Reformatory Boys (2001) – For juvenile offenders, reformatory is the last stop when all else has failed. We enter the secret world of a South African reformatory, a place where inmates use violence and blackmail to jostle for power.
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On the recommendation of their arresting officer and the Commissioner of Child Welfare, the court sends heroin addicts Jurie (14) and Eric (17) to Ethokomala Reformatory. It is their very last chance to break free from the life that has imprisoned them. For the first time in their short lives the boys’ days are strictly regimented and they are back in school for the first time in two years, their movements supervised round the clock. They have now been off heroin for more than 4 months but this does not mean they have been rehabilitated psychologically and emotionally. Will reformatory discipline may not be enough to help them once they are sent back to Pretoria? For Eric and Jurie it may be a very temporary respite from the unpredictable demands of the street.
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I'm not having kids. Yoh
It’s sad they they don’t have a program that helps to relocate these children and their families. Donations to help fund an apartment, family therapy, education or resources to help them get them back on their feet. Because no matter how many times theses boys go to jail or juvenile detention, they will go right back to the same way of life if they return them to the same neighborhood, the same streets. Jail or juvenile detention just teaches them to be better criminals when they are behind close doors talking to other criminals who are far worse than they are. It’s not the face they show in group but the real face they show behind close doors. They should be monitored 24/7.
7:43 , that looks like ma11
Take them to rehab after that straight into the army
South African Langues is Broken off Dutch, i can follow the South African langues because is broken off Dutch.
The first seven years are the ones that will define their futures. Parents are totally to blame for these tragedies
Its good too see whats going on
Ish
ANC reduced SA to third world standards to join every other failed country in Africa
When you keep using heroine, it produces an impulsive urge in the brain that doesn’t go away with 2 years in prison, from what I know very well is the impulse in the brain to use heroine because of long term abuse of the drug doesn’t go away, this I know, the Afghanistan boarder is a bus ride for me because I live not far from the boarder of Afghanistan, but I still have a hard time believing heroine is in demand in Africa, because peoples are not used to hearing that on the news, but United States is a different story, heroine is a life time struggle and very few peoples remain clean after even long term incarceration because the chemistry of the human brain is changed after long term usage
Heroine in Africa…I know it comes more from the eastern parts of the world towards Afghanistan and even going past Afghanistan in the east but it seems strange that people in Africa have a demand for heroine and on top of that it comes in large amount that even kids can get their hands on it, I still believe that it is rare to find heroine in Africa or that there is a demand that exists over in that part of the world because it doesn’t make sense, I live not far from Afghanistan boarder and it still amazing that people in Africa demand this drug, Africa and the word heroine doesn’t come together because it is more demand in the United State for this drug then in Africa, it doesn’t make sense for people in Africa to use heroine, it even sounds strange
after Jacob Zuma and all these other rogues we have in parliament that reformatory must be closed down… I hate K words
I think there are at least three languages going on here. Afrikaans, Zulu, and English.
Boy with the orange hoody is brave.
Mandrax…I forget that they MAKE Quaaludes over there. Only place you can still get them, I hear.
I can smell this video from here
Most people in the World have a notion that all white folk in SA are wealthy but you can see from this video it is not the case
What language are they speaking besides English?
I was smoking at a very young age, if my mother didn't beat the crap out of me i was going to be worse like these kids. The fact that i was getting my @ss kicked HELPED ME. Some of us Africans will hit our children so bad they will end up being teachers or something. White people HIT those kids they will thank you one day
I wonder what they look like now 18 yrs later
White South African speak Afrikaans which is Dutch mixed with German and Kano language.
i wish julias malema (POES) could see this a WHITE BOER FARMER GUY TAKING IN A BLACK KID keep on talking malema you DOOS
The Public deserve an update on this sad, uncontrollable situation?
Black boys sleep on the floor and white boys on beds, Wow!
9:30 non chantly "these boys have been locked up in a normal prison for almost a year and in that time have been exposed to career criminals, been raped and been tortured"
that was in 2001…….Anybody imagining what things are like now I will tell you as I live in Gauteng……..It is a BILLION! times worse now……
It would be great if we could get an update on them and even a new documentary.
I was put in reform.. Because i got raped.. In the 80s
There is nothing much for the ride to get the visitors list for now and I'll be there in a few minutes and I will be there at noon so I can get the money from you soon and thanks again for all your help and support
where are they now???? eric and juriie?????
Please do an update. It's almost 20 years later. What happened to the boys
No matter skin colour….drugs kill…God bless protect these children…
Ganster nommer 1.
at best they will become labourers, and at worst they will stay criminals. What is the point of wasting human potential trying to rehabilitate these people.
Ek neem aan hierdie kinders kom van boksburg, brakpan of benoni af.
Just a pity it is so dated. I would like to see how it is now in 2019, 18 years later. Back then the social services infrastructure of South Africa was still pretty much intact.
aww man. hes still a baby. how sad. no matter what they still need their mommy. I have a 14 yr old son. I would die each day with out him .
This is long ago. But still heartbreaking. You can see they are low iq. The drugs maybe…?
South Africa…São Paulo…
Firstly why were they arrested just because they where spotted or because they have track marks I get the story but I don’t get how and what this shows about the law just something that bothered me
And truthfully the only way they will stop is when they decide too
A story that I nearly forgot. I stay in South Africa at the Western Cape in a city that's got a reformatory school for boys. As I was walking past the school one Sunday early evening coming from work a boy from school greeted a man and woman who were walking infront of me.The way they answered him told me that they knew who he was. He asked them through the window why they were letting walk so freely without robbing or attacking me. They ignored him and I was not even intimidated by his request because I knew that they were going to do the biggest mistake of their lives. I was armed for self defense and I was not afraid and zI showed it to him by passing his friends by. They just ignored me and I'm happy they did otherwise things should have turned ugly. No I didn't have a gun with me but since I don't like guns and don't even have a license for them. I had some good stuff to protect me.
Please give microphones next time for powerful volume.
It's so sad …this is affecting all races and what breaks my heart they are kids who are influenced by crime on the streets and by parents who never cared about them. Let us know our children as parents and try hard to notice any changes in our children's patterns. Let us try not to give too much freedom and damaging false love to them. Let's be true and try to bend them while they are still young. Being left by one of the parents is no excuse for bad behaviour.
Wow, touching documentary. May God bless these kind souls.
Watching how SA youth is wasted across colour line am scared, let's wake up South Africa and fight this drug addiction to our kids. Where are the two Pretoria boys? pls take them away from their mother.