Zimbabwe | Goodbye Rhodesia |1979

The dying days of the Republic of Rhodesia in Southern Africa. Filmed by Thames Televisions flagship factual programme 'This week'
First transmitted on 11/01/1979
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  • @breed4659
    @breed46595 жыл бұрын

    Glad everything worked out so well for Zimbabwe. Quite the economic and technological superpower these days

  • @fancygiant5181

    @fancygiant5181

    5 жыл бұрын

    Love this comment bro 😆

  • @gardenroom64

    @gardenroom64

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rubbish

  • @darwintaylor7002

    @darwintaylor7002

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice outlook,but African must do more for Africans and stop being the reaping ground of the world. We as Africans should have our own phone development program, car industry, etc. Not be a mere resource for bigger foreign enterprises

  • @darwintaylor7002

    @darwintaylor7002

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Napoléon Bonaparte ??? For some people who don't want to rule over people, you all sure do a lot of ruling over people...

  • @jjbv2147

    @jjbv2147

    4 жыл бұрын

    The RSA will follow in their footsteps to the tee.

  • @The_Honcho
    @The_Honcho3 жыл бұрын

    I hear Rhodesians liked the rapper 50 cent, or as Zimbabweans call him, 500 million dollars

  • @2byteCode16

    @2byteCode16

    3 жыл бұрын

    Washaya

  • @reynaldo1209

    @reynaldo1209

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually, 40 cents is equal to 100 trillion 🙈

  • @robcorrente6065

    @robcorrente6065

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @nihongoumai8170

    @nihongoumai8170

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, right now 1 USD = 361.900 ZWD

  • @renatocamo

    @renatocamo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hehe hehe!!

  • @vishnupthampy6562
    @vishnupthampy65623 жыл бұрын

    Who knew their descendants was gonna become trillionares. 😂😂

  • @zeppelin0110

    @zeppelin0110

    2 жыл бұрын

    Made me laugh out loud. Well done.

  • @noriamabaso3456

    @noriamabaso3456

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol 😃😃😃😃

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you honestly believe blacks would choose white minority rule than struggle a little with their country and fix their own problems on their own terms?

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lobbyskids2 The point is that its better for them to struggle on their own terms than having foreigners come and make you struggle. A family can have problems but they can also fix them as a family.

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lobbyskids2 It is truely the other way round. It is actually Europeans that went to Africa to plunder their wealth. They built cities there without the consent of the local people and extracted their minerals. The multinationals there E.g Anglo American Cooperation was actually paying tax to the British government for copper extracted from Zambia then Northern Rhodesia. This is just a small example of atrocities committed by Europeans in Africa. Profits were insane because of forced to cheap labour at best. Treating them blacks like second class citizens and all. You saw the video... putting whole communities in keeps. I honestly do not understand how any European would be infuriated by the fact that a people are fighting for their country back. If Europeans went to Africa for trade and not as settlers by the force of the barrel of a gun, would there have been all these unnecessary conflicts. From 900AD to 1500AD Zimbabwe was involved in gold trade with the rest of the world. There was no conflict there, it was simply trade. But the greed of Europe caused the problems culminating in the Berlin conference. How do we justify that. Let history be our lesson.

  • @mokopa
    @mokopa3 жыл бұрын

    "Our children are dying of hunger, food is what we need. Conditions are getting worse. We may as well be dead..." ~ Zimbabwe 2020, 41 years later

  • @taxevader7613

    @taxevader7613

    3 жыл бұрын

    funny, because rhodesia was called the breadbasket of africa

  • @gedraath1639

    @gedraath1639

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well.....Smith warmed you....no good crying now

  • @thekyler9529

    @thekyler9529

    3 жыл бұрын

    and it has been this way since the 80s lol

  • @vimalraj6

    @vimalraj6

    3 жыл бұрын

    @JeffChad What makes you think so?Im curious.

  • @vimalraj6

    @vimalraj6

    3 жыл бұрын

    @JeffChad What aspect of it is bad now just to be frank im not arguing with you Im just really curious of your perspective.

  • @Wokegooglers
    @Wokegooglers5 жыл бұрын

    Breadbasket of Africa, now it's the world's biggest net importer of foreign aid.

  • @fancygiant5181

    @fancygiant5181

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Krono1001 an idiot who struggles with the English language and world history?

  • @Logan-qi4nx

    @Logan-qi4nx

    5 жыл бұрын

    marimba ani would rather starve than be discriminated against huh

  • @machinagroupes2898

    @machinagroupes2898

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dear black enemy ,learning how to farm and start farming is not an event ,its a process ,Zimbabwe will soon perfect its imperfection and we will retain ourselves as the bread basket of Africa with or without you,dont get me wrong i dont hate whites but if they are looking forward to see us fail well they are going to be disappointed

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    Machina groupes I pray that you’re correct sir .

  • @dibzmrasta9238

    @dibzmrasta9238

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@fancygiant5181 English is just a mere language my learned friend. There are so many idiots who can speak fluent English just because they were born into it

  • @toonmag50
    @toonmag506 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia in 1980 had the same GDP as NZ. Zimbabwe pissed on everything within ten years

  • @kollegs101

    @kollegs101

    5 жыл бұрын

    a good GDP that excluded the black majority is not an realistic

  • @Sataka23clips

    @Sataka23clips

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kollegs101 still better than current gdp

  • @mikechiks983

    @mikechiks983

    4 жыл бұрын

    No my dear. Sanctions for expulsion and land take over pissed on everything

  • @c0ree

    @c0ree

    4 жыл бұрын

    looks like poverty follows blacks

  • @joeday397

    @joeday397

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@c0ree they seem to sow the seeds for poverty wherever the go.

  • @redline1916
    @redline19163 жыл бұрын

    What was discovered after the lightbulb in Zimbabwe? The candle.

  • @cantsneedgaming4591

    @cantsneedgaming4591

    3 жыл бұрын

    yep looks like a quarter million people were keeping that country a float

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    They were keeping themselves afloat. Rhodesia was a racist shit hole

  • @ScottTheBot07

    @ScottTheBot07

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is fucking profound

  • @ScottTheBot07

    @ScottTheBot07

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 the place with skyscrapers and prosperity was a shit joke yes. You are comparing it to what?

  • @blood5096

    @blood5096

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 lol OK Marxist

  • @RJ-he2ns
    @RJ-he2ns3 жыл бұрын

    "We hope our children will have a better future." The children in Zimbabwe probably have it worse than adults did in Rhodesia.

  • @micio_meow

    @micio_meow

    2 жыл бұрын

    Definitelly, from a first word country to one of the worst. Now they are free to starve

  • @robertmhetu8997

    @robertmhetu8997

    Жыл бұрын

    that would be amazing to believe but the fact is we are doing better than ever now that your kind is gone an NEVER coming back :)

  • @tvs9978

    @tvs9978

    Жыл бұрын

    Nopre3. The children who are now adults and parents themselves now have access to their land to farm and build wealth for themselves and their future grandkids

  • @StreetDrilla

    @StreetDrilla

    Жыл бұрын

    @@micio_meow salisbury was first world (it was like that since the british colonial days, not built by independent white ruled rhodesia), 75% of rhodesia was governed with martial law and most people (black people) were poor, white people (some people) were rich.

  • @davidturcotte5677

    @davidturcotte5677

    Жыл бұрын

    They should curse their fathers for ruining the country of their birth. This is the lesson: Don't trust or listen to Socialists. Starvation is what you get.

  • @BeMaeDoCrimes
    @BeMaeDoCrimes4 жыл бұрын

    "Some of us are starving" "We want freedom and equality" "All of us are starving"

  • @tenko5541

    @tenko5541

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fair enough. But after the chaos of the 60s the whites knew this was inevitable. It wasn't the only uprising on the continent, I'm not sure why everyone is so sentimentle about Rhodesia. It's one piece of a bigger puzzle.

  • @CleanupKrew7

    @CleanupKrew7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tenko5541 White Supremacists love Rhodesia so much because they refused to get rid of their apartheid state and continued fighting completely cut off from the international community other than South Africa. Maybe Zimbabwe would be in a better position if Rhodesia didn't almost completely ignore educating and improving the infrastructure of the majority of the country.

  • @shariarmontasir3569

    @shariarmontasir3569

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Beautiful Greece lol,europeans were in power.what kind of government it was if it doesnt provide for its majority?

  • @bobsnob3073

    @bobsnob3073

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shariarmontasir3569 Black people, by the late 60s, in Rhodesia could go to school and had health care. The highest quality lives for blacks in Africa, throughout all of history, even to this day was in Rhodesia.

  • @faissal8997

    @faissal8997

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bobsnob3073 Bullshit, the blacks didn't have equal education and health systems. With all Mugabe's faults, he did good job educating his people, although he clung to power for too long and by all means. There are great misconceptions about Rhodesia and a lot of fantasies by white supremacists, but the reality was that it was an apartheid racist government which was a disgrace for the human race.

  • @subinspecttom2499
    @subinspecttom24995 жыл бұрын

    Mugabe was going to save the country,LOL...That didn't turn out very well,now did it?

  • @2byteCode16

    @2byteCode16

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was happy during Mugabe's time in Mbare,Harare, I would never wish for a white men to rule me never!!!!

  • @kiswahilikitukuzwe2547

    @kiswahilikitukuzwe2547

    4 жыл бұрын

    Black people indeed suffered more under the white rule.

  • @barendgaming2847

    @barendgaming2847

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kiswahilikitukuzwe2547 fake news

  • @harunajumaa6813

    @harunajumaa6813

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@barendgaming2847 it is better freedom with poverty than development with suffering

  • @justincase4892

    @justincase4892

    4 жыл бұрын

    It did for him. The Chinese made him very wealthy.

  • @Cryptopitbull
    @Cryptopitbull3 жыл бұрын

    And, after the Chinese take it over it’ll be called zimbung wai

  • @danechristmas6570

    @danechristmas6570

    3 жыл бұрын

    LMAO..Sad , actually! There is an African proverb that goes something like - "When two brothers fight over an inheritance, a stranger walks in and takes it over.."

  • @MrCreamcracker15

    @MrCreamcracker15

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol alright yank

  • @Curlie_Mermaid

    @Curlie_Mermaid

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol🤣🤣

  • @charliemartin4392

    @charliemartin4392

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm dead. True, once they cash in their favors just like all the ports and harbors they built for everyone else. Facts

  • @KalamityStorm

    @KalamityStorm

    2 жыл бұрын

    Funniest joke !

  • @TrueBrit1
    @TrueBrit13 жыл бұрын

    An old guy I used to work with spent 3 years in Rhodesia in the late 1970s working for the government as a civil servant. He said it was truly a beautiful country back then, well run, prosperous, clean, safe, richest in Africa. When he left there at the end of his 3 year posting he said the writing was on the wall as things were deteriorating and when he looked back in later years he was upset and couldn't believe how it went so far downhill. And no, he wasn't white - he was Indian. So sad when you look at the people then who had so much hope for the future under a new regime, only to suffer considerably more than before. It's still the same today. Yes Mugabe may be dead, but little has changed.

  • @hecateswolf6007

    @hecateswolf6007

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing

  • @sportsrealtalk2843

    @sportsrealtalk2843

    Жыл бұрын

    Know your history, my fellow - Colonial buffers are just that! You may need to seek help for that Postcolonial Melacholia.

  • @intel2663

    @intel2663

    Жыл бұрын

    Let the people grow their country. Africa has a long way to go socially and economically. We can't compare a 40year old country with the UK or US

  • @MJ-fj9yv

    @MJ-fj9yv

    Жыл бұрын

    @@intel2663 Nothing but useless and ridiculous excuses. what the hell were they doing before the Whites in Africa? Before when there was a Persian dynasty, Mongols rule, Chinese, Greeks, etc. Africa has long to go because THEY can’t get out of THEIR own damn way….always begging for aid and killing each other.

  • @imcardbored8394

    @imcardbored8394

    Жыл бұрын

    @@intel2663 He never did. He compared it to what it used to be. Sorta like if you compared the Roman Empire to the Holy Roman Empire.

  • @Catstro
    @Catstro4 жыл бұрын

    A Zimbabwean 100 trillion dollar note is worth U.S 40 cents. Truly Zimbabwe is flourishing.

  • @winstonsmith3070

    @winstonsmith3070

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not quite they are selling on eBay for about $75 with a free $20 Trillion note for free. I have them on my office wall reminding me what will soon be the fate of the US Dollar as well. Cheers

  • @princedube9156

    @princedube9156

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which Zimbabwe are you talking about?? I live there and we haven't had trillion dollar notes in years!!! Google first before proving yourself ignorant!

  • @Felipe2009cvb

    @Felipe2009cvb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@princedube9156 got to quadrillions already?

  • @freemanchimanga7520

    @freemanchimanga7520

    Жыл бұрын

    Well we are nolonger in keeps .

  • @fungaireasonmanzero

    @fungaireasonmanzero

    Жыл бұрын

    Even Germany once had hyperinflation, mind u, we had it in 2008, now thats history albeit we are still on sanction, i guese thats bad news to CNN

  • @jayfisher3359
    @jayfisher33593 жыл бұрын

    "The myth, that they were left alone and betrayed by their allies." Isn't that exactly, what happened?

  • @jayfisher3359

    @jayfisher3359

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Ilove Jesus Nice ironic name, It's nice calling them nazis as they were outnumbered by communist supported units. What about the farmers that were and still are killed and raped? Biting the hand that feeds them eh?

  • @ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368

    @ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Ilove Jesus they were born there...

  • @jayfisher3359

    @jayfisher3359

    3 жыл бұрын

    @War X Good equivalency

  • @TheAlexdx7

    @TheAlexdx7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ishouldbestudyingrightnow5368 Jesus never existed, your whole world is a lie. Educate yourself

  • @CarrotConsumer

    @CarrotConsumer

    3 жыл бұрын

    The would have had allies if they agreed to universal democracy.

  • @SuperBigwinston
    @SuperBigwinston3 жыл бұрын

    Britain should not have let Rhodesia down. When Britain needed help in 1st and 2nd w war Rhodesian troops came to help fight and win the war.

  • @hansreiner1637

    @hansreiner1637

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its due to UDI Rhodesia declared, Britain was pissed off and UN put sanction on Rhodesia causing it to internationally isolated. Ironic enough Zimbabwe doesn't make any better than Rhodesia, it just getting worsed. As a person who lived in former British colony, Rhodesia or before independence Southern Rhodesia helped us during the Malayan Emergency in the 50s, without them we probably end up like Zimbabwe itself. Rhodesia deserves better fate than this

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    To what ends. What was the purpose of Rhodesia

  • @Christopher-rw2bp

    @Christopher-rw2bp

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 ok, what is the purpose of Zimbabwe? what is the purpose of human life? what is your question lol

  • @patriotenfield3276

    @patriotenfield3276

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's British for You. Indians fought for the British colony. They carved India into pieces . Middle East helped in their war effort. Republic of Taiwan helped them. They like USA, Threw them under to the commies. Karens and Kachins helped them. They put them under a guillotine with the rope to the blade in charge of Ne Win and his criminal Tatmadaw. and America has learned the Art well from it's abusive Father. did to the Iraqis, did to the Kurds, did to the South Vietnam, and now to Afghanistan. And Taiwan is next on the line.

  • @Valencetheshireman927

    @Valencetheshireman927

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 To be a nation

  • @ejmagic3435
    @ejmagic34353 жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace Rhodesia.

  • @josephstalin7353

    @josephstalin7353

    2 жыл бұрын

    time for a reboot lads

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it was a racist shit hole of a country

  • @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098

    @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 look at Zimbabwe today vs Rhodesia

  • @mrredacted85

    @mrredacted85

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 buh buh Mah apartheid and mean words that was much worse than starvation and poverty

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 When you look at it from an African man's point of view, Zimbabwe is better than Rhodesia. The white man will think otherwise because of all that privilege afforded to him just by the colour of his skin. The black man will look at the segregation and the denial of opportunity that he faced because of the colour of his skin. Some say Rhodesia would have eventually changed to accommodate everyone but the black man will ask you, why eventually? Why not now? Why not yesterday? Rhodesia thought it easier to go to war against blacks demanding change than just change policy. That was the biggest mistake they made apart from seeing the blackman as a second class citizen and a man who would accept that status. No one can ever accept such. And if you threaten them by military might, they may backoff but rest assured they will also find the means to fight back as a priority. Now everyone listens to main stream media about Zimbabwe and believes it, the unknown thing is there is better opportunity there for the black man than most other countries and those that work hard in Zim are getting wealthy. It is the wealth of the white man that is perhaps stagnant or shrinking but the blacks on the whole are getting wealthier. And also most importantly, they have the dignity of being treated like people not as if they are a race that has to be led by another. This is 2021.

  • @iamchristopher
    @iamchristopher4 жыл бұрын

    Watching this in 2020 I have to say it is rare to see journalists who just listen to all sides of the story. Neutral journalism is a rare quality in the west.

  • @glennmuir5617

    @glennmuir5617

    Жыл бұрын

    Or anywhere else for that matter.

  • @Starburst7641

    @Starburst7641

    Жыл бұрын

    Not just in the west..

  • @londonbowcat1

    @londonbowcat1

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Starburst7641 John Edmond The UDI song

  • @SheriffArthurMorgan

    @SheriffArthurMorgan

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@Starburst7641 yeah but the west has the propaganda that is neutral unlike other places where everyone knows there is an agenda

  • @charlesbarkley1340

    @charlesbarkley1340

    5 ай бұрын

    This is not neutral journalism bro 😂

  • @kfinch0
    @kfinch04 жыл бұрын

    Ian Smith was 100% right about EVERYTHING!!!! HE CALLED IT ALL OUT & PREDICTED 2020 ZIMBABWE DECADES AGO... It was all predicted!

  • @Mike91337

    @Mike91337

    4 жыл бұрын

    In war the first casualty is truth.

  • @harveysmith100

    @harveysmith100

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Flim Flam Ian Smith wasn't a villain. Mugabe was the villain. Smith was trying to protect a nation from just a man. He was a true leader who learned from history and did his best to protect his country. He managed for fifteen years under huge pressure. History repeats, exactly the same thing is happening in South Africa.

  • @seanwilson5147

    @seanwilson5147

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Flim Flam enoch Powell

  • @2byteCode16

    @2byteCode16

    3 жыл бұрын

    He was not right about anything

  • @harveysmith100

    @harveysmith100

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@2byteCode16 That was a very bold wide ranging comment. Name one of his predictions prior to 1980 that didn't come true?

  • @daisysamuel3288
    @daisysamuel32883 жыл бұрын

    This makes me so sad. Imagine having all that hope for absolutely nothing in return. We could have been the greatest nation of all time but here we stand broken.

  • @youjustgothamasd1968

    @youjustgothamasd1968

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Federal Bureau Of Investigation based response

  • @Priest92

    @Priest92

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Federal Bureau Of Investigation hello? based department?

  • @dennispicone6801

    @dennispicone6801

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well I am not sure about all time. However, it could have been one of the Southern African strongholds without doubt. However, with little or no planning THIS is the result.

  • @WalrusWinking

    @WalrusWinking

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dennispicone6801 You mean with the entire world against a small army? Yet the small army's K/D STILL was higher. lmao

  • @RenzoIsHereYT

    @RenzoIsHereYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Priest92 KZread deleted the account, what did he say lol

  • @LboroWick
    @LboroWick3 жыл бұрын

    Can’t say Rhodesian leaders did themselves any favours with the way they treated the black people and their dignity. It’s a worst shame to see Zimbabwean leaders do worse to its citizens and destroy a country with such potential. The loss of shame in being incompetent is the route all failed and failing countries follow.

  • @michaelbrownlee9497

    @michaelbrownlee9497

    Жыл бұрын

    Um, The rhodesian blacks were educated, doctors, lawyers, economists, etc. part of the common wealth. Once it collapsed, the african girls set up schools for the children. Life goes on.

  • @4exgold

    @4exgold

    Жыл бұрын

    Mugabe was apparently quite accommodating and willing to reconcile with the white population at first. Sadly with the economic mismanagement and corruption, the country was in bits by the end of the 90s. There were the farm invasions and killings in the early 2000s and that was the final nail in the coffin. Mnangagwa aint much better than old Bob it seems.

  • @desertdetroiter428

    @desertdetroiter428

    Жыл бұрын

    The Zimbabwean leaders had good teachers.

  • @abc-oq7dt

    @abc-oq7dt

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@desertdetroiter428soviets

  • @desertdetroiter428

    @desertdetroiter428

    8 ай бұрын

    @@abc-oq7dt nope.

  • @simonyip5978
    @simonyip59784 жыл бұрын

    The man who says that he fought for Britain deserved better but millions of British war veterans and their families, who fought in France, Germany, Italy, North Africa and Burma were also let down by the British government. The coal, steel, aviation, cotton, woolen, fishing, shipping and many other industries were allowed to be decimated in the 1960's to the 1980's, almost to the point where the UK doesn't make a fraction of the cars, trains, ships, steel, textiles, etc etc today than 40-50 years ago. That man felt abandoned by the British government, but he wasn't the only one who felt like that.

  • @cs-mi8ur

    @cs-mi8ur

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe because it's not economical anymore, you are not going to be able to export normal cars because the cost will be too high, most of your population lives in densely populated cities -they can use public transport instead of using cars, so it makes very little sense to make normal cars in UK too. Same can be said for other industries too.

  • @cs0345

    @cs0345

    3 жыл бұрын

    Those industries are old, outdated and make very little wealth

  • @disprogreavette8545

    @disprogreavette8545

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cs0345 asinine statement

  • @hannotn

    @hannotn

    2 жыл бұрын

    He didn't deserve better at all. He thought he had a right for the British government to support white Rhodesians maintaining a government that denied the rights of the majority population. He had no such right. With that attitude, he would have been more at home in the Axis forces than those of the Allies, if he was referring to WWII.

  • @bushwhackeddos.2703

    @bushwhackeddos.2703

    Жыл бұрын

    And if they could see it now, the final betrayal of replacement.

  • @renhoek3851
    @renhoek38515 жыл бұрын

    Why are these old documentaries so much more interesting? If there was a similar one made today on bbc 4, you can guarantee it would be mostly talking heads and still pictures!

  • @PibrochPonder

    @PibrochPonder

    4 жыл бұрын

    ren hoek any they would be ticking every diversity box irrespective of the fact they are not experts

  • @luinomrkt2111

    @luinomrkt2111

    4 жыл бұрын

    Those Days are pass now. Stay in your concrete jungles. War Mongers thats what you are

  • @euskara2068

    @euskara2068

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah if there was a documentary about Rhodesia or Ian smith they would DEFINITELY say “oH hE wAs A wHiTe SuPReMiCiSt!” Yeah what utter bullshit lies that they have said about Ian smith and Rhodesia

  • @RiisPark99

    @RiisPark99

    2 жыл бұрын

    And lies.

  • @knomadicstone7348
    @knomadicstone73482 жыл бұрын

    The missionary doctor had the clearest idea of the issues of the time. If only anyone would've listened to people like him. Perhaps we would be having a different conversation right now about Zim.

  • @fungaireasonmanzero

    @fungaireasonmanzero

    Жыл бұрын

    Most people just went with what ey knw or heard the ddnt complete the whole video 20.00

  • @PibrochPonder

    @PibrochPonder

    Жыл бұрын

    Everything he says could just be swapped now and they would be just as applicable.

  • @alidadebruyn3560
    @alidadebruyn3560 Жыл бұрын

    I was born and bred in Rhodesia. It breaks my heart to see how my beloved country has become. A once best country is now a waisted country

  • @ivanlarin86

    @ivanlarin86

    6 ай бұрын

    A strange thing... I was born in 1986 in USSR and got acquainted with the history of Rhodesia comparetively recently. It hurts...

  • @007wellie

    @007wellie

    4 ай бұрын

    Was it ever a best country

  • @silentperspective7984

    @silentperspective7984

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@007wellie compared to what happened to them with Mugabe, Yes definitely

  • @cestmoifu1406

    @cestmoifu1406

    3 ай бұрын

    was never your land thats why it doesnt exist anymore@@silentperspective7984

  • @npcfigureathletedawnirish691

    @npcfigureathletedawnirish691

    6 күн бұрын

    Much like many of our once beautiful cities is America. Same thing happening here.

  • @warmachine9553
    @warmachine95535 жыл бұрын

    Coming soon to a town near you, South Africa.

  • @anodaone6525

    @anodaone6525

    5 жыл бұрын

    better than slavery

  • @CertifiedRealism

    @CertifiedRealism

    4 жыл бұрын

    This time they have no where to run to but the sea, perhaps they will evolve into Wakandan super dolphins

  • @humbleguardsman5578

    @humbleguardsman5578

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@anodaone6525 most modern day slavery is in africa. Check mate.

  • @epartnersuk

    @epartnersuk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @One Mic Why. Zim and South Africa very similar?

  • @giselavanzyl7295

    @giselavanzyl7295

    4 жыл бұрын

    war machine already here 😂😂

  • @0825411237
    @08254112375 жыл бұрын

    Zimbabwe 2.0 currently loading: South Africa

  • @mikefilmer7043

    @mikefilmer7043

    4 жыл бұрын

    Raoul Virissimo you have to love African politics. 🤣

  • @courtenayvermeulen6752

    @courtenayvermeulen6752

    4 жыл бұрын

    Zimbabwe 3.0 currently loading: Globally

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@courtenayvermeulen6752 : South Africa has more whites now than in 1996. Zim has almost no whites left. Big difference.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@daaichommie708 : As I said above, there are more whites now in South Africa than there were in 1996....so most whites are staying in SA whilst almost all Rhodesians have left.

  • @Wimpymind

    @Wimpymind

    4 жыл бұрын

    And then its gonna be France, then England, then rest of europe. We are all going to be exterminated within a hundred or so years.

  • @kylekanuck3631
    @kylekanuck36313 жыл бұрын

    "I don't know how long we can do this, but I won't give up." The true spirit of Anglo culture that still permeates throughout the commonwealth and beyond.

  • @everythingviral972

    @everythingviral972

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think that's just basic human spirit.

  • @ScottTheBot07

    @ScottTheBot07

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@everythingviral972 all humans have the British spirit. Russians may not for example (I don’t know much about Russia tbh)

  • @RoyalKnightVIII

    @RoyalKnightVIII

    Жыл бұрын

    Except they did you idiot. They couldn't keep abusing human beings as virtual slaves, fuck off nazi

  • @JDJoeil

    @JDJoeil

    Жыл бұрын

    LMAO. The true spirit of Anglo culture indeed: "I don't know how long we can do this, but I won't give up." - While playing FUCKING GOLF

  • @stephen4121

    @stephen4121

    11 ай бұрын

    @@ScottTheBot07 Russians make the British look like people who give up at the first opportunity. Nicely slipped bit of racism btw

  • @greasyflight6609
    @greasyflight66093 жыл бұрын

    I had relatives from Rhodesia. They left for Australia late 1970's. My Grandmothers cousin was a Doctor there. She told me that he served half a year military... half year civilian. I remember her telling me that Nkhomo rather than Mugabe would have been a preferable leader for post Rhodesian rule. BBC every morning together as a child,

  • @zachhoward9099

    @zachhoward9099

    Жыл бұрын

    Never understood the British lack of will in terms of backing Dr Nhkomo

  • @1313tennisman

    @1313tennisman

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zachhoward9099 its pretty simple geopolitics. Nkomo was the Soviet man, Mugabe the Chinese man.

  • @ajs41

    @ajs41

    5 ай бұрын

    @@1313tennisman The British preferred the Chinese man? I thought both Soviets and Chinese were anti-British at that time.

  • @anaalinaama
    @anaalinaama6 жыл бұрын

    5:35 "Monty Pesco knows that the good times are over. He's off to South Africa". This guy must have had the shittiest luck ever.

  • @hjyigo4759

    @hjyigo4759

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's what I was thinking...at least he got another 15 years in SA

  • @LifeAquaticDivingExperience

    @LifeAquaticDivingExperience

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hjyigo4759 He was a character old Monty Pesco

  • @resilience4lyfe331

    @resilience4lyfe331

    5 жыл бұрын

    Another 15 years of what... please do tell

  • @diehard2705

    @diehard2705

    5 жыл бұрын

    Charla Gotier another 15 years of getting crapped on by racist Africans before getting his land taken for a second time

  • @resilience4lyfe331

    @resilience4lyfe331

    5 жыл бұрын

    Diehard 270 lol... that’s what I thought you’d say! Ironically- that’s not reality.

  • @Silligk
    @Silligk4 жыл бұрын

    Just stop giving money to africa and let them figure it out. I've always refused to send one cent over there.

  • @juslitor

    @juslitor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Which is why they are coming to you as refugees

  • @Crytica.

    @Crytica.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @neuralcircuit That counts for some countries, but not all African countries did better when they were occupied. Looks over to Belgium occupied countries in Africa...

  • @mirasu2777

    @mirasu2777

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Crytica. Belgium had one colony in Africa, pal. The rest of Africa flourished in comparison to what it is now. Especially South Africa and Rhodesia.

  • @mrman9977

    @mrman9977

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mirasu2777 Nah, 2. They got Rwanda and Burundi (counted as one colony) from the Germans

  • @Crytica.

    @Crytica.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mirasu2777 Yes but I was talking about Belgic occupied countries. So I don't understand why you tell me about the other countries which I wasn't talking about because I knew they did better...?

  • @connierodrigues1188
    @connierodrigues11883 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful country gone to ruins no roads no nothing but pain and suffering God help us

  • @charliemartin4392
    @charliemartin43923 жыл бұрын

    My grandma always warned me, "be careful of what you wish for, cause you just might get it". I've met 2 families from Zimbabwe. One the last was born around time of the switch and the other before and both moved to America. Both said life would've been better if it stayed Rhodesia. That's why families are fleeing in droves. I live in little old Kentucky and met 2 families in 6 months. Just saying

  • @chiedzabvundura7383

    @chiedzabvundura7383

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are the two families white? Coz no black would say their lies would be better if it had stayed rhodesia unless they had no idea what happened to black people in Rhodesia 🙄

  • @charliemartin4392

    @charliemartin4392

    2 жыл бұрын

    Black and ended up moving to America. Facts

  • @charliemartin4392

    @charliemartin4392

    2 жыл бұрын

    And plus, how'd Mugabe work out? How'd he stay in power for so long? What kind of violence came with his ascension to power? Why are they asking farmers to come back? Don't worry I'll wait. Yeah, the whites should've played their cards different and included more in the decision making process. Yes people would like to get f'd by their own mind I guess. Tribalism is and always will divide the world. No one will learn. At least the ones that can use their power to make a real difference. The ones that want power always use the black vs white ploy. Ceasar said it best, divide and conquer

  • @chiedzabvundura7383

    @chiedzabvundura7383

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please believe me when I say this..what we have now is better than being under white rule and being segregated in MY country...the growing pains are a bit much but I would NEVER wish for Rhodesia for any reason. I will never change my mind on this and I'm not sorry

  • @charliemartin4392

    @charliemartin4392

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can believe whatever you want. Growing pains? Slaughter is growing pains. It's your country so want what you want. How's the economy? And how long it been? The foot on the countries neck isn't white, I can tell you that.

  • @jonnyvale9999
    @jonnyvale99994 жыл бұрын

    Well, you got the zimbabwe you deserve, well done.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, it's great. Zi m is far better than Rhodesia.

  • @asherif3893

    @asherif3893

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep better poor and independent then being rich and owned by someone else.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@asherif3893 : Exactly!

  • @methylene5

    @methylene5

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@asherif3893 They were free to leave anytime they liked. They weren't owned.

  • @VYKN55

    @VYKN55

    4 жыл бұрын

    Relax To all the people who think Rhodesia was a good idea let me hit you with this. 1.Ian Smith had a chance to better life for all citizens and yet he chose to stick it to the natives just like old times. So his failure to change cost the lives of many Europeans. The war was start cause of racism and became a mess. A mess Ian Smith could have stopped but he was to proud. 2. Mugabe and the economy are a result of the choice people had to take to get there freedom. Ruled by a government which cut ties with the commonwealth to avoid race laws or sell soul to China to gain the land and freedom but at the cost of radicalisation in terms of Marxism. 3. Every Zimbabweans hates Mugabe and when I say hate I mean to the core. The country its self is was full of prestigous individuals who were determined to prove themselves to the world. Sadly a nation can only do so much with a leader who kills and completion pays off officials creates a secret monarcy and depletes reserve Bank funds inflating the currency. 4. Everyone is welcome to visit Zimbabwe or live in if u chose(bad idea), EVERYONE. No discrimination of race at all just a tough economy to live in. 5. So many ways this could have all gone down. Perspective. To all non native readers put urself in the shoes of the oppressed africans. All Ian had to do was to recognise human rights

  • @mariogiresi6792
    @mariogiresi67924 жыл бұрын

    And what has happened to both Rhodesia and South Africa since leadership has changed hands?

  • @Pfsif

    @Pfsif

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Timothy Somerville By what measures do you use? Rapes, murders, standard of living, household income? Please explain?

  • @munafiqwill7837

    @munafiqwill7837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Timothy Somerville I'm sure they prefer starving than having the big bad White wolf in charge of keeping them fed 😂

  • @munafiqwill7837

    @munafiqwill7837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Timothy Somerville Lol well atleast they are happy being millionaires in occupied Rhodesia 😃

  • @sethdaboss245

    @sethdaboss245

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Timothy Somerville Yeah Im sure they love their "freedom" there

  • @sethdaboss245

    @sethdaboss245

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Timothy Somerville Much better compared to their freedom now of not being able to criticise government and dictatorship.

  • @billygrey8087
    @billygrey80873 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes. The media painting Mugabe as a hero and basically disregarding the actual facts...some things never change

  • @cjryan88

    @cjryan88

    2 жыл бұрын

    its much worse now

  • @Myndir

    @Myndir

    8 ай бұрын

    @@cjryan88 "Who controls the past controls the future."

  • @petersullivan3012
    @petersullivan30123 жыл бұрын

    I was in Rhodesia from the UK working on the independence elections working with Zanu PF (Joshua Nkomo), all the black people we met were pleading with us not to pull out. The countryside was mile after mile of green fields farmed by the whites with black labour, I'm not saying anything about what is right or wrong, just that it was a wealthy and beautiful country with a decent economy. Such a shame what it became under one man.

  • @petersullivan3012

    @petersullivan3012

    3 жыл бұрын

    Twat!

  • @tripodxxx1

    @tripodxxx1

    7 ай бұрын

    Joshua nkomo was not zanu pf...he was in zapu then

  • @ajs41

    @ajs41

    5 ай бұрын

    True, except I think you're mixing up Zanu and Zapu.

  • @paulmangwengwe9284
    @paulmangwengwe92845 жыл бұрын

    This film was shot in 1979 but all events happening there relate so well you might thing it was shot in 2019! What a shame. We Africans have destroyed our own country.

  • @lukatmenowamveryfine1915

    @lukatmenowamveryfine1915

    4 жыл бұрын

    As African we are just foolish

  • @VYKN55

    @VYKN55

    4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine saying u destroyed Zimbabwe. Don't u forget who killed the economy. I c so many people here cry that Africans ruined Zimbabwe but don't you forget why. In a non revolution era all African people would need permits to go to the city. We had a choice. We took it. We failed to kill the bad part of it. We leave with it. We have freedom but at the cost of getting siphoned by China. A mistake that will mere all Zimbabweans not matter skin color.

  • @raymondglad5593

    @raymondglad5593

    3 жыл бұрын

    well it is not Africans only. Germany 70 years ago was no better, destroyed themselves. it is not the past that matter, it is what you do now for the future.

  • @kirstyhannah9307

    @kirstyhannah9307

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Shreyas Misra It could easily be corrected! Get the right black Zimbabweans and the right white Rhodesian`s and get them to work together properly. Sort out what the problems are, and a real intent to correct them. Call the country Rhodesia, money would pour in from expat Rhodesian`s and so would investment, within 10 years Rhodesia would once again be the basket of Africa. One white farm paired with one black farm to teach them how to farm. Everybody looking after the wildlife and country and within in 2-3 years tourists would be flocking in to stay at safari lodges. This could actually happen if the will for a better life was genuine.

  • @adriancullingworth2051

    @adriancullingworth2051

    3 жыл бұрын

    Except the clinics had medicines the jobless and aged were assisted by gov. The farms were flourishing and exporting crops- the farm workers and their families were fed clothed and given shelter basic sure but they weren’t tortured murdered and humiliated by their own brothers.

  • @spencer6735
    @spencer67354 жыл бұрын

    all those future doctors and leaders! so glad they got their freedom

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    So are they.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Pepe The Great : I didn't, sunshine. It just wasn't funny...but I know you missed mine.

  • @AlexAlex-of6ms

    @AlexAlex-of6ms

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kek

  • @vawsunmedia9334

    @vawsunmedia9334

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well it is and will always be better without racist colonial rulers

  • @ScottTheBot07

    @ScottTheBot07

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vawsunmedia9334 prove that is racist

  • @mboroyako6413
    @mboroyako6413 Жыл бұрын

    A perfect example of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

  • @GetAssista
    @GetAssista3 жыл бұрын

    Damn those 70s interviews are heartbreaking. It is perfectly clear that both sides were fighting for their version of better future, for better justice. And it is also clear that the middleground that would've made everyone better off, some kind of a longer and peaceful transition, was not attainable. Cause it's too easy to flare up racial hatred in this setup. The racial war can only escalate and leaves a terrible legacy fucking up any chance for a reconciliation. In the end tens of thousands are dead and everyone else is worse off.

  • @hannotn

    @hannotn

    2 жыл бұрын

    You may have to explain to me how white Rhodesians were fighting for "better justice" by defending a regime that denied the majority an equal vote or right to full participation in the electoral system and said they couldn't own homes in certain areas, because I seem too obtuse to comprehend that.

  • @GetAssista

    @GetAssista

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hannotn Rhodesians knew what would happen with immediate full electoral participation cause it happened in every African country with mixed population. You get politicians riding racial recentment kicking whites out and ruining the economy for years. Or worse, going through tribal civil wars. On the one hand you get free vote, on the other you get economic hardships. It's easy to hail for abstract "freedom" when you are not the one living there eh

  • @hannotn

    @hannotn

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GetAssista Just like it's easy to say other people's freedom is secondary to your personal comforts and freedoms when you don't have to live as they do.

  • @GetAssista

    @GetAssista

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hannotn I see you are beginning to see the symmetry in the sides )

  • @hannotn

    @hannotn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@GetAssista I don't see any symmetry at all. Whites invaded the area, dispossessed the indigenous inhabitants and created a regime that suppressed them and gave them no prospect of equality. No symmetry in that.

  • @davidstrong522
    @davidstrong5227 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia makes sense if the simple questions are asked, for example - why is it that the only time that the country has experienced any significant development, growth, prosperity, law and order was during the Rhodesian era? Why was there no refugee crisis during the Rhodesian era? Why was the Rhodesian army 80% percent black, with only white conscripts? Why were the standards of health housing and education the highest in Africa for all races during the Rhodesian era? Why was there high levels of employment? Why did the nationalists start their war of liberation 18 months before UDI? Why did the nationalists boycott the 1962 election which was based on the non-racial constitution that they amended and agreed to in 1961? What was the purpose of nationalists' war given that the 1961 constitution guaranteed "unimpeded progress to majority rule"? Why do people only want to discuss the country's history from 1893? Do people realise that the matabele had invaded the country 70 years before the pioneers arrived and were in the process of annihilating other tribes including the Shona? Do people know that it was the actions of the pioneers that brought peace to the warring tribes? Are people aware that blacks were guaranteed representation in the Rhodesian parliament - they had seats reserved exclusively for them? Are people aware that the tribal trust areas were set aside to ensure that blacks always had land that the whites could not buy? Do people know that Rhodesia always had a non-racial constitution, that enabled anyone, regardless of race or colour, to hold the highest office in the country? Why does the country pre- and post- Rhodesia look the same, with rampant tyranny and tribalism with despotic leadership? I could go on, but why? Ignorance is something that many people just don't want to let go of! Was the country perfect - no, not by a long shot, but it was better than any other country in Africa and many globally. Even by today's standards, the Rhodesian policies on managing and respecting diverse cultures, agriculture, environment, economics, and social issues are excellent. Rhodesia had long term plans for growth and development that were aimed at raising the standard for all. Now compare and contrast Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, or any other african country including Botswana... bearing in mind the high levels of support and money pumped into them - Rhodesia actually sent money and food to the UK!

  • @naijanistan

    @naijanistan

    7 жыл бұрын

    Zimbabwe of today is fully democratic. One man one vote. Rhodesia was a Terrorist sponsored, racist state. The difference is clear to all right reasoning minds.

  • @ForestWalker22

    @ForestWalker22

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia was the jewel of Africa. Zimbabwe is the shithole of the world. The difference is clear to all right reasoning minds.

  • @naijanistan

    @naijanistan

    7 жыл бұрын

    sacoolman Why can't you leave Zimbabwe alone and move to someplace else probably in Europe where you can dictate their destiny? Zimbabwe says, they don't need your buns on their burgers. What can't you understand about that? Are you the type that need to be slapped upside the head to get it? Zimbabwe a racist state? What have you been smoking? No black nation discriminate against others based on the skin colors. IT IS YOU and YOU ONLY and ALWAYS.

  • @naijanistan

    @naijanistan

    7 жыл бұрын

    sacoolman You are trying to dismiss my point because you have no fact to back up your points. You must be tired. I don't have to live in Zimbabwe to know what you guys are trying to achieve over there. You have been exposed. Your game is over.

  • @naijanistan

    @naijanistan

    7 жыл бұрын

    sacoolman I'm not trying to hurt your feeling pal. And please, don't respond to my comment by taking it out on your children, pets, doors or your spouse. We are just having a mere conversation and I don't expect you to respond violently. Like you saying, "go fuck yourself" You are immature, so stay clear of my comments before the truth in my comments leads you into a psychiatric ward.

  • @kingarthur5110
    @kingarthur51104 жыл бұрын

    Zimbabwe: what happens when you virtue-signal so hard you kick of decades of ethnic cleansing, famine, communist dictatorship and economic collapse.

  • @Strelnikov10
    @Strelnikov103 жыл бұрын

    Look at all of these joyous people celebrating their impending starvation.

  • @geta6863
    @geta6863 Жыл бұрын

    Glad everything worked out so well for Zimbabwe. Quite the economic and technological superpower these days, go google it

  • @cestmoifu1406

    @cestmoifu1406

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah its called neo liberalism. Every country that has defeated colonialism has been economically strangled as punishment for years. Case in point... Haiti. Find out the history there and stop blaming people when you dont understand economics, geo politics and history. Read and learn how America has used its dollar as weapon against the whole world and thats why everyone is moving away from the dollar. Its a weapon and it is used to punish countries that do not fall in line.

  • @dimmkah
    @dimmkah6 жыл бұрын

    So how are you Zimbabweans enjoying that independence?

  • @archiewochiwunga2687

    @archiewochiwunga2687

    5 жыл бұрын

    We are enjoying our country

  • @mabrenz_n5391

    @mabrenz_n5391

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing the best independence you can find

  • @stuyvesantrockwell7070

    @stuyvesantrockwell7070

    5 жыл бұрын

    dimmkah Yes Mugabe fucked things up economically. But at least the country and land is still theirs. Is better to be poor than be a slave/servant in your ancestral land ruled by racist colonisers that despise the indigenous Africans. The land is their sovereign land to mismanage. Whether westerners like it or not. Europeans have no legitimate or Ancient claim land of Indigenes. The the native Americans, Aboriginals of Australia 🇦🇺 and the Maori of New Zealand 🇳🇿 testify to that. When you forcibly take land from indigenous people violently at the point of a colonial gun, when the the natives come for their rightful land you must expect the same violence you employed. It's karma.

  • @therealbomb_com8774

    @therealbomb_com8774

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@stuyvesantrockwell7070 Now, more people are dying at the hands of the "native" people of Rhodesia. Amazing.

  • @therealbomb_com8774

    @therealbomb_com8774

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@stuyvesantrockwell7070 What I find hilarious is your assumption of me being white. False. I am a Mexican with little European blood though, I am more logical that any fucking Zimbabwean out there.

  • @dennysmith4396
    @dennysmith43965 жыл бұрын

    Was born in Southern Rhodesia, Salisbury...3 week old baby... mom had to go work .... was breast-fed by a wonderful Shona lady, Hannah... til I was 4 years old... (still see her face in my mind's eye) ...we then headed for Northern Rhodesia, Lusaka... the most wonderful childhood thanks to the great staff who worked for my parents...sadsa & brisket with onions was SO delicious! The games in the sand with stones in little hollows... magic! The Askaris at Xmas time in their Ndebele tribal wear... huge shields & spears... feathers & leopard skins... wld circle hse & make scarey noises then come to front door & knock ...asking for "Chrismissy box Bwana" ... we wld be staring from safety of my moms side... the Mozambican, the Shona, the Zambian, the Ndebele were most kind to us little European kids... our introduction was priceless... coming to SA in 1961 ...Cape Town was inevitable as my dad cld see the writing on the wall...

  • @jen8063

    @jen8063

    5 жыл бұрын

    Only royalist brits would look for a wet nurse😂

  • @fancygiant5181

    @fancygiant5181

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jen8063 the fuck are you guys talking about?

  • @Smudgeroon74

    @Smudgeroon74

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice story.

  • @documentationslave397

    @documentationslave397

    4 жыл бұрын

    denny smith The story of Northern Rhodesia is indeed a sad one to.

  • @mikamiks2475

    @mikamiks2475

    4 жыл бұрын

    You were breast fed by your maid ? In what world is that normal ?

  • @johnburman966
    @johnburman9663 жыл бұрын

    I did a thesis in 1970 about employment in Rhodesia. There was the perfect formula for insurgents. Good education but no chance of a job. I could see it was futile to resist history. I have no political bias, it's sad to see what the winners have done with their country.

  • @gregorymalchuk272

    @gregorymalchuk272

    2 жыл бұрын

    Is there any possibility you could post the text of your thesis? I would be interested in reading it.

  • @johnburman966

    @johnburman966

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gregorymalchuk272 Thanks for your interest. It was for my architectural degree and for what was called a 'Rural to urban transitional training centre.' The theme was that as rural people arrived in the urban areas (Harare) they needed skills that would get them a job, so it would be a place where for a few months they could acquire some training, and knowledge of urban living (not to be prey to the wrong people). This was probably out of white man's guilt syndrome...but I did mean well. University of Cape Town does not have any information going back to those days...I don't know why, it's like I never existed as far as they are concerned. I'm old now and that was in my life a long time ago.

  • @michaelbrownlee9497

    @michaelbrownlee9497

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnburman966 the money masters.

  • @joshuanunn9552

    @joshuanunn9552

    8 ай бұрын

    Sounds like the USA now.

  • @johnburman966

    @johnburman966

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joshuanunn9552 I would be surprised if there is enough backbone for insurgency in USA. More likely the collapse into drugs and crime.

  • @berwood2001
    @berwood20013 жыл бұрын

    So glad it worked out so well for a once great country

  • @londonbowcat1

    @londonbowcat1

    Жыл бұрын

    22:00 I bet they didn't even get reparation

  • @Tes-mm5rp

    @Tes-mm5rp

    Жыл бұрын

    @@londonbowcat1 These are thieves. Thieves don't get nothing send them back.

  • @stephen4121

    @stephen4121

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Tes-mm5rp all land ownership is based on theft. Have a feeling you probably think you should be allowed to keep any properly you have or will have.

  • @lightly_salted_iro
    @lightly_salted_iro4 жыл бұрын

    Id love that "journo" to go back into Zimbabwe and see what he helped wrought.

  • @methylene5

    @methylene5

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, they're all very quiet now. So quick to apologize for everything the British empire did, but all so quiet about the death of an entire nation they caused in Rhodesia. They still haven't admitted they got it wrong, though any person with a functioning brain cell can see the writing's been on the wall for 40 years. Everything they expected did not happen and everything the white Rhodesians said would happen, happened. To predict the truth was to be labelled a racist by these people. Yet still, they've learned nothing.

  • @slappy8941

    @slappy8941

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh, he would just continue to blame racism. Leftards can never about they were wring about anything, because their ideology is a house of cards built on sand.

  • @peterlarter5578

    @peterlarter5578

    3 жыл бұрын

    Democracy?

  • @lightly_salted_iro

    @lightly_salted_iro

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@peterlarter5578 warlords

  • @lightly_salted_iro

    @lightly_salted_iro

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@Sultan Abdulhameed II What are you whinging about? The Africans have their land back. Complete with Famine and warlords. They can have it.

  • @glendodds4926
    @glendodds49267 жыл бұрын

    In this post I am merely going to take a trip down memory lane. I was born in Rhodesia’s capital, Salisbury, a spacious and attractive place whose skyline boasted several multi-storey buildings, of which the highest was the 20-storey Livingstone House in Jameson Avenue. From time to time, as a family, we used to drive up the kopje, a large rocky hill on the fringe of the city and enjoy the panoramic views. We also had some wonderful times at Mermaid’s Pool. More frequently, however, we headed out to Lake Mcilwaine for weekends and some of my happiest recollections of my childhood are of zooming around the lake on my father’s small motorboat. Other happy memories are of holidays at Lake Kyle, and during one of them we visited the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the fascinating former capital of a powerful Shona kingdom-with extensive trading links-which enjoyed its heyday in the 14th century. We also had a holiday in the Matopos National Park where, among other things, I visited World’s View and saw the grave of Cecil John Rhodes and the monument honouring the ill-fated members of the Shangani Patrol which was wiped out during the Matabele War of 1893. Moreover, in the Matopos I also visited the grave of Mzilikazi (who was born in Zululand) and founded the warlike Matabele kingdom which dominated life between the Limpopo and Zambezi for much of the 19th century. I also remember going on holiday to Hot Springs and the beautiful Chimanimani Mountains where we visited Bridal Veil Falls- unfortunately, owing to the Rhodesian Bush War, my parents never took me to the country’s most famous natural wonder, Victoria Falls. I also spent wonderful times on my grandparents’ farm in Matabeleland, and sometimes arrived there after travelling to Bulawayo on the overnight train from Salisbury. Bulawayo was Rhodesia’s second largest city and my memories of time spent there include a visit to the attractive museum where the most eye-catching exhibit was a large stuffed elephant that dominated the entrance foyer. In short, I shall always treasure my memories of growing up between the Limpopo and the Zambezi.

  • @bobboo540

    @bobboo540

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your memories.

  • @karidehnavi4737

    @karidehnavi4737

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too, such memories.

  • @jajarev

    @jajarev

    Жыл бұрын

    This brings me back to life in Zim before we had to leave in 2019, gosh how much I miss that beautiful yet scarred country

  • @djharto4917

    @djharto4917

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did you have to leave in 2019? Why not sooner if you had to leave ?

  • @jajarev

    @jajarev

    Жыл бұрын

    @@djharto4917 Because late 2018 it got really bad, so we started the process of getting visas and tying up loose ends etc.

  • @almadlicka2410
    @almadlicka241011 ай бұрын

    Rhodesia & South Africa showed how Africa could be. Mugabe and the ANC showed what Afreeeka really is.

  • @exempligratia101
    @exempligratia1012 жыл бұрын

    17:16 I really enjoyed Father Kennedy’s insight. His voice is pure asmr. He knew too well what has happened and what will happen. He certainly lived a good life regardless.

  • @CH-fo3pw
    @CH-fo3pw7 жыл бұрын

    Remember the saying. Come to Rhodesia and see the Zimbabwe ruins. Then it changed to come to Zimbabwe and see the Rhodesian Ruins. No truer a saying.

  • @courtenayvermeulen6752

    @courtenayvermeulen6752

    4 жыл бұрын

    So true! "They" say the Bantu's built them, but I've seen the Zimbabwe Ruins, and they look strikingly similar to the Peruvian "cloud people" ruins. Just something I've noticed.

  • @tvs9978

    @tvs9978

    Жыл бұрын

    @@courtenayvermeulen6752 you people tried for years to disclaim that GREAT Zim was built by Africans. You're superiority copez makes you refuse to recognize the facts proved by archeology

  • @bobbybellingham2074
    @bobbybellingham20745 жыл бұрын

    Great to see Zimbabwe doing so great these days!! South Africa next.

  • @genekelly8467

    @genekelly8467

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Washu Ken But everybody is a multi-millionaire! ($1=35,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars).

  • @senorhotpants1851

    @senorhotpants1851

    5 жыл бұрын

    fuck you

  • @glynmwiya6175

    @glynmwiya6175

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Washu Ken we are Bantu people and we are strong people you failed to wipe us out like you did to the Australian aborigines and the west Indians.we are bantu we are strong we are muiltiplying faster and we are the future. Get lost

  • @mandladladla1108

    @mandladladla1108

    4 жыл бұрын

    What are you Saying about South Africa?

  • @lillianmhandugospelmusic

    @lillianmhandugospelmusic

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Topsy Kretts moron we dont need whites in zim

  • @Ray-tg1sj
    @Ray-tg1sj3 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the saddest wars of the 20th century. An oppressed people fought against their oppressors, not realizing the misery they'd endured was only a taste of the misery they'd win. There was no hero leading their people to salvation on either side. A diseased government fighting against the next diseased government.

  • @icmull

    @icmull

    2 жыл бұрын

    Although, if Rhodesia had won. Its likely like South Africa the Apartheid would have ended amd theyd be in a lot better position. The trick is you never, never, never, ever let a socialist have any amount of power. A socialist with the best intentions is worse than a racist who believes in the free market with the worst intentions. By their very nature socialists are lazy parasites. Whereas the boers were extremely hard working. I dont like Boers we have a lot where Im from. But you cant deny that they work incredibly hard.

  • @frontiernerfelopments7959

    @frontiernerfelopments7959

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@icmull I'm certain the strangulating international sanctions had nothing to do with Zimbabwe's economic downturn.

  • @Matzieu1

    @Matzieu1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@frontiernerfelopments7959 at what point do you think Africans should accept responsibility for their future? No world body has sanctioned Zimbabwe based on race. Quite the contrary, the West hopes Africa prospers.

  • @devildog2378

    @devildog2378

    6 ай бұрын

    Africans weren’t even oppressed, how is free education and abundance of food oppression ?

  • @jackoniel7864
    @jackoniel78642 жыл бұрын

    Look at the shining example of paradise under Mugabe...full employment highest standard of living no foreign debt.Yeah right.

  • @thefantasyfootballhub

    @thefantasyfootballhub

    2 жыл бұрын

    So you think the black people were better off like this

  • @rigbyrigbone5407

    @rigbyrigbone5407

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...and yet given a choice we would do it all over again than be ruled by Rhodies.

  • @flowrepins6663

    @flowrepins6663

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@rigbyrigbone5407 you wouldnt

  • @rigbyrigbone5407

    @rigbyrigbone5407

    11 ай бұрын

    @@flowrepins6663 ...and you know this how? Pray do tell..this should be good...

  • @ajp8941
    @ajp89417 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia looks like a veritable paradise compared to the Zimbabwe of today. Moral of the story: be careful what you wish/fight for.....

  • @malvinchadzamira7197

    @malvinchadzamira7197

    7 жыл бұрын

    our trouble will not last forever, thats for sure. what re you suggesting we remain second class citizens in our mother land?

  • @malvinchadzamira7197

    @malvinchadzamira7197

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tay Sachs you can try harder troll

  • @timeismoney6918

    @timeismoney6918

    7 жыл бұрын

    Paradise for who?

  • @Makh927

    @Makh927

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tay Sachs take your "help" and shove it up your ass. Long live the lion Mugabe

  • @sofr123

    @sofr123

    7 жыл бұрын

    Moral of the story: It's retarded as fuck to discriminate against the native majority and think it won't have any backlash.

  • @leocozijn2326
    @leocozijn23267 жыл бұрын

    1979: "Come to Rhodesia and visit the Zimbabwe ruins". 2017: "Come to Zimbabwe and visit the Rhodesia ruins".

  • @tapfumamuganiwa9510

    @tapfumamuganiwa9510

    5 жыл бұрын

    true

  • @tballstaedt7807
    @tballstaedt78072 жыл бұрын

    On Ian Smith's gravestone it's written, "I told you so".

  • @rhodes6500
    @rhodes65003 жыл бұрын

    Totally biased reporting , ask them today just how well their precious liberty has been

  • @TheStapleGunKid
    @TheStapleGunKid4 жыл бұрын

    By 2006, Zimbabwe had the shortest average lifespans in the world. It was 37 years for men and 34 for women. Just think of that. A nation in 2006 had average lifespans of under 40 years. Zimbabwe absolutely wrecked everything Rhodesia accomplished.

  • @MA-go7ee

    @MA-go7ee

    9 ай бұрын

    I guess they should've just kept being slaves then. I assume that's the choice you'd make right? You must have a servile nature.

  • @lt2760

    @lt2760

    8 ай бұрын

    Well the life expectancy in Zimbabwe now is 61.2 years and will keep improving

  • @TheDerpty

    @TheDerpty

    7 ай бұрын

    Until the your Chinese overlords tell you otherwise @@lt2760

  • @Ken_oh545

    @Ken_oh545

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@lt2760 thanks to ARVs?

  • @DaughterofAlbion
    @DaughterofAlbion4 жыл бұрын

    The white Doctor was breathtakingly noble. What an erudite, honourable man.

  • @Patrick-vh5nr

    @Patrick-vh5nr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Daughter of Albion I really don’t know about that. I think he’s a traitor. I read an account of a soldier who discovered familys slaughtered bodies in a farmstead, pot still boiling when they got there, with a baby’s body inside. I have read many more horrific accounts of this type until I could read no more. This man by his actions supported these atrocities. From all accounts he was likely murdered after independence by those he supported. I know a family who told me what happened to another priest and his wife and their little daughters who stayed on to help the poor. It’s horrific. In war you must choose a side. This man didn’t and he eased his conscience by doing so but may well of helped a sick terrorist recover. Then maybe that same terrorist with an RPG blasts a farmers Land Rover and rapes and tortures the family to death for fun. This sort of event was not an uncommon occurrence. If you think being a priest excuses his cowardly behaviour, well would you feel the same about the priests in NI that aided the IRA? Maybe when it could be your children killed the priests words would sound less noble. He hasn’t the courage to think, he blinds himself with emotion while Rhodesians families on isolated farms are the victims of those he nurtured. I say he has blood on his hands and I cannot understand why you would celebrate him.

  • @purrfekt

    @purrfekt

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Patrick-vh5nr I think I'd rather trust the judgment of a doctor who helps those who don't even share the same skin color as himself and speaks from his own personal experience. As opposed to an internet warrior of no apparent merit who condemns others based on what he reads.

  • @mduduzindlovu5196

    @mduduzindlovu5196

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Patrick-vh5nr Mugabe could have later failed but during the war, every black person was supporting him, and Nkomo, the Rhodesian army was evil and barbaric. They occupied Zimbabwe and brutalised innocent people, hence a lot of people joined the guerrillas, they actually fuelled the war and when its war you crush your enemy and whoever supports them or else you get crushed. They never thought blacks could rise and defend themselves and that was their downfall. The current situation will one day change but never again shall one oppress another just because of skin colour. Never in Zimbabwe.

  • @Christian.Knight

    @Christian.Knight

    4 жыл бұрын

    mduduzi ndlovu - What a load of shit. Blacks in Rhodesia were just fine, in fact, they had the highest standard of living in all Africa, good schools, good hospitals, good infra structure, and a prosperous economy, until the western world betrayed Rhodesia, they perceived them as a rising power, a threat they had to get rid of; and they were agitated by communists, playing on black supremacy, racism, hatred, and envy of their fellow Rhodesian white man, not patriotism or facts. Its the same tribalist behavior everywhere, they never tried to have a multi ethnic and just society in Rhodesia because despite being of different tribes, language and nationalities, they were majority and blacks see ALL blacks as kindred. It was all about usurping a modern wealthy nation they did not build, but but could have been part of and could have enjoyed the benefits of it. Whats funny is, wherever they are minority elsewhere in the world, they push for "diversity" and constantly call everyone "racists and supremacists" and feel like they are special, justified, and entitled to rob you of your goods, your rights and your life. By their fruits you shall know them: look at what Rhodesia was and what Zimbabwe now is, look at every place blacks are majority, they are destroyers of civilization not builders. For a real Wakanda, check out Haiti.

  • @johnburnett5377

    @johnburnett5377

    4 жыл бұрын

    Naive dogooder, like all the rest.

  • @sirhakonik6071
    @sirhakonik60712 жыл бұрын

    Britain is my second favourite country, being second to the country of my birth. But here, the British media are trying to prove themselves, that they have chosen right by supporting the terrs. Unfortunately, personally I know no mistakes that could be called "right". Rest in Peace Rhodesia

  • @moteague
    @moteague3 жыл бұрын

    The Holy man has compassion and is a true Christian.

  • @stephen2000306
    @stephen20003067 жыл бұрын

    I think there is something very special about Zimbabwe. I can see why whites very much wanted to make that place their permanent home. It just looks like a garden of eden, very cozy. A paradise.

  • @leonardmashala9178

    @leonardmashala9178

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dude ! The landscapes, game reserves , mountains, waterfalls and rivers in that country are so beautiful. The White man thought he could have all that for himself. It was like a paradise for few White minority, descendants of colonialists. Many of these devils are so heartbroken that they lost the land , thanks to Mugabe who could see through their bullshit !

  • @leonardmashala9178

    @leonardmashala9178

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hold on, how do you give something that was never yours to begin with? Haha White mentality is laughable !

  • @persuadesvosve166

    @persuadesvosve166

    6 жыл бұрын

    amen to that

  • @persuadesvosve166

    @persuadesvosve166

    6 жыл бұрын

    vlad its ur imagination.. nd ur exageration actual we doing good

  • @colonelcrossfire8268

    @colonelcrossfire8268

    6 жыл бұрын

    It was an actual country with infrastructure and a standard of living. Boy have times changed.

  • @christopherjorge9117
    @christopherjorge91177 жыл бұрын

    Why can't man ever have a peaceful resolution? Rhodesia could have been a shining beacon in Africa for prosperity yet it turned into Zimbabwe and we all know how that turned out...

  • @clivemakamure2063

    @clivemakamure2063

    6 жыл бұрын

    don't say what you don't know

  • @sandygrungerson1177

    @sandygrungerson1177

    6 жыл бұрын

    It was NOT "Blacks vs Whites", it was Bolshevist revolutionary thugs using race to justify their coup of a prosperous country....the population supporting the Marxists soon found out that Mugabe was a truly cruel dictator.

  • @roccaboy1

    @roccaboy1

    6 жыл бұрын

    its better to starve in zimbabwe than to be oppressed by the white minority in rhodesia

  • @sandygrungerson1177

    @sandygrungerson1177

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's better to both starve AND be oppressed by the black minority thugs in power, you mean. Because in Africa, 'better' actually means 'worse', it's a cultural thing, you wouldnt understand.

  • @sandygrungerson1177

    @sandygrungerson1177

    6 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4xtu6aOpMqeftI.html

  • @neeltheother2342
    @neeltheother23422 жыл бұрын

    What a time it's been With so few friends to turn to What a time it's been When all we did seemed wrong We're trying to put things right But the battle still goes on What a time, what a time it's been - Clem Tholet

  • @londonbowcat1

    @londonbowcat1

    Жыл бұрын

    15:00 behind barbed wire to protect

  • @mikesmart4917
    @mikesmart49173 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see Zimbabwe is doing do well these days!

  • @cantsneedgaming4591

    @cantsneedgaming4591

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah africa in general IS DOING GREAT

  • @CHrisG-ol3ei

    @CHrisG-ol3ei

    2 жыл бұрын

    @ mike smart , yes doing so well that they are making more wheel barrows to carry all those trillion dollar notes to get bread from the shops.

  • @mikesmart4917

    @mikesmart4917

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CHrisG-ol3ei 🤣 Although it's tragic 😥 really.

  • @trivedymukuze9970

    @trivedymukuze9970

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which Zimbabwe are you talking about

  • @truthasareligion9472

    @truthasareligion9472

    Жыл бұрын

    I loved watching these white people cry about having to leave their homes. and im white.

  • @kaiseradolphushanshohenzol4064
    @kaiseradolphushanshohenzol40644 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia: *turns to Zimbabwe* Geography now: we will go through alphabetical order Zimbabwe: *damn you Mugabe*

  • @terrehautehouse
    @terrehautehouse4 жыл бұрын

    Well how did that Zimbabwe thing work out??

  • @moedoe188

    @moedoe188

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aren’t you a Jew?

  • @SymphonyBrahms

    @SymphonyBrahms

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moedoe188 Aren't you a bigot?

  • @drengr811
    @drengr8119 ай бұрын

    Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again. God bless Rhodesia.

  • @ninny65
    @ninny652 жыл бұрын

    Rhodesia had tribal reservations and allowed native land purchases, Rhodesia in policy was exactly the same as the USA in the Jim Crow era and instead of allowing sanctions to be lifted and the bush war to end, the UN isolated Rhodesia. The fact that the white population who were born there felt like they had to leave because of an invasion and rampant immigration from an invading force (which is against the geneva convention under genocide)

  • @ambessaseway5594

    @ambessaseway5594

    2 жыл бұрын

    Majority wasn't even born there they were British Working Class Immigrants that wanted uplift their lifestyle by black servants and South Africans Immigrants

  • @ambessaseway5594

    @ambessaseway5594

    3 ай бұрын

    @whatsMyNameAgainAgain dummy Matabeleland was a sparsely populated peacful area in the 1800 with less than 500tausend people size of California similar to Botswana, Zimbabwe is now since 2 years self sufficient again with food production and has record high economic growth because of Gold/Lithium/diamonds production. Botswana/Zambia/Malawi/Tanzania/Kenya never had a Civil War the last conflict on their soil was the brutal British invasion do some research

  • @E-D-E2704
    @E-D-E27045 жыл бұрын

    goodbye rhodesia ....goodbye economy !!!

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    Goodbye oppressive white people.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Samwisegamgee The Brave : Er, Zim isn't a Communist country. Go and have a look some time.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Samwisegamgee The Brave : ZANU aren't Communist. They have taken part in elections for decades now.

  • @shibuya3185

    @shibuya3185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Samwisegamgee The Brave : The 1980 elections were certified as free and fair by the UN and others. Zim is not a one party state. The parliament has a number of political parties taking part.

  • @aitorherrera5937

    @aitorherrera5937

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Samwisegamgee The Brave ah yes, the world is controlled by communists, very educated argument

  • @markvick6138
    @markvick61384 жыл бұрын

    same old left wing press , what a great place it become

  • @larcen6206

    @larcen6206

    2 жыл бұрын

    They still called them "Terrorists" instead of "Rebels" so stop crying

  • @mac-strobot7655

    @mac-strobot7655

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@larcen6206 if you watched the docu fully you’d know he uses the word terrorists because of a government agent that is keeping watch on what he says

  • @davidwell686
    @davidwell68611 ай бұрын

    40 years on can we have an update on black rule? How did it work out?

  • @teddymwangi

    @teddymwangi

    11 ай бұрын

    they are free not slave's

  • @davidwell686

    @davidwell686

    11 ай бұрын

    @@teddymwangi They are just slaves to new group of elites. Same game, new name.

  • @ancupola1994
    @ancupola199411 ай бұрын

    England is heading the same way as Zimbabwe! Given mass immigration and rampant corruption the UK is fast turning into a cesspit

  • @jabubrian1824
    @jabubrian18244 жыл бұрын

    Whoever wrote those subtitles was definitely high on something

  • @sheikh745

    @sheikh745

    4 жыл бұрын

    Too Kweek Jay very high 😂

  • @Unfoldedwarrior
    @Unfoldedwarrior7 жыл бұрын

    As a zimbabwean its hard to watch this.. i was born 7yrs later

  • @Gordons1888

    @Gordons1888

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's a shame, if only you were born earlier

  • @exposingracisminamerica8042

    @exposingracisminamerica8042

    4 жыл бұрын

    Better be poor and free then live under a smelly pig...

  • @Gordons1888

    @Gordons1888

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@exposingracisminamerica8042 yes, except the Zimbabweans aren't free at all

  • @Catstro

    @Catstro

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@exposingracisminamerica8042 A Zimbabwean 100 trillion dollar note is worth U.S 40 cents. Imagine thinking malnutrition and poverty is a better alternative than having to deal with someone's negative opinion.

  • @imhatepie

    @imhatepie

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@exposingracisminamerica8042 Really? How much experience do you have with starvation?

  • @deplorabledave1048
    @deplorabledave10482 жыл бұрын

    "Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of natural resources and misappropriation of revenues and aid monies contribute to an impression of a continent beyond hope."

  • @ayodejiolowokere1076

    @ayodejiolowokere1076

    Жыл бұрын

    You know nothing about Africa.

  • @just_one_opinion

    @just_one_opinion

    10 ай бұрын

    Its the people of that continent...wicked evil people get you these kinds of results.

  • @thefamousdjx
    @thefamousdjx2 жыл бұрын

    Insightful thanks for sharing

  • @gravygraves5112
    @gravygraves51124 жыл бұрын

    He said he used "terrorist" instead of the neutral term "guerrilla" at about 9:25 like it was wrong for him to do so. Dude, they forced what they considered their own people out of their own town, that's terrorism.

  • @gravygraves5112

    @gravygraves5112

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was commenting at the time on how I thought it ridiculous he would refer to the ZANU/ZIPRA as the neutral term "guerrillas" instead of "terrorists" since they acted far more as terrorists. I'm not sure what foreigners at the time would be offended by calling them what they are aside from supporters of communism, but hey, that's how it played out.

  • @mikicerise6250

    @mikicerise6250

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's relevant to the viewer to know he was being forced to say it by government minders.

  • @mvail313
    @mvail3134 жыл бұрын

    There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

  • @pgstdb
    @pgstdb3 жыл бұрын

    The South Africans are belatedly confronting the same fate

  • @joeshoko9048
    @joeshoko90483 жыл бұрын

    This is heart wrenching 😖

  • @Againstdhawa
    @Againstdhawa7 жыл бұрын

    back to square one

  • @unapprovedtruth7116

    @unapprovedtruth7116

    6 жыл бұрын

    Back to ground zero

  • @692ALBANNACH

    @692ALBANNACH

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just like the KM going back to year zero!

  • @user-jr2ue9nu6y

    @user-jr2ue9nu6y

    5 жыл бұрын

    The thinking is square 1 is what is actually wanted. We forcing Square ones to like running water and vehicles. Aeroplanes. Electricity when they been nomadic hunter gatherers.

  • @dudeman5234

    @dudeman5234

    5 жыл бұрын

    Max Salusky ,black Africans stand up with great pride

  • @sevenscounty409

    @sevenscounty409

    5 жыл бұрын

    dude man we don't have tym for ignorant neonazis who still believe nonsense like eugenics and white privilege

  • @SuperOldShows
    @SuperOldShows6 жыл бұрын

    So sad, for both the black and white people of Rhodesia

  • @vladanlausevic1733

    @vladanlausevic1733

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is really the case :/

  • @sakurakou2009

    @sakurakou2009

    2 жыл бұрын

    their is no white people of africa they are all outsiders

  • @johnburman966
    @johnburman9663 жыл бұрын

    The "victim" and "rescuer" game is being played out in Britain and USA now. History is being rewritten with racism as main theme. The victims are never responsible for their fate, its always someone else keeping them down.

  • @jaybartgis5148
    @jaybartgis5148 Жыл бұрын

    What america is going to look like in 70 years

  • @BonVoyage861

    @BonVoyage861

    Ай бұрын

    More like Brazil and I would say 50 years.

  • @silentguy5875
    @silentguy58755 жыл бұрын

    Looks like reporters have always been against decency.

  • @houstonhelicoptertours1006

    @houstonhelicoptertours1006

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can't trust the press. Enemy of the people.

  • @vincere_

    @vincere_

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Can't trust the government either. Especially when they force 'government handlers' upon foreign journalists.

  • @everythingviral972

    @everythingviral972

    3 жыл бұрын

    This guy was so incredibly mild, and well balanced that I am dumbfounded at this comment. It was right down the middle, it's you who are tainted. Another racist.

  • @silentguy5875

    @silentguy5875

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@everythingviral972 You don't know what the middle is.

  • @funDAYsmiling
    @funDAYsmiling4 жыл бұрын

    My maternal Grandmother’s family came from Rhodesia. It’s a hell hole now. Went to high school with a bunch of other Dutch South Africans in South Florida.

  • @agbokad5k71

    @agbokad5k71

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your opinion of Zim today doesn't matter. They got their land. And they gonna be alright.

  • @atlas5653

    @atlas5653

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@agbokad5k71 China says hello

  • @adrianjackson2696
    @adrianjackson26963 жыл бұрын

    In 1987 three Zimbabwe dollars was worth one Aussie dollar but the inflation is horrendous now. I was there at that time for a few week as a tourist.

  • @jacomuller9197
    @jacomuller91972 жыл бұрын

    5:43 Marks the reason why there was a war to even begin with. They might've called themselves Rhodesians but they were British by behaviour.

  • @desephir7623
    @desephir76235 жыл бұрын

    That's what they get for killing the best nation on earth, damn Shona.

  • @RetroGod1982
    @RetroGod19824 жыл бұрын

    Little did they know the nightmare that lay ahead with Mugabe and ZANU-PF. Short of Rhodesia never existing as a colony, there was only one real moderate solution that could have avoided war prior to UDI or ended it prior to Mugabe’s power grab in 1980 if recognised by the West. Power sharing in 1979 between Smith and Abel Muzorewa would have been a more palatable solution for saving Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and promoting better racial cohesion and harmony; as well as better cooperation with their neighbours under a recognised newly formed government. Mugabe failed to provide any of those things throughout his autocratic rule and the country remained economically and socially fractured with inequality still evident among the very people he claimed to represent. A political merging of the old and new would have allowed for stability, a voice for all citizens and a certainty of their place and role in society for a new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. The international community should have approved the changes made to accommodate a moderate government that would have facilitated a peaceful transition to majority rule on terms not harmful to settlers. Declaring the 1979 election illegal and recognising Marxist militant factions as a legitimate political voice for the future affairs of the country had sealed its fate. Amnesty should not have been granted to guerrilla forces who clearly intimidated and swayed votes throughout the country against moderate candidates in 1980. The initial 1979 election may not have been as representative of the people as was desired but would have acted as a cornerstone for sweeping changes throughout the decade. Black majority rule and freedom from a racist system was inevitable, even under a Smith government if it had survived, as it would have modernised in line with a post-colonial world and re-evaluated its wider role to end alienation and isolation under sanctions. Marxist forces applied pressure, but changes came from sanctions and the desire for legitimacy and recognition. Efforts were eventually made but it came too little and too late. The power shift was too swift for a country that was ill prepared for an imperial decoupling after years of civil war. The departure may have seemed like a smooth transition but the economic decline after years of sanctions, poor education and a skills shortage would hit Zimbabwe hard. The steady deterioration was a direct result of Mugabe's irresponsible and illogical policies that quickly led to a crisis. Interracial harmony never existed even after Mugabe came to power and he would leverage support for farm seizures to deflect from his own failings. Eventually the newly independent state's colonial infrastructure would be largely ruined through neglect. There will be no realistic recovery after Zimbabwe's inability to maintain and rehabilitate the existing infrastructure since the country became immersed in economic and political turmoil in the 1990's. There is no new investment and existing services are inefficient, costly, and unreliable. Defiant and unapologetic, Mugabe had crafted an image that cannot be separated from Zimbabwe itself. As all attempts to power share came too late, added with pressure from radical Marxist-Leninist militants and economic sanctions, then the most favourable option with hindsight would have been to argue the case with Britain over the fate of settlers without declaring UDI. The UK ignored the issue of a smooth phased transition. Unlike other colonies, Rhodesia had a longstanding and permanent white population who were expected to have no role in the future of a land that they called their home. Forced repatriation was not an option considering that most settlers had been born there over several generations. The UK had considered nothing but its own interests in washing its hands of the former colony, and as usual British mismanagement caused terrible repercussions by leaving no other option for the settlers other than UDI. Decolonisation was not possible when there was an old, settled and permanent colonist population that would effectively be ignored and left behind. Mediation, integration and a power sharing coalition was required before the UK relinquished her burden and her permanent footprint it left behind with its imperial children. Britain needed to invest in the future of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia by maintaining an agreed presence there during the 1960's to facilitate a peaceful and equal coexistence between its peoples, and to build a new diplomatic relationship based on historic ties and commonwealth membership for trade; something that can no longer exist within present day Zimbabwe. There was no responsible transition on both occasions. The issue with the illegally declared Smith government of the early 1960's was its racist policies that prevented equality among the Black and White population. If Smith had taken a more forward-thinking approach to ensure that the country, its industry and the future of white settlers was not in question, then he would have realised that Rhodesia couldn't survive without Black integration and equality. Adopting an inclusive nationalist idea would have nurtured a new identity were everyone worked towards the same goals to strengthen an inclusive nation and to support the interests of the people regardless of race or culture. The balance of power had to be on an equal footing if it was ever to survive from the onset of decolonisation. For the UK to expect a new Zimbabwe to succeed without support was deplorable. Smith’s fear that the country's infrastructure would collapse under an inexperienced black government was understandable, and no preparations had been made to educate and introduce a skilled black workforce into specialist areas where none existed. The UK attempted a hasty retreat as soon as it could and its actions caused fear and anger at how irresponsible it was behaving among the people who felt betrayed and irrelevant, like a living relic of the past from a country that no longer wanted them. The UK hadn't fully understood the implications of wrenching the colonies away from British administration and India was a chilling example of what could go wrong. I feel that it was the UK's moral duty to attempt to maintain some sort of order and a phased plan to enable Zimbabwe to succeed. Mugabe has raped Zimbabwe of its potential and discarded it for his own personal gain. I feel that the UK has a lot to answer for and that decolonisation couldn't have been fully achieved in the time scale that it had expected. It should have listened and worked with both parties to enable a responsible transition through a power sharing agreement. Mugabe was the result of a failure to communicate and understand the implications during decolonisation.

  • @tackies100

    @tackies100

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said. Very well said. Thanks.

  • @tylerperkinson1677

    @tylerperkinson1677

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably the best comment in the comments section.

  • @davidturcotte5677

    @davidturcotte5677

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the concise history lesson. What a waste of such a beautiful country.

  • @julieellis277

    @julieellis277

    Жыл бұрын

    I lived in Zimbabwe following its independence and what you say is spot on. Thank you for highlighting all of this.

  • @dutoitvandyk2531
    @dutoitvandyk25313 жыл бұрын

    I supply anybody who needs medicine with medicine, that is a respectable man if I've ever seen one

  • @mikegoldwater
    @mikegoldwater Жыл бұрын

    Ian Smith had more guts than many people 🥰🥰😇😇😇

  • @cordellvandermerwe536
    @cordellvandermerwe5367 жыл бұрын

    God bless that country of my birth. It would have lived there longer before the terrorists ran us out.

  • @TexasLeverGunner

    @TexasLeverGunner

    7 жыл бұрын

    Shiiiiiiieeeetttt

  • @kukudotatana7731

    @kukudotatana7731

    7 жыл бұрын

    By the way i am living in your former farm house built on the land that you shamelessly stole from my great grandfather. What goes around comes around.

  • @MOOSEDOWNUNDER

    @MOOSEDOWNUNDER

    7 жыл бұрын

    and i bet its a shit hole eh bong?

  • @ccaammiinniiito2

    @ccaammiinniiito2

    7 жыл бұрын

    Who ran you out before then?

  • @timeismoney6918

    @timeismoney6918

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's because of people like you and your ilk that Southern Africa is shambles... Yeah it was good in your day but only for white people. If they are terrorists, you are Hitler... PS this a white guy saying this

  • @cdemafa
    @cdemafa7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the documentary such stuff is hard to come by on internet , if u have some more please post.

  • @roanreeddaily3611
    @roanreeddaily36113 жыл бұрын

    So heartwarming to watch this then sit back and reflect on what a beacon of democracy this country has become. People are free to say whatever they want or to demonstrate openly against corruption, ( if there was any to demonstrate against...). Unemployment is a thing of the past, wealth and prosperity are for everyone. What a great job the ruling party has done and all accomplished without even the slightest "moment of madness".

  • @MusikCassette

    @MusikCassette

    2 жыл бұрын

    The shortcomings of Zimbabwe does not lessen the crimes of Rhodesia. Your sarcasm here is quite disgusting.

  • @tactiti0n

    @tactiti0n

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MusikCassette The shortcomings of Zimbabwe are innumerable. Its present is squalor. Its past, one of prosperity and opportunity far greater and grander than any of the cockamamie crimes you believe Rhodesia and its people of committing. That which you were taught is the disgusting part.

  • @MusikCassette

    @MusikCassette

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tactiti0n you mean the prosperity of a small minoriy with the opportunity to exploit Millions? Why do you even think it was called Rhodesia?

  • @MusikCassette

    @MusikCassette

    2 жыл бұрын

    @B0omer96 false symetry.

  • @Rose-g

    @Rose-g

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tactiti0n it was opportunity while segregating one particular race , there are many atrocities against our people committed during that time , and it’s never reported . If we mess up let us mess up , but don’t make it look like Europe was doing a great job by the Africans . It really hurts to hear the ignorance of priveledge when oppression and mistreatment does not turn it well for them . Even after independence the country was never ours in so many ways ,

  • @Briselance
    @Briselance2 жыл бұрын

    12:05 Had Rhodesia taken equal care of all its nationals, whites and blacks and others alike, and given them equal consideration and opportunities, Rhodesia would have had better chances. Had Rhodesia also waged an effective propaganda war, it would be still existent today.

  • @Vuntermonkey

    @Vuntermonkey

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree propaganda is necessary, looking at the history of the world. Looking at the history of the world, I sadly don't see the other half of your argument has any evidence.

  • @ayodejiolowokere1076

    @ayodejiolowokere1076

    Жыл бұрын

    What could they possibly have said? What lies could they have told that they didn't?