start my career. Legends.
GIDVOX 5 months ago
Thank you for putting this up!
But what about "Its not inside its on top!"
mupine67 5 months ago
Just goes to show what you people know. The blacks had their own television stations Tv2 and TV3 (and maybe TV4) and they played their ads with blacks only on there. I remember watching a replay of the ads during school holidays and they'd show everything in one go, in some of the black South African languages. Don't comment if you didn't grow up in South Africa cause you will never know first hand what it was like. I'm saying this as a Proudly Coloured South African!
Ashtarot77 6 months ago
@Ashtarot77 what do you think about old south africa?
breizhcatalonia1993 5 months ago
@Ashtarot77 And you would also know that black people wanted their television in English. Paradoxically, forcing black people to learn 'their' own languages reinforced the apartheid system by not allowing them to learn adequately a language that would allow them to participate economically with white South Africa. After 1970, the goal was to create a completely separate white and non-white South Africa...
patrickwright1 2 months ago
That ad with the kittens got my intrigued on how they managed to get the kittens move from bowl to bowl and all I can think of was a electric shock or something.
NeoFalcon69 6 months ago
@NeoFalcon69 lol
patrickwright1 2 months ago
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@Dukewysh Why'd you close your account?! I want to talk to you again
MrBarelylethal 6 months ago
Love the Morkels advert. Is that woman still alive
Giantads 7 months ago
I grew up during the 80's ,enjoy these ads.It is passed the time to keek riding the old lame "race" horse.What happened ,happened basta!
Nothing changes unless people change.Mankind never learns from history
genetically we are all related to the same parent stock. remember this...no one lives long enough to take their time to make amends!
Make a concereted effort to save the Rain forests, our oxygen supply and the environment in general.Religion, Politics and Racism are all man-made!
Ingo7422 7 months ago
To those ppl coming to complain about not enough black in the ads / too many whites in the ads... this was SA back then and who CARES!!! I came here to enjoy - so shut up or log out! And in case you wondered - Im proudly coloured! Good and Bad - what happened back then MADE me what I am today!
akasha1304 7 months ago 9
@akasha1304 - Well said. It is time we remember the past and look to the future.
brucelauderdale 7 months ago 3
@akasha1304
FWIW, in those days all the ads were shot twice, once with white audiences in mind, and again with black audiences in mind. Shot for shot, but with black actors. The Frisco and Cremora ads spring to mind especially.
TheCatLady74 2 months ago
geeeeez it looks like they shocked those poor kittens actually.
Pablo34643 8 months ago
A true reflection of apartheid. Seven minutes compilation of South African adverts and no blacks (except for a 5 sec glimpse in Coffee Huis). I hate it.
diezel0218 9 months ago
@diezel0218 blah,blah,blah,blah...
tinmiss 9 months ago
@diezel0218 How is it any worse than the token-diversity we see everywhere on TV nowadays? Trot out the one black person for the photo shoot… at least this accurately reflected the times. Apartheid South Africa was a place where whites controlled 90% of the money. Of course they're going to be in 90% of the ads. What were you expecting when you came here? Or did you just watch it to complain about it?
Joebycool 9 months ago 2
@Joebycool Yeah right apartheid adverts "were" and no more "are" and THANKS GOD FOR THAT. I still hate to see them.
diezel0218 3 months ago
I like an advert for Lecol juice. The song was so catchy "Catch a red and catch a green and catch a blue and yellow too. Catch a Lecol in a bottle, there's a flavour just for you"
mishim100 10 months ago
red yellow blue, very catchy
slimv29 10 months ago
Pity you haven't got the very very nice peter one! :o) Have been searching for that ... but thanks for these! :o)
sewellanne 1 year ago
4:55 clean or a little fuzzy? hahaha.. just not a turn of phrase americans would use.
SnoeLaCone 1 year ago
WTF! where are all the black people its south africA! notice all the engish adds
rdt1970 1 year ago
@rdt1970 Nice question. First, this was the 1980s, so you do the math. Second, the advert for "Koffiehuis" was actually quite diverse, which was fairly interesting to me. Must have been ahead of its time.
EmanBos 1 year ago
@rdt1970 Its reminds me of todays UK TV which gives the impression that half the population is African, especially the BBC.
maxamann 1 year ago 2
@maxamann your reply just has to be one of the BEST ever classics!! I have started to wonder if we ARE in Africa as we now have adverts that don't have a single white person in them.
petelovesbevsills 8 months ago
wow, I remember all of them! thanks for the nostalgic moment dude! M
czerpinska 1 year ago
Wow great to see these again. We had a blue citi golf! Do you have a very very nice peter polyfill add. that one cracked me up ! Am also in the UK
ReikiWhisper 1 year ago
@ReikiWhisper - No sorry, those are the only ads I found on my VHS tapes.
brucelauderdale 1 year ago
@ReikiWhisper could it be true, dobbie dobbie-doo :D
breizhcatalonia1993 5 months ago
The one with the cats caused quit a stir because they actually put a small electric current through the milk to shock the kittens. Things were different then.
zsifk 1 year ago 3