I wasn't born yet during this time so i find it hard to believe that Harare used to be this clean and beautiful. there wasn't any violence between the kombi and the police . it was quite peaceful back then. vendors were at there designated places. it really was something special
In my 30s now. I remember so much about then. Feels just like yesterday. It's still hard to believe as I walk through Bulawayo today. Although it's certainly way cleaner than Harare
@@TatendaMavengano😂😂😂 you just discovered the founder of this fast growing nation in our community spreading from city to townships now even in villages they are growing in numbers
It’s extremely sad and emotional, but what saddens me even more is that it seems like Africa needs the White man in order to be in order. May God really help us uproot the problem to the core- poor leadership. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@cynthiahoyi3925 Yes yes, very well said. poor leadership and it's resultant side effects of looting, rampant corruption, intimidation, and disregard for rule of law and private property rights, has led Zimbabwe to were it is now, not sanctions as some would suggest 🙄
@@cynthiahoyi3925 No you don't need a white man to have a prosperous country. Look at Rwanda how it is today. You just need to get rid of corrupt leaders. Stop the inferiority complex because that is part of the problem.
@@cynthiahoyi3925 You just need people's that are after country's prosperity and development. improvement. There's no such thing as white or black because ultimately we all have got the same blood colour. We just have to work in unity
I am South African married to a Zimbabwean. Zimbabweans are lovely people. I have been there every April, August and December Holiday for the past 10 years. I'm blessed.
I am not a Zimbo but I loved visiting your beautiful city in the 1980s & this video reminds me a little bit of those great hey days when the streets of Harare were littered by different skin colour with very nice clean streets & buildings everywhere including the high density areas like Highfield. Your city is of course, still a nice beautiful city, but not like the way it used to look. Thanks.
Are you aware that before 1980 Zimbabwean blacks were not allowed in city centre, buy houses in low density suburbs, not allowed in schools meant for whites?
@@W8rrfsdY73 Dont say so like you it isn't important. I understand that what the other commenter said doesn't have much value regarding the comment above, but just calm
Not when tribalism and corruption walk the streets. As long as many members of the Shona tribe think they own everything, Zim will continue rotting. Next liberation war will be fought to take the country that has been sold to the chineese...And oh; to settle the gukurahundi score.
@@isaymymind1727 I am only talking about how fast that job can be done, not when will it be done subtract all the negatives and be very objective, how long can the job be done.
Yes, it really has sunk in, thank you. The same black government is the one leading the country now….let that sink in. No wonder why the country has gone to the pot with narrow minded people like you……let the sink in
Oooh my beautiful Zimbabwe will we ever go back to those days, uuuuh i could not hold back my tears what happened to us.Zvinopanobudika here mwari will we ever have our Sunshine city back.
I went with my wife from Nairobi to Malindi, to Mombasa on to Dar es Salaam across to Zanzibar back to Nairobi then on to Kampala, drove down through Tanzania to Malawi. In a security convoy across the Mozambique road to Zimbabwe and down to Cape Town 4 months it took 9 punchured tyres. Beautiful countries, very decent people. My lasting memory is never look for wild animals you'll meet them when you least expect to in Africa.
I was a visiting Harare in 1993, and yes, it was exactly as depicted in this brief video. It was clean, orderly and also everyone had a purpose and pride in their city. I returned for another visit in 2015 some 22 years later , and shack horror, everything had changed for the worse. It made me very sad to see a once very beautiful city, become so rundown and neglected.
@@prod.bexerk8997 man it's not even like we're living in old days where we didn't had access to internet. Things are started looking to change because of the internet technology broke out.
Very emotional video . Take a look , clean and clearly marked roads , functioning robots , beautiful people, everyone from all walks of life doing about their own business, peaceful environment . Sad a certain group of people destroyed a beautiful country. ZANU PF make me cringe ahhhhhhhhhh!!. Very tear jerking
When 1$ to 20$ Zim dollar was so powerful. Even coin ka Tsuro 5c (for those under 20s) could still buy something, if you had 5$ 10$ 20$ uriMambo, pakabuda $50 ne €100 re Green paya it all went to sh#%t. Don't think in this life time Zim will ever be that prosperous, have pride, efficient and that beautiful ever again. Jobless and hopeless, tired youths, corruption list goes on. 😴 good bye Sunshine City! The days 1st Street was so vibrant, posh and multicultural.
@Thems even more frustrating, is Zimbabweans and see us south Africans as if we are dumb by not taking the land by force. Forgetting that taking the land is not as easy as doing it tomorrow
Zimbabwe was a melting pot of different ethnicities, it was a great country of high standards. But year 2000 changed it all. Thank you Zanu pf for destroying the country. You did an amazing job. The roads look nothing like this now. The whole country look nothing like this and most people are leaving or trying to leave.
If we don’t end the apathy as citizens of this country it will be interesting to see what Harare will look like after another 10 years. I shudder at the thought. We all have a part to play, be it driving properly, not being corrupt, not littering and vandalizing property; and realizing that we have only borrowed the land from our great grand children and owe it to them to take care of it and make improvements.
The country is unrecognisable now. What country fully function on the mercy of charitable organisations and borrowing!!!! All due to the so called ridiculous leaders
@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 AMaswina abulele ilizwe. It was noce then because there was plenty to steal for the MaSwina and more Ndebele blood to drink.
This was the time Maurice Nyagumbo killed himself for a Toyota Cressida 🤣🤣🤣🤣. If he can see modern cars being driven by the illegitimate clueless regime full of real thieves, he will never stop crying 😢
Building something to this standards takes time, destroying it just take a short while.... 2021 we are in ruins. I miss our hey days, kana horodhi yasvika tichimirra anababa vachibva Harare kuuya kumusha
Got really emotional, left the country many years ago when everything was in order and just before this clip I was watching a young trucker driving to Zambia approaching Chirundu and if you look at the conditions of the so called highway road it's pathetic and very dangerous. No wonder why so many innocent people are victims of these road accidents. It's sad to see such a beautiful country going to rubbles just like that.
For things to change you have to change for things to get better you have to get better for things to improve you have to improve and for your country to be developed you have to develop and not leaving the country..
Victor- Please don’t be delusional, it’s not good for you. The so called government ZANU-PF were leaders then and now. They have ruined the country clearly, you don’t really want to know which year (because you know it already). Sad Sad situation, particularly when there’s people like you who fail to open their eyes. The country now relies on borrowing, charity and its people who are in the diaspora. Obviously it all went Downhill After This
@@victortakunda5443 you do realise Zanu pf inherited a good Economy, good infrastructure, good health system build by Ian Smith and that is public knowledge. So don't try make lies when people can easily follow the history of Zimababwe.
It was clean and a 24 hour economy, everyone seemed to have something to do and was a zero tolerance corruption country very peaceful and lowest accommodation rates if not the whole continent then the southern Africa.
The person who took this video has a special place in our hearts & history of the country 📹👌👌
Exactly 💯
I wasn't born yet during this time so i find it hard to believe that Harare used to be this clean and beautiful.
there wasn't any violence between the kombi and the police .
it was quite peaceful back then.
vendors were at there designated places.
it really was something special
In my 30s now. I remember so much about then. Feels just like yesterday.
It's still hard to believe as I walk through Bulawayo today. Although it's certainly way cleaner than Harare
Back in the day when Bathing was mandatory for anyone to get into town.
Going to town was an event of its own...you had to be on point
@@theotad933 So so true!!!💯💯💯You always wanted to look the very best getting into town it was like an event of a lifetime 😁
Not for the guy at 3:22 lol
@@TatendaMavengano lol
@@TatendaMavengano😂😂😂 you just discovered the founder of this fast growing nation in our community spreading from city to townships now even in villages they are growing in numbers
Who else gets emotional when they see a Zimbabwe that once had order💔 Mwari dai vatinzwa😭🙏🏾
It’s extremely sad and emotional, but what saddens me even more is that it seems like Africa needs the White man in order to be in order. May God really help us uproot the problem to the core- poor leadership. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@@cynthiahoyi3925 Yes yes, very well said. poor leadership and it's resultant side effects of looting, rampant corruption, intimidation, and disregard for rule of law and private property rights, has led Zimbabwe to were it is now, not sanctions as some would suggest 🙄
@@cynthiahoyi3925 No you don't need a white man to have a prosperous country. Look at Rwanda how it is today. You just need to get rid of corrupt leaders. Stop the inferiority complex because that is part of the problem.
@@cynthiahoyi3925 You just need people's that are after country's prosperity and development. improvement. There's no such thing as white or black because ultimately we all have got the same blood colour. We just have to work in unity
@@vaibhavnagare8549
Nice sentiment
Just look at the street order and how everyone was smartly dressed🥰
Those days kuenda kuHarare kwairema ......
And then MDC came and took over urban centres..
I am South African married to a Zimbabwean. Zimbabweans are lovely people. I have been there every April, August and December Holiday for the past 10 years. I'm blessed.
Why do u stay there
@Tee Cee thank you Sbali! I married a beautiful lady from South Africa too. She feels the same way you feel about us. God bless you.
Can I ask you,is it still peaceful,beautiful and alternative like on the video?😍
Now thats nonsense
@@zwelakhezwane4128 Aw mangethe kunjani bafo
There is something about the 90’s fashion🔥🔥🔥
Oh wow! The Sunshine City at its best, it breaks my heart how things have changed.
Exactly!!!
When you see black and white people walking on the streets together thuts true life
My dad worked back then in Zimbabwe where we all grew up, it’s chilling and shocking how Harare is now heart break
Wow, nice 👌 Harare looks like Pretoria, with the Jacaranda trees.
I am not a Zimbo but I loved visiting your beautiful city in the 1980s & this video reminds me a little bit of those great hey days when the streets of Harare were littered by different skin colour with very nice clean streets & buildings everywhere including the high density areas like Highfield. Your city is of course, still a nice beautiful city, but not like the way it used to look. Thanks.
Are you aware that before 1980 Zimbabwean blacks were not allowed in city centre, buy houses in low density suburbs, not allowed in schools meant for whites?
@@t.m1222 So? Look at it now.
@@W8rrfsdY73 Dont say so like you it isn't important. I understand that what the other commenter said doesn't have much value regarding the comment above, but just calm
Important - it was - in 1980. But 1980 is not 2000.
@@W8rrfsdY73
What do you mean by, _"so look at it now"
We need zimbabwe to look like this again ,it was beautiful ,it still is .
Its only bricks, motor, grass, and trees involved, so that can be achieved in two or three months. Very possible.
@@billtev9846 you dream a lot of kak
Not when tribalism and corruption walk the streets. As long as many members of the Shona tribe think they own everything, Zim will continue rotting. Next liberation war will be fought to take the country that has been sold to the chineese...And oh; to settle the gukurahundi score.
@@isaymymind1727 I am only talking about how fast that job can be done, not when will it be done subtract all the negatives and be very objective, how long can the job be done.
@@billtev9846 Are you ignoring that the rate at which this job is done depends on who owns and releases the funds?
It was clean waaal, the order, no bad driving, everyone in the video dressed nicely 👌
Good old days,Harare was was so beautiful and clean.those type of cars some of them are still on the road.that was the Sunshine City we used to know.
No one was obese
Look how clean and tidy the place used to be.
And this is during a black government....let that sink in.
Yes, it really has sunk in, thank you. The same black government is the one leading the country now….let that sink in. No wonder why the country has gone to the pot with narrow minded people like you……let the sink in
@@livingfaith9189 Yes ofcourse the same black government that destroyed all this in less than 20 years
@@livingfaith9189 ahaha stupid comment go there now
@@pm9572 you should have just asked what did the race thing had to do with it
Cinematographer skills on point too 😀
Oooh my beautiful Zimbabwe will we ever go back to those days, uuuuh i could not hold back my tears what happened to us.Zvinopanobudika here mwari will we ever have our Sunshine city back.
I hope we'll rewind back to where we were, but I doubt it
Drove through Harare in1994 from Aliwal North SA to Kampala,Uganda. Memorable journey.
I went with my wife from Nairobi to Malindi, to Mombasa on to Dar es Salaam across to Zanzibar back to Nairobi then on to Kampala, drove down through Tanzania to Malawi. In a security convoy across the Mozambique road to Zimbabwe and down to Cape Town 4 months it took 9 punchured tyres. Beautiful countries, very decent people. My lasting memory is never look for wild animals you'll meet them when you least expect to in Africa.
I was a visiting Harare in 1993, and yes, it was exactly as depicted in this brief video. It was clean, orderly and also everyone had a purpose and pride in their city. I returned for another visit in 2015 some 22 years later , and shack horror, everything had changed for the worse. It made me very sad to see a once very beautiful city, become so rundown and neglected.
The sad thing is that it's way worse than it was in 2015 😭, 😭 God save us
@@prod.bexerk8997 True
Well that can be changed again and we'll get to see even better Zimbabwe in year 2043 if we get the right people in the government 😃
@@vaibhavnagare8549 i doubt the zanu scumbags will ever leave
@@prod.bexerk8997 man it's not even like we're living in old days where we didn't had access to internet. Things are started looking to change because of the internet technology broke out.
Everyone looked smart and clean. Even the Jacaranda trees were blooming flowers.
No vendors in the street, people well dressed…
varungu vaitoonekwao muma streets eHarare vachifamba,kwainge kuine togetherness & one love ooh my God
Harare used to be beautiful, hope some day it will regain its glory!!!!!
can we have more and longer of harare during its hey days?
this is sad ....i could just cry now
Wow those were the days please post more of these
Take me back to the good old days beautiful town clean and smart diverse group of people wow
I know i was only a year old but this feels very Nostalgic 🤗
It was very clean, there was order, well dressed working people. The city was a dream of everyone....cry my beloved country, all this is gone
Yeah people were employed and no loitering its sad what we become now
Thank you for a trip back in time!
Well marked roads. Orderly. We used to enjoy our country. Well dressed people.
More importantly healthy looking individuals
Very emotional video . Take a look , clean and clearly marked roads , functioning robots , beautiful people, everyone from all walks of life doing about their own business, peaceful environment . Sad a certain group of people destroyed a beautiful country. ZANU PF make me cringe ahhhhhhhhhh!!. Very tear jerking
Proudly being Zimbo💜
I feel like crying, it is hardly recognisable now. One day it will be like that again hopefully 😉
What went wrong?
@@man-solo7516 obviously, the series of bad decisions taken by Mugabe, destroyed everything
When 1$ to 20$ Zim dollar was so powerful. Even coin ka Tsuro 5c (for those under 20s) could still buy something, if you had 5$ 10$ 20$ uriMambo, pakabuda $50 ne €100 re Green paya it all went to sh#%t. Don't think in this life time Zim will ever be that prosperous, have pride, efficient and that beautiful ever again. Jobless and hopeless, tired youths, corruption list goes on. 😴 good bye Sunshine City! The days 1st Street was so vibrant, posh and multicultural.
@Thems even more frustrating, is Zimbabweans and see us south Africans as if we are dumb by not taking the land by force. Forgetting that taking the land is not as easy as doing it tomorrow
That is the Harare we would love to have again...
Zimbabwe was a melting pot of different ethnicities, it was a great country of high standards. But year 2000 changed it all. Thank you Zanu pf for destroying the country. You did an amazing job. The roads look nothing like this now. The whole country look nothing like this and most people are leaving or trying to leave.
Even the trees🌲were happy during this time
The year 1994 brings so much memories. Spirit of jealous.
man this country used to be amazingly beautiful
Wow Zimbabwe was great country
The year I was born! ❤ Harare was so smart
Wow when Harare had roads without potholes
If we don’t end the apathy as citizens of this country it will be interesting to see what Harare will look like after another 10 years. I shudder at the thought. We all have a part to play, be it driving properly, not being corrupt, not littering and vandalizing property; and realizing that we have only borrowed the land from our great grand children and owe it to them to take care of it and make improvements.
I'm down for that.
Witnessed this ,yaive mhosva kupinda mu town nemota yakasviba good old days , tichitorwa hedu ma pics pa Africa Unity Square
Everyone dressed like they’re going to a job interview 😂😂
Those days would prepare a journey to go to town taisapinda tonaz usina kugeza kwe te now would see umwe ane mabori mutown
Beautifully
Seeing the datsun 120y, sunny box hb12. ,e 30 bmw and mazda 323 gives me the best memories and makes me feel alright
Damn it’s more beautiful than it is now 😩💔
Cant stop thinking what really happened to our beautiful country
Simple; greedy happened
ZANU Pf happened
@@christ.addict6733 Its so painful
Zanu pf criminals happened
Zanu pf happened and they busy blaming mdc
That is the time when zimbabwe's economy was still stable
Madireyi kutifungisa makare kudaro? Lovely city those days wearing my Doc Martins
Peaceful days of no facebook & instagram……
Woow it was beautiful and so clean
This is beautiful
This is the Harare I know very beautiful....
This somehow hurts 💔
Wow I wish I was there during the time the country looks good roads are clean and marked the country feels great
Awesome - tatenda for sharing these memories. Be nice to see Bullies too 😁
It was still nice then
Why're you not nice now?
The country is unrecognisable now. What country fully function on the mercy of charitable organisations and borrowing!!!! All due to the so called ridiculous leaders
@@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298 AMaswina abulele ilizwe. It was noce then because there was plenty to steal for the MaSwina and more Ndebele blood to drink.
@@isaymymind1727 he edited his comment. Original comment was "I was still nice then" 😂😂. Kodwa uqinisile shuwa Shem! .
Beverly Hills of Africa, may God restore zim please look at all that my goodness...
I like the gentlemen doing suit window shopping
Why doesn't Zbc TV show this? Now i see why it was called Sunshine City. Im really heart broken 😭😭 i was only a year old.
This was the time Maurice Nyagumbo killed himself for a Toyota Cressida 🤣🤣🤣🤣. If he can see modern cars being driven by the illegitimate clueless regime full of real thieves, he will never stop crying 😢
Models were everywhere🤣. Everyone and the city were on point. And that shoe at 1:05👌🏾
twas beautiful back then....thanks for sharing
Building something to this standards takes time, destroying it just take a short while.... 2021 we are in ruins. I miss our hey days, kana horodhi yasvika tichimirra anababa vachibva Harare kuuya kumusha
I am 11 years old I am born in zimbabwe and I wish that a lot of people get access to technology and game consoles
These days kwanga kusati kwakumwiwa BronClere(ngoma) I think thats kwanga kune order
That was the year I left for Buluwayo, that was Harare at it's best!
My favorite 504 Sedan
I lived there between 93-95. Shocked at stories I’ve heard about how it is these days. Frightened to return.😢
Old is gol beautiful Harare Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
So what went wrong nhai?
Wow! Looks like this was acted. Couldn't see anyone walking aimlessly
Please upload Bulawayo Gweru Masvingo Mutare our country was extra beautiful
Exactly what Smith said if Zimbabweans rule themselves the country will collapse
i was 18 that time. looks like people back then used to drink more water than alcohol. how healthy!
The Greatest Country in the world 🌎 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Beautiful
Huh? Greatest what?
Where did you get a colourful camera in 1994
My dad used to own a colorful camera in the 90s too
Where did all of this go. It’s saddening to see how it looks now.
Got really emotional, left the country many years ago when everything was in order and just before this clip I was watching a young trucker driving to Zambia approaching Chirundu and if you look at the conditions of the so called highway road it's pathetic and very dangerous. No wonder why so many innocent people are victims of these road accidents. It's sad to see such a beautiful country going to rubbles just like that.
You need to update your information and travel more. The National highways are back in good condition. It's municipal roads that need work
For things to change you have to change for things to get better you have to get better for things to improve you have to improve and for your country to be developed you have to develop and not leaving the country..
Take me back to 1994...
One becomes heart broken when us see what has become of a beautiful town😢
I'm liking the cars, the 504 sedans ,nissan sunnies,datsun pulsars they all looking beautiful
The dress code took me to another level. Everything seems like there were no problems#ama2000
ZANU-PF ruined Africa's Jewel. What a shame.
This was during ZanuPf rule
@@victortakunda5443. But it went down hill after this, under Zanu.
@@ChecXYkitout What do you mean after this? Tell us which year.
Victor- Please don’t be delusional, it’s not good for you. The so called government ZANU-PF were leaders then and now. They have ruined the country clearly, you don’t really want to know which year (because you know it already). Sad Sad situation, particularly when there’s people like you who fail to open their eyes. The country now relies on borrowing, charity and its people who are in the diaspora. Obviously it all went Downhill After This
@@victortakunda5443 you do realise Zanu pf inherited a good Economy, good infrastructure, good health system build by Ian Smith and that is public knowledge. So don't try make lies when people can easily follow the history of Zimababwe.
Beautiful Harare 👌
Once a beautiful place , sad to see it destroyed
Mu town maipindwa ne vanhu vakapfeka formal chete
I would love to relive the 90s 🤗
Wow gone are those days by 1994 me l was in grade 3 and we never lacked anything at all
Even better than South Africa. The question is WHY it has all gone down since 2000.
Ohhh even the trees were this healthy 😅
27 years later most of the buildings are the same
Ndapererwa guys
It was clean and a 24 hour economy, everyone seemed to have something to do and was a zero tolerance corruption country very peaceful and lowest accommodation rates if not the whole continent then the southern Africa.
Kasukuwere and company destroyed this gem with their bush planning
Wish to go back in time
Look at the nice roads