RR7306A RHODESIA: SMITH VS THE GUERRILLAS

(10 Feb 1973) RR7306A RHODESIA: SMITH VS THE GUERRILLAS
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For the past six months African guerrillas, operating
from bases in Zambia and Mozambique have been
carrying out hit and run raids on isolated white farms
in Rhodesia's border area. In January 1973 Rhodesia
closed the border and mounted a trading blockade to
force Zambia'a President Kaunda to deal with the
guerrillas. Kaunda retaliated by closing his side of the
border, stopping copper shipments on Rhodesian
Railways, and accusing Rhodesia of aggression in the
United Nations. This report shows the aftermath of
the guerrilla attacks, talks to the victims and analyses
the political and economic issues.
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[@casspirmk6338]

Country surrounded by enemy on 3/4 of territory and deprived from world's help and justice was doomed. Nevertheless of exeptional brave and fit army.

[@alellis9472]

Not their country

[@triple6758]

@@alellis9472 Source? Feelings don't count.

[@BhaktaChase]

@@alellis9472 400 years of British civilization says other wise.

[@TheZellars]

LOL I love it

[@briancd37]

Lt. Chaz Well we had 800 years of British rule... that doesn't make us British...

[@jamesmccann355]

Thank you Harold Wilson, David Owen, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, Cyrus Vance. You really made a mistake with dire consequences.

[@Scotseasy]

A list of real villains there.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

@@Scotseasy villains and idiots UTOPIA was theirs

[@lesliemackay7853]

The end of a long list of lying verminous pestilencial scum going back nearly a century!

[@jimmycricket5366]

A list of men who were either very ignorant or very evil, or both.

[@JamesSumner-Goodwin]

These men stabbed fellow British subjects in the back, heart and soul. They helped kill a country that with time could be amazing for all.

[@toughgemini337]

Ian Smith was totally right, ousting him led to Rhodesia's utter decimation

[@maxslater2577]

I lived in South Africa and spent a good deal of time working in Rhodesia in the 1970's it was the loveliest country I've ever been in and we in South Africa, that is the non politicians hoped we could continue with support to Rhodesia as it was a good well run country. The British were put out because of UDI and subsequently betrayed a country who's people had fought for Britain in two world wars. Shame on you, once again!.

[@joshotero6127]

Isn't it great😊. Death to all those saltines. May they drown in their own blood and go soggy 🤣

[@seannaesseannaes]

I would say Mugabe destroyed more then a 10th of Rhodesia.

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

@@maxslater2577 A whole people? What about the 95% of the population, and what about the King's African rifles who fought in Burma against the Japanese.

[@samanth.]

@@maxslater2577 good to white people only

[@h1017412]

I am proud of my father's contribution to the war effort. I am proud to be one of the last Rhodesians born. I lament that I fact that I was too young to have any effect on my country's destiny.

[@joshotero6127]

H1017412 you should be lucky you weren't strung up. Whites don't belong in Africa.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Im the same mate, born 74, so sad. Wish i had a chance, as a career soldier its something i live with daily.

[@MrGuyJacks]

@@joshotero6127 Would you say the same to the Hundreds of thousands of Africans who have come to Europe illegally?

[@joshotero6127]

@@MrGuyJacks Id tell them not to go. I'd tell them that white people won't allow them to be prosperous . I'd tell them that uneducated poor white people with a quarter of a poor Africans work ethic and desire to prosper. Will be jealous of any progress you make. They'll claim your stealing a job/political position/or a chair in a university. When they discriminate against you for jobs theyll call you lazy . When you are starving and need sustainance theyll call you a begged, a vagabond. So I follow the teachings of professor Lummuba. who says that Africa need its youth to stay in Africa. To not have our best and brightest seeking Education and oppurtunity outside of the continent, But instead strive to make Africa an intellectual bastion. To have Africa no longer be a place where our poor must flee. Africa for Africans, I care nothing for the fates of the European nations. They can do as they wish in regards to immigration. Here in Africa we continue to strive to oust european powers from the continent.

[@robertisham5279]

@@joshotero6127 really after building a civilization which provided you guys with the best health care system in all of Africa (with proper hospitals I mean how can a witch doctor help you? ) and many more

[@brandaoz]

In 1973 the situation wasn't so bad...it got worst in 1974/75,after the independence of Mozambique and Angola.

[@Scotseasy]

Very much so. It was a tragedy that the socialist army officers in Lisbon were able to oust Caetano's government. Their abject surrender of Portugal's overseas provinces in Africa was an act of reckless stupidity, with disastrous consequences for the stability and prosperity of Angola and Mozambique in particular, but also for the people of Rhodesia, black and white alike.

[@hardcoregamer1282]

​@@Scotseasy stay in your continent

[@travelingtimes1993]

@@hardcoregamer1282 did you stay in "your continent" or does that rule just apply to others?

[@thembakhumalo-li7bl]

​@@ScotseasyOverseas provinces!? 😂😂😂😂

[@lance8080]

@@travelingtimes1993 whites in Europe blacks in Africa.

[@matabeleman]

the place is a huge dump now...

[@samanth.]

Better than rapist nazi Rhodesia

[@jayschubert1281]

It's very hard to fight a guerrilla war, when they are sponsored by Russia and china . If they didn't have these countries helping the rebels. Things would have been so different.

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

If if if if?

[@raymondkapumpa2045]

owner of the country we call them freedom fighters not rebels

[@LordWellington15]

@@marcelluswhyte2291 if the Rhodesian Forces had 5 million more men things would’ve been different

[@hanifbmusa4950]

You call the owners of the land "rebels?

[@kasikwagoma6740]

@jayshubert1281,listen when Africa was illegally carved up by white animals from Europe they never consulted the indigenous peoples of Africa. China and Russia were never part of the carve up and were naturally anti imperialist. Do you really think they were going to back white rhodesians whom they knew had stolen black land?? Of course not, they were going to back the black guerillas and British government knew that. Also the Democrats in America especially were hostile about British imperialism and the era of empire was doomed. Many Americans of Irish descent empathised with blacks in Africa because of what the evil British had done to them. Do you rhodesians would have still lost no matter what, Africa is not your land, never was and never will.

[@ronpendergast4071]

Happy Independence Day 11 November 2019. Wbat could have been.

[@johnroberts8247]

A buck's horn has always helped my doctor cure my headaches. Followed by biting off the head of a roach.

[@BlackPigeonPilled]

Standard NHS practice in 🇬🇧 now

[@darryljanson5141]

The communist socialism is very much at work all over the world . I see it at work in New Zealand right now

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

you tube delets anybody who really explains history of africa .you tube is worthless and is helping destroy civilization SCUM WORKS FOR KZbin

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

so called communism allows a dictator to take over naïve people ,next dictator for life keeps plundering country until he dies killing opposition and enjoying his harem lol aka zimbabwe

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

Yer ! New Zealand 🇳🇿 the hot bed of revolutionary zeal.

[@samanth.]

@@earthlionearthlion6539 better than White Nazism..... racist will always be sidelined and regarded as fools you can cry about the communist media all you want but nazis & racist are the scum of the earth

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

@@samanth. savages existed before white men brought civilization dumbell

[@duetproductions5139]

Which year was this from?

[@stevethomas5849]

So sad what happened to that proud nation

[@joshotero6127]

Yep they started a nation that they didn't have the power to keep alive.

[@mich722]

@@joshotero6127 And now Zimbabwe is destroyed, a failed and collapsed state and laughing stock across the world.

[@jaycee9752]

@@mich722 Zimbabwe is alive and kicking. after all the hate and betrayal against the black people, they are still doing alright. Some have made it in the outside world and are using their resources to build a new Zimbabwe. If you visit Zimbabwe, you will not miss the peace and tranquility and beauty of this place called Zimbabwe..Why are some people not thankful to be alive in this difficult world?

[@joshotero6127]

@hostile blueberry it was evil for them to build their nation there in the first place.

[@joshotero6127]

@Joshua张志鸿 lol I'd rather be a fat American than a skinny underfedchink

[@JamesSumner-Goodwin]

If Rhodesia followed Garfield Todd's reforms to gradual integration, by 1973 the process of equal participation would be complete and ZANU/ ZAPU etc wouldn't exist. Ian Smith did care, he was emotionally invested but he should've taken a different path. What have we to show for this?

[@armandozessar4994]

Mr.Smith,problems started from ONU ,England's,and others. Countries that's don't like how Rhodesians has a good living Life's. Mostly Easterners Countries including Cuba's.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

prosperous country is an eyesore for dictatorships and corrupt western countries , it makes people question why their countries are badly govern

[@alexanderpierrepostigoyane7600]

Yeah! A life based on segregation and racial issues

[@enizle5]

This is happening in South Africa now.

[@joshotero6127]

@@bigal640 if only the whites had the courage.

[@bigal640]

@@joshotero6127 don't doubt a white man's courage. We conquered your land while you where throwing sticks at each other

[@joshotero6127]

@@bigal640 and now we are kicking you out lol. bye bye lol

[@joshotero6127]

@@bigal640 You don't stand a chance anymore lol. Your governments have flooded the continent with Guns lol. Huge mistake that the Boer and Afrikaner will pay for.

[@bigal640]

@@joshotero6127 you may kick out the whites but you won't get rid of the cities we built or the infrastructure. You will starve if you kick out the Boer, trust me.

[@tf1090c]

13:16 When this woman was asked how much support the communists had amongst the local Africans she replied “I’ve spoken to my own servants” 😱 what?? Holy crap

[@jimmycricket5366]

Imagine... I'm a civil servant...a government worker and service provider... Holy crap!

[@crazychickSHENA]

A nice 🙂 way of Saying a Slave

[@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013]

@@crazychickSHENA They had the freedom to leave, they where not any more slave than you are.

[@djharto4917]

Such an Ill informed uneducated stupid woke statement.

[@Scotseasy]

@@crazychickSHENA Don't kid yourself.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

Separation or ghetofication It is our choice

[@jeroenjansen2709]

Its a pity for such a beautiful countryside to be at war

[@LeavingGoose046]

That's always one of my thoughts, for every war just about.

[@maxbrown8665]

"Battle for Hurungwe" by John Padbury (2022)

[@xyz8512]

That chicken biting thing...?

[@enizle5]

7:45 Oh, classy. I can imagine that would be going down in Germany within a generation. They've already found children's body parts left over from African rituals in the Thames.

[@philemonnakedi7711]

Of course the Rhodesians had superior weapons, but the Zims had the numbers and that worked for them.

[@joshotero6127]

Philemon Nakedi that's because they weren't on their own land. you cant claim land with out the numbers.

[@robertisham5279]

It was pretty cringe worthy and not exactly civilized people.

[@user-gd7kn1qq6n]

@@robertisham5279yeah they are lmaoo white civilization isn't the definition of civilization u racist moron

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

@@philemonnakedi7711 natives did not cared to die as their life was a shithole

[@gravedigger9313]

The way the lady talks is exactly how white ladies talk in South Africa in 2020

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

There are no women leaders in black countries because they have more common sense

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

What a shame some people just can't change their old way of seeing.

[@asa1973100]

Do you mean eloquently because she sounds far more eloquent than anything I’ve seen from black South Africans

[@samanth.]

@@earthlionearthlion6539 black society was equal both men & women

[@j.glennbauer508]

Respect. It could have been better. Enjoy the yaun..

[@casimirofranciscomanhica9805]

Zimbabwe is Free

[@triple6758]

@@casimirofranciscomanhica9805 Free to starve?

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

I think you misspelled yuan currency ?

[@benvaughn7166]

nation against nations....prophecy

[@Pfsif]

No, it a constant, so are earthquakes.

[@jamesgordonphiri362]

No audio

[@barnabaszirebwa958]

How can you call owners of land fighting for their sovereignty terrorists

[@nyashamatopodzi4781]

Zim/Rhodis, hit by sanctions twice. I love u

[@chloeew4627]

The wisdom of the medicine man is astounding..😂😂😂

[@freisein6554]

Like South Africa 😔

[@Shaunnygw]

Lion in the clouds............1:03

[@brandaoz]

On the right..right?

[@Shaunnygw]

@@brandaoz Yes 👍

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Neat

[@goodafy]

AD45 - AD 410, the period Britain was under the Roman conquest of Julius caesar. British disliked the Roma occupation and frustrated it. What Britain did in Africa was conquest Every conquest has beginning and end. Modern African states were not created to be prosperous, Africans of unfamiliar descent were jammed together and called rhodesia and so on which I find insulting. If Zimbabweans make a mess of their land, I wonder why a British lad somewhere in Yorkshire is banging his head over it. Minority rule is an aberration to democracy These colonialists should be grateful that the treatment they gave to local Africans were not returned to them How many of the colonialists had swimming pool in the back garden and black servants to serve them wine while they jot around in opulence How many Blacks enjoy such in Europe. Go to Dubai and tell an Emirati that whites invented hospitals and Lamborghinis that he should hand over his goodies to you because you are white and British Come and report back how you got on Nonsense!

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

you wanted people dressed in animal skins analphabets to rule 100 years ago hmmm Utopia

[@jimmycricket5366]

... Yes you wrote nonsense.

[@fritzytv9285]

Funny how the way of life was so much better than anything that came after it. Those are simple facts

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

It's mostly the same.

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

No the simple fact is you " lost " and they won. That's a fact.

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

@@marcelluswhyte2291 Who lost?

[@jimmycricket5366]

​@@marcelluswhyte2291Yes who lost?

[@markburke2853]

So that's where our current crop of Af doctors for the NHS comes from...

[@nigel5634]

Hahaha so funny lol

[@zulubeatz1]

Spoken to my own servants.... Simple lovable people. haha brilliant.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

nobody forced those servants to work for real money , they had choice of living in mad huts without money or being able to buy medicine food and send kids to schools it was a irresistible alternative lol🤣 .Those "servants " were desperate to work for white peop

[@ArmThePoor161]

Haha probably faced the wall for that one 🤣.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

@@ArmThePoor161 Make yourself clear we do not know who you support

[@ArmThePoor161]

@@earthlionearthlion6539 far-left orthodox Marxists, and anarcho-communists.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

@@ArmThePoor161 I will support separation any time , it is impossible to live next to colored , not long ago I had to show a gun to one ,unemployed stupid deceived by another scum from bangladesh attacker , he was coming over the fence at me , recently he attacked an elderly women , hopefully he will go to jail for a while .In 25 years my 98 % white area had no crime until that non white scum showed up .

[@DS-hy6ld]

Sooo.... Did it work? Did that guy's headache go away??

[@kelvinmarwizi8769]

yes

[@TheDeviantgeezer]

He was eaten by a crocodile in the river

[@oriettoberti2501]

Rhodesians never die.

[@ArmThePoor161]

They did they got shot and killed my zanu pf friends told me

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

In the real world not the deluded fantasy world you have chosen to living in Rhodesia is a live and well. But sorry to shatter your fantasy world 🌎 it ended in 1980 . That's the real world 🌎. You and Mr Smith " lost the war " It's 2022 move on.

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

@@marcelluswhyte2291 Your country will also see it's demise.

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

@@ArmThePoor161 At what ratio. 100 to 1?

[@user-wy6zl9pk5z]

... but they do lose resoundingly!

[@junkerjorg2157]

R.N.D.!

[@gerbilkicker]

Well done, Jews.

[@mahlareberkely2252]

The freedom was messed up by tribalism,cronyism and looting of state resource ,because others they think people owed them for being in chimurenga.Now Zimbabwe has no economy but beautiful history

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

So called communism allows a dictator to take over country and it's naïve people , next black dictator- king for life keeps plundering country until he dies , during his rule he is killing opposition (sometime thousands , sometimes millions ) . During his life dictator enjoys his harem and multiple mansions , meanwhile enslaved citizens are enjoying "freedom" to live in poverty😁 just like in zimbabwe nobody forced those black servants to work for white men and his money , they had choice of living in mad huts without money or earn money and buy medicine food and send kids to schools it was an irresistible alternative lol🤣 .Those "servants " were desperate to work for white people because they were lifted from savage living like in stone age before white men brought modern technology and civilization to Africa PERIOD .Now white men has to choose separation or ghettofication .

[@joaosilva2990]

África: "caso perdido".

[@kingsleykodjo9602]

idiot Africa is doing fine worry about your shithole latin America

[@mich722]

@@kingsleykodjo9602 Most African countries are failed states with most of the population starving or in extreme poverty, most of the buildings crumbling and falling to pieces etc.

[@CharlesMashingaidze-hh3jg]

Who were the terrorists?

[@SanJuanCreole]

Long live Zimbabwe 🇿🇼!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

It should be Rhodesia

[@SanJuanCreole]

@ShotsMerkzAll nope. Rhodesia was a failed attempt to build another white colonialist nation-state. Its entire history was built on the subjugation and exploitation of indigenous peoples. Kinda like what happened in the U.S. , Canada and oh yeah, Australia. So long live Zimbabwe!!! 🇿🇼 🇿🇼 Down with colonialism 👎

[@joshjenkins004]

I felt more sorry for that poor chicken than I have ever felt sorry for Africa or a black African

[@torent7790]

@@joshotero6127 at least with half a clue its still better than being a dumn black ass that dies know his dic from his mounth

[@crazychickSHENA]

I feel sorry for a goat 🐐 then w trash 🗑️

[@westmax8491]

As if the africans care about a shithead called Josh aka shit Jenkins

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

Josh "get a life ". The war been won and you and Mr Smith lost. Simple as that. Ask your servant ?

[@veriteinternational]

12:48 - solid Rhodesian accent on display - usual British settler invasion just like in Northern Ireland. Only brings war and chaos.

[@davidroux7987]

The humane approach would be to castrate the K4s

[@fransh.maluleka244]

Ian Smith he's insane how could you call the natives terrorists.

[@jimmycricket5366]

Because they consistently raided and raped. They burnt hospitals and mission stations with children in them. You know the story. They had a destructive nature. The "cockerel" insignia came about because they were known to demand that the cockerel of the village be cooked, even when a fat hen was offered, and even if it was the last cockerel in the village. Why do you think Mugabe quietly replaced the cockerel as his party mascot? He was embarrassed by the truth! They also frequently demanded to sleep with young virgins in the villages and burnt the businesses and property of blacks and killed those who they suspected of not supporting them. But you knew that, didn't you?

[@ArmThePoor161]

"I spoke to my own servants" This is why the colonisers went kicked out.

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

I spoke to my servants and they said " you lost the war madam ". Then I woke up and I was not dreaming.

[@jimmycricket5366]

That was the language of the day. Like civil "servants". Those same employees probably died from poverty later on.

[@ArmThePoor161]

@@jimmycricket5366 that's why it had to change. Violence for violence. Oppressor expelled by the oppressed.

[@mwangiirungu3670]

Just like Isis ..the end of imaginary state.haha...

[@marcioluis3829]

@Dale Allen sorry , what development they bring ? Railways ? Roads? They constructed all that for themselves like they did in India.

[@crazychickSHENA]

Lol 😆

[@riolunintendo2619]

Good thing this country is no more...

[@kevinjohnson2847]

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You have got to be joking..... Or are you that Stupid

[@kelvinmarwizi8769]

the country is still intact

[@lance8080]

It’s Zambawa now baby, no more European colonialist stealing lands and running apartheid dictatorships.

[@roquetesoriere3788]

And when the blacks gonna stop to steal europeans lands?

[@lance8080]

Rocco TA vote in real hardcore politicians that will deport the foreigners out.

[@jimmycricket5366]

And now you are scrambling to go to the white man's land, even prostituting your daughters.. The hypocrisy and lies. How sad you are!

[@mnmj]

@@whatsMyNameAgainAgain You sound like you are a white supremacist. If you think it's that bad then please continue to stay away and leave the people of Zimbabwe alone.

[@jamesgordonphiri5496]

Freedom fighters not terrorists

[@kevinjohnson2847]

Freedom Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Thats a good laugh

[@ep1336]

Terrorists.

[@marcelluswhyte2291]

History is written by the Victor's they chose their own words and the word is " Freedom fighter's ". And that's a fact. Laugh 🤣 as much as you like .

[@samanth.]

@@kevinjohnson2847 Nazi Rhodesia fell miserably

[@jimmycricket5366]

​@@marcelluswhyte2291But the truth remains. If you are the type of person who thinks you are "free" when you are skin and bone and jobless, or in your last days from an entirely curable disease in a hospital with no running water or medicines, then fine.