Inside South Africa's Biggest White Slum

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  • Опубликовано: 13 май 2023
  • A few years ago I watched a documentary about a group of roughly 300 poor white South Africans living in a place called Coronation Park in Krugersdorp which is located just outside of Johannesburg.
    I have seen white South Africans living on the streets before but I have never seen a whole informal settlement of poor white South Africans. I wanted to see this place for myself So I made the journey to Coronation Park in Krugersdorp and when I got there. There was no one there. So I asked some of the locals where they had gone and I was told that they had been moved from coronation park to a small section of a predominantly black township called Pango Camp, Munsieville.
    Join us as we uncover the story behind this unique community.
    PATREON : / wideawakepodcast

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  • @wideawakepodcast
    @wideawakepodcast  Год назад +234

    Thanks for watching :)

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 Год назад +6

      Where are they from? Their ancestors? Dutch, German, English, Irish?

    • @anneleeuwen2105
      @anneleeuwen2105 Год назад

      Very interesting as a fellow south African very aware of this tragic situation cause the world doesn't realize how white people ALSO suffer - u need to investigate such an interesting concept that gas taken off recently. It's xalled Street Shower " it's a mobile bathroom for the homeless and poor. It's amazing

    • @andrewdutoit9571
      @andrewdutoit9571 Год назад +3

      ​@@suzygirl1843Afrikaners.

    • @prophetpeter5394
      @prophetpeter5394 Год назад +7

      @@suzygirl1843 Dutch, Netherlands

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 Год назад +1

      @@prophetpeter5394 Why can't those people chip in and set up homes for the 2% homeless whites in South Africa? Aren't they supposed to be charitable?

  • @nortesur9504
    @nortesur9504 5 месяцев назад +274

    I'm from Colombia and I will show this video to my fellow citizens here. They think that outside my country everyone lives in luxury and abundance. Respect to this people for being part of this interview..

    • @sookie4195
      @sookie4195 5 месяцев назад +1

      The illegal immigrants coming to the United States seems to think we’re all wealthy. In fact, many people live just like this

    • @royheffernan1907
      @royheffernan1907 4 месяца назад

      Venezuela is next door to your country, and you think that your fellow citizens believe they are living in luxury? They have to qué up to buy paper to wipe their own ass. Obviously to much crack going around Colombia.

    • @iimsoxo
      @iimsoxo 4 месяца назад +13

      My mom was born in Colombia in the slums of Medellin in barrio de Laureles. dirt poor and now shes on vacation in mexico with my father! People can make it out it just depends on how much you want it. Trust me there are WORSE areas in the USA than this. Just search San Francisco homelessness and Denver Colorado its a SHIT SHOW !

    • @nortesur9504
      @nortesur9504 4 месяца назад +4

      @@iimsoxo Bro, I spent some time in St Louis, Missouri...Nice and beautiful city but there were some neighborhoods that gave me the chills..

    • @Kpot009
      @Kpot009 3 месяца назад

      ​@@iimsoxo Gold digger 😂😂😂

  • @thandolwethusithole4706
    @thandolwethusithole4706 Год назад +645

    as a black south african, this is very eye-opening

    • @LeMerch
      @LeMerch Год назад +64

      Really? Come to Europe.. we have plenty of this. In Ireland where I’m from, we have gypsies that all live on the road and travel from town to town..

    • @thandolwethusithole4706
      @thandolwethusithole4706 Год назад +171

      @@LeMerch yes hey. I'm used to seeing black people living like this here but this really opened my mind and made me realise that poverty knows no race and that it can affect anyone.
      Will definitely visit some time.

    • @LeMerch
      @LeMerch Год назад +75

      @@thandolwethusithole4706 yeah bro, I grew up in a similar situation to them but in Ireland and we had nothing in the 60s 70s and 80s.. maybe not as bad as those guys who seem to be on drugs but still a lot of us didn't even have electricity nevermind television haha.. poverty does not CARE about your race.. it can come and it will suck you in. Black, White or Blue. My best friend growing up was black actually, I never even thought about race until I was in my 20s or early 30s and it started to become a 'thing'. Nobody at that level of poverty has time to care about your skin colour. Thats for the higher ups who are the real racists in my mind.

    • @tameimpala37
      @tameimpala37 Год назад

      To the White man, the Black man's racism and racial obsession in this country are VERY APPARENT. A racial obsession ALWAYS FAILS - it failed pre-1994 and will fail post-1994.

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 Год назад

      @@LeMerch Blacks can't be racist. They never systematically made whites poor. Certain whites have always been bums despite all the help that was given to them

  • @halien8400
    @halien8400 3 месяца назад +45

    Wow, I knew this guy from school. It's absolutely heartbreaking to see where people end up sometimes from having so much and the dream life and then losing everything. It really makes you appreciate what you do have. 😢

  • @nicminit
    @nicminit 11 месяцев назад +429

    I’m a white South African from a middle class family, born in 1987. My grandfather was a builder in Durban (RIP Pops) who obvs interacted with black labourers, he learnt fluent Zulu, and so did my dad growing up. It was awesome to see them interact at a meaningful level and the banter was epic. Most conversations were catching people out and ended in hysterical laughter.
    Videos like this remind me of that. It also reiterates how our SA politicians from apartheid until now have never done anything different. It’s more a class war than a race war. They dangle carrots getting people to feel like we hate each other for our race when we don’t.
    Well done on this interview - it was tactful and demonstrated how caring and important your community is.

    • @mike04574
      @mike04574 11 месяцев назад

      its all anc fucking things up now

    • @jason4275
      @jason4275 11 месяцев назад +30

      did you ever think those black laborer's wanted to live middle class, but the apartheid government prevented that.

    • @nicminit
      @nicminit 11 месяцев назад +30

      @@jason4275 not sure what the point of your comment is?

    • @humbertovargas1211
      @humbertovargas1211 11 месяцев назад +4

      yeah yeah sugar coat all you want it aint about race is about BEHAIVOR AND ACTION OR THAT RACE

    • @subbangovender3476
      @subbangovender3476 11 месяцев назад

      @@nicminit What he should have said was that the same Apartheid system did deprive the black population and the same system also have put the poor white population into the same quagmire, so i agree that it is between the have and have-nots, but during apartheid the people that benefited the most, are Stellenbosch mafia's and their private Chef's. Lets suffer together with 90% of our population.

  • @FairytalesZA
    @FairytalesZA Год назад +336

    this made me realise how grateful i should be for where i am in life and what i have.

    • @christinehicks9265
      @christinehicks9265 Год назад +6

      Yes so true I'm so lucky to have home ,work and money it's an eye opener watching this documentary

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 11 месяцев назад +4

      I live and work as an electronics engineer,I own my house right away in San Diego, California, even we have a lot of social and racial problems but it's not as bad as Africa.

    • @amfineanyou7232
      @amfineanyou7232 11 месяцев назад +3

      Charles huang does it make you feel better to think the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles are superior.

    • @ImpeachObamaASAP2010
      @ImpeachObamaASAP2010 11 месяцев назад

      @@amfineanyou7232 research the homeless crisis, it's caused by drug addiction which itself is fueled by trauma and mental illness. the homeless crisis in America was fabricated when we closed down the insane asylums and let all the crazies out on to the streets
      combine this with an open door justice system and you have a homeless crisis

    • @GwladYrHaf
      @GwladYrHaf 5 месяцев назад

      @@amfineanyou7232sounds like you are projecting your reductive reasoning onto others.
      The world is more complicated that you can contemplate

  • @TrevlynWyngard
    @TrevlynWyngard Год назад +797

    Love how respectful you are in your approach, asking for permission to film and speaking in a manner that isn't belittling. Great work.

    • @hendrikdebruin4012
      @hendrikdebruin4012 Год назад +16

      Why not be respectful? Why be belittling? Are these people any different from any other in the scheme of the universe? We are all one. We just do not know or accept it. Blessing to everyone.

    • @euniceobi6477
      @euniceobi6477 Год назад +8

      Showing respect is the way to go to restore dignity when people are suffering!👍🏾it’s a shame the same respect was not given to the tens of thousands of black landowners and their families, who lost everything when greedy, white wicked thieves stole from them and forced them into townships and slums😞May god help us all🙏🏾

    • @elbiedorman1266
      @elbiedorman1266 Год назад +4

      @@euniceobi6477 you have it all wrong boy.

    • @euniceobi6477
      @euniceobi6477 Год назад +6

      @@elbiedorman1266 How do I have it ‘all wrong?’ I’m not a boy, I’m a 60 year old woman!

    • @elbiedorman1266
      @elbiedorman1266 Год назад +7

      @@euniceobi6477 Amazing that 4 percentage of a population could take over a country over where infrastructure and education was nonexistent. What you are writing about is that 1 percentage of educated settlers (teachers) had to educate the the rest of the population who did not even seen one school class in their entire existence? You should put two and two together but you found none.

  • @cameo1013
    @cameo1013 9 месяцев назад +184

    "Our fathers before us did this to South Africa"
    Appreciate the man's honesty, ngl

    • @user-kf3eb3xn4o
      @user-kf3eb3xn4o 2 месяца назад

      You do know he’s basically calling you all murders that need to stop bitching over the past and taking it out on them when they had nothing to do with the shit show your countries in.

    • @rick-be
      @rick-be 25 дней назад

      deKlerk gave the country away, a misguided fool.

    • @SlavicMelodiesforthesoul
      @SlavicMelodiesforthesoul День назад

      I find it ridiculous cause he's acting like he's got a reason to suffer 😅

  • @jancovanderwesthuizen8070
    @jancovanderwesthuizen8070 2 месяца назад +34

    Around 6:01 there’s a mistake in the subtitles, that oom isn’t saying “I’m not resisting”, he said “I’m not racist”. In Afrikaans it has one more syllable, rassisties, which is why it came out a bit strange

  • @oliviergerard3775
    @oliviergerard3775 11 месяцев назад +113

    Watching from France. This is journalism. Didn’t expect to see this tonight. Earth can be a strange place, and what a determination to live, such a lesson. Things are not to be taken for granted. Thanks to the team.

    • @Mohamedali-ot8yn
      @Mohamedali-ot8yn 10 месяцев назад

      You didn’t know there was poverty in S.A, or just that there were a handful of impoverished whites?

    • @Ngisa
      @Ngisa Месяц назад

      So this is journalism because it's documenting the handful of poor white people? "Earth can be a strange place" ???

  • @yener4018
    @yener4018 Год назад +280

    Such a different doc compared to when foreigners come and interview them. Great job man. Very balanced and sincere.

  • @A_Green_Olive_Tree
    @A_Green_Olive_Tree Месяц назад +5

    I discovered your podcast just recently !!! I can say it is very educational especially about the reality of South Africa.
    Through your channel, I see South Africa in a different eyes, the ignorance is removed from me.

  • @crush42mash6
    @crush42mash6 11 месяцев назад +28

    What an excellent respectful interview, the tall lady was very open to share, which is wonderful. Everybody just has a right to be happy be peaceful

  • @jeffbland3635
    @jeffbland3635 Год назад +163

    BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER ALL HUMANS AND WORTHY OF LIFE

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Год назад

      Wytes in south africa never planned to live in peace with africans they hated africans and had appartied drove off natives of their lands

    • @renacleerican7824
      @renacleerican7824 Год назад +12

      Good luck with that.

    • @AntiAnglo-Saxon
      @AntiAnglo-Saxon Год назад +8

      We all know about that. You'd do a complete 180° on your words when you have power. Never forgive never forget

    • @historytard
      @historytard 11 месяцев назад +5

      Hate breeds hate. It seems that you don't want to forget because you want to celebrate.

    • @davidbosnia4141
      @davidbosnia4141 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nah jeff its not the way

  • @hlengiwemasondo2858
    @hlengiwemasondo2858 Год назад +95

    7:10 I can never blame young white South Africans for what happened years ago ever. I have a 3 year old that I am teaching well and can never blame other people. I hope u know not all black people blame. I have respect for everyone black white, coloured Indian. Poor or rich . Life can change any minute, never look down on anyone ever

    • @sueelliott4793
      @sueelliott4793 2 месяца назад

      Blame te politicians for stealing all the taxes

    • @JustinLuke-ff2vg
      @JustinLuke-ff2vg Месяц назад +1

      So what do you say to those who want them to go to Europe

    • @user-jx7dz4ft1g
      @user-jx7dz4ft1g Месяц назад

      AMEN.!!!

    • @sueelliott4793
      @sueelliott4793 Месяц назад +3

      People need to stop the race thing, we are all human beings and the one race is the human race. You get good and bad people of all cultures. Judge a person by his heart and actions

    • @MightyBlackPanther
      @MightyBlackPanther Месяц назад

      @@sueelliott4793 yea now that Apartheid is over we are all HUMANS . there are a lot of white people that are racist .

  • @lisarussell8874
    @lisarussell8874 11 месяцев назад +55

    This is heartbreaking but I'm relieved to see how they take care of their animals. As it seems to be a constant in humanity, those with the least give the most.

    • @thetruthhurts599
      @thetruthhurts599 9 месяцев назад +3

      Right! I thought the same thing. God bless their hearts. The fury creatures appear healthy!

    • @anneheard9381
      @anneheard9381 26 дней назад

      If they got sick they wouldnt get treatment and none of them are sterilised.

  • @davinci3379
    @davinci3379 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great video , thank you for making and posting this :) strong people, strong community, much love.

  • @DarshanNaidoo20
    @DarshanNaidoo20 Год назад +224

    Josh, these documentaries are world-class. Keep up the amazing content! Thank you for helping us see the world through different lenses

    • @wideawakepodcast
      @wideawakepodcast  Год назад +6

      Thank you so so much!!

    • @lf1496
      @lf1496 Год назад +4

      ​@@wideawakepodcast Why is this a big deal? There are poor whyt people all over the world. There are entire States in America like Appalachia that are dirt poor. The homeless encampments in America are mostly filled with poor whyt people. The subtext of this piece is like you are saying impoverishment is not a natural state for🤚🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻 MOST of Europe's history was a majority poor population. That was the reason they left and came to North America, South America, Oceans, New Zealand etc. This is NOT news, it's low key whyt nationalist propaganda 🙄

    • @hoshpakamies5643
      @hoshpakamies5643 11 месяцев назад

      ​@lf1496 merica is the richest country in history, that's the difference..safrica is just another 3rd world country, yet the US has taxes on par with Denmark, yet all u get is a bloated nazi military, subsidized rich people, and crap roads. The US gets compared to thrid world countries instead of other rich countries, mericans are the most propagandized and ripped off people in the wolrd. The poverty is unhinged, materially wealthy, people never as humble and materially poor as safricans

    • @marilynwillett804
      @marilynwillett804 11 месяцев назад

      @@lf1496 Correct and something isn't right about these folks , poor but do they have to be so dirty??

    • @obrnenydrevokocur9344
      @obrnenydrevokocur9344 11 месяцев назад +9

      @@lf1496
      Ironic, that you made this spite-filled comment and than proceeded to accuse someone else of being racist.

  • @halfmoon106
    @halfmoon106 Год назад +185

    Many people have wanted this issue covered for years. Glad people are finally talking about it.

    • @markhill7418
      @markhill7418 Год назад

      What issue? White people aren't allowed to be poor?

    • @thembi9645
      @thembi9645 11 месяцев назад +12

      What issue to be covered?

    • @daeith1233
      @daeith1233 11 месяцев назад +2

      they are litteraly only videos abt them

    • @1HourOf.
      @1HourOf. 11 месяцев назад +23

      There are no videos about black people that are poor because that is a norm right ?

    • @creamy04
      @creamy04 3 месяца назад +2

      This isn’t a issue. This is a gift. We need more of this

  • @kiakat
    @kiakat 8 месяцев назад +32

    It’s touching that he still goes out of his way to show compassion and care for the dogs. Really interesting and raw doc.

  • @NekoJoyVR
    @NekoJoyVR 10 месяцев назад +6

    thankyou what an amazing story you shared with us, typing with tears in my eyes... so lovely ♥

  • @danielcoetzee7140
    @danielcoetzee7140 Год назад +152

    It's a sad state of affairs. Poverty is a real problem in South Africa. Black or White. It knows no colour. Thank you for showing us the truth. Very eye opening

    • @killerbye1985
      @killerbye1985 Год назад +14

      Makes me so angry how the government has failed everyone, except for a select few.

    • @urbnctrl
      @urbnctrl Год назад +9

      It did know a color before so good equalization

    • @urbnctrl
      @urbnctrl Год назад +19

      ​@@killerbye1985 Well before it did the same onlt the select few were racially classified that way. And they were foreign invaders so now at least they get to live the life they deemed right for the native population. Talk about cosmic karma.😊

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Год назад +1

      Not the government, government dont create proveity people should farm their own land stop waiting for government assistance

    • @urbnctrl
      @urbnctrl Год назад +1

      @@sakurakou2009 you know not of which you speak of..

  • @genevieverose42
    @genevieverose42 Год назад +208

    This is an excellent documentary. Josh, your interviewing style and way with people is outstanding.
    Living in a slum is something one would assume is quite negative which would make a video with this title a hard watch, but the beautiful, resilient spirit of the folks living here that you interviewed, their stories, their sense of community and the way they view the world is something I won’t soon forget.
    Well done to both you and Cody the cameraman.

    • @christinehicks9265
      @christinehicks9265 Год назад

      This has really shocked me to see this happening to people

    • @marionfriedenthal7352
      @marionfriedenthal7352 Год назад +7

      ​@@christinehicks9265This has been happening to people for generations. This is just the first time you see it happen to white people.

    • @sonialemmer1
      @sonialemmer1 Год назад

      Well done for a very informative documentary.

    • @1HourOf.
      @1HourOf. 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@marionfriedenthal7352 Thank You!

    • @beverleyheidenreich6078
      @beverleyheidenreich6078 5 месяцев назад

      Yes it looks like a black camp which we are unfortunately familiar with seeing on a screen depicting South Africa.

  • @amandasmit9328
    @amandasmit9328 2 месяца назад +9

    Dit leer my....wees dankbaar vir die bietjie wat ek het.
    🙏🕯️❤️

  • @flipflop7559
    @flipflop7559 11 месяцев назад +462

    My heart breaks for the people. The country. How far we’ve fallen.

    • @notwwwansik
      @notwwwansik 11 месяцев назад +45

      Это карма

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 11 месяцев назад +16

      As low as Haiti or Pakistan.

    • @ociiu
      @ociiu 11 месяцев назад +104

      But you fail to understand how much have been stolen from the native.

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 11 месяцев назад +74

      @@ociiu And how long the native had been oppressed.

    • @illuminated_crown
      @illuminated_crown 11 месяцев назад

      Mines don't. They should of never moved their white asses in Africa to begin with.

  • @bumblebee1.0
    @bumblebee1.0 Год назад +101

    The camera angles and editing skills are insane!!! Thank you for continuing to open our eyes to what's going on in our country.

  • @kimmacputz
    @kimmacputz Год назад +33

    Really well executed Josh, you are such a kind hearted and respectful human 🤗

  • @wendygraham6863
    @wendygraham6863 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thankyou for highlighting this finally, my brother lives in SA and has told me about this often,

  • @TheDenihunter
    @TheDenihunter 2 месяца назад +2

    Hey guys this was so well done. Really interesting and a beautiful community and people. Great work.

  • @melissasiegelaar7629
    @melissasiegelaar7629 Год назад +39

    Great documentary. I really appreciated the honesty of the guy with the dog when he spoke about his views during apartheid. Great work Josh and team 😊

  • @TysonFMolemela
    @TysonFMolemela Год назад +66

    Excellent work as usual though.. Always improving your production and trying to make the country better through the stories of our people.. Thank you

    • @PeterJohnJnb
      @PeterJohnJnb Год назад +6

      I don't know you, but I have love in my heart for you for this comment brother.

  • @moniquevanwyk9304
    @moniquevanwyk9304 11 месяцев назад +10

    This is an excellent report. Amazing journalism. I wish I had the guts to do something like this, so I applaud you! Well done!

  • @ipetrova
    @ipetrova 3 месяца назад +30

    This documentary was so touching. You really weren’t judgemental at all and you gave us the insight we needed on what’s going on in the Cape Flats.

  • @MikeMubaiwa_
    @MikeMubaiwa_ Год назад +105

    This is such a heartfelt documentary.We all are equal and all of us deserve a better and more good life,the only thing that can unite us is one love.

    • @hasanewilliam3695
      @hasanewilliam3695 Год назад +7

      Thank you but no one publish black slums

    • @TheCeciD
      @TheCeciD Год назад +12

      @@hasanewilliam3695 even though there are lots around the world, look at the streets or the US for example filled with black people. We should all work to elevate each other regardless of colour no matter where we are in the world. No one deserves to live like this 🥺

    • @abelcupido4333
      @abelcupido4333 Год назад +4

      Absolutely agree my friend love will always conquer ❤

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@TheCeciD there are yt homeless on the streets of the US too. They're mainly drug addicts, but also just those down on their luck. Maybe someone should donate some bootstraps -- yup, that's all they need.

    • @shaunbrown5803
      @shaunbrown5803 10 месяцев назад

      That's because all slums are black

  • @makeshift1012
    @makeshift1012 11 месяцев назад +6

    Thanks for doing this video man, A lot of people really, don’t understand the situation over there

  • @richardbodgers4464
    @richardbodgers4464 4 месяца назад +4

    Fantastic documentary! I’d love to compose the music to your next one!!!

  • @heinrichzerbe
    @heinrichzerbe 8 месяцев назад +22

    Thank you for the respectful way you conducted these interviews.
    Hierdie is die eerste video wat ek van jou gekyk het, en as dit enige aanduiding is van hoe jou ander materiaal is, dink ek gaan ek jou werk baie geniet.
    Sterkte met jou taak vorentoe.

  • @arcisfx
    @arcisfx Год назад +17

    Hey Josh, James here. I check in with you every week, and love to see you growing in stature, empathy and maturity.

    • @ninascheicher5500
      @ninascheicher5500 11 месяцев назад

      Yes, sure, the children had it coming to them, right?

  • @mhcronje
    @mhcronje Год назад +16

    Great video and work my man. It’s stirring a range of emotions in me. Not sure how i actually feel having been born and raised in South Africa.

  • @Tim_Shu
    @Tim_Shu 11 месяцев назад +2

    This was so well done, thank you

  • @icedrum555
    @icedrum555 11 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic documentary - brilliant work!

  • @MarkFraserGrant
    @MarkFraserGrant Год назад +19

    I feel emotional, strangely conflicted yet angry at the sheer injustice of super wealthy versus abject poverty. I see more authenticity in the poverty, more Ubuntu, yet that doesn't make poverty right either. This was a brave production and I feel unconditional love in contrast to my anger. Yours somewhat confused!

  • @kahunakoala
    @kahunakoala Год назад +11

    Josh, really awesome video you did here. Between these and your podcasts you are doing some great work! I will be signing up for Patreon shortly.

    • @wideawakepodcast
      @wideawakepodcast  Год назад +3

      Hey, I worked really hard on this project so I’m glad you enjoyed it!! 🙌🏻 I really appreciate the support

  • @BrokeNdisAbled
    @BrokeNdisAbled 11 месяцев назад

    I really like your channel: your Tokkie interview made me sub. Incredible content, much appreciated. TYVM

  • @DOWNTOWN_AUDIO
    @DOWNTOWN_AUDIO 11 месяцев назад +6

    There was a documentary about 15 years ago about the white slum in coronation park. I swear i even recognize one of them from that documentary!

  • @ngalahansel6066
    @ngalahansel6066 Год назад +259

    When I moved from Cameroon to Cape Town in 2018, that was the first time I came face to face with gnawing poverty. It was the first time I saw this many homeless people. I lived in District Six and there were often a lot of people of all races asking me for change to buy bread and it just broke my heart imagining them going hungry or sleeping out in the cold at the Grand Parade. When I moved to Johannesburg, it was the same, only more chaotic. However, there are lots of opportunities for South Africans who want to study as there are scholarships, grants etc which most countries in Africa don't have. I think that SA just needs good leadership to be the beacon that it would be, in spite of its painful past

    • @TGP109
      @TGP109 Год назад

      It's rather hard when discrimination against whites is official.

    • @danakaleb4882
      @danakaleb4882 11 месяцев назад +5

      You still think so?

    • @ngalahansel6066
      @ngalahansel6066 11 месяцев назад +9

      @@danakaleb4882 well the leadership part,yes.

    • @danakaleb4882
      @danakaleb4882 11 месяцев назад

      @@ngalahansel6066 I think it’s past leadership now. They have no leaders, just self serving hyenas. Pity!

    • @kevinadams9468
      @kevinadams9468 11 месяцев назад +12

      If all it needs is good leadership, the SA is doomed.

  • @dineonyauza
    @dineonyauza Год назад +32

    Many black South Africans have lived like this. This is a norm. Living in shacks with no electricity, using paraffin to cook and warm up water. I see this no different to how majority of blsck people live. Doesn’t make it right though.

    • @sadiewagstaff890
      @sadiewagstaff890 Год назад

      How do you know how the majority of blacks live?? I'm happy to see how the minority of whites are living over there. Had no business being over there in the first place.

    • @sninimoyo5320
      @sninimoyo5320 11 месяцев назад

      Exactly then people are shocked cos it’s white people yet there’s thousands of black people who life like this

    • @gabrielgabriel5177
      @gabrielgabriel5177 Месяц назад

      I guess the point was the color does not matter. I have understood that there is huge amount of rasism both ways in south africa. I think hardest place is for those white poor people becouse also poor black people hate them

  • @dawoodh8662
    @dawoodh8662 2 месяца назад +4

    17:50 wow shows how you can make assumption or have a perception , a bit late to the party and channel but WOW WOW WOW.. I just discovered this channel and man im so motivated to make a difference. start in 1 community and go from their thanks Josh for have the strength and courage to show the rest of us South Africans how to be more grateful for what we have, and to open up our hearts even more to those that need our help

  • @CharlotteLong-nh4pt
    @CharlotteLong-nh4pt 3 месяца назад +4

    Im a white South African, honestly Id rather live in the black township than this township. Everyone seems addicted to something. The one women said she couldnt work for R100 a day, but many black people do. Anything is better than nothing.

  • @aaa84gt
    @aaa84gt Год назад +33

    Great production quality bro, hope your channel grows 50-fold, you deserve it.

  • @ryaninnes2798
    @ryaninnes2798 Год назад +10

    Thank you for sharing this story in such a dignified manor, love your work.

  • @inesafrica6641
    @inesafrica6641 11 месяцев назад +20

    Watching this makes me so grateful. We were well off family that ended up losing everything. It can happen. During high school so many times we were evicted and people have no understanding or grace but there were always some angels Willing to help us. If it wasn't for that we also could of ended up living here. Today I am so grateful for what I have and a person appreciates everything in life better after enduring hardships.

    • @sumomaster5585
      @sumomaster5585 8 месяцев назад

      I was on both sides of that, and it's not that land lords have no grace, often it's their means of survival and they can't afford to give it away 4 free

  • @Brett.Crealy-kh1sk
    @Brett.Crealy-kh1sk Месяц назад

    Great documentary guys.. well done! 🏆👍

  • @tiamaria5862
    @tiamaria5862 Год назад +38

    The history and daily life now of South Africa is so interesting and heartbreaking at the same time. Your documentary is very respectful and I would love to see more of them.

    • @comrade9374
      @comrade9374 10 месяцев назад +2

      Not "now"😂because it had always been like this for other race

    • @tiamaria5862
      @tiamaria5862 10 месяцев назад

      @@comrade9374 well...I mean... I don't think life now looks exactly the same as a 100 years ago...
      Plus, if I would've written it like you interpret it... even then you would be wrong.

    • @comrade9374
      @comrade9374 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@tiamaria5862 the term "now" has derail you're statement

    • @tiamaria5862
      @tiamaria5862 10 месяцев назад

      @@comrade9374 no, the daily life now is different from the daily life back in history. Read it again.

    • @comrade9374
      @comrade9374 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@tiamaria5862 yes😌different for whites but blacks still experienced it even after and before 1994

  • @MonsignorDelgado
    @MonsignorDelgado 11 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome people!
    Good documentary work.

  • @myperspective772
    @myperspective772 7 месяцев назад +1

    This was insughtful. Thank you!❤

  • @TheRogueGoblin
    @TheRogueGoblin Год назад +8

    Keep up the good work, Josh. Always interesting content.

    • @halfmoon106
      @halfmoon106 Год назад

      It's because they were Yakuza

  • @thembimaseko9600
    @thembimaseko9600 Год назад +20

    On the under hand our government is speaking for one Africa but failed to look after his own children.

  • @rickyshotszamedia6009
    @rickyshotszamedia6009 11 месяцев назад +13

    i grew up in munsieville this an extremely amazing community i dont know why people say there is racism there, this is the most united place in south africa, poverty united us

    • @motlatsiphokane-og8mg
      @motlatsiphokane-og8mg 6 месяцев назад +2

      The moment when you speak you say black man, white man there is a problem rather say that man without mentioning the colour we should be colour blind and adress each other as my brother, my sister.

  • @7weld7
    @7weld7 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you. Great work. Touches the heart on quite a few levels. I hope one of these days we all wake up and support each other and stop fighting over a new or old issue. I continue to have faith in God, I live in a state of good faith trying to do right, I try my absolute best, and always check myself, find where I can improve and execute right away. We must look after our children, give them a good environment where they can learn, grow, together, to do better than the generation before them. Be good. God (whoever or whatever you worship ) gave you the power of choice, use it wisely. Everyone plays a part in this world. I always said the day one stops learning is the day one becomes stupid. Don't be stupid. 💙

  • @scxlly420
    @scxlly420 Год назад +130

    as a 16 year old white student that grew up in the west rand i wish more people knew about the state of our country. rolling blackouts, theft, corruption all litter our cities.
    its so sad that my future in this country has been affected by the people that came before me and now i have to deal with the consequences. everytime i leave my house there is a chance that i could be stabbed , robbed, drugged, raped etc . xenophobic attacks are real and i have been stabbed in the past so yeah i know what its like. besides that i still love my country and the people within it.

    • @MOGAFITSHEGOFATSOMOLEKOA-xb2ow
      @MOGAFITSHEGOFATSOMOLEKOA-xb2ow Год назад

      I understand you frustrations but xenophobic attack on white😮😮 bra south African rather attack our zimbabwen brothers not white....just show me one video where a mob of black south African attack white compare to what they are doing to other foreign national black African people...the problem is that as south Africans we are separated....you will never only see few white people who are loving amongst black in the hood....if it was like that like in the united state we wouldn't feel like we want white poor south African to live alone....but white stay as group and black stay as group

    • @W.M.K.
      @W.M.K. Год назад +25

      The solution to SA's problem is closure from both black and white people. White people need to sincerely apologise to black people and see them as equals. Black people too need to heal and accept that what happened is now in the past. You guys need to reconcile sincerely and remove the racial barriers see each other as one people.

    • @scxlly420
      @scxlly420 11 месяцев назад

      @@W.M.K. true man. But being born into the aftermath of aparthaid has left a sour taste in the mouths of sooo many south africans that disagree with the current state of things. I've met so many incredibly kind and generous people both black and white. To me colour doesn't matter if you're a good person. But the problem also comes down to the elders that have taught generations after all of this shit went down to blame each other for all of our problems which just leads to more anger and pointing fingers won't solve anything. I can tell u now most whites don't agree with what went down and most blacks want the anc to get out of government so we can rebuild what they broke. We need to unite as one and forget about ethnicity.

    • @narcissus853
      @narcissus853 11 месяцев назад

      @@W.M.K. Will never happen. A sizable chunk of blacks in RSA would genocide the whites and the rest of the decent blacks would complacently acquiesce whilst it happened. Whites see this everyday and blacks wonder why they can't see them as equals, doesn't take a genius to note what ethnic group is committing all the murders and rapes and want to avoid them. With what ANC have gotten away with for the past 25 years, it's proof enough that you can commit any number of atrocities as long as it's targeted against non-blacks. The country will be Zimbabwe 2.0 in 15 years time. Even the rich blacks are moving away in droves to US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and then you can have your rainbow nation of only one color. Black not from the color of skin, but from the fires of destruction that will inevitably consume this cursed country.

    • @kRomani-gh4ws
      @kRomani-gh4ws 11 месяцев назад +9

      It's payback for Apartheid the homies are in charge now

  • @maburwanemokoena7117
    @maburwanemokoena7117 Год назад +26

    Poverty like wealth, has the power to unify people whom in reality wouldn't even look at each other in the eye.

    • @leonscheepers5350
      @leonscheepers5350 Год назад +5

      I try to look my fellow South African in the eye every day - we are one ... we have to heal this wound.

    • @ndalisoxozwa3279
      @ndalisoxozwa3279 9 месяцев назад

      True

    • @TheHoodVoice2024
      @TheHoodVoice2024 Месяц назад

      True …. That’s a fact .. I hate when people pretend like we’re making these things up. 90% of the time the poor people are black

  • @DavoInMelbourne
    @DavoInMelbourne Месяц назад

    Fascinating documentary. Not sure how it came on my radar but thank you.

  • @freddyrose7815
    @freddyrose7815 4 месяца назад +6

    That couple is actually really sweet, I wish them the best

  • @xax8918
    @xax8918 Год назад +18

    Well done, its an excellent documentary....I lived in SA for 25 years, through apartheid and afterwards, still travel there sometimes, I saw white people with families sometimes in Joburg living on the streets and had heard about the white "slums" but had never seen anything, thanks for bringing it to life.

    • @vincentmothapa2421
      @vincentmothapa2421 Год назад

      You'll be even more appalled the day you learn about the black slums and how many there are. Or at least you should be

  • @Bystander.13
    @Bystander.13 Год назад +22

    Great coverage guys. Eye-opener.

    • @wideawakepodcast
      @wideawakepodcast  Год назад +3

      Thank you so much. I really appreciate it

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 Год назад

      @@wideawakepodcast Except whites were given the opportunity a century ago to better themselves and these ones didn't. Sorry but it's not the same as how whites systematically limited blacks from engaging in capitalism. South Africa's wealth today is kept by 7% who benefited from Apartheid. Even poor whites in America living like these people were given EVERY opportunity to succeed during 1900s when they migrated from Europe post-war to restart. The jobs were always offered to them, first, before blacks. They weren't beaten up for their skin, they were given jurisdiction, their own police stations, veterans' benefits and welfare etc. Poor whites are just failures as "individuals" who couldn't perform or succeed in the capitalist system. Black South Africans JUST started in 1994. It's only been 30 years.

  • @banelenkabinde4747
    @banelenkabinde4747 3 месяца назад

    This is great content. Educational.

  • @theoroth3669
    @theoroth3669 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank you fom Germany. Touching and well made- feel speechless..........

  • @siyabongashongwe2373
    @siyabongashongwe2373 Год назад +60

    This just made my day❤, the love and compassion they have for one another is just on another level😊🎉
    Its something rich people lack

  • @mattjordan6505
    @mattjordan6505 Год назад +5

    Brilliant documentary, thanks.

  • @briansul8455
    @briansul8455 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great documentary, very insightful. Last few clips of white and black kids playing together on their way to school is hopefully a glimpse of a better future for Sth Africa once their generation become adults.

    • @t_milli2779
      @t_milli2779 5 месяцев назад

      Thts jus a fever dream of ur they will nv lik each other we will nv lik yt ppl so leave us alone

  • @MEN101
    @MEN101 11 месяцев назад +14

    That’s what small hats and BLM want for the European Americans in the USA.

    • @carolyncox7073
      @carolyncox7073 11 месяцев назад

      @MEN101"The BIBLE" Greatest Book Ever Written.
      Last Days Prophecy!
      Babylon The Great (America) has Fallen.
      OBADIAH verse 15 For the day of ELOHIM is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
      All Praises To The Most High and his Son, The Black Messiah.
      @MEN101, The earth will rejoice when the Israelites, so called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Indians are in rulership!!
      ELOHIM Righteous Judgment Is Upon America The Wicked!!!

    • @leigh4326
      @leigh4326 8 месяцев назад

      You’re lying. I am South African and I know you are lying.

    • @MEN101
      @MEN101 8 месяцев назад

      @@leigh4326 South Africa is even worse for whites

    • @user-oq9tw6tj8p
      @user-oq9tw6tj8p 8 месяцев назад

      Of course it is what we want and it will happen. Vengeance is a mother fucker!! And you deserve wrath.

  • @bonginkosim
    @bonginkosim Год назад +35

    Thank you for documenting this, I live in the same township and see them everyday and what the lady is saying is true, we live well as different races but there are those eggs but all in all, no human deserves a below means life..

  • @munnik_dnb
    @munnik_dnb Год назад +5

    your channel makes me excited bro

  • @majidsiddiqui2906
    @majidsiddiqui2906 2 месяца назад

    Great documentary. I watched it twice👍

  • @helenperry3072
    @helenperry3072 2 месяца назад

    Amazing video 👍👍👍

  • @seankennedy6551
    @seankennedy6551 Год назад +36

    What you have shown here needs to be seen far and wide through our country, we are all one and when at our worst this is evidence we can all love no matter colour or culture... big up dude, keep doing what you are doing 🫶

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Год назад

      Have you seen the black south Africans living in worst condition then the one in video 🤔

    • @hbsupreme1499
      @hbsupreme1499 10 месяцев назад

      They had a apartheid get rich.

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    @melyndacostenoble1922 Год назад +119

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  • @TheHoodVoice2024
    @TheHoodVoice2024 Месяц назад

    That thumbnail picture funny as hell. 😂 but great video. I really enjoyed it,

  • @LethiuxX
    @LethiuxX 10 месяцев назад

    Great work, guys!

  • @LukeMaximoBell1
    @LukeMaximoBell1 Год назад +14

    Amazing work Josh! 🙌🏼

  • @nadiasven4771
    @nadiasven4771 Год назад +16

    Stay away from alcohol and drugs.. it helps.

  • @sueelliott4793
    @sueelliott4793 2 месяца назад

    My heart goes out, it could have been me. Love Safa Kiwi, stay safe and have faith and may God bless those little children.

  • @lorenathorpe8909
    @lorenathorpe8909 Месяц назад

    I enjoyed this video story. The people are great. ❤God bless them all.

  • @Johanna-tz9mg
    @Johanna-tz9mg Год назад +6

    So heart breaking .. great documentary

  • @libconnectafrica
    @libconnectafrica Год назад +12

    We give thanks and amazing that the people are with a positive mindset. Very insightful and with assistance we all can be happy. Unity for Africans will bring proper living and healthy conditions to all our people.

    • @suzygirl1843
      @suzygirl1843 Год назад

      Nah, send these people back to Europe. It's not Africa's problem that they never benefitted from Capitalism.

  • @teacup8878
    @teacup8878 11 месяцев назад +1

    I am such a massive fan of the YT channel, Soft White Underbelly, and hearing peoples' stories, however, I dont like the abrupt interview style, he interrupts and often comes across inhumane to the person/people he is interviewing. Having said this, I agree with most comments, incredible interview style, the follow up questions reflect your active listening and just being a human being. Really, well done. Looking forward to more documentaries from you in future. Expecially content from SA ❤🙌🏻

  • @LRaine73
    @LRaine73 2 месяца назад +8

    I traveled to South Africa this last summer, I spoke to a variety of individuals of all classes/races. The struggle from the fore-fathers is still a factor in many lives. There still divisions in many areas, it’s heartbreaking. I will say, every single person I met, had conversations with about life in South Africa was an incredible experience. I felt blessed that people were open to share their stories.
    We all have struggles, trauma is simply trauma. It appeared to be recognized across all. All appeared to have this tenacity or perseverance for better, wanting more. Family is still important, community is still strong.
    When the one man stated about being cautious in the area, though I’ve never been there, I heard the same of other locations, from both races.
    Africa and its people have a special place in my heart. I wish nothing but the best for all. It takes a long time to heal, I do believe that most are heading in the right direction.
    Great video.

    • @blackgirlblueprint5777
      @blackgirlblueprint5777 Месяц назад +1

      europeans aren’t African. They have countries to which they can return. I am proud that the Africans will not allow their nations and people to be crushed and disappear to colonizers who play the victim and feel they deserve what their colonial raider forefathers stole from Africa and it’s people.

  • @hm5603
    @hm5603 Год назад +36

    He said our forefathers did this to South Africa not us. That is incredible statement to me

    • @sumomaster5585
      @sumomaster5585 8 месяцев назад

      Goes to show oppression knows no color and garbage humans come in all shapes and forms. It just so happened the whites had power in the past, that's all

    • @t_milli2779
      @t_milli2779 5 месяцев назад

      Yea thts why they are in the position they in nw cause they are conquerors ask for pity from the ppl they conquered so stfu with this

    • @onyi4180
      @onyi4180 2 месяца назад +5

      I don't think this has anything to do with race, there are millions of South Africans whether black or whites going through this shit.

  • @yesfxgroup8317
    @yesfxgroup8317 Год назад +42

    Black or white poverty has no boundaries...good luck and God bless 🙏

  • @LaFamilia20
    @LaFamilia20 6 месяцев назад

    like the fact that some people were actually brutally honest and there was no discrimination. Honesty is key. Thank you guys for keeping us in the loop of what's happening around our country that we're not aware of. God bless the people living in these kind of situations.

  • @keombebe6243
    @keombebe6243 6 месяцев назад +7

    We are talking about 300 whites and people are talking about South Africa being racial in reverse. 300 white people compared to 30 million non-white people who live is destitution. I wonder how many people commented here would be interested in a doc about poor non-white people’s lives. It’s expected for them to be poor. It’s supposed to be sad when it’s white people. La tena.
    In preempting mindless responses:
    Poverty is wrong for everyone.
    Yes, there are more than 300 poor elite Peele, but a drop in the ocean covered to the crisis in this country.
    Apartheid is not the only thing to blame, colonisation too because it contributed to the infrastructure where you have these land divisions over centuries.
    And to the person who said you make your own luck, I wonder how you’d survive if you were to lose everything you have and end up at a back-breaking job (or without one) in destitution 24/7 without food or adequate shelter and sanitation and try your luck.
    Don’t romanticise poverty. There’s nothing romantic about lower life spans because of destitution.

    • @Hmmmmmm407
      @Hmmmmmm407 14 дней назад

      Bruh I'm shocked at how people are up in arms cause of 300 poor whites while SA is full of millions of poor black people. Nobody deserves poverty where black or white. So I don't why when it's whites, it turns into a documentary.

  • @sharontarin1310
    @sharontarin1310 Год назад +9

    As usual excellent young Josh. Here but for the grace of God go I. Such a build up of circumstances that leads to these difficulties. Yet i believe its true, its the poor who truly help each other.

  • @user-dz9qy2hg7b
    @user-dz9qy2hg7b Год назад +9

    ❤❤❤ South Africa😊😊😊
    So sad👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🍞🍏🥗its heartbreaking for all South Africa's ppl that are struggling to survive here😮👨‍👩‍👧‍👧the poor children💔😭

  • @CaptainKiwwi
    @CaptainKiwwi 10 месяцев назад +1

    I don’t really know what I was expecting, although what I got was the White South African equivalent to Slab City.
    Great mini-doc!

  • @WindTurbineSyndrome
    @WindTurbineSyndrome 11 месяцев назад +4

    Very interesting documentary interview. My friend came to Cape Town/George area to teach voice movement therapy and now several black women who had very difficult times started nonprofits and are using it very effectively to help people. The RSA government is recognizing their work too. It's a very interesting country but sadly after apartheid it's gone down hill very fast.

  • @pelomk9022
    @pelomk9022 Год назад +5

    Hopefully next time you'd interview the kids. I would like to know how they feel about growing up in that community

  • @ddmmalibu
    @ddmmalibu 11 месяцев назад

    stunning photography. gripping story!

  • @Kayzblog
    @Kayzblog 5 месяцев назад +5

    Viendo este documental realmente me ha abierto los ojos la gente que vive en esas comunidades sufren de verdad, y por eso voy a desarrollar un espíritu de gratitud. Deseo que mejore la situación de cada persona que vive en pobreza ❤

  • @fraseredk7433
    @fraseredk7433 Год назад +12

    God bless all who are in difficulties but who emit humanity.