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@@jerrymiller9039yes, be sure to tell Trump too he spent much more increased the debt by 50%! Joey's inflation won't show up for at least two years! Welcome to Trump inflation!
@@American-Motors-Corporation reality says otherwise. Trump had the best economic numbers of your life. Then china sent covid around the globe but Trump got the vaccine created. Biden came into office with the vaccine and should have focused on getting the economy up and running again. Instead biden has focused on destroying the American energy industry and other things to ramp up inflation when there was no reason to
Zimbabwe is a perfect example of wasted opportunity and potential in Africa. They had a lot lined up for success but threw it away due to bad political leadership and economic mismanagement. As a African myself (Nigerian) it annoys me when most people only attribute Africa's current problems to "colonialism or racism", effectively removing personal responsibility of us Africans, and ignore more important factors like geography, climate, socioeconomic systems, political unity and leadership. Botswana and Namibia have less arable land and resources compared to Zimbabwe but they have better economies and more stable democracies.
I agree with you there, there is need to take the bull by the horns and be responsible for our own salvation, but in all fairness, we can not downplay the role colonialism has had, its not like colonialism was a great or empowering aspect for African Economies, then or now. Fine, you may argue that Singapore, Botswana, Namibia and even Zambia were less developed than Zimbabwe less than half a century ago - but put it into context. Zimbabwe's situation is a manifestation of different factors or interests. The common rhetoric of corruption, violence, and bad politics that has grown synonymous with African Development does not do justice here. To make it easier for you to understand - Zimbabwe has been generally isolated and sanctioned by half the world (EU, US, and friends) since 1960, with a short relief between 1980 to the mid 90s. Then from the 90s up until now. SAD FACT --- Zimbabwe is the only country Sanctioned by the US through an Act of Parliament. They say its targeted on a select few (officials, business people, companies or organisations) and not meant to affect the country, but how can you say "i am withholding food from a parent/family to help them improve or convince them of something, but its not meant to hurt or affect the child"? Botswana and Namibia are ahead of Zimbabwe economically, they earned their development, kudos to them there. But the truth is they dont have many adversaries, they trade with everyone, they are in the commonwealth and other economic groups. They dont have some of the powerful countries sabotaging them. I am 1000% sure that if Zimbabwe had a fair sanction-free opportunity to grow, it would be one of the fastest growing economies and FRANCE would be a 3rd world country! BOTTOM LINE: Zimbabweans need to work for their salvation, and revisit how they survived the UDI Sanctions to become the BreadBasket of Southern Africa before. The key might be in their history. ............................................................................ The narration given here skis over a lot of information and does very little to give a fair account of pretty much most of the crucial bits.
@@takudzwatakavarasha1344 Neither the US nor the rest of the world owes Zimbabwe anything. They have tried to help, but that help was abused. Zimbabwe has nobody to blame but themselves. The path forward does not lie in blaming others, but in accountability, humility and gratitude.
A farm is not just a piece of land. It’s a knowledge and skill-based operation. Stealing a farm and expecting food is like hijacking a plane mid air, without knowing how to fly it.
@@that1niceguy246One time Americans tried to do reparations for the black slaves by sending them back to Africa. This failed miserably as the ancestors of Americans forbid African slaves from passing down their native tongues and traditions, and many generations had passed for that knowledge to get lost. When the black africans arrived on Africa they were completely lost, though they were on their ancestoral lands they struggled to survive.
I lived in Mozambique 1994 - 1996 and visited Zimbabwe in total 3 months during that time. My visits to "Zim" are amongst my most treasured measures. Magnificent country. Gorgeous people - educated, skilled, entrepreneurial, generous - people who were quite rightly proud to be Zimbabwean. It's horrendous what's happened since.
Yes, this is one of the most shameful declines I've ever seen in my life, one of the most horrific abandonments and betrayals of the people by their government that I've ever seen, right up there with North Korea. And for the same reason too. All because one main, drunk on power while being paranoid of losing it to supposed enemies and willing to quench his own greed while letting the people he was meant to lead and protect burn. You have a man like that run a country and once he's surrounded himself with yes men fattened up with bribes, sooner or later he'll run the country into the ground.
A country is nothing without good leadership and guess who picks the leaders. The people deserves who they pick. Zimbabwe should have stayed Rhodesia and learn what it takes to be a successful Zimbabwe.
As an african citizen I can say with confidence that nothing destroyed africa more than its brutal dictatorships , corrupted governments did and still are doing more harm than all the colonial powers did in the past
We are much more developed, especially in the cities, than them and with all the stuff that’s happening the parties that actually care about the country could win, the populists aren’t guaranteed a victory.
O yes, as a South African i totally agree with you. The Zimbabweans could come to South Africa - but we as South Africans cant escape to a neighbouring country. One of the problems we have is the thousands from Zim, Mozambique, Malawi etc staying in South Africa. A lot of them are involved with criminal activity - a lot of times they are the mastermind behind a crime. I suppose that is why so many middle class and wealthy are leaving for Australia, NZ
Zimbabwe is a perfect example of how historical colonialism primes countries for failure even today. The Rhodesian system of colonial government was specifically engineered to favor the interests of a small elite group (Whites) over the rest of the population. Thus, any popular revolution there was very vulnerable to being hijacked by people who just wanted to replace the existing elites with themselves. And that's exactly what happened.
@@p00bixthat's absolutely false, there is only one person to blame for their collapse and that is Mugabe. There is a good saying Power has a tendency to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Mugabe wouldn't have been able to consolidate power if not for existing colonial structures which preceded him. If colonialism wasn't exploitative, the locals would have been able to rule properly as they would have more political/economic experience and would have been able to keep their leaders in check.@@noticedruid4985
I have relatives in Zimbabwe, I remember one holding a bank note with more zeroes on it than Bill Gates bank account but it would not buy a loaf of bread. Visited there in 1999, to leave that country you had to pay a tax in US dollars, they had a special exchange booth to get them at the airport you then handed them over to the official. Apparently they were collected from the airport by helicopter and Mugabe's wife, they called it Mugabe's take away.
As a Nigerian I have this to say Nobody have destroyed Africa as much as our leaders, not colonialism, not slavery not even inter tribal wars before colonialism but our current Leaders whose greed and corruption is notorious
A good friend of mine came to England from Ghana mainly because she felt unsafe in Accra and could not get a good job as she was the wrong tribe. Yet we have left wing nutters screaming about "institutional racism" in the UK, they have never experienced life in Africa!
The new African leaders are not mimicing the oppressive government of colonial regimes; they have reverted to the absolutism of the old African tribal kings.
“Zimbabwe’s struggles come from a tragic continuation of oppressive minority rule, with new leaders mimicking the despotic tendencies of their colonial predecessors.” Hold on! hold on! The oppressive colonial minority rulers maintained a functioning and highly efficient economy. The last thing Mugabe did was to mimic his predecessors.
I'm still back at what was "oppressive" about more food, more electricity, better economy and better education and lower unemployment ,with higher wages.
@@mikebryant614It seems you missed the part about the whites using military force to push the black population into small unproductive reservations -- not too different from what happened in North America.
As a Zimbabwean I love my country but we can't continue to blame our past for our present day failures. There are so many nations that had less than us that have now surpassed us due to factors like bad governance. We must accept what has happened from everyone and everything and move forward or else we will lose our future too
My issue is do the people from those so called countries you mentioned the indeginous natives do they own anything of value. If someone builds for you its theirs it does not belong to you.
Yup, I agree. I suspect that South Africa is on the same path. I consider myself to be lucky to have a second citizenship: I'm now in Europe, emigrating in 2020, after growing up, living and working in Johannesburg for 30 years.
@@gregwochlik9233Europe? Lol! You haven't been paying attention, have you? Europe is about 20-30 years behind South Africa. Their time is coming as well.
@@fungisrock8955 I entered Poland on a Polish passport, obtained through the embassy. I maintained the language in SA. I like it here. We have electricity AND water all the time!
26:50 Are you serious? It is honestly baffling how colonialism is blamed for gross incompetence on the government level. The kleptocracy ought to be blamed, not those who developed the country into one of the richest in an overall impoverished continent.
Actually in many cases colonialism actually HELPED develope the countries, and it wasnt until it was taken over by blacks that the places then fall apart.
South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa should be quiet on these matters but they are the most vocal. In two decades their regions will still for the most part be messed up craph0les.
as a descendant of a farmer who lived in zimbabwe, he was kicked out, zimbabwe only has itself to blame for the starvation issues, zimbabwe wanted to "africanize" its argicultural centre, by putting regular people who didn't grow up as farmers usually from cities who just signed up because they would be promised a small cheque of cash aswell as being promised high pay as farmers were paid quite a lot, into the argicultural business, what ended up happening is that the white highly experienced farmers who grew up around argiculture their entire life got kicked out, and inexperienced africans, mostly africans who knew jack about farming, where put in their place, this caused a massive issue where the replacement black farmers were producing too little or going outright bankrupt because their crops kept failing, so thats why zimbabwe's starvation issue is self inflicted, should've kept the white farmers in if they didn't want this to happen, its outright stupid of the government, and the only true reason behind it isn't getting rid of european influence, it was quite literally ethnic cleansing
Maybe it'll go back how it was before colonialism. The population will reach equilibrium in a few tens of thousands, then the farmers can go back and finish the job. Then voila! Flourishing country again.
So in your world, Africans have to endure a bunch of cruel racists lording over them in their own ancestral land? These racists only ever farmed cash crops like tobacco, cotton, fruit - all for the European markets, they never fed any blacks that is a total lie. The blacks were fenced off onto unproductive land, where they scratched a living and were therefore forced to work on the 'white' farm for peanuts. These white farmers treated the blacks like slaves and were a law unto themselves, no wonder not a single Zimbabwean supported them nor sympathised with these obdurate racists. Your post is a regurgitation of the loud western media which is the cornerstone of white supremacy, and the real story never gets told. The white farmers, in addition to super cheap labour, were heavily subsidised up to 60% by the Rhodesian government and were not the super farmers you suggest here. After all, it was the black people who toiled in the heat of the day while the whites sat in the shade with cold beer and suasages. Did these blacks suddenly forget how to farm? Anyway, agriculture in Zim has recovered and there have been record harvest in the last few years - in spite of the unilateral and illegal economic sanctions.
In order to ramp production properly, the government would have to provide funding for equipment and agriculture consultants paid by the government to assist. Mechanized farming needs a pool of expensive equipment to rapidly till, plant, and harvest. Tractors, plows, cultivators, planters, mowers, harvesters, balers, on-farm fuel storage, plus storage sheds to keep equipment out of the sun and rain and dust... and potentially also to protect from theft. The equipment all must be kept maintained in good condition and ready to use at the appropriate time of the year, which requires heavy equipment repair shops either owned and operated by the farmer or as a separate repair business serving many farms, which may also need government support if it too has collapsed. Monocropping of corn every year requires applying fertilizer and minerals to keep the soil productive, unless the farmer also practices crop rotation to maintain soil health, and knows what other crops to grow to balance out corn or whatever is the main production crop. The farmer may also need crop storage and post-harvest processing facilities such as for corn to dry the kernels for long-term dry storage. To get food to production facilities, someone needs to own a fleet of hauling trucks to get harvested crops from field to market. There is a reason the farmer ends up being "wealthy", they have to buy and maintain all this and juggle the operations of everything year round. Their wealth is not necessarily all that liquid in a bank account, as it is tied up in the physical ownership of all the equipment, maintenance, and storage facilities.
there's a similar thing happening in slow motion in america with DEI policy and mass immigration. watching america slowly devolve into a corrupt third world country one anti-meritocratic action at a time. if whites won't fight for their lands though, they won't keep them.
It does exist in small island nations like Cabo Verde, the Seychelles, and Mauritius. Also, Botswana and Namibia are considered to have only moderate levels of corruption, nepotism and embezzlement.
Is there some widespread philosophy that creates this, "All for me, and none for you" attitude? It is just so contrary to common sense, that it baffles me.
@@vilefly Rich is a relative term. One is rich only by comparison. So, the rich look at their neighbors. If the neighbors are poor, then the rich are very rich, indeed. The selfish rich rarely take the view that enriching the entire community is the goal.
@@vilefly idk my guy the overall vibe in africa is either 1) we all suffer or 2) how dare you not suffer as much as me. Its really sad we have so much potential but we just cant realise it :/
As Socrates once said "Voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition. And like any skill, it needs to be taught systematically to people. Letting the citizenry vote without an education is as irresponsible as putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in a storm".
@@Labyrinth6000yes because its Democrat voters that constantly elect proven liars and fraud and refuse to accept or vote based on actual established facts or issues that matter like the economy, foreign policy, the environment, governmental reform vs blind religiosity, what women should be allowed to do with there vags, and being allowed to horde deadly weapons. Modern Republicans are literally the party of morons, besides the rich people running it who are just rich and power hungry wanna be autocrats exploiting said morons to enrich themselves.
It's encouraging to read the many comments made by Africans who recognise the corruption of today's political leaders as the principal cause of inefficiency and poverty. I've met many white Rhodesians and almost every one of them explained that there was no intrinsic hatred for blacks and in fact most of these farmers regarded the local blacks as good employees. The trouble started with the black communist revolutionaries who wanted everything immediately without regard to expertise and management. The other source of trouble was the support that these terrorists got from Western governments and this was seen as outside interference from fools who didn't understand the cultural dynamics. Mugabe fleeced the country of its riches to line his and his friend's pockets as any Marxist tyrant would. Unfortunately, it was the black majority and the few remaining whites who suffered.
Can we seriously just start scraping the ideas and principles of 20th century leftists and liberals already? They've ruined so much, and the boomers can't face the fact that their ideas are just bad. Democracy isn't sacred, self-determination isn't the most important thing, and culture, heritage and tradition matter and make it so the world's peoples are not all the same.
I remember when I was in the fifth grade I read about Zimbabwe's hyperinflation in a magazine. I didn't understand it then, but now I see how serious it was. The country still hasn't recovered.
It NEVER will, it's stolen land and the people residing there today are from the Congo. South Africa feeds that shithole and unfortunately theses "Zimbos" are not capable of managing it's stolen land. Rhodesians were Anglo saxons and they occupied the land when they fought against the crown! History cannot be rewritten as colonials seems hellbent on doing
In Germany we had recurring hyperinflation in the 1920s. A collapse of the currency should reset the whole economy, but when you make the same mistakes after the reset again you get the same outcome again. Is there any chance Zimbabwe could get an independent central bank run by bankers not by politicians?
In the lifetime of one man a country was destroyed, yet the individual his family and cronies became obscenely wealthy. This seems to be a common occurrence across Africa. Just look at South Africa now, the same thing is happening, the elites get rich while the population suffers.
Africa seems to suffer from the "Big Man " syndrome - once a leader takes power he may start reformist but you cant get rid of him and his family as he becomes corrupt and autocratic. Mandela was the exception.
casual scholar(who runs this channel) in a long reply to another comment links this to colonialism in which incoming countries set up either puppet regimes or friendly rulers who were given favors for their loyalty and the people under them leading governments more locally got favors for their loyalty. That inevitably sets up a self perpetuating system in which that is what leaders and their cronies are used to and expect so it becomes a cycle that those in charge never feel motivated to break out of. Each new ruler can promise whatever to get into that coveted position which he then believes is his right to exploit and others will always be willing to lend their loyalty for a piece of the pie. If you look at the middle east, there is another type of system that has been in place forever and that seems to always be what countries go back to even when a democracy is set up, this being religious rule. Rather than having secular government in which religion (being restricted or not) is on the side, the leaders tend to be either a powerful group that itself enforces religious laws (think the taliban in Afghanistan) or a powerful ruler/family that aligns itself with a religious group and enforces it's laws (think Saudi Arabia.) In the latter, you see the power or enforcement of the religious laws waver more but there is still a national religion. Along with colonialism affecting the countries in Africa and isolated populations due to geographical landscape affecting religious homogeny there are so many other factors that make it so that many if not all of the countries in a region always tend to go back to one specific type of government even if it proves harmful time after time. But there tends to be one things or a few things that are easy to point out. The rest require more in depth knowledge of the region, it's history, cultures, recourses and infrastructure. You are exactly right though, that African countries have this problem with "big man" leaders, something that is proving very problematic to get away from. There are way too many commenters who don't seem to get the complexity behind that, though, and are just spewing racist bullshit, "this is just what black people do." Which is just not it because the north of Africa is full of Arab countries and mixed ethnicity countries who have this same exact problem with leadership. These leaders have existed all over the world in the past centuries, but it seems to be that when you have countries close together they operate is similar ways that affect eachother greatly. As stability and peace spread over certain regions it made it harder for states or countries within those areas to destabilize. And there are certainly conditions that exist (fresh water, land suitable for agriculture, hospitable climate) that make maintaining peace easier. (I also personally think that being hot all the time tends to drive people a bit crazy. Hell, look at Florida!)
“Let’s distribute the farmland from people who know how to farm to people who don’t know how to farm and do not want to because equity” has not only never worked, but has always destroyed the agricultural economy wherever it’s been tried. Zimbabwe, Rome, the Soviet Union, all had this terrible policy, all suffered under famine and economic downturn almost immediately after.
He has the necessary context in this video - it was done to appease military leaders to keep him in power, in the same exact way that increasing veteran fund destroyed the economy in the first place. The moral of the story being, it's better to be behind the gun than in front of it, even if your country is in open famine
I’m shocked you didn’t mention China? Honestly I think that’s a much more egregious case than this. In Zimbabwe, the people who knew how to farm were farming, but they didn’t own the farms before or after the collapse. A society where the people who do the farming own the farmland is, I think, what we are all ultimately trying to accomplish.
(and to be clear, I don’t mean “people” and “farmland” collectively here. I mean that working a piece of land should give you some rights & responsibilities of ownership for that land.)
Soviet Union gave farms to the actual farm workers, and used some land to ensure state stability. The 1932 famine happen largely due to droughts, where multiple countries in the region fell victim to this, and the Soviet government immediately shut down exports in response
@@deawinterwith China, they faced a good amount of natural disasters at the time, such as the Tonghai earthquake were a large part of why China faced there, famine. Second, the death toll numbers are exaggerated, the Deng Xiaoping era used fairly crude sources to count their population, with the actual number being more like 16 million. It’s still is substantial, but it doesn’t justify being off by tens of millions, with some Anti Mao sources, stating 30 million, some 50 million, and some even getting up to 80 million. Third, when collectivization of Farms started in the early 1950’s, precisely 1952, grain production and distribution doubled
Zimbabwe inherited one of Africa's best education systems. It was not built from ground zero. However, Zimbabwe definitely greatly expanded it in the 1980s. This was made easier because, as guerrillas, the African nationalists had forced the closure of many rural schools in order to demonstrate to the population that the Rhodesian Government's writ no longer ran there. For the same reason, they also cut down electricity and phone lines, filled in cattle dips, dug up rural roads and closed down local stores. There was thus considerable scope for "bounce back" in the 1980s.
It’s infuriating hearing that Mugabe enacted specific policy to ensure there was no Black middle class in Zimbabwe so there wouldn’t be a challenge to his authority. “Freedom fighters” are always some of the first people to take away others’ freedoms and empowerment once they get theirs. I don’t think Mugabe actually ever cared about a free Rhodesia from the start. He was just playing political games to line up his rise to power.
Did you pay attention to what those policies were? Worker protections, healthcare spending, price controls to limit greed, and government oversight and regulation on banks and investors. Interesting how all of those policies are the ones championed by the modern American left as a promise to grow the middle class, when in reality, they are weapons to destroy it.
Yes he did but read between the lines. It was UK's idea. notice that by then the Queen had knighted "sir" because he was serving their interest. He was their darling. The main reason was to finish ZAPU supported by Russia. ZANU was a better alternative to the WEST and was funded to remain in power forever.
as a Zimbabwean, being born in this country is an inconvenience - everything is hard, from getting a passport (which is the most valuable document a Zimbabwean can own) to getting fuel (everything is cash only!!)
I was at a summer camp back in 1994 and they had a slide show of everything great about Zimbabwe, from their strong economy to their stable government to their vibrant culture. But less then 10 years later, they were the butt of jokes as you could buy literally exchange hundreds of millions of Zimbabwean dollars for just $1 US.
It sounds like it was the blind leading the blind. The majority, gov't and the people, didn't understand the moves they were making at all, whether they were good or bad moves and fell into success, then got back up and stumbled right off a nearby cliff. The only way democracy works is when the people participating it understand what they're doing. The reason voting used to be tied to things like wealth and land ownership was b/c that was a decent indicator that their interests were in line with the success of the nation. Problem is that this leads to everyone else living in relative squalor, better off than if the nation was also failing, but not exactly well taken care of. Popular solution is to just give everyone the same voting rights, but then you get more and more self destructive populist policies. Thinking no one will develop a solution and we'll all just become pod people.
@@moseshamlett3887 Initially it did have success; the problem was that mugabe was a corrupt reptile. redistributing the land was necessary but Mugabe just gave it to his cronies.
@@ryanmoore6259 "Let's steal the land from people who are actually making use of it and understand how to farm and give it to people who will not make use of it and don't know how to make use of it." No it absolutely was not necessary. No matter who he gave the land to, it was bound for disaster.
@@ryanmoore6259 The land was redistributed to over 300 000 families, therefore over a million individuals benefitted based on an average family having 4 members. If all these people are Mugabe's cronies, no wonder the man was so popular and won every election! Don't take my word for it, you can read up on Ian Scoones independent research from the University of Sussex in the UK.
South Africa has the same problem. Eskom (the state owned electricity generation company) has different levels of "load shedding" (blackouts). Stage 1 - maybe no power for 2-3 hrs per day. Stage 2 - somewhat less electricity. Up to Stage 8 - only power for 2-3 hrs per day. Stage 9 - Eskom employees come and blow out your candles !!!
As a Zimbabwean, this is a brilliant video, and keep up the excellent work. However, our political leaders are not learning from the mistakes of the past as they are continuing on that trajectory that made us to be where we are.
No, too many of you people are tribal, for as long as there are opposing tribes, there is no country. Maybe learn how the Rhodesians managed to run a country with opposing tribes.
It's propaganda. There is no such thing as 94% unemployment. If you do the Maths civil servants, supermarkets, and private companies, some farmers were still employed. Realistically speaking, maybe 50% would be the true figure of unemployment.
It's true, it's 94%, everyone else is a vendor , there are lots of small scale enterprises ( basically people buy and sell stuff to make a living) it's so sad, most degrees are redundant
@@DeadBaron that name is problematic. Rhodes was...not what you'd call a nice person to the locals. And why rename a place that has a perfectly good name already? That's like calling Russia the Soviet Union.
I am Rhodesian. My family are beekeepers, farmers and owned a meadery. I have a Master's degree in entomology. The government has now offered $3.5 billion USD to bring us farmers back. I am my father's heir, so I was offered $6.5 million USD and 83 acres of land to return and teach apiculture.
@@Goldlion973 But it's still true. Zimbabwe is suffering from a mass starvation right now and the government is desperately trying to bring us back. Also, do you support getting rid of Muslims from north Africa? Because they colonize just as much. You do understand why Morocco and Libya are Muslim, right? What about the history of the Ottoman empire that just ended 100 years ago?
@@Goldlion973 That's precisely why I asked what your views on Muslims are in Africa. The Ottoman empire just ended in 1922 and lasted more than 700 years. Should they be exiled like we were? Don't avoid the question.
This is what happens when you kick out the people who know hoe to run an economy and let a terrorist dictator take control, all in the name of freedom and racial equality. You dont see those 70s and 80s protestors caring about the plight of Zimbabweans any more. !! Same thing in Sth Africa
Exactly. I don't feel bad for Zimbabweans, or Black South Africans. They did it to themselves They all deserve to starve for their arrogance, jealousy, and deceit.
@420technique420 - As sad as it is, how can people not notice this pattern? It feels like I am taking crazy pills having people say every single time it was actually someone else's fault, the odds of that being true are so slim given the dynamic nature of civilization.
@@ElectronFieldPulse I think it's the fault of a few with the "white saviour" complex that would rather give them scraps than see them succeed. If you're given a fish every day you never learn how to fish.
No, Ian Smith could have never even imagined how bad it would be. He failed to state the true scope of the disaster, Mugabe was much much worse than anything said about him.
@@MISTAKEWASMADE4live Ian Smith lived out his life in Zimbabwe unmolested and wealthy. If Mugabe was such a brutal dictator, what happened there? How did the obdurate racist Smith keep his head intact on his shoulders after the way he treated Zimbabweans for decades?
@@dingahaban2288 He wasn't particularly racist. It's just that the white community knew that the tribes were not yet developed enough to run the country as a whole. Their own affairs yes, but not a full nation state. And he was right. Remember that many, many black Rhodesians fought FOR the Rhodesian nation, and they were usually the most educated and Westernized ones. These were the people who ought to have become the leading class of a future Zimbabwe, and not Mugabe's thugs. But they lost the war, and the survivors had to flee, along with the dispossessed whites.
@@michaelf7093 F*** you talking about? I grew up there, are you saying I don't know what a racist is?? Who asked the racists from 12 000 miles away to Lord over Africans in their own ancestral lands?? Africans lived in Africa for over 100 000 years, did they need Europeans in all that time?
"With newer leaders mimicking the despotic tendencies of their colonial predecessors". Except that, while the colonial predecessors may have been 'despotic', they were, at least, capable of running a country. Under Ian Smith, the population didn't starve, farms earned international currency by exporting excess production and the local currency didn't inflate to ludicrous levels. And that happened in the face of international sanctions
Yep. They somehow always find a way to bring it back to blaming Europeans. Maybe people are just scared to death that the truth might be hard to swallow?
What a load of bonker arguments. Claiming the majority of the best fertile land and relegating the native people to barren ground to fend for themselves just so you can hide behind splendid economic numbers is a form of delusional locust mentality. It was going to fail from the start. It was just a timeline for the wealthy to run away with their profits before the land would go down the drain.
yeah i never understood it. the natives would be living in mud huts in the desert either way. "oh no the colonial invaders took all the good farmland and built a house." yeah well you wouldnt be farming the good land either way because you hadnt invented farming.
I'm Venezuelan, and it's spot shocking just having experienced all of this and feeling so identified. Once so good, now barely having a working economy. Things have improved, but it's just crazy how Zimbabwe was a precautionary tale.
Once upon a time Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa both South Africa and Zimbabwe had currencies that were stronger than the American dollar.....
The common theme is a population who wants hand outs and a guaranteed way of life from the government. They think white led governments were keeping wealth from them, when it reality you simply cannot create an economy with a majority of people being "takers" and not "producers". Their entire worldview would be shattered if they had to admit that, because their whole "We were oppressed for a billion years and thats the only reason we fail" narrative is the one thing they refuse to let go of.
Z. was a KNOWN cautionary tale. Just because you get rid of the professionals (Uganda, S. Africe) and they emigrate and/or get kick out, no matter the reason, valid or not, you have to REPLACE those people to run the store.
@TheMannyx17 South African politicians have been visiting Venezuela to study the successful revolution, they even copy the red uniform clothing theme worn by your politicians, and you can see them in parliament here dressed in red construction workers overalls. They also consider Cuba to be a great success story.
After hearing the morgue story at the beginning of this video, I googled whether Zimbabwe has any oil reserves. It does--in large quantities. How messed up is it that this country is sitting on top of petroleum and yet citizens are resorting to FAKING DEATHS to get gasoline?
@@darrendube7379 And even after discovering oil, you need capital to create oil refining infrastructure which will be hard with sanctions. Reminds me of how Nigeria until recently used to import oil for domestic consumption despite being the largest producer of the same. Its not as easy as just having oil then consuming it straight from the ground.
@@likatalikata3823 the Arabs were very smart with how they went about everything, we are only seeing the end result of the success in UAE , Qatar , Saudi and others. Where as in Zim, we can't seem to use the money to develop the nation intelligence, and infrastructure to maximize the mineral wealth. It's a take take mindset. It's like " I better bolster my life while I have my opportunity" and hundreds of MPs and officials are doing that.
@@Be3nzyeah but it's the ONLY thing the Arabs have, if the world ever transitions from oil their economy will crash even faster in a more spectacular way
Its sad to wonder how great Africa could have been. I love this continent and its very sad to see countries like my home, South Africa, go down the same destructive path as Zimbabwe..
NOBODY batted an eyelid when Jacob Zuma said,after his 'election'--'it's our turn to get our nose in the trough'(raid the SA treasury).I knew then that SA was finished as cronyism now had control and would never let go.
South Africa can still salvage itself. Don't get excited to do crazy things like chasing out farmers who you can't replace. Just learn from them and multiply your competencies. Don't get political about things, just tax sectors to finance development projects. Don't fight about things, Just educate the population to be more skilled. Develop a big real middle class of professionals. That way SA will improve
The last thing South Africa wants is to chase out the white farmers, otherwise they will pull off a Zimbabwe 2.0 and salt the fields and break the farm equipment out of revenge! 😂
Correction on the land distribution from the 1923 land act 1/4 of country 25 million acres was for tribal trust land. 1/4 of country 25 million acres was for commercial farms. 1/4 of country 25 million acres was national park land 1/4 of country was government owned farm land. At independence, whites owned 25% of land at most. Another correction In Rhodesia, if you could afford it, you could buy land regardless of skin cover. Many blacks were also given farms for their contributions in ww2.
Could buy with what money? Did the colonial government pay before bringing in settlers? If not you realize the settlers were unfortunately given stolen belongings (land of course).
@@1wun1 Were the amaNdeble also supposed to pay the Shona before settling the southern half of the country less than a century before the arrival of the BSAC? It must be borne in mind that conquest was a perfectly legal means of attaining land until the founding of the UN after WW2! You cant judge the past with modern morality. Things were done that everyone now accepts were wrong from a moral perspective but from a legal perspective the laws of the day must dictate the outcomes or the rule of law collapses and with it the peace...
1923 was well before Ian Smith and the Rhodesian Front institutionalized racism. Your comments show a marked failure to grasp the points made in the video. The greater majority of Zimbabwe's fertile farmland was held by whites at independence.
Zimbabwe is yet another example of how important a country's first leader is. If the first leader is brilliant, you get countries like Botswana and the U.S. If not, you get countries like Haiti and, of course, Zimbabwe.
I enjoyed the video until the final minute. Colonialism, as awful as it was, did nothing to influence these crooks. Mugabe had a good start and then got greedy. Blame the criminals.
I remember 2008 it was a literal hell, people were receiving their monthly salaries the form of fuel coupons which were worth about $10, the only thing you could find in supermarkets was salt and maputi
Its still the same remember two months ago the rate went to 1 usd to 10rtgs. And currently it's siting at 7-8k rtgs.zimbabwe needs to remove zanu but not using elections. So many Zimbabweans migrating as nurse aides or cruise ship workers it's so sad
i dont think the rate was 1 to 10 2 months ago cos i was in zim last year june and the rate was much higher than that... maybe 1 to 300 or something like tha. i cant exactly remember@@Sataka23clips
Many of the displaced farmers sought new avenues in Nigeria. I was involved in some communication operations and owned some land. The stories of cruelty and atrocities towards the farmers from the Zimbabweans was heartbreaking.
I've heard that some former Rhodesian farmers went to Nigeria but haven't heard any stories about their experiences. Do you have any links? Anyway like going from the frying pan to the fire.
@@anthonyhavens6536 A lot went to the Kwara and most to Nassarawa. My associate died and we closed up shop. Many farmers gave up mostly due to Nigerian banks doing their own thing. I don't have any more information i'm willing to share. Cheers.
Oh exactly right. Even down to the "white man bad, white man caused all the issues, poor black people just don't know how to solve problems themselves."
As someone who lives in Zimbabwe - people have no idea how insane our country is. Thank you for bringing light to this. People in the UK simply didn't believe me that dead bodies were being rented out to get fuel.
@@zohzuIt’s explained at the start of the video; people were impersonating hearses to take advantage of a policy that let them skip the ludicrously long lines for gas.
@@zohzu - not currently as the black market now takes care of fuel requirements but in about 2005 when you had to queue more than 12-18 hours to get 20 litres of fuel, special preference was given to "emergencies" - you could queue jump if you had a dead person or a near dying person in your vehicle, at which point you would be allowed to jump the queue and get a full tank. Hence, for companies that required fuel urgently, there was a market to rent a dead body so that you could fill up your vehicle and stay in business. It's crazy but it actually happened.
Interesting video, I learned a lot about the later history. However, the early history seems to have been re-written so I shall mention a few things here. There was never Apartheid in Rhodesia, the voting qualifications were the same for all races which is why there were black as well as white parliamentarians. There was no forced labour except in ZAPU labour camps. UDI did not break from the British "Empire" which been dissolved many years earlier, it broke from the British "Commonwealth", a grouping of free nations. The economic boom of the post war years benefitted all the people as shown in any comparison with other African nations. The expression "The black populace" when anti-government activities are mentioned is not correct, the majority of Rhodesian government forces were volunteer Africans. Mugabe took over the government from the previous Prime Minister who was Bishop Abel Muzorewa, not Ian Smith. I hope you don't take offence over my comments but I do like the truth to be remembered. Good luck in future.
Why do you think you "learned a lot about the more recent history" when you notice the part about the history you already knew is full of inaccuracies? This video is probably very poorly researched all the way through. I had to laugh about the passage where he was talking about "outrageous government spending" and as evidence citing a public spending as part of GPD rate of 50%. Only a stupid American would say something retarded like that. That's a totally average rate, even the US itself is 43%! France for example is at 59%. Does this mean France will soon need 100 trillion euro notes? But anyways, it's not a terrible video, just researched by some amateur who doesn't know much about history, economics etc. Therefore has some funny inaccuracies. Should be watched with the appropriate caution.
Thanks from me who was born in Namibia in 1940, and later had Uni mates from Rhodesia ; I travelled around that, then, wonderful country and sadly watched its rapid demise. Predictable one.
Zimbabwe is a tragedy. But it is the unapologetic racist settlers like you who are a big part of the problem. Rhodesia was a racist society. Blacks couldn't attend the same churches as whites, couldn't be buried in the same graveyards. Pass laws controlled movement of Blacks. The same oppression that Zanu practices today was perfected by the Rhodesians against African dissenters in the 60s and 70s.
South africa does not have a problem, maybe corrupt, SA problem is zimbabwe and rest of failed states in Africa Flocking here and destroying everything
Almost in tears watching this coz I realize I’ll never see a flourishing Zimbabwe in my lifetime. Forever doomed to be economic migrants and the laughing stock of the world. Corruption is indeed a cancer that is eating Africa away
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The entire downfall started with the power grab by Mugabi. Let that be a lesson for why keeping a country a democracy with free and fair elections is important.
To think Rhodesia was a grain exporter and the richest country in Africa. Ian Smith was correct, and is being proved correct again in South Africa today.
I left Zimbabwe in 2016 in search of greener pastures. I am glad I left when I could… the economy is much worse now and the country is a graveyard of dreams. The current ruling elite is a classic kakistocracy that has unending desire to plunder, loot and maim at whatever cost. In 2016 I asked myself… why has God abandoned such a beautiful country? I then realised that God left that country many many years before then
An Indian colleague of mine said once that the problem with Africa was that they did not have enough colonisation. In Imperial India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India) the English [sic] were there for 300 years and when they left no one remembered what they did before, so they changed the colour of the people in the uniforms and just carried on. In Africa the white man was in charge for 50-150 years, and when he left they remembered how they lived before, what squabble and dispute they had before, so they retuned to their behaviour as before, only now they had the guns the white man left behind.
So you think colonialism ( aka the African holocaust) was good for the African savages? Well that's mighty brave of you. Perhaps, you can further demonstrate your bravery on this thread by declaring that the Jewish holocaust was in fact good for the Jews. Go on Pete, be brave, why do you find it so easy to pick on us poor Africans?
@@FutureMatrioshkaBrain I’m relaying his statement. I am not qualified to have an opinion, being neither Indian or African. I repeated it because it does seem unfair that the Indian sub-continent has done so much with it’s relics of colonisation & Africa appears not to. Even modern day South Africa has slipped into a mess of corruption.
Similar issues in Venezuela, so tragic that mismanagement due to greed can destroy wonderful nations with so much potential specially when they actually have resources to utilize.
The exiling of their white farmer class was the last straw that broke the camels back. You could ironically say that is what truly killed what was left of Zimbawe.
My neighbours were from southern Rhodesia, they were forced out of there own home in 1982, and arrived here in Australia with zero money to there name.
im sorry to say this but no nobody actually votes for the government in charge they rig elections and kill politicians. So when i tell you that the government is practically a dictatorship and can actually get arrested for typing this so its not just the white people in zimbabwe who are suffering all of us blacks included bro i live there its really bad for everyone just check the august 23 elections which where just rigged bro
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The whites knew exactly what was going to happen, and what they fought for. They did what they could bravely- but they just had to thrown under the communist bus by the internationalists. A sad story
Perhaps the biggest issue was that the 98% black population imagined they could have the same average wealth as the 2% white population from the same national resources. Similar issue existed in South Africa and Zimbabwe was more extreme
That's nonsense. There are plenty of rich countries with very few resources. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Switerland, Belgium, Singapore and others have almost no natural resources but have good economies.
@@rogermurray7179 the reason for that is, that the people in those countries are skilled and motivated workers. the people are the most important resource for any country
@@rogermurray7179 Few "resources", yes. But the difference is all these countries already, at least the Asians ones since I am more familiar with them, already had all the additional things needed to succeed or already had succeeded. We were just lucky the governments more or less could keep things going as they already were.
@@rogermurray7179 no that is illogical, a countries prime resource is the people, if the people are gimme dats, like became in that country the "economy" soon follows.
Traditional African culture gets a free ride in this analysis. The fact is, since time immemorial the foremost political principle in Africa is, the strong man rules. You cannot blame 'colonialism' or 'racism' for this. It is the principle that the political history of the Western democracies have moved away from.
You absolutely can blame colonialism and apartheid at least partially for this and arguably even have it explain 80% of why Zimbabwe is like this, having your resources depleted by foreigners who are only there to send the wealth of your nation to their homeland for over a century doesn't exactly bode well for the actual starting position of said country. Britain for instance profited off the resources of her colonies for over a century at their expense, of course recent corruption, poor decisions and sanctions do not help their situation but you CAN NOT ignore history and only look at the present. The past of a country or group puts into context and can heavily influences what is being seen in their present, it is necessary to understand the past before you can understand their present or speculate on their future. Also "The strong man rules" is kinda just human nature although I'd amend it to "The most influential person rules", if a government isn't available they'll just select the next most influential thing for authority. If they're heavily religious they'd band behind their church and if soldiers get cut off from high command they'll just keep following their squad leaders orders.
“African culture” bro you can’t just lump a whole damn continent that has the most dense and diverse population of different ethnic groups together. You are not speaking truth.
Um, you have like several _thousand_ different traditional cultures in Africa. Some of them had forms of peacemaking and democracy. All that was smashed though by colonialism because the whole point of colonialism was to _destroy institutional culture,_ arguably the most important and deepest form of cultural diversity. A crushing loss to humankind. This does not absolve current leaders from responsibility for acting as strong men, either. It means things are fucking complicated and we need to treat people like humans and not that some "deserve" what others don't, as that literally is _also_ the strong man principle going.
Thank you for sharing your perspective on Zimbabwe's economic situation. It's important to recognize the complexities of land reform and its impact on communities. Constructive dialogue about economic policies is vital, focusing on collaboration and understanding rather than blame. Let's work towards solutions that benefit all nations involved. We should not pretend we were unaware of this outcome. To accuse Zimbabwe of drama for taking back its lands through force is unfair. Fixing the errors in history was the responsibility of the British government, but they chose to overlook it. I understand that some people may believe that I am making excuses or rationalizing something here. The harsh sanctions caused the destruction of our nation.
I will never forget when my family went there during the crisis I watched a man push a wheel barrow full of money into a shop and walk away with a loaf of bread and some milk
This video glossed over what actually happened to most white farmers. It also leaves out the fact that white farmers were asked to come back and take over farming in order to make the food supply stable again. Colonial rule was unfair and excluded a large portion of the population, yet the nation was stable and Rhodesia was "the bread basket of Africa". If people are being fed, educated and receiving good medical treatment, does it really matter that the people running the government are the minority? Look at South Africa today, it is a shell of its former self. The crime rate in South Africa is so bad that it can't even be properly measured. The power grid has crumbled and the power is out for a large portion of everyday. Criminals steal power Ines for the copper it contains regularly, leaving to more power outages. Safe drinking water is hard to find and unemployment is out of control. Eventually the media and those doing the "educating" are going to have to admit to the obvious facts. Of course, problems will continue to be blamed on the old guard, the European descendants that made these countries the wealthy, plentiful nations that they once were but even those peddling that propaganda know better. Admitting the reality goes against the narrative but it's becoming more and more obvious around the world, that the narrative is not very accurate.
Your facts are inaccuratte. Having lived in Rhodesia from 1949 till I left for Malawi in 1974 I can state that the ANC and ZAPU drove this land into desparation.
Even in the 21st century West there are routinely political parties (and many, many online lackeys) who advocate for these kinds of policies. Basically refusing to learn from a century of economic knowledge. It is mind-boggling.
The Bush War was launched by Soviet and Chinese communist supported communist revolutionaries. They were not really supported by the majority of the African populace. Rhodesia fought for more than 10 years and was winning the war. The only reason they lost was because UK and US continued to strangle it politically. And also when Angola's communist revolutionary won their war, Rhodesia was cut off. Eventually Rhodesia was forced into a political compromise with the communist rebels and then all was lost. Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017. It was definitely not the revolution that the majority Zimbabwean expected. I am sure had they truly had a choice, they would have had the white minority government return instead of Mugabe ruling them for 37 years. Surely a lot less people would have suffered and died.
"zimbawe has big political disputes" then "this is only an economic thing, politically zimbawe is OK so all economic problems must be purely economical, no political influence"
As someone who currently lives in Zimbabwe, this place is still horrible. Economy is really struggling, people finding no Job opportunities, Transportation is nearly non existant and just soo many thing going wrong. All the while the same political party Zanu pf is still in. The best option for a lot of people is is to leave because they can't do much in this state. Hope I also leave this place soon honestly 🤦♂️
@@gloryrocks1571 Oh hell yeah bro. Best country in Africa by far. Unless something happened in the past year or two. Search UA-cam/Google for some stuff about it. They had their civil war in the 90s/early 00s I believe and sorted their problems. Now they're doing well and getting better. I mean, I did hear that they might have discovered oil somewhere and that has a tendency to bring out corruption but I don't think it's a problem so far. I would def check them out. Honestly you don't want to come to America right now. We're on the verge of our own civil war and it will likely have racial elements. Multicultural societies are doomed to failure.
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Turns out that seizing the means of production from the most productive individuals and handing them over to incompetent and corrupt cronies isn't a smart thing to do, even if it might feel good at that moment.
@@OhNotThat Oh so starvation, taking freedom away from people, centralizing the economy around only one party and making everyone subservient to the state in the name of ideals is ok because the USSR had a space program? As someone who likes space exploration and gives the Russians and Khazaks kudos for launching rockets into space I'm not going to pretend that a system that stomps on people is some kind of great paradise.
@@OhNotThat Funny you should bring up China because it's retreating from the world economy right now and can't even maintain a properly functioning society after they shutdown their economy and welded people in their homes.
@@desertdude8274 There were only two starvation during USSR. The first was result of the combination of WW1, revolution, war against counter revolutionary and foreign forces and natural causes.The second was natural causes combined with Stalin's own idioticity, not per se socialism. Also you kinda forget Russia was a backward hellscape without any industrialization or rights for the ordinary ppl before the communist takeover as the tzars gave zero shit about the population. Most people's life improved during communism. When the soviet union felt people's life became much worse economically again. Yes, they had some shit idea regarding social freedom of ppl but the centralized economy was absolutely a good thing and improved the life of ppl.
Zimbabwe is an interesting nation. On paper, it still does surpass many African countries, and ranks highly in some fields, but we are still jarred by some corruption, poverty and a devastating political scene. It has the potential to rise and be one of the continents strongest nations, or to continue on its path and become amongst the world’s poorest.
@@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide : technically yes. But one thing about Zimbabwe that should be taken into account is the informal market, which is estimated at 60% or a ratio of 6:4 with the formal sector. If this movement of goods, services, and wealth were documented, taxed and reported, then you’d find that the country has a much bigger economy than what is currently stated. We’re talking several billions in USD. But it’s, also important to note that this money, if utilised, can only be put to good use under a good government.
The best 3 headlines came out of this crisis. “Mugabe kicks out white farmers” “Mugabe begs white farmers to come back.” “Zimbabwe applies for international food assistance”
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Declaring inflation illegal is the smartest economic policy I've ever heard of!
Don't tell biden
@@jerrymiller9039yes, be sure to tell Trump too he spent much more increased the debt by 50%!
Joey's inflation won't show up for at least two years!
Welcome to Trump inflation!
@@American-Motors-Corporation reality says otherwise. Trump had the best economic numbers of your life. Then china sent covid around the globe but Trump got the vaccine created. Biden came into office with the vaccine and should have focused on getting the economy up and running again. Instead biden has focused on destroying the American energy industry and other things to ramp up inflation when there was no reason to
@@jerrymiller9039 Trump is an embarrassment to the western democracies. At least Mugabe had an excuse.
They'll just release another pandemic to create disinflation. @@American-Motors-Corporation
Zimbabwe is a perfect example of wasted opportunity and potential in Africa. They had a lot lined up for success but threw it away due to bad political leadership and economic mismanagement. As a African myself (Nigerian) it annoys me when most people only attribute Africa's current problems to "colonialism or racism", effectively removing personal responsibility of us Africans, and ignore more important factors like geography, climate, socioeconomic systems, political unity and leadership. Botswana and Namibia have less arable land and resources compared to Zimbabwe but they have better economies and more stable democracies.
Point of correction , due to challenging white monopoly , ethnic cleansers who's agenda is to control and erase at all costs
I agree with you there, there is need to take the bull by the horns and be responsible for our own salvation, but in all fairness, we can not downplay the role colonialism has had, its not like colonialism was a great or empowering aspect for African Economies, then or now. Fine, you may argue that Singapore, Botswana, Namibia and even Zambia were less developed than Zimbabwe less than half a century ago - but put it into context.
Zimbabwe's situation is a manifestation of different factors or interests. The common rhetoric of corruption, violence, and bad politics that has grown synonymous with African Development does not do justice here. To make it easier for you to understand - Zimbabwe has been generally isolated and sanctioned by half the world (EU, US, and friends) since 1960, with a short relief between 1980 to the mid 90s. Then from the 90s up until now.
SAD FACT --- Zimbabwe is the only country Sanctioned by the US through an Act of Parliament. They say its targeted on a select few (officials, business people, companies or organisations) and not meant to affect the country, but how can you say "i am withholding food from a parent/family to help them improve or convince them of something, but its not meant to hurt or affect the child"?
Botswana and Namibia are ahead of Zimbabwe economically, they earned their development, kudos to them there. But the truth is they dont have many adversaries, they trade with everyone, they are in the commonwealth and other economic groups. They dont have some of the powerful countries sabotaging them. I am 1000% sure that if Zimbabwe had a fair sanction-free opportunity to grow, it would be one of the fastest growing economies and FRANCE would be a 3rd world country!
BOTTOM LINE:
Zimbabweans need to work for their salvation, and revisit how they survived the UDI Sanctions to become the BreadBasket of Southern Africa before. The key might be in their history.
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The narration given here skis over a lot of information and does very little to give a fair account of pretty much most of the crucial bits.
@@takudzwatakavarasha1344 Neither the US nor the rest of the world owes Zimbabwe anything. They have tried to help, but that help was abused. Zimbabwe has nobody to blame but themselves.
The path forward does not lie in blaming others, but in accountability, humility and gratitude.
as a Zimbabwean, I heavily agree with you
@@takudzwatakavarasha1344 you also have a point.
A farm is not just a piece of land. It’s a knowledge and skill-based operation.
Stealing a farm and expecting food is like hijacking a plane mid air, without knowing how to fly it.
“Stealing?!” Lol
@@Bobsam-m1p It was stealing, although the land was stolen beforehand to end up in the hands of the people it was later 'stolen back' from.
@@that1niceguy246One time Americans tried to do reparations for the black slaves by sending them back to Africa. This failed miserably as the ancestors of Americans forbid African slaves from passing down their native tongues and traditions, and many generations had passed for that knowledge to get lost. When the black africans arrived on Africa they were completely lost, though they were on their ancestoral lands they struggled to survive.
@@that1niceguy246 then retrieving is probably more appropriate
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I lived in Mozambique 1994 - 1996 and visited Zimbabwe in total 3 months during that time. My visits to "Zim" are amongst my most treasured measures. Magnificent country. Gorgeous people - educated, skilled, entrepreneurial, generous - people who were quite rightly proud to be Zimbabwean. It's horrendous what's happened since.
Yes, this is one of the most shameful declines I've ever seen in my life, one of the most horrific abandonments and betrayals of the people by their government that I've ever seen, right up there with North Korea. And for the same reason too. All because one main, drunk on power while being paranoid of losing it to supposed enemies and willing to quench his own greed while letting the people he was meant to lead and protect burn. You have a man like that run a country and once he's surrounded himself with yes men fattened up with bribes, sooner or later he'll run the country into the ground.
A country is nothing without good leadership and guess who picks the leaders. The people deserves who they pick. Zimbabwe should have stayed Rhodesia and learn what it takes to be a successful Zimbabwe.
@@howell7136 Yes, because people need to be ruled by others, hey?
@@howell7136 the elections were rigged and voter intimidation tactics were prevalent!
@@howell7136 wow tell me youre not african without telling me
As an african citizen I can say with confidence that nothing destroyed africa more than its brutal dictatorships , corrupted governments did and still are doing more harm than all the colonial powers did in the past
Blacks fucking their own shit up... a tale as old as time.
Without a doubt
@@MotherCoconut.but I thought China was going to fix them?
Try to not be corrupt and see how long the 'lesson givers' tolerate you!
But it's much easier to blame other people than to... you know... build a country?
South Africa is going down this Exact path! It's crazy how many similarities there are between Zimbabwe in the early 90s, and South Africa right now!
Mozambique 🇲🇿 too
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It's unfortunate that Ramaphosa is an enabler of the current regime in Harare
We are much more developed, especially in the cities, than them and with all the stuff that’s happening the parties that actually care about the country could win, the populists aren’t guaranteed a victory.
O yes, as a South African i totally agree with you. The Zimbabweans could come to South Africa - but we as South Africans cant escape to a neighbouring country. One of the problems we have is the thousands from Zim, Mozambique, Malawi etc staying in South Africa. A lot of them are involved with criminal activity - a lot of times they are the mastermind behind a crime. I suppose that is why so many middle class and wealthy are leaving for Australia, NZ
“A leader with too much power can be just as damaging as an outside enemy”, very beautiful quote.
That quote sent chills down my spine.
Noo mugabe was a good boy
Zimbabwe is a perfect example of how historical colonialism primes countries for failure even today. The Rhodesian system of colonial government was specifically engineered to favor the interests of a small elite group (Whites) over the rest of the population. Thus, any popular revolution there was very vulnerable to being hijacked by people who just wanted to replace the existing elites with themselves. And that's exactly what happened.
@@p00bixthat's absolutely false, there is only one person to blame for their collapse and that is Mugabe.
There is a good saying
Power has a tendency to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Mugabe wouldn't have been able to consolidate power if not for existing colonial structures which preceded him. If colonialism wasn't exploitative, the locals would have been able to rule properly as they would have more political/economic experience and would have been able to keep their leaders in check.@@noticedruid4985
I have relatives in Zimbabwe, I remember one holding a bank note with more zeroes on it than Bill Gates bank account but it would not buy a loaf of bread. Visited there in 1999, to leave that country you had to pay a tax in US dollars, they had a special exchange booth to get them at the airport you then handed them over to the official. Apparently they were collected from the airport by helicopter and Mugabe's wife, they called it Mugabe's take away.
As a Nigerian I have this to say Nobody have destroyed Africa as much as our leaders, not colonialism, not slavery not even inter tribal wars before colonialism but our current Leaders whose greed and corruption is notorious
Coming to terms with that is part of moving forward
I agree, but there is the nuance that most African dictators are backed by the west
I don't think those leaders could even begin to think their way out of a wet paper bag ; )
I feel your pain. Im from Russia, we could have been a real super power if not for insane corruption.
A good friend of mine came to England from Ghana mainly because she felt unsafe in Accra and could not get a good job as she was the wrong tribe. Yet we have left wing nutters screaming about "institutional racism" in the UK, they have never experienced life in Africa!
"The ability to seize control of an economy does not guarantee the ability to manage the economy." ~ Adam F. Smith.
@@Crying-Croc True, and the list goes on.
facts don't care about your feelings. Path of least resistance wins. @@Present-Tense
@@tuckerbugeaterwhat do you mean by that?
No it was western sanctions that did all this. Have not seen what's been going on in the world this year? Has your head been stuck in the sand
@@tuckerbugeater No, we should care less about claim-victimhood feelings than facts and logic. The path of least resistance is only fine for water.
The new African leaders are not mimicing the oppressive government of colonial regimes; they have reverted to the absolutism of the old African tribal kings.
I don't think that's accurate either.
It really seems to me to be more of a new type of despotism of the modern age.
Just with less spiritualism and respect for tradition to reign them in. Nightmare fuel.
Exchanged a white boss for a black one ; same job with much less pay..
Europe was also filled with absolute monarchs so I'm not sure its that specific.
Keeping violent Africans away from what white people built isn’t “oppression.”
“Zimbabwe’s struggles come from a tragic continuation of oppressive minority rule, with new leaders mimicking the despotic tendencies of their colonial predecessors.”
Hold on! hold on! The oppressive colonial minority rulers maintained a functioning and highly efficient economy. The last thing Mugabe did was to mimic his predecessors.
I'm still back at what was "oppressive" about more food, more electricity, better economy and better education and lower unemployment ,with higher wages.
@@mikebryant614You mean other than most of the population not having political or economic rights?
@@EmperorofPenguins Algeria. 1957. you now have Islamic law (Rights? Women? others?) along with no power, no potable water, no roads. Happy now???
@@mikebryant614It seems you missed the part about the whites using military force to push the black population into small unproductive reservations -- not too different from what happened in North America.
Casual Scholar is a less than casual brown-noser...!
What makes this even more interesting is ..Mugabe was a trained economist...he knew the consequences but he probably didn't care
Or perhaps, he knew exactly how to use his knowledge of economics to harness the wealth of his nation into his enrichment.
He was a communist.
Imperialist stooge
And maybe 'trained' doesn't necessarily equate to 'competent'. I have met trained Marxist economists.
Fact
As a Zimbabwean I love my country but we can't continue to blame our past for our present day failures. There are so many nations that had less than us that have now surpassed us due to factors like bad governance. We must accept what has happened from everyone and everything and move forward or else we will lose our future too
the past issues are still present today - colonial exploitation, no value added, governmental corruption, and crushing debt. the past is the present.
@olliemck60 lol cope harder
The past is the present, but only the present can change the future. @@olliemck60
My issue is do the people from those so called countries you mentioned the indeginous natives do they own anything of value. If someone builds for you its theirs it does not belong to you.
@@consulargeneral8136 i just had a house built for me, deed says its mine.
And South Africa doesn't appear to be learning the lessons of it's fallen neighbour
Yup, I agree. I suspect that South Africa is on the same path. I consider myself to be lucky to have a second citizenship: I'm now in Europe, emigrating in 2020, after growing up, living and working in Johannesburg for 30 years.
@@gregwochlik9233Europe? Lol! You haven't been paying attention, have you? Europe is about 20-30 years behind South Africa. Their time is coming as well.
@@gregwochlik9233 You should think about moving to Canada. I have a few SA neighbors and they love it here.
Canada is a mess, Europe depends where you are, both are probably better than South Africa right now.
@@fungisrock8955 I entered Poland on a Polish passport, obtained through the embassy. I maintained the language in SA. I like it here. We have electricity AND water all the time!
26:50 Are you serious? It is honestly baffling how colonialism is blamed for gross incompetence on the government level. The kleptocracy ought to be blamed, not those who developed the country into one of the richest in an overall impoverished continent.
Actually in many cases colonialism actually HELPED develope the countries, and it wasnt until it was taken over by blacks that the places then fall apart.
Yeah but the wealth wasnt share to the black populous, while black demography begins to rise exponantially, the white control begin to fall
Can't blame black people for failing...again.
We see this everywhere.
South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa should be quiet on these matters but they are the most vocal. In two decades their regions will still for the most part be messed up craph0les.
Yes because whites have always been seen as racist and yes colonialism has helped certain countries such as India, Zimbabwe
as a descendant of a farmer who lived in zimbabwe, he was kicked out, zimbabwe only has itself to blame for the starvation issues, zimbabwe wanted to "africanize" its argicultural centre, by putting regular people who didn't grow up as farmers usually from cities who just signed up because they would be promised a small cheque of cash aswell as being promised high pay as farmers were paid quite a lot, into the argicultural business,
what ended up happening is that the white highly experienced farmers who grew up around argiculture their entire life got kicked out, and inexperienced africans, mostly africans who knew jack about farming, where put in their place,
this caused a massive issue where the replacement black farmers were producing too little or going outright bankrupt because their crops kept failing,
so thats why zimbabwe's starvation issue is self inflicted, should've kept the white farmers in if they didn't want this to happen, its outright stupid of the government, and the only true reason behind it isn't getting rid of european influence, it was quite literally ethnic cleansing
They never learn...
Maybe it'll go back how it was before colonialism. The population will reach equilibrium in a few tens of thousands, then the farmers can go back and finish the job. Then voila! Flourishing country again.
So in your world, Africans have to endure a bunch of cruel racists lording over them in their own ancestral land? These racists only ever farmed cash crops like tobacco, cotton, fruit - all for the European markets, they never fed any blacks that is a total lie. The blacks were fenced off onto unproductive land, where they scratched a living and were therefore forced to work on the 'white' farm for peanuts. These white farmers treated the blacks like slaves and were a law unto themselves, no wonder not a single Zimbabwean supported them nor sympathised with these obdurate racists. Your post is a regurgitation of the loud western media which is the cornerstone of white supremacy, and the real story never gets told. The white farmers, in addition to super cheap labour, were heavily subsidised up to 60% by the Rhodesian government and were not the super farmers you suggest here. After all, it was the black people who toiled in the heat of the day while the whites sat in the shade with cold beer and suasages. Did these blacks suddenly forget how to farm?
Anyway, agriculture in Zim has recovered and there have been record harvest in the last few years - in spite of the unilateral and illegal economic sanctions.
In order to ramp production properly, the government would have to provide funding for equipment and agriculture consultants paid by the government to assist.
Mechanized farming needs a pool of expensive equipment to rapidly till, plant, and harvest. Tractors, plows, cultivators, planters, mowers, harvesters, balers, on-farm fuel storage, plus storage sheds to keep equipment out of the sun and rain and dust... and potentially also to protect from theft.
The equipment all must be kept maintained in good condition and ready to use at the appropriate time of the year, which requires heavy equipment repair shops either owned and operated by the farmer or as a separate repair business serving many farms, which may also need government support if it too has collapsed.
Monocropping of corn every year requires applying fertilizer and minerals to keep the soil productive, unless the farmer also practices crop rotation to maintain soil health, and knows what other crops to grow to balance out corn or whatever is the main production crop.
The farmer may also need crop storage and post-harvest processing facilities such as for corn to dry the kernels for long-term dry storage. To get food to production facilities, someone needs to own a fleet of hauling trucks to get harvested crops from field to market.
There is a reason the farmer ends up being "wealthy", they have to buy and maintain all this and juggle the operations of everything year round. Their wealth is not necessarily all that liquid in a bank account, as it is tied up in the physical ownership of all the equipment, maintenance, and storage facilities.
there's a similar thing happening in slow motion in america with DEI policy and mass immigration. watching america slowly devolve into a corrupt third world country one anti-meritocratic action at a time. if whites won't fight for their lands though, they won't keep them.
As an african, one thing rings true. An african politician who isn’t corrupt is like water that is not wet, it doesn’t exist
Damn that's sad.
It does exist in small island nations like Cabo Verde, the Seychelles, and Mauritius.
Also, Botswana and Namibia are considered to have only moderate levels of corruption, nepotism and embezzlement.
Is there some widespread philosophy that creates this, "All for me, and none for you" attitude? It is just so contrary to common sense, that it baffles me.
@@vilefly Rich is a relative term. One is rich only by comparison. So, the rich look at their neighbors. If the neighbors are poor, then the rich are very rich, indeed. The selfish rich rarely take the view that enriching the entire community is the goal.
@@vilefly idk my guy the overall vibe in africa is either 1) we all suffer or 2) how dare you not suffer as much as me. Its really sad we have so much potential but we just cant realise it :/
As Socrates once said "Voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition. And like any skill, it needs to be taught systematically to people. Letting the citizenry vote without an education is as irresponsible as putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in a storm".
that's why the last thing a country needs is uneducated voters
America should take note of that quote.
Americans that live in blue metropolitan cities should take note.
@@Labyrinth6000yes because its Democrat voters that constantly elect proven liars and fraud and refuse to accept or vote based on actual established facts or issues that matter like the economy, foreign policy, the environment, governmental reform vs blind religiosity, what women should be allowed to do with there vags, and being allowed to horde deadly weapons. Modern Republicans are literally the party of morons, besides the rich people running it who are just rich and power hungry wanna be autocrats exploiting said morons to enrich themselves.
Almost like what Ian Smith was in the process of achieving by producing the most educated, literate and wealthy Africans on the continent.
It's encouraging to read the many comments made by Africans who recognise the corruption of today's political leaders as the principal cause of inefficiency and poverty. I've met many white Rhodesians and almost every one of them explained that there was no intrinsic hatred for blacks and in fact most of these farmers regarded the local blacks as good employees. The trouble started with the black communist revolutionaries who wanted everything immediately without regard to expertise and management. The other source of trouble was the support that these terrorists got from Western governments and this was seen as outside interference from fools who didn't understand the cultural dynamics. Mugabe fleeced the country of its riches to line his and his friend's pockets as any Marxist tyrant would. Unfortunately, it was the black majority and the few remaining whites who suffered.
Can we seriously just start scraping the ideas and principles of 20th century leftists and liberals already? They've ruined so much, and the boomers can't face the fact that their ideas are just bad.
Democracy isn't sacred, self-determination isn't the most important thing, and culture, heritage and tradition matter and make it so the world's peoples are not all the same.
But blax will never admit they need Whites so the hell with them
I remember when I was in the fifth grade I read about Zimbabwe's hyperinflation in a magazine. I didn't understand it then, but now I see how serious it was. The country still hasn't recovered.
It NEVER will, it's stolen land and the people residing there today are from the Congo. South Africa feeds that shithole and unfortunately theses "Zimbos" are not capable of managing it's stolen land. Rhodesians were Anglo saxons and they occupied the land when they fought against the crown! History cannot be rewritten as colonials seems hellbent on doing
It will never recover and africa as a whole will continue to be the shithole of the world.
recovered? bro its still getting worse
In Germany we had recurring hyperinflation in the 1920s. A collapse of the currency should reset the whole economy, but when you make the same mistakes after the reset again you get the same outcome again. Is there any chance Zimbabwe could get an independent central bank run by bankers not by politicians?
A Zimbabwean here, I’m sad how Zimbabwe is almost a carbon copy of George Orwell’s book Animal Farm. 😢
In the lifetime of one man a country was destroyed, yet the individual his family and cronies became obscenely wealthy. This seems to be a common occurrence across Africa. Just look at South Africa now, the same thing is happening, the elites get rich while the population suffers.
Africa seems to suffer from the "Big Man " syndrome - once a leader takes power he may start reformist but you cant get rid of him and his family as he becomes corrupt and autocratic. Mandela was the exception.
Julius Malema will push South Africa over the tip.
Thank God they don't have nukes
@@roberthannah7983mandela was the exception ? Lol
casual scholar(who runs this channel) in a long reply to another comment links this to colonialism in which incoming countries set up either puppet regimes or friendly rulers who were given favors for their loyalty and the people under them leading governments more locally got favors for their loyalty.
That inevitably sets up a self perpetuating system in which that is what leaders and their cronies are used to and expect so it becomes a cycle that those in charge never feel motivated to break out of. Each new ruler can promise whatever to get into that coveted position which he then believes is his right to exploit and others will always be willing to lend their loyalty for a piece of the pie.
If you look at the middle east, there is another type of system that has been in place forever and that seems to always be what countries go back to even when a democracy is set up, this being religious rule. Rather than having secular government in which religion (being restricted or not) is on the side, the leaders tend to be either a powerful group that itself enforces religious laws (think the taliban in Afghanistan) or a powerful ruler/family that aligns itself with a religious group and enforces it's laws (think Saudi Arabia.) In the latter, you see the power or enforcement of the religious laws waver more but there is still a national religion.
Along with colonialism affecting the countries in Africa and isolated populations due to geographical landscape affecting religious homogeny there are so many other factors that make it so that many if not all of the countries in a region always tend to go back to one specific type of government even if it proves harmful time after time. But there tends to be one things or a few things that are easy to point out. The rest require more in depth knowledge of the region, it's history, cultures, recourses and infrastructure.
You are exactly right though, that African countries have this problem with "big man" leaders, something that is proving very problematic to get away from. There are way too many commenters who don't seem to get the complexity behind that, though, and are just spewing racist bullshit, "this is just what black people do." Which is just not it because the north of Africa is full of Arab countries and mixed ethnicity countries who have this same exact problem with leadership.
These leaders have existed all over the world in the past centuries, but it seems to be that when you have countries close together they operate is similar ways that affect eachother greatly. As stability and peace spread over certain regions it made it harder for states or countries within those areas to destabilize. And there are certainly conditions that exist (fresh water, land suitable for agriculture, hospitable climate) that make maintaining peace easier.
(I also personally think that being hot all the time tends to drive people a bit crazy. Hell, look at Florida!)
The greed for power by the leaders has destroyed Africa and is still destroying
You know you've done a bad job with the economy when some people actually miss the days it was called Rhodesia.
Met a black man who fought on Rhodesia's side who cursed Mugabe with pure hatred, kind of a mind trip really.
Rhodesia was amazing. wake up
@@robertharper3754 It isn't a trip at all, unless you've been programmed with modern propaganda
@@pyropulseIXXI amazing for whites only
@@pyropulseIXXI🤡
“Let’s distribute the farmland from people who know how to farm to people who don’t know how to farm and do not want to because equity” has not only never worked, but has always destroyed the agricultural economy wherever it’s been tried. Zimbabwe, Rome, the Soviet Union, all had this terrible policy, all suffered under famine and economic downturn almost immediately after.
He has the necessary context in this video - it was done to appease military leaders to keep him in power, in the same exact way that increasing veteran fund destroyed the economy in the first place. The moral of the story being, it's better to be behind the gun than in front of it, even if your country is in open famine
I’m shocked you didn’t mention China? Honestly I think that’s a much more egregious case than this. In Zimbabwe, the people who knew how to farm were farming, but they didn’t own the farms before or after the collapse. A society where the people who do the farming own the farmland is, I think, what we are all ultimately trying to accomplish.
(and to be clear, I don’t mean “people” and “farmland” collectively here. I mean that working a piece of land should give you some rights & responsibilities of ownership for that land.)
Soviet Union gave farms to the actual farm workers, and used some land to ensure state stability. The 1932 famine happen largely due to droughts, where multiple countries in the region fell victim to this, and the Soviet government immediately shut down exports in response
@@deawinterwith China, they faced a good amount of natural disasters at the time, such as the Tonghai earthquake were a large part of why China faced there, famine. Second, the death toll numbers are exaggerated, the Deng Xiaoping era used fairly crude sources to count their population, with the actual number being more like 16 million. It’s still is substantial, but it doesn’t justify being off by tens of millions, with some Anti Mao sources, stating 30 million, some 50 million, and some even getting up to 80 million. Third, when collectivization of Farms started in the early 1950’s, precisely 1952, grain production and distribution doubled
Zimbabwe inherited one of Africa's best education systems. It was not built from ground zero. However, Zimbabwe definitely greatly expanded it in the 1980s. This was made easier because, as guerrillas, the African nationalists had forced the closure of many rural schools in order to demonstrate to the population that the Rhodesian Government's writ no longer ran there. For the same reason, they also cut down electricity and phone lines, filled in cattle dips, dug up rural roads and closed down local stores. There was thus considerable scope for "bounce back" in the 1980s.
Weird how no one in any of these video's ever blames communism for anything.
Exactly the Zimbabwean gvt has had a Lot of Communist influence, and the present gvt has strong ties with Russia and China. There's a link
It’s infuriating hearing that Mugabe enacted specific policy to ensure there was no Black middle class in Zimbabwe so there wouldn’t be a challenge to his authority. “Freedom fighters” are always some of the first people to take away others’ freedoms and empowerment once they get theirs. I don’t think Mugabe actually ever cared about a free Rhodesia from the start. He was just playing political games to line up his rise to power.
Absolutely.
Just another Big Man.
Did you pay attention to what those policies were? Worker protections, healthcare spending, price controls to limit greed, and government oversight and regulation on banks and investors.
Interesting how all of those policies are the ones championed by the modern American left as a promise to grow the middle class, when in reality, they are weapons to destroy it.
Yes he did but read between the lines. It was UK's idea. notice that by then the Queen had knighted "sir" because he was serving their interest. He was their darling. The main reason was to finish ZAPU supported by Russia. ZANU was a better alternative to the WEST and was funded to remain in power forever.
as a Zimbabwean, being born in this country is an inconvenience - everything is hard, from getting a passport (which is the most valuable document a Zimbabwean can own) to getting fuel (everything is cash only!!)
Shut up....
I am curious do you have to have a forklift for bringing cash for the passport
no on uses the zimdollar - we use USD, Euros, Pounds, South African Rands, anything but the zim dollar@@FekalistaGrzybowory-lz8lh
@@FekalistaGrzybowory-lz8lh Its nolonger that bad
Getting a passport in Zimbabwe isn't that difficult now (but it used to be)
I was at a summer camp back in 1994 and they had a slide show of everything great about Zimbabwe, from their strong economy to their stable government to their vibrant culture. But less then 10 years later, they were the butt of jokes as you could buy literally exchange hundreds of millions of Zimbabwean dollars for just $1 US.
It sounds like it was the blind leading the blind. The majority, gov't and the people, didn't understand the moves they were making at all, whether they were good or bad moves and fell into success, then got back up and stumbled right off a nearby cliff.
The only way democracy works is when the people participating it understand what they're doing. The reason voting used to be tied to things like wealth and land ownership was b/c that was a decent indicator that their interests were in line with the success of the nation. Problem is that this leads to everyone else living in relative squalor, better off than if the nation was also failing, but not exactly well taken care of. Popular solution is to just give everyone the same voting rights, but then you get more and more self destructive populist policies.
Thinking no one will develop a solution and we'll all just become pod people.
They were lying to you in 1994. They have been lying about Zimbabwe since its inception.
@@moseshamlett3887 Initially it did have success; the problem was that mugabe was a corrupt reptile. redistributing the land was necessary but Mugabe just gave it to his cronies.
@@ryanmoore6259 "Let's steal the land from people who are actually making use of it and understand how to farm and give it to people who will not make use of it and don't know how to make use of it."
No it absolutely was not necessary. No matter who he gave the land to, it was bound for disaster.
@@ryanmoore6259 The land was redistributed to over 300 000 families, therefore over a million individuals benefitted based on an average family having 4 members. If all these people are Mugabe's cronies, no wonder the man was so popular and won every election! Don't take my word for it, you can read up on Ian Scoones independent research from the University of Sussex in the UK.
South Africa is now doing the 'Zimbabwe' as well. We are watching the devastation in real time.
It'll never be this bad 100trillion rands bank note😂😂😂...SA doing good exchange to dollar is 18 Rand for 1 dollar
At the bright side, Nelson Mandela isnt in charge when this Zimbabwification is happening, soo things might turn differently? Idk
What did Zimbabwe use for light before candles? Electricity.
Oldie but a goodie!
South Africa has the same problem. Eskom (the state owned electricity generation company) has different levels of "load shedding" (blackouts). Stage 1 - maybe no power for 2-3 hrs per day. Stage 2 - somewhat less electricity. Up to Stage 8 - only power for 2-3 hrs per day. Stage 9 - Eskom employees come and blow out your candles !!!
@@RobertMurphy-sx8lcBlack Excellence. Sadly in Western Europe we are being burdened with these.. people..
As a Zimbabwean, this is a brilliant video, and keep up the excellent work. However, our political leaders are not learning from the mistakes of the past as they are continuing on that trajectory that made us to be where we are.
How is it brilliant, especially when the beginning was factually incorrect?
How is this brilliant haha
Sorry that ZANU won the elections again
Blaming whitey? Yeah, that's how it works everywhere. The results are always the same, and you always carry on regardless.
No, too many of you people are tribal, for as long as there are opposing tribes, there is no country. Maybe learn how the Rhodesians managed to run a country with opposing tribes.
A 94% unemployment rate that's insane, that's unthinkable.😨
It's propaganda. There is no such thing as 94% unemployment. If you do the Maths civil servants, supermarkets, and private companies, some farmers were still employed. Realistically speaking, maybe 50% would be the true figure of unemployment.
It's true, it's 94%, everyone else is a vendor , there are lots of small scale enterprises ( basically people buy and sell stuff to make a living) it's so sad, most degrees are redundant
@@JackMadeuwhat? There are NO farms and supermarkets, private companies etc
Where should people work?
Ironically, Zimbabwe's southwestern neighbor Botswana is one of the most stable and wealthy post-colonial African nations
Many of those ousted Zimbabwean farmers came over to Zambia and boosted our agricultural output.
Glad they were able to stay on the continent, I’m sure a lot of them never even stepped foot in Europe so Africa probably felt closer to home
Trust me they should stay there. Zambia has western and Chinese puppet leaders anyway. It's a known fact.
so what? they must go to europe and get out of Africa
*Rhodesian farmers
@@DeadBaron that name is problematic. Rhodes was...not what you'd call a nice person to the locals. And why rename a place that has a perfectly good name already? That's like calling Russia the Soviet Union.
I am Rhodesian. My family are beekeepers, farmers and owned a meadery. I have a Master's degree in entomology. The government has now offered $3.5 billion USD to bring us farmers back. I am my father's heir, so I was offered $6.5 million USD and 83 acres of land to return and teach apiculture.
Will you do it?
@@Z8Q8 Definitely not. Not worth putting my wife and daughter at risk.
Won't live to spend the money if you do
@@Goldlion973 But it's still true. Zimbabwe is suffering from a mass starvation right now and the government is desperately trying to bring us back.
Also, do you support getting rid of Muslims from north Africa? Because they colonize just as much. You do understand why Morocco and Libya are Muslim, right? What about the history of the Ottoman empire that just ended 100 years ago?
@@Goldlion973 That's precisely why I asked what your views on Muslims are in Africa. The Ottoman empire just ended in 1922 and lasted more than 700 years. Should they be exiled like we were? Don't avoid the question.
This is what happens when you kick out the people who know hoe to run an economy and let a terrorist dictator take control, all in the name of freedom and racial equality. You dont see those 70s and 80s protestors caring about the plight of Zimbabweans any more. !! Same thing in Sth Africa
Only the 2% enjoyed the prosperity.
@@cyberverse9141 thats more than when mugabe took over and killed more africans
@@dreinhard52 Live didn't change much for Africans. They were enslaved and still are enslaved.
Exactly. I don't feel bad for Zimbabweans, or Black South Africans. They did it to themselves
They all deserve to starve for their arrogance, jealousy, and deceit.
@@cyberverse9141 Who is enslaving them?
Blaming colonialists for the failure of Zimbabwe is pathetic.
One of the most famous example of breadbasket to basket case.
All black majority areas.
@@420technique420
Detroit.
@420technique420 - As sad as it is, how can people not notice this pattern? It feels like I am taking crazy pills having people say every single time it was actually someone else's fault, the odds of that being true are so slim given the dynamic nature of civilization.
@@ElectronFieldPulse unfortunately we have been feed lies for over 100 years now and people fear the truth because what the truth implies.
@@ElectronFieldPulse I think it's the fault of a few with the "white saviour" complex that would rather give them scraps than see them succeed. If you're given a fish every day you never learn how to fish.
Everything Ian Smith predicted came true.
No, Ian Smith could have never even imagined how bad it would be. He failed to state the true scope of the disaster, Mugabe was much much worse than anything said about him.
@@MISTAKEWASMADE4live Ian Smith lived out his life in Zimbabwe unmolested and wealthy. If Mugabe was such a brutal dictator, what happened there? How did the obdurate racist Smith keep his head intact on his shoulders after the way he treated Zimbabweans for decades?
Embarrassing.
@@dingahaban2288 He wasn't particularly racist. It's just that the white community knew that the tribes were not yet developed enough to run the country as a whole. Their own affairs yes, but not a full nation state.
And he was right.
Remember that many, many black Rhodesians fought FOR the Rhodesian nation, and they were usually the most educated and Westernized ones. These were the people who ought to have become the leading class of a future Zimbabwe, and not Mugabe's thugs. But they lost the war, and the survivors had to flee, along with the dispossessed whites.
@@michaelf7093 F*** you talking about? I grew up there, are you saying I don't know what a racist is?? Who asked the racists from 12 000 miles away to Lord over Africans in their own ancestral lands??
Africans lived in Africa for over 100 000 years, did they need Europeans in all that time?
"With newer leaders mimicking the despotic tendencies of their colonial predecessors". Except that, while the colonial predecessors may have been 'despotic', they were, at least, capable of running a country. Under Ian Smith, the population didn't starve, farms earned international currency by exporting excess production and the local currency didn't inflate to ludicrous levels. And that happened in the face of international sanctions
If they were white, how about not posting Pro Apartheid bullshit?
This is basically proof positive than the only thing worse than being ruled by competent despots, is being ruled by incompetent ones.
Yep. They somehow always find a way to bring it back to blaming Europeans. Maybe people are just scared to death that the truth might be hard to swallow?
What a load of bonker arguments. Claiming the majority of the best fertile land and relegating the native people to barren ground to fend for themselves just so you can hide behind splendid economic numbers is a form of delusional locust mentality. It was going to fail from the start. It was just a timeline for the wealthy to run away with their profits before the land would go down the drain.
@@ElectronFieldPulse yea im sure the europeans didn't steal any wealth, and then when they couldn't control it all, just took that wealth and left.
The typical excuse is to blame slavery, colonialism but not being accountable for their own greed and gross mismanagement
Welcome to Africa.
yeah i never understood it. the natives would be living in mud huts in the desert either way. "oh no the colonial invaders took all the good farmland and built a house." yeah well you wouldnt be farming the good land either way because you hadnt invented farming.
Always the excuse, yet time and time again we see this happen in Africa.
@@nunyastockson5901"you haven't invented farming" ???? What do you think they were doing there, eating sand?
@@aw2584hunter gatherer
I'm Venezuelan, and it's spot shocking just having experienced all of this and feeling so identified. Once so good, now barely having a working economy. Things have improved, but it's just crazy how Zimbabwe was a precautionary tale.
Once upon a time Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa both South Africa and Zimbabwe had currencies that were stronger than the American dollar.....
@@rsacitizen6151 Now Zimbabwe is the basket-case of Africa, has been for decades sadly with no signs of ever recovering.
The common theme is a population who wants hand outs and a guaranteed way of life from the government. They think white led governments were keeping wealth from them, when it reality you simply cannot create an economy with a majority of people being "takers" and not "producers". Their entire worldview would be shattered if they had to admit that, because their whole "We were oppressed for a billion years and thats the only reason we fail" narrative is the one thing they refuse to let go of.
Z. was a KNOWN cautionary tale. Just because you get rid of the professionals (Uganda, S. Africe) and they emigrate and/or get kick out, no matter the reason, valid or not, you have to REPLACE those people to run the store.
@TheMannyx17 South African politicians have been visiting Venezuela to study the successful revolution, they even copy the red uniform clothing theme worn by your politicians, and you can see them in parliament here dressed in red construction workers overalls. They also consider Cuba to be a great success story.
After hearing the morgue story at the beginning of this video, I googled whether Zimbabwe has any oil reserves. It does--in large quantities. How messed up is it that this country is sitting on top of petroleum and yet citizens are resorting to FAKING DEATHS to get gasoline?
Zimbabwe imports fuel. And it's largely government run. Or if you want to import you have to grease the palms of the government.
The reserves were only recently discovered
@@darrendube7379 And even after discovering oil, you need capital to create oil refining infrastructure which will be hard with sanctions. Reminds me of how Nigeria until recently used to import oil for domestic consumption despite being the largest producer of the same. Its not as easy as just having oil then consuming it straight from the ground.
@@likatalikata3823 the Arabs were very smart with how they went about everything, we are only seeing the end result of the success in UAE , Qatar , Saudi and others. Where as in Zim, we can't seem to use the money to develop the nation intelligence, and infrastructure to maximize the mineral wealth. It's a take take mindset. It's like " I better bolster my life while I have my opportunity" and hundreds of MPs and officials are doing that.
@@Be3nzyeah but it's the ONLY thing the Arabs have, if the world ever transitions from oil their economy will crash even faster in a more spectacular way
Its sad to wonder how great Africa could have been. I love this continent and its very sad to see countries like my home, South Africa, go down the same destructive path as Zimbabwe..
NOBODY batted an eyelid when Jacob Zuma said,after his 'election'--'it's our turn to get our nose in the trough'(raid the SA treasury).I knew then that SA was finished as cronyism now had control and would never let go.
Don't worry South Africa is heading the same way
South Africa can still salvage itself. Don't get excited to do crazy things like chasing out farmers who you can't replace. Just learn from them and multiply your competencies. Don't get political about things, just tax sectors to finance development projects. Don't fight about things, Just educate the population to be more skilled. Develop a big real middle class of professionals. That way SA will improve
The last thing South Africa wants is to chase out the white farmers, otherwise they will pull off a Zimbabwe 2.0 and salt the fields and break the farm equipment out of revenge! 😂
It used to be the breadbasket of Africa, now they can't even feed themselves.
Who said they can't feed themselves?
@@simplyballing1592every tv commercial says they can't feed themselves
@@simplyballing1592 Zimbabweans say they can't feed themselves lol
Correction on the land distribution from the 1923 land act
1/4 of country 25 million acres was for tribal trust land.
1/4 of country 25 million acres was for commercial farms.
1/4 of country 25 million acres was national park land
1/4 of country was government owned farm land.
At independence, whites owned 25% of land at most.
Another correction
In Rhodesia, if you could afford it, you could buy land regardless of skin cover. Many blacks were also given farms for their contributions in ww2.
Could buy with what money? Did the colonial government pay before bringing in settlers? If not you realize the settlers were unfortunately given stolen belongings (land of course).
@1wun1 There are millions of Africans in Europe, where did they get the money to get there from?
@@1wun1 Were the amaNdeble also supposed to pay the Shona before settling the southern half of the country less than a century before the arrival of the BSAC? It must be borne in mind that conquest was a perfectly legal means of attaining land until the founding of the UN after WW2! You cant judge the past with modern morality. Things were done that everyone now accepts were wrong from a moral perspective but from a legal perspective the laws of the day must dictate the outcomes or the rule of law collapses and with it the peace...
1923 was well before Ian Smith and the Rhodesian Front institutionalized racism. Your comments show a marked failure to grasp the points made in the video. The greater majority of Zimbabwe's fertile farmland was held by whites at independence.
@@grahamt5924 from their families and friends duh
Zimbabwe is yet another example of how important a country's first leader is. If the first leader is brilliant, you get countries like Botswana and the U.S. If not, you get countries like Haiti and, of course, Zimbabwe.
so you suggest we be puppets of the west ......what kind of freedom is that
Smith seemed pretty good, not sure what you mean...
@@a_Minion_of_Soros go to hell
Cecil Rhodes destroyed so much
Singapore is a another great example.
As a Zimbabwean, I am happy that you made this video
Ooga booga
please do not
So you have electricity and internet as well as devices?
We quickly became a country of millionaires, billionaires and millionaires in no time
@@appleratpipewtf ? You think you funny?
I enjoyed the video until the final minute. Colonialism, as awful as it was, did nothing to influence these crooks. Mugabe had a good start and then got greedy. Blame the criminals.
I remember 2008 it was a literal hell, people were receiving their monthly salaries the form of fuel coupons which were worth about $10, the only thing you could find in supermarkets was salt and maputi
I never heard of muputi. I looked up a video of how it is made. Wow. Crazy.
Its still the same remember two months ago the rate went to 1 usd to 10rtgs. And currently it's siting at 7-8k rtgs.zimbabwe needs to remove zanu but not using elections. So many Zimbabweans migrating as nurse aides or cruise ship workers it's so sad
hahaha good old maputi! 😂
i dont think the rate was 1 to 10 2 months ago cos i was in zim last year june and the rate was much higher than that... maybe 1 to 300 or something like tha. i cant exactly remember@@Sataka23clips
@Sataka23clips hundreds and thousands are leaving for those jobs, it's true, so sad, but they also have families to feed.
Many of the displaced farmers sought new avenues in Nigeria. I was involved in some communication operations and owned some land. The stories of cruelty and atrocities towards the farmers from the Zimbabweans was heartbreaking.
I've heard that some former Rhodesian farmers went to Nigeria but haven't heard any stories about their experiences. Do you have any links? Anyway like going from the frying pan to the fire.
@@anthonyhavens6536 A lot went to the Kwara and most to Nassarawa. My associate died and we closed up shop. Many farmers gave up mostly due to Nigerian banks doing their own thing. I don't have any more information i'm willing to share. Cheers.
@@anthonyhavens6536sometimes even worse.
I’m sure in 10 years we’ll see an almost exact same video like this on South Africa.
Probably in less than 10 years.
Why?
@@mrunknown7714Black Excellence that's why
Oh exactly right. Even down to the "white man bad, white man caused all the issues, poor black people just don't know how to solve problems themselves."
They aren't mimicking colonial tendencies, there were despots in Africa before Europeans ever knew it existed lmao
As someone who lives in Zimbabwe - people have no idea how insane our country is. Thank you for bringing light to this. People in the UK simply didn't believe me that dead bodies were being rented out to get fuel.
What do you do with a dead body ?
@@zohzuIt’s explained at the start of the video; people were impersonating hearses to take advantage of a policy that let them skip the ludicrously long lines for gas.
@@zohzu - not currently as the black market now takes care of fuel requirements but in about 2005 when you had to queue more than 12-18 hours to get 20 litres of fuel, special preference was given to "emergencies" - you could queue jump if you had a dead person or a near dying person in your vehicle, at which point you would be allowed to jump the queue and get a full tank. Hence, for companies that required fuel urgently, there was a market to rent a dead body so that you could fill up your vehicle and stay in business. It's crazy but it actually happened.
@@KnakuanaRka thanks man, I did miss that
You're definitely not Zimbabwean stop lying to the gullible. Uri duzvi redede
Interesting video, I learned a lot about the later history. However, the early history seems to have been re-written so I shall mention a few things here.
There was never Apartheid in Rhodesia, the voting qualifications were the same for all races which is why there were black as well as white parliamentarians.
There was no forced labour except in ZAPU labour camps.
UDI did not break from the British "Empire" which been dissolved many years earlier, it broke from the British "Commonwealth", a grouping of free nations.
The economic boom of the post war years benefitted all the people as shown in any comparison with other African nations.
The expression "The black populace" when anti-government activities are mentioned is not correct, the majority of Rhodesian government forces were volunteer Africans.
Mugabe took over the government from the previous Prime Minister who was Bishop Abel Muzorewa, not Ian Smith.
I hope you don't take offence over my comments but I do like the truth to be remembered. Good luck in future.
Why do you think you "learned a lot about the more recent history" when you notice the part about the history you already knew is full of inaccuracies? This video is probably very poorly researched all the way through. I had to laugh about the passage where he was talking about "outrageous government spending" and as evidence citing a public spending as part of GPD rate of 50%. Only a stupid American would say something retarded like that. That's a totally average rate, even the US itself is 43%! France for example is at 59%. Does this mean France will soon need 100 trillion euro notes? But anyways, it's not a terrible video, just researched by some amateur who doesn't know much about history, economics etc. Therefore has some funny inaccuracies. Should be watched with the appropriate caution.
Thanks from me who was born in Namibia in 1940, and later had Uni mates from Rhodesia ; I travelled around that, then, wonderful country and sadly watched its rapid demise. Predictable one.
Gracias por esas aclaraciones.
Zimbabwe is a tragedy. But it is the unapologetic racist settlers like you who are a big part of the problem.
Rhodesia was a racist society. Blacks couldn't attend the same churches as whites, couldn't be buried in the same graveyards. Pass laws controlled movement of Blacks. The same oppression that Zanu practices today was perfected by the Rhodesians against African dissenters in the 60s and 70s.
The Zimbabwe Dollar should be renamed to the Lazarus dollar, because it never dies 💀
😂😂😂fact this one is a good one tbh and I'm Zimbabwean I fled 2yrs ago
🤣🤣🤣
Nice one😂
Ahhh my sister 😂😂😂😭
South africa and zimbabwe all know what the problem is but everyone is afraid to say it.
Or censored to say it
South africa does not have a problem, maybe corrupt, SA problem is zimbabwe and rest of failed states in Africa Flocking here and destroying everything
@@flowrepins6663 God you racists have such a persuction complex. Ignorant inbred losers like you are not being "Censored"
Almost in tears watching this coz I realize I’ll never see a flourishing Zimbabwe in my lifetime. Forever doomed to be economic migrants and the laughing stock of the world. Corruption is indeed a cancer that is eating Africa away
Rhodesia guy
Their leader will just keep busting ass 24 7 until we're dead
Facts!
@@bigbrother9921 : why love it?
@@bigbrother9921 :: So, you’re a Muslim
As a Zimbabwean my heart is broken. This is what we are known for now , nxa
It is not what you are known for. You are only known by the people who are living in Zimbabwe or have in the past.
Do not allow someone staring at a screen to Infiltrate your mind. What You are known for, is 💯% up to you and you follow Countrymen. & still.. if you find yourself surrounded by.. 😈 Bad.. Greedy.. Liars,
Be Known to GOD as a man who has Love and Honor..
I'm in America. We have been struck by 📺📻🎙📡💻👩🎤👨🎤🙈🙉🙊.. and it has 7 children born in the city 🌆 out of 10 children, without their Father living with them. It has Marriage being less...and divorce more.
I never knew my father..
My Mother..Brother and I lived in over 20 different places by the time I was 8 years old.
I was very bad and always in Trouble at School and Did Not work much.. I finally quit my foolishness when I met my girlfriend at 26 years old.
My Girlfriend never knew her father. Her mom was 14 years old when she had her. Her mom left her with her mother. Despite my girlfriend's grandmother raising her in poverty, despite rarely seeing her mother..despite her grandmother dying before my girlfriend was out of school.. my girlfriend was #1 Smartest in her Class. She has always worked.. She has never been in Trouble. She has had Way more Reasons to be Known for the things I was known for.
I even told people that I am a bad person and I am the way I am because of my Dad Abandoning me..
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The entire downfall started with the power grab by Mugabi. Let that be a lesson for why keeping a country a democracy with free and fair elections is important.
Democratic republics are best
Power grab? Didn't the video state that he was democratically elected? Democracy doesn't help anything, it's an illusion.
To think Rhodesia was a grain exporter and the richest country in Africa.
Ian Smith was correct, and is being proved correct again in South Africa today.
Mugabe and ZANU being awful doesn't change that Smith was a racist crank who paved the way for Mugabe's rise
I left Zimbabwe in 2016 in search of greener pastures. I am glad I left when I could… the economy is much worse now and the country is a graveyard of dreams. The current ruling elite is a classic kakistocracy that has unending desire to plunder, loot and maim at whatever cost. In 2016 I asked myself… why has God abandoned such a beautiful country? I then realised that God left that country many many years before then
God left with the whites. Pretty obvious what the common denominator is here.
Why not stay and improve ur own country? Do u plan on bringing ur terrible voting habits with u?
Which country did you emigrate to? Best of luck to you and your family.
God has already answered Zimbabwe usataure nezva Mwari kana usinganzwe kwavari directly
I left Zimbabwe in 2003 and I'm glad that I left as well.
I saw a Zimbabwe 100 trillion dollar bill in a museum. It looks ridiculous but it represents a lot of suffering
I remember tourism commercials from when I was a kid in the mid to late 90s about visiting Zimbabwe. Amazing what a difference a decade can make.
An Indian colleague of mine said once that the problem with Africa was that they did not have enough colonisation.
In Imperial India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India) the English [sic] were there for 300 years and when they left no one remembered what they did before, so they changed the colour of the people in the uniforms and just carried on.
In Africa the white man was in charge for 50-150 years, and when he left they remembered how they lived before, what squabble and dispute they had before, so they retuned to their behaviour as before, only now they had the guns the white man left behind.
So you think colonialism ( aka the African holocaust) was good for the African savages? Well that's mighty brave of you. Perhaps, you can further demonstrate your bravery on this thread by declaring that the Jewish holocaust was in fact good for the Jews. Go on Pete, be brave, why do you find it so easy to pick on us poor Africans?
Still pretty racist thing to say
@@FutureMatrioshkaBrain I’m relaying his statement. I am not qualified to have an opinion, being neither Indian or African.
I repeated it because it does seem unfair that the Indian sub-continent has done so much with it’s relics of colonisation & Africa appears not to.
Even modern day South Africa has slipped into a mess of corruption.
@@FutureMatrioshkaBrainwhy ?
But India is a shithole not so different from most African countries.
All these racist narrative to support Apartheid is nauseating.
this is arguably the most detailed and nuanced video of zimbabwe's political and economic downfall. well done lad wakanyanya!
Similar issues in Venezuela, so tragic that mismanagement due to greed can destroy wonderful nations with so much potential specially when they actually have resources to utilize.
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Imagine how good Zimbabwe would be if it had a good government.
Yes, one that did not practice White or Black Apartheid.
They did. It was called Rhodesia then
Don’t need to imagine, just look at pre-1980
@@JudgeJudith Rhodesian economy was not better before 1980 if you were BLACK, then it was worse than now!!!
@@MagwellB Rhodesian economy was not good if you were Black!
If only there was a single point in Zimbabwe’s history where we could point to where the economy went to crap…
I feel so badly for the white minority in Zimbabwe. Horrible government policies and desperation builds a resentment to an easy scapegoat.
The exiling of their white farmer class was the last straw that broke the camels back. You could ironically say that is what truly killed what was left of Zimbawe.
My neighbours were from southern Rhodesia, they were forced out of there own home in 1982, and arrived here in Australia with zero money to there name.
Absolutely not....those white b*** massacred many thousands of Africans to steal their land. Nothing to to feel sorry for!
@@noticedruid4985they keep blaming South Africa for their problems, we we're not present when they chased white people away
im sorry to say this but no nobody actually votes for the government in charge they rig elections and kill politicians. So when i tell you that the government is practically a dictatorship and can actually get arrested for typing this so its not just the white people in zimbabwe who are suffering all of us blacks included bro i live there its really bad for everyone just check the august 23 elections which where just rigged bro
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It's always the same: Communist rebels, short lived democracy becoming dictatorship, tribe wars, corruption, debts and then a big crash.
One man, one vote, once.
The whites knew exactly what was going to happen, and what they fought for. They did what they could bravely- but they just had to thrown under the communist bus by the internationalists. A sad story
Almost like Ian Smith said what would happen lmao
Perhaps the biggest issue was that the 98% black population imagined they could have the same average wealth as the 2% white population from the same national resources.
Similar issue existed in South Africa and Zimbabwe was more extreme
I love how as soon as the white people leave, everything falls apart.
That's nonsense. There are plenty of rich countries with very few resources. Countries like Japan, South Korea, Switerland, Belgium, Singapore and others have almost no natural resources but have good economies.
@@rogermurray7179 the reason for that is, that the people in those countries are skilled and motivated workers. the people are the most important resource for any country
@@rogermurray7179 Few "resources", yes. But the difference is all these countries already, at least the Asians ones since I am more familiar with them, already had all the additional things needed to succeed or already had succeeded.
We were just lucky the governments more or less could keep things going as they already were.
@@rogermurray7179 no that is illogical, a countries prime resource is the people, if the people are gimme dats, like became in that country the "economy" soon follows.
Traditional African culture gets a free ride in this analysis. The fact is, since time immemorial the foremost political principle in Africa is, the strong man rules. You cannot blame 'colonialism' or 'racism' for this. It is the principle that the political history of the Western democracies have moved away from.
Strong man rules, and ONLY looks after their tribe.
@@spacecadet35 Yes, I forgot that part.
You absolutely can blame colonialism and apartheid at least partially for this and arguably even have it explain 80% of why Zimbabwe is like this, having your resources depleted by foreigners who are only there to send the wealth of your nation to their homeland for over a century doesn't exactly bode well for the actual starting position of said country.
Britain for instance profited off the resources of her colonies for over a century at their expense, of course recent corruption, poor decisions and sanctions do not help their situation but you CAN NOT ignore history and only look at the present. The past of a country or group puts into context and can heavily influences what is being seen in their present, it is necessary to understand the past before you can understand their present or speculate on their future.
Also "The strong man rules" is kinda just human nature although I'd amend it to "The most influential person rules", if a government isn't available they'll just select the next most influential thing for authority. If they're heavily religious they'd band behind their church and if soldiers get cut off from high command they'll just keep following their squad leaders orders.
“African culture” bro you can’t just lump a whole damn continent that has the most dense and diverse population of different ethnic groups together. You are not speaking truth.
Um, you have like several _thousand_ different traditional cultures in Africa. Some of them had forms of peacemaking and democracy. All that was smashed though by colonialism because the whole point of colonialism was to _destroy institutional culture,_ arguably the most important and deepest form of cultural diversity. A crushing loss to humankind. This does not absolve current leaders from responsibility for acting as strong men, either. It means things are fucking complicated and we need to treat people like humans and not that some "deserve" what others don't, as that literally is _also_ the strong man principle going.
I bought my nephew a stack of $10,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars on ebay for his 7th birthday and told him "Congratulations, you're now a millionaire"
Thank you for sharing your perspective on Zimbabwe's economic situation. It's important to recognize the complexities of land reform and its impact on communities. Constructive dialogue about economic policies is vital, focusing on collaboration and understanding rather than blame. Let's work towards solutions that benefit all nations involved. We should not pretend we were unaware of this outcome. To accuse Zimbabwe of drama for taking back its lands through force is unfair. Fixing the errors in history was the responsibility of the British government, but they chose to overlook it. I understand that some people may believe that I am making excuses or rationalizing something here. The harsh sanctions caused the destruction of our nation.
I learned more in 10 minutes than the last 40 years. My dude is great at breaking economics down
I will never forget when my family went there during the crisis I watched a man push a wheel barrow full of money into a shop and walk away with a loaf of bread and some milk
zimbabwe is what South Africa will soon become
Why?
This video glossed over what actually happened to most white farmers. It also leaves out the fact that white farmers were asked to come back and take over farming in order to make the food supply stable again. Colonial rule was unfair and excluded a large portion of the population, yet the nation was stable and Rhodesia was "the bread basket of Africa". If people are being fed, educated and receiving good medical treatment, does it really matter that the people running the government are the minority? Look at South Africa today, it is a shell of its former self. The crime rate in South Africa is so bad that it can't even be properly measured. The power grid has crumbled and the power is out for a large portion of everyday. Criminals steal power Ines for the copper it contains regularly, leaving to more power outages. Safe drinking water is hard to find and unemployment is out of control. Eventually the media and those doing the "educating" are going to have to admit to the obvious facts. Of course, problems will continue to be blamed on the old guard, the European descendants that made these countries the wealthy, plentiful nations that they once were but even those peddling that propaganda know better. Admitting the reality goes against the narrative but it's becoming more and more obvious around the world, that the narrative is not very accurate.
Your facts are inaccuratte. Having lived in Rhodesia from 1949 till I left for Malawi in 1974 I can state that the ANC and ZAPU drove this land into desparation.
Even in the 21st century West there are routinely political parties (and many, many online lackeys) who advocate for these kinds of policies. Basically refusing to learn from a century of economic knowledge. It is mind-boggling.
these policies aren't meant to help anyone, they are meant to hurt white people. zionist occupied countries.
'seized' 'takeovers' 'occupations'
Such sanitized language.
Yes, but you'd do that too to dodge the UA-cam demonisation wrath. They gotta make a living eh.
The Bush War was launched by Soviet and Chinese communist supported communist revolutionaries. They were not really supported by the majority of the African populace. Rhodesia fought for more than 10 years and was winning the war. The only reason they lost was because UK and US continued to strangle it politically. And also when Angola's communist revolutionary won their war, Rhodesia was cut off. Eventually Rhodesia was forced into a political compromise with the communist rebels and then all was lost. Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017. It was definitely not the revolution that the majority Zimbabwean expected. I am sure had they truly had a choice, they would have had the white minority government return instead of Mugabe ruling them for 37 years. Surely a lot less people would have suffered and died.
As someone once said,Zimbabwe's deroute can be explained in 2 words:Robert Mugabe.
I’ve lived in Zimbabwe and left when my neighbors were butchered just for the color of their skin and sins of their forefathers
when was that?
That is scary 😳😳😳😳
Sorry to hear that, hopefully you're in a safer country now!
Sounds like a burglary gone wrong like they have in South Africa. It definitely isn’t racially motivated
It's almost like the rest of the world is super racist and America is the best place in the world
"zimbawe has big political disputes" then "this is only an economic thing, politically zimbawe is OK so all economic problems must be purely economical, no political influence"
when the politics dont work nothing works bro
"Zimbabwe was once one of Africa's wealthiest and most advanced nations" -- when it was named Rhodesia and run by... you know.
I could have made this video 60 seconds. Why did Zimbabwe turn to shit? Whites left.
Turns out colonialism wasn't that bad, ey?
Africans gonna africa, you know
Yeah yeah sure, let's forget what the conditions for the vast majority of the population were.
@@Luetzow1 What dumb fucking take
As someone who currently lives in Zimbabwe, this place is still horrible. Economy is really struggling, people finding no Job opportunities, Transportation is nearly non existant and just soo many thing going wrong. All the while the same political party Zanu pf is still in. The best option for a lot of people is is to leave because they can't do much in this state. Hope I also leave this place soon honestly 🤦♂️
If you're white, come to America. If not, try Namibia.
@@gussampson5029 dame if only I was white 😂, is Namibia really a good spot to go to?
@@gloryrocks1571 Oh hell yeah bro. Best country in Africa by far. Unless something happened in the past year or two. Search UA-cam/Google for some stuff about it. They had their civil war in the 90s/early 00s I believe and sorted their problems. Now they're doing well and getting better.
I mean, I did hear that they might have discovered oil somewhere and that has a tendency to bring out corruption but I don't think it's a problem so far. I would def check them out.
Honestly you don't want to come to America right now. We're on the verge of our own civil war and it will likely have racial elements. Multicultural societies are doomed to failure.
I hope you can leave and find a better life soon. Good luck my friend
America and health insurance are a nightmare. Come to Germany hassle-free and with a full health insurance package. A decent life, apartment and work according to your possibilities. Hello, I am also from Poland in Germany. 😊
Turns out that seizing the means of production from the most productive individuals and handing them over to incompetent and corrupt cronies isn't a smart thing to do, even if it might feel good at that moment.
Socialists are good at that.
Blaming Zimbabwe on "socialism" is a joke. China is socialist and look at how far it's come. Russia too, they were first into space. Educate yourself.
@@OhNotThat Oh so starvation, taking freedom away from people, centralizing the economy around only one party and making everyone subservient to the state in the name of ideals is ok because the USSR had a space program? As someone who likes space exploration and gives the Russians and Khazaks kudos for launching rockets into space I'm not going to pretend that a system that stomps on people is some kind of great paradise.
@@OhNotThat Funny you should bring up China because it's retreating from the world economy right now and can't even maintain a properly functioning society after they shutdown their economy and welded people in their homes.
@@desertdude8274 There were only two starvation during USSR. The first was result of the combination of WW1, revolution, war against counter revolutionary and foreign forces and natural causes.The second was natural causes combined with Stalin's own idioticity, not per se socialism. Also you kinda forget Russia was a backward hellscape without any industrialization or rights for the ordinary ppl before the communist takeover as the tzars gave zero shit about the population. Most people's life improved during communism. When the soviet union felt people's life became much worse economically again. Yes, they had some shit idea regarding social freedom of ppl but the centralized economy was absolutely a good thing and improved the life of ppl.
Zimbabwe is an interesting nation. On paper, it still does surpass many African countries, and ranks highly in some fields, but we are still jarred by some corruption, poverty and a devastating political scene. It has the potential to rise and be one of the continents strongest nations, or to continue on its path and become amongst the world’s poorest.
It's already amongst the world's poorest...
@@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide : technically yes. But one thing about Zimbabwe that should be taken into account is the informal market, which is estimated at 60% or a ratio of 6:4 with the formal sector. If this movement of goods, services, and wealth were documented, taxed and reported, then you’d find that the country has a much bigger economy than what is currently stated. We’re talking several billions in USD. But it’s, also important to note that this money, if utilised, can only be put to good use under a good government.
The best 3 headlines came out of this crisis.
“Mugabe kicks out white farmers”
“Mugabe begs white farmers to come back.”
“Zimbabwe applies for international food assistance”
“If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.” - An African proverb.
It’s just so shocking. I’m absolutely flabbergasted this could happen in such a high functioning society as Zimbabwea.
When you let the natives run things is it really such a shock?
I'm Zimbabwean. I was there when this happened... And this video feels like a walk through my childhood.
I hope you and your family are doing well