End of Empire (1985), chapter 14: Rhodesia

[@NoorElahi1776]

Thank you for posting this video. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe is a very complicated and sad story.

[@robertcottam8824]

And the colonists the worst of the worst…

[@BoshiNagare]

no with out our technologies, vaccinates you would be dead in days.@@robertcottam8824

[@mushrooms88]

@@robertcottam8824 🙊

[@fuadandjameel6791]

​@@mushrooms88average racist😂

[@AlfromVA]

Turned into a Shit Show

[@flashtin166]

It would be really interesting if they did another one of these programs, visited all these countries and saw how they developed and changed. They won't bother though, to busy making "reality" T.V.

[@oldkidsjonge]

flashtin166 I think it'd get boring after a while. Basically every episode would come down to: it became a shithole.

[@chicoandtheman7599]

flashtin166 "how they developed and changed"? More like how they degenerated, crumbled, collapsed, disintegrated, etc......

[@antonioclemente897]

flashtin166 they all turned in shit exept south africa for obvious reasons...

[@chicoandtheman7599]

+Bottlekiller well said. great comment.

[@kazleslie6334]

+Bottlekiller agree with most you say however I have lived in Zim and Singapore and you do not get a punishment for chewing gum,only if you leave it on the ground then it is a fine ,no medieval punishment lol, I loved it there so clean and safe could even leave my bag on a bar why I popped to the loo I had no trouble with their rules ,like most people who want somewhere clean and safe to visit or live

[@woodland5325]

"Here, as throughout the British Empire, the whites who stayed on continued to prosper" This statement sure did age well after 25 years of Mugabe's excellent rule, Mugabe's "land reform" insured that they didn't, even at the cost of inflicting famine and extreme economic hardship on his people.

[@moiseman]

Some people build, other steal. That's how it's always been since thousands of years.

[@randbarrett8706]

Yep, that’s how much people hated the racial caste system. Literally any alternative was preferable.

[@mebsrea]

@@randbarrett8706Even mass murder of ostensible opponents by imported North Korean soldiers, more than three decades of dictatorship, and crippling corruption. Unfortunately, competently ruled African countries like Botswana have remained a vanishingly small minority.

[@AlfromVA]

@@mebsrea They got on board w/Christianity ... common denominator of stable countries in Africa.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@randbarrett8706 That's the thing, they really didn't. They were promised the sky and ended up with their own blood on their hands. Propaganda and intimidation was key to communist victory. The black majority didn't hate the system in place, but they wanted gradual positive change. To this day no one in Zimbabwe has seen this outside of the Elite. A complete and utter farce.

[@DzheiSilis]

My left ear loves this soooo much.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

That changed twice throughout the video.

[@top_gallant]

Better than the film My left foot.

[@katyu16]

Rhodesia showed the world how Africa could be. Zimbabwe showed the world how Africa is.

[@backinthegame34]

Sanctions did not help did they ?

[@Judel100]

Fascinating programme. Thanks for the upload!

[@JamesTilsley1]

Impressive that they interviewed both Smith and Mugabe for this documentary.

[@Fernandoenf2]

That's how a good documentary is done like the death of Yugoslavia

[@adamcheklat7387]

That’s nothing. In a BBC documentary on the Gulf War, they interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Hosni Mubarak, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Tariq Aziz and even Margaret Thatcher.

[@fritzytv9285]

1985 Mugabe was still a hero & not the murdering thief of his own people that he became.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Nothing impressive about that at all. This happened all the time for years in the 70s. Media was allowed there freely, and every leader wanted to show their face and advertise their ideology. It was a given, not something impressive.

[@sacgrinner]

Hey...just wanted to thank you for uploading this excellent series. I watched them all and enjoyed them immensely.

[@Symon_Musician]

In the Russial language there is a proverb: "We don't value what we have, but when we lose it - we cry". For me it's the best description of the history of Rhodesia\Zimbabwe.

[@lenwilkinson672]

@Symon-Mu. This will be on everyone’s lips when we cease to exist as our. Country disintegrates with immigration.

[@davidlloyd8461]

I was a member of the Commonwealth Monitoring Team working on Puma Helicopters - for me the outcome was obvious - in 1968/69 I had been seconded to the Zambian Air Force and saw what happened there - no bloodbath but we struggled with day by day commodities. When the Vic Falls border opened in 1980 the Zambians descended on the town like locusts. Rhodesia worked!! Nkrumah Ture you are blind!

[@afrikaunite3041]

David Lloyd to be fair its now a shithole and the current government are even worst. I don't think you guys wee smart you should have given blacks better money, jobs, food and nothing would have happened

[@NkrumahTure]

+David Lloyd For whites, but that is Africa, not europe. It will be the oasis for african development that Africans want to be, and that's final.

[@OhDannyboy7]

+NkrumahTure Unfortunately they allowed Mugabe to turn that oasis into a barren wasteland.

[@zen528]

Maya Yeel if anything you’re the racist.

[@russeleoin]

If only the rest of the world cared about what they were doing to Rhodesia. It is plain to see posturing and self interest was the order of the day. The British, too weak to to keep to their own word, too interested in how the rest of the world would see them, sold Rhodesia down the drain. I hope and pray that any and all involved in that betrayal feel pain for ever more. My home, my family, my country is gone, never to return.

[@SparkleBC]

You must have faith! The younger generation might be able to save it based on mistakes of the past...

[@benitomussolini7382]

Great Belarus Russia supported mugabe

[@hardtoregisteraname]

pommy pollies , the best at throwing you under a bus! just look at todays disasters in May and Bully Boris! Pigs will pay in the fire of hell for their errors.

[@alvinoporter8013]

russeleoin it was never yours to began with, it is for blacks

[@madala9324]

PLEASE CAN THEY ALL GO BACK HOME ????????????????????????/

[@MoManny]

34:46 - Fernando Honwana was one of those who died with President Machel in the 1986 plane crash.

[@kreativekut666]

Excellent series thnks for uploading

[@johnburns6422]

Thanks for a very interesting history of Rhodesia later renamed Zimbabwe , On the 11/11/1965 U D I was declared On 12/11/ 1965 i asked a young girl to dance with me that,s fifty nine years ago still together five children later and now in our Eighty,s and going strong , I have strong memories of those times , Will Zimbabwe ever get normal life for it,s people? Not in my lifetime , Excellent video Thanks again ☘☘☘☘☘.

[@penguin4091]

I like how when confronted with the fact that there was a black majority government that nkomo basically admits that they just want to run things. Not to mention how Zimbabwe is now...not exactly a better place to live is it.

[@zachhoward9099]

@Maya Yeel Zimbabwe is indebted now to the Chinese as are more and more African nation's. You traded European Colonialism for self rule and when you all couldn't run a country worth a damn you had to go begging to the Chinese for help. You traded European Colonialism for Chinese Colonialism. Well Done

[@hhh5722]

Rhodesia will always be in my heart...Pamwe Chete.

[@brucemclaren-]

Haa vatambudza anamai vedu vanhu ava

[@Constant_Of_Morality]

S​@@brucemclaren- So did ZANLU imo

[@sgengela]

This is one of the best accounts of the end of rhodesia , someone has to return the sound pliz

[@msvetov]

+sgengela I just edited out the violating song, the rest of the audio should be back up now.

[@msvetov]

I just edited out the violating song, the rest of the audio should be back up now.

[@HighHeelsQueen]

why editing anything, in the first place?? what has happened - happened; you can't change history.

[@msvetov]

You're missing the context. I had to edit the Beatles song out because it's copyrighted and youtube muted the entire audio track because of it.

[@HighHeelsQueen]

I see; it was not clear to me immediately - sorry for that, and thank you for the explanation.

[@Dreaded88]

Dear msvetov: Thank you for posting this series. There's an easy way around those problems with youboob muting a video. Just put into the Publishing Data heading the 'FAIR USE DISCLAIMER' like this one: **FAIR USE** Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

[@MysteryOfTheFence]

Is episode 5 available anywhere...?

[@glendodds4926]

I don't agree with the documentary's comment that white Rhodesians had 'the most luxurious lifestyle in Africa.' I had relatives in South Africa (the richest and most powerful country on the continent) whose standard of living was just as good as we enjoyed north of the Limpopo.

[@K-Boogie7999]

I knew i shouldn’t have checked out this comment section.

[@peterclark4685]

Ex-Rhodie. We blew it. So many things that could have been done to win the hearts and minds of the tribes people (the only strategy against insurrection) and so few taken. We got out-thought. Hard to accept and the opportunity is lost. Go the Wallabies.

[@kingchubs]

Peter Clark lol

[@NkrumahTure]

That is Africa, not Europe. The right people are in power on their own soil. You people are crazy thinking you're supposed rule everywhere, not in Africa.... NEVER AGAIN!

[@lhmmhl1]

Look at iq and race.

[@NkrumahTure]

@DIORDOL VON GIOHEIM All of them are puppets of the western nations and their commercial interests. You people perpetuate the theft of raw resources through the system of neo-colonialism, and have siphoned out our wealth in one form or another since 1885.Thats how you can sustain the racism and get away with it. But not for much longer.

[@zachhoward9099]

You didn’t get outthought PM Smith did

[@blmetal65]

Unfortunately Zimbabwe is a basket case today. What a pity..

[@quinnfell3824]

nashi nash from bread basket of Africa, to basket case of the world unfortunately

[@madala9324]

BLACKS CANNOT RULE FULL STOP

[@andyburge7358]

@@madala9324 You disgusting racist fuckwit

[@peterbradshaw8018]

@@andyburge7358 Botswana gives hope. But overall we blacks have done a poor job at self government .We need deeds not words to prove the racist wrong.

[@ozzyhaye]

We have the IMF to thank for that

[@mariogiresi6792]

Tragic. Both Rhodesia and South Africa were once great nations, until they were given back to the original inhabitants and now look what has happened...disaster.

[@dirktyler3643]

From what I've read the part of Africa settled by the Dutch and turned into South Africa was inhabited by very few blacks when the Dutch arrived. The civilization the Dutch produced acted as a magnet for blacks further north.

[@6paths142]

@@dirktyler3643 when the Dutch arrived in South Africa they encountered the Khoisan people but as they went further inland they started to encounter more Bantu people who lived in the interior.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@dirktyler3643 The Boers are a mixture of Dutch and German.

[@peter386]

Why does the only one I want to watch (Rhodesia) have to be muted... *sigh*

[@msvetov]

+Peter Engberg KZbin only muted it a couple of days ago. I'll try to reupload it somewhere else.

[@PaulBrindley]

+msvetov any luck in getting Ep 14 up somewhere else?

[@Matt71490]

+msvetov Are you still planning on doing it? Take your time, just wondering. Bloody fascists. :-)

[@adamoutofoffice]

+msvetov Any news on this? Would be great to watch and my lip reading skills find the Rhodesian accent a tad on the tricky side

[@msvetov]

Hi. I just edited out the violating song, the rest of the audio should be back up now.

[@waynestratford4523]

The best country ever, I'm born, bred and fought, fulling willing to die. War is horrible, but I remain very proud of my service and would do it again in an instant!

[@mr.pavone9719]

Do you mean Rhodesia or the UK, or somewhere else?

[@ivanlarin86]

​@@mr.pavone9719 Rhodesia, obviously! The UK is a trash can, unfortunately.

[@johnevans3115]

The difference between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is that Zambia got its independence peacefully in 1965 and was ruled for many years by the moderate Kenneth Kaunda. Throughout the Rhodesian war, Zambia lived in peace and prosperity ,and many whites from Europe went there to work.

[@owenevans83]

+john evans I believe it was actually 1964.

[@mikebellis5713]

Zambia was not prosperous. The shelves empty

[@neguspixelchannel]

This is because King Lewanika chose to be British protectorate, Zambia never resisted even imperialism. Zimbabwe had initial resistance like Chimurenga Wars the later the Rhodisian Bush War. Zimbabwe has always been resistant to white settlers & its the only country to do so in Southern Africa

[@ryan-pf9ud]

@@neguspixelchanneland it’s the poorest country in the world with vast natural resources.

[@neguspixelchannel]

@@ryan-pf9ud not the poorest, do some research.

[@HighHeelsQueen]

Rhodesia was (at least) the second best country in Africa, with "apartheid" SA being (most probably) the best. Today Zimbabwe is the second worst country in Africa, with Somalia and Libya - after the "friendly" USA / UK intervention - sharing the first worst place.

[@ApachePieman]

Isn't it funny - every place that the UN/US/EU stick their nose in to give 'democratic processes', turns into a burning, destroyed shithole within only a couple of years. Really is a record on the best way to destroy a country from the ground up.

[@januszkowalski5345]

In a well'-organized country its resources must be bought dearly with all taxes paid and other ¨nasty´ procedures and paraphernalia respected. When you overthrow it changing it into a cannibals´ paradise you get its resources almost freely....just for small tips and glass beads for the locaal chieftains and a garrison to guard the mines. Besides , you prevent your rivals from exploiting them. Under Qaddafi the Chinese invested heavily in Libyan oil fields. The ÜS-EU-'backed thugs aka¨´freedom fighters´´ put an end to all Chinese presence in Libya.

[@ApachePieman]

Exactly, Janusz, it is a great benefit overall in geopolitics only for those doing the 'liberation'. They deny 'rivals' access to a certain country and its resources, grant themselves exclusive political and mercantile rights, and in the process the country and its people end up in the toilet. We see a similar situation in Ukraine, with US-EU backed "Orange Revolution v2.0".

[@oliverbirnso2884]

Nigeria is the best/ most prosperous country in the whole of Africa, as of now.

[@januszkowalski5345]

With 70% of its population living in absolute poverty , -9% industrial production growth , one physican for 2000 people and as a result of 3000 children and women dying daily because they can''t find medical aid , with war going on in the moslem north and total corruption eating up the country's resources Nigeria is the opposite to Rhodesia or South Africa under apartheid , a classical third world shithole just like the rest of this cursed African continent.

[@BalkanMode]

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government” Thomas Jefferson

[@gregbailey1753]

Joe, I am a Christian. I stand by what I wrote. The history of Zimbabwe shows that the slow and steady of the 1961 Constitution was far better than an automatic one man one vote. More Africans died or were maimed during the Bush War by nationalists than ever were by the RhSF and those numbers were dwarfed by those during Gurkarundi. Joe if you are a Christian we are brothers, but we may just disagree.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

How do you upload an entire series of videos onto the left channel? (asking for a friend)

[@mattdavies7398]

You moaning prat

[@marsdenk.6162]

😅😅😅😅😅​@@mattdavies7398

[@mediterraneansrise4428]

That was not the first time that the UK betrayed their own people in foreign territory.

[@soheil527]

they betrayed their own race to help the jews in WW2. WHAT do you expect?

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@soheil527 Bigot.

[@fyrdman2185]

@@philstabler6650 shut it gramps, in a couple of years time you will be sent to a nursing home being abused by immigrant workers.

[@nathanbohn8770]

What's the name of the theme from the show?

[@towaritch]

Ian Smith (1919-2007) was a great leader.

[@DjRifhustle]

Then He could go and lead white people in Europe not in Africa

[@markopovic7072]

I agree. UK and Europe needs leaders like Smith. Sadly we was given to blacks.

[@enzotraverso1655]

Oh yes

[@nationalistcanuck2877]

Maya Yeel You have no right to talk about hell or heaven- or casting anyone to it. You were just talking about having a username which meant unbeliever in Islam, so stop spewing random bullshit. You sound like a sociopath and like a sociopath I’ve encountered you also like accusing people of being narcissist. UDI and Smith was Rhodesia’s only hope. ZANLA and ZAPU, were corrupt and funded by communists, ran by Marxist- caused death, destruction, terrorism, starvation, a raped economy, a worse situation for blacks then it was as 2nd class citizens- in 1960! Today they would be equal no doubt about it. Rhodesian Blacks has some of not THE best conditions in all of Africa including easily affordable healthcare and other benefits others didn’t and still don’t have. “Whites don’t belong in Africa” yeah okay. I bet you’re the kind of whore who will complain if I say Muslims and Africans don’t belong in Europe. That’s a double standard libtards like you will use. Have fun sitting in a peaceful nation made and protected by whites which gives out the freedoms to spit on who have sacrificed and pioneered to make great civility in the world. Go fuck yourself, whore.

[@nationalistcanuck2877]

Maya Yeel Ian Smith fought nazis in ww2 and had his eye and face fucked up in a crash. He had a successful marriage and 3 kids. He lead Rhodesia to greatness for 11 years under extreme sanctions... What have you or yours done?

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

All Journalists Are Bastards, true then as now. 17:08 . He's found a nice woman who's probably a bit dim and is hoping for the best, and she's naive enough to speak on camera. So he asks with his best bully voice on, "What about the war, doesn't that make a difference to you?" So she tells him - again, very nicely, slightly dimly - that she has a son in the war. She has so much more stake in this than he does. For him it's a line on his resume, for her it's faith, family, and country. Without a single exception, every single journalist accosting a regular member of the public with a camera and a microphone is trying to exploit them. Unless you have editorial control over the final cut or the final quote, ***NEVER*** talk to a journalist on the record. ***NEVER***. DO NOT DO IT. You're not more devious than them, you're not going to suddenly convince them of something. You are a tool to them. Don't play along.

[@zachhoward9099]

I don’t see how her son taking up arms to defend his country is just ‘a line on his resume’ to him, talk to a Rhodesian Armed Forces Vet and you’ll see very quickly that they were just as passioned if not more so

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

@@zachhoward9099 I was referring to the journalist's resume.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Journalists are just human beings like everybody else. Your remark is ridiculous.

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

@@SymphonyBrahms So are murderers and rapists

[@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk]

In hindsight, we can say that Zimbabwe/Rhodesia would have been better off staying under British rule or under white rule as an independent British commonwealth. But those were heady times. The people were optimistic that everything would be great if the blacks could just govern themselves. The people didn't foresee the monster Mugabe would become and the whites weren't good at arguing why the status quo should continue. They just took it for granted that the blacks were not ready for self-rule and met violence with violence.

[@jeanhodgson8623]

Sadly, history has shown that, in the main, blacks are unable to run a country well. Kenya is reasonable, but the rest are disasters. The Bible said that thousands of years ago in Genesis, and we have seen the truth of it. Wishing that it were not so doesn't change the facts.

[@alvinoporter8013]

jvaa cvaa what don't you get, whites belong in Europe,not Africa!

[@robertmaybeth3434]

the fault is not this African or that one, if it hadn't been Mugabe it would have been some other individual or group shooting themselves in the foot. The reasons for the failure of black nations are obvious, but no one in the media will say it.

[@alvinoporter8013]

John Nichols YOU DO KNOW GOD PUT US ON DIFFERENT CONTINENTS FOR A REASON, RIGHT!

[@celticphoenix2579]

Every human being on the planet has their ancestral roots in Africa so to say that whites belong in Europe only or blacks belong in Africa only is utter tripe. Ultimately South Africa is the cradle of humankind despite all the foot stamping the "natives" do and claiming it isn't so. At the end of the day we are all natives of South Africa regardless of political ideology, religious indoctrination, skin color or current global location. I keep hearing how blacks belong in Africa and are the only true Africans because they have dark skins, so then somebody please explain to me where do Albinos belong? An albino baby born of a black mother and a black father in Africa is nevertheless white as the driven snow so then do they belong in Europe? Can you see how stupid this argument is?

[@dhoulkarnain]

Guys what is good reference literature on this subject? Thanks in advance.

[@glendodds3824]

All in all, this book is a good account of the Rhodesian Bush War : www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473860733/ref=s9_acsd_simh_hd_bw_b17GB_cr_x__w?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-4&pf_rd_r=A7H5PEF8KGXTFHQ5ETAV&pf_rd_r=A7H5PEF8KGXTFHQ5ETAV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=8885c2b4-625c-5949-a2f5-337c1098b0f9&pf_rd_p=8885c2b4-625c-5949-a2f5-337c1098b0f9&pf_rd_i=266239 This book is also well worth reading and has a good outline of the events that led to the conflict: www.amazon.co.uk/Dingo-Firestorm-Greatest-Battle-Rhodesian/dp/1909384127

[@SymphonyBrahms]

The lucky people packed up and left before the government changed. Those who stayed were later forced off their land and not allowed to take anything with them.

[@joshuafess4295]

I love history this series was absolutely incredible thank you so much and sadly they talk of Chairman Mao and hardly anyone has noticed the red noose that has been placed around so many African nations today

[@cringeslayer7861]

I think Rhodesia would have ended up like Botswana if Mugabe didn't succeed

[@MarioStahl1983]

That would have been a blessing (at least in comparison). But Mugabe was really not the only problem. Tribalism, communism, corruption and those incredibly high birth rates would have destroyed the country anyway - with or without Mugabe. He only accelerated the downward spiral. That's of course NO EXCUSE. In my view he should never have been allowed back into the country after he left in 1974.

[@zachhoward9099]

@@MarioStahl1983 Mugabe embodied and exercised to his full power all those negative aspects that you described

[@MarioStahl1983]

@@zachhoward9099 Yes, I fully agree. Ideologically Mugabe was a very toxic mixture of communism, tribalism and Christian fundamentalism. A very Strange Mix If you think about it. But above all His Reign was a cleptocracy, right?

[@patricialeaper832]

Have to disagree with you. I have watched Tayo Aina's video about Botswana. They are very prosperous with out having been colonized.

[@greenpedal370]

No sound?

[@FurryAminal]

Somebody for pity's sake burn this series onto a DVD before the throught police get to it.

[@ignoblesurfer6281]

Rip local copies from KZbin. Just Google 'rip youtube videos' and you'll find various options. I have flash drives with samizdat like this on it. All taken from open websites like this on the clearnet. Because I know this won't last forever.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

There are no thought police. They exist only in your narrow mind.

[@petercrause7750]

It would be nice if there was sound

[@blackbartlaborro7882]

Now my right ear loves this

[@Magiktcup]

No audio

[@matwalsh1854]

now the uk has become a colony of africans indians and muslims the indiginous population is officially a minority in some cities and towns all going downhill quickly

[@ApachePieman]

Truly, the English made their own bed, now they lie in it. Unfortunately what goes around comes around, and the common folk of the U.K. are paying for it thanks to their ineffective, pansy government.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Ridiculous.

[@BoshiNagare]

but soon chinese and russians will colonise africa, believe me

[@TamamFlop]

@@ApachePiemanthe english ended slavery worldwide, spread civil rights and democracy everywhere. Invented almost everything. They deserve the world.

[@lawrencefalk8714]

Interesting as a US citizen to watch this series and compare reasons of wanting the British out.

[@neguspixelchannel]

The US is to be untrusted as well. Vietnam war vets from the US continued to carry horrible atrocities in Zimbabwe, assisting the Smith regime to suppress communities freedom fighters (zipra and zanu)

[@Valencetheshireman927]

@@neguspixelchannelZANU committed genocide and created a dictatorship

[@VanlifewithAlan]

Edson Zvobgo who we see here arguing very forceable later became very critical of Mugabe

[@lukecarrol1745]

Ireland, England's oldest colony was treated exactly the same way. Native Irish had their land seized, to become renters. Taxed and denied equal rights. It was illegal to teach children to read or write. England sharpened her teeth on Ireland. Then exported it to her colonies. It's not simply a black/white issue. Hence the Irish rose up in rebellion in 1916, and won her freedom by the barrel of the gun.

[@TamamFlop]

In all cases when whites, or asians for that matter get self-rule, the country in most cases prospers. Yet in africa in all cases corruption, poverty, violence, abuse of power gets out of control very quickly. In the worst cases slavery and cannibalism becomes normal.

[@davedelarond6383]

God bless Rhodesia , God bless Sally Donaldson , we miss you

[@angusewanmacdougall839]

Awww yes , "Sweetheart" Sally , everyone loved her radio show requests on the wkends . Hearing about or sending requests to loved ones on the frontlines in the bush fighting ZANU PF/ZIPRA Criminal marxist terrorists ... R.I.P : Sally Donaldson :(

[@yani2499]

+Angus Who the fuck is Sally.Did she twerk?

[@MsVarie]

+Angus MacDougall they were not terrorists those were our fathers who fought so we could have rights, so we wouldn't just settle for being your domestic workers, so we could be free.

[@angusewanmacdougall839]

Vara Idzo ------ I grew up during the civil war (1964-79) & witnessed terror with my own eyes , even lost 3x relatives , my older brother (R.I.P) who served with the Rhodesian Security Forces (RhACR) , KIA by a landmine near the Rhodesian/Mozambique border in late 79 and my Aunt & Uncle who were unfortunately passengers on FLT 823 Air Rhodesia (1978) from Kariba to Salisbury , shot down by Nkomo ''s ZAPU terrorists criminals with a Russian made Air-to-Air missle , 10mins after take-off . 66 passengers died , 25 passengers survived , but 15 passengers were raped/tortured than hacked to death with bayonets by Nkomo's terrorists , only 10 survived , witnessed the artrocities ..... These are the people your father thought for , I guess he never told you about the war on civilians who were targeted in there homes - farms even churches-schools and shopping malls .... ..... .......... R.I.P : L/Cpl Bruce.R. MacDougall , RhACR C Sqn aka "Black Devils" : Born: March 8 , 1958 -- Passed: October 17 , 1979 : Lest We Forget ........... R.I.P : Duncan and Yvonne MacDonald (my Uncle & Aunty) :(

[@vtecpreludevtec]

+Angus MacDougall a cabin,overalls,mealies,meat n tea,more than most of the poor buggers have now.Oh n heaps of tabacco.

[@belousoff]

Найдется кто-нибудь кто сделает русскую озвучку?

[@robertcottam8824]

Da

[@tempestvideos9834]

Rhodesia really did have the happiest and best fed Africans in Africa. The discrimination was still wrong.

[@ksamzw]

Best fed , we aren’t dogs 😂

[@a00b00c]

​@@ksamzwit is not about dogs. So why do you starve?

[@RodneyWilliams-to8jc]

Ironically it was the discrimination that made them the happiest and best fed Africans in Africa.

[@TamamFlop]

@@ksamzwyour history of self-governance shows that dogs are probably more fit to rule

[@chel3SEY]

The concerns that kept the white Rhodesians from agreeing to black majority rule were clearly well-founded, given the disastrous history of Zimbabwe since. Mugabe's comments here now sound hollow and hypocritical.

[@thesmithersy]

They even made the point that they wanted responsible, educated government and they knew you couldn't take tribes in a still in a relative iron-age standard of development through 2000 years of development within a few short years because they knew that tribalism would still come to the fore to back the strongest warlord (as indeed it did).

[@gamersacademyofmilitaryand4448]

I can't believe the audio is still down for this. Copyright violation they call it? My ass. I think it is either an honest mistake or worse, an effort by politically correct trolls looking to keep the people ignorant of the ups and downs of colonialism by sweeping it under the rug. There's a lot to be learned from this series, especially from the highly controversial and contested, yet little-known subject of Rhodesia, and having this video down detracts from this knowledge.

[@msvetov]

+Jackie Charleston Chew Schwartz “1010101001101” I just edited out the violating song, the rest of the audio should be back up now.

[@gamersacademyofmilitaryand4448]

Thank you very much. msvetov

[@mr.pavone9719]

Why would "politically-correct trolls" want to sweep the effects of colonialism under the rug?

[@neguspixelchannel]

@@msvetovwhich audio or song was it? 9 years later it should be eased down now 😅 please share

[@JohnRoberts-wk6rf]

When white rule ended in Southern Rhodesia, civilized rule DID end, as Ian Smith predicted.

[@goosegreen353]

Ian smith really did try his best to save this country. So sad to see this countries fall from grace

[@fritzytv9285]

Nobody can argue SMITH was 100% correct. The people were the most well off in Africa & the new government destroyed everything. People starving on the most fertile land in Africa! WTF

[@scoobydoo885]

Are the peoples in this countries better in 2022?

[@zachhoward9099]

Not at all

[@kupaninoe7372]

Yes we are . l live in Zimbabwe and my life is amazing😂🌍

[@TamamFlop]

Its a poverty stricken shithole, just like any black country

[@FMHammyJ]

I wonder if Rhodesia had accepted black majority rule before independence, if there wouldn't have been such enmity between blacks and whites....and things would have gone down a different path.....I suppose not as long as Mugabe and his gang took power.....

[@tintinsmythe5837]

so biased against Ian Smith and the Rhodesians

[@kingchubs]

TinTin Smythe I wonder what you consider fair then

[@humanforfreedom9583]

Not as bad as the zio media of today tho

[@5888max]

It's a bit like brexit first it seems mad ,then the roof does not fall in and it looks ok for a bit, then it turns out even worse then predicted

[@4TheWinQuinn]

Britain will be better off you wait and see.

[@5888max]

4TheWinQuinn No the wrong decision was made for he wrong reasons , Britain and Europe will be worse off all we are waiting to see is how bad and miserable it will be . It should be possible to minimise the harm but as the country has started to much decisions based on emotion and falsehoods rather then facts and pragmatism I am pessimistic

[@voetsaklapalapa760]

4TheWinQuinn You Idiot,

[@4TheWinQuinn]

Voetsak Lapalapa disgusting. Just wait and see, the E.U is incredibly wasteful and is too big. Its failing, i'm not exaggerating look it up. Outside the EU we will have control over our own fishing industry now, look up the documentary of how the EU destroyed the jobs and local economy of Britain's fishing towns. Also we will be free to make trade deals with countries outside the EU which are growing considerably more than those stagnating within. For example Mexico and Australia, which have already come forward with trade agreements.

[@5888max]

4TheWinQuinn Is the ever going to be point when you face facts ,and see what a idiotic thing leaving was ,look at the pound , read the news investment down prices up - The things you dismissed as project fear are simply facts . The bollocks you were promised were just lies, The EU might be wasteful all governmental organisations are, including the British government but it has a small budget so wastes less then most .

[@blackhumanity103]

37:00...he sounds like the Emperor in Return of the Jedi...evil to the core

[@vaxuvax]

A revolution is made by educated people who have a clear objective in mind, and after they win , they are capable to rule that country. Here there was Mugabe and a couple of guys at the top manipulating the illiterate. That is why now Zimbabwe is a backwater country where hunger, HIV and illiteracy is rampant. Also it seems to me that he never fought for the people (he actually masacrated africans from the minority tribes) but for himself and uses the country as his personal propriety. Ian Smith even in his wildest dreams couldn't achieve what Mugabe achieved. If you want to read about a true revolution against Britain, read The American Revolutionary War. Twenty years after independence(1783) USA had already a strong economy and was perceived as a regional power.

[@peterhermit1830]

Oh dear look at the place now.

[@alansparks8199]

I think a gradual process leading to parity would have been the best solution. Zimbabwe is a frothing cesspool, probably the worst country to live in in south saharan africa

[@cybertronian2005]

14:29 any Zimbabweans know the name of this chant

[@blackbartlaborro7882]

My left ear is going to love this!

[@rileykernaghan]

The final sentence of the narrator is an absolute doozy! This episode was clearly made too soon after the events depicted.

[@jamesjefferson9228]

Documentary ends saying the whites "who stayed" continued to prosper. Too bad about 90% of the whites have left! And, for those who stayed, those farm appropriations and murders certainly smack of prosperity.

[@zachhoward9099]

Yeah it's pretty misleading but slightly in the videos defense (which is hard as hell for.me to do) this was filmed in 83-84 before Mugabe revealed himself for what everyone thought he was, there are some statistics out there that showed in the first couple yrs of Zimbabwes existence white business owners profits actually increased, but it was short lived. It started with him renaming Salisbury, forcing General Walls out after a relatively short period (pretty sure Walls was out by 82 and had emigrated to Australia by 83) and then started blaming the whites who had stayed the course for all the countries problems. By 87 Zimbabwe's economy was on a downturn and I believe it was on a level of around 90-95% of White Rhodesian/Zimbabweans had left

[@richardyoung8526]

It is crystal clear after 40 years that Zimbabwe's mess can largely be attributed to Mugabe. But that was adequately known 45 years ago. Yet measures to offset this were not fulfilled. There was so much naivety and opportunism in those days. RMY

[@TamamFlop]

The same would have happened no matter which warlord the black africans decided should be their leader. Sad but true.

[@richardyoung8526]

What happened in Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe is so profound that it will be strategised and interlectualised for generations. It's all far behind us now, but the examined life is worth living. The one idea of white Rhodesia forming ing a political and military alliance with ZAPU and ZIPRA might have been a better basis overall. RMY

[@4exgold]

Rhodesian whites should've just given up in the mid-60s and handed over power to the black nationalists. Smith himself admitted that no one, not the British establishment, not the Commonwealth and not the UN would accept white minority rule and yet he went ahead anyway, resulting in so much pointless bloodshed & misery for 15 odd years. The Brits rightly saw that the more white Rhodesia clung on, the more the resistance would intensify. They could have had negotiations in 1965 to protect white rights whilst also instituting some sort of land buyback scheme to fairly redistribute land to blacks.

[@Chavuma]

"Never again shall this beautiful land will experience the oppression of one by another" - Nelson Mandela.

[@jommydavi2197]

They turned a once prosperous country into a corrupt shithole, let's not play the victim card and recognise how Zimbabwe and South Africa is pretty crap and doesn't look like they'll go anywhere.

[@skuzapo9365]

@@ALFIEA ....you are a moron with an IQ of 85 or lower.

[@TamamFlop]

South-Africa despite being FAR better of than zimbabwe has also turned into a total shithole. 30% unemployment or something? Highest crimerates on earth, rampant corruption, reverse apartheid. The racists are proven right in every case.

[@okechukwua.7799]

Ian Smith proclaimed a thousand year reich. It actually lasted 10 years. Haha.

[@voetsaklapalapa760]

Okechukwu A. 15 actually,😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😅😅😜😈✈️

[@nationalistcanuck2877]

Okechukwu A. Ian fought in World War Two against the Thousand Year Reich and had his face fucked up during it. He did his part- obviously you haven’t even considered trying. So you know what? Shut your fucking mouth.

[@mikebellis5713]

No he didn't

[@TamamFlop]

Ian smith and all "racists" knew exactly that zimbabwe would end up exactly like it did. There is no one better to argue for black inferiority than black results.

[@derricktakudzwa3487]

good documentaries ... like like like

[@Exposing_Mark_Niemczyk]

25:49 Its the black Gilbert Godfrey!!!

[@johnevans3115]

The end came swiftly for the white man in Southern Africa. In 1974, Angola and Mozambique were overthrown, followed by Rhodesia in 1980, South West Africa became Namibia in 1990, and South Africa went to black majority rule in 1994, with the flag of the rainbow nation raised over the Parliament buildings in Cape Town and Pretoria.

[@HighHeelsQueen]

Angola and Mozambique were ruled by Portugal and Portugal just left its colonies (including Macao) without any regard to events in them, simply by decision in Lisabon - you should know history a bit better

[@vtecpreludevtec]

+HighHeelsQueen Salazaar?was overthrown n they just left.U no Nandos chicken restraunts?Started by Portugese who went to S A,now there chain is in uk,a,nz,Malaysia,Singapore,n maybe other places.

[@marsmars5574]

john evans and are now shit holes of the highest order

[@FelonyVideos]

That same rapid end came for the black man, too. The next 30 years have been misery for the "winners".

[@bh1935]

Huge mistake for them to release mugabe

[@JS-mw7tk]

Quite surreal how Zimbabwe has changed from Rhodesia. All that fighting and for? Ditto in South Africa.

[@patricialeaper832]

To become free. Living in the USA, I know what freedom means. I might be a poor nobody, but I'm FREE.

[@JS-mw7tk]

@@patricialeaper832 to be free but in extreme poverty? I think if Zimbabweans under Ian Smith were told that the future they were fighting for would mean extreme famine and starvation, they would have rather continued under the minority government. Zanu-PF has completely ruined Zimbabwe and any future those younger generations and their children could have ever had. You claim it’s positive that you’re free but you’re living in USA under a western white government which your country condemns. Do you not see the irony of your statement. Zimbabweans fought against minority rule for freedom yet you have just admitted to benefitting from a white ruled country. Let that sync in.

[@katherine101able]

Now it is a dump. LOL

[@alvinoporter8013]

Katherine Hans Von Rotes schild Zitler. But its our dump

[@coastdweller]

@Maya Yeel only because China is playing the Africans just like every other power before them, give it time, things will go south with the chinese as well.

[@coastdweller]

@Maya Yeel I'm not responsible for government boycotts firstly, secondly I've never even been to Africa so I haven't taken jack from these people and thirdly anyone who keeps up with world events knows what game China is playing in Africa. Building roads and infrastructure for exclusive rights to resources in African nations like Zimbabwe . But just like every world power that has come before they will tire of y'all taking advantage of them.

[@coastdweller]

@Maya Yeel then why do you keep replying if no one cares or are you shocked that people know what China is really doing there?

[@pieeater108]

Maya Yeel china is colonising Africa though it’s quite obvious

[@BrianOh-uc3gm]

Horrible to see what Mugabe and his gangster cronies did and continue to do to Zimbabwe. A failed state.

[@Dreaded88]

Dear folks of RHODESIA (and yes that is it's proper name!): On behalf of the People of the United States I wish to apologize to all of you that we only knew of what was going on from what we saw on TV, and whatever the Liberal-Bias in the Media had to say. Yours' was a really great country. One has only to look at the Cholera Outbreaks in Salsbury (Harare), and the Monentary problems, to see just how laughable Booba' Moogha-Boogha' has done as it's leader. Thankfully now, people are seeing what mistakes we've made, what's been lost, and who's to blame. This coupled to our own problems, and glimpsing through lies in our own country as posed by both the media and by Barry Soetoro (the current occupier of the White House), is garnering support for all of you. I think, finally, at long last, the help and recognition, you so desperately needed then is finally on it's way! Bless you all, A concerned American. :D

[@paulmcpherson9588]

Dreaded 88, you took the words right out of my mouth. You hit the mark SPOT ON!

[@Dreaded88]

Masette Origin Nope! Driver Ants will eat you alive! Thanks to your friends!

[@Dreaded88]

Masette Origin Nope! We're all commin' back! :D

[@Dreaded88]

Masette Origin Nope! We're coming back! :D

[@Dreaded88]

Masette Origin Gimmie your adress. I'll show up during the middle of the night, some night!

[@rezzob]

Well done Margaret, great judgment!

[@billygiles3276]

“But without the patriotic front the war will go on!” “That’s right and then the front will be demolished” lol beast mode

[@SakBoyyy]

how did that end up for Mr Walls

[@rufustfirefly9545]

Instead of going into Vietnam the US should of helped Rhodesia

[@pavolkalmar9016]

Rhodesia wasnt a racist state.In Rhodesian army fought many black soldiers side by side with whites against Mugabes terrorists

[@SymphonyBrahms]

But blacks weren't allowed to live in white neighborhoods. That's racist.

[@patricialeaper832]

I think in the beginning it was. Cecil Rhodes wanted to make England's Royalists happy. How is that? Growing the Empire by invading and conquering.

[@UmoyaFilm]

52.08 And with that Lord Soames condemned millions of Zimbabweans to an awful future under Robert Mugabe. What a callous, prejudiced old man he was.

[@countchocula2169]

This is the most depressing series

[@g00gleminus96]

My left ear loves this video.

[@19DRS66]

Brought to the Africans of Rhodesia poverty,hunger,jungle law,,,A natural state of the African

[@patricialeaper832]

Are you any better? Just because you live in an industrialized country doesn't mean a thing. Wait until there's no more coal, natural gas, and oil because todays humans used it all up. I can see you now, your job will be pushing rocks just like humanity has done for 1000's of years. (Stonehenge, Pyramids, etc)

[@dondolomhlaba1242]

Joshua mdala Nkomo was the answer, he was fighting against the racist regime not because of their skin color

[@timpatjoe]

Long live Rodhesia

[@pigwartisubscribeback8198]

guy at 24:39 had sense

[@robwarraker2312]

God bless Prime Minister Smith, Ron Reid Daly ,the Selous Scouts,SAS,The Air force and the people of Rhodesia.

[@daverhodesFD]

At one point Rhodesia was offered, by Jan Smuts, an option to join South Africa. That choice cast the dii. And here we are- with an oppressed Zimbabwe, ruled by thugs, very far from free. And for that, we mainly have the Chinese and Russian Commies to thank. R.I.P Ian Smith [You were the real freedom fighter]

[@TamamFlop]

And the blacks to thank

[@gaflyer6895]

If only the minority settlers had the intellect to grant full rights to Rhodesia’s black majority specifically before armed struggle commenced, maybe the majority could’ve governed better upon majority rule? Examples such as education, representation treatment and empowerment would of guaranteed the breadbasket of Africa would of remained as such. Obviously that’s asking to much; historically, anywhere Europeans go theft, servitude and colonial rule follows. The white minority’s opulence, status and way of life would consequently help usher in the bitterness and motivation for war. Whites undoubtedly fought heroically for their Rhodesia but blacks were able to take the necessary casualties and hardships to eventually gain majority rule. The white minority’s inability to see the righting on the wall forced tens and thousands of Zimbabweans to trade diplomacy for armed struggle and inevitably into the hands of a strongman named Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party. But let’s be honest, the story of Zimbabwe is not isolated. Africa is full of similar stories of European enriching their economies at the detriment of generations of blacks.

[@paulhowden720]

Fooled by the hope of communism.

[@mikebellis5713]

Nonsense. Look at the rest of Africa

[@TamamFlop]

What do you think will happen if you give a bunch of tribal savages full rights? Civilisations dont just fall from the sky you know. Africans will ravage any country they gain control over, no matter how prosperous.

[@stevemorrisby6705]

Actually Samora Machel solved the Rhodesia problem.

[@andyburge7358]

Zimbabwe had the bad luck to have a communist dictator in place to take over - just imagine a different reality. What might have happened if Zimbabwe had their own Mandela? Don't paint everyone with the same brush

[@zachhoward9099]

Problem is Mandela’s successors in the ANC were just as bad as Mugabe when it came to corruption and incompetence

[@SymphonyBrahms]

They had Muzorewa. But he wasn't re-elected.

[@andyburge7358]

@@SymphonyBrahms True because Mugabe's party intimidated people into voting for him.

[@FelonyVideos]

Mandela? Have you seen the depths of depravity that South Africa has sunk to? No, the Smith plan to educate and refine the black citizens, and bring civilization to their hearts, black rule very well have worked out fine. As it went, and it was obvious even at the time, that the people would suffer for 100 years (still counting).

[@TamamFlop]

Look up the ridiculous unemployment rates, violent crime and corruption in south-africa. Real black succes story LOL

[@justicemunyoro]

35:30 kane nharo kamface ako

[@Jomo326]

Rhodesians never die.

[@andyburge7358]

Yes you do

[@jeffwilde44]

very interesting how what we deal with today in a region of the earth is exactly repeating

[@user-xi3zp4lm3m]

Look how it turned out. They haven't even food now!! Once the bread basket of Africa now famine and no hope

[@yankiefrenz1367]

still better than before

[@Valencetheshireman927]

@@yankiefrenz1367If you look at the poverty and tyranny in Zimbabwe, that is blatantly not true

[@yankiefrenz1367]

@@Valencetheshireman927there is nothing worse than apartheid

[@Valencetheshireman927]

@@yankiefrenz1367 Rhodesia wasn’t apartheid, it wasn’t the same as South Africa.