@stephanieterreblanche9470
South African watching....I appreciate all the attention you give our country across many of your channels. This is a beautiful and tragic place. I hope one day we find balance and peace.
@caneprints
History has shown us that it is easier to tear down old systems than to build new ones that are actually better. Anger is great at tearing things down, but it takes hard work, time and wisdom to build new and better ones.
@rannxerox3970
So if the disparity in SA is all rooted in apartheid, why is the rest of Africa such a mess? Outside of oil countries, why was SA so wealthy, innovative, modern compared to the rest of Africa for 100+ years? And now that apartheid is gone, whites being removed (genocide) from their highly productive farms and those taken over by Blacks, they are crumbling and falling into disparity and SA will soon have a serious food shortage issue. The country is falling into extreme crime, government corruption, infrastructure is falling into decay, etc. Why? Remove European/Western country culture and SA turns into the rest of Africa. As as far as this video talking about the massive disparity, it exists because there was actual wealth there, compared to most of the rest of Africa that is ALL impoverished outside of government. And what freedoms do the rest of Africa have if they just live in corruption, filth, disease, and poverty? Complex issues, for sure, but apartheid, as evil as it was, is why SA had wealth and Westernization.
@MrSankullo
I had a black South African colleague few years ago. Once we were talking about South Africa and she told me something that surprised me quite a lot. She herself was in her 20s so she didn't experience Apartheid herself but she told me what her mother told her. Can'T remember it word for word but the meaning was: "It was better during Apartheid, yes we didn't have freedom but there was order. You could go outside at night without the risk of being robbed or shot". It shocked me that black south african person may have such an opinion. It also showed me how bad things in SA have to be if some black people look at Apartheid with certain nostalgia.
@DrUnfunny
This is the absolute LAST place I'd expect a Gamersupps sponsorship..
@surfinoperator
It's getting worse in South Africa 🇿🇦 😢
@timothykeith1367
It's wierd that farmers own most of the farmland. Lol.. Since dentists own most of the dental offices, it's obvious that dentists stole it.
@ashcarrier6606
A socialist will always assume that when two groups have a wealth disparity, the only explanation can be that one is holding down the other. It is never for something like Dutch Calvinists having a better work ethic. I recently saw a picture of South Africa's child school team that won an Africa-wide scholastic competition. The team was four Afrikaners, two Indians, and a Chinese girl. Racism isn't the problem over there.
@stivs06
People should remember, nobody gave those farmers those successful farms, they built them and their kids then go and study and return to continue building! They didn’t get anything free!!
@BlueBean.0.9.
Naming the chant “Kill the Farmer” when the actual chant is “Kill the Boer” is very interesting to me. For context: Boer is an Afrikaans word that, yes, literally translates to farmer, but is universally used for white farmers specifically. I still really appreciate someone’s finally talking about the issues in this beautiful country in a space that is popular in other countries. A lot of people outside South Africa don’t realise the grave danger our economy is facing as of late, with the whole Trump vs Cyril thing
@mariusbotha5651
As a South African I reeeeally found your pronunciations of names very amusing. 🙂
@michaelallain7706
I applaud your effort and devotion to quality. Health, kind sir.
@bongholio82
I know this is a re-upload, but it's my first time watching this. I understand that this is a difficult topic to cover (especially for non South Africans) in such a short video, and all in all I think you did a passable job. Nobody is denying the horrors of Apartheid, but covering post 1994 South Africa would take a multipart series of one hour videos just to cover the surface level issues. Couple of things... 1) Please, for all that is holy, stop with the AI imagery. It looks terrible, is just plain wrong and cheapens the video. Real images exist of these events and places, please use them. 15:46 Cape Town looks fuck all like that, Goodwood Prison is surrounded by built up areas, as are the lower slopes of the mountain. And that's before talking about the actual mountain itself. Also, Mandela never served at Goodwood Prison as it was built when he was president. I'm assuming there are licensing rights issues with some of the shots you wanted to use (Robben Island), I know the City of Cape Town heavily protects any image with the stadium in it. 2) 20:42 That "lavish" neighborhood next to the township...is an industrial area. 3) Zuma still isn't in prison, and has instead started a new political party, which has outgrown the EFF in 6 months. Malema is losing relevance at an alarming rate, with his own senior party members jumping ship to Zuma's MK Party. What is not mentioned at all regarding the parties is that political lines are very specifically drawn across tribal and/or provincial and/or language lines. The EFF gets most of it's support from Limpopo, Zuma and the MK Party from KwaZulu/Natal, the DA from the Western Cape ( and depending on the day of the week and any by-elections happening, Gauteng) while the ANC gets support nationally, which in turn leads to further problems along the way as it's leadership swings between Xhosa led factions (Mandela, Mbeki, Ramaphosa) and Zulu led factions (Zuma). All this makes decision making on a national level challenging. We could probably break the country down into smaller, far more culturally cohesive countries, but that would mean a degree of sacrifice on behalf of all involved, which politicians, and by extension the public, don't seem capable of. 4) All those seaside mansions in Cape Town.....mostly owned by wealthy Europeans who live there a few weeks every few years. Rest of the time they are Airbnb'd, causing a trickle down all the way down the housing market leading to ridiculous housing costs and rentals for ALL locals . This trend continues in most of the wealthier suburbs in Cape Town (Constantia, Bishops Court, Llundudno,etc) as I am sure it is in other major SA cities. I know Sandton is particularly popular with Nigerian millionaires, as is umShlanga with the Dubai and Indian elite. 5) Education is a right, and is free for all, however, due to a myriad of reasons including, but not limited to, lack of schools and or teachers in more rural areas, politicians weaponising the education system, a subpar educational system that has rewritten history, extremely high drop-out rates due to poverty, or just plain incompetency...the poorer population are not able to rise themselves up. This is a complete failure of the ANC government. During what are called service delivery protests here (and riots anywhere else in the world) schools and public clinics are usually the first to be burned to the ground. Then when you drop the national pass mark (at public schools) to 30%, it kind of becomes a snowballing effect where only degrees from the very best (expensive) institutions actually mean anything, but in order to afford them, you either need wealthy parents, or will need to go overseas to use the degree, in order to pay the loans back. Not mentioned in this video: * EVERYTHING IS APARTHEIDS FAULT Including but not limited to economic and social policies introduced post 1994, government projects and posts filled by the ANC, the fall of the local football team (but not the subsequent rise in the last few years, that's all ANC), and just about anything else that is in need of a convenient scape goat. * The abysmally high murder rates are predominantly black on black violence in the townships. Sorry farm murder activists, that's just the reality. A life is worth far less in the cities and townships. I am not denying that the farm murders aren't a problem (they most definitely are...I live in a ruralish area of the winelands), but they are absolutely dwarfed by gang/taxi shootings (still murder, despite the name), fatal hijackings, and armed home invasions in the suburbs and townships where you can be killed for a R500 ($25) secondhand cellphone. * That population of 60 million does not include the approximately 10 million undocumented citizens of this country, from all over Africa, but predominantly DRC, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. * Those lovely seaside mansions in Bantry Bay that are being shown here....President Ramaphosa owns not one, but two of them, along with several other high value properties around the country, including a game farm with the worlds only couch shaped safe. This applies to many, many ANC cadres living next door to the Middle Eastern arms dealers, the Russian Oligarchs and Chinese government plants. Source -I have worked as a contractor for several of them. * Economic practices implemented, specifically Affirmative Action (BBEEE policies would be an entire, highly boring, episode on its own) to protect the majority, while not providing a relevant education system allowing them to be elevated to a position whereby their skills can make a difference to wider society, and in turn allowing upliftment to spread. Instead Governments unspoken aim is for the minority to create more jobs in the private sector, while forcing them to hire underqualified staff to meet quotas in what is known locally as "window dressing". This becomes especially pertinent when doing ANY work with government, whether supplying an arms contract, or catering for an event. Your employment stats shown here have absolutely no basis in reality and I'm assuming your sources are using the governments official stats, which are just flat out wrong. In short, just like globally, jobs are rapidly being lost to automation and artificial intelligence, especially in agriculture, mining and production. The working class here are EXTREMELY unionised, and striking is a common occurrence. It was inevitable that it would eventually go this way. Don't ever fuck with the money. * Redistribution of land has less to do with housing (except the mansions for cadres) and more to do with nationalising the mines and land to be sold off to either China or Russia in exchange for dodgy nuclear power plants, and more low quality infrastructure projects, thereby allowing the ANC to be further sucked into China and Russia's sphere of influence. This itself is an absolute mess due to the Soviets support of the ANC during Apartheid leading to a puppy like loyalty from the ANC. South Africa as a country is far too large and diverse to paint with the same brush. It's something that the media and politicians do all the time in an attempt to keep people divided and distracted so that the broader ANC voting public don't see how their leaders are stealing from them (see Simons Gupta video for more). Each region/province has its own issues, for varying reasons, but slowly the public are starting to realise that the ANC of today is not the ANC of their parents or grandparents. Slowly the vote is starting to get more spread out, and slowly the more extreme of the politicians are being pushed to the sidelines (in some instances faster than others...looking at you Grot-Zille), or dying out. While South Africa has been a shit-show for the better part of the last century, it does slowly seem to be getting just a little bit more stable every year. Hell, it's been roughly a year since Eskom last turned the lights off, and that has to count for something.
@jonathanmitchell3733
Thanks for this piece. We have great hope for the new coalition government. What is needed in South Africa is for the taxes to be able to do the intended work it was gathered for, instead of filling the pockets of corrupt officials and their buddies. It is clear (and becoming clearer to the general population of South Africa) that there is more than enough tax money gathered to uplift the lives of all South Africans, as soon as corruption goes away.
@joannecormierable
Thank you for re-uploading. The origional video did the soothing Whistler voice no justice and was a unique form or ear torture!
@augiegirl1
The director of the movie “District 9”, Neill Blomkamp, is from South Africa, & the movie was inspired by his childhood in that country during apartheid; the title is a nod to a real place and a real incident. District 6 was a mixed race neighbourhood of Cape Town which the apartheid government demolished in 1966 to make room for whites.
@nspencer7368
Equality is a meaningless measure of a country’s success. Tons of countries have “equality” - everyone is equally impoverished in Ethiopia and Palestine - should South Africa be more like them?
@Kboard_ImpI
12:00 the remainder of South African land? I live in the biggest province, the Eastern Cape. Both the Xhosa homelands/bantustans Ciskei, Transkei were located in the most fertile areas to the east. The bantustan system was based on the historical regions where these ethnic groups lived, they wouldn't have lived elsewhere because their society was based around cattle farming. So after the fall of apartheid they were still farming on their original teritories but could now move around and buy land without being seen as foreign. Drive around like I do and you see land next to every highway not used or inhabited. South Africa is bigger than all of west europe, 3 times Germany. We don't have a land issue, we have a jobless issue and gov like making it about land because that means they don't have to do their duty. Most people who want land life in urban townships without jobs or fertile land to survive off of. Like Soweto during apartheid, but after it became a wealthy neighberhood, now everyone is happy there. It's easy to sit there and talk about land and cry fowl play when logically most people just want a job plus there is 10mil whites in a country of 50mill black yet white people own most of the 120mil hectares of land... A study by the goverment in 2017 found white people own only 20%, and most of this around the big cities and towns which makes sense as this is where their ancestors have lived in cities and towns, and this generational farmers are now in direct conflict with growing urban centers and poverty and many of these people want land to survive because they see rich farmers all around them on the ourskirts of cities. Blame goverment for this, they don't wanna give these people land.
@CH-ju8zt
I'm not sure if you have ever done a video on Liberia, but it would be interesting to learn about the arrival of the Americo-Liberians.
@Places302