Proud to have made this happen! Dad is super grateful for all the people in his life and it shows in his story telling. We love you dad

@fightingmenofrhodesia

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Thanks for all your help Matt! Part 2 is even better ;)

Winston had this little tape record which he suggested we. The recording was made on a rocky hill in the Madziwa TTL. Winston Hart was a fine liaison officer whose intelligence was outstanding and without a doubt led to my early successes. A humble dedicated SB officer. Still one of my finest mates

Stanton and Hart - A pair of modest but hugely respected and effective operators who made a big difference. Far sighted guys ahead of their time. I was a GC operator based at Mashumbi Pools but stationed at Sipolilo in 1972 when Hurricane started. I had two GC constables who fearlessly operated inside Mozambique north of the border between Hunyani Mission (Chikafa - which was American run by John Wolfe) and Msengezi Mission. They put on " religeous "dog collars" and plied their trade relatively unmolested, bringing in very high grade intelligence. A huge debt of gratitude is owed to these guys who basicallly lived in these areas. I would meet them at pre arranged points to debrief and resupply them and then back they would go. I remember one of them was late for debrief but eventually I heard a bicycle bell ringing and then we spotted him hurtling along the sand road between the Mopani trees - chased by a huge " dagga boy" !! (Buffalo) When he arrived he fell off his bike and couldn't speak for several minutes. Memories of hard times and exceptionally brave men.

Winston was a legend for us younger sb guys. Absolute professional with a great sense sense of fun. Amazing man.

@calummackenzie1797

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Mike l can honestly say that Winston's name is up there with the other legendry guys in our hondo. I do not say this glibly or without deep thought, but on the same level as Schulie & Graeme Wilson. If he was a legend to you great SB operators, then that is high praise indeed & l think he was thoroughly deserving of that accolade

Great to see Winston still going strong. Did several trips to Mukumbura during that time when he and Pete Stanton were based there. Remember the people and events well.

Brilliant talk, thanks to both of you for recording this!

Fascinating history! I could listen for hours! Thanks for sharing your stories 🙏 hope everyone is doing great, I haven't seen or heard anything from Tony Ballinger in a long while, hope he is ok and doing well. Thanks again friends

Really interesting to hear the start of Selous Scouts from Winston. In 1971 I spent a Sunday with my future sister-in-law. Her husband had been an officer in the Gurkas and his unit had been deployed in Kenya hunting Mau Mau. He got the Africa bug and left the Gurkas and joined National Parks. There were 2 BSAP CID guys there that day and there was lots of chatter about what was going on in Mozambique. These 2 had been operating with the Portuguese in Mozambique

🎉Thank you Guy's 😊🎉

Hi Winston, Great chat Ishe. And so this great unit was formed with McGuiness influence much respect to you all. Looking forward to part two. Very tragic about Andre's ending but the begining of no go zones. I was a sprog and Tom Naude was a giant who we shat ourselves every time we saw him. Much later he was working with Joe Surkont in CT when our paths next crossed and he was actually such a humble great man. I think he was top honcho with Black Boots support unit at the end. God Bless. Thanks Hannes and John again.

It was a very enlightening conversation...

Great interview with different angle to the war much respect

I served on attachment to SB under Winston in the Mt Darwin district as Hurricane broke out. He was an outstanding boss and a great out-of-the-box thinker on matters of counter-insurgency. Ron Ried Daly (another out-of-the-box thinker) was OC RLI support group (or whatever it was called - the Ferret Scout Cars) and was based in Mt Darwin at that time. I left the BSAP to join National Parks and lost contact with Winston. It is very good to see him again and to hear his account of some of the things that I was part of for a short period.

Rhodesians seem to embody every good facet of the warrior. Tenacity of a Yank Guile of a Brit Courage of ANZAC. SUPERB.

@hixnada8278

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This gent has encapsulated exactly what I’ve believed for a very long time.

A handful. of men of this calibre and one could run an empire

The drive in was near Cleveland Dam. The road was Salisbury drive that intercepted the Umtali Road. The drive in was called Nite Star

Just in the first few minutes of this and it's no surprise such a top bloke went to such a good school. 😉 Just an aside to add to the opening story... Koos Basson was a shell shocked WW2 vet, Afrikaans teacher and legendary rugby coach. My dad used to tell a story of the boys (late 1950s) cruely slamming desks and laughing when Basson hit the deck to hide from shells. One day a boy in my dad's class did it and BASSON caught him in the act. He literally hit the kid out the window of classroom. That stopped the desk slamming forever. He taught at the school from 1951 to 1985 and died in 2011. One of the school fields is named after him .

more more ! that was very interesting look forward to the next one

Trojan Nickel mine, where they first based at.

Brave Comrade, I genuinely salute you Winston.

Really good to see you, Winston

Wow, what an amazing scoop, salute! 🍻

Looking forward to hear the story, Winno. I am sure the two episodes will be great. Keep well mate.

I remember that incident where a Land-rover hit a land mine. I actually took photos of this. I was serving with 2 Cdo. 8 troop at that time. This was the very first land-mine incident recorded

Vast majority of us never knew the true reason for the West (and East) collapsing Rhodesia and South Africa. This reason being the "money-lender" control over the vast natural resources present within said countries (chiefly chromite ore as both countries had deposits of such and were known to be the only deposits on Earth (at that point in history)).

@powerbite92

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Thank you for naming the elephant in the room. They were the "number one ally" of the Saffers and Rhodies whom they cozened and betrayed and then the "number one ally" of the ANC and ZANU whose corruption they have abetted and exploited to their own ends. Right now 0ppen h81mer funds the ANC and the K1 r5ch family funds Malema and the EFF... plus ca change, eh?..

My grandfather was C/superintendent Macphail

@chrisjones6736

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is your uncle Colin Macphail?

@andre51286

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@@chrisjones6736 yes colins brother is nigel, my mother was his sister

@andre51286

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@@chrisjones6736 colin passed away in 2001, nigel was only few years ago

@chrisjones6736

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I trained with him in Morris Depot. In early 78.

@andre51286

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@Chris Jones yea he was bsap, his dad was c/supt . He had a heart attack in 2001.

You would have met McGuiness and town foreman Charlie Seiler.

@rossitherhodie5659

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Mac Mcuiness the actual founder of SS whose influence got Winston and Ron going forward. Respect to them all.

@powerbite92

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@@rossitherhodie5659 Do you have any information as to what happened to Mac McGuinness? My understanding is that he and his wife were killed later in life but its hard to find any information.

Why does Hannes, interrupt the story teller all the time.

They were good... Worked with them as aircrew