00:00If there's one thing I miss about Zambia, it's how friendly the people were.
00:05Standard, everywhere you went, people had a smile on their face. People were willing to talk to you,
00:09just had this vibe to them, you know? It's something I feel like we've lost in South
00:13Africa as part of our culture. We used to be a friendly nation. We used to be a people of
00:16smilers, a people of talkers, you know? Now we've got that thing, that anger, that distrust when we
00:21look at one another. I don't know what happened, but we just lost it. You know, you see it with
00:25the workers in this country, they're so angry. You see how angry they are? All the workers.
00:30All of them, on strike. You know, we've had over 99 strikes in this country this year alone.
00:3399 strikes, costing us billions. All different sectors. National mine workers, union of metal
00:40workers, petrol attendants. Yeah, petrol attendants. They threatened to burn the petrol stations down.
00:44We'll burn them to the ground with our petrol bombs. We just need someone to pour petrol for us.
00:52This is my own strike. Matthew's law, eh? Everyone was on strike. There's one strike in particular
01:03that got to me. City power. You see that? The illegal strike of city power that left thousands
01:10of households in Johannesburg without electricity. One household in particular got to me.
01:18The house of Nelson Mandela. There was no electricity at the house of Nelson Mandela.
01:26In the middle of the night, out of nowhere. You know how horrible that must have been?
01:30Lights, and the next thing, pfff, argh.
01:44Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela doesn't need electricity for his big screen TV people.
01:49Nelson Mandela needs that electricity because he has machines keeping him alive.
01:55That man is critical but stable. I don't know what that means. The government told me.
02:04Because it's an oxymoron. Critical but stable. How's Bafana doing? They are losing but winning.
02:13I had to try and explain that to my grandmother. Do you know how hard that was? Because my grandmother
02:17doesn't get bamboozled easily. She asked me, she said, Trevor, how is Mandela doing? But she asked me like I
02:23know him.
02:24I'm like, oh, he's okay, Gogo. I mean, he's critical but stable.
02:30She's like, critical but stable.
02:32Critical but stable.
02:33Critical but stable.
02:35What does that mean?
02:37Before I can answer, my uncle walks in the room, drunk, as always.
02:42Comes straight to us.
02:43Critical but stable.
02:46That's me everywhere catch.
02:55Who is this man?
03:00But no electricity at the house of Nelson Mandela, guys.
03:04And you know what's sad?
03:05Is this is the second time we've let him down.
03:07Second time.
03:08The first time was with the ambulance.
03:09Do you remember this?
03:10Yeah.
03:11Nelson Mandela got a lung infection.
03:14Needed to go to hospital.
03:15An ambulance picked him up from his home and then got stuck on the side of the highway
03:20for four hours.
03:23Four hours.
03:25How is that even possible?
03:26I have so many questions.
03:28So many things I don't understand.
03:29For instance, why was Nelson Mandela even in an ambulance?
03:32Couldn't we get a helicopter?
03:33Can't we get a helicopter?
03:34He's old.
03:35Get him a helicopter.
03:36Can't we afford it?
03:36I mean, his face is on our money.
03:37I'm sure we can do something.
03:40We can't get him that.
03:41We can't get him a helicopter.
03:42We can organize for the Guptas to land jets.
03:44But we can't get Mandela a helicopter.
03:45This is what we're saying.
03:46In fact, why not phone the Guptas?
03:48Phone them.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Phone them.
03:53I'm sure they'll be there in a second.
03:55They'll be like, hey, Atil, can you come and fetch this guy?
03:57Hey, be there with his Gupta swag.
04:02That's not the airplane.
04:02That's the sound he makes when he walks around.
04:07And then Jacob Zuma rides on his back.
04:09He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he.
04:11Basta, basta.
04:15Huh?
04:16This is us, guys.
04:19Nelson Mandela.
04:19Second question I have.
04:22Why was there only one ambulance?
04:25No backup ambulance?
04:27No support cars?
04:28Nothing?
04:29Ministers in parliament have four to seven cars with them everywhere they go.
04:33They've got a little blue light brigade.
04:34Causing chaos on the roads.
04:36Multiple people have been killed by them.
04:37Crashing into cars.
04:38Because they're always in a hurry.
04:39Always in a hurry.
04:40Always in a hurry.
04:40Why are you in a hurry?
04:42And why do you have bodyguards?
04:43I don't understand.
04:44I mean, some people, yes.
04:45President, give them bodyguards.
04:46Yeah, fine.
04:47Minister of Finance, it's our money.
04:48Bodyguards, bodyguards.
04:49Yeah.
04:51There's some ministers where we're just wasting money now.
04:53Minister of Agriculture.
04:57Why are you even in a hurry?
05:00No, you've got the slowest portfolio.
05:02Where are you going?
05:04Nothing happens in agriculture in a hurry.
05:06Nothing.
05:06There's no drought starting at four.
05:08Why are you in a hurry?
05:09And why do you have bodyguards?
05:10Who's trying to kill you?
05:11The Cabbage Mafia.
05:13No, guys.
05:15Just sit in the traffic and shut up.
05:16Stop wasting our money.
05:17Give Nelson Mandela that motorcade.
05:19That's what he needs.
05:20Stuck for four hours, people.
05:22You know how terrifying that must have been?
05:24For the ambulance driver.
05:25He knows who's in the back.
05:26You wouldn't want Nelson Mandela dying on your watch.
05:29He's there panicking hour after hour.
05:30Nobody coming to help.
05:32Finally tried to do something himself.
05:33I'm sure he just got up there.
05:34He was like,
05:35Dada.
05:36Dada.
05:36Dada.
05:38Mandela's there.
05:42St. Peter, is that you?
05:45No, no, Dada.
05:46It's me.
05:47It's me.
05:47It's Piwe.
05:49Oh, that's B-E-E in heaven.
05:55No, Dada.
05:55No.
05:56We're still here.
05:57We're in the ambulance, Dada.
05:58The ambulance is stuck.
06:00Ah, damn it.
06:02So I was sending another one.
06:04Hey, that's the thing, Dada.
06:05We've been here for hours.
06:06Nothing has happened, eh?
06:08So I was thinking,
06:09maybe we should hitchhike.
06:12Huh?
06:13Ah, man, you are killing me, man.
06:15Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
06:16Dada, what can we do?
06:17Ah, okay, okay.
06:18Help me up, help me up.
06:20They get up.
06:21There they are on the side of the highway.
06:24Nelson Mandela and Spiwe
06:25are trying to get a lift from people.
06:27Spiwe's on one side panicking.
06:30Mandela's on the other side hitchhiking.
06:36Nobody's stopping.
06:37Spiwe is there.
06:38Dada, they're not stopping.
06:41They'll never stop for black people.
06:44Like, yeah, and those are the black people.
06:49Because we don't stop anymore.
06:51I wouldn't stop.
06:52I don't know about you,
06:53but I wouldn't stop.
06:55I'd see Nelson Mandela,
06:56but I wouldn't stop.
06:58No, no, because for the life of me,
06:59I would not begin to believe
07:02that the man standing on the side of the road hitchhiking
07:05is Nelson Mandela.
07:07I'd see him.
07:08I'd be driving past.
07:09I'd be like,
07:10hey, that guy looks like Nelson Mandela.
07:12Look, guys, look, that guy looks exactly like Nelson Mandela.
07:15Oh, yeah, it looks like him, man.
07:15It looks like, but I wouldn't stop.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Not because of time.
07:19I'd even have time.
07:19I'd have time to make a U-turn, in fact.
07:20I'd make a U-turn.
07:21I'd go back around.
07:22You've got to see him.
07:22You've got to look at him.
07:23He's amazing.
07:23He looks exactly like Nelson Mandela.
07:24You're going to see him.
07:25You're going to see him.
07:25We'd drive past there slowly,
07:26look at him.
07:26Yo, yo, yo, looks exactly like Nelson Mandela.
07:28And that guy's even got the face.
07:30He's got the hair.
07:30He's got the hair.
07:30He's even got the shirt.
07:31He's like, it's a Mandela.
07:33I wouldn't stop.
07:33I'd even go home and fetch family before I stop.
07:36I'd be there, mom, come, get in, get in.
07:37Isaac, come, come.
07:38Are we going to get a PlayStation?
07:39No PlayStation for you.
07:39Shut up.
07:40Get in the car.
07:40We're going to fetch Nelson Mandela.
07:41Bloody hell, we'd be driving around there.
07:43I'd be like, everyone, you must look at him.
07:44We'd slow down.
07:44I'm going to slow down.
07:45We'd slow right down, roll down the windows.
07:47Hello?
07:48Hello?
07:49I'd be like, ah, please, even sounds like Nelson Mandela.
07:54But I wouldn't stop.
07:56Nobody stops.
07:58Culture of distrust.
08:00Back in the day, people used to hitchhike in South Africa.
08:02Yeah.
08:03I remember people used to hitchhike from Durban to Johannesburg.
08:05They'd be there on the side of the road.
08:06Yeah.
08:07People picking them up.
08:08Now, nobody.
08:09Nobody stops for anybody.
08:11Even Metro Police.
08:12You're like, hey.
08:17Nobody stops.
08:18I bet even babies couldn't hitch a ride.
08:20Be on the side of the road in their diapers then.
08:25No one would stop.
08:26Be like, hey, you don't stop for them.
08:28You never, ever stop for them.
08:29Yeah, you think it's a baby, hey?
08:31You think it's a baby.
08:32Yeah.
08:33Yeah, they look like babies.
08:34And then you stop, and then like a man pops out, hey?
08:36Yeah.
08:37Yeah, happened to my friend Gladys, hey?
08:39You don't take chances.
08:42Guys, we've become a culture of distrusting, angry people.
08:45That's who we are.
08:46Everyone's angry.
08:48Weird angriness as well in places where it shouldn't be.
08:50I was in Chequers the other day.
08:53I'm just shopping.
08:54It's a normal experience, you know?
08:56I get to the cashier, and those people are so angry.
09:02Like, I don't know what Chequers does to their employees.
09:05But they're clearly not enjoying it.
09:07Because I get to the till.
09:08She doesn't greet me.
09:09She doesn't even look at me.
09:10She's just pushing her little conveyor belt thing.
09:12All my groceries pull up.
09:13She's like...
09:38Hey, look at you like your dad invented the barcode.
09:58And they look at you and ask you that question like you killed baby panda bears for a living.
10:04Plastique.
10:08No, bye.
10:10No, I'll just hold.
10:11I'll just...
10:12I'll just...
10:13No, no, no, no.
10:20They're so angry.
10:22And they look angry.
10:24Because they've drawn their eyebrows on.
10:28And that permanent scowl.
10:33I don't understand that trend in fashion, to be honest with you.
10:36Why would you shave your eyebrows off and then draw them back on where they were?
10:45It's weird.
10:46But look, I also commend it.
10:48You know, that level of commitment has to be commended.
10:50Because I don't understand how anyone can commit to one expression for the entire day.
10:55Like, how do you choose that expression?
10:57Do you just work on how you feel in the morning?
10:59Is that what you do?
11:00You just wake up and be like, I'm feeling angry.
11:11What if something good happens?
11:13Something good.
11:14You can't even...
11:14You'd be like, yeah, Tembi, you won the lotto.
11:17Yeah.
11:20You don't look happy.
11:21I just can't show it.
11:24I'll dread tomorrow.
11:27Why would you...
11:32So angry.
11:38We become angrier and angrier.
11:42Almost more focused on negative aspects of race.
11:46We used to be the Rainbow Nation.
11:47Now the colors are going their separate ways.
11:52Ex pursualling.
11:53As for sure.
11:56Bye.
11:57Bye.
11:58Bye.
12:02Bye.
12:03Bye.
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