tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post115422138756356332..comments2024-02-10T09:55:04.396+02:00Comments on The Death of Johannesburg: New Galleries Added!The Real Realisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512197893435107223noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-84014483862774244132016-01-16T20:10:11.505+02:002016-01-16T20:10:11.505+02:00Good site.Good site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-60936033117775626512014-01-04T05:49:08.747+02:002014-01-04T05:49:08.747+02:00Amazing blog. Great Job!! I live OUTSIDE of Atlant...Amazing blog. Great Job!! I live OUTSIDE of Atlanta here in the US. I won't go into the city anymore as its become too dangerous for me. Good friend was carjacked and beaten by young blacks last year. Police knew who did it and would not arrest them. No thanks. You are right, the reason big cities have slums like this are for the same reason. Can't have a 1st world country with 3rd world population. Cheers and Stay Safe!!Stanleyhttp://youtu.be/z-6YX-aceOknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-41213952526669172332011-01-01T18:25:23.686+02:002011-01-01T18:25:23.686+02:00Response to Real Realist's 2nd post (9:03AM):
...Response to Real Realist's 2nd post (9:03AM):<br /><br />"Go dig a hole and create your own world if you don't want to live with blacks. This is our country too." <br />http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com/<br /><br />I guess this is how they want to live. So who are we to try to force our standards and culture on them? I suggest we save all our money next time they come begging for aid or refugee status... <br /><br />Since they're so fond of saying all whites should leave because Africa is for Africans, they better get the hell out of white countries. They just don't fit in. This is why there was *separation* from them.<br /><br />But no, they want to live like pigs in a sty, but at the same time, they want blingy cars invented and produced by whites. Doesn't work that way, but try telling them that. I say just let them rot. It's tragic to see all those great buildings going down the drain like this, but it's Africa.<br /><br />If whites are so awful, why is it that after they stop running the show everything falls apart and then they run to white countries!? <br /><br />I sincerely hope all those airheads donating white tax money and allowing all these 'disadvantaged' 3rd worlders to swamp white countries en masse will see this and re-think their stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-70850173635269754282010-12-21T08:11:20.136+02:002010-12-21T08:11:20.136+02:00do you think you could post larger pics? leave the...do you think you could post larger pics? leave the thumbnails the same size, but have the pictures they link to be bigger? I think your pictures are beautiful, and I'd love to see them in detail!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-25040297280655723802009-12-26T18:54:03.416+02:002009-12-26T18:54:03.416+02:00I lived in JHB for 10 years but I don't recogn...I lived in JHB for 10 years but I don't recognize any of these building at all now. It is amazing that a nation of people are able to destroy at such an alarming rate and yet don't see it at all themselves. As much as we don't want to believe it they will only be happy when the whole of SA is in this state and then of course it will be the whites to blame for some of other reason. How we all tried to believe that SA was going to be different what a bunch of idiots we are. I now wish I had left this country 20 years back when we knew this was coming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-59698397893838474772009-09-18T09:44:38.737+02:002009-09-18T09:44:38.737+02:00Hello there,
I find your blog fascinating. Rome w...Hello there, <br />I find your blog fascinating. Rome was not built in a day, but it sure looks like it can be destroyed in a day. <br />I've noticed that most of the photos were taken in or around the dreaded Joburg fashion district. Not to sound presumptious, but a drive down Simmonds Street, and Main Street up to Vanderbijl square / Ghandi square is quite pleasant. In fact, it reminds me of Europe - the narrow cobbled Main street and the small "eetcafe's". OK...occasionally it is ruined by a taxi barging into main street, but otherwise quite pleasant. <br /><br />Then, the bus depot: this is no longer in use, as the buses are now stored in lower loveday street. It is therefore a derelict building.Martin Bykernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-11953917068686641642009-01-12T17:08:00.000+02:002009-01-12T17:08:00.000+02:00WHAT A FLIPPING DISGRACE!!!!As teenages we use to ...WHAT A FLIPPING DISGRACE!!!!<BR/>As teenages we use to take the bus into town and just window shop everything was clean and the windows always beautifuly decorated <BR/>Johannesburg was always light up at xmas time people walking around the town checking out the lights finding the hotdog cart when you got out the movies or head for the Americano Roadhouse what a great country it was to grow up in <BR/>THEN SHIT HAPPENED!<BR/>what has happened to the old people that lived in some of the hillrow flats...have they moved away?<BR/>Now i dont have a problem with people leaving the country if they feel it would better for them and their family..BUT when they start insulting those that stay behind ..well that makes me see RED..Mike Longerich whats with bragging about what you have and what a fantastic life you living ...how many members of your family is still living here in South Africa that you left behind You run away to a country that help turn South Africa into rubbish heap by putting santitions against us ..shows what you made of as just as a matter of intrest have you taken your parents or in-laws with you or have you left them behind enjoy your life HANDS-OPPER i would be ashamed going to stay in a crountry that ruined our's<BR/>And Jan i am not going to call you a "DOOS" like some one else did because i think a "DOOS" is a useful thing and you not <BR/>it's because of people like you that we have poor Afrikaaner whites begging at the robots you the type of person that will walk past your own people to give to blacks<BR/>Tell me what school did you go to MAAL-PIET-HIGHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-10427581309968068122009-01-09T16:52:00.000+02:002009-01-09T16:52:00.000+02:00i think a lot of the problems, not only in SA, but...i think a lot of the problems, not only in SA, but in the world in general stem from ignorance. i understand how many people, especially those of us who come from western cultures, might look upon the current state of SA and the rest of africa and say its because black people dont have any sense of social maintanance, that "they use everything up, destroy it, and then move on to the the next thing", as some in this blog have put it. but let me remind you all that before western man made his conquest of africa, and the rest of the world, people had been living here in relatively perfect harmany with their surroundings for millenia. of course there have always been tyrants and mad men whove taken the world to be their own and in doing so wiped out everything in their paths, but they are exceptions. the fact is that africa was a pretty great place before western ideals took hold. in fact when you look at it clearly its the westerner who uses everything up, destroys it and then moves on to the next. this is western consumerism, and this is what the western world has been teaching and forcing upon the rest of the world. the fact that its more evident in places like africa is because its been heaped upon them so rapidly. europe seems to be in order and coping but thats only because its grown up with its own devil. and even so ive seen places in europe which are run down to hell, where people dont care about any kind of social value whatsoever, where they have no pride in their homes and their cultures, where the streets are filthy and nothing works. and i know that these are all simply side affects of a system that holds the values of greed, selfishness, and egoistic pride. it has nothing to do with race. it has nothing to do with being a "bleeding heart liberal", or an anti-racist, this is just simple fact. and anyone with a shred of intelligance and discrimination doesnt have to look far to see that no matter what colour you are, and no matter what culture you come from, when you adopt such terrible values everything naturally falls to pieces. its not a people that we are to blame - its a system, a philosphy, a lifestyle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-72253362347554489152008-12-17T02:37:00.000+02:002008-12-17T02:37:00.000+02:00Reading through all of these posts I'm struck by h...Reading through all of these posts I'm struck by how many express so much indignation at the Africanization of Joburg. I'm a white boy that arrived from Scotland in 1976 and realized immediately that I should enjoy my stay there before the obvious future arrived. I left in 1985 after 9 great years, knowing that the Africans would take over and the inevitable would happen.<BR/>I'm amazed that you are all so surprised that Josies has become an African town. Look at the rest of Africa, did you expect something different?<BR/>Leave the poor Africans alone to run the country the way they want to. If they don't feel like removing trash from the street or fixing things that are broke thats not your problem. Let them enjoy their freedom the way they want.<BR/>It's really none of our business now. We were just temorary invaders.<BR/>Sure, we built a marvellous city which we got to enjoy under the strictly enforced laws of seperate developement but now its their turn.<BR/>I remember that Black Forest cake at Cafe Zurich, their Cappuccino was the best too. I bet all thats served there now is Mealie Pap.<BR/>Enjoy the memories of this once wonderful City, hopefully from some other Continent. AmandlaEscapeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13150794185844829532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-65959668961601412902008-11-27T16:50:00.000+02:002008-11-27T16:50:00.000+02:00i lived on jolly street, yeoville early 90s. walke...i lived on jolly street, yeoville early 90s. walked down to rockey street alone (in the evening), stumbling back up when the sun was humming on the horizon.. your pics of yeoville.... i have been crying. outright.. sobbing... you are brave to have been "in" to take those pics and as sad as i am.. great memories have surfaced. i went back (in) to "see" in 2002. i told the guy driving (as we headed up bezuidenhout).. "get the F*&^ out!!!!!!!!!!" and have never been back. really.. i've been sobbing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-74864060516955374202008-11-01T23:35:00.000+02:002008-11-01T23:35:00.000+02:00Tragic what has happened to SA. I have travelled a...Tragic what has happened to SA. I have travelled all over the world and had hoped to see it one day, but apparently I waited too long. Doesn't sound like a particularly clever idea to take my petite, blonde, beautiful to such a place. <BR/><BR/>Although I fear the worse is yet to come. Zuma gives the sensation that I'm looking at a young Robert Mugabe. With the global credit crunch and the commodities slide I think SA could be in for a world of shit. <BR/><BR/>In the US press and travel kit, SA is portrayed as the peace, love and guitars - what a crock. I wonder how many of my fellow sheepeople have been beaten and raped by buying into that on a visit.<BR/><BR/>For all the racism that supposedly exists in this world in my travels I have found it a truism that when the colonials leave the place goes straight to hell (with notable exceptions - Singapore, Vietnam, etc.). <BR/><BR/>But black Africa? - fekking hopeless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-13839394910090931752008-10-21T11:02:00.000+02:002008-10-21T11:02:00.000+02:00This blog evokes a lot of emotions - happy memorie...This blog evokes a lot of emotions - happy memories of what was and then complete sadness for what is! There is something about a black South African that just isn't human. To call them animals would be an insult to animals so what are they? Where do they come from? They don't have chips on their shoulders, they have WHOLE trees!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-64166958196891557812008-10-21T10:56:00.000+02:002008-10-21T10:56:00.000+02:00"Eish medem, she's brokken!"The same way "they", y..."Eish medem, she's brokken!"<BR/>The same way "they", yes "they" break everything you own while working for you is the same way they are "breaking" South Africa. Only this time, "medem" can't just replace it! Once it's gone, it's gone forever! What a shame. After two devastating experiences with "people of colour", my partner and I made the most difficult decision of our lives, we left our HOME. Our place of birth, our friends and everything we loved. All because we're white and not worth the skin we were born in. All because we "OWE" them... All they do is "DEMAND"... I'm not a racist BUT I sure do hate K4's!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-88226339509071061992008-09-12T10:26:00.000+02:002008-09-12T10:26:00.000+02:00Get REAL real realist! Educate yourself! You are p...Get REAL real realist! Educate yourself! You are presenting a tiny, one-sided view of a much larger picture! How can you ignore the reasons for this decay! It was caused by centuries of opression!!!!Greer Valleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12243247820196149068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-71880940198892781992008-08-28T12:52:00.000+02:002008-08-28T12:52:00.000+02:00"i remember", "used to be", "was", "in the 70s and..."i remember", "used to be", "was", "in the 70s and 80s, "the new south africa". yawn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-35860609426613163432008-05-10T17:54:00.000+02:002008-05-10T17:54:00.000+02:00I used to live next to the Johannesburger hotel in...I used to live next to the Johannesburger hotel in Joubert Park.<BR/>Jeussus what the fu*k have these half humans done to the city/country.<BR/>The less said the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-16265300737802381612008-04-30T22:53:00.000+02:002008-04-30T22:53:00.000+02:00I am so sad when I see this. Every time I drive do...I am so sad when I see this. Every time I drive down Louis Botha (to buy school uniforms at McCullagh & Bothwell) I look at these buildings and try to imagine what it must have been like in their glory days. It's a strange thing that I can still 'feel' the spirit of Johannesburg when I come in from Harrow (now Joe Slovo)towards town; that buzz that used to be there still clings desperately to the boarded up buildings. I think this is such a waste. In the 70's my mother didn't want us to go to Hillbrow because the men had long hair and the women smoked...<BR/><BR/>Is there any hope to restore the place at all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-25330168216654052792008-04-18T10:09:00.000+02:002008-04-18T10:09:00.000+02:00These pictures make me very sad actually. South Af...These pictures make me very sad actually. South Africa was a very beautiful place, and in some places still is. It is very difficult to see this now - its a very harsh reality. I dislike the negative comments - those must be quite harsh to deal with as they made me even angry. In an ideal world instead of all of us bitching about the state of it we should be trying to do something to make it better.Rhoda Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01810915320774204999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-31087032201010774682008-04-14T11:30:00.000+02:002008-04-14T11:30:00.000+02:00So? Do you find the degradation anything we hadn'...So? Do you find the degradation anything we hadn't told you would happen? This is the result of voting for it! The peoples choice! Sit back an let it soak in. The worst is but yet to come! Brace yourself if you can't leave and if you have left (having put your liberal vote in the box prior to '94) thanks for leaving your mess to us!Drikushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06185354607285415707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-80951157264556070932008-04-13T11:14:00.000+02:002008-04-13T11:14:00.000+02:00I live in the UK but I have family who moved to Jo...I live in the UK but I have family who moved to Johannesburg back in the 70's, at the time they told me it was a wonderful place to live, my grandparents actually went out there for a holiday one year & said the same thing.<BR/><BR/>That was back when they had apartheid, then the Blacks started getting their own way & now look at the state of the place, I wouldn't even send convicted child molesters there as a punishment, it's even too harsh for them & they deserve something pretty harsh.<BR/><BR/>To the people saying it's all because of the Whites being racist, well hell yes but Racism kept the place running smoothly for decades, then the bleeding heart Liberals took power & gave it all away to the Blacks & the blacks have run it into the ground as is their way with everything.<BR/><BR/>And just for the record the worst racists I've met have all been Black, ironic eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-2363820710872417232008-03-26T16:26:00.000+02:002008-03-26T16:26:00.000+02:00I was feeling a bit homesick earlier, having moved...I was feeling a bit homesick earlier, having moved to U.K. some years ago. Having found this site, I feel much better now. Only wish the rest of my family would get out too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-18019524450965452482008-03-26T13:57:00.000+02:002008-03-26T13:57:00.000+02:00The k4 mentality is not to maintain anything. The ...The k4 mentality is not to maintain anything. The k4 uses everything to destruction and then moves on to the next. The k4 has no honor, no conscience and no regard for the future.<BR/><BR/>JHB is destroyed because whites are moving out because of the crime and the k4's moving in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-13870035343459185682008-03-23T15:41:00.000+02:002008-03-23T15:41:00.000+02:00Bravissimo to all you guys in the outer-world! You...Bravissimo to all you guys in the outer-world! <BR/>You should come and enjoy life here in paradise for a holiday in the land of milk and honey, provided you send your luggage per DHL, and not through O R Tambo Airport where your luggage would be distributed towards the furtherance of black economic empowerment; but you should record in an affidavit the number of fingers and toes you arrive with; and if you arrive at your holiday destination without expiring from a terminal case of lead poisoning, having endured a few hours in the 'parking lots' euphemistically called highways in S.A, having evaded the unlicensed and unroadworthy minicab taxis which achieve a higher death-rate than all the wars in the world, including Iraq - I would then say 'bienvenuto', and arrange a welcoming ceremony in the standing-room section only for you at the FNB Stadium, where the next Kaizer Chiefs vs. Orlando Pirates will take place before 100,000 equal-opportunity fellow citizens with their trumpets at full blast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-35453776343384079642008-03-22T13:09:00.000+02:002008-03-22T13:09:00.000+02:00Mweli said...... as well as that idiot in Cape Tow...Mweli said...<BR/><BR/>... as well as that idiot in Cape Town whose blog name suits him "Breindood" - actually you need a "brein" before you can be "breindood", which as per you real life experience, you haven't.<BR/><BR/>It takes a lot of very hard work to get anywhere as a foreigner - at least OUTSIDE of South Africa we do not get shot. We have to go through the employment processes where the locals get first dibs. I wouldn't EXPECT less.<BR/><BR/>Now this is where the difference between US and THEM come in:<BR/> <BR/>WE arrive, work, save, retire.<BR/><BR/>THEY arrive, cry ex-apartheid, expect a hand out, infect others, leech off welfare, and still cry foul... oh yes, thats what you've done for over a 100 years...<BR/><BR/>WE educate our children into being respectable upright members of society. This takes time, bank loans, mortgages and hours upon hours of disciplined assistance from the parents.<BR/><BR/>THEY can never get upright, as they are either drugged, drunk or breeding. The children are left to their own devices because they're in jail or next door pissed out of their brackets, know no respect, and assist in OUR insurance premium hikes. They do teach the children however to follow in the adults footsteps.<BR/><BR/>WE count our successes on the increases we receive in our earnings, our improved material possessions and the standings we have in the society (both expatriate and foreign).<BR/><BR/>THEY count their successes on the increases in deceiving the welfare, in stealing OUR improved material possessions and the standings they have with the foreign society liberalist that just dish out more because of apartheid.<BR/><BR/>Now a lot of South Africans CANNOT leave, as to their own reasons, and we must not hold it against them. But yours is jealousy - you CANNOT leave, because YOU have NOTHING to offer....<BR/><BR/>AJAXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30988156.post-88711166726044624582008-02-28T10:40:00.000+02:002008-02-28T10:40:00.000+02:00I'll be moving over to Jo'burg in June from Canada...I'll be moving over to Jo'burg in June from Canada....I'm starting a blog on it all...Maplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844208292949780621noreply@blogger.com