Apartheid was a crime against humanity, on same level as nazism of Germany. I still have both physical and emotional scars of that period. It is important to indicate the role played by South African women in bringing down the apartheid regime.
But no 1 was arrested yet most of those who implemented it were still alive and their children are owning 90% of the economy of the country and 80% of the land though they are just less than 8 % in population... apartheid is not gone, it is just suttle
@@makhumomashishi282 being born at the height of apartheid and experiencing it first hand, I think it will take South Africa 100 years to eradicate any traces of that system.
You're right. And I got funding from the NFVF to make a short film about that and the role of women in a post-Aparrheid society (which is still fighting for our rights). And while the government approved the film, corporate investors blackballed the project. The business interests in SA are what is standing between us and our national healing. All the money goes overseas so the corporate colonizers don't want to admit what they did and how they benefitted from Apartheid.
My dad once told me about how psychologically Apartheid was designed to make people feel inferior. When he was +-20 he was working in white folks garden's (he didn't have money to go to college at the time) when he was done working the owners of the home would send their young son(maybe 6/7) to come give him his pay. When he received the money my dad would have to say "dankie Baas" meaning thank you boss/master. My dad is 61 today, that kid is in his late 30s/ early 40s. When black people and white people interact today there's still a very big superiority complex from white and an inferiority complex from black people. We must consistently and consciously remind ourselves that we are equal and not beneath. Race tensions tend to get high in this country because we haven't totally healed from this paradigm of apartheid (the most perfect form of oppression). Non the less South Africa is a land filled with potential and there's still a lot of work to be done before we can truly say apartheid is over. It may be over constitutionally but not utterly over in corporate, psychologically, and economically.
There are so many conversations I want to have. I am white and not much younger than your dad. He is not wrong. A gardener was a garden "boy"and a helper was the "girl", regardless of age. I do try to be better and by watching channels like these and reading the comments I continue to grow. If something is uncomfortable, there is a reason. 🤣
I was having this convo with my Mom and sister and I've had it with my Dad and I can't fathom how they are still sane. They were born then. I'm a born free. And I don't think I'd be able to have been alive in apartheid and then mingle with the people who allowed it to continue for 48 years (officially). We all know it was longer than that like 400 years but how could those yt people just allow this for 50 years???? I don't feel that way because I grew up in a very diverse environment with everybody so I trust everybody equally in my generation. I do look at older people with suspicion sometimes though. But also in Durban we had British people who I'm told were much kinder than the Afrikaaners. Most of my teachers were British yt and I never felt weird with them at any point whatsoever. But I've heard horror stories from JHB and CPT.
I'm 25 Years old and have Family in Sharpeville that have been there for at least 3 Generations. My great grandfather on my mother's side was killed in the protest against Pass laws mentioned in the video. The protest was organized by a party called the PAC ( Pan Africanist Congress). So yeah Apartheid impact is still very much felt even in present South Africa.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT It's Bone chilling how similar our histories are and this is why I feel an affinity to Black Americans as a South African. No other black people around the world could understand the atrocities our ancestors went through.
@@katleholehlokoane9663 It appears that the colonialists employed similar strategies across Africa, including in Kenya, where numerous Kenyans experienced torture during the colonial era. The Mau Mau uprising is a well-documented example. My grandfather's two siblings were conscripted into the British army during WWII and never came back.
🇮🇳Indians in Africa were also put into apartheid. So sorry for my Indian brothers that had to go through that kind of torture. Big up to all those who raised their voices. Revolution shall not be forgotten❤️
They should've gone back to India then. Because in South Africa they were the only ones who were allowed to trade, open businesses ect. They are not indigenous to any place in Africa. They didn't leave, because they had it better than any other race that was not white here.
I had the honour of being a soldier of uMkhonto we Sizwe (Intelligence). That was the armed wing of the African National Congress. My commander was Comrade Ronnie Kasrils. You can look him up. I was trained in Angola.
The impact of those harsh laws is still felt today. South Africans can understand AA to a certain degree because of our similar history. We have come far from those times however we still have a long way to go.
The movie is probably "Skin" and based on the true story of Sandra Laing: Born under apartheid to white parents, but due to atavism, she had brown skin and coily hair and looked like someone South Africans would call "Coloured". The Bureau of Race Classification (I think it was called) officially reclassified as Coloured after being expelled from a white school for not looking white. Even though, her parents took the government to court to have her classified back to white and won, she was of course never accepted as white by her parents' community and eventually fled to Eswatini (then Swaziland) where she married her husband and, I believe, had herself reclassified as Black when coming back to South Africa. She lived and raised her children in the Black community and lived without contact with her parents for most of the rest of her life.
I remember that lady, shame man. She really does look like a coloured person. Some coloured people have hair like their Indian or white so it was strange to see her hair is curly. I cannot imagine the trauma she went through
Everyone born after 1994 are called born frees because they were truly free born out off bondage. There is a documentary I suggest ya'll watch it's about born frees from each race since they are around 5 years old till now their lives being documented so viewers can see how much change equality has brought to our lives.
My proudest moment, is as a white 25yo standing with my "nanny" to vote in 1994. Her granddaughter has just completed her honours in education. How awesome is that!The uncomplicated bits are that apartheid and white supremacy are abhorrent. The complicated bits are now the relationships and results of this fairly short period of history in the world. A song from my youth that still invokes huge emotions is "Weeping" by Bright Blue. My greatest fear is that history repeats itself the other way. I am blessed to work for a progressive company and have had several black managers. I am sometimes the only white on the team and with only a bachelors degree, I am always the least educated 🤣. Watched a 2 part series recently called something like "The Mandela Miracle ". It's an account of the 12 months leading up to the 94 elections. One forgets how troubled those times were.
You touch on a great point. My production partner calls it The Whitemare. The fear that we will get revenge on yall. But that's not true. However, the fear has led to white people isolating themselves and because of that isolation, it may become a self fulfilling prophecy. If white people in SA really really wanted change, they would learn an African language. How can they expect us to trust them when they don't even want to learn how to say our names. Names are a very HUGE thing in African culture because it's your Destiny. So when a white person "struggles" with an African name, it's like stabbing us with a dagger in the heart. And that signals that you all don't care and so the prophecy fulfils itself. But if you just learned 1 African language and spoke it fluently, the same way we were forced to learn English and Afrikaans, then I know for a fact that the tensions would ease up. It's thing of respect. There are white people who speak fluent isiZulu and I've seen the huge difference it makes. Huge. But when some people have dual citizenship and they run off to Australia at the slightest whim, it makes some South Africans feel used and exploited all over again.
No, Apartheid and slavery is not equivalent or the same. We had slavery in South Africa too and that was another level of oppression and exploitation that was very different from apartheid.
Apartheid was an evolution of centuries old "unfree labour" in SA. Its function wasn't simply segregation, but a massive continuation of unfree labour that started with chattel slavery from 1652 then evolved with a continuation of unfree labour in all but name, (with the requirement to "officially" end slavery in the British Empire in the 19th century.) (Most labour in the 19th century in the colony was unfree, yet it was named everything under the sun but slavery, which included everything from the Inboekstelsel system in the 19th century Boer republics to culminating in Apartheid in the 20th century. Effectively industrial feudalism.)
Yes it's a true story from South Africa her name was Sandra Lang and she actually lived in my hood, funny thing is we didn't know her story until they made a movie about her
Please react to thus 1 because I was also amongst June 16 protesters i nearly lost my toes and my nephew was shot 11times my family found his body after 2 weeks because after shooting they took all the bodies and dumped them in a government mortuary piling them on top of each other you had to move other bodies to find the one you looking for i was still young but its on my mind every day 😢 his name is also at the Hector Peterson square that pain never goes away ,forgive but its impossible to forget
I remember my older sisters marching in London against Apartheid. We also would not buy SA fruits and veg as a family. I'm glad things have changed for the better, even though there is still a way to go. Many countries have had (and are still having) racist or tribalist parts of history. Even Australia had a white only immigration policy in the beginning of European settlement/emigration there.
Hey guys, this has been a great reaction. I'd like to suggest that you also check the story of Mama Winnie Mandela who was Nelson Mandela's wife from the times of apartheid. Thank you.
Is it odd that I wanna host this couple in Uganda???😂😂😂😂, I love them. It’s so refreshing honestly. They don’t pretend to know, but it’s also amazing how black Americans from the south ain’t different from Africans at all.
South Africa and New Zealand have a passion for rugby, the 1981 Springbok Tour is when sport and politics collided. You may want to reaction video to the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour, it was a period in which brother was against brother, father against son, neighbour against neighbour as New Zealand protested against apartheid in South Africa. During this tour it created mass civil unrest as people protested against apartheid in South Africa and for the freedoms of black South Africans. With New Zealand hosting the tour a number of African countries even boycotted the following Olympic Games. Many South Africans were shocked to see running street battles in another country all for the sake of equality and freedom of people in their land. Today the dust has settled and calm returned but there is a generation of kiwi's who still remember the bloodshed in a country known for it's passion for sport and a peaceful people, "Kia-Kaha".
Can you guys react to SARAFINA. It is an emotionally and politically impassioned story that registers the anti-apartheid movement's anger and hope in an infectious musical context and refutes revenge, violence and murder as a solution.
You should watch the movie "Winnie" which was was led by Jennifer Hudson Its about Nelson Mandelas first wife and her struggle during apartheid Truly a masterpiece
Apartheid caused deep emotional pain. I was 4 years old (60+) now, when we were removed out of a suburb because the whites felt they could use it better. That was called the group areas act.
South Africa was until 1948 SA was a colony state of Britain known as the Union of South Africa. The British started the system. The original indigenous KhoiSan were reclassified as"COLOURED" in 1950 by the Apartheid Government as a means to disempower them .
@Ronald Wiley - that is not correct South Africa was never a British colony, before 1910 the country South Africa as we know it didn’t exist. There was South African Republic also known as the Transvaal Republic (later province), an independent Boer Republic which ceased to exist in 1902 after the British defeated Afrikaneers in 2nd Boer war and it briefly became Transvaal colony. In 1910 the amalgamation of the two British colonies of Cape & Natal and the 2 former Dutch/Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State annexed after the 2nd Boer War created Union of South Africa, at that point the Individual British colonies stopped being a British colony but the new country became an independent country within the British Empire like Canada, Australia, Newzealand. It was only in 1961 South Africa became a republic. From 1948-1994, South African politics was dominated by Afrikaner/Dutch Nationalism which instituted racial segregation and white minority rule known officially as apartheid, an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", this was implemented in 1948 by the Afrikaner government that came into power that year. If you look In all British colonies in Southern Africa, East Africa even in Asia there was some form of segregation on racial lines (schooling, housing, land acquisition etc) but nothing as extensive and codified like Afrikaner’s apartheid.
I am descendent of Bakgotho le Basarwa (white people decided to call them KhoiSan) My people are black Africans and proud. They lived with Bunthu people. Those who were classified as Colours are cowards.
@@khaltsharivist365 South Africa was a colony of Britain until 1948. My grandmother told me about the day South Africa got it independence of Britain when she was a 17yrs. The were free busses that took them to Union Building to celebrate SA's independence
@@veemotaung1060 so you say that those who were classified in America as Negroes were cowards as well. Targeting the victims of racism, rather than the racists would explain your own cowardness. Coloureds were at the frontline of the fight against Apartheid, where were the Bakgotho le Basarwa.
@@khaltsharivist365 after the AngloBoer War , the British annexed the two Boer states and with the Cape Colony to form the Union of South Africa under British rule until 1948 when they handed control over to the National Party, who then took it further and gave it the name Apartheid.
The Apartheid as a political system ended in 1990. What about the economic Apartheid in South Africa? I heard, social inequality in South Africa still at the same level as it was during the dark age of Apartheid
You both look so good. Sleeping more? No no no. Apartheid is like the guest who won't leave, you file eviction, the courts abolished, you case is stuck an the guest is fighting you in your own home. Oh all the police adpre cool with the rude guest so the rude, unwanted guest brings more of his friends and tells you "let's live together...in you own home. In transatlantic slave trade people were gone. Families were waiting in vain for return of loved ones. Even when inter-tribal slavery happened, it was different. The families state toge together,still had their dignity, still married, still payed their way out to freedom.
Whites have the land, all the wealth and resources. The inequality in this country is frightening and discouraging but thank you Mandela, you saved us😒
in 1994 , he and the ANC changed their tune from ,[the land shall be returned to it,s rightful owners ], to [ the land belongs to allwho live in South Africa] , including the white man who stole it in the first place.
Hey family🔥♥️Zulu Girl in the house🇿🇦⭐love your reaction. Road to 100k✅✅✅ Till today some members in our families are still defensive and full of hatred because of apartheid, over protective and don't want to accept change🥺it really hurts cause if you Date💞 a white person, some community members will have negative opinions and reactions to your relationship☹😦this really brainwashed them.
There 21 March 1960 Sharpville demonstration was conducted by the PAC (Pan Africanise Congress) headed by the honourable Mr Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. The PAC was formed when they realised that ANC was dealing with inclusion in the European system , and that's when they realised that ANC was infiltrated and weak. Read about Robert Sobukwe. The government even passed a special law in parliament called the Robert Sobukwe clause . This is the greatest man whose story is being hidden and or not told because of the wisdom and power he had . PAC always put land first . It was then weakened because it was too good and had the wisdom to give us proper liberation . We could have gotten real freedom around 1960-63 but hey CIA, MI6 , Mossat and then were really at work and weakened the PAC. (story of another day) The June 1976 students demonstration was headed by PAC and Azapo (Azanian Peoples Organization) which was later also weakened by the agents above. Most of the people like Mbuyiseni (the guy carrying Hector Peterson) and Tsuetsi Mashinini the young man who was heading the Soweto June 1976 demonstration died mysteriously in other countries like Nigeria , it's very clear who did this and their stories need to be told too
You are on point, black people have done their level best in various geographical areas in fighting injustices , and it's really hard to fight against a system that is even legislated to perpetuate the injustice, so you're correct . We cry for for all global injustice and atrocities done to oppress and even kill people because of their birth
Hi Talking about the white girl misidentified as Black it was a documentary in South Africa. google it see this document : *The White South African Woman Misidentified As Black (2000)* and part 2 of it : *The White South African Woman Misidentified As Black | Our Life*
yeah you are right. Apartheid was more like slavery than segregation. I was watching emancipation by will smith. cotton fields, rail way projects etc built from slavery. at one point slavery ran the US economy till it wasn't economical and Jim crow was introduced. in South Africa the mines were our cotton field's, the Gold rush the diamond rush etc. those mines displaced a lot of families . Apartheid was both slavery and segregation. segregation even went by skin colour even skin tone and hair texture right through tribal lines. if I was light skinned and my parents are dark . I could be separated from the assumption that I'm colour aka Mixed. Apartheid only ended because it was just not economically viable. not because the white ppl deemed it a violation to humans. often than not we don't really realise the trauma our parents carry with them. then someone just comes and says forgive and forget it's all in the past 😠😠
Yep, we the victims of apartheid, the ones that lived through and got the upbringing and the inferior education designed to keep us subdued…we are still very much alive! I went to University in the first year of Mandela’s presidency! We are told to get over it and move on, with the kind of education we have how can we really move on! Also, when a black child like myself get some success we firstly have to take care of our parents and try to improve their lives as well as take care of our siblings! That’s what we call Black Tax!!! In that period, a white kid with a similar qualification, your colleague basically, only has himself/herself to think about! So we’re still lagging behind! We’re not seeking handouts but remember we are where we are because we were barred, prevented, arrested or killed for even trying to do stuff for ourselves!!! We could own land, which land we could use not only to grow food for ourselves but which we could also have used as collateral at the banks in order to get funding for businesses, be it farming or any sector of the economy! Even if that meant trading amongst ourselves! We were forcefully removed from every piece of land we owned that seemed to be productive or we here we appeared to make some strides!!! We were only allowed to be herdboys and maids! Now we’re told, that’s long ago, just move on!!! Our current leaders, all of whom got inferior education thanks to apartheid are not given the opportunity and level playing field to turn things around and in fact they get blocked and frustrated because western countries still meddle in the changes we want to effect! The excuse is, black man can’t rule himself! With his hands tied????
That's true but also incomplete in some ways. Most notably the way that it's shown there makes it seem like the resistance was all non-violent which is not the case. There was absolutely armed resistance and destruction of infrastructure in addition to protests. Nelson Mandela co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the ANC. While I believe there some attempts to limit the violence, e.g. by only targeting government infrastructure and only at night, others deliberately targeted civilians. For example, Andrew Zondo, a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the ANC, planted a bomb at a shopping centre, killing 2 adults, 3 children and injuring 161 but a school and road were still named after him. Many ANC military operatives were trained by the Soviet Union and those ties help explain why the South African government has consistently refused to condemn Russia's invasion in Ukraine. It's absolutely worth learning about apartheid but many of those short videos leave out a lot of relevant information and can be misleading. They also tend to end on positive notes while in reality, the government failed to follow through with the ideals of non-racialism and to reduce inequality in the country. I doubt it's possible to see on RUclips but the plays by David Kramer and Taliep Peterson, notably District Six, are always a good watch and show some of what it was like living then.
Hard but important to watch, racism makes me feel sick to my stomach. But if you don't learn history worts and all, some people may be bound to repeat the same mistakes. Take the recent Abortion issues in America. When it was illegal in the past many desperate women suffered at the hands of dangerous quacks. It didn't stop abortion, instead it just led to a lot of suffering. With women being terrified about going to hospital for fear of being arrested. You don't have to personally agree with something, just don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Yes I'm aware of that story where this lady was born by white parents and was not as white as they come . It's a true story that tormented that lady and somehow that family for a very long time .
So apartheid was a tiered system putting blacks at the bottom and basically treating them as subhumans .The pencil test was most commonly also used to decide who is coloured and who is black because most South Africans are light skin and would easily pass as coloured . So to keep blacks out of that coloured class they’d subject them to the test . Blacks who tried to pass as coloured did so because being coloured gave people better jobs , better salaries and better homes and better schools than blacks . In terms of education the government used the same tiered system to fund education . So they spent as little as possible for black schools than other groups and these percentages were legislated . Basically making sure that blacks have very little chance of becoming educated and escaping poverty . Also served to keep blacks uneducated so that they cannot communicate with the outside world and garner support for their freedom. The first black South African female graduate obtained her Science degree from a historically black university in the US . Her name was Charlotte Maxeke . At the time the only way for black South Africans to get university education was through historically black universities in the US.
Apartheid did not only affect people in South Africa,it also had a devastating effect on neighbouring Mozambique,as the Apartheid regime sponsored a 2 decades long Civil War that resulted in Mozambique becoming the poorest nation on earth by 1992. Only after the collapse of Apartheid regime did Mozambique start to rebuild itself from scratch to become one of fastest developing countries in the world. But their decline into extreme poverty was fuelled by the Apartheid regime. There is a lot more things I can say about this,but it will take ages,so better stop it at this stage.
People who were born in the 80s, experienced Apartheid one way or the other. You don't have to look at far generations. Most of us were forcefully given so called Christian names. I have one and I hate it. Non of my children have such names today.
Apartheid was a crime against humanity, on same level as nazism of Germany. I still have both physical and emotional scars of that period. It is important to indicate the role played by South African women in bringing down the apartheid regime.
One day at a time. So sorry you experienced this, family!
But no 1 was arrested yet most of those who implemented it were still alive and their children are owning 90% of the economy of the country and 80% of the land though they are just less than 8 % in population... apartheid is not gone, it is just suttle
Literally we're the first generation being born after Apartheid and we still face the effects of that period
@@makhumomashishi282 being born at the height of apartheid and experiencing it first hand, I think it will take South Africa 100 years to eradicate any traces of that system.
You're right. And I got funding from the NFVF to make a short film about that and the role of women in a post-Aparrheid society (which is still fighting for our rights). And while the government approved the film, corporate investors blackballed the project. The business interests in SA are what is standing between us and our national healing. All the money goes overseas so the corporate colonizers don't want to admit what they did and how they benefitted from Apartheid.
My dad once told me about how psychologically Apartheid was designed to make people feel inferior. When he was +-20 he was working in white folks garden's (he didn't have money to go to college at the time) when he was done working the owners of the home would send their young son(maybe 6/7) to come give him his pay. When he received the money my dad would have to say "dankie Baas" meaning thank you boss/master.
My dad is 61 today, that kid is in his late 30s/ early 40s. When black people and white people interact today there's still a very big superiority complex from white and an inferiority complex from black people. We must consistently and consciously remind ourselves that we are equal and not beneath.
Race tensions tend to get high in this country because we haven't totally healed from this paradigm of apartheid (the most perfect form of oppression). Non the less South Africa is a land filled with potential and there's still a lot of work to be done before we can truly say apartheid is over. It may be over constitutionally but not utterly over in corporate, psychologically, and economically.
There are so many conversations I want to have. I am white and not much younger than your dad. He is not wrong. A gardener was a garden "boy"and a helper was the "girl", regardless of age. I do try to be better and by watching channels like these and reading the comments I continue to grow. If something is uncomfortable, there is a reason. 🤣
@@gillievano1612 I am glad you are taking the time to learn...people like you makethis country a better place
I was having this convo with my Mom and sister and I've had it with my Dad and I can't fathom how they are still sane. They were born then. I'm a born free. And I don't think I'd be able to have been alive in apartheid and then mingle with the people who allowed it to continue for 48 years (officially). We all know it was longer than that like 400 years but how could those yt people just allow this for 50 years???? I don't feel that way because I grew up in a very diverse environment with everybody so I trust everybody equally in my generation. I do look at older people with suspicion sometimes though. But also in Durban we had British people who I'm told were much kinder than the Afrikaaners. Most of my teachers were British yt and I never felt weird with them at any point whatsoever. But I've heard horror stories from JHB and CPT.
I'm 25 Years old and have Family in Sharpeville that have been there for at least 3 Generations. My great grandfather on my mother's side was killed in the protest against Pass laws mentioned in the video. The protest was organized by a party called the PAC ( Pan Africanist Congress). So yeah Apartheid impact is still very much felt even in present South Africa.
Jim Crow laws ended after our parents were born, but I can say times have definitely changed. It's not felt as much, but that can give you hope.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT It's Bone chilling how similar our histories are and this is why I feel an affinity to Black Americans as a South African. No other black people around the world could understand the atrocities our ancestors went through.
@@katleholehlokoane9663 It appears that the colonialists employed similar strategies across Africa, including in Kenya, where numerous Kenyans experienced torture during the colonial era. The Mau Mau uprising is a well-documented example. My grandfather's two siblings were conscripted into the British army during WWII and never came back.
🇮🇳Indians in Africa were also put into apartheid. So sorry for my Indian brothers that had to go through that kind of torture. Big up to all those who raised their voices. Revolution shall not be forgotten❤️
They should've gone back to India then. Because in South Africa they were the only ones who were allowed to trade, open businesses ect. They are not indigenous to any place in Africa. They didn't leave, because they had it better than any other race that was not white here.
I had the honour of being a soldier of uMkhonto we Sizwe (Intelligence). That was the armed wing of the African National Congress. My commander was Comrade Ronnie Kasrils. You can look him up. I was trained in Angola.
The girls name is Sandra Laing. She has been in a few documentaries recent years as a middle aged woman.
Yes we learnt about her in education studies at varsity
The impact of those harsh laws is still felt today.
South Africans can understand AA to a certain degree because of our similar history.
We have come far from those times however we still have a long way to go.
We managed that without going into a civil war.
I'm proud of that.
Alot of blood was spilled on this land. We didn't need more.
Greetings from Cape town. Enjoy your videos. Love that you focus on Africa. In 1994 I was able to vote. Would love to video chat with you sometime
We host a live stream every Saturday at 12AM CST. I believe it will be around 8AM where you are.
That movie is called Skin, it's a South African movie
The movie is probably "Skin" and based on the true story of Sandra Laing: Born under apartheid to white parents, but due to atavism, she had brown skin and coily hair and looked like someone South Africans would call "Coloured". The Bureau of Race Classification (I think it was called) officially reclassified as Coloured after being expelled from a white school for not looking white. Even though, her parents took the government to court to have her classified back to white and won, she was of course never accepted as white by her parents' community and eventually fled to Eswatini (then Swaziland) where she married her husband and, I believe, had herself reclassified as Black when coming back to South Africa. She lived and raised her children in the Black community and lived without contact with her parents for most of the rest of her life.
Wow, I don't think I knew the ending part.💔
I remember that lady, shame man. She really does look like a coloured person. Some coloured people have hair like their Indian or white so it was strange to see her hair is curly. I cannot imagine the trauma she went through
Everyone born after 1994 are called born frees because they were truly free born out off bondage. There is a documentary I suggest ya'll watch it's about born frees from each race since they are around 5 years old till now their lives being documented so viewers can see how much change equality has brought to our lives.
Oooh, this is interesting!
My proudest moment, is as a white 25yo standing with my "nanny" to vote in 1994. Her granddaughter has just completed her honours in education. How awesome is that!The uncomplicated bits are that apartheid and white supremacy are abhorrent. The complicated bits are now the relationships and results of this fairly short period of history in the world. A song from my youth that still invokes huge emotions is "Weeping" by Bright Blue. My greatest fear is that history repeats itself the other way. I am blessed to work for a progressive company and have had several black managers. I am sometimes the only white on the team and with only a bachelors degree, I am always the least educated 🤣. Watched a 2 part series recently called something like "The Mandela Miracle ". It's an account of the 12 months leading up to the 94 elections. One forgets how troubled those times were.
You touch on a great point. My production partner calls it The Whitemare. The fear that we will get revenge on yall. But that's not true. However, the fear has led to white people isolating themselves and because of that isolation, it may become a self fulfilling prophecy. If white people in SA really really wanted change, they would learn an African language. How can they expect us to trust them when they don't even want to learn how to say our names. Names are a very HUGE thing in African culture because it's your Destiny. So when a white person "struggles" with an African name, it's like stabbing us with a dagger in the heart. And that signals that you all don't care and so the prophecy fulfils itself. But if you just learned 1 African language and spoke it fluently, the same way we were forced to learn English and Afrikaans, then I know for a fact that the tensions would ease up. It's thing of respect. There are white people who speak fluent isiZulu and I've seen the huge difference it makes. Huge. But when some people have dual citizenship and they run off to Australia at the slightest whim, it makes some South Africans feel used and exploited all over again.
No, Apartheid and slavery is not equivalent or the same. We had slavery in South Africa too and that was another level of oppression and exploitation that was very different from apartheid.
In explaining what apartheid was, it is more similar to the slavery-based laws of Jim Crow.
Apartheid was an evolution of centuries old "unfree labour" in SA.
Its function wasn't simply segregation, but a massive continuation of unfree labour that started with chattel slavery from 1652 then evolved with a continuation of unfree labour in all but name, (with the requirement to "officially" end slavery in the British Empire in the 19th century.)
(Most labour in the 19th century in the colony was unfree, yet it was named everything under the sun but slavery, which included everything from the Inboekstelsel system in the 19th century Boer republics to culminating in Apartheid in the 20th century. Effectively industrial feudalism.)
The movie is called Skin...South African movie
During the time of slavery in The US there was slavery in SA too. They took people from Asia and some parts of Africa.
Yes it's a true story from South Africa her name was Sandra Lang and she actually lived in my hood, funny thing is we didn't know her story until they made a movie about her
Next reaction, Kindly please react on June 16, Hector Peterson and schools in Soweto Marching against Afrikaans lessons🇿🇦🇿🇦
We did. It'll be uploaded later.
Please react to thus 1 because I was also amongst June 16 protesters i nearly lost my toes and my nephew was shot 11times my family found his body after 2 weeks because after shooting they took all the bodies and dumped them in a government mortuary piling them on top of each other you had to move other bodies to find the one you looking for i was still young but its on my mind every day 😢 his name is also at the Hector Peterson square that pain never goes away ,forgive but its impossible to forget
💔 So sorry.
The name of the movie you are talking about is Skin and it is a South African movie❤ actually wrote about it last semester❤❤❤
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The name of the movie is SKIN starring Sophie Okonedo.
I always download your reactions and will like to say thanks for all the Love ❤️ 😍
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The name of that movie is "Skin" its based off the true story of Sandra Laing❤️
I remember my older sisters marching in London against Apartheid. We also would not buy SA fruits and veg as a family. I'm glad things have changed for the better, even though there is still a way to go.
Many countries have had (and are still having) racist or tribalist parts of history. Even Australia had a white only immigration policy in the beginning of European settlement/emigration there.
Hey guys, this has been a great reaction.
I'd like to suggest that you also check the story of Mama Winnie Mandela who was Nelson Mandela's wife from the times of apartheid.
Thank you.
The name of the movie is SKIN, about Sandra laing. A South African woman born to white parents who was classified as coloured.
The movie's name is Skin. It is a South African movie based on a true story. It is the story of Sandra Laing.
Thank you guys for reacting to my suggestion I'm very thankful i love you so much ❣️
You're most welcome!
Is it odd that I wanna host this couple in Uganda???😂😂😂😂, I love them. It’s so refreshing honestly. They don’t pretend to know, but it’s also amazing how black Americans from the south ain’t different from Africans at all.
I like how you also reflect on what happened in the US, love it
I can still remember when we as a people and country got our freedom you got me crying damn
8:07 it’s South Africa, that movie is based on a true story, I believe.
South Africa and New Zealand have a passion for rugby, the 1981 Springbok Tour is when sport and politics collided. You may want to reaction video to the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour, it was a period in which brother was against brother, father against son, neighbour against neighbour as New Zealand protested against apartheid in South Africa. During this tour it created mass civil unrest as people protested against apartheid in South Africa and for the freedoms of black South Africans. With New Zealand hosting the tour a number of African countries even boycotted the following Olympic Games. Many South Africans were shocked to see running street battles in another country all for the sake of equality and freedom of people in their land. Today the dust has settled and calm returned but there is a generation of kiwi's who still remember the bloodshed in a country known for it's passion for sport and a peaceful people, "Kia-Kaha".
I didn't know this. Thank you New Zealand. Will check it out
@@pmambongwe8640 Cheers, may you find peace and happiness in all you do in 2023.
@@desmondtiedemann7714 Thank you, esp for my country and right back at you.
The movie you were talking about is titled "Skin" is a South African movie
Hi family the movie is called skin, the girl is Sandra Laing
The movie you're referring to is called "Filla se kind" which is Afrikaans for "Filla's child".
At Sharpevill, the protesters were not unarmd, and the police were defending themselves.
Can you guys react to SARAFINA. It is an emotionally and politically impassioned story that registers the anti-apartheid movement's anger and hope in an infectious musical context and refutes revenge, violence and murder as a solution.
You should watch the movie "Winnie" which was was led by Jennifer Hudson
Its about Nelson Mandelas first wife and her struggle during apartheid
Truly a masterpiece
Name of the movie is "Skin"
Thanks!
The movie you’re referring to is called Skin. And yes, it is a true South African story
ON OUR OWN LAND. They told us we do not belong, ON OUR OWN LAND
the women u talking about is Sandra Laing , i watched that documentary few years back (she looked Coloured but had white parents)
Apartheid caused deep emotional pain. I was 4 years old (60+) now, when we were removed out of a suburb because the whites felt they could use it better. That was called the group areas act.
The movie's name is SKIN. It is indeed a South African movie.
The movie is skin, its a south African movie.
The movie is Sandra. It is a true story.
South Africa was until 1948 SA was a colony state of Britain known as the Union of South Africa. The British started the system. The original indigenous KhoiSan were reclassified as"COLOURED" in 1950 by the Apartheid Government as a means to disempower them .
@Ronald Wiley - that is not correct South Africa was never a British colony, before 1910 the country South Africa as we know it didn’t exist. There was South African Republic also known as the Transvaal Republic (later province), an independent Boer Republic which ceased to exist in 1902 after the British defeated Afrikaneers in 2nd Boer war and it briefly became Transvaal colony. In 1910 the amalgamation of the two British colonies of Cape & Natal and the 2 former Dutch/Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State annexed after the 2nd Boer War created Union of South Africa, at that point the Individual British colonies stopped being a British colony but the new country became an independent country within the British Empire like Canada, Australia, Newzealand. It was only in 1961 South Africa became a republic.
From 1948-1994, South African politics was dominated by Afrikaner/Dutch Nationalism which instituted racial segregation and white minority rule known officially as apartheid, an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", this was implemented in 1948 by the Afrikaner government that came into power that year. If you look In all British colonies in Southern Africa, East Africa even in Asia there was some form of segregation on racial lines (schooling, housing, land acquisition etc) but nothing as extensive and codified like Afrikaner’s apartheid.
I am descendent of Bakgotho le Basarwa (white people decided to call them KhoiSan) My people are black Africans and proud. They lived with Bunthu people. Those who were classified as Colours are cowards.
@@khaltsharivist365 South Africa was a colony of Britain until 1948. My grandmother told me about the day South Africa got it independence of Britain when she was a 17yrs. The were free busses that took them to Union Building to celebrate SA's independence
@@veemotaung1060 so you say that those who were classified in America as Negroes were cowards as well. Targeting the victims of racism, rather than the racists would explain your own cowardness. Coloureds were at the frontline of the fight against Apartheid, where were the Bakgotho le Basarwa.
@@khaltsharivist365 after the AngloBoer War , the British annexed the two Boer states and with the Cape Colony to form the Union of South Africa under British rule until 1948 when they handed control over to the National Party, who then took it further and gave it the name Apartheid.
The Apartheid as a political system ended in 1990. What about the economic Apartheid in South Africa? I heard, social inequality in South Africa still at the same level as it was during the dark age of Apartheid
I remember that movie I watched it on Netflix here in SA
The movie is Skin (2008)
The movie is called SKIN and it's based on a true story.
8:07 movie is South African. I dont know the name though
The movie is called Skin.
After 27 years he says am Humbel no they break him.
This made me cry. I would love to join you for a call to tell you what is really happening
The South African Movie you are referring to is “Skin”. Based on the story of Sandra Laing.
The name of the movie is "skin" and it was based in South Africa
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You both look so good. Sleeping more? No no no. Apartheid is like the guest who won't leave, you file eviction, the courts abolished, you case is stuck an the guest is fighting you in your own home. Oh all the police adpre cool with the rude guest so the rude, unwanted guest brings more of his friends and tells you "let's live together...in you own home. In transatlantic slave trade people were gone. Families were waiting in vain for return of loved ones. Even when inter-tribal slavery happened, it was different. The families state toge together,still had their dignity, still married, still payed their way out to freedom.
We don't know what sleep is😅.
Whites have the land, all the wealth and resources. The inequality in this country is frightening and discouraging but thank you Mandela, you saved us😒
in 1994 , he and the ANC changed their tune from ,[the land shall be returned to it,s rightful owners ], to [ the land belongs to allwho live in South Africa] , including the white man who stole it in the first place.
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Till today some members in our families are still defensive and full of hatred because of apartheid, over protective and don't want to accept change🥺it really hurts cause if you Date💞 a white person, some community members will have negative opinions and reactions to your relationship☹😦this really brainwashed them.
This is sad, but they went through so much. It's hard for a person to believe times have changed if they still suffer from trauma of the past.
The movie is called Skin
The name of the movie is Skin
There 21 March 1960 Sharpville demonstration was conducted by the PAC (Pan Africanise Congress) headed by the honourable Mr Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. The PAC was formed when they realised that ANC was dealing with inclusion in the European system , and that's when they realised that ANC was infiltrated and weak.
Read about Robert Sobukwe.
The government even passed a special law in parliament called the Robert Sobukwe clause . This is the greatest man whose story is being hidden and or not told because of the wisdom and power he had . PAC always put land first . It was then weakened because it was too good and had the wisdom to give us proper liberation . We could have gotten real freedom around 1960-63 but hey CIA, MI6 , Mossat and then were really at work and weakened the PAC. (story of another day)
The June 1976 students demonstration was headed by PAC and Azapo (Azanian Peoples Organization) which was later also weakened by the agents above. Most of the people like Mbuyiseni (the guy carrying Hector Peterson) and Tsuetsi Mashinini the young man who was heading the Soweto June 1976 demonstration died mysteriously in other countries like Nigeria , it's very clear who did this and their stories need to be told too
Did you know, the apartheid government was afraid of the late Nelson Mandela's late ex wife Winnie Madikizela Mandela?
My mom looks white(even though she's black)
The pencil test is something she still speaks about today
it was a legal weapon used to intimidate and break up families during Apartheid.
You are on point, black people have done their level best in various geographical areas in fighting injustices , and it's really hard to fight against a system that is even legislated to perpetuate the injustice, so you're correct . We cry for for all global injustice and atrocities done to oppress and even kill people because of their birth
i think the movie is "the skin" n yes again its a SAn movie, i like your couriosity atleast you know alot abt the world outside America
Hi Talking about the white girl misidentified as Black it was a documentary in South Africa. google it see this document : *The White South African Woman Misidentified As Black (2000)* and part 2 of it : *The White South African Woman Misidentified As Black | Our Life*
This is such an understatement compared to the whole truth.
The movie was based on a real story which took place in SA and yes the woman is still alive.
yeah you are right.
Apartheid was more like slavery than segregation.
I was watching emancipation by will smith.
cotton fields, rail way projects etc built from slavery. at one point slavery ran the US economy till it wasn't economical and Jim crow was introduced.
in South Africa the mines were our cotton field's, the Gold rush the diamond rush etc.
those mines displaced a lot of families . Apartheid was both slavery and segregation. segregation even went by skin colour even skin tone and hair texture right through tribal lines.
if I was light skinned and my parents are dark . I could be separated from the assumption that I'm colour aka Mixed.
Apartheid only ended because it was just not economically viable. not because the white ppl deemed it a violation to humans.
often than not we don't really realise the trauma our parents carry with them.
then someone just comes and says forgive and forget it's all in the past 😠😠
Brother, this one made us tear up. When we think of slavery, we know it was a while ago. Apartheid was not that long ago at all. That is terrifying.
Lol it's a south African movie...I forgot a name too
There is no Afrikaner who is pure white, That is one of the ridiculous things about apartheid.
In still alive and I'm happy that someone understands the effects of apartheid
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Yes, she's still living
To even think both my parents were both born in the 1960s and lived through that
Search, Namibia tool 10 luxurious estates or cities than you see as different part u Neva saw or knew about
In south Africa we had colonization then apartheid.
It's like slavery in America then segregation.
Colonization=slavery
Apartheid- segregation
9:24 A passbook, not a passport.
Yep, we the victims of apartheid, the ones that lived through and got the upbringing and the inferior education designed to keep us subdued…we are still very much alive! I went to University in the first year of Mandela’s presidency! We are told to get over it and move on, with the kind of education we have how can we really move on! Also, when a black child like myself get some success we firstly have to take care of our parents and try to improve their lives as well as take care of our siblings! That’s what we call Black Tax!!! In that period, a white kid with a similar qualification, your colleague basically, only has himself/herself to think about! So we’re still lagging behind! We’re not seeking handouts but remember we are where we are because we were barred, prevented, arrested or killed for even trying to do stuff for ourselves!!! We could own land, which land we could use not only to grow food for ourselves but which we could also have used as collateral at the banks in order to get funding for businesses, be it farming or any sector of the economy! Even if that meant trading amongst ourselves! We were forcefully removed from every piece of land we owned that seemed to be productive or we here we appeared to make some strides!!! We were only allowed to be herdboys and maids! Now we’re told, that’s long ago, just move on!!! Our current leaders, all of whom got inferior education thanks to apartheid are not given the opportunity and level playing field to turn things around and in fact they get blocked and frustrated because western countries still meddle in the changes we want to effect! The excuse is, black man can’t rule himself! With his hands tied????
Apartheid has now been over for 30yrs. Please let's leave it behind.
How can you lives in someone's land and treating them this way? That's wickedness , greediness and evil 😈 thing to do. May God forgives you all.
Hi new subcriber i think i watch that movie too the name is SKIN its a good educational movie
That's true but also incomplete in some ways. Most notably the way that it's shown there makes it seem like the resistance was all non-violent which is not the case. There was absolutely armed resistance and destruction of infrastructure in addition to protests. Nelson Mandela co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the ANC. While I believe there some attempts to limit the violence, e.g. by only targeting government infrastructure and only at night, others deliberately targeted civilians. For example, Andrew Zondo, a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the ANC, planted a bomb at a shopping centre, killing 2 adults, 3 children and injuring 161 but a school and road were still named after him. Many ANC military operatives were trained by the Soviet Union and those ties help explain why the South African government has consistently refused to condemn Russia's invasion in Ukraine.
It's absolutely worth learning about apartheid but many of those short videos leave out a lot of relevant information and can be misleading. They also tend to end on positive notes while in reality, the government failed to follow through with the ideals of non-racialism and to reduce inequality in the country.
I doubt it's possible to see on RUclips but the plays by David Kramer and Taliep Peterson, notably District Six, are always a good watch and show some of what it was like living then.
Hard but important to watch, racism makes me feel sick to my stomach. But if you don't learn history worts and all, some people may be bound to repeat the same mistakes. Take the recent Abortion issues in America. When it was illegal in the past many desperate women suffered at the hands of dangerous quacks. It didn't stop abortion, instead it just led to a lot of suffering. With women being terrified about going to hospital for fear of being arrested. You don't have to personally agree with something, just don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
If you not from here and you weren't born in that Era brother you won't understand how horrible it was
Wonder what you guys think of Snap…the new Eric Benét series on race
We'd have to check it out to give an answer.
I think you can react to sarafina .apartheid short film and songs. They explain everything in short
Let's not forget that apartheid is a thoroughly research system and was designed by a psychologist 😓
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!! but idk if it's a movie, but I remember learning about that family in history
can you react to the Algerian war of indepedance
Send to form.😊
The movie you're ure talking about is SKIN
3:01 Just seeing lifeless corpses is terrible in any country just lying around like that. Apartheid was terrible
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Yes I'm aware of that story where this lady was born by white parents and was not as white as they come . It's a true story that tormented that lady and somehow that family for a very long time .
So apartheid was a tiered system putting blacks at the bottom and basically treating them as subhumans .The pencil test was most commonly also used to decide who is coloured and who is black because most South Africans are light skin and would easily pass as coloured . So to keep blacks out of that coloured class they’d subject them to the test . Blacks who tried to pass as coloured did so because being coloured gave people better jobs , better salaries and better homes and better schools than blacks . In terms of education the government used the same tiered system to fund education . So they spent as little as possible for black schools than other groups and these percentages were legislated . Basically making sure that blacks have very little chance of becoming educated and escaping poverty . Also served to keep blacks uneducated so that they cannot communicate with the outside world and garner support for their freedom. The first black South African female graduate obtained her Science degree from a historically black university in the US . Her name was Charlotte Maxeke . At the time the only way for black South Africans to get university education was through historically black universities in the US.
Apartheid did not only affect people in South Africa,it also had a devastating effect on neighbouring Mozambique,as the Apartheid regime sponsored a 2 decades long Civil War that resulted in Mozambique becoming the poorest nation on earth by 1992. Only after the collapse of Apartheid regime did Mozambique start to rebuild itself from scratch to become one of fastest developing countries in the world. But their decline into extreme poverty was fuelled by the Apartheid regime. There is a lot more things I can say about this,but it will take ages,so better stop it at this stage.
People who were born in the 80s, experienced Apartheid one way or the other. You don't have to look at far generations. Most of us were forcefully given so called Christian names. I have one and I hate it. Non of my children have such names today.