RR7644A RHODESIA IAN SMITH PROFILE

(5 Nov 1976) RR7644A RHODESIA IAN SMITH PROFILE
Ever since his unilateral declaration of independence
(UDI) from Britain in November 1965, Rhodesian
Premier Ian Smith has tried to maintain what he called
"acceptable standards of civilisation" - the preservation
of white supremacy and the denial of African majority rule.
As the Geneva conference on a final Rhodesian settlement
gets underway, this report looks back at the career of this
tough, uncompromising politician.
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[@phattonez]

Funny how the international community stopped caring after the transfer of power, even as the country stopped functioning. It makes you wonder what their real motivation was.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Majority rule.

[@ponyhelena2300]

Serves the colonizers right. They got what they deserved.

[@kazer353]

Black mans country stay in Europe and keep Europe white

[@Jarmint]

@@ponyhelena2300 you're probably the same person preaching for black lives in europe, the double standards...

[@tinashewakapila9832]

White colonialists never liked or fathomed ruling hand in hand with the colonized man. White colonialists pulling out after unified gvt was a scornful way of showing race barrier. Whomever may say whatever all they want but truth is Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia's collapsing is the fault of all races who occupied that land.

[@nathanhaywood2112]

People of Zimbabwe should be living the most privilege life !! Hurts to see the Misery it is now

[@brantdanger]

How would people that were living in the stone age before their encounter with whites now be living the most privileged life?

[@MypronounIsKing]

Truth

[@kelvinmarwizi8769]

yes white people, not black people

[@miqst4184]

The 'Black Nationalists' never had their aspirations satisfied. Mugabe took over. It was 'one man one vote once'. Once and once only. Black nationalists danced in the streets in Salisbury in 1980. Once and once only.

[@mois9555]

So many hope and dreams. Zimbabwe is a broken nation.

[@jimmycricket5366]

Trust me, they also danced in the streets when his very own zanu-pf party kicked him out into the cold... Anybody with a brain that is!

[@timbatimuwori1069]

Well said my friend

[@rossitherhodie5659]

When I see and hear this, I often wonder why, but when I look back and feel like I really want to cry, I realise then it was all worth the try. With sanctions and against communism, we fought the good fight, in sunshine and in rainand with plenty of pain, I say to myself; If I was given another chance, I'd do it all again. A Proud NON RACIST Rhodesian Forever.

[@zuzemoyo7696]

Unfortunately there's no other chance for you. You can't eat your cake and still have it.

[@Priapus212]

You are Zimbabwean. We don't want any form of fascism. Loyalty to the country is paramount. You're always welcome home. It is your home

[@jerzywieckowski7610]

@@Priapus212 Look at. the terrible leaders you chose since. From prosperity to poverty. Nobody wants to move there.

[@Mo-yd8xc]

​@@Priapus212why would you want a racist back?

[@tanatswamaenda6724]

​@@Mo-yd8xcmy thoughts exactly

[@honestlychiremba6580]

A hard worker statesman ever in the history of Rhodesia. He built the strongest state of Zimbabwe.

[@wernerbotha8279]

South Africa going the same route, will westerners apologize in 10 years from now for not doing more to help.

[@brantdanger]

It's not "westerners". It's the antiwhite oligarchs that run our countries.

[@cybertronian2005]

Kissinger's efforts at the Geneva Conference would in actuality prove to be highly unsuccessful - it would be two more years before Smith accepted a form of majority rule with the March '78 Internal Settlement with Muzorewa.

[@kenfragnicholl-sh6so]

A proper gentleman

[@charro509charitablegiving2]

Rhodesia looked pretty nice.

[@MrIAMpeanut]

9:50 that song is brilliant

[@AnotidaChikumbuBOOKSERIES1]

Good story AP guys. But your narrator got it all wrong when he said “Smith gambled that the British government would not use force against Rhodesia”. The truth is that Harold Wilson himself assured Ian Smith that the British government would not use force

[@stevenvictor2587]

The RAF were based over the border in Zambia. It was the British Army (all arms) who "mutinied". Wilson was willing to use force, but Rhodesia and South African would have crushed them in the event.

[@markazman6981]

is there a video of the pun about Harold Wilson? the one at 10 minutes in this video. I'd be very thankful for the help!

[@alisonasfield9677]

Who were the two jolly chaps who sang the song, much in the style of Flanders and Swan?

[@rhodesia1578]

Betrayed by the British and the yanks .. hope they get their karma .. look at their doing today.. Zimbabwe in ruins .. broken and poor .. losing assets to the Chinese . Now they have what they wanted .

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Surely the Smith regime was intolerable?

[@shibuya3185]

@Christiaan Hollander : You should learn to spell, my dear little racist.

[@johngore7744]

@@shibuya3185 yes it’s painfully hurtful.

[@ponyhelena2300]

Good. If the rhodies can't govern their own country, let china do it. They'll definitely have equal rights. Shocking, isn't it? ( Looking at you colonizers )

[@brantdanger]

The tragedy for all of us is that we have all been betrayed by our governments. The British and Yanks did not betray Rhodesia. Their governments did. Just like their governments betrayed their own people. Karma would be for the antiwhite fuckheads who have been running our countries to burn in hell. Just saying.

[@thanosisback2754]

how did black rule turn out huh?

[@FortuneZer0]

Pretty nice actually. It is very comforting to see them starving and soon descending into a civil war as soon as mugabe is dead. Hope the Rhodesian Foreign Legion will be joining the fray.

[@jeannettefaulkner8070]

Alexandre Milandro Don't fly away

[@edwardlo4167]

like a shit. if this is what they want, so be it.

[@brianmuvuti2505]

AM ENJOYING IT

[@whenwe9168]

@@brianmuvuti2505 yea right half the population has fled to SA. unemployment in Zimbabwe is 95% it has the 2nd highest inflation in the world. Face facts you ruined a prosperous country

[@georgemalouf4298]

I can guarantee a prosperous Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans had it remained under white minority's rule.

[@justkissanamakeup]

+Khalid Suwaid are you asian, would you agree for asia

[@skee9841]

+George Malouf why not go back to your land EUROPE and rule there? why go to another man's land and force them against their will? What is it with racists that you feel you are superior to the black race? we NEVER asked you to come to AFRICA so why don't you head back where you belong ? wish you were in front of me so i could punch you face in!

[@georgemoore7990]

Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was the homeland of white Africans as well as black Africans.

[@brianmuvuti2505]

@keith moore It's our land . We have every right to fuck it up as we please. You have zero say in this. Now STFU and go vote in Europe.

[@brianmuvuti2505]

@Paul Alexander Shona, Ndebele. Its the same African ownership. Now STFU and let us fuck up our land in peace.

[@avus-kw2f213]

14:30 America giving weapons to rebels is the oldest trick in the book

[@rossitherhodie5659]

After what came to be, we should have sided with Zipra against Mugabe. Would have been a much better country today

[@meliwabogingqinimeli4923]

Yes , Zipra leader Nkomo was a good man . He wanted unity and peace . Look at Zim today . My grandfather fought in Wankie he was a Zipra ground commander . After that he was killed by Mugabe

[@timbatimuwori1069]

Fuck zanu pf

[@TheDeviantgeezer]

@@meliwabogingqinimeli4923 until his gooks shot down the Hunyani and murdered the survivors

[@Triple5live]

How frustrating for Ian Smith, a man of clear conscience, civility, objectivism, pragmatism and great intelligence, to have to concede to such idiocy. A great warrior of our people. May his soul Rest In Peace.

[@alfa51301]

Ian Smith, rest in hell

[@Triple5live]

@@alfa51301 eat less bananas and it helps you stop farting uncontrollably

[@alfa51301]

@@Triple5live Mr stupid

[@mikebellis5713]

@@alfa51301 what a thing to say you idiot

[@alfa51301]

@@mikebellis5713 You can't talk to me, imbécil?

[@Mo-yd8xc]

I moved to Zimbabwe in 1980. I went to Milton school. It looked like old smitty got out LBW

[@JamesSumner-Goodwin]

I wish I could have been Smith's chief advisor. I'm 95% positive there was a way.

[@maitrehauchecorne846]

I am a American of Italian and Portuguese Ancestry. My paternal Grandfather Fought and escaped capture with His life at Adwa. Menelik II was a farsighted and able leader who recognized the advantages of arming the whole of His people with the best in contemporary arms. Ian Douglas Smith was also a great leader who knew that the great majority of the Black Population were not yet well educated enough to resist the beguiling temptations subterfuges and chicaneries of sophisticated communist Socialist opportunists who would dupe and exploit them. There were indeed many Blacks Who served with distinction in the Rhodesian Forces. Smith recognized that although the school system was educating many Blacks who would become future leaders they had not yet acquired the discernment necessary to to become successful diplomats and statesmen capable of handling the complexities of ruling over a population that was still largely Primitive and having every childish impulse and jealousy of tribalism that could cause catastrophic failure as had happened in Rwanda, Uganda and many other African Countries. Smith was a Man so great Mugabe would have to stand on His Mother’s Shoulder’s to look at Smiths Buttocks.😊

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Why were blacks who were educated barred from the government then? And why did Rhodesia only spend ten percent of what they spent on white education on black education?

[@AmarSingh-kh9ux]

This makes me cry 😢

[@glenmalesa8902]

Unlike Zimbabwe, South Africa's ANC did not win the war. Hence too much compromise by ANC to the NP.

[@andrewmalacara1]

true statesman

[@alfa51301]

True racist, Andy

[@ambessaseway5594]

So it was all illegal from beginning

[@kennedyodundo6184]

IAn Smith was a good leader,he was not willing to hand over power ,though handed over power but to the wrong people

[@gsf67]

Therefore governance was quickly and readily modeled on the Westminster legal system, akin to that in Britain, and became a largely Eurocentric nation. From where I sit, I believe that Britain and France, in particular, must take a large portion of blame, they drew up boundaries, often with tribes, who may have had no interaction, or were hostile to each other, and were expected to live in harmony under colonial rule. The colonialists plundered resources. They may have left a sense of stability, while they were in rule, however, majority rule, was always going to be problematic. We have seen in recent times, current leaders of African countries abuse their power, we have seen nepotism, greed, collaboration with greedy oil and petroleum companies, where very little of the revenue is filtered down to the masses. No wonder Africa is a basket case, and as we have seen in the last 40 years, Zimbabwe is no exception. However, on the other hand, if you were indigenous to a land, looked down upon as a second class citizen, in a country, named after a "white" colonialist, "Rhodes", in lands that are your ancestral home lands, how would you feel?

[@MrGoblin60]

"Hostile tribes". I see, so what about the Marxist concept of multiculturalism? This is the principal by which multiple communities of incompatible "tribes" are forced to live side by side in western countries. So by applying the same principal when drawing up borders the colonial powers were only conferring the benefits of multiculturalism on the indigenous populations. The establishment of white communities in Africa must also have been equal to the establishment of black populations in the West and that the indigenous whites are, to use your words, "expected to live in harmony......". That is, African blacks settling in what were once white countries and the indigenous whites have no say in the matter. It follows then, that white nationalism in Europe must be acceptable and applauded if black nationalism in Africa was accepted and applauded in Europe. There are plenty of opportunites for whites to be "looked down on as second class citizens" by foreign settlers in their ancestral lands in those areas where the neo-colonialists outnumber the local indigenous whites. How would you feel?

[@user-iz5ue7xd4o]

God bless these good people

[@jerzywieckowski7610]

From bread basket of Africa to starvation. Portugal and Israel were the only two which helped.

[@johnnymookergee4935]

God Bless You Prime Minister Smith RIP

[@theirishvideos]

Badly handled from start to finish on all sides. Zimbabwe could have been a powerhouse in Africa, instead of that, all sides lost.

[@hhh5722]

Pamwe Chete...

[@jamesnapier3802]

If one needs a definition of "assholes", the so-called Western governments are the prime examples. The Zimbabweans have them to thank for Mugabe, and what a thank it is.

[@brantdanger]

I would add their are antiwhite assholes, as they have sought to destroy every white nation.

[@126Edward]

Rhodesia was not the first betrayed by the british. They did the same to the Arabs

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

Rhodesia declared independence. It was the other way around.

[@shibuya3185]

The British actually stood by the Rhodesians....the 95% that were black. Good for them.

[@skee9841]

100 not out?????? looks like a fast ball from the Chimurenga Soldiers cut that down by over 80 percent, Howzat??????

[@thCentury-rx9di]

SKEE what?

[@johnevans3115]

Ian Smith on a tour to America said " the black man did not invent the wheel". To which the obvious reply was " neither did YOU".

[@thanosisback2754]

+john evans at least your kind invented fish & chips ... and that pretty much sums it.

[@thCentury-rx9di]

john evans White People did, the point was, blacks haven't contributed as much as white People to society.

[@inanemme5603]

@@thCentury-rx9di Generally speaking, people engage in intellectual pursuits during times of peace, and technological development is motivated by trade. A region that is constantly attacked, pillaged for its resources and blocked from trade due to the invaders monopolizing both resources, ports and other means of trade, is generally too preoccupied with this threat to advance technologically and is restricted from doing so in any case. For example, the people of Gaul were not nearly as advanced when they were under the constant threat of Rome, the focus of that time period was preventing invasion and their culture reflected that. I'm sure the Romans considered this to be proof of the Gaulians' inability to progress, and their lack of civilization was evidence of natural barbarity, inferiority and decadence. Yet, once the Roman Empire was no longer a threat, Gaul developed into modern France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. How could a naturally barbarous and backwards people develop into these superpowers?...The reverse happened in many places in Africa. Ethiopia and Eritrea formed a flourishing and successful empire going back to the 1200s, the invasion and Italian occupation were the beginning of the end and its effects are still seen today in the the country's abject poverty. You might say that Africa is no longer colonized and question why they have not advanced since then. To which I would answer that many African countries have made overall improvements, it is the world's second-fastest growing economy. True, it is still incredibly unstable, but how long did it take Europe to even regain the level of advancement of the Roman Imperial era? The middle ages were the 'dark ages' as far as Europe was concerned. (And I wouldn't be surprised if the technologically superior regions of that time period- China, India and the Middle East looked down on Europe for it.) How long should it take Africa to recover from the political upheavals, exploitation, wars and general mayham that go back over two centuries?

[@mdnis]

All he meant by that was that when Rhodesia was colonized by Europeans, Africans were living as they had been 500 years before, 5,000 years before, 50,000 years before. They hadn’t invented anything, including writing.

[@richardlitwin4046]

@@inanemme5603 You are forgetting the judgement that fell on many Southern African Bantu in 1438.

[@bigshaq712]

A man

[@gsf67]

Well, I am from New Zealand, about as far removed from the situation in Africa as it is possible to be, although New Zealand was colonised, and there is still disquiet, and grievance from some Maori "original" inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Maori population was quickly overwhelmed by European settlers, not just British, but Irish - who are not British, Danes, Croatians, and many other European ethnicities

[@fenlander7114]

Maybe true a decade or two ago but in 2020 there is clear inverted racism in NZ, strong echoes of both Rhodesia and South Africa - kiwis need to move on.

[@gsf67]

@@fenlander7114 You could well be right, and there are parallels in NZ, with what is happening in the US.

[@MANDREW33]

Yup. It’s all about numbers. Whoever breeds the fastest, wins.

[@mrman8541]

The Irish were British at the time.

[@gsf67]

@@mrman8541 Did they want to be British, I don't think that they had much say in the matter.

[@freemanchimanga7520]

mwari vakapindira vakatipa nyika yenyu yange yabvutwa nevapambe pfumi.ukaona uri munhu mutema uchi supporter smith and his regime uri mutengesi.hapana chakanaka kugara uri muhudzvanyiriri .kusatonyara kunzwa smith achiti they are independent from british but havadi isu vatema kuve nerusununguko.imbwa sungata unonzwa dzoti smith aiva nani

[@joannsissy4768]

Ugabuga bwana

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@joannsissy4768 "bwana" means white man. Even for poor trolling this is pretty dumb.

[@ianhall3822]

Ian Smith did not declare UDI. He declared civil war.

[@mikebellis5713]

I can't remember him doing that

[@rodrigomeneses5900]

Rhodesia never was... Zimbabwe is the land

[@karfomachet7265]

Rhodesia was in fact a real place for longer than Zimbabwe has been , before Rhoidesia there was only different African tribes and at no time before Rhodesia did africans have any zimbabwe . Salisbury is the same - before its founding it was just grass plans on which animals grazed .Rhodesia all so included Zambia so u are wrong on two points of fact .

[@whenwe9168]

what a stupid comment.

[@franstettero2165]

When people ask me what I think about Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, I'm telling them that Zimbabwe means that freedom is more important for the majority then the 15% remaining white people. About the name Rhodesia Im telling them "imaging youre living in Hitleria instead of France". The Brittish (Cecil Rhodes) conquered that land, not build it. The so called rules where so diferent for the white folks then the black people. Wish there was grass left on the plains….. My color is white, but born in Harare, with an Zimbabwean heart. Hoping Zimbabwe finds a real leader.

[@whenwe9168]

@@franstettero2165 lol you gotta be kidding me. the same people that kicked the farmers off the land. called them colonialists despite being born there many generations in. Tell me if they went to the African Americans now and told them that they belong in Africa and must go to Africa what kind of international uproar would there be? Racism in all formats is wrong however the world remains silent when whites are told daily to go back to Europe. until we learn respect and learn to share we will never progress

[@karfomachet7265]

@@franstettero2165 what a load of clap trap garbage from a zimbo whos basically little more than a zanu pf spokesperson .To put things right - there was no harare before fort Salisbury was built on grass plains - as there was no zimbabwe before whites built up Rhodesia into a first world state Mugabes abortion called zimbabwe is not something to be proud of .