Tourism in Zimbabwe: Ruins of Rhodesia

[@Britannica1]

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[@ddlc_monika]

Zimbabwian multi-Trillionaire here >A PILE OF ROCKS

[@SgtBomers]

South Africa is not far behind Zim. We are speed running the decline of a country.

[@tindotings7892]

Zimbabwe is home nomatter what, unless your citizenship was based on colonialism, then sorry....we Zimbabweans can soldeir-on to achieve sustainable living standards for all

[@helix5779]

Why did the British get rid of its c0lonies and want bl4ck rule in Africa post WW2? I'm confused.

[@Vuntermonkey]

​@@SgtBomersnot the fault of the European settlers, but those who took them over.

[@LordMiles]

This was actually our honeymoon. Callum and I had a lovely romantic time

[@rachellius8921]

❤ hope no goblins ruined it

[@tigerburn81]

Did you let the locals know?

[@Tajarim88]

Truly cute cupple. No continent more appropriate than the Africas for that.

[@Tajarim88]

​@@rachellius8921goblins are allergic to true love

[@BattleBro77]

Least gay Catholic, very based

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

Before Zimbabwe used candles as a source of light, they used electricity

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Extinction rebellion is envious. Our country is following suit.

[@zw-crc]

In Rhodesia, black people used candles even though it was glorious times for white people.

[@regularperson9801]

@@zw-crc good

[@fartking2845]

Electricity is white people magic. At least that's what the indigenous people think.

[@zw-crc]

The point is that Rhodesians who think citizens had electricity in Rhodesia are ill-informed. The was no power supplied to the majority of the people.

[@Spaxder2]

What i find admirable at least is that they dont destroy most of the historical items. The fact that the statue was not in fact destroyed and just moved to a museum surprised me.

[@labrynianrebel]

Better than a lot of Americans in that regard.

[@jonathansmithwick5703]

Enough perspective to have some respect for what came before, I suppose

[@robertely686]

In India there are many memorials in preservation of their British invaders. I couldn't imagine us keeping German Nazi statues had we been invaded.

[@isaiahxp9185]

⁠@@robertely686Keeps Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman statues.

[@carbonjohnson6414]

@@isaiahxp9185 They have plenty of mosques, too.

[@BoggWeasel]

It's nice to see a country that gives everyone regardless of race the opportunity to be under educated, poor, miserable and live in fear. Representational "equality" at it's finest

[@lumpi806]

you speak of great-britain ?

[@BoggWeasel]

@@lumpi806 From what I can tell, things in GB aren't all that great, but they have a long, long way to go to catch up with Zimbabwe 😁

[@lumpi806]

@@BoggWeasel Britain has a lot lot more money than Zimbawe, and is not under sanctions, so...do the (right) maths

[@BoggWeasel]

@@lumpi806Zimbabwe/Rhodesia had one of the best economies in Africa ... Thanks to it's "fair shares for all", communistic approach to land distribution and kicking out the people who knew how to manage agribusiness, farming, mining etc , everybody now shares in the total failure of it's economy. Zimbabwe is not under sanctions... Rhodesia was, and even under those conditions, the standard of living was better for the majority of all people, not just "Whites".... and for gods sake pay attn to what's said in the video... he explains it all very well.....😁

[@lumpi806]

@@BoggWeasel My country was under communist regime, and you know that some fools say ? It was better under communism....No ! No ! Communism was an horrible regime. Never again for me. And I understand those who DO NOT WANT to come back to the former regime of rhodesia. And you have to be HONEST when you talk about the wealth of Zimbabwe : pretty most of African countries are poor. Zimbabwe is an African country, so..do the maths again. And be patient. China was poor too...

[@realityDUBSTEP]

How can poverty exist in Zimbabwe if everyone is a trillionaire?

[@dryciderz]

Bernie Sanders logic

[@ajs41]

Because inflation is a billion per cent a day.

[@Threemore650]

@@ajs41somehow Bitcoin is more valuable there, but I’m a girl, so I don’t understand how.

[@enriquemthupha]

That currency doesn't exist anymore...

[@Anonymous-gu2pk]

We need [infinity money] living wage.

[@spicyboi2223]

When I was a teenager, I worked at a pizza place in the American Southeast. We had an older white woman come in with an interesting accent. I asked where she was from, and she said Zimbabwe. Me being a history nerd, I asked if she was born in Rhodesia, and her eyes lit up. She went on about how beautiful Victoria Falls were and how I should see them one day. Very lovely woman. I hope she's doing well.

[@luke8329]

I went to buy propane for the BBQ a couple of years ago and the old guy had an accent also, this is in Yorkshire. I asked if he was South African, he said no Zimbabwean, I replied you mean Rhodesian. Big smile on his face, he was surprised I was aware because I'm pretty young and look younger. We chatted away about when he left etc then a realised I still carry 5 billion zim dollars. I used to try educate family and friends on the paper currency tricks, I've made many billionaires. Seconds after we start chatting about that, an African came in so he served him and the conversation ended, in a poetic sort of way I thought at least.

[@andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175]

I delivered some appliances to a woman from there near Knoxville. And she had a pair of Rhodesian ridgebacks and she got excited that I knew about them.

[@edwardsajl]

She's dead

[@YorkshirePirate]

@@edwardsajl Rhodesians never die

[@michaelfox8164]

Very lovely woman. Shame dad lost the plantation and the voluntary work team stole his truck. Lovely family.

[@socks7545]

"and a policeman tried on my redcoat" "then I handed him a fredo's" diplomacy at it's finest.

[@LordVader1094]

Cultural exchange in progress

[@wulfengel]

I love being English, "'ere mayte 'ave a freddo, we're friends now init"

[@jonbaxter2254]

Fredo's are now worth $100,000,000,000 Z

[@swarming1092]

this is how we conquered half the world

[@xaviert.123]

Timestamp? Would love to see this bit

[@craigsmith2808]

As an ex-Rhodie that now lives in Essex, I thoroughly enjoyed your narration and hint of sarcasm. Well done, mate.

[@cameronjames3499]

Callum talking about how you can spot the American Tourists because they wear safari outfits in the middle of town. Also Callum (the British Tourist): brought a Red Coat with him to wear.

[@Blackstar-yd3yf]

Red coats doing red coat stuff 😂 that's why we dumped the tea

[@ldt8904]

The difference could be that he wore it ironically for temporally-constrained, intentionally-memetic purposes

[@manmaje3596]

@@Blackstar-yd3yf Yanks doing Yankee stuff that's what caused 9.......No I'm not that cruel.

[@1982kinger]

Lol ik.... americans are not known for their safari gear

[@thebigenchilada678]

@@manmaje3596israel caused that one…

[@photonfantastic]

I was born and raised in Rhodesia then Zimbabwe. I left the country permanently in 1992 and haven’t returned to visit since 2001. As a young man, I travelled by train from Harare to Victoria Falls and back. It is painful to witness the extent of the decay. Thank you for making this video.

[@killgaet6253]

I think you did a typo here, you wrote Harare instead of Salisbury.

[@jeffrutledge1789]

As an American it sickens me that my government and the British government turned on Rhodesia. Our government stopped working for the people a long time ago!

[@brandon9172]

@@jeffrutledge1789 As a American, I have to ask, what in the god damn are you talking about?

[@jcrbama]

@@jeffrutledge1789 What Kissinger architected for South Africa and Rhodesia was pretty repulsive in retrospect. Basically engineered destabilization that led to a lot of death.

[@shystietweet]

@@jeffrutledge1789 Zimbabwe belongs to African people not white Europeans

[@ShizuokaMike]

If I want to see ruins of the British Empire, I’ll visit London.

[@tedbacon1283]

Womp womp

[@simoncollins6529]

Sad but true

[@saadbinrehman8186]

You mean Londonistan, we rule the capital of Anglo-Saxon now.

[@theAEDan]

@@saadbinrehman8186we’re well aware.

[@saadbinrehman8186]

@@theAEDan now say Allahu Akbar

[@LSDale]

The difference between SA and Zimbabwe is that SA has signs telling you that you will be carjacked and Zimbabwe can't afford to put up those signs. .

[@ElvisMars-ny1uh]

Coz Zim got no issue of car hijacking

[@bigboiganiga8356]

@@ElvisMars-ny1uh cause there are 5000 cars in a country of 50 millions.

[@steveallen648]

True dat and I've seen signs in SA saying if you are reading this sign your car is already stolen....lol

[@takunda_bryton]

who will jack you in Zim?!

[@takunda_bryton]

​@@bigboiganiga8356mhata yambuya vako😂

[@SergalCheeseHead]

You know South Africa is bad when Callum has more positive things to say about Zimbabwe

[@mrvoltem9379]

Did he make a video about south africa?

[@WastedBananas]

crazy

[@thedailymillwall]

@@mrvoltem9379 watch the end of the video brah

[@Star-hg1kt]

You cant be this low 👁Q

[@enriquemthupha]

🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@LuisCarruthers]

It's a sure sign of a failed state when a large railway station in the city centre is abandoned.

[@joseplaza9442]

They have nobody that can conduct a train

[@BillBiggs1]

@@joseplaza9442lol 😂

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

Railways, schools and shops are symbols of racist imperialism!

[@pathfinder1983]

Yes, like in Detroit, Michigan.

[@LuisCarruthers]

@@pathfinder1983 At least that building is being restored for other purposes, and Detroit has a newer station in another place and trams from the station to downtown.

[@groovedive1]

I wonder if in 30 years someone as yourself will be visiting England and wondering why it has become a forgotten ghost town.

[@jansoltes971]

Someone from India, Brazil or Poland will.

[@typicalsomeone5073]

Won't be a ghost town be full colonisers

[@groovedive1]

@@typicalsomeone5073 I can't remember where, but I'm sure I have seen a clip of a Chinese official disgusted at the way an African country has let everything the English built come to rack and ruin. I see a similar thing here. It has already started. So sad.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

bald and bankrupt's British vids already feel like this

[@MerceMerce-sp2ml]

B&B is a clown​@@Laughing_Chinaman

[@barbecueman6352]

As an Australian it’s eerie how similar a lot of the old colonial period buildings in Zimbabwe are to the colonial buildings in Australia, just more run down.

[@linmorell1813]

And New Zealand when I visited there

[@Myne1001]

Some of those towns look identical to towns out here in the country...just minus the trash everywhere and the hundreds of Africans

[@matyis6]

@@Myne1001 go to the outback and you'll shit that's way worse than anything in this video

[@Myne1001]

@@matyis6 oh I know how bad it is. Difference is that is pretty contained and there are plenty of nice towns in the eastern states and Western Australia. With Zimbabwe EVERYWHERE is like that now, no longer any "nice" spots.

[@wardio4773]

they used to have standardized designs for building in the different climates of the empire

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

Today in Top Gear: Callum goes post-apocaliptic larpping in the ruins of old Rhodesia, Lord Miles gets chased by goblins, and the team become billionaires speculating with sweets...

[@ciaranReal]

I would love to see calum on top gear 😂

[@Noperare]

Hey, sweets as currency is great. To combat inflation, you can literally eat money.

[@nasion420]

Fun fact : The Grand Tour (Top Gear trio) just been to Zimbabwe.

[@KevDoy]

The East India Company is no longer around. It was dissolved in 1874. The one you came across is a separate business that adopted the name, founded in 2010.

[@Ricky-oi3wv]

He sells packaged teas in London, I think. As in retail, branded tea bags.

[@ragnnohab]

@@Ricky-oi3wv WE ARE CEO SAAR

[@michaelbond2005]

The British South African Company, wasn't part of the East India Co. I don't think,🤔

[@rickywroe]

In mugabes speeches he promised everyone would be millionaire. He kept his promise.

[@stevenhull5025]

He was wrong. They became billionaires instead.

[@RepostGuy101]

He exceeded their expectations and made everyone a trillionare

[@nightmareeternal8454]

I visited my Afrikaner family in South Africa and went to the Voortrekker Monument where my Grandmother told me a story about how she was the model for one of the children in the statue out the front of the Monument, it's the largest monument in the southern hemisphere.

[@ابراهيم_محمد_الازهر]

Was it the blood river monument? The battle of 1839 against the zulu?

[@nightmareeternal8454]

@@ابراهيم_محمد_الازهر the blood river monument is on the river where the battle took place (there are actually 2 monuments there one is a memorial to the Zulus) the Voortrekker monument is a monument to the entire great trek which is essentially the origin story of the Afrikaners including the blood river

[@Mugwortcircle]

​@nightmareeternal8454 we gotta voortrek to another planet at this point.

[@asmallphd9648]

Seeing chinese flags in africa reminds me of this documentary called Empire of Dust which has a chinese man struggling to get the africans to work on infrastructure.

[@jamesthornton3539]

"It's all so tiresome"...

[@weetbix4497]

Such a great documentary...

[@jasonisbored6679]

And they pay it back by dumping in the rivers. Great story all around, huh?

[@EB-jf5oi]

It's one of the best documentaries ever made. Both comedic and educational.

[@Aquayunyun]

Guess the Chinese want their piece of the pie, too late for the scramble for Africa now though, or is it?

[@networknomad5600]

"In a multicultural society, elections are not a representation of people's politics but instead a headcount of ethnic groups." Yikes, the prognosis for the US looks grim.

[@roberttoodie275]

UK and Australia are the same

[@ChrisF-jt1qf]

The US is already a lost cause lol

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Almost like theyve been slowly destroying us for decades but most people are simply too damn stupid to see even the most obvious parts of it

[@joeblogs6598]

@networknomad5600 People should understand that genetics are more important than technology or culture. If they do not understand, they will be forced to learn once the truth plays out. We need eugenics.

[@numbers8908]

@@joeblogs6598 Literal fascist alarm

[@NeutronNick11]

My Mum is from Rhodesia, family fled when she was young. My aunt has been back there recently, and showed me pictures the once first-world looking suburban street become overgrown with grass in the tarmac, and dilapidated houses, as if it were some low-budget post-apocalypse film.

[@Rootiga]

Sadly the US has areas like this, in Colorado it's called the city of Boulder

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

Gotta go to the nice places like Borrowdale and Avondale. That’s where a lot of rhodies live today

[@DragonsFrogs]

@@RootigaI don’t get it, what’s the joke? Boulder is a relatively wealthy city still

[@belleme861]

America and Europe is next.

[@jeffrutledge1789]

The British government and The US government turned on its people many years ago!

[@B-26354]

Yet our political leaders say this is an improvement to Rhodesia and what came before. Little functioning infrastructure. Entire areas just left unmaintained. Its utterly depressing.

[@DaSniper406]

"You went to Rhodesia to see the Ruins of Old Zimbabwe. And you went to Zimbabwe to see the Ruins of Rhodesia." Some quote that i remember seeing on the internet

[@TheTigerOC]

The saying for us Rhodesians was "Come and see the Zimbabwe Ruins today and the Ruins of Zimbabwe tomorrow". The Zimbabwe Ruins are unique and believed to have been built by Arabs mining gold and capturing slaves. The modern Zimbabwean will tell you they built this network of small settlements but suddenly forgot the technology of building in stone without mortar.

[@dragothunderstar6526]

@@TheTigerOClol you guys sure care for Africa a lot I mean you can always shoot for North Africa conquered by the Arabs or even Asia the sky’s the limit.

[@kingbullyrock8739]

@@dragothunderstar6526 He or She is just stating the TRUTH, and the TRUTH always hurts.

[@dragothunderstar6526]

@@kingbullyrock8739 nah not really most Africans under colonialism hated it . Had the Europeans came and offered equal right to the native Africans living there they would not have minded sharing their land. Thats what happens when you have a minority rule the majority without equal rights. it never works out eventually rebellion and anger ferments. Had things been great for blacks under Rhodesia or whatever white state existed in Africa they’re would not have been a rebellion. Point is white people looked down on Africans whether that was Afrikaners, British or what not. They came in with attitude of once slaves always slaves. I personally would love for their to be a white state in Africa it would bring more diversity sadly. They would come in with a negative mindset of superiority brought about colonialism and slavery. Of course not all white people are like most are nice but they still take in this prejudice based on what they’re taught.

[@talloolahmoon]

This is a fact

[@Benom8]

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said - 'Hey mate, want to try a Freddo?'...

[@JackTagar]

Kipling would've had interesting words had he been in SA and not India. "Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck And march to your front like a soldier."

[@MerckZ21]

@@JackTagar He did come to South Africa / Rhodesia. Even wrote about the “Great Grey-Green-Greasy Limpopo River”.

[@kenrehill8775]

Mine just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.

[@LaoWatsonSmith]

@@JackTagar Kipling knew it well. Was he not the one who said ‘There’s only one man I envy, he who has never been to Africa for he has so much to see’ or words to that effect

[@NoContextVideosChannel]

Is that a reference to Ozymandias by Percy Byshee Shelley?

[@ShadowAkatora]

"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?" "Do we?"

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

Best movie

[@joeb7975]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 TIA

[@dannyarcher438]

@@joeb7975 TIA

[@uberfeel]

Jennifer connelly was hot in that movie.

[@MiaogisTeas]

​@@uberfeel Jennifer Connelly has always been hot and will remain hot for eternity

[@katyu16]

Rhodesia showed the world what Africa could have been, Zimbabwe showed the world what Africa is.

[@s.wvazim6517]

Bro....thats actually a beautiful sentence

[@JoseonBall]

It's unfortunate how maniacs came into power after decolonization, Thankfully Botswana got lucky and they are now the success story of Africa

[@dylanwaller2468]

Putting aside the glaring racism in that comment for just one second, it’s a pretty telling indicator that you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about when you insinuate that an entire continent of over 1 billion people is exactly. So Ghana and Zimbabwe are the same, huh? What about Zimbabwe and Tunisia? Zimbabwe and Mauritius? All of these places have had exactly the same history as Zimbabwe and the same outcomes, that’s what you’re saying, isn’t it? Maybe learn even the most basic information about the topic before you make embarrass yourself being an ignorant racist, okay?

[@KB8Killa]

@@dylanwaller2468Africa is a massive place yes. And it has equally massive problems.

[@avrillee7369]

​@@dylanwaller2468my goodness Dylan a lot of people do live on the African continent and love our respective countries, however, we are not prepared to lie about any and every bad situation or incident that happens in our countries. you should maybe talk to the locals in the African countries - none will tell that it is good.

[@ishitrealbad3039]

the fact that they preserved random billboard ads, probably shows how nostalgic some of these people are for the old days.... what a sad story

[@anotherfreediver3639]

I was impressed by seeing them not vandalised; but yes, a very sad story. I didn't realise how bad it had become since 2008.

[@Sionnach1601]

That's actually an extremely good point. Well done 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@ishitrealbad3039 sad how?

[@drmavushe]

I promise you all that is for tourists. They hold no sentimental value to the locals

[@ishitrealbad3039]

@@drmavushe ofcourse vandals and homeless people care about tourists XD

[@paulb2493]

I was a member of the peace force in 79/80 whilst in the army. I had Christmas dinner with a white family. The husband said once the vote was all over Rhodesia would collapse. He was right and over the years I watched as it was totally ruined. I spent New Year with the gorilla army in a mud hut village. The villagers had such high hopes for the future. What a sad outcome.

[@paulb2493]

@kevins80dads-t3g Oops lol, guerrilla army. Thanks missed that.

[@nuguskhalifa9365]

@paulb2493 not true Zimbabwe economy growth was high between 81-99

[@paulb2493]

@@nuguskhalifa9365 ok. Sorry did not realise it was an all working over there. Obviously I have been misinformed over the state of the country since I was there. Thank you for correcting me.

[@nuguskhalifa9365]

@paulb2493 so I was there as well what you talk about majority of black population was educated after 81

[@paulb2493]

@@nuguskhalifa9365 I am glad to know that. Unfortunately I doubt regardless who was educated even this video shows a failed regime which even if it started well cannot be classed as a success. This brings me back to the point that it a sad outcome.

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

We have a civic duty to impress upon the present the mistakes of the past. We abandoned Rhodesia, and its people. Zimbabwe is a husk of what Rhodesia was, and will never approach what Rhodesia could have been.

[@BattleBro77]

UK soon to follow.

[@BlackIce3190]

Zimbabwe-Rhodesia was the right path for everyone there, but no, the UN got a case of the ass that the communists didn’t win.

[@Enhancedlies]

re-entry anyone?

[@benkai343434]

@@Enhancedlies that's not going to fix anything and you know it.

[@Blackstar-yd3yf]

​@@benkai343434can't get worse anyway 😂

[@davidboskett5581]

I found this video extremely interesting as I visited Rhodesia in 1976 on a trip I made travelling by land from Kenya to South Africa The country was extremely clean and well run in spite of sanctions and the shops had more things available compared to Zambia.

[@ShotsMerkzAll]

Tell us more!

[@alocassia]

Sounds like Zimbabwe is the perfect place to shop for British Empire artifacts

[@Htrac]

This is real journalism and history. It's a documentary the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1980s in the UK.

[@ridgemurphree15]

You must not search for many documentaries then…

[@Htrac]

@@ridgemurphree15 Why are you gae

[@ciaranReal]

It will happen in the uk

[@uberfeel]

What did Zimbabweans had before fire? Electricity!

[@longiusaescius2537]

Keeping this

[@thaum1]

LMAO. In a tragic sort of way, but man that is funny. Bravo

[@BannedSports]

If people don’t believe in genetic differences… they are just ignorant at this point. All the proof in the world is out there that shows the Austrian Painter being right about the hierarchy.

[@michaelfox8164]

​@@BannedSportsWould argue that watching sports like a consoomer doesn't land you very high up on that hierarchy

[@BannedSports]

@@michaelfox8164 lol fair play. I’m American with Irish/British/Dutch DNA

[@danamoroso-xjq]

"so the Zimbabwean 5th brigade who were trained by North Korean military advisers....." wait wat? what could possibly go wrong?

[@cherylanne4390]

I am a white Zimbabwean. My parents were born there of Dutch, German, Stottish descent. I and my children were born there too. I live in the UK now. I moved away 40 years ago. I notice it has not improved or even stayed the same as how it was when it was Rhodesia. I miss Rhodesia, which now as my mother would say is Scotch Mist ie. Something that is hard to find or does not exist.

[@ImFieldy]

Im a Pom who did Cairo - Cape Tn. Stopped and worked as a telephone operator in Sby for 7 month 1975. Met a nurse (family McGarrell) there - married her. Settled in NZ. Look back with great memories. I still claim Vic Falls to be the highlight of planet Earth.

[@Serjo777]

@@ImFieldy You should upload videos of your memories, sounds like an interesting life. What's a Pom btw.?

[@kangaruman2457]

@@Serjo777 A Brit or Englishman. A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red

[@ImFieldy]

@@Serjo777 ​ @kangaruman2457 Interesting version kanga. I always thought it was a hang on from English criminals being taken to Aussy P.O.M.E Prisoner of mother England.

[@Tri57b]

I grew up in Zimbabwe and appreciated the section on Lobengula. High-school history was my first experience with "controlling the narrative". Having been told that he was a wise and benevolent ruler, he was subsequently tricked by the British. When I question how he could be wise and still be tricked into a trade for a few rifles and beads, I was promptly put out the class. Needless to say I dropped hostory the next year.

[@simonh6371]

It wasn't quite like that. He signed something called the Rudd Concession which was written in English, which he could neither speak nor read. A missionary who had spent time there and spoke Ndebele was asked to translate, and he did this inaccurately whether deliberate or not, saying that not more than 10 white men would come into his Kingdom to dig for minerals. He was given £100 sterling and a thousand Martini-Henry rifles, each with 100 rounds.

[@Tri57b]

@simonh6371 My point is that I refused to accept the teachers version that he was deliberately tricked by the British. Had he bothered to present it as a historical misunderstanding, I probably would have remained interested. Instead he ran with the government's stance at the time which was maBritish evil. I don't know that I blame him, but it certainly made me mistrust books a lot more.

[@andrewdickerson849]

​@@Tri57bthe british empire was very very very bad! Millions across the world dead from the pilfering and rape of communities and entire nation states! Disagreeing with a teacher as a 13 year old should not make you distrust books lmao wtf.

[@enriquemthupha]

I was about to say it was language barrier, but that has been well explained by the respondent lol... clearly Rhodes had his own agenda and truly just wanted to take over the land for himself to fulfill his dream mission in Africa.

[@zw-crc]

@@Tri57b You logic was flawed. And you were a poor History Student. No wonder you dropped out. Remember there supposed to be a faithful interpreter. Further to this, Lobengula had no lawyer trained at a Bar of the Inner Temple or at any of the Kings Inns. Even though he was wise, there was no meeting of minds on that agreement. He trusted these British visitors. They lied to him knowing fully well that he did not understand the contract. Now that we ourselves have training at Bars of the Inner Temple, and we know our people, we can tell where they cheated. Well, we fought a war and we now have Zimbabwe. You can watch Zimbabwe struggling and evolve to become better in its own way never to become Rhodesia again. Rhodesians have a choice, to cast away Rhodesian perspectives and become Zimbabweans and help Zimbabwe evolve or stay out and keep quiet.

[@georgebailey98]

Actually, there was no need to sing "Rise, O voices of Rhodesia" in the broad, sunlit uplands of Zimbabwe as everyone became very, very rich with 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar banknotes.

[@WayStedYou]

A small loan of a trillion dollars

[@imperatorgub6681]

A dark harbinger for the future of the West if Europeans don’t wake up.

[@theladyfingers___]

SA expat here. Really appreciate your pragmatic neutrality in reporting. I want the best for my old homeland, but until the criminals are removed, there's no hope. Perhaps a true state collapse would mean that community vigilantism could finally do what the cops refuse to.

[@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286]

You can kiss your homeland Rhodesia.

[@joeblogs6598]

Fundamental issue is the natural environment of africa does not select for intelligence or other civilization building traits. Hence the peoples which evolved there cannot and never will (unless artificially selected for, eugenics) be capable of maintaining civilization. That's not to say individuals of these populations can't be capable, but the bulk is what counts.

[@ressljs]

After becoming friends with a South African, I spent about a month in that country. That by no means makes me an expert, but I was shocked at what I saw. To be fair, there were parts that could have been America, but in between those areas was shocking poverty. And I came face to face with the corruption several times. Having to pay bribes in the airport, finding their capitol police drunk on the job, etc. And then there was the ethnic and tribal tension on full display. My friend is still optimistic about their future, but as an outsider looking in, I can't share his optimism. It seems on a dead and road leading to civil war. As bad as the ANC is, when they totally dominated politics, that was something the various tribes could all unite around. As the country deteriorates and the ANC continues to lose power, I suspect more and more people will just look to their tribe, and the tribes will turn on each other.

[@longiusaescius2537]

@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286 hmm?

[@fantasyfarmboy]

@@joeblogs6598ok hitler

[@Cahnisama]

23:15 - If you want to see british imperial ruins in perfect conditions look no further than London

[@roberttoodie275]

The indigenous population will be seen as the "oppressors" and it will go the way of Rhodesia, South Africa, Eastern Europe once they have been "liberated"

[@arieslaynes4426]

Yeh, destroyed by another tinted foreigner.

[@ciaranReal]

Won't last long unfortunately

[@joseplaza9442]

UK is a Muslim nation now

[@OttarErOsom]

Not in perfect condition I fear

[@RhodieRowley]

I am a Rhodesian, born and bred. I have lived in South Africa, and also now in England, but Rhodesia remains in my heart. My ashes will be repatriated there one day!

[@labrynianrebel]

Rhodesians never die 💪🏻

[@GlitterFart20]

Weird ass person

[@sipp5657]

Rhodeesia hardly lasted 15 years thank god!

[@simoncollins6529]

It's getting as bad in England these days

[@harveysmith100]

@@sipp5657 I'm so sorry to inform you that you haven't a fucking clue what you are talking about let alone spell it correctly.

[@Jupiter__001_]

That statement about elections being a headcount and not about political viewpoints in multiethnic societies certainly holds true here in Northern Ireland.

[@FirstLadyRV]

I had a boyfriend whose family was from Rhodesia. His grandma stayed until like 2005 and he would visit every year and just see the place get worse and worse. Once his dad was in a lift with a black man and he looked at the dad and said 'We need you white people'

[@RemoTschopp]

the whites are the bringers of culture.

[@nuguskhalifa9365]

😂😂😂 funny that Sanctions against Zimbabwe were lifted 2024 not because the brutal impact on regular/poor people but because Zimbabwe would fall completely in hands of China&Russia

[@intimiderp7934]

My dad was from there I say was because he's passed, it broke him seeing what happened to the country, but don't be fooled, plenty of zims are flooding into South Africa and telling the white man to get lost here as well.

[@timh.7169]

​@@intimiderp7934really sad how this is becoming a global trend

[@joelewis1776]

@@intimiderp7934now imagine you are a black African who must be subjugated by a minority group for your entire life and exploited for material gain. time to pay the piper😂

[@whiskeysk]

South Africa is gone. I've visited RSA numerous times between 2001 and 2008 for both work and pleasure, making some solid friendships with the local Boere folk over the years. With every single trip you could see the situation getting worse. Load shedding, crime, corruption. Mbeki stating in a TV interview that crime is not an issue In South Africa only to get a fence built for 40m ZAR around his estate. Then things got even more interesting with Zuma... During the last two trips in 2008 literally every other day there was a farewell party, as one by one friends or friends of friends were leaving for the UK, Australia etc. The feeling was just straight out of JRR Tolkien, either the failing people of the West or the Elves boarding their tall ships to sail into the sunset, make your pick. In 2019 my last close friend called it quits and left for New Zealand with his entire family. All these people owned companies or did highly qualified jobs, they were resilient, hard working so I never worried about their future regardless of where they went. But for South Africa, this is a terrible loss.

[@AskTorin]

Nou, de Afrikaners maken goede immigranten hier in Nederland. Ze zijn van harte welkom! Jammer dan, dat hun eigen land gaat uithongeren. Dat krijg je als je boeren gaan wegpesten.

[@RoCK3rAD]

Genetics will play a part Europeans aren’t meant to last in Africa. Time to go to someone else’s homeland again and start the same cycle over

[@fuckyshityfuckshit]

I've noticed this aswell I live in New Zealand and work with 7 south Africans out of 30 people. Awsome people but south Africa is fucked

[@thennicke]

Has the election result changed anything? I'm Australian and interested in the situation over there

[@teapot2_1]

@@whiskeysk plenty of us aren't going anywhere. Western Cape and Cape Town are doing well. Arm yourself and stay frosty, no one is coming to save you.

[@jonntischnabel]

In 2009, I gave my stepdaughter (then 5), a 100 trillion dollar note to take to school for show and tell. The "teacher" embarrassed her by saying "that's just pretend money, there's no such note that big" . Her mother was furious, and demanded a full apology, I emailed her the Wikipedia page, and she got a full apology, in front of the class! 😂

[@patsy02]

Teachers really are useless people tbh

[@Mandrew_]

King of the hill. Laotian neighbors scene. The earth 🌎 is a big place.

[@romeisfallingagain]

wikipedia isnt a credible source. its a publicly editable database for future reference. should have got a encyclopedia or book

[@Mandrew_]

@@romeisfallingagain for this instance its fine.

[@romeisfallingagain]

@@Mandrew_ its already happen. no way to make improvement. if they are unaware of how controlled wiki is and by which interest group, they may walk themselves in the wrong direction to their own detriment. i agree with you though

[@jasonquigley2633]

Correction: It's not just Rhodesia and the USA which declared independence from the British Empire (unilaterally), Ireland did as well.

[@mitchrils]

I can tell from the thumbnail this is gonna be a banger

[@kasdanasal]

My boss was a missionary in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s. At one point during his mission, a fellow missionary at a remote posting upset the local authorities. His crime? He had knocked the center out of a $1 Zimbabwean coin and placed the outer ring on his keychain. The jail cell at the police station was full so he and his mission companion were placed under house arrest over the weekend while they awaited trial. My boss and a few other missionaries drove all night across the country with two panel vans. When they arrived in the village it was 1 AM and the police were asleep across the street. In less than thirty minutes they had the mission house stripped of everything, and by the time the sun was up and the police had awoken, those missionaries were on a flight from Zambia to Paris.

[@daytonasixty-eight1354]

Sounds sinful.

[@kasdanasal]

@@daytonasixty-eight1354 Only Christ was sinless

[@daytonasixty-eight1354]

@@kasdanasal Heh good answer. Still, I have to admit I absolutely hate the missionary work you people do in Africa. All it does is help them overpopulate then leave their countries to ruin other countries.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Sounds about right.

[@markaxworthy2508]

1) In the 2000s Zimbabwe did not have a $1 coin with a centre to "knock out". 2) You will also find that the defacement of coinage is a crime in EVERY country. These "missionaries" seem to be dumb as rocks and completely insensitive to their environment. Any country would be well rid of them.

[@painbow6528]

Our ancestors were giants. And today we're told to be ashamed of them.

[@GeoGosha]

By those damn small hat bankers that just can’t learn not to piss off the master race

[@bane5921]

I wonder why? They did colonise and subjugate the natives?? Ironically the same thing you fascists complain about now. What goes around comes around

[@edwardbateman3094]

Giants? If you really hold the opinions about these people as I suspect you do, those ‘giants’ picked on technologically inferior people. How are they giants if that’s the case?

[@JakMakes-z5o]

'Picked on'? Or was it colonization?

[@stoyanb.1668]

A bunch of stone age savages were literally given civilization, and they took a shit on it.

[@binaway]

A senior manager in the company I worked for, in Australia, was raised in Rhodesia. He was born in London to a single mother who died and he was left with one relative, his elderly grandmother, who knew she would not live much longer. She noticed in the newspaper that a school was being established in Rhodesia for intelligent boys. The idea being they would received a British private school type education and then be subsidized for University to eventually form a White aristocracy to run Rhodesia. Many of these boys made friends with the local black children. While at university in South Africa he knew white rule in Rhodesia wouldn't last much longer and on finishing his degree did not return to Rhodesia. He didn't want to do army service and fight his black friends. A very smart guy he left immediacy for Australia and had a good life and did very well. ps:- Fredo's originated in 1930 in Australia by the MacRobertsons company, which Cadbury took over.. .

[@themetroidprime]

>goes to the Mojave >sprawling nice jolly town and tanks >goes to Africa >literally Fallout *confused cat meme*

[@johnnyjohn-johnson7738]

I heard that the real world Washington DC has a very high crime rate, which would make it one step from turning into the Capital Wasteland even without a nuclear war or the societal collapse that would follow.

[@raiderraider4851]

"Sprawling" is a bit of a stretch

[@recoilrepublic7220]

@@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 The same group of people who make africa fallout make dc a shithole too

[@85eatjello85]

Kinda reminds me of the American south

[@johnnyjohn-johnson7738]

@@85eatjello85 Nevada is near the Southwest, which some have argued is an extension of the South.

[@raptorcell6633]

My great uncle was quite the adventurer during his time with the New Zealand Defence Force, he served in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam during his Army days. After he left the Army he served in the Rhodesian Security Forces for a few years. He decided to return to all the places he fought in before he passed and he was actually quite excited to return there as Rhodesia was second only to Vietnam in natural beauty to him but he had nothing nice to say when he returned to NZ. "I was there in the 1970s and somehow I returned in the 1870s."

[@jemma_19988]

He fought in all those beautiful places but he never had to fight in NZ!! What does that tell you ? Sounds l;ike he was better off living in a third world paradise

[@SPRMarksman]

Black “culture” will do that to a place.

[@1233-i3y]

@@jemma_19988paradise? Shitting what in a bucket

[@valdemarjuel7060]

@@jemma_19988because NZ is peaceful and a successful white colony?

[@Sionnach1601]

Wow 😮 Seems like Khazud Dum is a metaphor for the whole Western World. "We cannot get out. They are coming..."

[@daniels1485]

Even the Zimbabweans are cultured enough not to destroy statues that they consider outdated. That's much more than you can say for BLM and antifa.

[@timh.7169]

also the littering from our newly immigrated doctors and engineers is already worse than anything I saw in this video

[@highbahamut6188]

@@timh.7169 you aren't punishing them so they do this

[@debrakelly4505]

Right! I was pretty shocked that they actually relocated the statue of Rhodes.

[@438019]

I'm a South African, the other day I was in an Uber with a Zimbabwean driver who saying how hard life is in Zim and that he has to pay in US Dollars for school fees for his kids, but because the economy is so crap there he is in South Africa working as an Uber driver to earn Rands to convert to Dollars to get his kids an education. His parting words were that the worst thing that ever happened to the county was giving it over to the Black man and he wished that more Whites would come back; his words, and that when all is said and done, *you can't eat freedom* - after all the land grabs and chasing off the successful White farmers, the people are now starving.

[@treasurethetime2463]

😂. It's not color, it's competence. He's right that if you run off the people who know what they are doing, and have international business relationships along with capital, you will be in for a treat.

[@djabroni_brochacho4644]

Sadly people only see things in terms of color and not culture. A lot of Africa is now realizing this, especially with china being the new "colonizer". They had every opportunity to drop witchcraft and stone age ideals but they decided that defined them, and now much of Africa stays poor. If they could adopt protestant Christianity totally and turn away from their sin, Jesus would transform that continent!

[@gabrieltorres6618]

this is the most braindead take on what happened in rhodesia ive ever seen, he should educate himself. it wasnt at all about race and if you think that you need to educate yourself aswell

[@jewymcjewjew9939]

@@treasurethetime2463 I'm sure chimpanzees and orangutans, in their primitive minds, believe they are equal to us as well.

[@takudzwamazwienduna]

​@@gabrieltorres6618true, the welfare of black Zimbabweans were worse off under colonial rule. We weren't even allowed in city centers without a pass.... In our own country. And the repressive laws ZANU uses are from colonial times

[@bb-eleven5785]

There's the story of Rhodesia, a land both fair and great

[@martinsexton3580]

On the eleventh of November an independent state.

[@DaimosZ]

​@@martinsexton3580This was much against the wishes of a certain government

[@martinsexton3580]

Who's leaders tried to break us down and make us all repent.

[@Cardulionax]

But we're all Rhodesians And we'll fight through thick and thin.

[@Britannica1]

On the 11th of November ...

[@MonsieurDean]

Here’s the story of Rhodesia, a land both fair and great…

[@WIGGER_AESTHETIC_031]

on the 11th of November, an independent state!

[@ciaranReal]

Didn't expect you to be here ( but not suprised)

[@CabbageBloke]

I have a mate I served in the British Army with, who was from Rhodesia, and never referred to it as Zimbabwe

[@roberttoodie275]

Now you can understand why

[@longiusaescius2537]

Recently? Last 2000s?

[@johnnyjohn-johnson7738]

During the Falklands War there was an ex Rhodesian soldier commanding a rifle company in 2 Para.

[@Hedgehogz856]

It’s cos it isn’t Zimbabwe, Rhodesia is just occupied

[@Hakeem94]

@@Hedgehogz856 occupied by the native population. There’s no logic behind statements like this.

[@St.IsaacOfSyria]

You know how in fiction theres often an ancient super advanced civilization with a beautiful intelligent race that was somehow wiped out, and their ruins scatter the planet. Yeah, we live in that world, it was called the British empire...

[@krinxlork6235]

I got a Far Cry 2 feeling just seeing the utter state of disrepair

[@royale7620]

Same

[@longiusaescius2537]

Nice pfp

[@Garrus1995]

I loved that game. I would pay good money for a remaster or remake. That game was a moment in time.

[@krinxlork6235]

​@@Garrus1995Back to a time when gaming actually had a soul. T'was the peak mercenary experience

[@artyjnrii]

An interesting tidbit from Rommels WW1 memoirs is that during the first few weeks of the fighting against France, the germans took few casualties because all of the french soldiers had left their sights on factory settings instead of adjusting them.

[@anon2034]

They overshot. I remember reading Infantry Attacks.

[@longiusaescius2537]

Lmao

[@wulfricofwessex147]

IIRC, it wasn't that their sights were off, it's that the minimum zero for the rifles was a ridiculous 300 or 400 meters. European armies thought wars would be fought from far away, thousands of meters away, since the battle lines between opposing forces were gaining distance (compare Napoleonic warfare to Crimean or Franco-Prussian warfare). Turns out, everyone decided CQB was the meta for war in WW1 and beyond.

[@cheekibreeki4638]

Related tidbit, the standard German G 98 had a minimum range of 400 meters, so to hit a man at more realistic closer ranges, you had to aim at belt level.

[@akiraraiku]

How can one love history and keep repeating german non sense 80 years after the fact ? You've got no excuse mate as the americans revisited and rewrote all the history of ww2 since 2000s with far more material and far less emotion clouding their judgment. All of it in english, so go read it.

[@iwiwt1920s]

Rhodesians never die

[@ChiefCrewin]

Remember the Selous Scouts

[@Jell0zz]

People die when they are killed. -Some Anime Translation

[@SunTzu176]

@@Jell0zz To be fair, in that anime in particular, there are many things that do not, or cannot die, when killed.

[@roberttoodie275]

We are all Rhodesians

[@talloolahmoon]

Rhodesians never die

[@alessandron1360]

As someone who traveled to Zim several times for work, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I will never forget when a toothless prostitute asked me if I wanted a massage in my room while I was having dinner at the hotel restaurant in Harare...

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

>visit africa >there's KFC Well, well, well...

[@alexl6644]

Insert Anya Forger meme face here.

[@captainphoenix]

Do they sell watermelons and 40s at this KFC?

[@brandonberry1764]

LIKE A MOTH TO A FLAME

[@cj09beira]

not sure about Zimbabwe, but right next door in Mozambique KFC is really new, just came into the country a few years ago

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

Just because flies have wings doesn't make them chickens...

[@etroxzy]

Important note: as of 2024 the white population of Zimbabwe has grown about 45% since 2017 & most restrictive laws towards white farmers have been shut down. There is hope for Zimbabwe, lots of farmers have returned and created coops with black farmers. By no means is Zimbabwe doing great but it’s important to note that in a lot of ways things are looking brighter for the future of the country.

[@goncalo33]

Are foreign farmers also heading over to Zimbabwe?

[@berniekatzroy]

Thanks historian.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Feel like Zimbabwe is one of the few countries where the black inhabitants actually like white people and recognise the value of their technology and work ethic. It only took 40 odd years of decline and poverty to make it apparent.

[@ImFieldy]

good to hear. all the best

[@Againstdhawa]

Yeah some returning but as they build up their farms they taken ince again...

[@skywalkerneoblade]

This is a fun fact. There was a time where the Zimbabwean dollar was so useless that it was literally cheaper to wipe your ass with bank notes than it was to buy toilet paper. Another fun story; A white Rhodesian friend of mine who now lives here in South Africa had to fill up a shoe box with notes just to pay the entrance fee to enter a night club. The door man would just sort of eyeball the amount and weight of the notes as it would take about 20 minutes just to count what would be the equivalent of 5USD. Fun times...

[@SEKreiver]

I had a manager here in Kansas who was born in Rhodesia, then his family was forced to move to South Africa. They weren't fooled by the Rainbow Revolution and fled to the US.

[@davidboskett5581]

I have never understood why countries with massive inflation keep printing more and money by adding more noughts on the end .They could easily introduce new notes designated by the year of issue which would replace the old ones -say a 2-1 swap or 100-1 what ever is needed

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@SEKreiver so Apartheid should have been maintained?

[@norski4052]

17:08 David Livingston absolutely was not just a Scottish adventurer, he was a missionary who gave his life to spread the gospel.

[@swoodhall]

Wow what a topic . Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, How to devastate the bread basket of africa..

[@Rootiga]

all too common in former african british colonies. south africa, kenya, uganda and the list goes on, so many nations where they destroyed themselves immediately after getting independence.

[@fukkendermohammed]

Almost as if bringing early modernity to peoples who were nowhere near ready for it was a mistake

[@georgehh2574]

​@@Rootiga That's why colonialism is such a terrible thing. 🙂

[@user-ve3jk4uc3o]

@@georgehh2574 you cant blame it on colonialism some places turned out great others did not through miss governance and adopting socialism and communism

[@SobaOfPulaski]

@@georgehh2574 except it isn’t their fault, its the fault of commies and chinese ideology being pushed on the people, instead of bringing education systems and whatnot for those people.

[@vmonk722]

Actually seeing the wests likely future hits a lot harder than just discussing it.

[@ZemanTheMighty]

How is 5% of the population trying and failing to rule 95% of the country even remotely similar to the choice to import millions of foreigners?

[@JackCarsonite]

Na, get yourself a dog mate.

[@jordanabraham99]

'Cause we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin We'll keep our land a free land from the enemy coming in We'll keep them north of the Zambesi till that river's running dry And this mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die...

[@hoilst265]

Yeah. How did that work out for them? Truth is, Rhodesia was a country of losers - British expats who losers back in England and wanted to go to a country where they could boss around the natives and feel good about themselves for once in their miserable lives.

@channel_lurker It did until Evil Warlord Mugabe

[@jasoncrandall]

Imagine creating Western Europe in Africa then being forced to give it to people who had nothing to do with its creation only to see it rotted away 40 years later.

[@RoCK3rAD]

Just stay home next time look at the state of British cities

[@wazza33racer]

The best part was, when they drove out the white farmers and then starved, despite taking over said farms and being completely incapable of operating them. Meanwhile the white farmers were welcomed by other African nations that needed farmers. I am deeply impressed you were able to visit Zimbabwe, and lived to tell the story. The state of preservation of some buildings and ancient steam trains is more than I expected.

[@chriscampbell9191]

I think that Zambia has welcomed the Zimbabwean farmers who lost their land, or have otherwise had it threatened. The crop output of Zambia went up afterwards. There is a report on the VOA about it.

[@Deontjie]

Zimbabwe used to export food to Zambia. Zambia welcomed these farmers. Now Zimbabwe imports food from Zambia. So the same farmers produces food for the Zim people. The Zimbabwe workers who worked for the farmers, now work on farms and construction in South Africa.

[@chriscampbell9191]

@@Deontjie I'm glad to hear that Zambia at least has given the Zim farmers a chance.

[@ColinYoung-dt1ur]

@@chriscampbell9191 My father lost his farm and pretty much everything in 2004, we moved to zambia with absolutely nothing.. but have managed to rebuild and make a good living. Zambians are probably the friendliest most welcoming people on earth

[@Nor-j4c]

​@@chriscampbell9191 welcomed settlers who annexed land that didn't belong to them

[@Againstdhawa]

I was born in Zimbabwe. Left in 2003. I loved this documentary . This guy is so humorous. Love the Humour Sadly it's all so true from a once lovely Rhodesia to an absolute dump . Zimbabwe has just got worse and worse over the years..

[@kanderson4417]

Once you went to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe, now you go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.

[@triple7triple3zero]

That doesn't make any sense. It was renamed to Zimbabwe.

[@V4raggare]

@@triple7triple3zero The Great Zimbabwe is a site of ruins of a medieval city. It gave the name to the country of Zimbabwe.

[@davidbanks6658]

@@V4raggare Yes, I was surprised that someone did a film about visiting Zimbabwe without showing that.

[@chucknorriswontdies]

Well I would just simplify it and say you go to Zimbabwe to see ruins.

[@Enoch940]

Kanderson you totally nailed it with that statement. I was at the ruins 4 years ago. Travelled the country.

[@DeadBaron]

The Rhodesians were right and we're not allowed to talk about it. Rhodesia isn't even taught about in our schools.

[@BelaJuTe]

The world betrayed the Rhodesians and stepped them in the back. Rip Rhodesia, may you rise from the ashes

[@honeybadger1656]

If I’m not mistaken the only country that didn’t betray Rhodesia was Israel.

[@BelaJuTe]

@@honeybadger1656 could be but I’m not sure. It’s possible as they had relatively good relations with South Africa as well. They even developed nukes with SA

[@ChrisF-jt1qf]

​@@honeybadger1656Israelis f over everyone that ever allied with them

[@KapBBit]

​@@honeybadger1656Portugal and South Africa

[@philstarsick82]

Rhodesia, what a lovely country betrayed by the west.

[@hollisdodge2272]

I maintained a correspondence with a Rhodesian farming family for several years in the ‘80s. They worried about roving bands of guerrillas who wanted to drive them off their land. Suddenly the letters stopped.

[@Sionnach1601]

That's extremely sad. We take it, that you never discovered their fate?? God rest them 😔🙏🙏

[@hermannabt8361]

In Germany you have to pay the "Radio license" even if you don't have a Radio. So, Zimbabwe is freer in that regard.

[@ash3rr]

In Finland you have to pay the rundradioskatt, a tax for the public media organisation "YLE", regardless of whether you read or watch their media.

[@16m49x3]

@@ash3rr In norway you also have to pay for your propaganda regardless of if you watch it

[@vulcanitu2578]

Seems like this shit is widespread, in Poland at least we can deregister TVs and radios and no need to pay this retarded tax

[@darkma1ice]

I bet if a business charged the government for something the gov didn’t use, that business owner would be jailed for fraud

[@T-Ball-o]

Propaganda tax

[@eagleowl833]

Funny how zimbabwe seems to cherish statues of british colonizers more than we do in britain😅

[@Prayingfrog]

This video feels kind of like real life warhammer 40k where the modern inhabitants of the area live next to technology and infrastructure that for all intents and purposes are magic to them.

[@SirZorloc]

It gets even worse when you look at Haiti.

[@Arch1t3ct910]

@@SirZorloc Haiti was crippled by French reparations from 1825 to 1947, they were forced to pay 150 million francs for France to recognise them as an independent nation and along with being sanctioned this crippled their economy for almost a century. This doesn't get better with natural disasters and corrupt politicians, which largely contribute to the state that Haiti is in today.

[@allewis4008]

​@@Arch1t3ct910 Yeah, yeah. Excuses for every single one of these dump countries.

[@joninja7916]

​​​@@allewis4008that's not an excuse that's more of a reason and not the only one. Power voids give way to horrible people but don't get me wrong talking about the past won't fix anything over there but it's nice to once in awhile

[@sheeplord4976]

@@Arch1t3ct910 They commited genocide on the french there, then invaded their neighbors and commited genocide on them, and then they tried to not pay back debts to the US, and every thing they have done has been pants on head like.

[@laurisuoranta5512]

Regarding the minority rule, it's worth noting that Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, continued to live in Zimbabwe until mid-2000s, as an ordinary citizen. Few black Africans who were left disenfranchised by the Rhodesian Front government were actually hostile towards him. Watching old interviews, my impression is that he was a decent, principled man. Nobody is perfect and no country is perfect. It's also debatable whether the transition to Zimbabwe as it happened was inevitable. The Rhodesian military had things pretty well under control until 1975 when the Portuguese Estado Novo collapsed in the Carnation Revolution and they decided to pull out from their colonies. Rhodesia became then heavily reliant on South Africa, and the guerillas were able to establish themselves in the newly independent Mozambique. The Portuguese armed forces were not under serious pressure from the colonial independence movements: their withdrawal was a political decision. If the Portuguese had stayed ten years longer, then the Chinese involvement would have waned before Mugabe or Nkomo had serious shot. [Edit: style]

[@mihan5660]

You can see that clearly in East Timor, where the new democratic Portuguese government didnt even bother to set in a united goverment to replace it before abandoning them following the carnation revolution. East Timor was then an obvious target for indonesia, who immediately started implementing plans to invade and ended up taking out 1/3 of the entire country's population, occupying the country for decades!

[@davidboskett5581]

Zimbabwe might have prospered if Mugabe had continued to rule the country like he did up to 2000 .It was the forcible take over of the white farms and the killing of their owners that led to the collapse of the economy.Mugabe took this action just to remain in power and satisfy the extremist elements in his party.We are seeing a similar situation today with Putin who started his 'special military operation' in Ukraine partly because he needed to remain popular and hold on to his position.

@@davidboskett5581 You mean the terrorist comedian Zelensky throwing more people into a meat grinder instead of surrendering? Or worse, DEMANDING a surrender, reparations, and all conquered territories returned, WITHOUT holding Putin's family at gunpoint?

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@laurisuoranta5512 a decent principled man that was an incorrigible liar and in favor of racial segregation imposed on Africans in their own country?

[@piggypiggypig1746]

Wow. I spent several months in Zimbabwe back in 97. All the trains were working then, even the line from Bulawayo to Vic Falls. The place has fallen beyond what I thought possible back then. Met many educated white homeless looking for handouts. I guess they all died off. Not sure I'd want to return.

[@phillipcaldwell8156]

You are taking a sneak peak at the future of western civilization.

[@LKD70]

Wait, why is Britain following in these same footsteps?

[@jansoltes971]

The new Britons are - with their cultural enrichment. Plus their guardians - the UK government.

[@BattleBro77]

Purely a coincidence, they will tell you.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Importing the same people.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

@vorynrosethorn903 not the same friend, worse.

[@julius43461]

Don't you wanna feel virtuous? C'mon!

[@philstarsick82]

I downloaded your video. Any proof of Rhodesia needs to be preserved for future humanity. Thank you

[@nuguskhalifa9365]

Iam Zimbabwean we young people have absolutely no problem with White/British People majority of people blame the Mugabe Regime for Economic disaster and after 2001 brutal Sanctions against our Country, the Sanctions just been lifted 2024 I believe with right investment the infrastructure/agriculture/industry can be rebuild fast what the current government is trying to do

[@kinghenry7058]

I wish you all luck. The uplifting of every nation should be paramount. Nothing gets better until we make it so.

[@weibrot8324]

Yep good luck from Germany, btw can we send you some arabs and africans? x)

[@nuguskhalifa9365]

@@weibrot8324 I did a research africans in Germany make 0.4% of the population the smallest minority

[@YayaToure1247]

@@weibrot8324 There's actual Africans migrating to Other african countries Illegally even and the Local people aren't happy

[@peterfireflylund]

@@weibrot8324they are all doctors and engineers so they should prove really useful in Zimbabwe.

[@maartenb100]

Thanks Callum. I grew up and went to school in Rhodesia during the Ian Smith period. Since I left, I have never seen such a good and honest resume of the times of Rhodesia. Brought a few tears to my eyes, but a good bottle of wine fixed that. I love the ironic cynicism with you presented it, it was totally appropriate. Well done.

[@lordsneed9418]

At the rate things are going Rhodes memorial in Zimbabwe might exist long after every memorial and statue in Britain has been taken down in the name of diversity and anti-racism and replaced with george floyd and mark duggan

[@anotherfreediver3639]

And they'll have to be cast in China, because we don't have foundries any more, and don't trade with North Korea ...

[@ConsciousCaracal]

Was a pleasure to show you the projects of the Solidarity Movement, including AfriForum, as well as the Voortrekker monument, in South Africa, mate.

[@thefriendlychap4132]

Dankie.

[@houssamassila6274]

best of luck to you!!!

[@bhekisibiluane4030]

Disappointed at you mate, i see you told your friend about how bad South africa is to live in. But what can you expect from a settler who has no land or place to call his home. Shameful !

[@Robert-z8z1z]

@@bhekisibiluane4030 A "settler" after 4 0 0 yrs? A "settler" whose people founded the country?

[@BigBatts]

It’s almost like everything went to shit when everything was handed over.

[@wingsofunlimitedpepsi6817]

No one expected that to happen 🙄

[@reddithistoryarchive8563]

The N destroys anything he touches

[@kinghenry7058]

More like, "returned to the base line". Modern Zimbabwe is genuinely the best the current Zimbabweans can do.

[@bigships]

No, it went to shit when mugabe kicked all the whites off the land and gave it to his mates.

[@zacablaster]

@@reddithistoryarchive8563 that's just racist man. The hell is wrong with you? Fuck off with that nonsense. 'The N' is just a dude whose trying to make his way like anybody else. you do know that black dudes are people right? 'Cause it feels like you're trying to casually dehumanize people based on the color of their skin.

[@iap-ug3oy]

I went to visit my English friends that lived in Zimbabwe in the late 1900s I went to the falls and also stayed on a private island for a few days….WHAT A LOVELY PLACE……BUT IN THE END THEY HAD TO GET OUT BECAUSE IT WAS NO LONGER A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE….?Unfortunately they are no longer with us and I miss them very much …But I still remember my visit with fond memories……..

[@RatthingZA]

Strong post Roman Britain vibes. Civilization receding and barbarism taking over

[@Htrac]

I fully expect for England to become Zimbabwe if nothing changes. South Africa follows in the wake of Rhodesia as what will inevitably happen. Europe will fall in the decades after if nothing changes.

[@j4cksincl4ir]

This is how I feel walking around London.

[@Toe_Merchant]

The Post Roman Brits were savages sure, but didn't exactly have the tools to maintain civilization. The Zimbabweans had everything handed to them, advisors, experts... They had all the tools to learn how not to be regarded savages, they were either unable or unwilling.

[@Htrac]

@@Toe_Merchant They weren't savages, this is a myth. They had a developed civilisation and used advanced metallurgy, mining minerals from deep underground and transporting them long distances over sea. They had the written word and wrote extensively, including wonderful poetry and extensive histories, complex systems of tax and law, and they built wonderful churches and monuments. It is true that compared to the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons were a minor step backwards in some development terms (such as construction and roads), but this was more about warring kingdoms replacing a large organised republic. Africans are non-comparable since in the same period and also 1000 years later they were still living in mud huts and never developed anything, not even the wheel.

[@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem]

@@Htrac agreed, Rome collapsed and Italy in the last 200 years hasnt really given much to society, but Anglo's built the modern world taking the good parts of Roman and Greek Philosophy and leaving the bad parts. im american and while we like to give the redcoats shit, most of us that know anything about history are grateful for the achievements of the British

[@danishdart]

The biblical quote on the toilet wall is: "The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers"

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

On the toilet wall, beside the toilet -- which it's now been turned into. So, they can have their 💩hole.

[@danishdart]

@@w3ss3x mmh, I wonder if the equally silly Pomgolians that are having similar problems on their own isles could adopt this slogan?

[@thegenzmindset7127]

@@w3ss3xyt people thinking they own everything thing again 😂

[@davestrider4973]

​@@danishdart At least we can run our own country. We're only a bio weapon when in the military.

[@tim2024-df5fu]

@@thegenzmindset7127 Ask yourself this question. If things weren't better under the Europeans why were so many African's willing to risk minefields, barbwire and getting shot to sneak into S Africa during Apartheid? How about we compare colonizers. The Maori colonized the neighboring islands, enslaved the people living there, and frequently ate them. The Aztec's conquered their neighbors and they were also fans of long pig. As bad as the Europeans were they didn't eat people.

[@georgedempster7839]

i served in the army from 1976 to 1980 (peak of the war) Story about person playing russian roulette in Monamotapo hotel - in the copper bar - is correct - soldier from Grey Scouts - Really enjoyed your video - will share with my network

[@stevenhull5025]

I served in the early 70's - Rhodesia forever

[@pumitriii6160]

Always nice to catch a little glimpse of our future

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

You are not hidden online. Be better than this.

[@pumitriii6160]

@@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter Say My Name. And better than what exactly?

[@thegamingsentinel9238]

God callum goes so hard in that uniform

[@ericv00]

Kinda want to see Callum in EVERY uniform.

[@DiMacky24]

Handsome boi.

[@Bannermann]

He truly does.

[@bitty_beastly47]

The only thing Callum goes hard in is Milo

[@thegamingsentinel9238]

@@bitty_beastly47 is this lord miles alt

[@RatTailMongo2]

If your interest in more stories of old Rhodesia, there is a KZbin channel called Five Romeo Romeo, the guy who runs it was a Rhodesian Bush War vet and tells all manner of stories about the history of the country and the Bush Wars

[@ciaranReal]

Thanks will do

[@LaoWatsonSmith]

@@RatTailMongo2 thank you

[@KB8Killa]

Yea thanks man I’ve always been fascinated by this country since I watched blood diamonds

[@angmori172]

Bro 1000 motivated, well-trained and well-funded men could take over the entire country.

[@CarrotConsumer]

Yeah but you won't hold it.

[@angmori172]

@@CarrotConsumer probably not, but a few thousand definitely could. It's a matter of will.

[@Sionnach1601]

​@@angmori172No it's a matter of good old fashioned values which worked every time in the past: work hard, Christian values of caring about others AND yourself; marriage, and having LOTS AND LOTS of children. All of those African colonisers should have been having 8+ children per couple. No, 10+. The time really was against them to grow a sufficient size of a population to have force of numbers. Our dumb 'liberated' Western Women having 1.4 children? They deserve to have their remaining years alone, and with Abdullah coming to visit them with the cultural enrichment which they stupidly voted for.

[@Campfire_fishing]

Try it