WATERFALL CITY SOUTH AFRICA: This $5.8Billion Dollars Mega Project Changes The Game.
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Waterfall City South Africa Megaproject. South Africa's Mega Project.
If you think big, then you know big on the African continent means South Africa is involved. Speaking of big, we've decided to talk about an enormous project. We're talking about the much-publicized Waterfall City project. Waterfall City is a mixed-use mega-development project located halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. It is a master-planned, holistically conceived urban enclave created totally from scratch on 2200 hectares of unoccupied ground. This massive city-building project in Waterfall City blends a hyper-modernist emphasis on "smart" growth, cutting-edge technologies, and cutting-edge infrastructure with a New Urbanist emphasis on mixed-use facilities, a human-scale built environment, and pedestrian-friendly districts.
Waterfall City's real estate developers have effectively replaced public authority with private management and control by handling all of the traditional tasks of a municipal administration. Waterfall City is an outstanding embodiment of a privately run municipality that comes within the broad history of company towns, treaty concessions, free ports, and independent city-states, with its private governance structures and "go it alone" ethos. Aside from its vast size and administrative autonomy, Waterfall City stands out for its unique blend of strict religious compliance based on a traditional understanding of Islamic principles with a forward-thinking devotion to private entrepreneurship and consumerist consumerism.
Waterfall City is a sprawling, mixed-use real estate development that brings together business commercial activities, high-end residential components, and leisurely lifestyle amenities in a single location in the heart of Africa's fastest-growing metropolitan region, roughly halfway between Johannesburg central city and Pretoria. Waterfall City, along with other neighboring megaprojects that are either under construction or in the planning phases, provides a whole new direction for city development in metropolitan Africa. This self-contained satellite city symbolizes a new paradigm for city building in the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan region that emerged after apartheid ended. It has been dubbed "the greatest property development in South African history" and the real estate "coup of the century."
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This man is passionate about South Africa. I think he sees more potential in it than most people do
Wow Midrand made it onto a CZcams video.
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😭💀 you wrong for that
It's a wow indeed. Would be cool to see this, not just Sandton.
... Or Steyn City
Not Midrand, the Mia Family. South Africa/ns owns 0% of this. Its another 99year lease scam, we keep getting hit by
Just what South Africa needs, ANOTHER mall.
which will facilitate more jobs
first of all the mall wass not made by the goverment
Asian and African are starting to look better than US cities
@@spanicandkgyo8547 the largest shareholder is the government and even the company developing this Mall has it's large shares invested by pension funds
Malls are a great way to launder money, it is what it is..
Chinese project manager on a video regarding South Africa projects... you got that part completely right👍
It's developed by local corporate and government. SA funds it own development for most part. Although I have nothing against the Chinese, they not big in doing projects in SA like how they building a whole city in Egypt
@jonathanbaptiste7733, what is wrong with a Chinese project manager in SA projects? After all, the Chinese leads the rest of the world when ot comes to infrastructure development 🙃
Keep ANC filthy fingers out of this or it is undoubtedly destined to fail
What an ignorant comment. It was said PRIVATELY owned and with its autonomy.🤷♂️
What an ignorant comment. This land was given by ANC. It's leased for 99 years! When South Africans wakes up, this land will be taken back
@@neonkome8892 it's not an ignorant comment. Though private ownership was mentioned, history has shown that ANC has repeatedly gotten on successful projects which started in the private sector only to derail progress due to maladministration, incompetence and/or downright corruption. The comment highlights this.
@@busisiwephalatse7389 The very same history is being refered to somewhat fails to recall when was this project started beginning with Mall Of Africa and was there any failure.?! Now l am putting direct example. We may all not be happy with some of the things that happened with the said political party but let's also apply our minds before we comment.
Let's be knowledgeable on some things and also read to understand
No ridicule intended.🙏🏽
The government is already the biggest investor
Hope this project doesn't further widen the rich-poor gap that already exists in our beloved country, much needed employment opportunities for the youth hopefully
its a smart prison avoid.
@@Tontelz jip, strictly religious.
"It looks as though it is a development for the wealthy, designed to keep people out."-Prof Alan Lipman . eprop.co.za/commercial-property-news/item/6517-Land-of-promise#:~:text=Waterfall%20City%20is%20located%20on,property%20in%20his%20personal%20capacity.
@@Tontelz Please elaborate.
South Africa is doing great I thought this country has gotten independence recently so it must not be much developed but this is surprising. I'm jealous that india doesn't have such a good infrastructure after more then 70 years of independence because of you know the politicians :')
the narration for the video is almost directly taken from this article: Waterfall City (Johannesburg): privatized urbanism in
extremist by Martin J Murra. At least cite it man
Love your videos. Please make a video on Steyn City… 🙏🏾.
Remove the ANC from power and we can be the greatest.
South Africa has big infrastructure problems, load shedding as power stations have been shut down.... Then when the power comes back on fuses blow and residents sit without power for hours. By the time they finally come out to fix it then it's load shedding again... Water pressure is low, potholes in the roads.. price of petrol thru the roof and neighboring counties who get fuel from sa get is cheaper than us. So ja. New government needed. One with the brains to run a country properly and not into the ground.
Damn. Which South Africa do you live in where 👀🤣
Not to mention load shedding
@@TheIrieman15 he is living in the reality. I don't see anything incorrect with what was said
@@TheIrieman15 and which south africa are you living in where you don't have all these problems?
Appliances blow up simply because your earth-leakage is NOT working. Anyway loadshedding will be solved over time. Yes corruption and cadre deployment is still the biggest problem in SA.
Let's goo 🇿🇦🇿🇦
This will be successful as long it's not controlled by the bureaucracy. It will be like the City of London or Canary Wharf and they have become so successful due to their autonomy
ever heard of smart cities.. .watch hunger games,,you don't wanna be there!!!
$5.8 billion dollars for a water fall city......sounds like an excellent idea to the millions of black South Africans still living in slum conditions. South Africa needs new leadership.
They really need to work on towards getting themselves out of those slums. Most of us we were born in poverty buy we have worked our way outta it. A development project can't be stopped because some people have decided to call a shacks their homes.
@equinox95, yeah...maybe we should give each one off those still living slums a share of the $5,8 billion...because it has worked elsewhere 🤦♀️
treaty concessions? Free ports and independent city states? Meaning? A small Muslim country established in Gauteng? Will this country resort under the South African constitution? And the laws of South Africa?
Please stop the bull shit, it exists under south Africans law. They can't just do anything they like. And if south africa wants to they can take the entire property from them anytime they want. No one is above the government.
@@taharka3897 I quoted what was said in the video. Tell the director of the video to remove the BS then
O Yes you have Oriana mos 😊😊😊🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
@@southafricaismyhome814 If you say Orania uses treaties and free zones… not sure about that though… yes maybe one should start buying property and develop in this manner for the rich to stay comfy in a failing state…
@@curiouskitten9685 i will not buy property from white people
This Reserve Bank is something else. The money is there, sitting. Gather students from university and try them, if you doubt them, get a experience architectural experience companies to mentor or work with them. Is a pitty I am not the President or Minister of Finance. Waterfall city between Pretoria and Johannesburg, developers Muslims. This is paining me hard.
The company that is developing this city is largely owned by government, the Muslims bought this land earlier but the development is not entirely them. Go check the company that is behind this development and look at the shareholding board
Haibo mzansi is doing it big
Now people know we have Big Ballers in South Africa. It's not just lions & wild life we actually have proper civilization
😂 If you believe most of that infrastructure is built by South Africans, let alone black South Africans then u really don't understand the dephth of tar pits we are in as South Africans hey especially black..
@@tshimegatlhapi8993 Nah homie what I said has nothing to do with who built our infrastructure 😂 I'm just happy more & more people are making videos about our country. Whether the whites/blacks paid for it, doesnt really concern me because it doesnt affect me
@@ntsubeats you must be american
I see South Africa's current president Cyril Ramadooskop has his finger in the pie here. So much for "private" development lol. (pause on 7:15)
Is he using taxpayer money? If not then it is a private development, is it not?...and btw, this is not the first development that president Cyril Maṱamela Ramaphosa has been invited to and it won't be the last.
Yes he does, it’s black South Africa’s first city, the first city built after apartheid
Here is what makes me angry year after year, you hear of these massive projects mostly belonging to the foreigners, but the poor South African on the grounds are constantly told that there is no land for them; you see the land is really everything. I don't see such projects as investments because they are usually owned overseas or, in this case, held religiously; thus, South Africa is the breeding ground for domestic workers and garden boys for these properties, which, surprisingly, are black South Africans. It saddens me to hear of all these projects only to find ourselves as domestic workers in these properties. Furthermore, I wonder whether this is under the law because it sounds like segregation already...but this is South Africa; pretend like the locals are stupid and use whatever is at your disposal to further divide South Africa. The time bomb is ticking for ANC; they are deliberately delaying the land issue; in fact, South Africa is heaven for people coming from outside while its native masses are poor.
Yeah and South African government should give the property of blacks back to them like why would whites be having those property's their ancestors forcefully took it so they must return after independence.
Education is important, this is a mixture of private development and government. This city has a stock exchange that opened 5 years ago and is already the second largest stock exchange in Africa, its name is A2X with a market cap of $280B, and two major black South African companies own the largest assets on that stock which amount to 40%. Stop taking every opportunity to shame and belittle black South Africans just because we have progressed more than all blacks in Africa in a short space under hardship, speak with knowledge and research, not opinions covered with envy and resentment for other successful blacks
@@lozi4163 Please provide a link to the two black companies you were referring to, I will be glad to find that you are telling the truth, and since your profile is dodgy like an internet bot, I can't argue with you on a personal level, but again I might be replying to a bot, so feel free to educate us here leave a reference were we can reading all it. Also, check the link I replied with on Mandisi Panini''s profile; this article references Prof Alan Lipman, not a Bot profile like you.
@@tireloshikwamabana6709 African Rainbow Capital and Nala
I like the production. I do believe that it is incumbent on producers to be sensitive about the political matrix and context of South Africa from a racial exclusion perspective; economically and socially; particularly from a skilled labor point of view. I was surprised to see almost exclusively; white professionals, builders, interviewees etc. Please be inclusive [racially] in presenting our country. Thanks. Dean
If fifty cent moved to south Africa, he'd definitely live in mid rand
Please elaborate on main services such as electricity, sewage, water and road infrastructure as it is a big challenges in developments of this magnitude and the rest of South Africa ?
Exactly!
This might be delayed by load shedding in South Africa 💔
Ayyyy, my uncle's company is doing the telecommunications for this place
its crazy how this video's script is the same as a paper published in March 2015. verbatim copy
What paper was this? Please share link or title if possible
If it is the most ambitious in Africa at $5.8 billion, what makes the $45 billion city in Cairo, Egypt?
I don't think it costs 6billion honestly, considering malls and hospitals in the area
Sandton is complete today, a section of Johannesburg at wealth of $76Billion, I don't get your point, keep in mind that SA is most industrial nation in Africa, it could be that is easy to develop in SA because we manufacture most of what we use ourselves
@@antonioarineshito2892 yes, it actually cost far less than that 😜
@@lozi4163 $78 billion as in USD? Are you talking about built 78 billion in the 1970s when they started building Sandton!!! The CBD and surrounding neighborhoods, not the centre
haaaaahahahahahaha haaahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha
You do know that there are much bigger and far nicer cities in far developed countries that cost far less than 78 billion in 1970s right? Even Dubai was built for less than a quarter of that, and that was in the 90s!!!
You do know that there are countries in Africa right? South Africa is not even in the top ten and you are free to Google that any time
@@Sipapate If you knew Sandton, you would know that it had only a mall and one skyscraper in that time, they started to develop Sandton in 2005 probably preparing for world cup.
Johannesburg CBD not Johannesburg’s CBD to be honest.
True
I live in Waterfall City 🔥🔥❤
whats it like ?
How safe is it please? I am being relocated there with my family and I worry about the crime level
So no liquor and pork based food outlets allowed to to do business here?
If only Muhammad Ali was here today he would be so proud
Still can't own land there. Can only lease it for 99years..
Where
@@AustineAK Midrand Waterfall
@whatever stay mad the Waterfall Islamic Institute
ww everyone is just getting a piece of South Africa except for its NAtives even Muslims are now getting theyre piece in a non islamic state what development really
Am looking at same thing. Land is not even owned by any black African. And thy develop only when its owned by one of thy own. This country has been sold out.
THANKS TO OUR SO CALLED LEADERS. South Is a christian nation! How are they allowing this to happen.
@@tsholofelomocumi4207 South Africa protects property rights, the Muslim family that owns the land, owns many pieces of land in the country. They are the private owners of the land in the same manner that a person may own a house. They may hence carry out any projects that are Constitutional, on their land.
@@tsholofelomocumi4207 South Africa is a Christian majority, secular country, it is not a Christian country, in the sense that it is not governed by Christian law.
@@abdullahpatel6086 im not suprised that someone by the name of ABDULLAH will respond.
so you're basically telling us that they bypass local laws to create an independent nation within a country , There is no way i see this working out well for the people . this is just soft colonization in the guise of development .
It will workout perfectly well
each city has its own Bylaws which man south africans might not agree with specially the street traders in JHB and CPT. so its not something new
What the hell you on about? This city is not unique to any city in the world the only difference is, this are new smart cities but the principles are generally the same. Note, one of the largest investors on this city is government
Who owns the project
Beautiful idea, but where are all the people of colour. Not even in the advert.......
NEVER HEARD OF IT.
WHO IS BUILDING IT.
WHO IS GOING TO DO REGULAR MAINTENANCE?
WHO IS "PAYING ?
New capital in egypt is a 60 billion dollar city.
Why would a 5 billion city be the greatest ever project?
Its just one building in egypt
Indians must know this is Africa
Show the outskirts of midrand
Hope there is good infrastructure, especially sewerage works... otherwise the 'natural water' will soon be polluted by human waste and dead fish as elsewhere at some of these fancy estates... Hartbeespoort Dam being one example.
Traffic alone keeps me away from this area. ER is more quite
Something doesn't seem right here
$5bn is way too small
That's about R80 billion so not really
That's almost a R100 billion. It's a lot of money.
Yeah sounds little..considering Kenya's Konza technopolis is $14 billion. I don't know about New Cairo and Eko Atlantic.
@@stemkidswithdennis u know south africa offers the cheapest and best estate development in africa. so dont compare Kenyan and Egyptian numbers to South Africa
@@trayway9067 You are very very right 👍
Don't know why anyone would want invest in building rubbish on top of rubbish my country truly poor with this ANC they will just steal the money and create more rubbish like they have been doing for over 20 years. I would rather build this in Europe atleast you know the buildings will work for 20 plus years.
Yeah ayt - Blueface voice
Has the project began?
Yes, several properties ( retail, residential & office space) have already been completed & are operating.
I started living here since 2016 and it's been growing ever since
They on Phase two
Whith no electricity 😅😅😅
What self contained?
5.8 billion pls dont tell the criminals
They spending $5.8B on this but can't fix the electrical infrastructure smh
These are private developers, not the government. Besides these private developers are able to harness energy via other means of generating power, hence the president address on power crisis. They are now allowed to produce their power and put it in the national grid.
@@asandilezothe9746 I was thinking about that but the government allows this, and I think they get a cut...the point being they prioritise this over and things that help the citizens
@Forest V Woods they prioritize this as it will benefit SAs economy, statistical however they 'fix' the electrical issue with substandard delivery, this will force private companies to cough up more funds, this can be done through tax and other operational and international levies.
@@boineelo_marumo it'll benefit the economy lol the power outages cause more losses to the economy besides this it'll benefit the economy phrase seems overused and benefits those at the top
@@asandilezothe9746 The biggest investment on this project are coming from government
Heard that this project was cancelled before it even started because there is not enough electricity to build it!
They on Phase two now and whoever told you there is no electricity knows that you are lazy and you will never do a research yourself
@@lozi4163 Phase 2 equals a 2nd disaster!
Still costs less than the USS Gerald Ford.
It's not a competition sir
@@brianaluwani7642 do you know what the USS Gerald Ford is?
Waterfall city,waterfall city, waterfall city,waterfall city,are you trying to brain wash people? How much did the land cost initially?
This will never happen...we know how our government is
what do you mean, it's already happening
How are they going to keep it free of car thieves and cash-in-transit criminals? Great idea but terrible location maybe
It's actually very secure. You must go there and see for yourself.
What terrible location? The plan was for it to link Joburg and Pretoria
@@sompisiphinda1417 i retract my statement
@@sompisiphinda1417 I really should
Sooo negative
Many other problems to solve before throwing money at bs like this. Fix the infrastructure first! Roads, sewage, ports n harbors, crime, education, hospitals…. Basic basic needs of a country! Why the anc attracted to shiny things like crows. So silly so sad 😞
We have No electricity here🤣🤣🤣
Little did they know 😂😂
Why Islamic principleas when its in a christian area?
Because they own the land being built on...and no, we have no such thing as Christian areas in South Africa. We are a multi religion country
I stay in midrand this is all lies
How is it all lies🤣
No its not,
Do worry mate, the person who made this video has never been to South Africa and likely uses Wikipedia, copies video clips here and there and pretends like he has an informed research on South Africa.
VERY CLUELESS. Anyone who lives in South Africa knows within the first 5 minutes when someone is just using info fed from fake news media.
@@mmathabomaibelo6276 so waterfall is a thriving metropolitan with a large Muslim community
@@thobanimadlala I didn’t believe that as well 😂
South Africa is already in a bad state but yet they want to build this nonsense and not look into the poor people...I guess that's why we paying so much on everything
What bad state? SA is the most developed and progressive on the continent, which bad state are you on about?
They can waste money on crap like that but can't create job's and can't solve the high crime rate
It’s ot the Government building this
These are private companies behind this project.
That is your useless government's job. Not private developers
And do not forget to buy the car before you buy proerty there. Opposte of what is promised in those developments 🤣😴🤣
I wouldnt invest in SA. This country is going one way
Its ok we already have alot of FDI investments
Hahahahahaha. Sorry. Hahahahahahaha.
When? When will this start and the end of this project?
Do you know Africans ? Hahahahaha.
Ok. Is china involved?
Who is doing this project?
We sit with so many poor people and I wonder if these people will get work there? If not. Why fund this if our people are still poor. Who benefits from this. .?
South Africa doesn't play when it comes to completing projects and we don't ever used foreigners to do the work on any level; all domestic professionals.
This isn't Eko Alantic with poor planning and lack of investments which is taking time, this project is literally half way complete with lot of investments running through with many international companies such as Amazon planning to have their second African bas3 located here
islam what now?
That's what I thought 🤣
Would it have been more palatable if they said "Afrikaaner" or "Zulu?"
@@MusehanaH
Islam is a religion. Zulu & Afrikaans are traditions, languages and ethnicities.
We can't have a whole Islamic country within South Africa. Or any religion for that matter
@@goldenagelifestyle7121 , we are handling Orania within our country just fine and they are not considered a country jut for allowing whites only in their midst....So religion today, something else tomorrow. In case you didn't know, South Africa has as many Islamic communities as we do Afrikaans, Zulu and whatnot communities. Why we have a secular Constitution
Islamic City.. South Africa is gone..
We have nothing as blacks
Muslims will form 1 in 3 people on this planet form a majority by 2030 and Africa is already half Muslim
@@valentineisraelshabangu4069 its coz abo"MyLeader" spent all our money at konka, taking sfebe's to dubai and investing in Louis vuitton suits.
We kept following these dizzy "leaders" who had no vision or priorities manje we online b*tching waya waya because other kids are eating our lunch.
Please bafethu lets find some shame, at this point in time, we only have ourselves to blame.
Why insert of Chinese on this video. This is not China. It’s Africa
White people developing South Africa, this is what i call integration :)
Did you not see the Indian people behind this development
@@wlpta6786 I mean the people that actually gonna pay this...
The land and the development is not by white people so stop lying. The people who will pay are those who will buy into the development...You need to learn a thing or two about real estate
@@MusehanaH I know the current situation of SA, SA is the most developed black african country because of white people, you like it or not :) (last message)
@@archive4059 The businesses here r either from Europe or black South African owned, even the waterfall estates r 70% black
Whoever made this voice-over (American I would think) is truly terrible. He has no familiarity with French or Latin and therefore mispronounces a great many words. That isn't funny. It creates a sense of shoddiness which is the last thing that the client would want. You should have asked me to do it. I have a pleasant English voice and wouldn't have made a mess of it.
We have high youth unemployment rate in South Africa. Our children are architects, if that's what Ramaphosa is hoping to do, why not engaging our children, particularly those who have architectural experience and those in the universities Invest our children. Muslims???? Another Guptas
free market capitalist democracy.
Islam?😲😲
Yes so what ? Over 2 billion Muslims live on this planet and will by 2030 form the global majority. 1 in 3 people will be a Muslim on the entire planet