Geez what happened with my beloved Zimbabwe? Its pretty astounding that we have actually gone backwards in terms of development - no zesa, potholed roads galore, our wages don't keep up with the cost of living, crime is rife, unemployment is exceedingly high, literacy rates have plummeted, people are starving, Healthcare is a disaster, highest inflation in the world, local industry is in a deplorable state, we pay more for fuel than Zambia (even though their fuel has to travel THROUGH Zimbabwe)...I shed a tear for all the lost potential of this beautiful country & her wonderful people.
@@MoManny The warning is, if you don't successfully defend your culture and way of life, you could end up without a home or country that you recognize.
They had the second highest wage in Africa.I travelled by train from Cape Town through Botswana to Salisbury and then the Victoria Falls by train twice.Now it's a mess so sad😢
Very interesting to watch. The achievements and progress in the 75 years before this footage was filmed is nothing short of staggering. The achievements, or lack of, in the 44 years since Zimbabwean independence are staggering for all the wrong reasons. The last state-run maternity ward built in what is now Harare was opened by the Rhodesians in 1977 for example, despite the country being at war.
@@KorpusV6 That war "in the bush" cost a considerable amount of money and manpower. Despite it, Rhodesia was building medical facilities and running the health and education systems.
Its what we call the Nimrod Curse....No sub-Saharan country progresed after they got independence ....they actually became worse n proved they cant govern themselves....After independence they actually became worse...the only exemption from the rule Botswana
@@ANSELMGELINGARmy my my... some ppl do have guts. according to u they can't govern themselves.. 🤔 some just wish that they had these ORIGINAL PPL still in bondage.... There's no curse of nimrod nor ham.; it was CANAAN - his son for stealing his uncle's land, breaking that vow made with his grandfather Noach. It's allllll theirs NOT OTHERS.
Britain's weakness and America's lack of support. From the moment the UK became what it became and the US due to its domestic issues and the Cold War adapted a hostile attitude toward the Rhodesian regime, it was game over.
Rhodesia was hundreds of thousands of colonists living in a country with millions of people. I think they were acutely aware of their precarious position.
this old african leaders are putting africans to shame,until young educated africans takeover we will seem like savages but we r not .we have young africans who can put a better show economically
Let's hope not. With COVID Australia sank into an authoritarian state. I know what you mean though. A strong free country with a thriving economy. They would be more racially equal and integrated.
@@Spillers72entire west is going the same direction. White race prospered because they believed in god now they have turned their back on god and what you see now is the curse from god
They forgot to mention "graphite"...RSR had the onliest Graphit Mine in Africa (Rho-German Graphite Mine, Karoi or Lynx Mine)...strategical important for South Africa (A-Bomb). Worked there as Security Officer 1978...500 Rh$/month. Meikles Hotel and Monomapata charged 15 Rh$ a night...Forces Discount 7,50
True... There must've been at least ten better ways for all citizens to bring everybody to their full potential and a more representative form of governance. There was discrimination, but at the same time, people forget there were only vast tracts of bush with zero infrastructure and there are well-documented old photographs to prove it. The fact is continuous tribal wars meant nobody even wanted to progress before the British settlers arrived and established systems which effectively stopped the fighting and opened the way for development.. What kind of equality did the world expect in so short a time? It's like nobody gave it much thought.
.....and today all tarred roads are back to dirt roads..... minimal electricity......empty shelves in the few remaining groceries stores....... And all thanks to black majority rule. Awesome!
If an English speaking person from Europe or America wanted to pick a retirement destination then Zimbabwe actually is pretty good in many ways. The climate is perfect. The physical landscape is beautiful. The cost of living is low. The only downside is the poverty and political instability are right up there with the likes of Venezuela and Iran. Zimbabwe is not Botswana.
A lot of them live in Borrowdale, a suburban neighbourhood in North Harare. Prosperous place with amazing houses. Quite safe too. They go to Sam Levy Village for shopping, have security and pay in USD.
If Rodesia had survived it would have been different today. They would have improved life for both races and integrated by now. The ones fighting against Rodesia were Marxist and ran it into the ground.
To the commenters lamenting the demise of white-minority rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, precisely how would such a system have been able to sustain itself? Systems of minority rule, historically, have occasionally been sustainable - IF the ruling minority dominates the economy & holds all levers of political power, IF it is brutal enough to resort to violent repression & police-state tactics, IF it is supported by an outside power, & IF it is sufficiently numerous in population. The first 2 conditions definitely applied. The 3rd condition existed for while more-or-less, but slowly eroded away. Rhodesia burned bridges with the U.K. with its unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. The trade embargo never worked so long as South Africa & the Portuguese colonies refused to honor it. But in 1975 Portugal granted independence to Angola & Mozambique under Marxist governments who cut off Rhodesia's access to seaports & granted safe haven to guerrilla armies fighting the Smith regime. The U.S.A. never supported the Ian Smith's regime (though Nixon & Kissinger were both sympathetic to it). So that left Apartheid South Africa as Rhodesia's only friend in the world. And even its leadership understood that the status quo was untenable long-term. Because the 5th condition - sufficient numbers - never existed in Rhodesia. The white population of 250,000 (a minority of 4%!) simply wasn't going to be able to rule, dominate & deny the basic rights of citizenship to 6 million black Africans forever. Eventually even Ian Smith came to accept this reality.
As an alternative history for the evolution of Rhodesia during the 20th, if the African population had grown slightly slower. By 1960, the African population had been approximately growing at a rate of 3% since 1900. If instead the population growth rate had been 1.5% per year, how different would the politics of the 1960s onwards have been? Rather than the population having 220,000 Europeans and 3.6 million Africans in 1962, there would have been 220,000 Europeans and 1.4 million Africans. The Europeans would have still been a small minority, but not as small as they were, being 13.6% of the population rather than 5.8%. Though its worth remembering that the European proportion was much larger in the Western cities. In the towns and cities Europeans represented 25% of the population, and in this hypothetical alternative history, the Europeans would have 45% of the urban population. Would UDI in 1965 have still happened? How would this have changed the political dynamics within Rhodesian and with the British government. If UDI still happened in 1965, what would the strategic situation of Rhodesia have been by the late 1970s. By 1977 there were 280,000 Europeans, but the African population had grown 6.5 million, with Europeans now only 4.1% of the population and 18% of the urban population. The alternative demographics by 1977 would have resulted in an African population of 2 million, so the Europeans would have still shrunk as a proportion compared with 1962 and have been 12.2%. Though it is possible that a stronger European position within Rhodesia would have encouraged slightly more Europeans to have migrated there. Would a smaller overall African population have just delayed the final victory of ZANU-PF, would the Rhodesians have simply held out until the late 1980s and then capitulated? Or when the Lancaster house agreements were signed, would the following elections, included a larger European representation? In 1980 the Europeans were given 20 seats in the parliament, which was much larger than their proportion of the population, but Mugabwe dominated the 80 African seats, scoring 57. Anyway, its worth considering.
@@perlindqvist3003 Who defines decent? I mean, the people in rain forest of the Amazon don't us. They walk completely--not just half -- but completely naked. They are not Negroid either.
People of all races benefited to some extent or other from the existence of Rhodesia, but the narrator's comment that "merit and merit alone" was the criteria by which people were judged is not correct. For instance, non-whites could not join the Rhodesian Light Infantry because it was a whites only regiment, and that was also true of the SAS and (until the late 1970s) of the Rhodesia Regiment. Moreover, whites who joined the police automatically had higher rank than black members of the BSAP and non-white university graduates were not free to live wherever they could afford because of segregatory legislation.
The Selous Scouts were remarkably free from any mention of skin colour, and the RAR was there for black soldiers. By the late 1970s Territorial units were often mixed. You wouldn't expect a white to join the RAR as a squaddie, would you? These things don't happen over-night. Too late now anyway.
So much potential for Everyone, thrown away for what? What was said in the clip is sadly true, and we have decades of evidence... 'Far from being his oppressor, the European is the African's best hope for the future'
Demographics is destiny. If they had a million people in Rhodesia in 1980, they'd still be around. They should have encouraged heavy European immigration after WW1 and WW2
A vanished world, such a shame. Sadly Britain is itself now also disappearing. When I was growing up, I always assumed that the future meant progress to a higher level - now I realise that often, the opposite is true.
@ЭнрикеМагальяйнш uneducated people, of any color, are not fit to govern. same could be said for the majority of people who live in trailer parks in north america, however the average trailer park iq is probably substanially higher than the mid-40's you find in some african countries with no established educational and law abiding framework.
It was indeed a beautiful country, no doubt about that. It is also hard to overlook the inequitable distribution of resources. Whatever race you are if u see this video just try to imagine who u would be if u had lived at that time. Are u the guy driving the drop top or the dude ploughin the fields?
It worked because it was only meant for a minority class, with the majority excluded.Stuck right there in the African reserves,no access to electricity & running water.schools far apart.I walked almost 10-15km to get to school bare foot 👣👣.I'm not saying the present company running things is doing great.
So who did belong to before you came from the North and colonised it. Grow up ' its the way of world. everyone colonised each other if we didn't you would be still whitch 18:43 sniffing
Rhodesia under UDI and the isolation that followed... Even though none of that is mentioned here in this touristy video. Interesting to see what the old country would have been like if I can bring myself to stomach the casual contempt for the natives from the narrator. I note that they speak of a lot of industry and mechanisation, would have been interesting to see the country only after a few years of international isolation... how they would have sourced the needed parts? 🔧 Especially once the war started.
I agree with all of these points. Especially about the narrator, the 50s-60s where the worst when it comes to things like that. I'm looking at you Africa Addio, still a great movie nonetheless.
@@NotraceOfRay Yeah, I have seen "Africa Addio" and I know the disdainful tone of which you speak of. With regard to Rhodesia, when Mozambique became independent and the portuguese left, they were extremely dependent on old apartheid south africa almost to the state of being a proxy, once the Afrikaners turned on them in the late 1970s, Ian Smith's government was practically done.
@@l-kin3480 History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016 In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold War conflict fought along racial lines. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger soon committed to defusing the situation by encouraging an end to white rule in both Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and South-West Africa-Namibia. But he needed the help of South Africa’s apartheid regime to make it happen. For his part, John Vorster gambled that cooperating with the American plan would earn his regime the goodwill needed to survive the recent Soweto upheaval, as well as the breathing space needed to re-establish control in the townships.
Well it's certainly beautiful. But the beautiful developments were achieved on the backs of poor indigenous people, exploited, discriminated and deliberately excluded from the benefits of this development. It simply could not stand.
sorry to say that but the indigenous people were driven out of the country by other blacks before Cecil Rhodes came. So technically it was a country of immigrants black and white.
Holy shit, this is right out of Monty Python: the exaggerated RP accent, the canned music, the assumption of British superiority... 🤣 The most Pythonesque touch though is the horde of colonial nostalgists looking at propaganda like this saying "Gee, things sure were better under white rule, herpty-derp!"
Even more insulting because the British betrayed its own people and actively forced Zimbabwe into existence. Must have been people like you. Your comment is the height of British superiority. Always looking down on our people.
@@valmarsiglia I'm not really interested in what a gene denying boomer has to say, most of the youth are no longer buying what you say. Your mentality is also why British backstabbed Rhodesian and its own people, all for Africans who do not like you.
Geez what happened with my beloved Zimbabwe? Its pretty astounding that we have actually gone backwards in terms of development - no zesa, potholed roads galore, our wages don't keep up with the cost of living, crime is rife, unemployment is exceedingly high, literacy rates have plummeted, people are starving, Healthcare is a disaster, highest inflation in the world, local industry is in a deplorable state, we pay more for fuel than Zambia (even though their fuel has to travel THROUGH Zimbabwe)...I shed a tear for all the lost potential of this beautiful country & her wonderful people.
It's a painful state of affairs. The lost potential is off the scale.
Another gem of successful African democracy. @@tigershoot
A failed State !
No one wants to invest in a kleptocracy.
Has anyone ever done a study of why this happened to a resource rich place? A truthful, candid and factual study.
This history should serve as a giant warning to the West.
Paris, London & Rome will all be destroyed by immigration from Africa and the Middle East.
None are so blind as those who don’t want to see.
Terribly terribly sad.
What is the warning?
Don't try to steal other people's countries? Yeah, they should be warned.
@@MoManny The warning is, if you don't successfully defend your culture and way of life, you could end up without a home or country that you recognize.
They had the second highest wage in Africa.I travelled by train from Cape Town through Botswana to Salisbury and then the Victoria Falls by train twice.Now it's a mess so sad😢
"Highest wage" for whom? A gardenboy?
Very interesting to watch. The achievements and progress in the 75 years before this footage was filmed is nothing short of staggering. The achievements, or lack of, in the 44 years since Zimbabwean independence are staggering for all the wrong reasons. The last state-run maternity ward built in what is now Harare was opened by the Rhodesians in 1977 for example, despite the country being at war.
...in the bush
@@KorpusV6 That war "in the bush" cost a considerable amount of money and manpower. Despite it, Rhodesia was building medical facilities and running the health and education systems.
Its what we call the Nimrod Curse....No sub-Saharan country progresed after they got independence ....they actually became worse n proved they cant govern themselves....After independence they actually became worse...the only exemption from the rule Botswana
@@ANSELMGELINGARmy my my... some ppl do have guts. according to u they can't govern themselves.. 🤔 some just wish that they had these ORIGINAL PPL still in bondage.... There's no curse of nimrod nor ham.; it was CANAAN - his son for stealing his uncle's land, breaking that vow made with his grandfather Noach. It's allllll theirs NOT OTHERS.
Where is the love in your heart? Don't die in this hateful condition.
How can my country have vanished! Parents born there in 1920’s and siblings 1940’s. My home…..gone.
Beyond tragic 😢
Tragic indeed Ma'am.
Britain's weakness and America's lack of support. From the moment the UK became what it became and the US due to its domestic issues and the Cold War adapted a hostile attitude toward the Rhodesian regime, it was game over.
More british than britain her self
@@rickybobby5621 say that again ..
@@colinstickland3130 That was the common description of Rhodesia at the time.
Britain is following her lead. Just look at it now.
Yeah the same british style of oppresing and enslaving local population to build enormous wealth on them.
Worked as well as for the british themselves
It looks like Paradise. I wonder what it looks like now.
now looks like liberia
Now it looks like hell.
Its used to be a land of slaves and masters, now the former slaves are failing to fend for themselves they wish for the time of slavery
Stuffed...
Cooked
Just Like South Africa before the locusts devoured everything.
Rhodesia was Super!
I don't know why I watch these vids. Zimbabwe will never be Rhodesia again:(
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"... 🙁
It will be baby
Rhodesians , south Africans, never imagined they would lose their country, US are you paying attention?
Rhodesia was hundreds of thousands of colonists living in a country with millions of people. I think they were acutely aware of their precarious position.
That luna park didn't change for decades. Remember taking the same rides in the 90s.
😂
And them came Mr Mugabe
this old african leaders are putting africans to shame,until young educated africans takeover we will seem like savages but we r not .we have young africans who can put a better show economically
Beautiful time
Paradise lost
cry about it
Great country was lost, by now it would have become like australia
Let's hope not. With COVID Australia sank into an authoritarian state. I know what you mean though. A strong free country with a thriving economy. They would be more racially equal and integrated.
@@Spillers72entire west is going the same direction. White race prospered because they believed in god now they have turned their back on god and what you see now is the curse from god
..where the natives have no say in the destiny of their country
thanks to the royal bullshit family
@@EdwardDanga-xq3xd as it should be.
We need to lead an expedition to Zimbabwe and take back Rhodesia. Who's with me?
They forgot to mention "graphite"...RSR had the onliest Graphit Mine in Africa (Rho-German Graphite Mine, Karoi or Lynx Mine)...strategical important for South Africa (A-Bomb). Worked there as Security Officer 1978...500 Rh$/month. Meikles Hotel and Monomapata charged 15 Rh$ a night...Forces Discount 7,50
Bet you have some stories brother
@@hrafnofthule5962 Everyone who lived in Rhodesia.......Best Country in the World, ever
@@jurgen7579 I live in western Germany now. S hole.
@@hrafnofthule5962 where?
@@jurgen7579 Duesseldorf
The world was very envious of this Southern African country.They simply had to stick their fingers in the pie and ruin it.
You could argue you wanted independence from UK , how did that end for you ? Lol
They weren't near as envious as they were antiwhite.
True... There must've been at least ten better ways for all citizens to bring everybody to their full potential and a more representative form of governance. There was discrimination, but at the same time, people forget there were only vast tracts of bush with zero infrastructure and there are well-documented old photographs to prove it. The fact is continuous tribal wars meant nobody even wanted to progress before the British settlers arrived and established systems which effectively stopped the fighting and opened the way for development.. What kind of equality did the world expect in so short a time? It's like nobody gave it much thought.
@@brantdanger opposing segregation is anti European?
@@jimmycricket5366no one wanted them there. No asked them there.
Happy memories❤😂😂
.....and today all tarred roads are back to dirt roads..... minimal electricity......empty shelves in the few remaining groceries stores.......
And all thanks to black majority rule. Awesome!
People seriously underestimate the positive aspects of colonialism.
"It is self-sufficient in food"
Did you mean to say "was"?
@@jaycristoval6155 I was quoting for contrast.
@@learnmoreushe3678 👍
If an English speaking person from Europe or America wanted to pick a retirement destination then Zimbabwe actually is pretty good in many ways. The climate is perfect. The physical landscape is beautiful. The cost of living is low. The only downside is the poverty and political instability are right up there with the likes of Venezuela and Iran. Zimbabwe is not Botswana.
A lot of them live in Borrowdale, a suburban neighbourhood in North Harare. Prosperous place with amazing houses. Quite safe too. They go to Sam Levy Village for shopping, have security and pay in USD.
If Rodesia had survived it would have been different today. They would have improved life for both races and integrated by now. The ones fighting against Rodesia were Marxist and ran it into the ground.
We don't want old white people in our country thank you very much
@@ShotsMerkzAllIve been there. Such an oasis
Look no holes intown
Rhodesia was great!
So das. And a Warning for europe. Es ist schon verloren
To the commenters lamenting the demise of white-minority rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, precisely how would such a system have been able to sustain itself? Systems of minority rule, historically, have occasionally been sustainable - IF the ruling minority dominates the economy & holds all levers of political power, IF it is brutal enough to resort to violent repression & police-state tactics, IF it is supported by an outside power, & IF it is sufficiently numerous in population. The first 2 conditions definitely applied. The 3rd condition existed for while more-or-less, but slowly eroded away. Rhodesia burned bridges with the U.K. with its unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. The trade embargo never worked so long as South Africa & the Portuguese colonies refused to honor it. But in 1975 Portugal granted independence to Angola & Mozambique under Marxist governments who cut off Rhodesia's access to seaports & granted safe haven to guerrilla armies fighting the Smith regime. The U.S.A. never supported the Ian Smith's regime (though Nixon & Kissinger were both sympathetic to it). So that left Apartheid South Africa as Rhodesia's only friend in the world. And even its leadership understood that the status quo was untenable long-term. Because the 5th condition - sufficient numbers - never existed in Rhodesia. The white population of 250,000 (a minority of 4%!) simply wasn't going to be able to rule, dominate & deny the basic rights of citizenship to 6 million black Africans forever. Eventually even Ian Smith came to accept this reality.
As an alternative history for the evolution of Rhodesia during the 20th, if the African population had grown slightly slower. By 1960, the African population had been approximately growing at a rate of 3% since 1900. If instead the population growth rate had been 1.5% per year, how different would the politics of the 1960s onwards have been? Rather than the population having 220,000 Europeans and 3.6 million Africans in 1962, there would have been 220,000 Europeans and 1.4 million Africans. The Europeans would have still been a small minority, but not as small as they were, being 13.6% of the population rather than 5.8%. Though its worth remembering that the European proportion was much larger in the Western cities. In the towns and cities Europeans represented 25% of the population, and in this hypothetical alternative history, the Europeans would have 45% of the urban population. Would UDI in 1965 have still happened? How would this have changed the political dynamics within Rhodesian and with the British government. If UDI still happened in 1965, what would the strategic situation of Rhodesia have been by the late 1970s. By 1977 there were 280,000 Europeans, but the African population had grown 6.5 million, with Europeans now only 4.1% of the population and 18% of the urban population. The alternative demographics by 1977 would have resulted in an African population of 2 million, so the Europeans would have still shrunk as a proportion compared with 1962 and have been 12.2%. Though it is possible that a stronger European position within Rhodesia would have encouraged slightly more Europeans to have migrated there.
Would a smaller overall African population have just delayed the final victory of ZANU-PF, would the Rhodesians have simply held out until the late 1980s and then capitulated? Or when the Lancaster house agreements were signed, would the following elections, included a larger European representation? In 1980 the Europeans were given 20 seats in the parliament, which was much larger than their proportion of the population, but Mugabwe dominated the 80 African seats, scoring 57.
Anyway, its worth considering.
South Africa had even bigger share and what?
RHODESIANS NEVER DIE IN 💚🤍💚
yall are exinct
@@eddycarpenter8989
That's a big negative.
I would like living there. Good times, now africa is broken.
Broken?? Africans living the WAY THEY WANT to is broken?? They don't have the same problems with the environment as you have.
They dont want to live decent?
@@perlindqvist3003 Who defines decent? I mean, the people in rain forest of the Amazon don't us. They walk completely--not just half -- but completely naked. They are not Negroid either.
I wonder why it's broken as u say???
Africans want to live like this they said.
3:54: "The opponents of change must move on." Horribly prophetic.
Still the same to this day in the rural regions...
Cecil is STILL spinning in his grave 😕
It’s kinda sad
Black people lived better in Rhodesia Than Zimbabwe
People of all races benefited to some extent or other from the existence of Rhodesia, but the narrator's comment that "merit and merit alone" was the criteria by which people were judged is not correct. For instance, non-whites could not join the Rhodesian Light Infantry because it was a whites only regiment, and that was also true of the SAS and (until the late 1970s) of the Rhodesia Regiment. Moreover, whites who joined the police automatically had higher rank than black members of the BSAP and non-white university graduates were not free to live wherever they could afford because of segregatory legislation.
The Africans had other elite units they could join such as the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian African Rifles.
So what? Why does anything have to be inclusive. Hasn't worked even in Europe
The Selous Scouts were remarkably free from any mention of skin colour, and the RAR was there for black soldiers. By the late 1970s Territorial units were often mixed. You wouldn't expect a white to join the RAR as a squaddie, would you? These things don't happen over-night. Too late now anyway.
So much potential for Everyone, thrown away for what? What was said in the clip is sadly true, and we have decades of evidence... 'Far from being his oppressor, the European is the African's best hope for the future'
ONE OF THE FEW TIMES AP TOLD THE TRUTH
Demographics is destiny. If they had a million people in Rhodesia in 1980, they'd still be around.
They should have encouraged heavy European immigration after WW1 and WW2
A vanished world, such a shame. Sadly Britain is itself now also disappearing. When I was growing up, I always assumed that the future meant progress to a higher level - now I realise that often, the opposite is true.
What a tragedy 😢
Our haven't built anything but destroyed everything.
That's what I call a very faded color film!
Another of Kissinger's evil meddlings, he played a big role in the mess that followed. Shame for what may have been.
The last outpost of the old Kippling Era Empire
google the IQ of sierra leone and start putting the picture together as to what rhodes was saying about civilized men
@ЭнрикеМагальяйнш uneducated people, of any color, are not fit to govern.
same could be said for the majority of people who live in trailer parks in north america, however the average trailer park iq is probably substanially higher than the mid-40's you find in some african countries with no established educational and law abiding framework.
Zimbabwe will be great once again...
Lies
@@akoamoseetave3091 let's wait and see
@@lawrencemhendeThe last white man turned off the lights when he left and they've never been turned on again since.
Dream on.
You got to completely reject racism and Marxism, embrace the free market and freedom for all.
Current population in '24: approx. 17 mil.
Much like Bart Simpson's Libya, Rhodesia was a land of contrasts. 3:50
Was this an Empire movie?
It was indeed a beautiful country, no doubt about that. It is also hard to overlook the inequitable distribution of resources. Whatever race you are if u see this video just try to imagine who u would be if u had lived at that time. Are u the guy driving the drop top or the dude ploughin the fields?
Rhode splans destroyed by Bob and his minions
If you ever volunteered after 1980. Many ex-rhdesians will attacK you for no reason whatsoever. Even if your dream was a Rhodesia before ZIMBABWE.
Without the sanctions and the war transition to majority rule could’ve been peaceful and retained the prosperity the country had. So sad
*This was Rhodesia* there fixed it
These white folks find it hard to let things go at times.
@@capoislamort100to let go of THINGS THAT NEVER BELONGED TO THEM 🦁💥
@@capoislamort100these black folks just can’t accept the truth. Go to Zimbabwe and see the Rhodesia Ruins. Pamberi ne Zimbuggered
@@emancipatedlionm9215doesn’t belong to you either. It’s is Chinese owned now bwaaaahahahahahaha
Too bad they didn't have oil.
That's why America didn't "help" them, I see.
@NotraceOfRay not enough synagogues more like
Look at Israel,a country without oil.
Oil hasn't done anything for Venezuela.... oil causes more problems than it solves.
BEST COUNTRY IN HUMAN HISTORY
It worked because it was only meant for a minority class, with the majority excluded.Stuck right there in the African reserves,no access to electricity & running water.schools far apart.I walked almost 10-15km to get to school bare foot 👣👣.I'm not saying the present company running things is doing great.
Now everyone is equal
@@georgesutter2256 Equally poor
If you find yourself calling Zimbabwe ....Rhodesia, then your brain should be that backwards...what are you trying to insinuate?
Th UK is going the same way.
The colonialists were mucj better than the comrades in governance and economic development.
13:37 👍🏼
VGH...
It's a wasteland now , I can't remember who took power there but the really " improved " it lol
Good reminder of the past but what a condescending narration.
You are saying here that you made it Rhodesia through force of arms, thus you had to loose it the same way.
UNINVITED travellers/occupying things that DID NOT BELONG to them.
@@emancipatedlionm9215only 5% of land was occupied
So who did belong to before you came from the North and colonised it. Grow up ' its the way of world. everyone colonised each other if we didn't you would be still whitch 18:43 sniffing
@emancipatedlionm9215 which map shows you that? Where was your big cities and hospitals? Was there any roads and lights?
@@hennies9509 are u referring to the REAL MAPS THAT WERE HAVE BEEN ALLL ALTERED BY OTHERS?? .
Rhodesia under UDI and the isolation that followed... Even though none of that is mentioned here in this touristy video. Interesting to see what the old country would have been like if I can bring myself to stomach the casual contempt for the natives from the narrator.
I note that they speak of a lot of industry and mechanisation, would have been interesting to see the country only after a few years of international isolation... how they would have sourced the needed parts? 🔧 Especially once the war started.
Do you still live in Zimbabwe?
I agree with all of these points. Especially about the narrator, the 50s-60s where the worst when it comes to things like that.
I'm looking at you Africa Addio, still a great movie nonetheless.
@@NotraceOfRay Yeah, I have seen "Africa Addio" and I know the disdainful tone of which you speak of. With regard to Rhodesia, when Mozambique became independent and the portuguese left, they were extremely dependent on old apartheid south africa almost to the state of being a proxy, once the Afrikaners turned on them in the late 1970s, Ian Smith's government was practically done.
@@carcher3279how did the Afrikaners turn on them?
@@l-kin3480 History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold War conflict fought along racial lines. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger soon committed to defusing the situation by encouraging an end to white rule in both Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and South-West Africa-Namibia. But he needed the help of South Africa’s apartheid regime to make it happen. For his part, John Vorster gambled that cooperating with the American plan would earn his regime the goodwill needed to survive the recent Soweto upheaval, as well as the breathing space needed to re-establish control in the townships.
Well it's certainly beautiful. But the beautiful developments were achieved on the backs of poor indigenous people, exploited, discriminated and deliberately excluded from the benefits of this development. It simply could not stand.
sorry to say that but the indigenous people were driven out of the country by other blacks before Cecil Rhodes came. So technically it was a country of immigrants black and white.
"their discoverer, David Livingston"
I'm pretty sure the locals saw it first
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Rhodesia, the land of opposites.
Desert land😂😂😂
Holy shit, this is right out of Monty Python: the exaggerated RP accent, the canned music, the assumption of British superiority... 🤣 The most Pythonesque touch though is the horde of colonial nostalgists looking at propaganda like this saying "Gee, things sure were better under white rule, herpty-derp!"
Yeah, because its an objective fact. The problem is people who think like you dismisses and undermine European advantage as you speak our language.
Even more insulting because the British betrayed its own people and actively forced Zimbabwe into existence. Must have been people like you. Your comment is the height of British superiority. Always looking down on our people.
I am glad Britain will become muslim
@@fuwa9616 Lol. Britain spends four centuries beating its language into half the world, now you're complaining that people speak it?
@@valmarsiglia I'm not really interested in what a gene denying boomer has to say, most of the youth are no longer buying what you say. Your mentality is also why British backstabbed Rhodesian and its own people, all for Africans who do not like you.
Propaganda has stood the taste of time.😃
Facts on the ground at the time belied the real situation. Subsequent developments have been dizzying and troubling.