I left Rhodesia in December 1978, was and still is, one of the saddest days of my life. Looking back now, over 40 years ago, it was also one of the smartest decions of my life.

@alcenofolchini6971

2 жыл бұрын

Working in Brasil at customs one night I got a magazine National Geographic, the cover was RHODESIA THE SWITZERLAND OF AFRICA. 1975

@tylerfreal6472

2 жыл бұрын

did you serve ?

@djharto4917

2 жыл бұрын

Where did you go to?

@garydurandt5737

2 жыл бұрын

@@djharto4917 Initially South Africa and then after a number of years, Australia.

@djharto4917

2 жыл бұрын

I met a Rhodesian guy in Sydney when I was backpacking around Aussie a few years ago. He was walking his Rhodesian ridgeback! Very interesting guy. It is a great tragedy what happened Rhodesia. I would love to have visited.

Man, these film captures of war are quite addicting.

@dianamincher6479

3 жыл бұрын

more real than real!

@Roonlovesfish3874

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@tyronnoel8886

3 жыл бұрын

Very true..my WATCH LATER list is almost entirely these clips

This is what happens when you give a 9 yr old keys to the Cadillac.

@irongerry847

6 жыл бұрын

Counting the potential of the land of Rhodesia Zimbabwe I would say it's more like giving the keys of a Lamborghini to a 9 year old.

@judymagondo1229

3 жыл бұрын

@@irongerry847 Why did you run away if you really loved the country . Whatever the past, this is now Zimbabwe not Rhodesia, things will always be different good or bad .The citizens will decide .

@marcogram1216

3 жыл бұрын

@@judymagondo1229 They're running because they don't want to live in shit. The "citizens" decide they want to live like prehistoric people. Well, Europeans as a majority do not want to live like they're in caveman times so they leave.

@PeterNgola

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcogram1216 Marco are you even from there? Did you experience what the Blacks OR Whites there experienced if not piss off

@georgemoore2444

3 жыл бұрын

Rhodesia as I still call it, now resembles Detroit, St Louis or Baltimore in the us. poverty, depression, despair and self anger should be the motto of Rhodesia, Congo, Sudan etc. they damn sure can't blame whites for their collective failures.

Rhodesians never die!

@Sircliffe

6 жыл бұрын

Calm down, he was being sarcastic. LUL

@ViktoriousDead

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sircliffe forgot to switch accounts???

@MobiletentedcampsZa

Жыл бұрын

Amen

I keep comparing this training to my own in US Marine infantry school (SOI), Rhodesian training is way more hardcore. These blokes were badass.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

Blokes. Cringe.

@gestaposantaclaus

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 I have English heritage, I’m morally obligated to say “blokes” every 1,000,002 words.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

@@gestaposantaclaus fair enough.

@alanbstard4

Жыл бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 blokes is good English

@alanbstard4

Жыл бұрын

@@gestaposantaclaus and a great word it is too. Correct English

How did Zimbabwe and black majority rule work out????????????

@bightonchinembiri3106

3 жыл бұрын

Was born free, but never had access to what the guerrillas died for...opportunities only exist for the black elite

@georgemoore2444

3 жыл бұрын

BHAHAHAHA!

@johny9516

2 жыл бұрын

@@bightonchinembiri3106 A blind man could see that coming.

@jaggernaut3868

2 жыл бұрын

Better to be sovereign and starve than to live off pizza remains fallen frm the table of oppressers

@roberttilton7927

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaggernaut3868 what a load of commie bullshit, wake up and come into the real world.

Rhodesians Never Die.

@PM-zu9tv

3 жыл бұрын

Its dead unfortunately. Sorry Mr.

@ancianoviejo1711

3 жыл бұрын

@@PM-zu9tv Rhodesia fué la nacion numero uno de Africa gracias a los Blancos.

@PM-zu9tv

3 жыл бұрын

Qué porquería tú hablas! Sí Rhodesia era número uno en Africa para los blancos. Y los negros, que son la mayoría y duéños y natívos de Zimbabwe sufrían como esclavos de los blancos y racistas. Si no tiènes nada buèno de hablar , calla la boca súcia tuya.

@yani2499

3 жыл бұрын

No, they just turn British and fly back to England in their tea cups.

@yani2499

3 жыл бұрын

@@ancianoviejo1711 We don't speak that coccaine language

Tears in my eyes . What has become of them who did so.much?

Look at Zimbabwe now

God Bless You Prime Minister Smith ,RIP

Rhodesia was good, very good! For us white Rhodies to be honest. No wonder we are still bitter! If we had cared a bit more about the Africans.........now they have Zanu. Its a lose lose for them

Lol, 13:04. The same mentality when SA became a "democracy" in 94. The same old same old

Damn, that assault course is legit :o

Worked out well didnt it, for no one.

Yes the skulduggery of the British was disgusting the manipulating by different forces within the British government . The books I read made me angry so angry in the way they the British treated Ian Smith in favour of Mugabe.

@ulsterinfidel9897

2 жыл бұрын

The government not the people. As a Briton myself I am all for a return of Rhodesia. Not to make us look worse but our Government under Theresa May a couple of years back supported the land reforms in South Africa to strip the farms of white people. Our politicians are disgusting fools that will try and do anything make them look good no matter how morally wrong it is. I personally know how the Rhodesians feel being from Northern Ireland as we been recently backstabbed by the British government with the NI protocol and always have been since the 90s.

@merledoughty5787

2 жыл бұрын

@@ulsterinfidel9897 agree governments and also the Britsih SAS were involved in trying to bring down the Rhodesian military

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

Smith ran a segregated state. What moral person would sympathize with him?

@doug6500

Жыл бұрын

@@merledoughty5787 What? What proof have you got for that? The Rhodesian SAS were basically interchangeable with the British SAS ffs.

@alanbstard4

Жыл бұрын

yes, a bloody disgrace

What an absolute mess; to be fair though, I am not up to date with development in Zimbabwe since Mr Mugabe left office. I did see a few clips referring to occupied farms been returned to original owners. Maybe things are getting better. I often wonder just how different things could have turned out had their been closer relations between Rhodesia and South Africa. Yes, I know the BSAP helped in the war, some aircraft was loaned to the Rhodesian army etc but I also believe that South Africa cut off - or limited supplies like fuel from getting into Rhodesia. A life - regardless of what their nationality is - is precious....

@munhumutapa1330

3 жыл бұрын

You are nuts, no farm is being returned to anyone. Land is precisely why the so called "guerillas" went to war, and rightly so land had to be given back to the rightful owners. Uchida usingade

@moses5159

3 жыл бұрын

@@munhumutapa1330 Look and see on KZread-there is a story on a farm being returned

@munhumutapa1330

3 жыл бұрын

@@moses5159 believe what you hear, I believe what I know and saw with my own eyes

@moses5159

3 жыл бұрын

@@munhumutapa1330 ok so what is your point? Do you suggest that land being given back to “rightful” owners was the right and just thing to do? If so has Zimbabwe prospered as a result of land being restored?

@moses5159

3 жыл бұрын

@@munhumutapa1330 enda norugare

They knew what would happen, and it did.

Chief Chirau, oh dear! Abel Muzorewa! Hove

Like I always say, I don't care who I offend or not. If Rhodesia followed the part of Bermuda, British Hong Kong or Taiwan none of this would have happened but then again we mustn't excuse Mugabe or any leaders of that continent.

@PeterNgola

2 жыл бұрын

Taiwan?

@kyleroy2226

2 жыл бұрын

You are a horses ass and its morons like you who sit in a bar and think you solve the worlds challenges

@miha-wv8uo

Жыл бұрын

Rhodesia followed the part of British Hong Kong!!! - "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia"

@Priapus212

Жыл бұрын

​@@miha-wv8uoIf it was British Zimbabwe then maybe, but is was Zimbabwe Rhodesia and he's ( Rhodes ) the sole reason Afrikaners created the Apartheid system in South Africa as revenge for the Boer War.

@simonyip5978

11 ай бұрын

Taiwan and China were never part of the British empire.

Was this all necessary than kuti we live together as one

A people that never managed to maintain a water well (even when instructed on how the pump works), that uses schools set up for them only to teach singing and dancing as soon as the aid workers leave them alone.... are left to rule a prospering country and manage to run it into the ground because they don't understand where the diesel in the tractor has to go.... what they do understand is which way the magazine has got to go into an AK.... good job importing them into Europe now!

The sound is freaking me out lol

They are going lefty stances. Intressting to see every inch of the body used. No body armor, no helmets just full on agility and front advances

Blimey, not defending Ian Smith (nor necessarily condemning him either) but they (the media) didn’t half like to remind everyone of Smith’s infamous and shortsighted “not in my lifetime” quote! Binge watching these vintage Rhodesia/Zimbabwe-themed reports it feels like it’s in the vast majority of them ffs.

@jamesmccann355

2 жыл бұрын

The speech was heavily edited. The original full speech version will suprise you.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmccann355 the full was I don't believe in black majority rule ever, not in a thousand years. I believe in black and white working together... How is not wanting black majority rule in a black majority country ever acceptable?

@jamesmccann355

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 He did not want a Marxist government. He wanted democratic rule were everyone was equally represented.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmccann355 he advocated minority rule before China and the USSR were in the picture so that's not true. Also he advocated permanent segregation and opposed majority rule, envisioning a system that would have 50/66 seats reserved for whites, then some time in the future have 50/100 seats reserved for whites. All of this despite the black majority.

@alanbstard4

Жыл бұрын

Smith was a great man

The assualt course shout "Hosa " was a Zulu word , for come at me , like the Thai word " Mani ".

@dalejenkins1558

2 жыл бұрын

i think the word is "woza" but yes it does mean that!

@pieterwillembotha6719

Жыл бұрын

Or is it Ndebele?

Or The house boys!

Sit Nomine Digna 👍👍

Guard Force Members at 10.40

Fueron los blancos los que hicieron de Rhodesia la nación numero uno de Africa Viva el pueblo blanco de Rhodesia !!

@samanth.

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩 Nazi

This training it's for Gugurawunde

Damn the reporter was respectfull to Mr Smith!!

Ndaona gomo reMutemwa

RENAMO being a unique start-up by RF to combat the so called 'Freedom Fighters' base in Mozambique. What happened to the RF Landmines planted by RF forces that ringed the Rhodesian boarders?

The United States should've given economic and military aid to Rhodesia!

@rhodesia1578

3 жыл бұрын

I agree but they chose to betray Rhodesia and assisted the communists dogs ! Britain too are responsible for the situation now in Zimbabwe .. karma coming their way soon .

@munhumutapa1330

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhodesia1578 You are a sad piece of poop. Call them what "communist dogs" you wissle weakling and failed capitalist. They got the land that they fought for and what do you have you low life....

@mikcocoorney504

2 жыл бұрын

The Americans actually did aid Rhodesia but they had to stop due to the fact that they had pressure back home with the Vietnam war and the protests. Thus they didn’t wanna make the same mistake. But the real blame is Britain actually thatcher fucked everything up and she was hated for it

@andyb.1026

2 жыл бұрын

so it could all get funnelled into Swiss Banks, by the wha Benzi

@byttlejuice145

2 жыл бұрын

We would still fight them, the only difference is there would be no white face left. They would kill a lot of us, and we would just either kill all of them, or they would have to flee the continent

The ladies in denial again!

Jeziah so many correct assumptions with his dog whistling and gas lighting

I wonder if the zimbawians enjoy eating sawdust?

@MarshallMK

Жыл бұрын

Why are you worries about what we eat ? When your grand fathers invaided us where we hungry??

@vestland3877

Жыл бұрын

@@MarshallMK whites brought you in to civilization

@MarshallMK

Жыл бұрын

@@vestland3877 okay , thanks , now please leave Zimbabwe alone , your Rhodesia died along time ago .

@vestland3877

Жыл бұрын

@@MarshallMK it will return Mr Sawdust

Mugabe was worse!..

Yes and under black majority rule what’s changed?

@julianschluter2593

3 жыл бұрын

They got more starving children.

@soulfare333

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianschluter2593 damn right.

@crazychickSHENA

2 жыл бұрын

But there Free from hate well white hate not black 😐

@TheJole88

2 жыл бұрын

@@crazychickSHENA what? Please elaborate because i had a stroke trying to read your comment

@byttlejuice145

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianschluter2593 we are not exactly starving, things are not perfect, but we are not starving. People say such just to feel better, but Rhodesia is gone and never coming back.

What the US is about to go through

Africans wanted and still want land, not only majority rule

ZANU and ZIPRA and ZAPU sound like the Democrats in Washington DC

@FMCH6444

3 жыл бұрын

When in reality, they're the Republicans & GQP

@rogerwilcoxii359

3 жыл бұрын

@@FMCH6444 Really.....let me guess..You think Obiden is going to save the day

@FMCH6444

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogerwilcoxii359 Oh, I see what you did there, wow, that was a good one. 😒

@adrianshephard378

Жыл бұрын

@@FMCH6444 How so

@FMCH6444

Жыл бұрын

@@adrianshephard378 Look at what they're doing. Crying foul at the voting results, fomenting rebellion (Jan 6, militias, PBs, 3%ers etc), trying to marginalize sections of the population as less than others - trans, gay, women POC. They've also purposely gerrymandered voting districts to ensure Dems won't win. etc etc etc

Uriah heep salisbury

>13:00 m/s ~ "Rhodesia is about to collapse!" - Thanks to Kissenger, Vorster, Carter, Young, Thatcher and Carrington, CCCP, Cuba, China and the Lancaster House Agreement 21 December 1979.

@RodrigoBorgia

2 жыл бұрын

yeah.. as always, its always the other. never you f*cking losers. what excuse `you pathetic illiterate dumbos you have for the failure? oh, yea, of course, its still the whte man oppressing you. pathetic disgusting incapable whiners

Fighting communist rebels , an interesting story

Free kekistan!!! 🐸🥛👌🏻

They've got it made now lololol

Lived through this, and very bad memories, these security forces used to beat us up big time accusing us of feeding the guerrillas!

@PM-zu9tv

3 жыл бұрын

I got beaten too, really hard. I hate them with a passion 😒😤😑

@afenijmeijer9027

3 жыл бұрын

Ask MDC supporters about getting beaten up.

@meyerduplessis1233

2 жыл бұрын

And now either inflation beat you up, or the Zimbabwean Police if you don't support ZanuPF

I watch this film. And I compare the amount of time and effort the British Army wasted in Northern Ireland. I have come to the conclusion that we should have backed Rhodesia and got rid of Northern Ireland. At least Rhodesia actually was a productive place.

@SymphonyBrahms

Жыл бұрын

Britain would never back a racist regime like Rhodesia. And Northern Ireland wants to stay in the U.K. because they are Protestant.

@jamesmccann355

Жыл бұрын

@@SymphonyBrahms Rhodesia was not simply a case of "Black and white". It was simply anti marxist/communist. Black majority rule was not possible due to the extremely large Soviet and Chinese influence in Africa. The only reasonable way was to have both Black and White working together for a better outcome. Rather than political hegemony resulting in a dictatorship. Which is what inevitably resulted due to interference from the American government of Jimmy Carter who's ambassador Andrew Young completely squiffed the whole affair by making it a racial issue rather than that of political ideology. As for Northern Ireland, which I have always considered a huge waste of time and tax payer's money.

@EddieAFC

3 ай бұрын

Politics. That’s what it boils down to. Imagine if Thatcher had backed Rhodesia, just imagine the left-wing reaction. She wouldn’t have still been in power.

14:48 says it all really. What a stupid world we live in. It is all so tiresome.

Thank you Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young. Quite the dynamic duo. I mean, who else could have destroyed a perfectly democratic, stable and anti communist country....Oh yeah, Andrew Young wanted to teach "WHITEY" a lesson!

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

How was Rhodesia democratic when most of the population was ruled without their consent?

@jamesmccann355

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 and just like that. Mugabe brought Democracy and justice to Zimbabwe. It sounds like a fairytale...Which it was not.

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmccann355 he was at least a native and voted in. What he did with his country was his and his country's business.

@jamesmccann355

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 if you want to tell that to the everyday people of Zimbabwe. Who are starving and suffered extreme violence at the hands of Mugabe and his cronies. I think they might have something to say about that 🤔

@ayodejiolowokere1076

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmccann355 starving for 40 years? Anyway Zimbabwe's HDI is medium and most Zimbabweans condemn Mugabe and Smith. One was a racist oligarch, the other a vicious gangster.

A lot of countries were colonies A lot of indigenous people got fuct over . Seems like once Rhodesia fell many wanted to balance out the past by taking from and attacking white countrymen and so-called sympathizers. I think it’s unrealistic to give back something you and your family worked for maybe for generations . That being said it would make sense to work towards unity and balance out government positions and land ownership . I think the collapse of Colonies like Rhodesia show the pitfalls of colonialism. But asking people that may have had nothing to do with it and may have not agreed with it to give up everything and leave their homes and businesses is unreasonable and unrealistic. What a fucked up problem to have to solve.

@MarshallMK

Жыл бұрын

What??

Such a waste.

"A woman marched off for questioning" or for torture ?🥺

Britain is about to become an EU colony - Will be great to see them bow down to the Rhodesian National Anthem stolen by the EU.Kharma perhaps?

@ulsterinfidel9897

2 жыл бұрын

You realise we had Brexit you fool?

@Ficker2

2 жыл бұрын

Ode to joy adopted was adopted as the European continental anthem in 1972 and by Rhodesia in 1974 two years after the European Council. Ignorant moron perhaps?

@jamtree9746

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ficker2 Seppo you are a chop.

CO MINISTER OF LAW AND ORDER 😂😂😂

If Rhodesia still exist or land exportation without compensation either way different happen I would love to be a Rhodesian/Zimbabwean. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe GPD $180,000 PPP $180,000 Area: 711,817 sq miles including Zambia, Malawi and Botswana Currency: Rhodesian/Zimbabwean dollar Population: 230,000,000 Black 49% 112,700,000 Languages: Shona, Tshwane, Bembe, Nyanja, Ndebele, White 49.50% 113,850,000 Languages: English 50%, Afrikaans 25%, German 20%, 5% French Demographics of white Rhodesians/Zimbabweans Anglos 29% 33,016,000 Irish 25% 28,462,500 Scandinavian 20.50% 23,340,000 Mostly Danish, Sweden Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic. Afrikaners 20% 22,770,000 Many are Germans still speak German a large minority speaks French French 3.9% 4,400,150 Mostly Belgians from the Congo or other colonial colonies Scottish 1% 1,138,500 Chinese 1.50% 3,450,000 Racial mixed 0.25% Other Asian 0.25% Difference from ZANU-PF Era Either way welcomes farmers from South Africa and Namibia. There will be less hungry Zimbabweans/Rhodesians either way What would likely be the same Rhodesia/Zimbabwe would be ranked the best African country Chinese companies would enslave many black Zimbabweans/Rhodesians without safety equipment or laws. Welcomes South Africans for jobs with free passports unable to find a job or wants to go to school. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe is the bread basket for Africa. Will have their own Economic Freedom Fighters. Chinese migrants and workers would be shocked at the large white population in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Taxes Personal income tax 0% Inheritance tax 0% Corporate tax 10% Property tax 1% Education 4 months without school but education is the same as if Rhodesia still exist Working age stayed the same as if Rhodesia would give working age limits Working hours 5 hours per day with 3 day weekends Foreign relations enjoys warm relationships with Mozambique and Namibia Mozambique Area: 901,914 has all of Tanzania and Madagascar many Rhodesians/Zimbabweans live in Mozambique because it's cheaper for agriculture, farming and housing this greatly increases the economy of Mozambique. Namibia (including Angola) Area 800,172 sq miles Namibia and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe enjoys good relations the two African nations are economiclly, politically and military allies. South Africa relations with South Africa is tense. One of the key reasons why is many South Africans are moving to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe losing taxpayers. Many farmers refuse to sell food in South Africa in fears of getting stolen and employees are getting attacked causing food prices to go up either way.

Rhodesia was a great country. Zimbabwe is a total disaster.