The Side of Cape Town South Africa Others Don’t Show | Langa Township Tour

The Side of Cape Town South Africa Others Don’t Show | Langa Township Tour

Welcome back everybody back to my YouTube channel traveling gun I am Thomas today um we’re back in Cape Town well at least I am back in Cape Town this is my second time here I’m with Tiffany this is her first time here in Cape Town today we’re doing a Township

Tour and um we’re here in langa langa is the oldest Township here in in Cape Town um townships Lango was originally started build in phases in 1925 and officially opened in 1927 it was a part of the South African Urban act I believe it was and what they did was they moved

The black Africans out of Cape Town into more segregated areas called townships and langa is the oldest one I’m not going to give away too much information because I’m going to let the t uh the tour guy do it but I’m doing it through Cape Town Township tour SCS and

Hopefully today you know you all leave learning more than what you knew before because I never knew anything about townships until I started doing my research on uh South Africa and Cape Town specifically so we’re going to get to this tour hopefully you enjoy it so

Guys good morning morning in in here we that is the last time you say like you greeting English because we’re going to greeting we’re going to be greeting closa cuz remember you’re in a community so now we’re not going to say morning we’re going to say mo perfect

M so how you say hello in my language so basically let me just start over so uh I speak is a Crosser so basically I come from I came from the Eastern Cape so PE Port Elizabeth side not sure if you traveled to that side so

I I I I I I arrived here in K Town only in 2008 so basically I came here to for better education so uh I did my primary school levels in the Eastern Cape and then my high school here in Cape Town so also I come from a village I’m a village

Girl you know so when I go back to the Villages I it’s it’s a Pity that you know my grandfather bought us in in our home for you know like a tank you know yeah but then the life in the village it’s more or less like when people it’s

The kind of life lifestyle you know that people live it’s where you go to the river and fet water you know no not really much TD Road where I come from so it’s that kind of Peace you know we call that a peaceful place where we come from

So it’s more like when we go back to our home we go for therapy cuz at some point we can’t afford therapy so you literally just go home for therapy because it’s peaceful you know not noisy we have I would say quite plenty of space so that

Is how it’s different from here so where I come from we speak Isa so in South Africa we have about 12 official languages so I speak one of the languages is CA which is the language I speak so basically the people who live in the Eastern Cape they would speak CLA

So for example if you if you go to jber like in the city in jber so in Jo jber is more is not I would say it’s not really like Cape Town because Cape Town the most dominating languages are Africans English and CA but but if you

Go to jber CLA is not important so because I would say almost everybody around the the country it’s more less so when we walk around here today you become part of the community so when you pass people or you see people we greet each other so how you say hello to one

Person you say mo m o l o yes that’s Mo to one when you say hello to more than one you say mo perfect and can hear me my voice is a bit loud so I know you guys are soft at times you say mo people won’t hear you

And you will think they’re ignoring you if you say mo they will say mo bag or M yeah so that’s how it is so uh basically with education yes everybody has access to education to a point where you know um even if you’re poor you do get access

To go to school we just stand young so uh for example uh in in South Africa we have what you call nsas it’s more like a government it’s it’s um national student fund so almost all black kids they actually apply in that I’m also a student I study online so I studed

Through nsas so I don’t have to pay anything but I have to pay for a registration fee which I recently pay like it depends on the cost that you’re doing so then um you know but yeah it also kind of depend on the cost that you’re doing but then when it comes to

College when it comes to University you can apply for the for the national secur and fund which is NS so almost all black kids they would study through that whether you go to university whether you want to be a doctor anything which means that we do have access to education and

Then when we speak about primary and high school so kindergarten kids parents have to pay you know so it’s not so expensive because especially in the townships but then if you go to like suburbs white areas they are quite expensive but then if you come to like

Townships you do get like a kindergarten where you can pay like 300 Grand but then again remember if you pay less the quality is also not nice also the environment and a lot more kids and all of that you know so then again um when it comes to primary school so which is

From the like when you are six up until you know you are like about 17 18 up until High School there’s free education free access to education so in our community for example each and every Community does have a a a primary school and a high school so it’s actually run

By the state so then for example in langa we have about five high schools and five primary the schools so then all those are actually around by the state so all kids have to wear uniform in school and parents don’t have to pay anything kids get lunch and breakfast in

The school so then again to show that yes the quality of education is good because our kids they also go to university of ktown they go to like all these good universities in South Africa today it’s not about the color or where you come from it’s about the grades and

Also there are also lot more scholarships as well for example like you know big companies like and gray and others so they do give scholarships especially for for medicine for architect and all of that and then but the i’ say the the challenge is that in

The Township Schools you get to find 40 kids in one class so that is where the challenge is but then again teachers they try their best you know to do good and to you know to to provide get good education to the kids but then again as

A teacher if you have 40 kids in one class it’s almost impossible to get straight A from all these kids so that is where you find out that with these kids what’s going to happen is that um the teacher remember this the the the education system you as a teacher you

Have you have limited time to teach something you understand so now for example if you have to teach like a like a topic so if 20 or 30 of those kids they not understanding you have to move on with those ones that are understanding so if you can just imagine

How it’s affecting the future because remember that if there are 20 kids in one class all kids you know they will be you know um be you will be able to you know they will be able to understand you’ll be able to get you know good Aid

In these kids but if they are 40 because I mean 40 kids it’s a whole lot of mess you know so that’s how it is so then again but still you find that at somewh somehow there’s going to be drop out along the way because also the

Unfortunate part is that kids will be pushed you understand like if you pass with 30% you you pass up until last grade in high school and then again remember you won’t have good Mars to college to go to college to go to vity which means that you’re going to be in

The township waiting from from the government to provide jobs for you so that’s the unfort with nothing so which means that you’re going to fall into the group of waiting for the houses from the state waiting for Grant complaining protesting and all of that but then for

Me I feel that the solution to this is supposed to be building more schools then if you know there isn’t you know enough space to build schools cuz another problem is that with our parents remember we our parents don’t really have education so now even with me my

Mom didn’t really ask you to do your homework because the manager say you help me they don’t know so it’s not a matter of kids want to prove it but then at some point there’s a big gap compared to when your parent is educated so they’ll be able to help here and there

Because we can’t afford to pay for extra lessons so that’s why then you find that if there’s a gap at school at home the Gap is not going to be closed because the parents don’t understand the work of the kids generation impr EXA exactly so that’s why I said

With the problem of our country Generations you know it’s going to take generations to kind of solve so we cannot expect things to to school and you will understand stud exactly so that is what is happening right now so I’d say education yes we do have education

Access to education wait for like long hours so for example if you go to a hospital so you kind of have to wake up if you want to be helped you know you don’t want to stay the long day all day there you have to like wake up as early

As half 4 to 5:00 a.m. you have to be in that line up until they open it eight but then again once you get to the doctor to the nurse and all of that you going to go so that’s how it is all good good questions

No so where we are now this is back in the more like this clothing shops and everything mainly because our people were only allowed to live here in the community so now these stores would be you know rented by locals but then again after we had our democracy then they

Started to get ownership of these of these um structures but then what happens now is that after we had our democracy um the big seven day oh the big investors started to come into our townships to build the 7day fla Market stores so which means that these people

Who used to run businesses here in the communities they run out of business because everybody wants to go to the big 7day play market which is also I mean it’s a way where you get like you know fresher food more options variety but then again unfortunate part is that

These people were not included in the developing because for me I say they were supposed to call all these people running this small business to say we are building this so we’re going to give you a certain share or you can still you know own a little store and all of that

You understand so but then again it didn’t happen so what happens now is that these people they run out of business their businesses you can see I mean their structures they look old and all of that so now because we have a lot of foreign Nationals coming into the

Country so when they come here remember they come illegally so they not employing they don’t have papers to live here so then then you know so that is when then you find our people they rent their stores to the foreign Nationals so almost all of these stores that are open

Especially these ones they are rented by locals to the foreigners so that is what is happening right here but then again we have quite a beautiful development here we do have an ad Gallery which is something that I’m very proud of in our community so we’ll visit there right now

This is the kind of SE that they you know when I see the I think of the president like I don’t want to be president so basically welcome to 16 onor so um this is our first proper Art Gallery so langa is known as the adub in K Town

Adub lot more people come from here they very good you know they they talented in art so basically um this also used to look like the other you know um other structures but then because you can imagine the investment that’s been put in here so the investment is not just

For you know a certain group but it’s for the whole Community because remember tours come here or we pass this so which means that we also you know I mean it’s business and also for the for the for the artists who live in the community some others who are not from here so

It’s an opportunity given to the artist because remember education is new to our people so now if I’m you know I go home and I tell my parents that I want to be an artist they don’t understand that they be like you want to play with paint

How you ever going to buy a house how you going to be able to feed your children if you want to be dirty but then again uh remember that not not all kids are built the same some of the people they’re not good academically but then again they’re so gifted when it

Comes to Art so then if we don’t have these kind of spaces within our community then we have we’re going to failing so we will stand here so this is the part this is part of the lower class so if you remember when I said that men who

Lived here they were only given bars which um they were still controll so this is built in a new shape I’m not sure if you’ve been to Robin Island so the structure kind of you know reminds you know Robin Islands so now all these small buildings on the outside are the

Bathrooms in front of each and every bathroom so this is where 16 men will share 16 not all of this years that CRI of course and also these men who love here where to be counted every afternoon so you can imagine the kind of lifestyle and also counted like they would they

Would have the line up outside the police would line up here so to count them yes to count them and also even the black polce the the the the challenge about being a polce back in those days was was more of you would still live in

A Township but then during the day you come here with your colleagues shooting on people you know abusing people being violent on people but after know you have to come back here you can imagine the kind of Life they lived wasn’t easy wasn’t nice because also you were not

Seen as then family in the community we were traitor because you come imagine if somebody your neighbor come here you know with police dogs and abuse and arrest and all of that but at night they have to come here and wants to enjoy some beer with you you’re not friends

With them you don’t want them around you because you know that they are you know traitors and all of that so most policemen back in those days after you know they would decide nah they want to quit their job because they you know you then become like a to fa you know type

Of person so then again here um you know now there are families who live here so these families who live here especially after you know our after our democracy more people started to come even before democracy like in the late 50s early 60s so more people were actually brought

Here in the communities and the ones in the Villages wanted to join their men like my grandmother and all of them so when they started to join the man it became overcrowded so that’s how then people started to build their Shacks they corated iron house okay so but then

Again uh right here you know when we speak about corruption in the country this is what we speak about because we supposed to have all of these as museums not as place where people live because if these were built as early as 1923 why do people still live here 100 years down

The line you understand so then again remember our politicians they live the best life sending their kids to to to to schools outside the country in Europe but then voters are here so living in a shipping container so as you can feel how hot it is so imagine if you close

This whether you open or close you at work when you have to come back in the afternoon and cook how do you cook in here because it’s already hot boiling hot and then in winter it’s cold one container is for two families it’s two it’s got two do it’s

Divided in a half so whether someone it’s unfortunate part is that other people they abuse alcohol and all of that you could be good parents if the neighbors they not so good you know shouting sweating fighting and all of that people will see all of that so that’s the unfortunate part about living

Here and the end today you will learn that when you don’t have money you don’t have choices in life and maybe you might have complained about a few things some people they complain about where do they want to where are they going to park their yacht with other people they they

Not complaining but they trying to find ways on how they’re going to live and yet again today for us we might live here remember when you come and live in these kind of conditions it’s only because we know that at least the future is in your hands you know you come here

In the city you live in these barracks and the containers and then again knowing that at least I can travel to University of Cape Town I can travel to University of Western Cape which are good universities even though yes we do have universities in J and all of that

But it’s a matter of being in the city not just in Cape Town because if you go to Jurg a lot of you know black people they live in shs they live in these kind of poor conditions but then because if you are in the city you’re going to be

Able to change your life and then again the challenge of being in in townships is that or living in townships is that the ball is is in your court it’s always up to you what you make out of it because access to drugs access to alcohol girls being pregnant at a very

Young age so it’s more or less like you got to you know own your life you’re going to know what you want so that is how it is around here so there are a lot more challenges and yet again remember that we are also raised by people that

Were abused by the you know by the police you know in the aparted time so it affected their mental you know it affected them you know in their mentally so some of the people Unfortunately they try to you know to to to find a way to escape by abusing alcohol so some

Somehow you can’t always blame those people I know it’s not the solution but then again you don’t know what they’ve been through some of the people were abused by raped and all those kind of things so um right here these shipping containers you might be wondering why you know are

There satellite dishes everywhere so after we came after we became um host in 2010 after we became so after we became host in 2010 everybody wanted Um she’s my friend so she he’s got eczema so uh so sad because I mean I mean for example you live in these conditions when you have kids you don’t choose skin type for your kids like it’s Sandy kids are going to play in the sand

Which is not good for the skin so now it it actually affected his F part so Wasing to couldn’t you so like I was talking about that yeah CU you know it’s sad you know that we don’t choose to live here we don’t choose to be born here and then

Again people have to live in these conditions and expected to live like I said after democracy we all live together there are two it’s two world and unfortunately South Africa is one country where there’s quite a big difference between the poor and yet again out there people yeah we’re coming to South Africa

Democracy it’s good I’m not complaining but then again when you get here you see the reality and what I love about the fact that you came to the townships to Lear because some people I me unfortunately what are they do there are they clean cleaning those people there those B they

Cleaning so across the road there’s an old the old to empow not sorry not to empower so that people can enjoy their own bear there it was to a point where people are not allowed to out go outside to go to the PBS you know and drink the white

People so now those were built by uh that was built by other townships as well um you know so that people could enjoy their own beer but in our culture remember black people look here so in our culture women are not supposed to drink but brew beer yeah so women brew

Beer the beer that we Brew yeah the be oh yeah so now oh you be oh you both be so you should come here and learn how to and then you have like a new you know set of beer in your own and then I mean I think everybody in

I’m African beer in so you have like whole very yeah it’s it’s a brand new but I grew with a a large Brewer my own Brand’s oh cool oh that’s pretty cool oh that’s pretty cool yeah so yeah women so if you were to be a cler man men say

No no men don’t brw beer so you only the drink beer because in our culture especially like like I said how people you know back in I it’s the way of living back in those days so it it was a matter of you know if you’re a woman

Back in those days and you drink you were seen as like someone who don’t have morals who don’t have values so you could build beer cuz it was also it’s more like if you drink beer it means that you never have like a same stand as

A wife so a a husband can drink be drunk but a wife can never be drunk because you always have Focus to like see on the kids they grow up you know sick and all of that but then again um now we adopt the Western lifestyle we drink wine blah

Blah but then back in the Villages you know back at the time like my grandpa my grandmother we used to you know make jokes of how she never got drunk you know so we like you I got drunk you know she like no because she grew up at a

Time where being a woman for me I always wish so that we can go back to those days you know because there were people who had lot of who had kids with different men you know and women were more of you know um they had values you

Know you know you loved yourself and all of that and also the way of dressing as well no offense but you know um in our culture a woman has to cover her so if let’s say I were to come up like that my grandmother like why you you exactly you

Know pull your pants down you should cover up and all of that you know so that’s how they would be but then now like I said you know we adopt the West we dress say freedom and all of that you know so but then back in those days you

Never you know do that so that’s why then Brewing was for women and drinking was for men so the beer that they brewed was called so which is a traditional beer I’m just hoping that they do have so maybe you know we can taste and taste the difference between your beer and our

Beer you know and yeah I’ll educate you more about the beer but then again it’s an accommodation so people live in there so because you know uh what what happened is that in the march of 1976 that was demolished and then students cuz remember people did not get paid

Through bank our people they were getting paid through envelopes sometimes you know how men can be they promise a family you know when I get paid we’re going to buy uniform for the kids are going to buy food day of the payday they start there money is gone by the time

They get home it’s a big fight and then P students I mean kids around here they were like our parents are fighting because of this then they started to demolish it and then now it was rebuilt again it’s an accommodation people live in there so those are the people that

Are still waiting for houses yeah so that’s how the men here are working also they have job or mostly not again andile

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