Trip by rail in South Africa, 1920's -- Film 1006
South African railways. Station. Tickets. Berths. Phantom rides. Point of view through tunnel. Shongweni station in the country. Train travels over tall very rickety bridge. Cape Town station. Durban station. Pretoria station. Johannesburg station. Ladysmith station. Potchefstroom Station. Nice rural platform scene. Engine workshops. Freight trains. Outlying district served by bizarre looking traction engine and the 'Dutton Road Tractor'. People towed through countryside on open wagons behind small steam traction engine. Grain silos at port or harbour.
Gautrain Johannesburg
A great video showing how Pretoria connects to Johannesburg via the Gautrain.
The South African Shack Dwellers Trying to Find a Voice (2008)
A Place in the City (2008): Inside the struggle of South Africa's post-apartheid shack dwellers
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More than a decade after apartheid ended millions of South Africans still live in basic home-made shacks. We hear from the inhabitants as they eloquently argue their case for real citizenship rights.
The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, began in 2005. Their slogan is 'Talk to us, not about us.' 'It's not that people like to live in shacks. No one will ever want to live in these conditions but they need to be close to their work' explains S'bu Zikode, Abahlali's elected leader. However, the group has not been welcomed by the ANC. They've been met with aggression rather than with negotiations. Police shot Mariet Kikine with six rubber bullets at a peaceful demonstration. 'I'm not stopping to fight the government for my rights. Now they've made me brave.' In the build-up to the 2010 soccer World Cup, Durban shack dwellers fear they will be bulldozed out of the city, or arrested. 'This new legislation makes it a crime to build shacks or resist demolition and eviction.' But the shack dwellers are determined not to give up.
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Road Trip & Things to do in Durban and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (incl. Hluhluwe & Drakensberg)
In this video I show you the best things to do in Durban & Kwazulu-Natal including the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and a 3 day hike in the Drakensberg mountains.
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My friend Marco and me went down to Durban to explore the things to do in Durban and some more sights in Kwazulu-Natal. As usual I tried to mix sightseeing in South Africa with some cool activities, such as the big rush, a multi day trek in the Drakensberg mountains or a Segway tour in Durban.
For doing all this we rented a car and drive through the region for about 10 days with activities booked a few weeks ahead.
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All Things to do in Durban & Kwazulu-Natal as shown in this episode:
- Durban waterfront
- Helicopter ride in Durban
- Station Drive, Durban
- Segway Tour in Durban
- Township tour in KwaMashu
- Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park
- Hilltop Camp
- Drakensberg mountains
- Sentinel, Amphitheatre and Tugela Falls
- Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge
- Cavern Resort
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Black Labour In Durban (1973)
Durban, South Africa
Medium close-ups of black road diggers working in unison. Shot of mainly black and Asian workers stepping off train and walking over footbridge. Black workers walking out of train station past ticket inspector. Sign above station exit: nonwhites only. Shot of black and Asian workers walking down busy street. Camera pans down to feet. Shots of black woman's home where she is making a fire from old milk cartons. Various shots of black peoples homes showing run-down shanty-style accommodation. Medium shot of naked black boy playing with broken push bike. Young black boys in Kraal area. Contrasting shots of white peoples homes showing beautifully tended lawns and large spacious housing. Various shots of black road diggers working together while white folk look on from outdoor bars. Various shots of manual work carried out by black workers such as the lugging of fruit and vegetables. Various shots of workers scrambling onto bus destined for Clermont. Various buses and shots of young black workers returning from industrial area. Shots of black woman playing drums and young black people behind her dancing. Various shots of GVs buses carrying black only labour into town. 16 mm E/C Neg.
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Chinese TV station visits Durban
Chinese TV station visited Durban and KwaZulu Natal to do this documentary about Durban.
The Haunted Nottingham Road Hotel, Midlands✔
Notties Hotel
R103, Nottingham Road, 3280
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The Nottingham Road hotel is situated 8km down the Nottingham Road turnoff from the N3 Highway. Coming from Durban or Johannesburg we are in the heart of the Midlands Meander, with some of the popular Meander attractions on our doorstep, such as the Nottingham Road Brewery Company. The beautiful Kamberg and Sani Pass are also a stones throw away.
HISTORY OF THE HOTEL
The popular Notties Hotel celebrated its centenary anniversary a few years ago, securing its place solidly in the history books as one of the Midlands’ most popular hotels.
Legend has it that there has been an inn situated here since 1854. While the actual building we know today is not as old, there could certainly have been on this site a “Notties” inn or a tavern for the soldiers stationed at Fort Nottingham, who were supposed to protect the area from Bushmen who were stealing local livestock. Situated at the crossroads where the road to the interior met the road to Fort Nottingham, it would have served the horse-drawn coaches that travelled the area before the railway line was constructed.
The first recorded facts about the hotel we know today indicate that the land for the Notties Hotel was bought by George Orwin in 1889, following the death of landowner James Ellis and his sister Janet King, the land being sold by the family to pay off the siblings’ estates. The price received for the land, the princely sum of 125 pounds per acre, was extremely high for the time. Presumably it was the favourable location that drove the price so high.
Orwin erected the Railway Hotel, as it was first named, to serve the station that was built at the tiny Nottingham Road settlement. Local farmer and settler Charles Smythe writes in his diary, “July 12th, 1882: The railway has at last commenced, and there is a large staff of men on Gowrie busy putting up buildings and beginning the earthworks. The station is to be just at the crossing of the road to Fort Nottingham, about two miles from Strathearn. The railway line finally reached Nottingham Road at the end of 1885, eventually changing its name from “Karkloof Station” to “Nottingham Road Station” in 1887.
The railway changed the lives of the Midlands’ settlers forever. There was a daily postal system, and almost anything they needed could now be ordered from Durban or Pietermaritzburg. Produce from the area could be quickly sent to the city centres for sale, and travel between the coast and the interior was a matter of hours rather than weeks or days. The railway also led to the development of the Midlands as a viable area for settlement.
The Nottingham Road Farmers Association was formed in October 1887, in what was known as The Railway Hotel, where the present Notties Hotel is today. The hotel soon became the centre of social activity for the area, which became increasingly popular as a holiday destination, with its fresh, cool air and lovely countryside.
The so-called Railway Hotel, built by a Mr C Morgan, was completed at the beginning of 1891, and soon became the centre of social activity at Nottingham Road. A gracious, two-storey building set in rolling lawns, the hotel offered guests the comforts of proper lighting (using acetylene gas), tennis courts and a billiards room, as well as activities such as shooting and horse riding. At the turn of the century, the Singleton family took over the running of the hotel.
The Nottingham Road Hotel was always the local’s favourite haunt, whether for a social drink in the pub or for supposedly more serious matters such as meetings of the Nottingham Road Farmers’ Association. Apparently the farmers often only arrived home safely because their faithful horses knew the way back to their stables! The system worked smoothly until a prankster swopped the horses between the different traps and carts, so that drink-befuddled farmers were taken off in completely the wrong direction! Often the locals would decide to stay over at the hotel, especially if the weather was bad
One farmer, Christopher Groom, trying to reach the hotel to shelter from a storm, was unable to reach the hotel in time and was struck by a bolt of lightning just outside (where the first tennis courts were located). He and his dead horse were discovered some time later when the storm had passed over, the unconscious man quite unaware of his narrow escape. A hole straight through his saddle showed where the bolt of lightning had struck.
Like all hotels with a history, Notties Hotel is reputed to be haunted. In the past, guests and staff have reported that the spirit of a woman roams the hotel (especially room 10) and its grounds. This house-proud, gentle ghost apparently moves flower arrangements, tidies away clothes and straightens bedding. Legend has it that she is‘Charlotte’, a lady of loose morals or a chamber maid depending on the source of the tale, who apparently threw herself to her death.
South Africa 1984 Pretoria and Johannesburg
Train journey to Pretoria and Johannesburg
South Africa: What Now? (1960)
Item title reads - South Africa: what now?
Cape Town.
L/S of the city from above. M/S naval man walks along the street amongst other people. C/U poster reading 'Commons deplores nat. race policy'. Various shots of people walking about. M/S newspaper headlines telling of police raid in Durban etc. L/S parliament building. M/S as opposition leader Sir de Villiers Graaf walks along and up steps. C/U Defence Minister Erasmus. M/S two policemen. C/U Mr De Wet Nel, Minister of Bantu affairs walking along. C/U sign for Cape Town. C/U signs 'Whites only', 'Exclusively for Whites'. Various shots of children of both colours playing together. C/U two black children sat on pavement.
L/S of an armoured car around block outside Nyanga native location. C/U board reading Construction camp Nyanga. M/S of the armoured car outside the location. Shot of a spotter aircraft going overhead. L/S armoured car. M/S three black policemen. Various shots of the derelict huts in the area. M/S pan down the burnt out police station. M/S of a charred window frame. M/S official inspecting the charred remains of records in the Pass office where all records were destroyed. C/U one of the charred sheets of paper. M/S collapsed burnt out building, pan to show walls partly collapsed and rubbish all over the floor. M/S burnt out chair. M/S overturned looted car. M/S cross in ground. L/S table mountain. M/S guards. Various shots as workers get into a lorry to be taken home. Various shots of the guards. L/S Cape Town.
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Bando
Flying at the old whaling station in Durban. First time flying at a bando and I got to say its intimidating flying soo much concert and buildings the first time.
Matjiesfontein Station - Shosholoza Meyl TRAIN, Tourist Class // Joburg to Cape Town (Sept 2016)
Chukuchaka... Chukuchaka... next station: fashionable Matjiesfontein in sunny South Africa !
It is curious, and to me very attractive this mixture of civilization and the most wild untamed freedom; the barren mountains & wild Karroo & the railway train.- Olive Schreiner, March 25th, 1890
Matjiesfontein was founded in 1884 by the legendary and energetic Scottish railway man, James Douglas Logan. The village is now well known for its splendid historical buildings and a peace and timelessness that is rare in modern-day South Africa...
Our TRAIN ride continues on Monday (September 26, 2016) taking us to different landscape before arriving to Cape Town, our final destination.
Shosholoza is the name of a popular South African song about workers on a train and it therefore means moving forward.
Meyl is a word that is related to a South African word for long distance train.
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Gilloolys Interchange (Johannesburg Ring Road)
Over the years, as Johannesburg has grown, the Ring Road has become frequently used by local residents for commuting between home and work. It is composed of three freeways that converge on the city, and form an 80-kilometre (50 mi) loop around it: the N3 Eastern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Durban; the N1 Western Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Pretoria and Cape Town; and the N12 Southern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Witbank, Klerksdorp and Kimberley. The N3 was built exclusively with asphalt, while the N12 and N1 sections were made with concrete, hence the nickname given to the N1 Western Bypass: The Concrete Highway. In spite of being up to 12 lanes wide in some areas (six lanes in either direction), the Johannesburg Ring Road is frequently clogged with traffic. The Gillooly's Interchange, built on an old farm and the point at which the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R24 Airport Freeway intersect, is purported to be the busiest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere. The N12 Southern Bypass, which cuts a concrete swath through the rocky hills of southern Johannesburg, is apparently very reminiscent of the freeways of Los Angeles, and together with Johannesburg's sunshine, renders a real Southern California feel to that part of the city.
Over the years, as Johannesburg has grown, the Ring Road has become frequently used by local residents for commuting between home and work. It is composed of three freeways that converge on the city, and form an 80-kilometre (50 mi) loop around it: the N3 Eastern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Durban; the N1 Western Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Pretoria and Cape Town; and the N12 Southern Bypass, which links Johannesburg with Witbank, Klerksdorp and Kimberley. The N3 was built exclusively with asphalt, while the N12 and N1 sections were made with concrete, hence the nickname given to the N1 Western Bypass: The Concrete Highway. In spite of being up to 12 lanes wide in some areas (six lanes in either direction), the Johannesburg Ring Road is frequently clogged with traffic. The Gillooly's Interchange, built on an old farm and the point at which the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R24 Airport Freeway intersect, is purported to be the busiest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere. The N12 Southern Bypass, which cuts a concrete swath through the rocky hills of southern Johannesburg, is apparently very reminiscent of the freeways of Los Angeles, and together with Johannesburg's sunshine, renders a real Southern California feel to that part of the city.
Gilloolys Interchange ( South Africa' Jhb 2018 )
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Metrorail Commuter Train passing through the abandoned Clovelly Station - 5 Apr 2014
A Metrorail commuter train passes through the abandoned Clovelly Station on the Southern Line in Cape Town, South Africa
You Must Be Joking! 1986 FULL MOVIE HD - Leon Schuster - Hidden Camera Pranks South Africa
You Must Be Joking! is a 1986 South African film. It is Leon Schuster's first hidden camera film and Schuster's first feature film.
Produced in collaboration with Johan Scholtz and Elmo de Witt, it has become popular with South African audiences alike.
In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include:
- The watermelon pulse test, where Leon shows that a watermelon is only ripe when it does not have a heartbeat, much to the confusion of the seller.
- Cooking on the bonnet of a car, while upsetting the traffic police.
- Supposedly killing a cow in a butcher's shop.
Abandoned // WW1 Bunker // Cape Town
Do you SCARE easily? I went to explore an ABANDONED World War One bunker in Cape Town and found myself all ALONE, in a DARK underground LABYRINTH!
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This is one of the coastal batteries installed around the coast during WW2. South Africa had one of the most extensive coastal defence systems of any of the commonwealth nations. Cape Town and it's approaches were guarded by nine 9.2 inch coastal guns - 3 on Robben Island, 3 at Apostle battery and 3 at Scala battery. The Apostle guns could fire into False Bay and the Scala guns could fire into Table Bay. They never fired a round in anger. The last guns were only installed after WW2 was over. The chain stretched from Saldanha Bay to Durban and consisted of many smaller guns as well - 6 inch coastal guns being the most numerous - and at Fort Wynyard there are still a couple. Fort Wynyard was the close defence fortress for Table Bay. I do not recall if any of the six inch guns remain at Signal Hill - I have a feeling they were removed when the chain was finally declared obsolete in 1975. It survived that long in mothballs despite there being no ammunition for it since the nineteen fifties. A chain of radar stations provided targetting data. At one stage South Africa bought the 15 inch gunned monitor HMS Roberts to provide extra gunfire support but the Brits cancelled the deal at the outbreak of WW2. In 1976 I was part of a team that went up to Fort Collins to reactivate the 10cm radar station there as an exercise.
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Pietermaritzburg Gandhi Commemorations 2018 - Part 1
When Mohandas Gandhi was thrown off a train man in a racist incident in 1912, it turned out to be the first step on his journey to becoming the Mahatma wasn’t able to complete his train trip in 1912 This moment in history was commemorated with a special event held in Pietermaritzburg recently – and Mishal attended the celebrations.
African Diaries - Rovos Rail - 1
Sandra Prinsloo is seen here leaving the ever so elegant Foxwood House and getting into the vintage Rolls Royce that will be taking her to the Rovos Rail Station.This colonial style building that dates back to1943 is a perfect departure point for a lovely trip through Africa.Rohan Vos the visionary founder of Rovos Rail took the landmark of note back from the claws of time and decay.He did this all very beautifuly and restored the tone perfectly.All the trains of Rovos Rail leaves from Capital Station out side of Pretoria.The friendly smile from the train driver is also a very welcoming element at this Grand Gesture for a station.Opening a new world to tourists and bringing luxury travel to East,Central and Southern Africa.When boaring her train with the name Pride of Africa a feeling of just thatpride' washes over all tourists on this magical route.On entering her suits Sandra found that her suits is a shocking testimony of what we have lost.In the Ewardian days travel was a beautiful experience and getting there was half the fun.The whole train is a marvelous continuation of glamour and a modern twist.The plumbing is reassuringly modern.The level of luxury is far exceeds anything you might expect from old continental trains or the Trans Siberian express.One will find that the suits onboard the trains leaving Rovos Rail are exquisitely restored and paneled in dark red mahogany.Dining cars onboard these trains are not replicas but have been salvaged from scrapings and signings and lovingly repared.Rovos Rail has obviously spared no expense in their quest for authenticity and historic accuracy to bring this left behind era to life.On entering the kitchen onboard these trains one is greeted by mouth watering cuisines of an international standard.Rovos Rail cheffs creates 3times a day gourmy meals to be served to their very treasured guests.The wine list is equally impressive whether you want to explore the new worlds of South Africa or prefer the solid standbys of europe.The scenery of Northern South Africa is utterly breathtaking with all it's waterfalls and rivers.To top all this off service is without flaw or hesitation,a journey to treasure...
Mahatma Gandhi In South Africa
Director:- Viplove Rai Bhatia
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Synopsis
Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa practicing Law & fighting for the dignity of the Indians in South Africa. The film is about his stay in South Africa and his first experiment with Satyagraha.
Drone Footage Durban
Drone footage of Red Hill, Durban, South Africa
FIND YOUR WAY in & around DURBAN South Africa
Find your way travel guide show. Your all access guide to traveling in and around the host cities during the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
This week, our destination takes us to the sunny coastal city of Durban. Taking a look at how the eThekwini Municipality has developed a world-class transport system that will allow fans to get in and around the host city easily and efficiently. While providing safe access to all the main attractions the city has to offer including the icionic landmark for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the Moses Mabhida Stadium. Let us check it out