I used to live and works for 6 months in Umtali (Rhodesia) in 1977, and will never forget my experience. So friendly people !

@oriettoberti2501

2 жыл бұрын

Rhodesia was the paradise in Africa

@wl2977

2 жыл бұрын

@@oriettoberti2501 only when under the British rules.

@tightcamper

Жыл бұрын

@@wl2977 Rhodesia ceased to be under British rule in 1923.

@wl2977

Жыл бұрын

@@tightcamperIn 1923, did they throw out all the government and law system built by the British people?

@smorrisby

Жыл бұрын

@@wl2977 Actually Rhodesia was under Roman Dutch Law. It was self governing after '23.

How could it have been so beautiful then and awful now?

@mouloudo

2 жыл бұрын

Simple, white people became the minority

@elfulano5884

2 жыл бұрын

One word: Mugabe

@keziedelprado7096

2 жыл бұрын

Blacks dont know how to lead a nation. Look at Haiti. Its people are from African descent but are thousands of miles away. Same condition as occupied Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) maybe even worst. Its in black peoples genes to live that way. Animal instinct....

@Blewis1488

2 жыл бұрын

Quick Awnser: Blacks

@petergerber1488

2 жыл бұрын

Take a guess

My home for 10 yrs. Hillside Salisbury. Most beautiful country in the world. And very diverse in comparison to most other countries 😊 I miss Rhodesia 😢

@dreamdiction

Жыл бұрын

"diversity" is an idea designed to make countries self-destruct, an ethnic mono-culture is the only sustainable and progressive nation state.

@chuckymcchuckface8768

Жыл бұрын

I work alongside a Rhodesian guy here in Northern ireland. Great guy, I miss Rhodesia even though I'm irish born and bread. Hate today's world.

@tai-hinpang3024

5 ай бұрын

Rhodesia will come back. God bless Rhodesia.

Orderliness, cleanliness and safety. Enough said.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

War, destruction and revolution. Wake up.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

There was war.

@alexalston7428

2 ай бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Only because of big power politics. Rhodesia should have been allowed to mature like say NZ.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

@@alexalston7428 and the Africans should have just waited.

@alexalston7428

2 ай бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes, a form of democracy guaranteeing the presence of the white minority's continued sharing of power would have kept their expertise and stability. The place is (unsurprisingly) ruled now by corrupt thugs. Don't worry, the Chinese will maybe re-establish something akin to law an order. They pay off the thug leadership and do as they please. Don't expect them to power share!

Looks better than the Zimbabwe today

Used to drive the police patrol cars (B cars) around this city from 76-78, what a great time I had.

@thesmithersy

Жыл бұрын

You're a hero of the BSAP.

@Limosethe

2 ай бұрын

How was it as a cop in Rhodesia?! Did you make arrests?

@garydurandt5737

2 ай бұрын

@@Limosethe Yes, just like most other cops in the world

@Limosethe

2 ай бұрын

@@garydurandt5737 The intention of my question was to invite all his funny/crazy arrest stories

Thank you for sharing.

This video's resolution is so clear. It looks as though it had been shot only a few days ago.

@Kalyopa

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not 1971, this could be late 77 or 79

@matthewtorok-smith1967

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kalyopa why do you think that?

@stephenchappell7512

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kalyopa Fashions say 71 defo not late 70's

@kathrynradonich3982

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the cool thing about film. If properly stored it can be scanned at much higher resolutions and you get detail that you couldn’t see with standard definition transfers.

i definitely don't think i would want to go abroad living this behind. Beautiful

Ah home ................the good old days ........gone but not forgotten

Imagine comparing Rhodesia in the 70s to Ghana or Nigeria. What a joke!! Sadly the joke is now Zimbabwe.

@windbuster

Жыл бұрын

Nigeria looked good back then in the 60s and 70s too

@chrishenniker5944

11 ай бұрын

It’s now one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which I find quite pleasing.

Looks genuinely peaceful, happy, clean, tidy and prosperous back then But in hindsight, how fragile it was! Let that be a lesson for the West now.

@Pmooli

10 ай бұрын

Pride and prejudice? The same would have been said of londinium 100 AD!

The used to go to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Now they go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.

@nuremberg119

2 ай бұрын

Is that bad?

@lekevire

2 күн бұрын

@@nuremberg119 Yup.

@nuremberg119

2 күн бұрын

@@lekevire Why is it?

Old days things where so beautiful

Its sad to see a great country falling that down it was renamed to Zimbabwe..

This was before Zombie Apocalypse...

Please educate me…. Why did people chose to get rid of British ruling when they managed to establish such a beautiful country It looks better than Poland looked is 60s I have been to Zimbabwe on 2019, it is so poor and so run down Gosh…

@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm

7 ай бұрын

Because they treated the majority Africans as second class citizens

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

Most of it was actually extremely poor. There are wealthy parts of Zimbabwe today.

@saulillustriousmakinami7737

24 күн бұрын

Pride

Such an amazing country to grow up in !

everything is so clean, looks like a movie set

I remember those days, I worked at Salisbury city hall.

@djharto4917

3 ай бұрын

What year mate? Where did you end up?

@ 2.00 A Citroën DS just casually parked up on the street. At that time this was the most technologically advanced production cars available in the world and cost twice as much as a top end Mercedes. And now…

You didnt need to be a millionaire in rhodesia to live the lifestyle of a billionaire in the UK....

I travelled back to jo burg from a visit to Perth in 87. I had to spend s night in Harare. The customs guy st Harare airport called me a white birch and threw my passport to the floor. It was very terrible. My hotel in h estate was gross and I did not go out and walk on street.

@moirapettifr7127

8 ай бұрын

We are going on a univ sponsored trip to Soutern Africa to Joburg, Cape Town and Botswana next spring and we are quite excited! However our tour group and organizers will not be including Zimbabwe. That's a lot of tourist money lost to a once beautiful country!

It’s like Europe now, I was going to say slowly being destroyed but quickly being destroyed and replaced by…….

looked quite different....and the country was working!!!!!

hmmm, i wonder what's happened to this beautiful civilized country

@hinokamiwarudo5505

7 ай бұрын

European colonizers got sent back to their own damn country.

@nayasu128

3 ай бұрын

@@hinokamiwarudo5505 and Zimbabwe became a rich and prosperous country. The end!

This tells you all you need to know. South Africa soon to follow 😞

Its in a mess now. Wonder why?

Nice clip

it was so clean back then plenty of petrol and diesel at the service stations. Grocery store shelves were fully stocked clean running water, electricity and air conditioning a stable currency a thriving economy wow I wonder what happened.

I did subscribe

DEPARTMENT STORES ELECTRICITY AND AIR CONDITIONING EVERYONE IS WELL DRESSED RUNNING WATER NO TRASH IN THE STREETS EVERYONE HAS JOBS NOW THEY HAVE BODIES DUMPED IN THE STREET THANKS MOOOO GAH BEEEE

Still lovely people.

Salisbury?

@dijobson1204

11 ай бұрын

Harare

@meixo9083

2 ай бұрын

@@dijobson1204 salisbury

They had working traffic lights.

no apartheid

@fuwa9616

Жыл бұрын

And yet it collapsed even faster then SA, so much for tolerance

@gavinmcleod7446

Жыл бұрын

@pm Did you have Mugabe and ZPF running Kenya.?

@andrewst9797

11 ай бұрын

@@pm3302 Kenia today isn't exactly a showcase for decent living conditions. Anything is better than 'Zimbabwe'

@fionasmith6868

3 ай бұрын

​@@fuwa9616 south Africa much faster

If you told me this was in the US without context, I'd believe it..

It's terrifying that in a few decades we will watch the same videos, but about Europe, and wonder where everything went wrong

Black majority rule applied badly!

Kare haagari ari kare

You're telling me this worse than Zimbabwe?

Yes you can say that again, beautiful then and awful now. Shame seriously.

RHODESIA HAS BECOME ZIMMGHETTO

The white Rhodesians should just make a deal with the Chinese to manage it for them. Basically using their extensive local knowlege, management skills and a proven managment track record to manage the country, keep the locals in line, and maximize Chinese business profits. The advantage here would be when the locals start to act up and declare a "Chumaranga" the Rhodesians just call the PLA to keep order.

Wow. This isn't SA.

Salisbury's better than Harare

Blacks were better off, in terms of Civil Rights, Job Opportunities, Income etc under the White Leadership. Zimbabwe was a mistake. If anything, they should have slowly integrated the Blacks into Leadership roles. Instead, they effectively took over and mass exodus of the Most Intelligent people happened

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

Your opinion doesn't matter. You're not from there. Incidentally though, blacks have a higher income per capita and more free movement. Everything you've stated is just straight nonsense.

Mugabe deserves ALL the praise for destroying Rhodesia lol....

Clean place, well preserved. Remember the racism and Apartheid that existed in this place.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

Most of it didn't look like this.

Oh yes...the world decided that Mugabe was better.

@bruceday1960

11 ай бұрын

we dont want racists kick rocks

@boristheviewbot6056

10 ай бұрын

​@@bruceday1960hope it was worth it

@historiamilitaris5161

8 ай бұрын

@@bruceday1960yeah we do not want Mugabe.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 ай бұрын

​@@historiamilitaris5161your opinion doesn't matter.

@historiamilitaris5161

2 ай бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 says who? You? Really trust me I do not care.

And now one big shit.

Hmmm speechless Zimbabwe is beautiful

@dorothymtetwa3844

Жыл бұрын

It was not anymore

@Ben-uw8wx

11 ай бұрын

Mugabe fucked it up when it was Rhodesia it was beautiful

@historiamilitaris5161

8 ай бұрын

Rhodesia, only Rhodesia

Gotta love all those white faces on the mannequins in the shops! In a country that must have been around 98% black! But it was such a wonderful place, of course! Especially if you were white!

@phyrr2

Жыл бұрын

White is also just the base color of mannequins due to materials. It requires more as well as more money to make colored ones. Don't think too hard dude.

@mattyallen3396

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to the 20k Matabele that Mugabe slaughtered after 1980

@newsheed8007

Жыл бұрын

where is problem? your white as well, besides who do you think built all those skyscrapers, roads and brought in cars?

@bruceday1960

11 ай бұрын

black labour you devil@@newsheed8007

@potatoeskimos

10 ай бұрын

bro even in Asia mannequins are white. The reason is so you can tell how translucent a clothes is.

Remember: this was all built for the colonizer.

@fuwa9616

Жыл бұрын

So? The problem was, in Rhodesia, it wasn't. The Anglos there actually INVITED the natives to live among them and believed that they could be "educated" into being good citizens at which point they will be granted voting rights. Thats why South Africa survived longer, they did built cities for themselves, but because it was more beautiful then what the natives could do, they moved to what they built, generating laws to separate from them, which is why SA survived longer, and why Canada and Australia survived even longer, but soon, they will meet the same fate because all three welcomed them in.

@mh7a135

Жыл бұрын

​@@fuwa9616 Don't worry, he's brainwashed by the communists who lost their lands and destroyed such a beautiful country built by intelligent people.

@bracedgod4505

Жыл бұрын

​@@fuwa9616 I would have integrated easily. "Wypipo" were alot kinder to me than "my people" were, and I see the cultural differences objectively unlike the wokensteins.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

Жыл бұрын

​@@fuwa9616 push that back up your rear end.

@thesmithersy

Жыл бұрын

For the benefit of blacks who were welcomed and encouraged to join in society.

Totally destroyed now

@djharto4917

Ай бұрын

By the usual suspects