Why European Tourists Are Visiting South African Slums (HBO)

Cape Town is the premier tourist destination in South Africa. Wine tours, beaches, and scenic hiking are all within easy driving distance.
But if none of that sounds appealing, you can take a guided tour of a slum.
Mzu Lembeni runs one of the many tour companies that takes tourists into Cape Town’s townships, impoverished areas that were first created when the Apartheid government forced nonwhites to live in segregated areas.
On his tour, tourists can walk right into people’s homes, drink homemade liquor, play with children at a local school, and take as many pictures as they like.
For some people, this sounds like exploitation. But Lembeni, who grew up in a township himself, disagrees.
“If there was no poverty ... I'll do the township tour, because [of] the culture,” Lembeni says. “I don't sell the poverty, I sell the culture.”
Most of Lembeni’s clients are white Europeans, who have come to see the “real” South Africa. Mzu says his tours are the best way to do that.
In a country where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and where the shadow of apartheid still looms over daily life, a township is a pretty good primer on what “real” looks like for a lot of people.
But not everyone who lives in the townships likes the tourists who are constantly wandering their streets.
VICE News joined a group of Europeans on vacation to see how local residents feel about being part of the holiday scenery.
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  • @tshepokgwele1789
    @tshepokgwele17895 жыл бұрын

    "We are not animals, we are human beings"

  • @tajia4807

    @tajia4807

    4 жыл бұрын

    And they cut him off quick asf

  • @wyaldkingdom
    @wyaldkingdom5 жыл бұрын

    I'd be pissed as hell if I sent my kid to school and then they come back home saying that some stranger was invited into the classroom and allowed to kiss and touch them. Get a grip lady and be respectful of other people's children.

  • @woutmeulemans4853

    @woutmeulemans4853

    5 жыл бұрын

    wtf thats the difference between europe and america. u guys are mad for nothing. I don't see anything wrong with this

  • @MsTishalish

    @MsTishalish

    5 жыл бұрын

    That school really shouldn't allow strangers into that school! This is reckless!

  • @subhabratadas4087

    @subhabratadas4087

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe experience a culture before criticizing it? Adust your lense a bit?

  • @MsTishalish

    @MsTishalish

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@subhabratadas4087 Taking unvetted strangers to a school is wrong on so many levels. Has nothing to do with culture, this is pure exploitation, exposing those kids to all kinds of miscreants.

  • @deanb970

    @deanb970

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh look at me I got a picture with loads of African school kids, she’s so hip

  • @ninasica103
    @ninasica1035 жыл бұрын

    "In Switzerland, you cannot touch kids". I feel very unconfortable. Treat kids in their own country, the way you treat yours in your country.

  • @calebcruz2812

    @calebcruz2812

    5 жыл бұрын

    Unless you treat the kids in your country badly, then the opposite

  • @ninasica103

    @ninasica103

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@calebcruz2812 true

  • @lds8fcad

    @lds8fcad

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @u235u235u235

    @u235u235u235

    3 жыл бұрын

    no, when in Rome... i've brought my kids to 3rd world countries and other people touched my kids but it was normal for those cultures. just have to roll with it.

  • @slowanddeliberate6893

    @slowanddeliberate6893

    3 жыл бұрын

    She wanted to pet them...

  • @younggabriel
    @younggabriel5 жыл бұрын

    "Poverty Porn" Gotta let that one sink in.

  • @digbyjones4203

    @digbyjones4203

    5 жыл бұрын

    Every other black country has just as much or MORE poverty than South Africa.... why is this story being twisted in yet another "it's all whiteys fault" vibe?

  • @Sun-Tzu-

    @Sun-Tzu-

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@digbyjones4203 It is whiteys fault. If we didn't massacre them, bomb their cities to shit, colonize their countries, divide up their land, sell weapons to warlords, buy diamonds form gangsters, train and fund local terrorist groups, incite mass religious unrest, kidnap thousands of locals, kill their local leaders, sponsor coups, create apartheid, steal their oil, pollute their waters, cut down their forests, drive them to poach and then kill them for doing so, force them to work in mines where the white owners get the resources they dig, then they may have a fighting chance.

  • @OjaysReel

    @OjaysReel

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@digbyjones4203 sounds like you're ignorant about Africa's history.

  • @OjaysReel

    @OjaysReel

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@BBxx19 Or maybe you'll benefit from expanding your worldview by reading up on genocieds and plunder on the African continent courtesy of white people; how it continues and the effects on past, present and future generations. Ignorance is a choice.

  • @avilestiffany

    @avilestiffany

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeh that was a poignant remark & on point

  • @SirAmicVarze
    @SirAmicVarze5 жыл бұрын

    That Swiss lady seemed creepy as hell.

  • @jonathaningram8157

    @jonathaningram8157

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sir Amic Varze poor choice of word. I wouldn’t judge someone on one sentence.

  • @firdaus125

    @firdaus125

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m sure English isn’t her first language. She seems kind and just trying to spread love to these poor kids. She’s a wonderful role model to her Son.

  • @unsceneKen

    @unsceneKen

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Alfonso G what she meant by that?

  • @unconditionalLove1

    @unconditionalLove1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mike I really don’t think so fam lol

  • @danielmor4073

    @danielmor4073

    5 жыл бұрын

    She was kissing them, but because she’s female it’s okay hahaha. Disgusting

  • @ovirio3566
    @ovirio35665 жыл бұрын

    Me : chill in the house . Tourists rush in. Me : wtf.

  • @blagoevski336

    @blagoevski336

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Red Carded Same

  • @Onneukbaar
    @Onneukbaar5 жыл бұрын

    Facebook mom posting a picture with South African children: look how good I am

  • @Onneukbaar

    @Onneukbaar

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alfonso G what do evangelist and brown people gotta do with this?

  • @goosty17

    @goosty17

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Onneukbaar Because that's what happened there historically ....

  • @malesi

    @malesi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its called poverty porn

  • @clicheguevara5282

    @clicheguevara5282

    5 жыл бұрын

    Suburbanite progressive wearing a hijab and posting a selfie from the latest corporate sponsored hashtag protest: look how woke I am.

  • @isaacb725

    @isaacb725

    5 жыл бұрын

    I mean if they legit gave them money and stuff then at least it's something

  • @claudiaarevalo2904
    @claudiaarevalo29045 жыл бұрын

    Wtf they're not in a zoo these are real people

  • @jhefferson9048

    @jhefferson9048

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Abraham Shekelbergstien u disgust me

  • @zacht9805

    @zacht9805

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@anyaperceives While I agree the person above is absolutely wrong and ridiculous, you are no better by saying that. Also Neanderthals were just as intelligent as homosapiens in the same time period so your point is just stupid.

  • @texasgun2731

    @texasgun2731

    5 жыл бұрын

    white leftists look down on all brown people. why do you think they break into applause when a black guy manages to finish primary school. they didnt think it could happen!

  • @tonysmith6967

    @tonysmith6967

    5 жыл бұрын

    This has been happening for long time. In 1950s-80s they used to travel South Asia(India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nepal) for poverty tourism.

  • @motivity715

    @motivity715

    5 жыл бұрын

    Im from south africa @ByeBitch it isnt the guys fault who does the tours coz he's putting food on the table .Im in the middle class so ive got priveliges that he doesnt have access to ...you have to do what you can around here to get your check its rough for the lower class citizens in my country

  • @PDog69
    @PDog695 жыл бұрын

    And that lady kissing the kids, that was weird, right?

  • @Silvannetwork

    @Silvannetwork

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yep

  • @CocoaCookies_

    @CocoaCookies_

    5 жыл бұрын

    Parodist very weird indeed 😕

  • @unsceneKen

    @unsceneKen

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah kinda , i was like hold up.

  • @benpickard6507

    @benpickard6507

    5 жыл бұрын

    If she was male she would be going to prison

  • @alejoxsantana

    @alejoxsantana

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @leondelafonte
    @leondelafonte5 жыл бұрын

    Culture tours are so freaking strange. It's weird. Especially if you're taking pictures like you're on safari.

  • @phanx0m924

    @phanx0m924

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂 😂 😂 LOL they fun

  • @Daks906
    @Daks9065 жыл бұрын

    That young man said it best. "people take our pictures without our permission. We are not animals." That woman kissing those kids crossed the line 😕. She shouldn't have. Hugging or shaking hands would have been just fine.

  • @dennyderawan986

    @dennyderawan986

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dakalo M eh don’t be soo sensitive lah. She’s just showing affection. If you see things from a bad perspective, you’ll only get to see the bad part of it.

  • @FixedFace

    @FixedFace

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derry Darmawan these people are never satisfied. not caring about african children = triggered. hugging and kidding them = triggered

  • @beyondthestars4299

    @beyondthestars4299

    5 жыл бұрын

    Whats wrong with hugging kids

  • @MsTishalish

    @MsTishalish

    5 жыл бұрын

    That school shouldn't let strangers there in the first place. That is utterly wrong.

  • @dddhhh2612

    @dddhhh2612

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@MsTishalish it seems to be a win for both the guests and the kids. it just is a culture not like yours.

  • @intellektualPoet
    @intellektualPoet5 жыл бұрын

    "In Switzerland, you can't touch kids" So what the hell makes you think you can come to Africa and touch these kids?? These people are sick...

  • @nonstickbrute7941

    @nonstickbrute7941

    4 жыл бұрын

    ha relax

  • @sandhyamathura

    @sandhyamathura

    4 жыл бұрын

    100% correct. This shit is SICK.

  • @anthonyperalta6106
    @anthonyperalta61065 жыл бұрын

    Yoo that Switzerland lady creepy

  • @davidearielrossolato978

    @davidearielrossolato978

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really ducking creepy

  • @AgameListro
    @AgameListro5 жыл бұрын

    Vice do a video on the massacre in Sudan

  • @dacealksne

    @dacealksne

    5 жыл бұрын

    That would be journalism.

  • @uwu_maya3631

    @uwu_maya3631

    5 жыл бұрын

    Corrosion37 it's still a massacre

  • @Juel92

    @Juel92

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Zac Crow Vice rarely reports on stuff like that to begin with. They run their articles about weirdly specific stuff but they're not the "breaking news" type.

  • @joshotter4919

    @joshotter4919

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Zac Crow ​ Showdown Vice News (The youtube channel) only post what Vice News (The TV Channel) has posted after a week it aired on TV, so don't expect to hear anything from Vice News for about a week.

  • @menglish924

    @menglish924

    5 жыл бұрын

    vice does videos on the parts of the world the rest of the media doesn't show I doubt they'd make one

  • @fabienlehenaff2742
    @fabienlehenaff27425 жыл бұрын

    4:23 describes exactly how I felt watching this

  • @2000guineas

    @2000guineas

    5 жыл бұрын

    What kind of creepy peado shit i that?

  • @justinblake552

    @justinblake552

    5 жыл бұрын

    Forreal

  • @fabienlehenaff2742

    @fabienlehenaff2742

    5 жыл бұрын

    judd stoned apparently you care enough to comment hahahahah

  • @0o0o0o0o00000o0o0o0o

    @0o0o0o0o00000o0o0o0o

    5 жыл бұрын

    @JB JG Whi.te Fragi.lity.

  • @who919

    @who919

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@blaccolive365 He was the first one to break them in

  • @JuVe_546
    @JuVe_5465 жыл бұрын

    "Cool beans! Cool banana!"

  • @sivikelwegwebu6320

    @sivikelwegwebu6320

    5 жыл бұрын

    "cooooooooooollllll beeeeaaannnsss!Cccooooolll Bbbaaannnaaannnnaaaa!"

  • @wolfinthesuit

    @wolfinthesuit

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wakanda in the nutshell

  • @sir1junior

    @sir1junior

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@wolfinthesuit ....Turtle Power!

  • @CarlosConsorcioCastellanoPerez

    @CarlosConsorcioCastellanoPerez

    5 жыл бұрын

    Spat out my beer when he said that

  • @knightcool7769

    @knightcool7769

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m South African, I always say that😂 didn’t realize how funny it sounds

  • @MrFoxxRaven
    @MrFoxxRaven5 жыл бұрын

    That swiss tourist was creepy AF.....

  • @starcherry6814

    @starcherry6814

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol she better consider herself lucky none their mamas were around!

  • @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Abraham Shekelbergstien where people go missing ....

  • @ChrisM-bn5vr

    @ChrisM-bn5vr

    5 жыл бұрын

    Everyone is judging her way too harshly, she wasn’t trying to be creepy, I think she didn’t realize what she said sounded like that. She’s just a mother who likes kids, the kids where all happy and smiling to meet her anyway, no harm done.

  • @mycatisaslayqueen9778
    @mycatisaslayqueen97785 жыл бұрын

    Imagine going to places like this to photograph your ancestor's handiwork

  • @cheyno237

    @cheyno237

    5 жыл бұрын

    What a crock. Before settlers these people were living in huts without electricity dying from the common cold. Blame 25 years of ANC theft and corruption by your own people

  • @juliusmaehlich3138

    @juliusmaehlich3138

    4 жыл бұрын

    Queen of Africa. Don't talk bull. This is the handiwork of the black Government of 25 years.

  • @nayaeva

    @nayaeva

    4 жыл бұрын

    They take your land and wealth and then laugh at you when you have little left

  • @HaHa-qt2zj

    @HaHa-qt2zj

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cheyno Mdingi incorrect. Your ancestors brought those diseases here. My ancestor did not care for such a lifestyle. It was forced upon them. Stop trying to speak for my people colonizer

  • @chrisbennett606

    @chrisbennett606

    4 жыл бұрын

    Julius Maehlich yeah they created the townships

  • @ricardoguanipa8275
    @ricardoguanipa82755 жыл бұрын

    meanwhile my black friends go to South Africa for the Beaches and luxurious resorts

  • @hollyfieldnkwanui5567

    @hollyfieldnkwanui5567

    5 жыл бұрын

    Of course. You go to see what is new. Slums for them are not new.

  • @titanswin472

    @titanswin472

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hollyfieldnkwanui5567 ^ Holy racist

  • @spaceman1953

    @spaceman1953

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@titanswin472 not really =/

  • @danidejaneiro8378

    @danidejaneiro8378

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really? Because there was a black tourist interviewed in the video..... or didn't you bother watching that far before rushing to the comments to start race-baiting.

  • @titanswin472

    @titanswin472

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Shard 308 I am black (African American), and traveled to South Africa last month with my university. I am also not from the slums whatsoever.

  • @JokerL1000
    @JokerL10005 жыл бұрын

    Then when they get robbed for being over there they be like "OMG i can belive this happend to me"

  • @gucci4871

    @gucci4871

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes ,it's all good until a ransom kidnapping happens lol

  • @walkinbeauty7273

    @walkinbeauty7273

    5 жыл бұрын

    @88Gibson LesPaul You don't people learning? Case closed

  • @failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862

    @failedtoloadpleasetryagain1862

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Siobhan Cullen just like all white communist russia?

  • @W..949

    @W..949

    5 жыл бұрын

    88Gibson LesPaul I’m sure before whites people arrived they were all living in mansions right?

  • @tonyheather-noon5291

    @tonyheather-noon5291

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@W..949 No but hey who needs such wonders like freedom, happiness and culture when you have a mansion right. You unconscious cockroach

  • @lambro3001
    @lambro30015 жыл бұрын

    French guys are really out here wearing black striped white T shirts 😂 Hilarious

  • @Xainfinen

    @Xainfinen

    5 жыл бұрын

    How's that hilarious? I don't get it.

  • @lambro3001

    @lambro3001

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Xainfinen In America French guys are stereotypicaly shown wearing that exact shirt, even in cartoons, and then this French guy is actually wearing one. I want to say it's ironic but I'm not sure if that's the right word?

  • @Xainfinen

    @Xainfinen

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@lambro3001 Oh yeah! The stereotypical French guy with the beret, red wine & baguettes how could I forget that. That's pretty ironic indeed.

  • @frankwick3989

    @frankwick3989

    4 жыл бұрын

    He needed a baguette under each arm and a bicycle.

  • @gre894

    @gre894

    3 жыл бұрын

    ”French”

  • @starcherry6814
    @starcherry68145 жыл бұрын

    OMG wait until Trevor Noah gets light about this 😹

  • @hamishthemack10

    @hamishthemack10

    5 жыл бұрын

    Trevor Noah is a known racist though, not sure his opinion would be relevant, he does comedy routines where he refers to aboriginal women as "ugly"

  • @thejquinn

    @thejquinn

    5 жыл бұрын

    Trevor Noah probably now joins these people on these "tours"

  • @bikeburgular668

    @bikeburgular668

    5 жыл бұрын

    hamish themack wonder why

  • @hamishthemack10

    @hamishthemack10

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thejquinn figures, his dad is a white guy from Switzerland

  • @clicheguevara5282

    @clicheguevara5282

    5 жыл бұрын

    OMG YASSSS Me too! Then I'll know what my opinion about this is supposed to be. Can't wait! I love having opinions! :)

  • @keitumetse100
    @keitumetse1005 жыл бұрын

    I'm South African, and I need to make a couple of points: 1) The Swiss lady is a creep and should be charged!! 2) That is not a township, its an informal settlement. Government refuse to develop informal settlements because they are either not recognised as safe for human settlement OR a result of illegal land occupation. 3) Yes, South Africa is, unfortunately, notoriously known as the most unequal country in the world; we have living standards that rival Switzerland and in the same breath those that rival the poorest countries in the world.

  • @frankwick3989

    @frankwick3989

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Miami.

  • @craighjonas8833

    @craighjonas8833

    Жыл бұрын

    I am South African 🇿🇦 and I can confirm Keitumetse's statement(s).✅️ Also, yes that Swiss 🇨🇭 lady is scaley AF.🤨🙄😶

  • @johnstenlund472
    @johnstenlund4725 жыл бұрын

    this happened in london during 19th century.

  • @92bagder

    @92bagder

    5 жыл бұрын

    yup they would build establishments for skill training with yards and what not, at the establishment there would be a cafe where the rich would eat and observe the poor working like a zoo.

  • @imabout2eat40

    @imabout2eat40

    5 жыл бұрын

    Muslims.

  • @ninasica103

    @ninasica103

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. If you have a link about this part of London history, please share.

  • @joeyg7458

    @joeyg7458

    5 жыл бұрын

    It still happens in certain parts Europe ...

  • @rkevic

    @rkevic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget that America in the 1930’s deported their own people by the millions and some were repatriated not all

  • @starcherry6814
    @starcherry68145 жыл бұрын

    BTW aren't there ghettos in their own countries?? 🤣

  • @youspilledthis

    @youspilledthis

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not all countries have them acctually.

  • @jerrydurantiii3360

    @jerrydurantiii3360

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@youspilledthis like ? And if your country is smaller than Rhode island it dont count.

  • @starcherry6814

    @starcherry6814

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@youspilledthis I find it very hard to believe that neither Switzerland or France has a ghetto.

  • @lucasgrey9794

    @lucasgrey9794

    5 жыл бұрын

    I don't think Switzerland has ghettos.

  • @MrRedsjack

    @MrRedsjack

    5 жыл бұрын

    Switzerland doesn't. France has them now from all the African migrants

  • @kelly2fly
    @kelly2fly5 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of a story Trevor Noah once told about him and a group of people going on an "excursion" to the locals' home. It's crazy for first world nations to even phantom having random strangers causually drop in on an underprivileged household just so these tourists can witness their everyday life. It's disheartening but this is their reality.

  • @guardianblackwolable
    @guardianblackwolable5 жыл бұрын

    "We want to show our kids what life is like in different places." *Did you explain why life is like that for these people?* No, that is too much for them.

  • @vzlanoxvida

    @vzlanoxvida

    2 жыл бұрын

    My thought exactly

  • @Ik919
    @Ik9195 жыл бұрын

    That tour guide is shady

  • @desireesalas5820

    @desireesalas5820

    5 жыл бұрын

    Heck yeah

  • @leeclarke3865

    @leeclarke3865

    5 жыл бұрын

    Super exploitative

  • @2Memasa

    @2Memasa

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pussies lol

  • @ChrisM-bn5vr

    @ChrisM-bn5vr

    5 жыл бұрын

    He’s trying to make money.

  • @tuetenbeat
    @tuetenbeat5 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate his journalism! In my opinion he finds the perfect balance between asking the right questions and not leading the narrative too subjectively! Thank you!

  • @fwd105
    @fwd1055 жыл бұрын

    The guy said what I was thinking, it's like a human zoo for tourists.

  • @Asynca
    @Asynca5 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this made me uncomfortable. I'm sure there are good motives to visit these places, but the second I see a camera, all I can think is this will be some white person's inspirational instagram post

  • @whushaw
    @whushaw5 жыл бұрын

    got to get that insta photo amirite?

  • @Largepro21

    @Largepro21

    5 жыл бұрын

    W

  • @wolfinthesuit

    @wolfinthesuit

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @stenyethanmathews945
    @stenyethanmathews9455 жыл бұрын

    Lol. This is similar to all the American church mission trips to poverty stricken areas/countries. At least this guy has found a way to use the tourist business for his advantage.

  • @carolon030
    @carolon030 Жыл бұрын

    When I was 12 years old I went to South Africa with my family. We were a group of white European tourist who went to langa township just like this family in the video. We also visited the houses and schools. And I remember feeling weird. I wanted to show these kids that I was just like them. I wanted us to feel equal. But the fact that we were giving them all kinds of gifts and taking pictures with our expensive cameras just made it impossible to give them the feeling that we are equal. It did really feel odd. I wish I could have just lived with them for a day. Played soccer together. Eat together. Not just watch and take pictures. Not treat them like a tourist attraction but Treat them like a friend. It's hard to explain. Even though we helped them by donating I felt like it gave off the wrong vibes. And I felt that even though I was just a child and did not know much about the politics and apartheid.

  • @musicpolitics867

    @musicpolitics867

    5 ай бұрын

    Younger a genuine soul' my friend, Genuine soul!

  • @j4k3vlogs
    @j4k3vlogs5 жыл бұрын

    The same thing is done in Brazil with the favelas and it’s uncomfortable bc it is like “omg look at these people in poverty.” It’s kind of fucked Up. But not everyone comes for a bad reason, some people really do come to tour low income areas to learn about the people there and how to structurally combat poverty...but overall I think it can be done better. A historical tour of the favelas or townships where they learn about the history and sociology, etc I think could be ok...but generally only visit these neighborhoods if you organically make a friend with someone there and they take you. These areas are just neighborhoods in the cities they are a part of, they just face unique challenges compared to other neighborhoods.

  • @NYCITY3

    @NYCITY3

    5 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel Menino Jake about Brazil, i agree with what you have to say.

  • @philu3
    @philu35 жыл бұрын

    Let's go on a safari tour, and exploit human misery

  • @maxlusasa3859
    @maxlusasa38595 жыл бұрын

    This is actually where I was born and raised I grew up here and always felt very weird when you see tour busses and people taking pictures of us playing.today I live and work in Dubai my life has taken a full 360 turn I’ve pushed myself from seeing all these people coming from better backgrounds. Every year I go back home and as the tour guide says the townships are about culture I could afford to stay in the poshest of hotels when I visit home but I stay in the township as that feeling can not be replaced or copied I hope when you all watch this short story you don’t look down on us and rather appreciate how these people open their homes to strangers and allow them to feel at home even if it’s just for a few minutes. South Africa is a country of many stories choose the one you want visit and experience it

  • @salmander_official
    @salmander_official5 жыл бұрын

    Im from South Africa ,Cape Town, I’m so glad that Vice showcased what the camera doesn’t show. The margin between rich and poor especially in Cape Town is forever increasing. Most houses alongside the sea are sold to foreigners and due to that the property value is for increasing and the dream of buying a house grows further and further.

  • @orikane1
    @orikane15 жыл бұрын

    The last minute of the video was crazy insightful! The tour guide is a wise man: paraphrasing: "We ignore the problems in our own backyards"

  • @ashwinv3750
    @ashwinv37505 жыл бұрын

    they want to buy weed

  • @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gotta get that Durban Poison

  • @user-yg2up4lg3r

    @user-yg2up4lg3r

    5 жыл бұрын

    More like that cough syrup and cocaine.

  • @pambisugar8286

    @pambisugar8286

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not true...being the only black in a group in public means you'll just have random people ask you to buy marijuana. It's assumed that black = drugs in America. Studying for college finals in public WITH a backpack and books WITH non black friends= you look like a drug dealer and may be asked by a white person to sell them drugs or where to buy it. 🇺🇸 So, Im thinking they would assume any of those blacks were drug dealers. At least the American tourists...

  • @MLHMODZ

    @MLHMODZ

    5 жыл бұрын

    They want mandrax aka quaaludes

  • @cheyno237

    @cheyno237

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@pambisugar8286 Dude, its a fact in SA. If you want weed you ask a black guy. If he doesn't have he can usually point you to someone that does

  • @kansasgoldilocks
    @kansasgoldilocks5 жыл бұрын

    Apparently they do this is Brazil as well. My friend went to a language school in Rio and she said favela tours were part of the extra-curricular activities for students.

  • @foo31061
    @foo310615 жыл бұрын

    There is a slum here in Los Angeles. and it is a hundred times more dirty than that of South Africa. but someone can explain to me why European tourists when they come to los angeles they do not want to see the los angles slums??? at least those in southern Africa have a roof .. those in los angeles have no roof live and shit and urinate in the street and the city does not want to do anything..and im from los angeles!.. united states has more homeless than any country in africa..

  • @upliftsouls

    @upliftsouls

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are u talking about Skid Row? Yea its hella bad over there i used to go there and volunteer at the midnight mission i seen a lot of crazy shit

  • @unknownfrvr6767

    @unknownfrvr6767

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because you have one slum in a country 10x bigger then South Africa

  • @unknownfrvr6767

    @unknownfrvr6767

    4 жыл бұрын

    HTK Eli skid row is not a slum it is a street full of homeless people please relax

  • @unknownfrvr6767

    @unknownfrvr6767

    4 жыл бұрын

    byron ellington Los angles is a first world city with first world problems South Africa has a murder rate of 56 per 100,000 ... the USA has a murder rate of 5.5 per 100,000

  • @unknownfrvr6767

    @unknownfrvr6767

    4 жыл бұрын

    byron ellington this area they went to is called "cape flats" it is one small area of a city and in ONE weekend that area had 21 murders .. 21 murders in one area of a city in one weekend

  • @jonathaningram8157
    @jonathaningram81575 жыл бұрын

    It’s like those people going to North Korea. I can be really interesting but it feel really weird and like exploiting people there.

  • @SuperSayianCharizard

    @SuperSayianCharizard

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Prison Mike, ever been to a South prison?

  • @mfundimkhize3137
    @mfundimkhize31375 жыл бұрын

    "Cool beans cool bananas" 😁😁.. I think I like this Mzu fellow. 😄😄

  • @danidejaneiro8378
    @danidejaneiro83785 жыл бұрын

    The French tourist you interviewed was a very black-looking White European.

  • @clovemartin

    @clovemartin

    5 жыл бұрын

    It happens lol

  • @charmainej4820

    @charmainej4820

    5 жыл бұрын

    He said his mom was from Senegal Africa

  • @danidejaneiro8378

    @danidejaneiro8378

    5 жыл бұрын

    charmaine jangano - so?

  • @charmainej4820

    @charmainej4820

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@danidejaneiro8378 so that's why he is black looking

  • @danidejaneiro8378

    @danidejaneiro8378

    5 жыл бұрын

    charmaine jangano ......so? How is that relevant yo my original comment?

  • @rjpike75
    @rjpike755 жыл бұрын

    Well, i guess I found my new business, guided tours of the hood.

  • @officetechtyping

    @officetechtyping

    5 жыл бұрын

    Might have something there. Really.

  • @rookki

    @rookki

    5 жыл бұрын

    unironically you could make a lot of money off some stupid rich white liberals

  • @paqboii1907

    @paqboii1907

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@rookki wouldn't that be quite a niche market?

  • @ShannonsBibleStudy

    @ShannonsBibleStudy

    5 жыл бұрын

    A few years ago I heard there was a similar operation in Compton, CA.

  • @lockitoff
    @lockitoff5 жыл бұрын

    4:15 "just touch them" lmaooooooo

  • @lockitoff

    @lockitoff

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@izzyNFT69 I don't think it's that deep lmao

  • @Righttrackwrongtrain
    @Righttrackwrongtrain5 жыл бұрын

    They are coming to see the destruction they caused first hand. This is sick

  • @ryanwalters9543
    @ryanwalters95435 жыл бұрын

    The title makes no sense, how do you say white tourists, when in the video there are two black tourist, these been the French guy and the presenter.

  • @halyeydhaladah5831
    @halyeydhaladah58315 жыл бұрын

    To feel better about themselves.

  • @chanceDdog2009

    @chanceDdog2009

    5 жыл бұрын

    Guide will not say too much about apartheid because it will hurt white people's feelings.

  • @whattaboy209

    @whattaboy209

    5 жыл бұрын

    These are the left-wingers who have been brainwashed to have white-guilt.

  • @Jaapst

    @Jaapst

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@whattaboy209 Well said my frend. Love the profile picture tho

  • @FlameHawk77
    @FlameHawk775 жыл бұрын

    Well done Vice. Reporter asked very good questions!!

  • @starcherry6814
    @starcherry68145 жыл бұрын

    That South African elite need to go on this tour actually

  • @farkasabel

    @farkasabel

    5 жыл бұрын

    no they want to so how rainbow nation turned out.

  • @jakemitchell3506

    @jakemitchell3506

    5 жыл бұрын

    The South African elite don’t need this tour... they know what’s happening in the slums.

  • @rrrudziite

    @rrrudziite

    5 жыл бұрын

    I agree, they should go there every day.

  • @2Memasa

    @2Memasa

    5 жыл бұрын

    The elite are mainly white people 👌🏽😏

  • @PDog69
    @PDog695 жыл бұрын

    "Poverty Porn" well damn. Cool video though

  • @gustavogoikoetxea4524

    @gustavogoikoetxea4524

    5 жыл бұрын

    Abraham Shekelbergstien for the purpose to inform...he is not there to be a tourist

  • @traplover6357

    @traplover6357

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gustavogoikoetxea4524 the tour isn't educating the true nature of SA? Both the tourist companies and Vice are both profiting

  • @gustavogoikoetxea4524

    @gustavogoikoetxea4524

    5 жыл бұрын

    Traplover7 Vice May be profiting...and I guess I should have asked who do you think is doing the same...I’m talking about the reporter.

  • @TheGoodContent37
    @TheGoodContent375 жыл бұрын

    Please tell me I'm not the only one that saw the "in Switzerland you can't touch kids" woman kissing the kid in the mouth at 4:01...

  • @FallingStary
    @FallingStary4 жыл бұрын

    Yo ngl that tour guide is smart as hell tacking paying attention of how to get tourists to come back and market to them. Hes has the best move

  • @michaelchristopher513
    @michaelchristopher5135 жыл бұрын

    "I'll go to USA, my brother and go to places you would never go" wow, he hit the nail on the head. Stop dramatizing foreign cultural and take a look at the mirror.

  • @pqt112

    @pqt112

    2 жыл бұрын

    The reason white South Africans don't go there is because they want to avoid the reality of what they and their ancestors did. White Europeans go there to feel better about themselves and their crappy lives in Europe. I don't think a black American relates to either of those

  • @gerardorocha247
    @gerardorocha2475 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of the tour buses that would go through the neighborhoods damaged my Hurricane Katrina.

  • @shabbytwo1787
    @shabbytwo17875 жыл бұрын

    I don't like this..... unless you're contributing to real change. Not just a few coins here and there to buy a souvenir🤷🏾🤷🏾

  • @Teenar99

    @Teenar99

    5 жыл бұрын

    What are they supposed to do? Give half of their savings away? This is tourism, a fair exchange (the tour, souvenirs ecc. for some money). It's not supposed to be a hand-out

  • @shabbytwo1787

    @shabbytwo1787

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Teenar99 personal opinion. Especially when the tour guy is saying that he does not ask for permission to enter people's homes.

  • @Teenar99

    @Teenar99

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@shabbytwo1787 "I don't ask, I just go to any house and they allow me". By that he means that people just let his tour in their houses without having to ask permission before; i.e. they're so much in favor of this, they just allow these tourists in as soon as they show up on their front porch. It's not as if these guys storm in the locals' homes without telling them.

  • @alecasvas3289

    @alecasvas3289

    5 жыл бұрын

    I can tell you that "a few coins" actually can be a lot of money, I tell you this because in my country there is the same situation..

  • @bobreilly4996

    @bobreilly4996

    5 жыл бұрын

    @death eater Why haven't you ate death yet?

  • @TheDoctorWholigan
    @TheDoctorWholigan5 жыл бұрын

    What are those bottles in the can at 1:26 Is it booze they all look the same?

  • @ESPDaniella
    @ESPDaniella5 жыл бұрын

    4:15 what's the hotline for South Africa's Child Protective Services. I have a complaint to file ...

  • @juliusmaehlich3138

    @juliusmaehlich3138

    4 жыл бұрын

    ESP Daniella. No public services in S Africa are functioning anymore. Everything has collapsed.

  • @AA-pu5qj
    @AA-pu5qj5 жыл бұрын

    So do the locals get paid by the tour agents ? Or is this exploitation?

  • @casey7128

    @casey7128

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exploitation, he explained how the tour guide doesn't even ask to come into homes before hand. The only advantage some might get is donations from the foreigners.

  • @sandhyamathura

    @sandhyamathura

    4 жыл бұрын

    Locals don't get shit from the so-called tour guide.

  • @rileyfreeman9726

    @rileyfreeman9726

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sandhyamathura they're happy to have tourists, just dont like when they take photos. if i was them, i'd get extremely pissed but you got to admit that this guy is a smart business man.

  • @justtrust426
    @justtrust4264 жыл бұрын

    This is disturbing. I guess they can go home and feel real good about their own lives. Sorry this is just wicked.

  • @arsal50
    @arsal502 жыл бұрын

    Taking pictures with random people for no reason has to be the strangest 21st century trend I've ever seen.

  • @bobbif100
    @bobbif1004 жыл бұрын

    Mzu Lembeni, the tour guide, seems like a very wise man. Some of the things he said showed a deep understanding of human nature.

  • @claudsg1931
    @claudsg19315 жыл бұрын

    'cool beans' that's when you know he's been hanging around white people too much 🤣

  • @technomad9071
    @technomad90713 жыл бұрын

    i wish you would of also talked of all the NGO's that come down here and mess around with our economy while providing an easy way for our government to ignore poverty

  • @carisv2834
    @carisv28345 жыл бұрын

    I'm so split on this because on the one part the Waterfront, Camps Bay and Franschhoek do not represent Cape Town, but on the other hand townships and the Cape Flats is also a big part of what makes Cape Town and it should be seen...I just dunno.

  • @DctorSkillz1
    @DctorSkillz15 жыл бұрын

    I went to South Africa in a similar township tour. I didn't take any pictures, but I did interact and try to spend a reasonable amount of money to the local people.

  • @icohen1627
    @icohen16272 жыл бұрын

    That's my issues with a lot of Europeans they visit a developing country and they treat the people in those countries like animals

  • @DHEspana
    @DHEspana5 жыл бұрын

    "Why *European tourists" fixed that for you

  • @11habesha
    @11habesha5 жыл бұрын

    Why you're subbing the tour guide, but not the french guy? He even got a thicker accent than the guide lol

  • @iamhungey12345
    @iamhungey123454 жыл бұрын

    Imagine some tourists coming to your neighborhood and taking photos of your laundries that you hung out.

  • @chikipichi5280
    @chikipichi52805 жыл бұрын

    That Switz woman gaves me the creepy jeepers

  • @salandjax24
    @salandjax245 жыл бұрын

    2:00 wtf was that lmao

  • @tjnaptown6362

    @tjnaptown6362

    5 жыл бұрын

    2 funny

  • @VikingFitness00
    @VikingFitness005 жыл бұрын

    But what about Black, Brown and Yellow European tourist? Which slums are their favorites to visit ?

  • @unit333angel
    @unit333angel5 жыл бұрын

    Mzu lembeni understands human nature, I really liked how articulates his ideas

  • @NightcoreTKFF
    @NightcoreTKFF5 жыл бұрын

    Why ? To get a sneak peek of what Europe is going to look like in 20 years.

  • @BlitZkrieG988

    @BlitZkrieG988

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Showdown europe wont exist then. When the white men vanished, the yellow men is going to continue. But you have to know that chinese are by far more racist. Europe in this actual days is just Babylon 2.0 I personally smell a feeling of the last days since 2014.

  • @BlitZkrieG988

    @BlitZkrieG988

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Showdown i merely believe that the USA was just an experiment to see if it does work on a bigger landmass. Yes, the building of the EU comission is looking like the tower of Babel. Strange shit.

  • @anarchonazbol6768

    @anarchonazbol6768

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Showdown hahahhaha the han Chinese arnt racist he says but smarter.

  • @tmla
    @tmla5 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of Get Out.

  • @itsveryhotinhere
    @itsveryhotinhere5 жыл бұрын

    Skid Row in LA. How many locals have actually been there?

  • @nomxhosapekani7966
    @nomxhosapekani79663 жыл бұрын

    In Switzerland you can't touche kids, because it's called child abuse, so we fly to South African townships to do that🙄🙄

  • @pqt112

    @pqt112

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that's literally it. Same with pedos that go to SE Asia

  • @burcoman990
    @burcoman9905 жыл бұрын

    Can't blame the guy. Those slums exist and our entrepreneur exists because the politicians in SA failed. I should do ghetto tours USA.

  • @FaithandNova

    @FaithandNova

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ours don't look that bad. Ppl aren't without water, electricity unless they can't pay it.

  • @TheFlyJunky
    @TheFlyJunky5 жыл бұрын

    110% respect for that tour guide, he gets what he's doing.

  • @jaimebedia
    @jaimebedia5 жыл бұрын

    If you're going to add subtitles, do it for everybody (the ones asking and the ones answering)

  • @mabelen2122

    @mabelen2122

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agree

  • @milesw7290
    @milesw72905 жыл бұрын

    I don't know I think seeing it is better than just staying in your walled of resort for 10days.

  • @KevinP32270
    @KevinP322705 жыл бұрын

    very smart businessman.

  • @MariaSilviaRRuy
    @MariaSilviaRRuy5 жыл бұрын

    reminds me of the favela tour in Rio but safer and less colorful, sort of depressing

  • @joshuachristofferson9227
    @joshuachristofferson92275 жыл бұрын

    I like how Kid'n'Play approached the subject w/ the Tour Guide

  • @rambo9199
    @rambo91995 жыл бұрын

    Forced out? Most of em were indigenous to the cities to begin with, they drifted in afterwards and started squatting.

  • @anthonybaiocchi3028
    @anthonybaiocchi30285 жыл бұрын

    Umqombothi - lekker my bru!

  • @reubenogilvie8423
    @reubenogilvie84235 жыл бұрын

    To see what Europe will be like in 50 years

  • @BlitZkrieG988

    @BlitZkrieG988

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Sophie Scholl he is actually right you fool.

  • @CraigandCars
    @CraigandCars5 жыл бұрын

    The French guy in the beanie looks and sounds like a French/black Macaulay Culkin for sure lol

  • @vaughntiedemann2541
    @vaughntiedemann25415 жыл бұрын

    Im from South Africa: That tour guide is right, he can see the problem and knows this will never change..

  • @Benjaminisfunny
    @Benjaminisfunny5 жыл бұрын

    I did one of these tours back in 2009 with my family! Such an amazing experience to meet the people and get an insight into their life and culture

  • @edwingobel6358

    @edwingobel6358

    5 жыл бұрын

    @GiVer I would not see it that way. I think it can be quite an important experience to make to see what poverty and pain really are. If you hear only about it abstractly in the news its hard to empathise. I would tho also frown on the people, who give like a candy bar to a poor child, make a photo with it and put it on insta gram to gain attention and guy person points.

  • @edwingobel6358

    @edwingobel6358

    5 жыл бұрын

    @GiVer People, who for example go to former Nazi death camps, don't do it for shits and giggles either

  • @grape00jellly
    @grape00jellly5 жыл бұрын

    It might seem weird but I think this is alright. It exposes foreigners and tourists to SOME reality of poverty in Africa, not just the nice upscale towns. If they truly want to help they can contribute to nonprofits within the slums or even try to start one with the help or the tour guide. Annnd they should treat everyone with more respect and not go around taking pictures without permission, I think that should be part of the "tour rules "

  • @farkasabel

    @farkasabel

    5 жыл бұрын

    White people keep saving africa since the 80s with aid supllies and medical programs. the result 400 million people population in 1980 to 1200 million today. great success!!!!

  • @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    @SavageBunnyGetMoney

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@farkasabel also selling guns to miltia to use for genocide

  • @kittyb3861
    @kittyb38614 жыл бұрын

    haha Christopher Reid called, he wants his hair back!

  • @jevinday
    @jevinday5 жыл бұрын

    Cooooool abeeeeaannns! Haha. That was so rad.

  • @PorkButt_
    @PorkButt_5 жыл бұрын

    VICE: It's so terrible that people come through here and just take pictures of these humans like they are animals. Also VICE: *Shows up with entire filming crew and points cameras at the people in their homes*

  • @iHaveTheDocuments

    @iHaveTheDocuments

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's part of why vice has lost its HBO show. They got woke and went broke. It's gonna take a lot of soy milk to wash the tears away.

  • @MsTishalish
    @MsTishalish5 жыл бұрын

    Pure exploitation, the world really is racing to the bottom. This tour guide is exposing these poor people, especially those kids to so many dangers, not to mention the human zoo effect, sickening. What the hell is that school thinking letting unvetted strangers rock up every day?!!! Truly disturbing. At least if this tour guide was helping the poor people in the townships to set up home bars and food places they could make a living and improve their living conditions. Really losing my faith in humanity!

  • @dylanducker5528
    @dylanducker55285 жыл бұрын

    Very interested when he brought up the "shebeen" as the words stem from Ireland as a traditional style bar, I believe the word came into use during the English occupation so I wouldn't be surprised if the condition were much different at the time

  • @sizwehlophe5444
    @sizwehlophe54444 жыл бұрын

    How is this okay?