johannesburg, 1972

my music to a video from johannesburg, south africa in the early1970s. check out the original at http://www.youtube.com/user/80SAFRIKAN

please note: i just wrote a soundtrack to a video and i DO NOT idealize apartheid! and i'm sick and tired of people assuming so. i wish people would just see this video for what it is: some music to some moving pictures from the past. once again: i did not shoot this video myself. in fact, i wish it was shot somewhere else so people would stop giving me their stupid opinions about the rights or wrongs of apartheid. i DON'T CARE, people! and if you want to know my opinion: i've been to joburg several times recently and i think present-day joburg is one of the most awesome cities in the world. thank god for the end of apartheid.
if you want to comment on this video, please stay away from politics or i will remove your comment and prevent you from ever bothering me again. thank you.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• johannesburg
• soundtrack
• south
• africa
• 1972

[rloken]

haha what silly music.. and love the angle: "oh, look a happy black person under apartheid". what are you trying to say with this film? stuck in time a bit?

[powergozer]

@rloken and just what makes you think that's my angle? how many times do i have to repeat myself before moronic youtube users stop insulting me without having a clue what they're talking about? read. the. video. description.

[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.

[rloken]

@powergozer I'm sorry! i thought you were one of the many white supremacists on youtube but your thoughts stick deeper. now that i know I apologize.

[powergozer]

@rloken thanks man! i really appreciate it. no hard feelings here.

[DaSlug32]

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

[struand]

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

[rloken]

@ThinkAgainHard thanks for your balanced posts :)

[MrAlban003]

Wow...great camera footage! I remember Johannesburg in the early 1980s as a teenager, and it was pretty much the same...neat, tidy, clean, and now look at the place. Is that Eloff Street in the one shot, because that's where I used to wait for the bus.

[karoogus]

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

[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.

[haydenhack]

APPHAULLING!!!!