Old South African Adverts

South African adverts from the 1980s. They bring back so many memories. They were also good adverts, you even remember the strap lines today. Things like "Morkels, your two year guarantee store." and "It's in the centre, Mr. Venter."

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Adverts
• 80s
• South Africa
• Funny Ads
• Strap lines
• Citi Golf
• Morkels
• Steakhouse Melts
• Bic
• Mello Yello
• KFC
• Bill Flynn
• Jeremy Taylor

[akasha1304]

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!

[brucelauderdale]

@akasha1304 - Well said. It is time we remember the past and look to the future.

[ReikiWhisper]

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

[brucelauderdale]

@ReikiWhisper - No sorry, those are the only ads I found on my VHS tapes.

[blackangellucyfire]

@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

[22Phantasm]

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]

@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.

[blackangellucyfire]

@22Phantasm LOL dude it will go away when people like you start bringing it up every 2 minutes (just like you did now)

[anthonypearse1]

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!!

[pixienel]

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

[mazafuzle]

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??

[TheCatLady74]

@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.

[patrickwright1]

@NeoFalcon69 lol

[patrickwright1]

@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...