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  • There are two types of white South African, the Afrikaaners & the English ones (or saltycocks as the former call them). After living in Africa I can safely say that this vid is very true. Pretty much all the Africaaners I encountered were the worst bunch of people I've ever met - almost as bad as Israelis. Even the English south africans didnt like them. To say they were mostly small minded simpletons who only know how to drink beer, eat beef & shoot things would be an understatement.TIA Danny!

  • all thesee bliks in our country mehn, and im not even Seth Efrican, im from Rhodesia

  • rember this song was written in the 80's ish things were different then. this song was writen to entertain and raise issues so people can do stuff about them. please dont take ofense

  • what about nelson mandela? oh wait haha hes still on the US terrorist list.. fail

  • This was made back in the 80s.

    Back then South Africa was associated with racism but now everything has changed.

    Now it's associated with AIDS and car jacking...

  • I will be 1st to agree that we were an unpleasant bunch. People are more laid back now. We are not all racist. Of course you do still get the racist assholes, but they are in the minority. Unfortunately a very loud and vocal minority. But South Africans in general are very friendly, regardless of race. We have spirit of "ubuntu" (humanity to others). Crime is a big problem at this stage, but once again caused by a minority and ubuntu will help us overcome it.

  • @TulipLilah Yeah people generalise from minorities. Over here Ubuntu is an operating system. HA!

  • @krytonbeast it's spelled "apartheid". It's an Afrikaans word meaning separation or being separated. From a friendly "Sef Efrican" ;-)

  • I don't know why my favourite line in this song is 'A working Yorkshire Miner'.

  • @HailEurope heh had to bring israel into it, Israel is a multicultural society with total free speech where Muslims, Christians, Jews and other religions live side by side and on the most part within Israel there is little trouble. Arabs within israel are not killed or prejudiced against. Their parliament includes members from all religions. There is absolutely no comparison.

  • i remember this going out first time and it was superb. At the time of apartide this struck its own chord. no wonder writers ans actors were all so successful after it was a collaberation of brilliance.

  • Judging by some of the videos on youtube this song is as true as it was 25 years ago. Apart from Wikus van der Merwe of course!!

  • @neilb229 How is south africa still the same?

  • I wish whatever they caught on the boot of their jeep will bite their balls off hehehe how is that nice for you ! bwa hahahaha

  • not true , some people are nice even if they live in South Africa hehehehehe

  • I fuck children

  • Love the Lord Lucan lookalike Barman!

  • It does not matter if your Blik or whheyete we are all 99.5 to 99.7% the same.......Carl Sagan.

    This is humor and we need more of it?

    BoosTards!

  • I love anything about Spitting Images, and this song as well, but with all this socialist "outrage" against apartheid (of course mostly from distance, which is the safest way how to be very "principial" about anything), well I would like to ask them today, if they think that South Africa, 20 years after the change is a better place to live .. both for blacks and whites, hm? :)

  • From what I recall this was the b-side to the Chicken Song. Still got the single somewhere

  • Songs like "Free nelson Mandela" and other anti apartheid protest songs were banned in South Africa

  • Did white south africans fight against Apartheid?

  • @hohomahoro some white south Africans fought against apartheid

  • @portsanity what about the rest of the white south africans? what did they do about it?

  • @hohomahoro i think the pro apartheid white south African were quite hostile towards anyone who showed black people any-kind of sympathy or compassion.

    A funny story my friend told me about a relative from S.A who was visiting.

    She was saying that black people were incapable of running a country,my friend replied with"their not capable of running a country but your quite happy for them to look after your children hmmm"

  • It's true. We South Africans are such assholes xD

  • and can anyone tell me why my comment(as i've said look at page 14)is no longer top rated?.it has 84 likes.do you-tube remove them after a while?.

  • That is weird... I think I thumbed it up once.

  • This is quite possibly the most offensive song I've ever heard and you should all be ashamed for liking it.

    Baboons don't smell that bad.

  • @Yamamanama you stole my comment.look at page 14!!.

  • I find this song very offensive.

    There's plenty of nice tasting pot noodles out there.

  • @skeletorphd i agree.i had one in korea the other day.it was called not poodle!!.

  • ...

  • This is so racist

  • @eazzyg8 This was made in the time of Apartheid, where the South African regime was possibly the most racist thing on the planet. It's called "satire". Thankfully that corrupt regime is no more.

  • @eazzyg8 So was Apartheid

  • This is crazy!

    Anybody know if this caused any controversy when it aired?

  • @skeletorphd Not really - the majority of controversy was caused by the racist apartheid regime in South Africa at the time. This song was having a go at that.

  • 4-5% of White SA farmers have been murdered, 5.6million SA's have AIDS, Johannesburg = world's murder capital, the ANC supports Mugabe and Gadaffi.

    I hope all you ignorant liberals are happy with what you have pushed in South Africa because you were too lazy to think for yourselves and you swallowed all the lies the media told you about how awful Apartheid was.

  • @HailEurope the apartheid was awful just read Cry the Beloved Country.

  • @GodsChin so you are a mugabe supporter. yes, he was such an asshole for making that country the bread basket of Africa and now the population is starving and living in fear. Keep believing the tripe that is spoonfed to you by the powers that be. Maybe one day you will see the truth you ignorant fool.

  • fantastic video!

    i worked with a nice south african bloke though, he'd like this video.

  • LMAO

  • Why are so many of these comments discussing how offensive this may be? It's offensive to make fun of racist people? I guess Hitler jokes and KKK jibes are too offensive then.

  • How old it this?

  • @Krugezoid It was released in 1986.

  • Proud to be South African and proud to have a sense of humour. I love this clip.

  • @svenswart Why aren't you nice?

  • @svenswart Clearly, according to this song, there is no one nice in South Africa. You being from South Africa, therefore, raises the question, "why aren't you nice?"

  • @SirTorment True, I may be South African, but despite what this song claims, I'm actually quite nice and not racist. However, I can also take a joke, I'm smart enough not to take things too seriously and I can distinguish between fantasy and reality. This song is clearly poking fun at a number of narrow-minded bigots and is spot on in certain (not all) places. Still proud to be a (non racist) South African, with a sense of humour. What nationality are you by the way?

  • @svenswart Classic South African, wanting to know my race so you can judge me on it, because as the song claims, you are all are racist and not nice. But I'm from The Isle of Man, if you must know.

  • @SirTorment There is a difference between "race" and "nationality". I don't judge people on either. If you were paying attention, I was asking about your nationality, NOT your skin colour. And the one doing the judging is YOU! By ASSUMING that I'm a white South African, by default that makes me racist? Don't believe everything you see on TV or Youtube, it makes you look far too gullible.

  • @svenswart Stop being so rude, it really proves that no one in South Africa is nice.

  • I've even heard a decent song by paul mccartney's wings :p

  • GO THE IRISH :D

  • You've gotta love Afrikaners they do have the best accents around

  • I remember this LoL

  • @GodsChin - Same ilk????? sounds like you're attempting to immitate a Scotsman to me. Right as he may be, he's not southern african.

  • @GodsChin - DITTO - to Paul Theroux. x

  • Funny as hell. I am a South African. I'm probably not very nice. :) But if you want an honest opinion, I'm your woman. :)

  • Just to let people know who think this is racist this song was actually made by a south African

  • I am a nice south african............ :D

  • This is blatent racism to be fair... doesn't mean it isn't funny though.

  • I've met several nice South Africans, but that doesn't stop this being hilarious.

  • I'm south african and find this funny because it is true

  • @RefugeeT hahaha im south african to and i know that this song is blood right ;)

  • the king of china looks like the man from my local kebab shop!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Right, great stoof...breyten lol fucking of this time too, except it is black on white now with mugabe....

  • True, this song may be considered offensive but that's one of the reasons I loved this series so much.

    It's representitive of a time when people in media were allowed to say things like this, before the spectres of censorship and fear of bad taste began to swallow up television.

    Now people watch what they say and don't dare do anything riske or outlandish for fear in insulting or offending nayone.

    And I think media has become all the poorer for it.

  • @TheJboy88 two words, family guy.

  • CONT...the old adage applies "if the cap fits wear it". Now Welshman and Scotsmen and Irishmen with their love of rugby and brilliant sense of humour having all suffered under the Englishmans lash and remain some of the nicest people around.

  • Bollocks...the satire is hilarious, but if one wishes to talk of stereotypes, how about the atypical Englishmans holier than thou attitude and the constant boring references to "colonials", its over guys, get over yourselves. I have met plenty of nice South Africans and the Afrikaners in particular are world renowned for their hospitality and politeness.

  • I was on another youtube video and their was a south African being a racist arsehole and this song just clicked on in my head.

  • If you treat people like animals this is the response you will get from the UK. One of the reasons i am proud to be British!

  • @gordywilson You must be soooo proud of the concentration camps the British built in south africa and the farms they burnt and all the women and children they killed! Yeah...I would be too if I was you. Afterall, the south africans learnt from the best!

  • @JbRezurectd The Dutch?

  • Paul Mcartney at 1:18 is AWESOME!  Spot On!

  • I believe this was made- satirically - by a guy who was South African. Was the reference at the end a slightly obscured allusion to Breyten Breytenbach, the anti-apartheid campaigner...? Hilarious, a throwback to to my teenage years.

  • @julesthemadman Allusion? It blatently mentions Breyton Breytenbach, and it is an unobscured absolute reference to him.

  • My ears must need cleaning. Pax

  • i've met a nice siff iffrican

  • HA HA HA unlees, how apt!! Feudian slip.

    unless :)

  • It is funny but it is old Lol. unlees you've been to SA & met all of the different beautiful people & how well they gel now...........................­.. then DO NOT COMMENT ON WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW

  • They speak the truth.

  • @reborndrakken Check out "Institute of Afrikaans accent" Brilliant so funny. S Africans taking the mick of themselves. @reb South Africans are so Warm, Light Hearted, Humble , full of Joy & Genorosity & Strength of spirit 1st world outsiders don't have or see!!

    Known world-wide for their impeccable manners. Not famed for causing havoc wherever they go like certain football hooligan alcaholic cultures

  • South African's are brilliant people - probably the nicest people in the world, period !

  • I'm a white south african who got away from there as soon as I could. Luckily I live somewhere where there are almost none of my former countrymen. Whenever I go back I'm reminded of how awful a culture it is and thank myself for having the good sense to escape.

  • My next door neighbours all come from South Africa and they are the nicest most down to earth people I know. They would do anything fo anyone. The song still makes me wet my pants though and I hum it to myself everytime I see them .....

  • White South Africans are definitely c*nts - but if you think they're bad, try Rhodies.

  • That's really horrible of her

  • the racism in white south africans is astonishing, me and my friend whos south african were talking about screaming jelly babies and we questioned which one would scream the loudest, i said red and she said black, i then looked at her she laughed and said its true and then came out with a long rant against black people that left me silenced

  • I've come across a few Afrikaaners.Presumably they're the ones to whom this song is directed.They've been ok and a good laugh.Maybe they were different years ago.One thing is for sure,they're a tough bunch.

  • It was funny

    But I know sum really nice south Africans

    And 1 of my mums best friends r south African

  • I really hate to say it ! but the ones who I've met ( who have come across to the UK )

    I haven't liked one bit and to be brutally honest ,I don't know many people, who feel any different, than me!

  • lol@Jimmy Hill with the South African hunters :)

  • This song was created during South Africa's Aparthied years. It doesn't have very much relevance now but back then it had plenty of relevance considering what was hppening back then.

  • Let us all remind ourselves that this clip dates from 1986 and if you don't know what sort of regime was in place in South Africa at that time then I suggest you read up a bit.

  • Or one of my favorites ... FYIYCTAJ

  • It was hilarious then and it's hilarious now. It's also as true now as it was twenty odd years ago. The rats have swum ashore to good old Blighty where they bleat on about it all being our fault that they treated humans like animals. Breathtaking arrogance. I don't think I have actually met a nice SA male, some of the women seem normal however.

  • @843rafe Fuck off you scumbag. This Jewish Communist propaganda is revolting.

  • @843rafe Speaking of breathtaking arrogance, replace the word 'SA' with 'Jewish' or 'African' and reread what you just posted. Yet another comment of the "white people are so racist" variety.

    As for some South African "Rats" coming here to the UK - might I suggest you look at the photos of entire white families including children mercilessly macheted to slabs of meat.Over 3000 since 1994 according to the Times.

    Where are all you right -on human rights protestors now?

  • @843rafe lol..you represent everything I hate about the few ignorant cunts that seem to plague this otherwise pleasant nation. Isn't it a shame that most Brits choose to forget what they did to these 'rats' not too long ago. My great grand father died in a British concentration camp, and I'm not gonna act like I'm personally affected, just saying it isn't all black and white. The west likes to project a lily white image of perfection...meanwhile their history is far darker than SA's will ever be

  • @JbRezurectd Is it me or are you entirely forgetting the context of when this song was written?

  • @TopRobbo1970 No, I was replying to a specific individuals racist and outdated view of white south africans now. The point I'm trying to make is that I don't judge all Brits for what their forefathers did in the past, so why should I be judged for what the generation before me did. It's the same with the Germans. Why do many brits still go on about Germans? I grew up side by side with all SA cultures and was always taught to respect every race. I don't mind the song just the retarded comment.

  • @JbRezurectd You cannot compare, say, Nazi Germany and South Africa under apartheid. Nazi Germany was long before our time. But South Africa under apartheid was in our time. That is a disgrace beyond words.

  • @grisflyt Whereas the fate of many White South Africans under black rule is just a mild inconvenience.

  • @843rafe video is more anti-White propaganda for liberal drones to swallow. SA was a 1st world country then where Blacks were better off - now they are run by crooks, have an aids epidemic, have the world's murder capital and they practice the genocide of White farmers.

    Ask yourself when SA was demonised so much but the US will veto any resolution against Israel (a racial state for Jews only) and you will see where the power lies and why any form of self-determination for Europeans is crushed.

  • hahahahaha so true

  • Ah! come on Alarmclock !!! Dont be touchy !! You are just reinforcing the stereotype

    Come settle in SA and get some vitamin E in your system

  • Typical Pom crap.

    They colonised half the world pulled out when it became too tedious causing decades of mayhem

    They invented apartheid. The South Africans made it law and now we have apartheid in reverse

    Surprisingly enough many poms still settle in South Africa because life in the UK is much tougher. Big hypocrites

  • @collbt Shockingly, the overwhelming majority of "Poms" making up Britain today had absolutely no part in the colonisation of Africa.

    It's not as though folks still hurl abuse at Austrians for having unleashed Hitler on the world. Move the fuck on.

  • @AlarmClockBritain Yes, but habitual British abuse of the Germans is still very much a national sport.

  • @collbt Poms settling in SA? Don't think so dear. Do you mean NZ?!

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  • this is a load of crap...

  • @youngster273 well why watch it then?

  • @youngster273 Actually it is very amusing..however having spent a year in Angola recently I would like to invite all the liberal London dwelling African apologists (Bob Geldof and his acolytes etc) to spend some time in such countries without a film crew and a nice western salary..then comment..I have met very few nice Angolans and S.Africa in parts is a crime hellhole and bordering on a failed state

  • The geezer is probably right i have heard most south africans are rude.

  • who is breyten breytenbach?.pardon my ignorance.

  • @crustywasp He was a South African writer and painter.

  • @AidanLunn thank you.why did he emigrate and why was he jailed.

  • @crustywasp There is a wikipedia article about him. All is explained there. I can't link you to it here because of the spam filter.

  • @AidanLunn thank you,just looked it up.very interesting..

  • Can't get this song out my head. I sang it to a Sith Efrican today. Ha ha ha ha ha Love it.

  • The detractors should note that almost half the song is about how crap Britain was at the time.

  • the bleks rooned seth afreca

  • @Ratama quite agree.like zimbabwe.bleks hate white man,white man pulls out,country's fucked.then we have to send them fucking aid.NO MORE AID,LEAVE AFRICA TO SORT THEMSELVES OUT.CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME!!.

  • I remember this. It feels like the 80's again seeing it! It isn't nasty, apartheid was nasty, which is the point of the song.

  • This song betrays British racial prejudices. According to the song, South Africans hate black people, but aren't most South Africans black themselves? Or Are only white people classed as South Africans to the 'right-on' British?

  • @mgo26 in the song when they are saying South Africans they actually mean Afrikaners (white South Africans).

  • I have to agree, FMCLAW777 comes across as a total prick

  • I've met a nice south african, this is just racism in reverse.

  • @djyips10 And remember kids, making fun of the supporters of apartheid is not funny, and is in fact, racist. Especially when whites do it!

  • @CapitalistOverlord Thats right kids, because of course all White South Africans then and now support Apartheid, just like all Germans are Nazis, so, all together now... ...."I've never met a nice Ger-er-man cause they're all f'kin Nazi's man" " And...they ..hate...Jewish..people"

  • @flerb Oh lawdy. I wasn't implying that at all! The song was satirizing the popular opinion of the Afrikaaners at the time. Of course not all white South Africans are racist.

  • @djyips10 Read the thread, it's satire, done way before your time. Calling it racism in reverse is just thick.

  • man went to south africa for the world cup but i think they were just being nice to me becuase of my american dollars.....they seemed like douchebags

  • Brilliant. All White south Africans think they are better than the black people they enslaved!!!! All White south Africans including Jill Tuckey who is a White south African, and her husband who is her step son and her son is her husbands half brother ( just goes to show how inbread these White south Africans are)!

    Need to be brought to justice!

  • a fairly modest german xD

  • I've met a nice South African

  • It was quite believable until he said he'd heard a descent song by Paul McCartney's Wings.

  • and that must be freddie mercury behind the bar don't you agree?.

  • @crustywasp

    I think it's supposed to be Lord Lucan.

  • @antihostile This was in the early days of Spitting Image so to save on budget they often re-used some famous people puppets (the less distinguishable ones, like the Lord Lucan puppet) as just normal people, in this case, the Lord Lucan puppet is re-used as a bartender, as Spitting Image didn't have that much of a budget at the time.

    It does get confusing on the first two or three series of Spitting Image, as a puppet will be used when it is not supposed to be the person it is impersonating

  • @AidanLunn It's _supposed_ to be Lord Lucan: the traveller is recounting his extremely unlikely experiences; being served in a bar by Lord Lucan is one of them!

  • @gazzagazza2007 Possibly, but seeing as they once used the Grace Jones puppet in a sketch satirising an advert about cars and then it appearing again as an armed guard in the Kremlin, plus a whole host of famous puppets being used as generic puppets elsewhere in the series, I'm not so sure!

    Lord Lucan was obviously Harold Angryperson in series 1!

  • if anyone is wondering who is singing this its maggie thatcher in the morning before she has a shave!!.

  • Takes me back. Satirical genius. Must be listened/watched in the vain it was meant at the time........if you can't take it in that vain, don't watch it.....

  • As a white South African I believe you can't be accused of being racist when you malign the oppressor. Racism is a power relations thing and when whites had all the power, prejudice against them had no power or racist content.

  • @Alarbee as a white somethican I fell asleep reading your vague pap. :)

  • @wobblyboost Sweet dreams!

  • you people do realise this video was made nigh on 15 years ago... there probably is satirical parts concerning Burma

  • Well, i should show this to my South African friends

    also, unicorns in Burma. If you attack apartheid, why not attack the military junta which rules Burma? Double standard

  • @Bozewani show it then.probably too thick to understand it.

  • @Bozewani Because they decided to sing about South Africans instead.

  • i am absolutely disgusted by this video.how insulting.baboons don't smell that bad!!.

  • @crustywasp yeah!!! unfair to baboons! PLUS a Baboon will stab you in the back and steal what he can BEFORE he makes friends with you.

  • @wobblyboost ACE,BRILL REPLY.DID MAKE ME LAUGH.GOOD TO SEE SOMEONE WHO SHARES MY SENSE OF HUMOUR.

  • @crustywasp its discrimiation mate. I feel your outrage!

  • @crustywasp you said it!

  • @crustywasp grow a sense of humour

  • Who is the guy who is singing it?

  • which series and episode is this?

  • Fookin' prawns.

  • @kazimann LOL

    omg district nine, oh happy days...

  • I'm in South Africa right now and this video is a bunch of racist bull. They are all nice.