Its crazy how people continue to vote for ANC after they turned the wealthiest country in Africa into a barely functioning state.

@Buttsy1

23 күн бұрын

Also crazy how people still vote tory or labour when they're slowly destroying the UK.

@Buttsy1

23 күн бұрын

Our politicians are slowly doing it to the UK.

@anthonymanderson7671

23 күн бұрын

That's what happens when the masses aren't educated enough.

@NotAnotherTheory

23 күн бұрын

​@@Buttsy1 and the British keep voting for them, too... When democracy doesn't work lol

@JD-vq7ln

23 күн бұрын

Is it just because it is mandelas old party?

And after 30 years the country is in Chaos , High crime rates , no jobs and No electric for most of the time , but many will still vote for the ANC that have put the country where it is today

@TvGunslingeRvT

23 күн бұрын

Grays have no brain bro😂😂😂

@ChristophermphoMoudi

23 күн бұрын

U made ur choice let others have theirs

@sidahagarwal742

23 күн бұрын

😂😂 where did you get all that wrong information

@NotAnotherTheory

23 күн бұрын

​@@sidahagarwal742 clarify what is wrong about what he said? 🙂 We have very high unemployment and loadshedding will return as soon as the elections are over... Or are you one of those easily fooled ones? South Africa has one of the worst crime rates in the world, with the highest rape stats in the world... But you clearly don't know these things 🙂💯

@_ArsNova

23 күн бұрын

30 years after apartheid, and South Africa is worse off than ever. Almost like that policy was doing something. Similar situation in "Zimbabwe".

someone should tell these women (and frankly a lot of black South Africans) the choice isn't between voting for the ANC and no one at all. there are other parties in the country.

@ChristophermphoMoudi

23 күн бұрын

Keep it to urself freedom is for everyone but choice don't concerned us

@NotAnotherTheory

23 күн бұрын

​@@ChristophermphoMoudi it absolutely does 🙂 if enough people keep voting for corruption, we suffer... So keep that erroneous opinion to yourself 👍

@Kage-jk4pj

23 күн бұрын

The choice is between corruption or corruption.

@NotAnotherTheory

23 күн бұрын

@@Kage-jk4pj the ACDP isn't a corrupt choice.

@katlegodidit

23 күн бұрын

@NotAnotherTheory, I refuse to be ruled by religion, the most oppressive form of governance.

BBC doesn’t understand South Africa at all

@frankie._.4167

17 күн бұрын

They don't understand the Uk

@yangasidziya3245

16 күн бұрын

​@@frankie._.4167 Do they understand anything?

Interesting how the BBC didn’t report on the South Africans who voted at Trafalgar Square in London on the weekend

@Slic_doc

23 күн бұрын

Many already did

@danidejaneiro8378

23 күн бұрын

I’m sure South Africans voted at their embassies in many countries around the world, nothing new.

30 years of epic failure and corruption

@_ArsNova

23 күн бұрын

30 years after apartheid, and South Africa is worse off than ever. Almost like that policy was doing something. Similar situation in "Zimbabwe".

@katlegodidit

23 күн бұрын

If the government decided to redistribute the wealth held by the top 10% to majority of the citizens you'll blame them still.

@CIOZimbabwe

23 күн бұрын

@@_ArsNova Shut up

@leechee5721

23 күн бұрын

Corruption exist because of western power, if you dont submit and want to work for the nation they will simply replace you.

@stephenmurphy2212

22 күн бұрын

So you’d rather apartheid remained in place then?

Voting for ANC means voting for CHAOS! South Africa looks like shittttt

It's so sad we have a beautiful country with a beautiful culture and beautiful people who just want the basics and want to live a dignified life. Shame on the ANC

I am Zambian.This news report has touched me a lot. It explains so much about the reality not only in South Africa but sub Saharan Africa at large. GOD BLESS Cynthia and her family. It is high time leaders start to value the people in their country than themselves. Corruption is a virus in Africa and it needs to be dealt with using legitimacy, truthfulness,transparency and cooperation for it to stop affecting many lives. What a great news report. GOD BLESS AFRICA.

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

corruption is a virus spread by neocolonialism he who no know go know

Whites and Blacks are both struggling, there is only a small numer of Rich whites and blacks in South Africa, the average middle-class SA citizens also getting poorer by the day, im white and live in a squatter camp on the outskirts of Mamelodi, we need to stand together if we want this to work, get your head out of racial politics let start working together, it's the only way.

30 years of economic decline 😐

@marcosgarvey7129

20 күн бұрын

80 years of British imperialist decline 😀👏.

@aarongunnz9513

19 күн бұрын

Just like Zimbabwe

Meet the new corrupt boss, same as the old corrupt boss.

Yeah but the country has spiraled down hill since crime is at an all time high

@katlegodidit

23 күн бұрын

@purberri, only if you knew what it was like for the majority of people then you wouldn't be saying that. South Africa can be better, but it's way better than when its wealth was for the few greedy people who to this day don't want to share their ill-gotten gains

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

​@@katlegodiditNot so sure about that. Are you being objective here, and correcting for the huge advances in technology in the last three decades? Remember, technology has brought about a massive improvement in living standards for all people regardless of governance? Again, are you factoring-in global technological improvements that would have come to SA under almost any government?

History of South Africa does not start with Apartheid, that region has thousands of year of history and also warfare, Conquest and Slavery in South African region was very common for thousands of years, with Many Black tribes fighting with each other for territory and Supremacy.

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

and the most violent of all these tribes was the british

@obiwanshinobi76

22 күн бұрын

@@figgettit Oh no you are wrong - it was Shaka and the zulu's. The british and dutch were there but Shaka was ruthless. Learn some history

@dannyarcher6370

22 күн бұрын

@@figgettit The most violent were the Zulus. Please educate yourself. A lot MORE blacks would have been killed by them had the British not defeated them. Read up on the Mfecane.

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

​@dannyarcher6370 The BBC has to mention apartheid thirty years later in every single report about SA... It's their MO 😂🤣🙄 Yeah, just like even in the 1970's every time they mentioned anything about Germany they had to mention the "notzi" Regime---NOT!

@jimmycricket5366

20 күн бұрын

@@dannyarcher6370 Maybe they want to rewrite history to suit their own feelings and lusts, but history is too well documented for that, even includes early photographs. 🤔

And look how the country turned out to be. Perfect example of when you listen to the world and what they want and how it turns out to be a goat rodeo

At a certain point it's not apartheid's fault. It's yours.

@HVGT1989

23 күн бұрын

Still a long way to go before we reach that point.....that's how strong the apartheid system was to benefit one group of people.

@barneymagee3285

23 күн бұрын

They’ll NEVER take responsibility….

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

and what is that point?

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

@@barneymagee3285 who is they?

@TheElectriczulu

23 күн бұрын

​@@HVGT1989another 15 years and there would have been democracy longer than there was apartheid! It's in the ANC interest to keep blaming apartheid and keep the past alive. As long as everyone is divided and fighting each other no one is watching ANC steal what little is left

30 years after apartheid, and South Africa is worse off than ever. Almost like that policy was doing something. Similar situation in "Zimbabwe".

@CIOZimbabwe

23 күн бұрын

Shut up

@ebhole

22 күн бұрын

Black Africans are too backwards...it's everywhere.

There are people who still say viva anc..sad!! Politics and religion same nonsense

Is there something significant about 30 years? Or in another 200 years will you still be reminding us of the apartheid, and mentioning it for every South African election?

@Spearca

22 күн бұрын

The significance is that there hasn't been a second turnover of power. There have been transfers from one ANC administration to the next, but no opposition victory since 1994. So by some definitions they have not established functional democracy.

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

And don't forget every single little report on SA. Pandering is not only severe weakness but it's also 🤮 inducing.

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

​@@SpearcaThe OP is questioning and complaining why the repeated mantra about aparthide... Like it ended only a few years ago, instead of ten times that long!!! It's truly bizarre reporting!

@Spearca

21 күн бұрын

@@jimmycricket5366 Why would you think that the legacy of apartheid could be undone in only 30 years? America is still reckoning with the ripples of slavery and segregation and civil rights. Parts of Europe are still twisted up about religious conflict from centuries before that. The present is made of the past. It takes a _long_ time to get to a really new place. South Africa is only a couple steps out of apartheid. When somebody other than the ANC wins, that will be one more step.

@jimmycricket5366

20 күн бұрын

@@Spearca Are you trying to suggest that in a hundred years time the blame for forty five years of apartheid will have reduced?!... All this whilst in recent years the blame has been INCREASING? By all accounts it seems it will be worse, but I hope I'm wrong. I hope that the trend will change somehow BUT it seems like a perpetual blame game by all scientifically measured analysis of "trends".

There is still apartheid but now between the poor and the Middle class and the rich people of south africa, And trust me when you are there you really really see it In my country, But you know we still have hope in South Africa in our people it will take a long time before everything to make our country South Africa shine.

@derrationaleDude

23 күн бұрын

Well, good luck with that mate. Just remember: nothing comes out of nothing. If you want change, you need to do something yourself.

@NotAnotherTheory

23 күн бұрын

We still have racially discriminatory laws that target only minorities, so there's that...

@HVGT1989

23 күн бұрын

There is no apartheid between rich and poor... This was created under the apartheid government...30 years is not enough to change this picture....

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

thre's no middle class in south africa go check the gini index

@K.KLovelyz

19 күн бұрын

​@@figgettit yes there is, I'm South African and I'm middle class

Why they always showing the rural parts of South Africa and not the main cities. I mean it would be better to show both.

With the promise of equality and justice for all! Still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled

Wish South Africa was exactly like my town. 🏆🏆🏆

bbc mined lot of diamonds in these years

The combination of ANC EFF and MK, means we are skewed. Prepare for the worst 5 years yet

@BeleniYara-ow2zq

20 күн бұрын

DA is racist, evil,corrupt ,and is dividing South Africans

@jamesphillips5073

17 күн бұрын

The business community will be too afraid if the ANC forms a coalition with the EFF and the MK. There will be a panicked flight of capital. And foreign investors will take their money somewhere else.

@BeleniYara-ow2zq

17 күн бұрын

@@jamesphillips5073 when you talk about business community ,you mean those western terrorists ?

30 years on, and things are different yet still such a mess.😢 I was just going to go cast my vote on Wednesday without thinking about it, but when you remind me it's 30 years, and me being born in the freedom year, I think I need to make a bigger deal about this special year's vote😊 maybe.🙃

Whats the name of the 1994 documentary

As a Zimbabwean, I know that ANC will win🤣🤣🤣🤣

Under democracy don’t forget

@BeleniYara-ow2zq

20 күн бұрын

Fake democracy ANC killed our families 👪 in Marikana

Seeing how you used to suffer like that hits hard😭

Lovely of you to return

Thank you BBC for this. I'm a South African and this report brought tears to my eyes.

London going the way of South African cities. Gated communities and private security as we move further down the path of a low trust society.

ANC kleptocracy replaces the brutal apartheid regime. Same poverty and humiliation, different colour!

South Africa vis a complete failed state nothing to see here.

Yes the anc mess

That's such a lazy video caption.

For those who don't know, election day is 29 May 2024, not today.

There is no country that can transform the lives of all citizens even people who have refused to grab opportunities of the state's upliftintment programmes. South Africa of today has provided opportunities for millions who were suppressed under apartheid. Her situation was too dire for her to change her status. Her children have had opportunities to go to school and better their lives as well.

It's sad to see so many still living under such challenging circumstances but it's crazy how this report ignores the many strides made with millions of SAns living in much improved and prosperous conditions.

ANC OUT, EFF OUT, MK OUT, GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!!!!

@hemanthathirumaran7654

23 күн бұрын

Huh ???

@nomalungelongcete5875

22 күн бұрын

Where?

@trevork.855

21 күн бұрын

What about DA?

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

​@@nomalungelongcete5875North Africa, leave the Khoi San alone!

70 % of black men in South Africa 🇿🇦 maintains that things were better during apartheid than they are now.

@mrmusanda3576

22 күн бұрын

Lol

This is a very good objective report about South Africa.There is serious poverty and struggle in the country

30 years? Com'on South Africa, ditch your old politicians. They're useless.

Nah the ANC have just reverse the roles

Anyways, ANC is losing this year

Still beats my understanding how blacks can be discriminated against in their own country and continent.. until today

@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu

23 күн бұрын

Passivity and stupidity

@royalcrowntowing2464

22 күн бұрын

Corruption of African politicians, paid off by western politicians and banks keeping those countries in debt and plundered its natural resources by the Chinese and those same African politicians selling there ppl out and enriching their families and sending their kids to western universities

@CharlotteLong-nh4pt

22 күн бұрын

Come see, they not discriminated against, whites are, they cannot even apply for jobs, it's black only, if whites are employed, there is big trouble and discrimination against them, yes the black people deserve equality, but there are too many poor black people also being left behind as the rich ANC only care about themselves. The small tip that the ANC leave for unemployed barely gets them food for a week.

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

How is this happening? Be specific.

@Greg16350

16 күн бұрын

All about having a culture that cannot keep up with developments in the rest of the world.

As a fellow African, I feel so sad for cynthia and her children! This made me upset. God bless them.

What resources does Britain own? What makes Britain rich? How much of Britain’s resources are the exploits of their colonist ways?

@CharlotteLong-nh4pt

22 күн бұрын

They don't own resources, but they own their responsibilities to the people, South Africa owns resources but the Government doesn't share it with the people.

@simamkelemadikane

22 күн бұрын

@@CharlotteLong-nh4pt Most of our resources are still in the hands of descendants of European colonisers and their American allies. The people who call this their homeland, i.e. those who have ALWAYS been here, own less than 10% 9f this land’s wealth. “Black households own only about 5% of the wealth held by a TYPICAL white household.” “According to a 2022 World Bank report, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, ranking first out of 164 countries.” The truth is that apartheid never ended, it was never about hating another group people - it was about robbing the people of their wealth which, until today, remains in hands of colonisers. As long as the people of the land don’t own the resources, the majority will always be poor.

@DM-0072

19 күн бұрын

And just look how those awful colonialists developed the country and built it up , mined it and turned it into the richest country in Africa......then gave it back....now look at it

@sunnya4310

18 күн бұрын

@@CharlotteLong-nh4pt White people still own the majority of the wealth despite apartheid being over. So you agree that the government should do pass more policy that allows for more wealth distribution?

Things are so much better……😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is why I worked very hard over the past year as an activist to literally register hundreds of new voters . . . the right voters coming from different backgrounds and cultures to go and vote and to work together to bring change in their communities and hopefully also in government. We need a new government and a new president. In God we trust. And we are now ready to go to the voting stations literally within the next 48 hours to start to get the voting districts ready in our ward / region. I am not going to run away but to fight for this beautiful country and its people. Forty years ago it was done with a rifle in the military . . . now we are going to hit them back with very precious votes. The PEN is mighter than the SWORD.

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

bro, voting is worthless in a colony go read a book

Cynthia went thru a lot. She is still want to vote for ANC.

I wouldn't get surprised if South Africa becomes in Venezuela 2.0

@Greg16350

16 күн бұрын

It is that already. All those liberation parties that choose socialism suffer same fate of failed state and rich political leaders.

They achieved freedom and elected ANC to govern them 😂

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

🤣😅🤣😂

i hate how you guys always show places like this when it comes to Africa, always its pathetic!

That is great video thank you for showing the history and today at least today things are different though very slow changes. Kindly show also show the sufferings of Palestinians from 1948 Jaffa genocide, 1994 Sheba genocide and today Gaza genocide. It might hard since the perpetrators are also BBC beneficiaries and British colonist and not Africans. At least try as reporter

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

What are you talking about?

The ANC will win again. This is because of misguided loyalty and nostalgia. South Africans still believe that voting it out will be a betrayal to Mandela,Sisulu and Tambo. And yet these starlwarts-if they would come back-would actually encourage them to vote it out-as they wouldn't be able to recognize it themselves.

Obviously fools vote for ANC

What a lovely family ❤

And projects like this👇 have also played an important role in our country, keep on going SA

30 yrs is all it took to put them heading back to the stone age...no water for 8 months ? What is wrong with those people ?

Do you want 1. "Racism" 2. A third world country Vote!

@arkangel2000

20 күн бұрын

better to live under racism. just ask Zimbabweans.

@sunnya4310

18 күн бұрын

Yeah because apartheid SA was not a third world country you dunce 😂. Did you not see the shack she was living in during arpatheid SA, a supposed "developed" country?

What is this like an anti ANC or something??

00:07 is she talking about South Africa or Israel? Sounds like one and the same to me, maybe I misheard.

It seems that South Africa has been recently distracted from making progress domestically. And with that level of sustained inequality, no wonder there is a contented approach to do what Russia and China want as a part of BRICs.

If you mean the vote in 1994, this was SUPPOSED to be the end of an age of tribalism in Zuid Afrika and a new age of a democratic government. Sadly many in the the leadership there actually want tribalism back. Here in The UK it seems many on leadership want tribalism here too. Perhaps it is driven by followers of The World Economic Forum - Klaus Scwab has boasted he has placed many of those who studied on 'Young Leadership' courses at The WEF into the government's cabinets of many key nations around the world. Perhaps the investigative journalists in The BBC woukd lkke to look into the work of these traitors within democratic nations; who seek to destroy the sovereignty of nations from within to establish their vision of an atheistic, Marxist global government? While doing this one might be abke to check on the significance on the signing - by over 100 world keaders - of the document, The Global Compact for Migration. Does this legalise every petson who crosses borders either away from border crossings, without paperwork or perhaps makes borders irrelevant in the new world that has been planned for us all by elites?

Why have 7 kids if you can't afford it?

@user-ww5qw8jd3b

21 күн бұрын

High fertility rate and ignorance

@Adrianadrian173

21 күн бұрын

No access to contraception often as well

@masellononyana816

21 күн бұрын

Did you hear the part that they built that house for their mother fool?

@user-hq7qh5wn9b

20 күн бұрын

Men needs to keep their wieners in there pants so do women too, they need to open there eyes. So many kids yet no means to feed them

Actually there is no corruption by the ANC. The ANC is taking care of every citizen in South Africa. Nobody is poor. Nobody is hungry. There is no crime in South Africa. Education in South Africa is one of the best in the world. The only thing that the ANC should continue to worry about is the oppression of the Hamas terrorists by the apartheid regime of the Jewish state. Ha

@ankundamwebembezi6358

20 күн бұрын

😂

They will still vote for ANC We still in this situation until jesus comes back

Love you South Africa ❤

I advice you to do a report on the USA, Where one per cent of people owns 50% of US economy.

Nothing much has change

Let me balance the issue here, this story is very sad, but things like this happen all over the world, it is the consequences of apartheid, you can see that this is the work of apartheid in 1994, bad government ever, I'm very much proud of my country to have a place that can accommodate our poor. , instead of our people sleeping on the street like in other countries, well done SA

I think it is a good start, at least "voting" is a democratic symbol.

I cant wait to see the same Headline for Israel/Palestine in 30 years when I am an old man

@SapphiR3_

23 күн бұрын

Israeli arabs has the same rights as israeli jews and israeli chrictians. Palestinians are not citizens of Israel....

South Africa has been ruled by dark brown for 39 years now. The world didn't end and Afrikaans weren't lynched for decades of apartheid.

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

first, learn to count

Let me tell you our NRM gov regardless of corruption is better than the anc 10 fold I thank museveni

We only had hope in 1994. Hope that there will not be a civil war. Check. Hope that African leaders will make good choices. Cross.

Man if you choose anc you are choosing to suffer so dont blame anyone but youself the next 30 years you gonna suffer 10times more

I seriously don't understand the South African Zionists

Democracy , deserves to be before the ICJ!😂

The good old days were so much better.

@figgettit

23 күн бұрын

for who?

@sunnya4310

18 күн бұрын

Ah yes, the tent she was living in during peak of racism was better than the government built house she lives in now.

@Greg16350

16 күн бұрын

​@@sunnya4310The hut you mean.

From an economic powerhouse with world leading infrastructure 30 years ago to power cuts, extreme poverty ect today. "We be governments n sheeiit"

How African Slavery Civilized Britain Over the course of three centuries, Britain became the largest slaving nation in the world and the slave trade grew to become Britain’s largest and most profitable industry. Britain generated an estimated equivalent of four trillion pounds on the unpaid labour of slaves. Britain owes its very existence as a first world nation to the African slave trade. Great Britain’s economic way of life was formed by slavery: about it revolved, and on it depended, most of Britain’s other industries.

@codswallop164

23 күн бұрын

@SenatorAgrapa Cool story but 3rd world migration and being the world foster parent to people who couldn't wipe their own backside has cost many more trillion than the lies you posted.

@grahambell4298

23 күн бұрын

And how much did the black Africans who sold those slaves to Britain and other countries make?

@barneymagee3285

23 күн бұрын

Britain ended it , not the African slavers…

@jimmycricket5366

21 күн бұрын

Haha 😂 where do you dream up this stuff and what are you smoking? Haha 😅

@Greg16350

16 күн бұрын

Let's not forget your Arab brothers who managed the slave trade and still do.

It's confirmed!! South African's National IQ test will be written on 29 May.

A lot has been done since 1994, this documentary one sided....

y’all cut the woman off like you thought we wouldn’t notice

the british remain responsible

Don’t vote ANC!!!

A shite country now, unless u live in the rich parts.

@AfricanCorn-np8jt

23 күн бұрын

Too real I live in the surbubs and outside of it is absolute crap especially the CBD's and townships

South Africans in the comments section, PLEASE vote on Wednesday. We can't do another 5 years of this downward spiral. NHI + land expropriation = Zim 2.0. We have so much potential, so please vote for any party in the Multi-Party Charter

Yes, the ANC has done immense damage to South Africa but the real issues are the IMF and a global economic system which protects private property at all costs. The ANC had to implement neoliberal reforms not because they wanted to but because the so-called Washington Consensus made anything else impossible. Corruption is not the reason for economic inequality but another symptom of the very same root cause, which is the neoliberal US-dominated world order.

@christina-vu4ks

23 күн бұрын

Exactly this! Well said!

@thiphan264

23 күн бұрын

South Corea becomes rich. Please don't blame other for the own problems.

In your reporting, please highlight the vibrant and beautiful aspects of South Africa, such as Johannesburg, Sandton City, Cape Town, and Durban. It is important to delve into the narrative that, despite significant development in these areas, there are still communities facing hardships. This duality underscores the need to tell African stories from an African perspective. Western media often portrays Africa predominantly through a negative lens. By showing both the challenges and the progress, we can provide a more balanced and accurate representation. This approach is essential to counteract the misconceptions that lead people in other countries to view Africa as underdeveloped. It is crucial to present a comprehensive story that reflects the complexities and richness of the African experience.

Has Marcus Rashford pulled out THE CARD yet … to complain about his none Euro 2024 selection

@Ritesh-yy1zr

23 күн бұрын

😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

@hemanthathirumaran7654

23 күн бұрын

@@Ritesh-yy1zr What about the poverty in your own country, India. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

@Ritesh-yy1zr

22 күн бұрын

@@hemanthathirumaran7654 what's poverty got to do with my response?

SA living on promises of the old days 😂

Heartbreaking piece from BBC.

Is south africa really a country now😂

Sounds exactly like a blue city in the United States.

haiti 2.0

You always portray wrong narrative about our country xeim😊