South Africa's Hidden Poor
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2016
- The Green Dam (2006): Post Apartheid South Africa has seen a lot of change. We visit the Green Dam, where South Africa's poorest whites are living.
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Since the end of Apartheid many white South Africans have struggled to get by. The removal of their safety net has sent around a quarter into poverty.
The Green Dam is a place where many of the newly destitute and unemployed white South Africans congregate. There, food banks hand out survival packages and a movement has emerged to protect the interests of the poor white south Africans. This movement is called Solidarity and helps to defend the housing rights of their community.
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"I feel useless". Such a depressing and heartbreaking statement to hear.
I pray God help everyone who is suffering regardless of their race.
Thank you for some common sense. I was shocked and appalled at what some people in the comments are wishing on these people. Nobody should be in these conditions.
Amen Amen to Mordy Simn’s comment
Karma is a bitch May they Reap what they have Sowed!!! All white people should be Afraid to ever go to Africa except that they have yet to Learn “what goes around comes around!”
@@jamalal-uqdah3771 It's actually very irrational to blame an entire race for what individuals had done. It's like blaming all black people for what the LRA has done.
Waabboommia Colonialism was Irrational Apartheid was Irrational So Sorry I’m ALL out of Fucks to give
Main problem with South Africa, they simply cannot seem to stop separating people by race.
that's the mindset when this is a class issue
Hmmm. Sounds like America
@Theresa Washington......my thought exactly!!!
@Ka D
Your problem is you really think black people need you whites and you probably can’t read yourself.Tell all the whites to leave Africa and see if black people welcome them back.Take your bible with you.
Looks to me like the same people you just described.Stupid fool
As African, I think this is sad. I would just love to see every race being friends and help each other, but politics and religion divide us big time.
And greed
Good concept and sentiment but alas a dream it will always stay....people live to dominate bro.
Helemaal waar. 👍🏻
As an African, am happy that they are suffering, Its payback for the atrocities they commited against Black South Africans. Why is it news that white people are poor. SO what, all whites are supposed to be rich?
@@kivumbirosenaba6129 they they built it they started it and they suffered two to make it you wouldn't understand that you just understand what you read that fits your agenda go out and build something and make it yourself try to do that you people will never make it happen only copy us there's a reason why they didn't want you around because you don't pull your weight go look at the truth
Recently, I had an opportunity to visit South Africa. A beautiful country with so many natural resources that it surpasses many other countries in its riches. With a per capita income that is twice as much as of Indians, the country suffers a 26% unemployment rate. The singular cause of such dismal state is lack of vision and leadership both during the Apartheid era and the post-apartheid era. If the white masters were heartless and corrupt, those leaders produced wealth and kept it for themselves. The new leadership are equally corrupt but produce nothing and keep all the bribes for themselves. Talking to the common black folks, I saw very little motivation to work hard and work ethic was lacking. They basically wanted the government to give things free. In contrast, I found illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe and Angola, willing to work hard. It is a shame that people are poor in a country that is endowed with so many riches.
South Africa is home to one of the deepest and largest gold mines in the world, producing billions of dollars. Where the hell is all that money going? Kinda makes you wonder.
Corrupt government ...
@Mike D correct
There are poor people everywhere sir, including where you came from.
Very well said Mr Shridhar, very fair assessment. I have met many south africans. blacks and whites. Both are lovely kind and gentle. These people are healthy and young. It is so sad that how it is going downhill first.
Why put a teen girl to sleep with her adult brother? Mom and daughter can share while dad and son share.
I suppose it's all down to which bus you're on!
I don't think that sounds any more less disgusting LOL
+Logic lmao.. seriously! I was reading that like, "Wtf?????"
muslim detected!
Nobuhle Mlaba you seem to talk much? Your kind is the earliest to be on earth . Pretty sure inbreeding started from your race. Now tell me otherwise.
It's so heart breaking seeing someone go through poverty like this
It's even worse in informal settlements. People don't have anything. Literally living in shacks made of whatever materials are around. I feel for anyone who is living in poverty but white people here get a lot of help from other white people. Black people get no help. I'm a Registered nurse and part of what I do is community health care and education. Black people will stand in line for government assistance but most white people will not even if they need it they feel degraded to wait in line with poor blacks. A lot of white people who lost everything after apartheid were the ones who were not qualified for their jobs in the first place. I'm not saying our government is doing things right but comparing poverty in black communities to white communities is startlingly different.
Agh this white ppl r just lazy suka! 🙄
White they think they are superior than any other races they must face reality nonsense they must face poverty fuck them.
@@chenjeraigachange6615 if funny coz I f blacks are poor all seem to be ok bt if white are evrybody feel sry fo dem
@@thobanimthethwa2081 That's true white privilege is over they must get over it they must face poverty like any other races.
Glad to see where I came from. I was one of the children who was taken away from there. Although it's a sad past I got a better future now.
I think most people are living in poverty in South Africa to be fair...
Even the middle class citizens here are poor by most other country's standards..live month to month with no real expendable income.
South Africa is a wealthy nation, many of their people lived quite well, they just chose a system that impoverish a LARGE percentage of it's population based on race. Because of some recent changes a few more people are living in poverty.
YA DUMBASS , OUR COUTRY IS BETTER THAN NIGERIA
@@sussyamogussus your country is better than so many other countries, but did you only mention Nigeria?
Matt I ..that's about how most people in the western world live nowadays..that is neo- liberal capitalism for you MATE. G'day FROM AUSTRALIA cobber.
@@sussyamogussus how so? Nigeria now has a larger economy than South Africa. And Nigeria is now one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. South Africa is not. They are headed on the way up. South Africa is headed on the way down. So how is South Africa better than Nigeria?
Fun Fact: South Africa is now poorer than all countries in Europe on a per capita basis. SA economy used to compete with Italy, and is now below the level of pre war Ukraine. A literal joke.
no no speaking as a white person I say leave if you don't like it
Fun fact:Greece is soon to follow, or are already there.
that's because they can't abuse humans anymore
no no That's what happens when the incompetent africans gain control
That's not true and you know it
1:03 you mean to tell me that woman is 49?! She has lived a very very rough 49 years. I thought she was in her mid to late 60s.
I'm black middle aged guy but I feel for this people 😢, not to take away what our nation is really going through. It's a national problem
Yeah I thought mid 60s at least, not 40s 😐
Listen you all, being poor is not a beautifull sight, any race. The question is, work oppertunity and are you willing to work hard. Nothing is free, you have to work. Any race would do anything to provide for their family. If you have work, any, keep your head high, have self respect. Don't feel sorry for yourself. You are a beautifull soul. God loves you. My mom died from cancer couple of years back. She used to say, you can be poor but you dont have to be a bum, keep where you live clean as yourself. Have compassion. One of the last things she said before dieing was, i love you, i love you all. And we were blacks and whites in the room. The lesson i took from that night was, the only job, the moist important job we all have on earh is LOVE. We have to love each other, Be christian. The haters here are AntiChrist.
I truly dont want hate to rule my life. I am a white African female 45 years old. Grow up poor, went to school and started working in take aways. God has been by my side, never left me, even when a ate bread. Thank you God. Proud African, born African. Amen
@JimboParadox I don't wanna laugh but😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😉😉😉
Same!
Heartbreaking! This could be any of us one day!
That comment “what is a rich person” at the end was heartbreaking.
Yes...it's sad to see children suffering like this...regardless of race...we should count are blessings and pray for this country😢🙏
No sane human being would find pleasure from another person 's suffering irrespective of skin colour.
The black ancestors enslaved are turning in their graves because of that mere statement
You know nothing. I get a lot of pleasure out of seeing this.
@@abinsurly2910me too
It always makes me cry to see people struggling to have enough to eat and have somewhere to live, it's SO shocking that today in this rich world so many suffer so much. PLEASE can we change this FAST!
Why are they smoking when there is no money
for food
I used to live there until I was ten...anyone who had a way to leave, did. I think the Dutch should allow Afrikaans back to their homeland, the same you would for any refugee
how did they wind up there in the first place? employment opportunities?they came from what countries exactly?
Only 30%from Holland.
@@koosbos1114 thank you! Be safe!
This is happening in USA 3.5 million homeless
Ikr
AND PEOPLE THINK THIS IS ONLY IN AFRICA 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤 , SOUTH GOTTA LOVE THE MEDIA
True is this news. Poverty is all over the world people
No one said it wasn't happening anywhere else. This is just news being reported
USA has money .
The other 75% are living in luxury and still own the majority of the wealth in SA. Why not do a documentary on that?
+Carl Darl
Dude the average white South African is still poorer than the average middle class person (any race) from America or Europe. We are just trying to make ends meet and keep the economy afloat (hyperinflation is looming like a sword over our heads).
Carl Darl
I know, read my other comment on the video's comment section
We white people are suffering this video is the truth
The only thing you whites are suffering from is karma.
+DanieB52 best comment I've seen here!!
This shouldn’t be happening anywhere in the world, heartbreaking!
lol
Loool
The front-ground audio overwhelms the narration; however, I think that's appropriate, as many times living in poverty one is overwhelmed by the sounds around -- inescapable cacophony of the despondent.... Thanks for the videos, cheers!!
There is a few things about this documentary that makes me both sad and angry. I did not, by any stretch of the imagination, grow up in the laps of luxury. I ate neon pink polony with my mom at times too, but it was not abject poverty either. I am a white South African and am Afrikaans speaking like most of these people.
What saddens me is the intense poverty these people face. Their hopeless situation, especially the children. That is what angers me too, the children, why is it that each and every family living in absolute squalor has a baby or very young child? Their situation is not one that came about suddenly, most of them have been born into a life of poverty. They cry, demand and get angry that the government does not GIVE them housing, food and clothing. I do not see one of these people take that which is given free by the government, birth control! They tell in detail how they grew up eating moldy bread at Christmas, it couldn’t have been that bad if that is what you give your own child. That child didn’t have a choice, you the adult did. You cry in outrage that the government took away your first two children, because you couldn’t care for them, saying that their parents are the best place for them. Yet you went ahead and had another child, you are intensely selfish and self-entitled. The two children that where adopted out are far better off than the poor boy that stayed with these parents. The mentality of the parents are passed down to the children, this is a self-perpetuating cycle that is passed down from one generation to the next. And the all smoke!!! That is a very expensive habit for a person that have no food!
Unfortunately this mentality is one that stretches across all skin colours and cultures in our beautiful country. Rather than change how you do things and teaching your children to do better and improve on you, you blame the government! That is a cop-out! Get off your pansy ass wash a car or mow a lawn, do something to get going you are not too white to do this! If you want to you will! Things can change for these children, but because they are taught that it is someone else’s responsibility to get them out of the hole they are in they will continue to wait for this person or institution to come and fix things instead of learning hard in school, getting a bursary or job and getting out!
Well that is my 5 cents worth…
I agree with you. However I think that access to contraception would be a big issue for people. No money for contraception, so they would have no control over pregnancy.
The poor ensures that the human race does not become extinct.
@@katemcgrath273 Contraceptives are free in all public hospitals and clinics
@@katemcgrath273 they probably mean that other race groups are supplied with free RDP housing whilst white people do not get that.
@@katemcgrath273 There are free contraceptives at the clinics and state hospitals
just scrapping together enough money to feed their child is a daily struggle but they can afford their cigarette habit?
mallicolom bf4 cigarettes are really cheap!
Golden 47 oh in Australia they are really expensive
all these excuses! If you are so poor that the word "starve" is brandied about, you save every rand you have for food. These poor overweight white people are lazy and trifling, not hungry.
LOVE EVERYONE Your poor, don’t have enough food to eat, starve yourself for cigarettes, yet you have the Internet; someone needs to set their priorities straight.
Mate in SA you can by cigarettes CHEEEEEAAAP. singles, whatever! A bit of a low blow too since we all know that where there is poverty.. defooooooo there will be smoking..... to say the least!........... no matter the place or the people!!!
Very sad, heartbreaking to see any human being, especially the babies, going hungry🙁.
May we pray for them and help them seek Asylum! ❤️🤝🙏
It is hard to feel motivated towards work when you know you have virtually no chance in getting a proper job.
where is the "green Dam" situated..I would like to help in my private capacity
It's in Pretoria, South Africa.
I can give you my phone number for any further action
Who edited this? The nat sound is way too loud. I can barely hear the narrator.
Get your hearing tested.
Reminds me in some ways of really economically depressed areas here in Australia back in the late 80s or early 90s. It's like it missed out on 2 decades of development. Very Sad, I'm many ways South Africa is similar to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and yet it's so different. If this was filmed in the mid-90s then I'm still shocked but significantly less so.
I’m Australian, and I agree. So many similarities between both South Africa and Australia, it’s just sad the South African government doesn’t want to do anything and make a change to help their people.
I feel for the kids especially the 16 year old . A lot has passed her she should’ve been studying at least and get a better future . This is painful it doesn’t matter the rest or the past , we need to grow the country together .
Why do you feel pity for people who display the Confederate flag bhuti wam? Look at this 16:30 a symbol for Slavery
90% of Black Americans and black Europeans and Black Indians are also living in extreme poverty. That should also be a big deal.
What goes around comes around, never the less they shouldn't be treated so poorly. If you spit in the sky it falls in your face.
That's true. Only stupid people don't do the research about it.
27.4 percent of blacks in the U.S. are living below the poverty level, most of these by South African standards would be middle class. There are more homeless white men in the U.S. than black men.
90%? Are you sure?
It ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun. Sad
It had been a much no-fun when the wolf had the gun! Very sad to see growing children living in deplorable conditions. Worst of all when you go to bed in mind that you could be raided in the early morning by men in uniforms of brutality with glistening automatic rifles. One good turn centuries ago would have deserved another centuries ahead. A tour in Soweto would of given a much more diverse perspective of the post apartheid South Africa. It would take surely more than three decades to mend the spoils of three centuries of animosity and atrocity. May love reign in the hearts of people of all races, beliefs and cultures across the four corners of this world we all live in.
The rabbit?With a gun?
This is the problem these days...too many drugs around.
ANY ABUSE is deplorable.
ANY person going hungry is sickening, especially in a world of gluttony.
IF YOU were a victim of "apartheid" then you ,if all people should understand the kids dont write the rules.
@Anita Cawk I'd gladly take them off you, unfortunately our woke European governments prefer not to prioritize them.
Notice how they still have enough money to buy cigarettes while their kids starve😤😤
lrie Vibes I am sure smokes cost pennies there unlike in N. America!
A packet of cigs is R 10 food for a day R40. Do the maths genius. And come and live in a country with 30% unemployment and laws that discriminate against you.
Alastair you have no idea where iv come up from genius
@@alastair9446 a pack of cigarettes is R10!. Where do you live. And some of these people receive grants so what discrimination are they facing
@@peacelover2767 Lol, I guess that shows what privilege background you come from not knowing you can buy R 10 cigarettes normally from your street vendor or little Pakistan store. Not the normal Pick and Pay, or Woolworths you got to. And the discrimination I'm talking about is BEE and affirmative action that punishes companies for hiring white males. Affirmative action is supposed to protect the minority from the majority but in this county is the opposite.
I wish we can all understand that we are one, that we need each other.
Well said 👏
As long as we all keep thinking like this, we never will
I feel really sorry for the lonely old lady 🙁
There but for the Grace of GOD?
Tell her to go back to Europe.
She is not an old lady she is 49.
Ironic how people behave when the shoes on the other foot
I love how the black South Africa are taking back what belong to them.
@@o.amoakohene8147 Ignorant fuck!
It'll be a third world shithole in no time!
@@PALM311 its been 25 years and still counting.admit your are just as bitter as a pill
@@PALM311 No America is the shit hole Country now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@malvinzamani576 Amit it the truth hurt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣but you can't stop karma.
I didn’t hear anyone talk about having been turned down for a job they are qualified for. None seem to report looks for jobs, most look like alcoholics or drug users that can afford cigarettes. Why does their lack of work keep them from cleaning their living space.
Totally agree there just the lazy whites
I pray 🙏 that ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS all people to get along and help each other 🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Truth!
I doubt he cares
I wonder where all those bibles and churches were when black south was hurting
@@vincelebron1982 And so can whites times are changing boy. You will be the minority soon and you will feel the same pain
@@vincelebron1982 not before you bitch
Vince Lebron Nope we are God chosen people. And since 400 years of captivity is over for my people.the curses are given back to your people..no crying ok. No crying. No one will care.
Cody Ham -- I'll sweeten the pot: Where is your white god NOW? Where is your white jesus NOW? Where is your white mary NOW? Where is your white paul NOW? What is your man-made "bible" doing for you NOW?
Vince Lebron
Whites first
There are thousands of black poors in south Africa as well , why aren't they living together in some shantytown somewhere , sharing their missfortune and helping each other like you see in other countries ? lol , even in poverty they keep apartheid , lmao .
😂 "apartheid til i die" 😂
South africa is quite wealthy though , Its amaizing Here , espiciall in cape town
Y'all are really obsessed with race mixing huh ?
We would progress faster if we mixed..
He's complaining about his daughter needing her own room and privacy 😂😂😂😂 dude I grew up in a 16sm2 two room house [LITERALLY A KITCHEN AND BEDROOM+OUTSIDE TOILET] we we're 8 cousins, my great-granny and aunt=10people
My great-grandmother, my aunt and 2youngest slept in one bed, the rest of us (6) slept on the floor no mattress just 3blankets and 2more to cover us. Most of my cousins lost their parents to Apartheid Police brutality and my GGM and aunt had no choice but to raise us. Today we all have Masters and +level of education and own our businesses and two others work for government not the private sector BECAUSE who wants to be a modern slave 😂😂😂😂😂. The pain and endurance and staying away from alcohol and drugs has helped us and gave us strength to prosper and win and never forget where we came from. We have family documentedhistory book to remind us of the devil and his tricks 😃✌️😂
It is a crime when they suffer,but its nothing when black people suffer.
Good job...so so happy for all...go all the way to the top...am from USA...am happy for u..
@@winstontownsend9713 They are so entitled now that they think every one of them should live in luxury
@@THExxxlegionxxx they know nothing about real pain and suffering,they haven't seen nothing yet,they are living in luxury compared to how most black people are living through out the world.
@@THExxxlegionxxx I have no sympathy for them none whatsoever,u must reap what u sowed.
In America I recently became unemployed 2021. I am a senior citizen. - I used to live in a grocery basket with my children in the street due to domestic violence and no shelter vacancies and also discrimination. If you were transient it was impossible to be employed unless you apply job with permanent house/land owner. ( As resident in charity shelter and this information on job apply you were automatically/repeatedly rejected.) I searched for work for a year -no job. ( As soon as I identify- apply different/other address resident as land owner/permanent house - I got a job in 24 hour.) Even federal police monitored my efforts and observed documents of activity and realized/proved the discrimination and developed an investigation. Federal police were involved due to government fed my children. South African poverty is extreme - corrupt - neglect and out of control.
They would have some money for food and bills if they just quit smoking.SMDH
How true!!!
Agent 47 Are just stop having kids.
And you'd be a millionaire if you just worked all day long and spent no time writing comments on youtube and playing hitman
Really? I don't think that smoking is the problem. My God don't they deserve one thing that gives them satisfaction. I know they go without cigarettes more than they have them. I think that is sad of you to only take that away from this video.
Corina Muter Just an easy way of making it their fault
Just ride a large ship, and do like the refugees do, sail to Germany or the Netherlands.
They will give you preference over other refugees, because you are originally Germanic.
Ossa Ghalyoun totally agree. There is nothing therfore you. Why suffer .? It's time to go home or move to other countries for better opportunity.
1. they probably cant afford to.
2. they receive no preference.
SA has turned very bad the last 5 years.
adam kimber I know it was paradise during apartheid
The world is still owned by whites.anyone could create an ong for poor Afrikaans.the aryan Brotherhood could help them.by 1996 in durban they were helpful.
Go to your country ,after all that's what these whites tell us Afrikaans Everytime ...go to your country and claim benefits ,including house benefits
We require an indiscriminate ladder. But work is required, climbing is required.
Wow...
It really hurts to see any one poor and suffering.
Makes you thankful for the many things you have been blessed with.
As an African, I truly hope south Africa moves away from the hurt and injustices of the past to become the rainbow nation it has every potential to become.
Viva Africa!
Wake up and understand your oppressor.
Agreed
Chukudi Edechuku 🌹✝️💕🌹💕🎺🌹✝️💕🌹🎺They called for a civil war on whites. And we’re in genocide can you please help us were not a racist. Please help please please help us whites
Mikhailovna Inna 🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕✝️🌹💕✝️✝️🌹Every race lives in Africa. And need help.
Well, Chukudi you sound like a really nice person, but unfortunately the colonizer does not feel the same about you and your people. They prefer to only see you in pain and suffering. What are you going to do about that?
“She is a poor white” DUN DUN DUN .....
im screaming lmfao
@@SpookVolt what goes around etc.
@@SpookVolt well stop
As long as the true natives of Africa were enslaved, destitute and living in despair, the White South Africans didn't have a problem with that. Now that the status quo has been flipped, the hunter becomes the prey.
Fuck em!
The Africans only had elephant shit to eat before whites came
Song777 back in the Apartheid Era, good jobs were reserved for whites and low-paying, labor intensive work for other races - not based on skills. The current government is now employing based on skill, so the scales will definitely move, and not favor just skin color. That is why white poverty is new in South Africa. Whites lived in luxury suburbs while blacks were highly concentrated in squatter camps and rural areas with no running water or electricity.
There is no job a black person can do without making a mess of it.That is true in the USA anyway,maybe it is different there .!
Kwena Sekwakwa-Zafirovski -- And a lie!
Never forgotten Apartheid
Never forgotten the Nanjing Massacre.
Mike your lying apartheid architects are still visible 2day majority of white people still live in fancy places while blacks are still living in townships that were build by the apartheid regime
7:02 when he said "I feel useless" 😭😭😭 my heart💔💔💔💔💔
Notice this is all about white ppl who although poor, are living 10 times better than the majority of Blacks.
Darnell Hendeason
If the Whites are living 10 times better than the majority of Blacks, Why Not Put tb Downtrodden Blacks here ??? Why Not Help the Worst of the People ???? This is Sad that the Blacks Live so Much Lower than Whites. 💧
@@thedaughterofalmightygod2345 because they would destroy it like they destroyed everything else In south Africa
@@thedaughterofalmightygod2345 fuck u fuck u , 😒😒😒, Gotaa love the mediA ONCE AGAIN ,
Black people in SA go through the same thing there’s large population next to cities and townships of people living shacks
Thanks to de Klerk, the NP, the JaBroers and the NG church!
There's something wrong with you
An afrikaner female just stole close to 500k from the NG kerk
I pray that may the almighty elivate the suffering of all .amen
I am black and i don't care what race or color anyone may be, All i know is i love everyone and it hurts my feelings to see people suffer tho i am not rich either but i hope God sees every one of them through their struggle in life and definitely find help some day. #Peace #Love #Unity
G Class Dude respect to you brother! You truly are a wise man. PEOPLE just don't get it. It's because of devision, there is so much hatred in this world. There is ONLY one race and that is the human race. God does not see color, He sees our hearts. And too many people's hearts are very black. LOVE and respect to you ❤
Help them please...
Frontlinewarrior
"There is only one race". It's the reason why white people who doesnt admit the black power in SA, took refuge to Orania where the blacks are forbidden. 22 years after apartheid ended, there is a place in SA where white people are organized in only white community. Do you really think that their people think that we are the same race ?
G class dude God bless you
so much ignorance in the comment sections. until one knows the context and history behind a situation, their opinion on what is right and wrong is worth nothing.
My parents, my parents parents all suffered this way. They never complained they worked!!! They were left in areas far from water, just bush surrounding them.
God be with us all.
Really The Dam looks like a beautiful place
The dam stinks. There's not a lot of waterflow.. And drugs grow there. Literally you can see the needles grow...
it's a dump trust me
@@louiserieper15 but its like they dont accept help or mix themselves with black people so what can be done
You all need to put your priorities first, leave out the CIGARETTES, and buy food
for your children
Oh, thank you so much! Yes, smoking cigarettes caused all this and being lifted out of poverty (and learning to truly love your own children) is as simple as quitting smoking!
Gloria Hoyte I agree with you but when you get so low down in life give them something they enjoy! Don't take it all away from them.
I just checked the cost of cigarettes in South Africa: 30 rand. That same amount buys you two Cokes, or one beer, 45 minutes of a taxi's waiting time, a couple bottles of water or, I think, some kind of happy meal at McDonald's.
So, it's an expense but not an extravagance. At the same time, the general cost of living in South Africa is around 50% lower than in the United States.
It's always a good idea to quit smoking but it's a lot to ask of people already under that kind of pressure. It is possible to smoke cigarettes and be good parents.
@@lunchwagondavis9983 So true. Kudos. When you are that low down you need that little something. At that cost it will not make you rich or any poorer!
@Winstxn music It is a coping mechanism for some people!
the "White" part does nothing for my sympathy, better to estimate all south Africans in poverty and make the video.
@Xolilizwe Erique Sigedeni He's pointing out the irony in the original commenter.
Perhaps you don't know how racist blacks are.
@bastia Mars blacks don't prefer to work more. Look at the government, no one works there. They all sit there and collect their pay check and love bribes.
There are literally thousands of videos dedicated to poor black people with NO whites in it. All of them tell whites to help these poor needy blacks. But you are unhappy that there is one video on poor whites? These people do not even ask you to donate
@bastia Mars fuckin lier! That's all you fuckers do
At least these people try to fend for themselves ,and not relying totally on handouts.they are reasonably clean and keep it tidy,instead of leaving junk all over the place.they have pride no matter how hard things get.
Every race has rich and poor. We gotta do what we gotta do to survive this life.
guys really a teenage girl sharing with her brother a room and you are concern black south Africans in one shark 5 teenagers girls boys father mother shark all in one kitchen.bedroom .bathroom you guys are joking.
Human suffering should never be quantified by race. I hate seeing poverty regardless of who it affects. Instead of pointing fingers can we learn to open our pockets, homes and hearts to those less fortunate? South Africa is such a great country let's build it together!
were you advocating this when the blacks were being oppressed and killed?
This saddens me lot, poverty in this country keeps on rising, and the problem with this is that the rest of South Africa isn't brought to attention in regard to this topic. A good example would be coloured South Africa, you rarely hear anyone advocating for them, when they too find them selves in hard times. The country is in a bad place for a lot of people irregardless of the shade our skin
As a country we need to heal
Yazi. I truly agree with you there - the hypocrisy really frustrates me. Because if I made a video detailing disenfranchised Indians or Blacks of South Africa, nearly no one would bat an eye.
Why is it novel and suddenly "tragic and horrible" just because they're white? As a black South African who has grown up in one of the harshest areas of poverty and crime, this deeply upsets me.
Its so true thank you
They can build themselves mud houses and buy pots and cook that’s how we do it, simple. They are lucky they are given free food
Well said, well said 👏👏
How? , r u dumb , I can Tell THIS GUY IS NOT FROM South africa 🤦♂️
You are lucky to be alive...such ugly words...🙄🙄
You need land. Land costs money.
@@alastair9446 there are squatter camps in south Africa. People make shakes out of scrap metal and live there with no electricity or running. They are not being given free food either. I don't understand why they make it about their suffering only. Black people suffer too, greatly soo
Coloured people are goin thru the same thing.
Siraaj Miller All PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING
true...these class issues are universal
This is sad. For those who are happy for people in misery, it speaks volumes of your character. Have compassion for all who are down on their luck irregardless of race b/c...There, but for the grace of God go I.
@@Junkman2008 shame on you idot, have a little bit empathy and kindness. Even though we south asians were ruled by british but still they are human and we need to have compassion and love for all human irrespective of their race or religion.
Really?!? Cry me River!!
It's look like Virginia to me
That's because it very well could be. The Dixie flag around 16-17 screams fishy. Something is up, either over there in SA or with Journeyman, not sure
It's funny because it's true.
@@albrechtnechtan9443 lol you guys are so ignorant about South Africa and Africa. Poor whites look the same everywhere. I would explain that they are actually say they are all the same ethnicity. Virginia has the largest number of European Gypsies. The same kind of people were sent away by the British to new territories including Australia. Google Irish Gypsies.
@@rantersparadise The St. Andrews cross is Scottish not Irish. More than likely the Dixie flag in SA in this clip was brought in by some well meaning guy trying to help them and rally them around a cause. He's probably from America.
@@rantersparadise we still treat your people way better over here...its clear who the haters are, and it ain't white
Fantastic video; however, the background noise in the video is so loud that I can't hear the vocals much of the time. Old video but it would be great if you guys could upload a new version.
Oh well , pull urself up from your bootstraps lol
Hendrixchick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Brad Smith It works both ways mate blacks get treated exactly the same wherever they are in the world. America, England ,France, Germany you name it blacks are discriminated against in the job market. Even the Bulgarian gypsies who are hated all over Europe still get opportunities over blacks.😣😣😣
@White Brad Bad ooops, isn't that what whites tell black Americans when they were oppressing them ? If that was easy i am sure you wouldnt be watching this video. This karmar shit is real hahahahahahaha
@Pro-White Advocate, End Black Privilege stfu
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why talk about white poverty or black poverty why not just talk about poverty in South Africa in general?
Star Lah because that's how it is.
Golden 47 yep, poverty has colour it seems
The reason is simple. South Africa is still a country that sees black people and white people as 2 different things.
Comment Destroyer I am not white
Drofnuts , appearantly it isn't just South Africa.
Please Pray for South Africa.
I am from africa doesn't matter wht happened before .i feel sad to see that lady living outside SA gvt should do something i just hope we peoples can live together no matter your skin color
Awesome bro I've been replying to racist comments this whole time and I find an amazing soul like you thanks for having the same mindset as most of us here in SA like it doesn't bother me too much when the big people suffer its when those children come in thats where my heart breaks 😢
You should be careful not to trust so much. 16:30 a proud display of the Confederate flag a symbol of Slavery. These people don't need our pity.
worried about other race problems but not concerned about severe nigerian poverty
this poor 25% looks loaded compare to the 86% of the black south african, also the sound of this video very poor too.
+Borja Martin too bad they still poor lol
+Borja Martin who cares about the black south africans, they are africans and have always lived like this. the white south africans are people like you and me, they are descendants of europeans. we should grant them the right to return to Europe and apply for Dutch or UK citizenship.
+a going back to europe would be the best solution, they are cry babies!
Us blacks have been deadly poor ever since their uncestors invaded (colonised SA) our country. They have been poor for how many years compared to us. They should just stop being cry babies and adapt. We are all poor come on people. It's not about the colour of the skin. It's a pity that u are failing to adapt and we've adapted a long time ago, when u were busy walking over us, we were busy adapting. I feel sorry for all of us who are poor, red, green, white black or blue.
Nkoskhona Cebolenkosi No. You haven't been deadly poor ever since their ancestors colonized ZA. You were poor before. Let's keep it real here for a second, the European settlers turned ZA into the most developed country on the entire sub-saharan continent. And that's a fact, whether people like it or not. Without them, you'd just be another Zimbabwe or Uganda today.
Wait, is that a Confederate flag?
WORLDTRAVELER DID 🥶JESUS 🥶REVEAL🥶 WHO 🥶THE 🥶ANTICHRIST IS
Yes it is... its shocking because poverty and being poor isn't associated with white, I'm sorry, but during apartheid people were creating wealth because they were supposedly the better race. Why did they get left behind, white people still have the wealth of Africa. The Confederate flag is spicy, the government provides grants for all. Some white people are living in RDP Houses while we are still in one bedroom shacks.
@@rhondaclark716 I can't take you seriously with that 90's picture from Glamour Shots.
Yes! Unbelievable thats
one of the main roots to their problems, Racism.
No, it isn't. It is the Voortrekker Flag. The flag of the Afrikaners who fled the British to build a life up north. It's a liberation flag, they are not in the USA.
Danke für das hochladen
I wanted to comment about the overall poverty, until I heard Dirk at 3:00 👌
Oh my Gawd! We're being treated like we are black!!!
Wanda Dowdy are for real ?
@@nkyabosi4827 Sarcasm 😂you missed it.
Did your forefathers say you’re something special, see it now in the 21st century, they lied, just look at Lewis Hamilton, Tiger Woods and Syia Kolisi in 2019 for example , they are multimillionaires , did your forefather come down to earth on a dark overcast cloud and stop them ?
Lol Wanda
So being black means poverty
Thank you to all the help that you give. It broke my heart to see how you help. Our African community do not stop having babies and I do not understand why as they can not provide for the ones they have never mind the ones they are going to pop out. it is cruel for the children
They have children to apply for child grants.. They found a loophole I think gvmnt should ban children out of families like that if you have a child and he or she is raised in such conditions it should be seen as a crime punishable by law
This is the time for those who love South Africa to come together and eliminate poverty and unequal living conditions for ALL South Africans.
If they don't want to work for ALL South Africans, then South Africa is not their country and maybe they should leave the country.
Yes. I've met a few South Africans in Australia who left and aren't going back. I sensed something awful they didn't want to talk about. This makes it a bit clearer.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" - Jim Elliot.
The key to get out of poverty is to educate oneself/get a skill....it takes a lot of willpower make it...
when de lady talk , the background nois is to load
90%of these people destroyed their own life wth drugs
A lot of times people try use drugs to mend an already destroyed life
So is 30% of South Africa unemployment due to drugs? Is 30% of the population on drugs? Drugs are a problem everywhere poverty isn't. Is this not maybe a convenient excuse not to care?
@Siyabonga Dube So then what would happen the poor? They just die off and then the world is rid of them. Regardless of what the government does or doesnt....these are still human beings. Remember the unemployment rates. Maybe if there were more employment available then post people would not be in this situation.
I grew up in Cape Town, and I have always seen and known about poor whites in South Africa, this is nothing new. Unfortunately, the world chooses to only see the poor people of colour. This world is so wealthy, I will never understand why we have so many poor people. Please stay safe everyone and help SAVE and PROTECT our FARMERS as well as the worlds less fortunate.
Don't compare the cost of western cigarettes to other places in the world. Most packs cost only pennnies
I live in South Africa... A pack costs R30 upwards. They aren't cheap
Lol you can get three loaves of bread with the money for a box of cigarettes. They're starving their children on purpose...
@@k.m512, you can get 12 loaves of bread for a PK of cigarettes in England .
@@dearfuturetema4515 that's also right now, and I'm pretty sure they banned both cigarettes and alcohol if I'm not mistaken. This video was made in 2006, 14 years ago. You also aren't thinking of the fact of how little amount of farmers are left in South Africa
@@grant4015 what we had an alcohal and cigarette ban last year due to covid that has been lifted alcohol still only available in the week not on weekends. Don't worry here is stil lots of white farmers these people are in this situation in most instant due to substance abuse now they want to complain complain this is what they do best black and coloured people live in worse conditions for years and we survive
The world- 64% of black South Africans lives in poverty😴
The world- 1/% of European South Africans lives in poverty. Omg😡😢😭.
Other people’s deserve to be poor and others not, this is the reason why that’s a lot of problems in this world.
Maybe time to show simple poor South Africans of all races. we need perspective.
I literally only get videos recommended with poor white South Africans 😅
This is true no race should suffer poverty but why do we feel sorry only now? There was so many African black ppl poor for years but no one cared.
@@kes136 so true
Can someone tell me which language they are speaking ? Is it Dutch ? If Dutch, why can't they return back to The Netherlands which is their country of origin ?
Speak afrikaans this happen in south africa with people white and black more than 500 scatter camps in sa
Why does Journeyman always post videos that are decades old?
ikr that's what i want to know also
+krnpowr because they can buy them for cheap from the original rights holders
It's free nigga. stfu
SeekerOfTruths Everything on youtube is free. That doesn't mean people like watching documentaries that are 2 decades old. So you stfu, nigga.
+krnpowr Somebody's got their panties in a twist...
I'm here for the kids come on people have a heart
Fuck them all.
The world is OK with black suffering but not OK with equality... Never again.
That's What The Holy Spirit Said To Me, Slavery Will Never Happen Again!
Slavery is happening now in Libya where the Arabs enslave black Africans.
@Kaylee MikulecHummm, Maybe In Some Instances.
The world is not OK with black suffering. But the world is also NOT some concerned parent who wants to help their child. The world doesnt give a fuck. Black people need to pull themselves up through education and cultural reformation (in the US at least). Stop with the fkin victim mentality.
La La typical black person with a chip on their shoulder and making it about race, seriously?
Please note your voice was so soft it was drowned out with the ambiance of the activity, could you lift the volume some, please? Very good work you are doing, bless you all. ☘️🌹👍🙂☘️
Considering all there cruelty towards Black's past and present I'd say poetic justice wouldn't you? .
Get ur head out ur ass . ur not human
yet you see chef ramsay throwing away food
Say it again heart breaking
Innocent people deserve peace and harmony, god bless them.
we share a common enemy no matter if you black, white, pink or brown if you not part of the elite few who control the country you are just as vulnerable of being in this position so we have to come together and look at the real issues the one that ultimately impact the whole country such as a poor economy or lack of job creation and we break down the structures that hold progression hostage
in the times of apartheid...these people were garrenteed a good job and a care free life...just for having a white skin....now the tables are turned
The tables are broken down like everything else. Black economic empowerment requires blacks to receive the majority of the jobs, regardless of qualifications. This leads to rolling blackouts because power utilities are managed by unqualified blacks. The black police are also incompetent and corrupt. All aspects of life in the country are tainted with black corruption in which public funds are stolen and few are arrested.
Tables are turning indeed, u won't stay wealthy forever, now the same system they implemented to oppress black nation is turning against them n they are crying foul, let them taste how it were for black people that they took for granted for so many years, by their forefathers feel like, this is life, somehow u'll loose everything u thought u worked hard for to better ur life, the wheels are turning slowly taking them off one by one, it was hard for a black man, even now it still is but they sustained, it was nice living a luxury life during ur for fathers times, now it is back to the reality of human life, no one is special on this Earth, blacks continued to say we all human, let's treat each other like human, but u have ignored that with ur system, now it's eating u up, we are still poor, u have to respect, Karma.
@@bennertraks3111 tables turning, like the deck of the Titanic just before it went under. In South Africa diseases which were once eradicated are killing thousands of people. The water from the public systems must be boiled before it can be consumed. Adults graduating from public school have a 2nd grade education. Rape is the highest in the world. Each year a greater number of blacks are living in cardboard shacks - the employment rate is 40 percent and the minimum wage is $1.45/hr US Dollar. School kids are drowning when the open pit toilets collapse. Tax funds to improve the country are stolen by ANC politicians. The ANC can't manage a nation, they are thieves. Political murders within the ANC ranks are common.
We'll get out of spoil.... Maybe with God's help we'll get everyone out of that and prevent going to ruin.
Jokes on you, chinese are coming in and they treat every black person brutally. Afrikaners will wish for the white men to come back and save them.
This reminds me of the times we looked forward to getting Government cheese and free bag lunches in the park. Was tough being a minority in America.
Best Cheese ever.
My family is full of different ethnic groups and I grew up going to assistance programs as a kid. I am thankful someone cared for me enough to help 😊👍🇺🇲🤝❤️
Every country has the poor and the rich. There is no county with out poverty. Black or white we all have the same need as human . Why do we have to look down on the other in need. Let's live in love 🇵🇬
Cry for my beloved country