🇿🇦 African American Couple Reacts "SOUTH AFRICA VS. AMERICA: BIGGEST DIFFERENCES"
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He should have called his video, "CAPE TOWN VS AMERICA". He got some of the things right, but he still has a lot to learn about South Africa. South Africa is an extremely complex and diverse country, he just has 10% of the information because he's based in Cape Town. There's a lot more to this country than Cape Town.
Agreed.... They still yet to discover sipitori.
amen to that... The Cape has turned into a living base for most foreigners, second is Joburg. Theres Pta,Limps,"Mapumalanga" and even North West.
But cape Town is still in South Africa
The thing with the South African Education system, is that high schools essentially already help and prepare you for choosing what career path you want to follow. High school in South Africa stretches from 8th to 12th grade. In 10th grade, you're presented with subject choices, and you go from studying a broad variety of around 12 subjects from 1st to 9th grade, down to studying only 7 more specialised choice subjects in grades 10 to 12 that prepare you for the career path you want to follow and study in University, and during 11th grade, many universities will visit high schools and offer booklets which detail the different career paths you can study for, as well as giving advice on career pathing and studies.
So, generally, from my own experiences of having finished high school just 3 years ago, I'd say by the time South African student reaches their final year of high school and are around 18 years old, a solid 90-95% of them already have a pretty solid idea of what career path they want to follow and what they want to study.
Also, I went to a public school, not a private one, so the above is mostly an account of how the SAn public schooling system works. Not exactly sure how private schools work, but should be reasonably similar, since there are strict rules and enforcement from the Department of Education.
In South Africa you cannot be confused or unsure what you want to do. YOU HAVE TO KNOW BY 18. There is no university that will accept you if you don't know because there is no university caters to that, YOU HAVE TO KNOW. If you don't stay home until you know.
Sometimes this videos can be annoying. He talked about the negative stuff that affects black people but failed to balance it with the positive stuff.
He failed to bring up the fact that in less than 30 years South Africa has built the biggest black upper middle class in the world only behind black African Americans 2 he failed to bring up in less then 30 years South Africa has more black millionaires in the whole of Africa in fact it’s not even close.
3 he failed to bring up the fact that black South Africans are the biggest first time home buyer’s on the continent.I could go on and on and on about the thing he could have brought up just to balance the whole subject of wealth disparity anyway good reaction ❤
I think he was here for only two months. Lets give him the benefit. Can one make proper analysis in this short period? But hey, give the man some bells. He must start moving up north.
Those may be true, but he was correct regarding the income disparity. Ours is the biggest gap in the whole entire world, and the indigenous people are still disproportionately poor.
I'm glad he didn't touch on that issue because he would have to explain the snakes that go with it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm kidding! I'm kidding! ✋🏽🤚🏽
@@moeketsitsie1017 to be honest with u i don't think he will look beyond the surface what he sees is what he will go with but let's go with your optimesim and give him the benefit of the doubt.
@@baphithi that's nonsense what do you call nigeria and Zimbabwe where doctors go months without pay and they get paid peanuts compared to south African doctors SA Dr's get paid 3-5 more then nigerian Dr's. South Africans get paid more in every field compared to the so called giant.
In Nigeria to be middle you have to earn $6000 pa in south africa you have to earn $15-18k pa to be middle class that's where the problem start only 10% of south Africans earn more then that. So the whole unequal nonsense I would take it with a pinch of salt
Many Afrikaans people do understand coloured Afrikaans. I think those who struggle are more English born Afrikaans or they just don't bother to understand.. Coloured poetry is deliciously stunning. Another point is that the crime rate may be more tolerable outside of the big cities in more suburban areas. In my town there really isn't much electric fencing, and many houses still aren't walled in. Lastly, where I'm from, the coldest winter nights can get down to 30 F, and the hottest summer days up to about 100 F, and most people don't have AC because it's just too expensive. Love from SA ❤
Before calling yourself Afrikaans you will have to do research of how Afrikaans first started. The first generation Dutch could not understand the Khoi slaves, so they forced all the servants and slaves to speak Dutch. The slaves spoke a watered down version of Dutch that were referred to as kitchen-Dutch or Hottentots- Hollands, which in turn were renamed to Afrikaans after a long time. Afrikaans only became an officially language in 1961! Before that the Apartheid government regarded it as a second grade language after Dutch. Afrikaans was the language of the servants and slaves, While Dutch was the language of the bosses. Don't believe me? Do research!
@@invictus9945 everything you say is true.
@@invictus9945 preach!!
The way the private security works is that you hire a company to put your adress in their system, and if you're alarm system goes off or you press a panic button they call your house to see if it was a mistake and if you don't pick up they send a security team to your house to secure it. They often have multiple cars stationed around a neighborhood which allows them to respond within a certain number of seconds rather than waiting 15-20 minutes for police to arrive.
15-20 minutes? It's South Africa...it would depend on if they have diesel or if there is a vehicle available...or if the station has police...more like an hour for a reaction from the police 😂 if you get a reaction. Private security is the only way nowadays....sadly...
@@clydehurn5920 was going off of ambulance response times. Luckily no need for a police response just yet
Edit: also private btw
@Clyde Hurn depends where you live. I was shocked where I live in the suburbs of joburg north that police can actually arrive that quickly 😳. I live in the township in kzn before where the police never respond
it is not personal security as you thought, but home security and response. our policing is shocking to say the least.
Te closing statement was correct lol. South Africans even other African commentary channels they say they noticed that south Africans don't stay quiet. We will protest at the drop of a hat here. And for the mos part change happens. Now I hope everyone can mobilize and get government to take this energy crisis here seriously.
I'd love to see that one brave person who will tell a taxi driver to slow down 😂😂😂
I have don't it twice.
One listened he was black.
An Indian driver decided to increase the speed, mind you I was not the only one who asked him to slow down
Hahaha she was me... In Pretoria 😂 maaan people used to tell me I am too brave for my own good. But I used to tell them. But only if it was in a place where I could get out safely 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Lulu-wv1nt that's what you get for making requests 😅 the only thing you should be saying to a taxi driver is "after robot" 🤣🤣🤣
@@AGirlNamedVan next time please record or go Live, I want to see something 🤭
@@luyolo6927 😂😂
This video is quite interesting in the sense that this young man speaks of Cape Town as if it IS 60% OF MZANSI.
I was actually hoping and wishing he would speak of Jozi, Pitori, Kimberly, KwaMashu, etc...
Do not be misled, South Africa is COMPLEX and VERY DIVERSE.
Love from a Mzansi woman living on the island of Madagascar.
Load shedding happens in intermitted periods, but it keeps getting worse each year. This year has been the worst!!
Do you guys gave inverters over there?
@@sylviasworld9397 yes
"Walking in guilty pleasure " ...I've never heard it described like that but that's probably the best way to describe what happened and continues with their next generations.
IT'S BECAUSE WE KEEP ON FORGIVING THEM.
@Mthunzi MHLONGO True like how we coddle them with how they don't speak our languages but we speak their languages.
@@PrincessVelaryon exactly, we praise them too much and we forget the importance of being united.
@@mthunzimhlongo660 it starts with us making sure our kids grow up knowing their roots and their language. But I see Gen Z and Alpha are not as bad as millennials.
When you mention it, they say they were not there during those times 🤣. That is their first go to answer
Whats crazy enought about loadshedding is they recently just increased the tarrifs and they also increased the loadsheddibg to stage 6-8
to correct what he said with medical studies yes your can begin studying from as young as 18 years old but the duration of study or studying is dependent on what course or path you choose to study if you looking to be a medical doctor the duration of studying is about 6 to 7 years than after you can choose what you will wanna specialize in within the medical field.
In high school, most high schools focus on helping you figure out what you want to do when you're done so they would have things like a career day or just people from different fields coming to speak to us and allowing us to get more insight on the field and requirements needed. Therefore, it is easier for us to apply for university straight after once we have decided what we do want to study. Its not like that for everyone though but because we had that experience in high school its easier for most.
We used to have that in my high school days here in SA. 3 years before you write your high school exams. The subjects used to be called "Guidance"
Yes loadshedding can be a daily occurrence, depending on the electrical demands of the country. And it's for 2-4 hour blocks about 2x or 3x a day, also depending on how constrained the grid is. My average monthly electricity bill is about $35 for a 2-person family in the southern suburbs of Cape Town with just a fridge, TV, WiFi, stove, laptops, kettle and fan. In winter, it goes up to about $45 because of our heater.
With regards to the studies at university, in South Africa, there are limited spaces within universities depending on the field of study. Therefore a focus is placed on studies within the secondary education phase where you select subjects within the direction of the field you would like to study once at university level. Therefore the focus of the career path is decided long before entering university as it is not easy to change career paths at a later stage, and due to limited spaces within universities, you need to have good grades from secondary school or high school as well call it in South Africa to qualify to study at university level
Same as in Nigeria.
There are also general degrees that you can go for if you don't know. But as you said for things like law, medicine, engineering, there are limited spaces, so if you as a kid want to go for those, you start with choosing the subjects you need for those in grade 10.
Wow he really did his research to the T- as a cape coloured I can really appreciate it 🙌🏼
His video is definitely not balanced. He portrayed black people as poor. There's a lot of black people making moves, real moves.
That’s exactly what I was saying
🤣🤣🤣 I wish ya'll can come here, take a taxi and tell them they are driving too fast. I just want to see it🤣🤣
They need to go to Durban or Joburg and try taxis..especially South beach and North beach taxis
For load shedding, you'd need:
Solar panels, charging led lights, gas heater, gas stove, enough power banks, WiFi extender ( wireless 🛜 ) , electric meter ( meaning: this box will show you how many minutes you have. For example, if the number. (Which are points) you added on your meter while plugged onto a socket, if you bought, maybe a R1000 = 54.78 USD minutes, probably last you for a week or so. However if you don't keep track on how many minutes are left, your house will be the only house without electricity, to avoid that make sure you keep track . You need to know how much it deducts per day and then buy your next perchance. It can only be plugged only when there's electricity. Oh, and you can perchance your minutes on your phone or going directly to the store and tell them how much you want. ) load shedding can be easily be handled. You can either buy solar panels or an inverter. However bewear if you are going to buy a generator it will make noise. But, you will decide.
Then you
On the education, what he meant was that after high school(most likely age 18)....you can start you medical studies and get your medical degree, unlike the US which you study a certain period and then apply for your medical degree.......basically in South Africa one can become a qualified medical doctor at age 24/25
The thing is though then you’re just a GP. If you want to become a surgeon or an er doctor for example then you need to specialise and go back to uni
In SA there are general degrees as well. This is where you pick and choose what you want to major in within 3 years of Varsity. By the time you graduate you will have two or three majors. This will either be a BA general or BSc or any other degree. They are different to professional degrees like medicine, Law, accounting etc. Of maybe this also depends on the institution.
Here in SA primary school to junior secondary u learn pretty much of everything, then from High School which has grade 10, 11 & 12 u start a career focus where Maths, Physics, Life Science are group together for learners who want to focus on Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, Psychology etc, then Maths, Economics, Accounting, Business are grouped for Learners who want to pursue Commerce, then we have Languages, History, Tourism, Drama and Art, they all grouped for learners who wanna become Teachers, Lawyers, Artists and Musicians. When o get to varsity u already know what career path u wanna pursue .
A lot of South Africans supplement electricity with gas to not only bypass loadshedding somewhat but to lower the actual "light" bill. Here in Cape Town affluant suburbs can install solar systems to not be affected but most middle to lower class are on prepaid electricity meters where you go to a shop or via your banking app to buy a daily voucher, or weekly depending on your income and savvyness. Taxis are the bane of all South Africans existence. Public service is an aquired taste, so any service you want, rather come prepared to pay for privately. Cape Town is beautiful but simply put, there are 2sides to the mountain, the have and have nots.
Capetown light s at night is gorgeous. We used to go for drives through te city at night and also maybe park off at lions head or up on table mountain at the bottom parking. Gorgeous. Haven't done it in years to though.
He’s definitely need to learn more about South Africa as country because for me this video was more about Cape Town v U.S. 🤷🏾♂️
Bro....There were reports of Police stations employing the services of private security 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I am dead serious.
With the university part this what happens. Let say you want to be a psychiatrist doctor and you are still in high school; you apply at a university for that course. You have to have three to six career options. There are admission requirements. If you did seven subjects at school then you need to count how many points you have and if you qualify to study for what you have applied for. You calculate your score by adding the levels that you got for each subject except for Life Orientation. If the course requires you to have 35 points , then you have to get that or above inorder to be admitted. If you don't have the correct subjects that align with the qualification or enough points that are required , then you won't be admitted. It also depends on whether you passed with a bachelor's, diploma or higher certificate, then you can start that particular course from that level of qualification
@@ochrechap yes , you apply to do medicine then you can specialise in what you want for as long you qualify
@@ochrechap exactly! But remember that a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in psychiatry. So I think that's maybe where the confusion came in as referring to a psychiatrist Dr? Because all psychiatrists have the title of Doctor in South Africa (as they do everywhere else in the world).
@@ochrechappreaching to the choir here! I was merely pointing out where the confusion could have come from most likely. Of course no one says psychiatrist Dr.
In the US you do the SAT, then do a junior degree, after which you go to law school or medical school, or whatever.
In South Africa the final (Grade 12) examination is what you would do via the SATS. It is run by the national government, and based on your results you get into medical school or are accepted into university to do a four year engineering degree, teaching degree, nursing degree etc. It costs far less, and in three year you can be done with university and ready to start your career, with an IT degree.
Our courses are very intense, the lecturers do not even know students’ names. We use student numbers to avoid bias in marking scripts.
Actually, this is how it goes here (the US)... Depending in the university you'd like to attend, you either take the ACT or SAT. If you want a trade or a 2-year degree, you can go to a community College or choose a program at a university where you will earn an associates degree or certificate. If you want a Bachelors degree or postgraduate certificate or degree, you attend a university. Then law school, medical school, etc.
A person can finish a 4-year degree in as little as 2.5 years if they do not take a break (depending on area of concentration). Education here is EXPENSIVE - like really expensive. I don't like looking at my credit report because of it. I like the student numbers to avoid biases, but building relationships with my professors was the best thing ever. They helped in so many ways!
In SA, we are taught multiple languages for the 12 years of school.
Luv your content guys!
There are communities that built wealth together. A good example is the Royal Bafokeng in North West Province. The tribal council has minirals rights in the platinum mines, and the whole community benefit.
We do have the highest black middle class in Africa.
That was done in 30 years.
We are still working but we are not as we were before.
Cape town is the bedroom, Durban is the pool area, Gauteng is the sitting room/tv room , Eastern cape is the garden
😂 Why's cape Town the bedroom.... 😂 Although they do call us slaapstad. You will find rest for your tired mind in the cape.
The eastern cape is more like the area where you keep the dirt bins though...😂 I know because I live in the EC
@@clydehurn5920 lol there some bad areas in the garden hahah and beautiful in the front
@@AGirlNamedVan chilled place with many activities haha
But I'd still say Limpopo and Mpumalanga are the Gardens
At UCT we have lots of Americans and kids from other countries who come here to study because UCT is the no 1 university in Africa and its rated in the top universities in the world
07:05 from my personal experience and from what I've seen is there are townships who try to make progress and create their own 'economy' but it would be a whole lot progressive or faster if the government came to play. In South Africa we have Political Freedom but we do not have Economic freedom.
And about Private security 🤣 there's a company in Pietermaritzburg Mi7, and i found that people respected them more than the cops. Scary.
12:40 Eskom terrif just went up by 18.65%
Loadshedding is bad if you are working from home but it also helps with putting technology aside and spend more time with your family
no it does not lower your electrical bill in fact almost every time you do have loadshedding and the power comes on it has a power surge witch could damage appliances or take some of your power units
Very nice video, from your biggest South African fan from Limpopo province
So here, "private" security, is not like "Personal" security. Meaning your private security sets up alarm systems around your house, and if you have intruders they'll respond to the alarm or panic button in a matter of minutes. So they patrol the neighborhood. But they're not personal, they don't travel with you everywhere. If you get F*cked in a public area they're not liable unless the establishment has a contract with them.
It's also normal to have a car tracker, so if your car gets stolen and the tracker gets triggered, there'll be a helicopter and a high speed chase from the private security responsible for your car, immediately!
These services are used by majority of the middle to upper class, and private establishments. They're more reliable than the police most times. Although, credit to our police, they're also always on patrol and they'll respond to petty crimes fast.
America they don't even care about who u are I'd rather live in Africa
He meant the “private police”, that you call instead of the actual police.
@@sithandiwemutasa7460 The guy they were reacting to was referring to services like ADT. Also please explain "Private POLICE"?
There are a wide variety of courses. Especially in West Africa, the subjects grades will show what the student naturally loves studying do the counselors or the schools will accept you based on the major you enjoy. The junior high level is intense cos you take a wide variety or courses. High school is where you start your major. U S. Starts their major way late at college. Sometimes a kid wants to be a doctor but all the courses he did well in show he is interested in business studies
Loadshedding is about 2 hours ,or depending on the stage and they use generators, or solar system
The private security is very true. We have private security guards at my townhouse complex and itr has electric fencing all around the complex. Also most places also have indoor security as well with alarm systems.
In England 🏴 it is the same about university entrance. You must know your career path before enrolling in university.
I love this channel very informative
Much love!
Yeah, we have loadshedding everyday. There are different stages. We are currently on stage 6 so we've been getting 4 hour blackouts this week, sometimes twice in a day.
I agree with what he said about taxi drivers...that's exactly what they do and most of the time we're saved by elderly passengers(bless them🤗)...they'd ask them to slow down or drive properly and they do surprisingly listen to them...
Hi there I am a white South African. I like your content. You can legally own 4 firearms in South Africa. There is also a need for private security. The laws around what type of firearms you may keep are similar to American laws.
Wow. In kenya you can't carry around any type of weapon legally. If they catch you with one, you are a criminal.
@Mr TNM probably less violence there and alot less fear there
I don't think our laws are the same. America doesn't have limits on the type of guns that they own where we do. We are not allowed automatic weapons for example where they are allowed weapons used in wars. We have moderate laws in my view and I think America should follow our lead.
@@issavibez394 Yeah that's true. But it really depends on where you are located of course. The place I'm staying in right now, unfortunately that's not the case.
In America it’s power outages, it’s due to mother nature, hurricanes, snow & storms. Load shedding is scheduled & it’s been 3 or 2 yrs since South Africans experienced it. I think it’s different. For instance hurricane season here in Louisiana the longest I‘be ever gone without power is 10 days.
We're aware. We compared it to what we could relate it to. We're from Louisiana as well.😊
@@TheDemouchetsREACT k was tryna explain coz you stated that you experienced load shedding. None of us here have ijs
Rolling blackouts is similar to experiencing loadshedding.
@@TheDemouchetsREACTI just want to point out that loadshedding in South Africa started back in 2008 and it has gotten progressively worse over the years. The reason for this is our government's corruption, looting of state coffers and failure to maintain the infrastructure and failing to meet other requirements to provide the whole country with enough electricity (just Google the Eskom problems in South Africa and the reasons for it). The government was warned about this future problem of electricity shortage when they took over power in 1994, but they were too busy riding the gravy train to pay any attention. There is also no incentive for them to fix the current state of affairs, because our government officials are vastly overpaid and ride around in fancy motorcades with armed bodyguards and live in fancy mansions with back up generators, solar panels, inverters etc. or they simply spare certain areas from loadshedding, so they don't experience the inconvenience or the poverty that vast majority of South Africans, who happen to be non-white, do. These days, if you want your business to survive in South Africa, you have to have a back up generator, solar panels and an inverter. Without it, your business will close and you will have to lay off staff. Loadshedding has had a massively negative impact on our economy and unfortunately Covid didn't help either. The South African currency is very weak against that of the US, UK and Europe, so foreigners from those countries can come and have a ball here and find that most things are either very cheap or affordable. Lastly: the young guy in the video knows very little about South Africa. He was comparing Cape Town, the tourist mecca of South Africa, to the rest of our very complex and very diverse country. It's like visiting L.A. and then thinking that you know the whole United States of America. And I would just like to point out that the US has their own areas where the ultra wealthy live a stone's throw away from homeless people. Just go to certain areas in L.A. or San Francisco and you'll see the desperate poverty and homelessness, yet multi-millionnaires and super wealthy celebrities live not that far away. My significant other is a human rights activist and let me tell you: our country has a lot more in common with the States than you think!
I grew up in San Diego CA and we had to take one language. In my high school we only had Spanish and American Sign Language. I opted for American Sign Language. But it was extremely basic for both Spanish and ASL but you had an option to take on further learning but it’s not required
Private Security refers to private Alarm/First response companies which you pay a monthly subscription bill to. They often are your first point of contact when your home/business alarm is set-off/ tripped. They employ trained security guards to act as the first responders instead of calling the police who often take some time to get to the scene. it is very seldom that you will have a designated security person to be at your side 24/7 (that is often reserved for the wealthy/and or government officials)
In terms of security, I always leave my house unlocked. I could be gone for hours without a worry, and nobody's ever stolen from us. I guess we can argue that part
There are communities that rebuild like, 4 cousins, that's a wine brand which came into existence of a project like that
Oh... 4 cousins? Hmmm, is this where the wine brand Four Cousins comes from?
The load shedding thing has not always been a problem but it's something that turned up because current government is very corrupt and services are not really taken care
Hi what you're describing is a power outage, with load shedding the power system operator switches off deliberately to reduce the ratio of load demand verses generation availability, which should always be less than 1, as the grid is designed to deliver specific amount of power, which should always be above the load demand
He is so right about taxis🤞🤣🤣🤣
They use any chance to squeeze or even go through a red robot(traffic light)
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Welcome to the family!
When you get here to South Africa. Please try fat cakes, kota (bunny chow) dumpling and beef stew etc. mainly Kasi food.❤
Cabbage with smoked bacon bones and putu.. Dohl with bacon bones and bread..
Fat cakes? Reminds me of episodes of Gomorrah. Me and my sis are adamant that we will try some..... Someday.
The name alone is tasty, lol🤣
@@sylviasworld9397 sadly they never came to Kwa Zulu natal..fact is my province has the best Spices we have ZULU AND INDIAN dishes sometimes a mix of the 2 see fat cakes are nice with cheese and polony but it's better with mince curry . Americans say chilli
Yeah S.A is career focused, we have medical doctors at age 24, I'm 21 and I'm doing my second last year towards my engineering degree, so yeah we start young here
Load shedding has been the worst this year. They have stage 6 now so its 3 times a day.
electrical bills south africa has two tariffs specifically nd depending on what you prefer we have pre-paid which is your buy your own electricity and get to use it how you like and these the non pre-paid electrical which are monitored on a monthly basis by the municipality of the town or city you in and you pay accordingly to the rates you have been charged by the end of every month.
Yes when we leave high school at the age of 18 and if you qualify to study medicine you get accepted at university. You need to have a certain percentage in subjects that qualify you to study medicine. In high school you do subjects that will help you in the medical field
Loadshedding is when the power goes off for a couple of hours, so you gotta have a generator or something.
Those communities in tents are not South Africans. They are refugees from other African countries who were demanding that South Africa pay to send them to countries like USA, UK and Canada so in protest they started camping out on the street and when COVID-19 hit they had to put them in one area but some have refused to be reintegrated into the communities where they came from. The image of the townships is not a correct representation. Townships have proper houses that were built though they are very small and the areas are congested coz they were not really meant to be residential areas. It was more like compounds to keep cheap labour readily available. The metal structures he showed are relatively recent, built by people who come searching for opportunities in the cities. They are called informal settlements coz people randomly build anywhere they can find vacant land hence no infrastructure and municipal services. In Cape Town especially such areas are hardly serviced coz they want to discourage people from coming to settle there( they are trying to gentrify the city).
I heard recently that people that have post-paid electricity get the same bill despite loadshedding 🤣 a lot of people I know use pre-paid electricity so I suppose you do save some on your power bill.
So in SA we have a minimum of 2 languages from the age of 7 to the age of 18. I believe one of them has to be English. And from high school you have a Home Language option and an additional language option. The home language option is a bit more difficult in terms of the books and poetry you read and the general content of the work. You have to have at least one home language, though you can do what I did and take both languages at a home language level. It doesn’t really help you in terms of uni acceptance or anything, it’s just more challenging
Private security is just a home or business solutions and they provide armed response. Not close contact security.
The private security doesn't refer to every person having a security guard usually a Town or neighborhood has a security company watching for crime and helping when crime occurs because usually the police show up way too late if at all
On the learning a second language in school point. We do it for the full 12 years.
Private security not not personal body guard 😂. An alarm system sets off to the security company. And patrol cars in the neighborhood. Loadshedding all year round
The private sercurity is a company that the whole community neighbourhood pays for not an individual person
Loadshedding come in stages, whivh determine the amount of times per day, normally 2 hours at a time and scheduled
Our load shedding is currently everyday with 6 hours with no electricity , 3 or 4 times a day, But is changes all the time.
Loadshedding doesn't lower my electricity bill because I charge my UPS because I work at home. In school I did English, Afrikaans, Zulu and German as an extra class instead of doing sports 😅 (hated sports at the time)
What he means is you’re taught a language but you’re not fluent in that language whereas in South Africa they are fluent in the second or third language they study at school.
18:35 You can get your Degree by The Age of 21 and start working at 22 and Primary school starts at 5 years old till 12 years from Grade R-7 then High school starts at 13-17 from Grade 8-12 then University Starts at 18 and in 4 yours time you got your Degree
We do have loadshedding, yes everyday now. Some people are now connecting generators to their houses and business or solar and Gas for cooking.
Oh my! This isn't right!
Most South African households now have prepaid electricity meters which you load up with 'vouchers' for whatever amount you can afford. When that runs out the power cuts off and you have to buy another one to top up. So most people don't get a 'bill' anymore. But some of us still do. And yes, I imagine that it does lower the bill, but we don't get loadshedding where I live, so I can't really be sure.
We have loadshedding and we don't have prepaid electricity and I have noticed that our electricity bills are quite much lower when compared to earlier years when there wasn't so much loadshedding. Unfotunately, what we save in electricity bills, we spend on a portable gas stove, LED lights, a portable power substation (battery) etc. so it still costs us more to keep things running and I need electricity for health purposes.
6:08 Exactly,Dion.
The private security he's referring to is not like a bodyguard it's private security companies where if your alarm goes off in your home or you press your panic button they will pitch up to see see what is happening.
Yes it is everyday
Great video guys. It is very informative. I mean me as a South African didn't know some of the staff he mentioned. Crime is high is South Africa 🇿🇦. I think overall South Africa is a great and diverse country. Also Cape Town is just a portion of South Africa, there is still Johannesburg and Durban. Yeah. Cape Town feels like LA 👍.
It's now everyday sometime 4 times a day and off for 2 to 4 hours at a time
Please read a book called miguel street by V.S Naipaul. The set is Caribbean but the characters you will meet them in every african city. :D
I’m not so good at explaining… But for us when you get to grade 10 you have to choose your subjects (minimum of 7 - including a Home and first additional language, Life Orientation, Maths pure or maths literacy (I know other schools have different types of maths though, cause my little brother is in grade 10 this year and he’s doing technical maths or something like that) and 3 other subjects (so be it drama, life or physical science, geography, business studies and so forth)) and you normally choose your subjects based on what field you want to get into when you start working… So once you matriculate (graduate from high school) you apply for the course that you want to do in varsity (law, medicine, graphic design and on and on and on)… It all depends on your marks and the requirements of that particular university, sometimes in order to study a particular course, you should have done certain subjects in high school (eg. applying for medicine you’ll need your life sciences “biology” and your physical sciences and maths pure most of the time) and we finish high school usually at the age of 18 then you go straight into varsity
We also have something called “upgrading” where you basically upgrade your marks if you did not get the required marks for you to get into the varsity you wanted to get to or if you didn’t get enough points to matriculate I think (not too sure about the latter)
So once you have graduated in varsity you can start working or doing your intern or articles if it’s a career that requires that… So usually by the age of 22/23 you would have graduated and started working
Our light bills are crazy expensive and about to increase
When the electricity gets back it uses a lot of power so it does take from our electricity bill
IIRC Most people have to Pre Pay for the electricity you use. Like a pre paid phone/data plan!
Private security in the sense that if you can afford, you buy a house in an estate. So there private security that guards the property. Not like walk around with you. If you have a stand alone house than you build your own security or higher private meaning you can call them any time instead of calling the police.
Love the show guys. Been watching for over 2 months now and big up..... I'm hooked.
Fun fact, try learning about sipitori (kasi language in Pretoria) and also learn about a place called soshanguva (sotho/shangane/guni/vanda).
I've lived in Pretoria my whole life and I studied Northern Sotho/Sepedi from Grade 5 all the way to Matric, which is my third language, btw. When I matriculated, I was fluent in Sepedi, but over the years I became quite rusty as no one wanted to speak it to me, despite my best efforts (people who could understand Sotho back then were incredibly focused on speaking only English, different generation!), so I didn't get enough of an opportunity to practice it every day and to remain fluent. I can still get along with Sepedi and I still remember enough, so if I were to live in a Sepedi community for 3 - 6 months, I'll be perfectly fluent once again. But what I want to know is: how come I know nothing about this sipitori/kasi language in Pretoria??????!!!!!!!!
Also, this guy in the video knows nothing about the rest of South Africa. You cannot live in Cape Town and think that you know South Africa. Cape Town is a tourist mecca and paints a very skewed picture of our country. And the income gap is THE MOST visible in Cape Town! There are places in our country where the income gap is not as extreme as in Cape Town, although I acknowledge that our country is one of the most unequal societies on earth.
No he is incorrect. Us white afrikaans people and colored people can understand each other just fine. Colored people speak a more flat afrikaans which make them unique. Still perfectly understandable. There is no real difference whatsoever other than it sounding a bit different. If you hear about the disparity you need to remember the last 30 years the ANC was in charge. The sad part is that nothing changed and the people they fought to free from the apartheid government are now still in the same situation and I dare say even worse off. Nelson Mandela had a vision to build the rainbow nation that was the whole point of the truth and reconciliation commission but after he died the ANC became so corrupt. If you look deeper into their 30 years of leadership you will see how our country deteriorated. Looting, Corruption, Crime, and poverty is now not just a thing under our black citizens but all races feeling the brunt. Heck Our president is a worth a billion or something and the people struggle all of us. As for Capetown believe me 90% of the rich neighborhoods are owned by rich foreigners. All prices in those fancy malls and restaurants are inflated to cater to tourists. Private security are more a rich people thing for their houses. As for loadshedding we are on stage 6 now that is 10 hours of loadshedding. The problem with that is it cuts our bill but only a little and there is now a vote on a raise of 38% on the price. It is summer now so yeah it is super hot.
But you are a direct beneficiary of apartheid. Are you not gonna talk about that? That you killed people to get what you have. Don't come here and act holy but you are the devil.
When we have load shedding we turn in our gas stove we make a plan the electricity thing in SA 🇿🇦 🤞 is political we will pass it that for sure
I dont even know what number to phone for the police in SA. Loadsheading is now almost 12 hours per day in 4 hour stints and no , we still pay the same for our electricity bills. Infact if you buy R100 you only get 50 units . So you get 50 % of what you pay for , 50 % of the time. Yeah , you read that correct.
Lol did they just flirt with each other when they were talking about private security? Hehehe sweet.
private security is referring to ADT type of community armed reaction which is zoned by suburb. It's not a personal service that follows you around everywhere you go but rather they are at your beck and call via house alarm being triggered and/or panic button activation, etc.
They don't have the same powers and jurisdiction that a national police force member has unless they are absolutely certain you have committed a crime in that area - so they can't harass you like the police would.
America "lifestyle andway of life" is base on POLITICS IN MIND..... WE HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA "LEAVE" POLITICS FOR THE FORMAL SETTINGS AND WE DO NOT TALK POLITICS IN DECEMBER- JANUARY....WE RELAX
I live in Soweto Electricity is free.... Hahaha
Nope the light bill is higher and tarrifs go up, and load shedding is all year round. 2 to 4 times a day
Load shedding only became a thing for last 15 years.Before that we had no load shedding
We dont have that yet black people supporting each other economically! We need to do that for ourselves, thank you for that comment!!
True, because IMO the Indian and white communities in South Africa seem to look out for one another. Not all of them, of course, But way more than othe communities in our country.
7:30 that's true.... I always thought America is an amazing place where you can thrive though. I have heard of many south Africans who went over to usa to work. The worked ard and could really live comfortably. So I think although things are unfair one shouldn't just blame everything on racism or such but keep your head down and work? Am I correct in saying that? I have black friends doing well and that's encouraging.
Although, racism is a big topic it isn't a HUGE topic (as in everyday life). African Americans in America are thriving. We're educated, innovative, and prosperous. However, we still deal with it from time to time no matter our backgrounds or class status.