Durban 1981 archive footage
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2023
- Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting South Africa, probably in 1981
It contains stock footage of Durban: views from the coach window while arriving to the city, including St Anthony's Catholic Parish in Greyville district, downtown traffic and shops, Queen Victoria statue (today removed) in Farewell Square, the clocktower on the Durban Central Post Office, the Durban City Hall, Juma Masjid Mosque, views from the coach while driving on the highway, skyscrapers in front of the ocean, the Vasco Da Gama Clock, the Howard Campus, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, cityscapes, and more.
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People relaxing in parks with no fear of being robbed & killed, people swimming in the sea without worrying about dysentery, clean streets with no plantlife lurking at the intersections. We've come so far in 30 years..
I was there,then, the days of my life always hazy always beautiful always 21
Landed there with family as a kid aged 7, from the UK, that same year. Still remember being driven along Marine Parade, thinking everything looked so tropical and vibrant.
Amazingly clean & well maintained👌
I love South Africa. I am white. You all miss the point. Everyone longs for a time when the majority of the people who lived in die land didn't live like us. It was unsustainable and worse unfair. South Africa can still be changed but, use you're heads. Lift everyone up and encourage quality immigration. Europe is no bargain. We have a beautiful country with great weather. Build a better country and they will come!! Ons vir Jou Zuid Afrika!
Nonsense it is you who misses the point
The white people brought civilization to the area
The locals had it for thousands of years and all they manage to do is build a mud hut
White people civilization took the locals from the Stone Age into the space age, and the smart locals joined in with the white people and became quite wealthy, so even became millionaires, and they were bringing more of the locals along to lift everybody up
Because that’s the thing about colonization, they bring in civilization, and everybody who chooses to participate is lifted up
Rhodesia four generations was doing so well that National Geographic put out an issue and had to admit that Rhodesia was the Switzerland of Africa because going into Salisbury would be like going into any top tier European capital white people brought a stable currency a thriving economy, plenty of agriculture and industry, which was unheard of in the area before white people paved roads Railroads hospitals schools, drinking water into the homes, plenty of electricity and air conditioning stores with fully stocked shelves of all the filling stations no trash on the sidewalk no graffiti on the building and the people who chose to participate were ecstatic. It was communism it was attacking Africa in the late 50s early 60s, and then politicians in the west that turn their back on Rhodesia and South Africa and now both nations are basically assessable and they are slowly returning to the Stone Age
@@mikerilling6515 you can't go back in time. We need to make the best of a bad situation. I refuse to give up on this country and live in the past. Dalk is dit omdat jy nie Afrikaans is nie. Ek sal altyd Afrikaans wees.
In the 1992 referendum, the only constituency which voted "NO" was the city of Pietersberg, every other part of South Africa voted YES for South Africa to become the same as every other post-colonial independent African country which is a slum ruled by crime gangs. Everything that has happened since 1993 shows that the previous system was necessary for the benefit of all races.
@@mikerilling6515name one local who become a millionaire? Why didn’t you stay whenever you came and leave locals to their ways ?
That is the year I moved to Durban when I was 19, and spent ten of the happiest years of my life. Not sure about now, but what a place it was back then...
Yes I'm sure it was. Too bad my family was not allowed to live there back then
It was beautiful
I lived in South Africa till 1980 it was so beautiful. I visit family every few years and I am very sad to see how the country has deteriorated. But I must say Europe is not so bright in these days. 🇮🇹🇿🇦
I wonder how the locations looked back then
Unfortunately we were not aloud to visit them in those days. I visited Soweto with my son on one of our visit in 1992 but we imagined visiting the museum. Have you visited it?
unbelievable, so rich and so clean
Durban looked so beautiful clean and safe back then. Not one minibus taxi in sight, how lovely.
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Parked your car and went to the cinemas. no one interefered woth your car.now, you dare to go into Town
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Should have left it in the white man's hand but got him to reverse apartheid with equal rights for everyone.. Yeah, should have left him to implement change. Definitely would have done a better job.
Those that oppose White Rule didn't have the foresight to realise that it was only until the Majority had caught up educationally as the Country was growing so fast it was impossible for the Whites to do everything and eventually the Majority would have to step in and help. The only one who realised that was Prince Buthalezi.
He would have fckup eventually he’s starting up war everywhere he goes. Climate change crisis that’s his work for he takes in the environment and never gives.
White People built such a beautiful civilization ❤
ER Collins Bus
Wow, wasn't Durban beautiful?
Are you aware that the video is lacking visuals?
Such as ?
Well, the first time I tried viewing it it was blank. Maybe my phone was the problem.
They missing the times when they had slaves working for them.