RR7828A RHODESIA REPORT

[@P7777-u7r]

That guy is one of the most Texan Texans I’ve heard of

[@juliechurley2716]

Sensible man!

[@jamtree9746]

God I Miss My Country .

[@Jabulanification]

Get over it

[@andymoore9977]

@@Jabulanification I hope that the starving Zim folk can get over it as well.....

[@nkosisky7334]

@@Jabulanification bro don't be stupid what did that shona led government do for you??..bet ur not even in Zim as we speak!!

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Me too bro. me too.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

I feel for you.

[@MarioStahl1983]

2:44 quote: "As a result (of Mugabe's geruilla attacks on missionaries and their infrastructure) 300.000 black children are now without schooling and at least twice that number are missing the welfare provided by the missions (...)" AT THAT TIME MUGABE WASN'T EVEN IN POWER YET!!!! MY GOD!!!! 😥

[@MarioStahl1983]

@TheSmithersy Exactly! What I meant was how much damage he caused EVEN when he wasn't yet in power. Incredible!

[@MarioStahl1983]

@Katherine Sparkes Yes. He went from Christian fanatic to Communist and somewhat back again. It was a wild mixture of ideas that formed his tyranny.

[@calvynnobrega9951]

@@MarioStahl1983 greed for wealth and power were his driving force, he only used ideals as a tool to achieve his evil desires

[@MarioStahl1983]

@@calvynnobrega9951 I know. How could so many people follow him?

[@avus-kw2f213]

Always finding ways of depriving black people of basic necessities

[@superbug1977]

The Baptist missionary, Jim Dearmore, was ambushed on November 28, 1978. He survived the bloodthirsty terrorist assault even though he was shot in two back-to-back ambushes. After the attack he spent months in hospital and physical therapy, eventually making it back to Texas. He tended to share his experiences in Africa with typical Christian grace and forgiveness. The attack on Reverend Dearmore was one of many against missionaries and their families. Around this time, one of Dearmore's black friends, a Christian man by the name of Stephen Bangwayo Zemudzo, was taken into the mountains by a terrorist group and murdered. Killings and violence like this were an everyday occurrence in Rhodesia then. It was racist and violent. And the world turned a blind eye to it. Dr. James Dearmore passed away on June 10, 2015. His wife passed away at an earlier date on November 17, 2004. They were devout Christians.

[@erickpk7406]

thanks for the history. must have been some testing times for the reverend

[@MoonVoice01]

How many people did he shoot?

[@randbarrett8706]

What do you mean the world turned a blind eye? Southern Rhodesia was economically isolated precisely because the world did not tolerate the violent racism of that society.

[@superbug1977]

@@randbarrett8706 South African farm murders of the Boers is violent racism in the extreme. And the world tolerates it because the victims are Dutch. Please get it right. Or does the truth need to be hidden?

[@HD_Hates]

1:46 Yes, and Mugabe's terrorists even kidnapped the black orphans who stayed at that missionary so he can bolster his terrorist army by forcing those kids to be his child soldiers. Afterall communist/socialist terrorists always target kids, teenagers and young people for recruitment because they are easier to brainwash and indoctrinate .

[@sandymclea]

Love the ending. When my brothers and I were young we lived in Malawi, and our ' house-boy' would fetch us from school on a bike, he was our best friend. I looked tough for blacks in Rhodesia back then, but I'm sure many would rather be living a Rhodesia than a Zimbabwe. So sad for that country. And now I sit here across the boarder in SA and wonder if Roberts friends sitting here in parliament learnt anything.

[@andymoore9977]

@Wonder Boy How come so many black Zims fought on the white side? Mugabe was an evil exploiter, far worse than Smith.....

[@andymoore9977]

@Wonder Boy You are making a very big assumption about who are 'my kind'. It is unwise to do that as it singles you out as a bigot.

[@andymoore9977]

@Wonder Boy I have never killed anyone, nor ordered others to do so.

[@andymoore9977]

@Wonder Boy I have never killed or ordered others to kill. You are now committing liable, a defamation crime.

[@tafirenyikajamela33]

You fucking mad

[@williammakupa5896]

Zimbabwe made the same mistakes other African countries made after independence in the early 1960s. The irony is that Zimbabwe made these mistakes in 1999 - 2000, some 20 years after other SSA countries had gone down the path of farm nationalisation (1960s/70s) and privatisation of the same farms (1990s). It is as if this lesson of history passed by Mugabe completely. It will take years for Zimbabwe to recover.

[@mwangiirungu3670]

William what would you have done if you got a chance to revenge...

[@macak557]

Zimbabwe wil never recover

[@imgladandrewgillumisnotmyk5787]

Ahem. Rhodesia

[@trevormann8221]

Zim won’t recover

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Zim will never recover. It is doomed to fail.

[@simonh6371]

The black Rhodesians of this era look better dressed and coiffeured than most people did in the UK at this time. No donkey jackets and scruffy unkempt hair. I am pretty sure they ate a lot better, sadza with greens and stewed beef is a lot more nutritious than the crap I used to eat as a kid.

[@glendodds3824]

Hi. The phrase '"black Rhodesians" was seldom used before the 1970s. The word "Rhodesian" usually only applied to members of my tribe, the white population.

[@simonh6371]

@@glendodds3824 Hi Glenn. May I ask what they were called back then? Africans or Ndebele/Shona?

[@tg-us3hw]

​@Kris Nestor No-white people enjoyed their lives black people didn't life was tough-its getting a lot better now - thank you for your concern but Rhodesia is gone and we don't miss it

[@glendodds3824]

@@simonh6371 The Shona and Matabele etc were usually simply referred to as "the Africans" or "blacks".

[@phyrr2]

@@tg-us3hw Yeah right. Is that way Mugabe and friends drove out the native blacks in Rhodesia, replacing them with the surrounding tribes from neighboring countries? To save them from the oppressive white Rhodesians? Considering the Selous Scouts, one of the most highly trained and capable military groups of the Rhodesians during that time, was 80% black, I'm not so sure your narrative sticks, but you can keep telling that to yourself. That's just a couple of basic examples mind you.

[@groovechampion1462]

What a legend of a nation! why don´t western schools tell this tragedy of a story? i´m born 1977 in northern europe. my ancestors fled the commies of the red army in 44 and we ended up in sweden...and today we have to consider fleeing

[@jackbarnes9728]

Because the left wing politicians don't want to be associated with such a disaster as all African countries fell into after majority rule, some worst than others, (Zimbabwe, Congo, Sudan, Rwanda). If it's even brought up then the offending individual is branded a "racist" in an attempt to drown out the facts of the situation. Truth is that these African countries never had a government at all before the colonial powers came in and it was a foreign concept and they had never dealt with money, finances, trade or anything of the type and when suddenly put in control of these things it quickly fell to shit. Luckily, Mugabe was smart enough to ride off into the sunset with billions "somehow" while his country fell apart while experiencing the worst inflation in world history. Also while experiencing shortened life expectancy, increased infant mortality rates, famine and etc. What happened to Rhodesia is exactly what Ian Smith said would happen.

[@earthlionearthlion6539]

you tube allows only selective liberal leftist propaganda so you will never see THE TRUTH but only leftist communist liberal socialist rainbow BS

[@phyrr2]

Can't tell stories that are against the crafted narrative about the struggle, etc., the world's governments won't allow it.

[@groovechampion1462]

@@phyrr2 we have to eat insects and be happy about it.

[@randbarrett8706]

Why don’t they tell this story? Because it’s a story of racist imperialism and western countries have to pretend that they’re good guys.

[@dreamdiction]

1:40 New York Times by Michael T. Kaufman June 25, 1978. "VUMBA, Rhodesia, June 24-Twelve people, including teachers at a mission school here and their young children, were killed last night in a brutal terrorist attack. The 12, all whites, were battered and bayoneted to death by black nationalists who gathered together 250 black students and teachers at the school and told them that “some white staff have been arrested.” The armed men ordered the students not to report the incident, and it was not until today that the killings were discovered. By late morning, as reporters arrived here from Salisbury, ‐Rhodesia's capital, aboard flights arranged by the Rhodesian Air Force, the victims still lay on the ground, evidently in the same positions where they had been slain the night be- fcre. They were in three groups, about 150 yards apart in a glen near an acacia grove. The victims were three men, their wives, another woman and five children. One of the dead men had his hands tied behind his back with clothesline. A woman, dressed in a bathrobe with her hair in curlers, had an ax imbedded in her neck. Four children-a boy 4 years of age, two sisters aged 4 and 8, and another girl of 5 lay huddled close together. All were dressed in pajamas, and like the other victims they had all been struck on the head with clubs. Some also had stab wounds. One of the girls had the imprint of a boot on the side of her face. Nearby lay the body of a woman, her arm encircling her dead 3-week-old daughter. Near them was a heavy wooden limb with blood on it. The woman's engagement ring was turned with the jewel to her palm, perhaps in an attempt to keep it from being taken by men she thought were looters. Autopsies have not yet been performed, but the bodies of the women were in partial undress and there was a suggestion that they had been sexually assaulted. All the bodies appeared to be lying where they had fallen, and the deaths seemed to have been quick. None of ‘the students or black teachers was said to have been injured or threatened, and none reportedly heard any outcry. At the time of the killings, the blacks were all In the dormitory area about 300 yards down a slope from a cricket field. Rhodesian soldiers scouring the area this morning followed a trail of blood that led to a battered and unconscious white woman teacher. She was identified as Marry Fischer, a lay member of the Elim Missions of England, a pentecostal group that operates the Emmanuel School here, which was formerly a white private boarding school. She was flown to a hospital in Salisbury, where her condition is critical. The only white resident at the school who escaped unharmed was a teacher, Ian McGarrick, who had been warned of the arrival of the terrorists by a black servant, and reportedly spent the night in hiding. He was said to be in seclusion today. Last night's killings, the most severe attack on missionaries in the long Rhode- scan civil war, came against a backdrop of intensifying violence in this country. Because farmers here live in well‐fortified and armed garrisons, missionaries have increasingly become targets of terrorist attacks. Vumba, the site of the school, is four miles from the border with Mozambique and 10 miles from Umtali, the nearest town. In all, according to Government reports, 21 missionaries had been killed by terrorists before last night's slayings, of them in the last month. In addition, two workers from the International Red Cross were killed five weeks ago in an ambush by terrorists. Black students and teachers here said that they had not been intimidated by the intruders. The students said that they became aware at 8:39. as evening classes were ending, that terrorists had come onto the campus. They described the men as carrying rifles rend wearing knitted ski caps. They said the gunmen- spoke the Shona language in addressing them on a playground where they had been ordered to assemble. One student said the talk lasted only six minutes, and that the terrorists had identified themselves as “freedom fighters from ZANU'-the Zimbabwe African National Union, the Mozambique‐based guerrilla force headed by Robert Mugabe. In another development here, the Rhodesian command denied today that Rhodesian forces had been involved in two attacks reported to have taken place in Mozambique at refugee camps, in which Mozambique charged that Rhodesian soldiers had killed 19 persons, including a Belgian United Nations technician and his wife. The Vumba area Is a beautiful region of thick wooded hills and rocky outcrops southeast of Umtali. There had been no guerrilla attacks in the immediate vicinity of the school for many months, according to police spokesman. Nonetheless, black teachers at the school said the white staff members had been planning to move next week to Umtali and commute to the school because of growing uneasiness: They also said that Miss Fischer, the surviving victim, had made arrangements to leave for England next week. All the dead were British citizens. The adults had taught at the Emmanuel School, and were both religious and lay members of the Elim Mission, which operates clinics and schools in several countries, including Ghana, Tanzania, Rhodesia and South Africa." The New York Times/June 25 1978".

[@bosewenkono2634]

So sad!

[@dbh-o8m]

This video appears to have an audio track biased towards the left side

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Rhodesia appeared to have bias toward the right side.

[@Rustsamurai1]

I feel this loss, now, and I was a young boy in NZ then.

[@garydurandt4260]

I wonder if the older blacks of Rhodesia days looked back on this video and compare their living standards between then and now, what their opinion will be?

[@tg-us3hw]

@Kurishev Tulipov We dont miss Rhodesia- If you grew up having white people look down on you and let their dogs chase you-you'd understand

[@jaredfryer2937]

@@tg-us3hw How old are you ?

[@kdegraa]

How could someone kill families like that? It horrific.

[@ralphwebster8318]

Same as the ANC have done to the South African farmers

[@Objectiveansthensome]

Realistically its nothing like it..... South African farmers have kept their farms.... SA its self has issues for everyone The biggest issue after independence is A/ Disbanding the independence party ( Ie the ANC should disband) so the couthry can get back tot Nora B/ Putting in place VERY STRONG anti corruption institutions C/ Reducing inter tribal / ehinic Poare IN SA the fights between the back tribes .. have been the same as the fight between the white Tribe last century in the Boer War.... ANC should go

[@lameesahmad9166]

I am not sure where you get some of your information. In the last 2 years of my schooling 1978 and 1979 we had black students in our school in Malvern, Salisbury. Because there were already a large amount of regular students the higher standards 5 and 6 who were just about to do their o'levels had less black students but in the lower standards 1 to 4 we had a good even proportion of black students to white students. Not only that but right next to us in the same time period lived a fantastic black family who we admired and appreciated. In my church we also for many years had a black congregation. Yes they also had separate services to us but that was because it was easier for the black members of our congregation to understand the message if given in their own language of Shona. From a very young age we were segregated from the black people but they walked freely among us. I dont remember ever being taught to hate them. In fact we were very friendly with each other. I had two African girl friends. I myself being a girl really enjoyed their company but it was difficult for me to visit them because they do have very complicated customs which must be followed when you visit them involving standing outside and clapping in a certain way. They felt uncomfortable visiting me because of the difference in our culture and visa versa. Walking past African people who we knew in the road we would always exchange greetings. We respected their rights to have their different culture and traditions and they respected ours. I have met some highly educated African people from my home town, Salisbury. They are engineer's, lawyers and doctors. Being a British colony we were taught the Cambridge educational system which I still regard as one of the best in the world. If you meet an educated African my age from my homeland you will be amazed at the command of the English language and how polished their accent is. During the conflict being a small country most people had a good idea what was going on. The war was being managed by Chinese forces in Mozambique. Children were being kidnapped from Rhodesia and taken to camps in Mozambique where they were forced to learn the Chinese doctrine and armed with AK47"s they were forced to go into Rhodesia where they killed their own people. It was our mission not only to protect our own people but to save the innocent indigenous people from being annihilated by a foreign monster. You say our country was bankrupt. That is not entirely true. Yes our economy could not support the incredibly high costs of the ammunition we needed to defend our country. But because of the sanctions imposed on us we had become more or less self sufficient. We did not have as much variety as other countries but we lived a very good life making do with what we had. Our farms were very successful and we had the best maize and tobacco crops in the continent. We had plenty of vegetables and our chicken and beef was without par. When the world peace core came to our country they couldn't get over that a country which was sanctioned so heavily had an exchange rate of 2 South African Rands to 1 Rhodesian Dollar. When the Rhodesian Government pulled out of the Common Wealth in 1963 the main reason is that the Common Wealth wanted majority rule which was fine except the leaders who they wanted to take over had threatened that when they came in they would chase the whites out. Just before this Northern Rhodesia had been given majority rule with the result that the white community had to leave everything that they owned and run for their lives. Those who were not fast enough were butchered. The people of Rhodesia were expecting the same thing to happen to them. We are colonists. My family has been in Africa for more than 300 years. The world has very definite borders and restrictions on how you can enter each political area. Where do you think a family who has been living in a land for more than 300 years can go. We are considered outsiders because of the colour of our skin and yet by virtue of the fact that our families have lived in Africa for at least 15 generations are we not entitled to also consider ourselves African. I love my land it is in my blood and my heart and yet I am told that I am a foreigner. My childhood home was not a mansion and yet we were forced to leave with the threat that if we did not our whole family would be killed. We left our dear country and pined for it for years. We still live in Africa and we are satisfied. But if I close my eyes I can still walk through our house and down the street. I can still walk past and greet our friends both black and white. I can still breath the sweet unpolluted air and walk through the fields flying my kite with my dogs by my side picking flame lilies. I can still go into the garden where we had so many vegetables which we ourselves planted and tended. I can play with the rainbow beetles and throw grains of sand in the ant lion traps, tease chonkalollas till they curl up and watch swallows dive and speed through the air catching insects after a rain storm. There were no gangsters or drugs. Just a clean and contented life. The only thing I dont miss are the mosquitoes. Sigh

[@hecateswolf6007]

Thanks for sharing. I'm very sorry that you had to leave your home, and from your poignant words I still see that you miss the land so much, the huge sense of exile. I do hope that one day now that Butcher Bob is six feet under that you can. What I find meaningful is that in the last years of his life when Ian smith was asked about his identity he replied 'I am African'. Again my thanks for sharing.

[@petervanwyngaard4788]

How beautifully put.. I was as you were.. Could have passed in the streets of Gwelo or Bulawayo .. Peace

[@th3smurf692]

That last part almost made me cry. I hope you and your family are doing well now.

[@bakatiaramed3026]

@@th3smurf692 The years I spent in my beloved homeland will always be a part of my heart. But yes, we came from a hard-working unspoiled people and with hard work our family has adapted to living in another country. Our formative years were good and conducive to nurturing a good character. As a result of being under the guardianship of good parents and living in a decent society none of my parents eight children became bad. Of course, we have all had our rough and tough moments, but we are survivors and still manage to pull through any of the difficulties we have faced. As children my parents could not afford to buy us lots of toys and gifts, but I honestly don't remember being sad or cross about it. We made our own toys and found other games and ways to amuse ourselves. We made our own kites and went for long walks in the bush with our dogs. My brothers went fishing in the river down the road and I sat near them reading. Fortunately, our school had a very good library and being an avid reader, I read a great deal. Because of this when faced with a problem we do not throw up our hands in horror we sit down and figure a way out of it. If we need more experienced advice, we source it and use it. We are average people but being brought up in a country where we had to make do with what we had has inevitably in a way instilled a pioneer spirit in us. If its broken, fix it. But do it with a decent attitude to people no matter who they are around you. Best Wishes Lamees Ahmad

[@th3smurf692]

@Bakatiar Amed that is heartwarming to hear! I wish you guys all the best. If I might ask, did you migrate to south africa and did you go during the war or after?

[@ericbivins8014]

I wonder what ever happened to that pistol packing preacher?

[@dmeinhertzhagen8764]

Died peacefully at home in Texas surrounded by his family after working in Africa for 33 years. www.google.ca/amp/s/www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/tributes/189567196

[@UncleBoratagain]

Eric Bivins Found some evidence that he was eventually ambushed by Zanu-PF and survived multiple bullet wounds.

[@smeggerssmeghead3100]

@@dmeinhertzhagen8764 God bless

[@T8RZTOTZ]

He died in 2015. He lived in Dallas Fort Worth Texas where I live.

[@Jo92Sch]

It would have been nice to know from what year and month exactly this report was filmed.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

The Umtali massacre shown here was on 23 June 1978.

[@Neddyfram]

In the description. 10th July 1978

[@FelonyVideos]

The question never should have been "can black people get control", it should have been "should we force it now, or wait and let a more natural change happen".

[@tg-us3hw]

the issue, really stems from treating black people like second class citizens, and dividing the country a long racial lines.If this had not happened, people would not really have cared to rise up

[@lolz-f6c]

Was there ever a Texan more Texan than this guy? 🤣

[@truenorthstrongfree8566]

@06:20 Now that's a smart man of God - Right there folks. A man of Wisdom - no doubt ;-)) Thank You Dr. Dearmore, for standing strong in Your Faith ;-)) God Bless You Brother and may God protect You and keep You from harm and I pray for a hedge of protection to surround You and Your family, congregation and Your property - by God's Mighty Angels - Amen > > > > > > .

[@th3smurf692]

Bro this was 40+ years ago, he's probably dead by now.

[@Dreaded88]

Dear folks of RHODESIA (and yes that is it's proper name!): On behalf of the People of the United States, and myself as a child of Exiles, 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. Ours' was a really great country. One has only to look at the Cholera Outbreaks in SALISBURY (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 the former occupier of the White House (referring to Barry Soetoro), 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

[@barneytsikai4478]

Do know what sanctions are when all white led governments in the world won't allow us to trade on our natural resources to prove Africans can't manage their own affairs which is false.Remember the so called land crabs was started by whites thousands of blacks died as a result now we got our land back you put sanctions against us.Life is not white only leave us alone don't mess the world like you messed the rest of the world from slave days colonisation to oppression look at Iraq for example these are just facts the white worldwide try to avoid.

[@Jabulanification]

GET OVER IT cry baby

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Unfortunately it was a segregated racist country. The "liberal bias" is a figment of your imagination. Rhodesia was set up for a white minority to have all the benefits and a black majority to have the scraps from the table. And that was wrong no matter how you try to defend it.

[@jonwayne70]

2:04 Bottom left is a dead child probably a girl and zooming in on her face you'll see that she was savagely beaten on the face by a monster. I can watch a cartel brutally murder another rival without looking away, but seeing that kid dead like that is still sad, even though it happened before I was born.

[@erickpk7406]

it goes to show no matter how you value your existence, time will kill you and ,ake sure youre forgotten

[@gailnel8812]

How I miss my home

[@matabeleman]

I got out in 64..moved to canada...

[@henrysevern]

When I lived in Oz in the 1978 I remember European descent people immigrating to Australia from what was then Rhodesia.

[@alternativenarrative4564]

I have had many ex-Rhodesians deny that toilets were segregated in Salisbury. Next time it happens, I'll point them to this video. I remember they were, & this video proves they were.

[@glendodds4926]

I am a white Rhodesian and I agree with you. Racial segregation was part of life in Rhodesia, where I spent my childhood in the 1960s and 1970s. My father was in the Rhodesian Air Force and was mostly based at New Sarum on the outskirts of salisbury. For a while we also lived at Gwelo when he was posted to the base at Thornhill. We loved Rhodesia and were right-wing, as was true of relatives who lived on farms throughout the Bush War. Nevertheless, none of us agree with the idea that blacks and other non-whites in Rhodesia were treated as our equals. The colour of a person's skin mattered.

[@patbutete1722]

I admire your candidness Sir!

[@alternativenarrative4564]

Funny you should say that actually. The two dumbest people in my friends list happen to be Rhodies.

[@patbutete1722]

Tony Haynes Extrapolating your logical fallacy, every white person must be a racist too right? smh.

[@alternativenarrative4564]

I was kinda hoping that the extrapolation would be that generalising about people is also dumb. Because I have met folk of African roots, blacks if your prefer, who are vastly more intelligent than me, & folk reckon me a smart one. I've also met extremely clever white people. My girlfriend is a white English 30 year old & she's way smarter than I was at that age. The study is extremely unscientific, but again, the two dumbest folk in my friends list are Rhodies, so I guess, if you really wanted to extrapolate, you could presume something about my experiences with Rhodies. I grew up in Rhodesia, & as the "English kid" I found the Africans far nicer people to be around than the whites. This is a generalisation, & it has to be said that some of the best people in the world are also white Zimbabweans, I've met them! They don't often call themselves Rhodies though. But we're all a product of our experiences, aren't we? Well, my Rhodesian headmaster abused me for two years whilst lying to my parents about my "misbehaving". No African ever came even close to causing me the hurt & psychological trauma that my white, Rhodesian headmaster managed for two whole years. I know the difference between rightful corporal punishment & abuse, so don't bother trying that angle! This is just one example of my experiences amongst Rhodies. Many of my experiences were very good, but many were not.

[@JDVmusicSound]

The colonists / white supremacists that reply to these videos are a fascinating bunch ... not realizing or assuming any blame for putting Africa in such a position in the first place - stripped, exploited, segregated, and forced into situations they did not deserve to be. A really sad story...

[@malpreece5008]

With all due respect, you should probably stick to your music because you seem to know very little about colonialism.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@malpreece5008 tell us about how benevolent conquest, second class citizenship, deportations and forced labour are.

[@dumplingsbig1184]

Colonists don't exist anymore.

[@adamanthony7465]

Some white supremacists still live in Rhodesia as we now call it and know it and love it being Zimbabwean...the Bible cautions against any form of label or categorisation of human being. All action has less to do with a colour or creed..more to do with individual human character. My Jewish father absolutely loved and worked until his 93rd birthday in Harare. We knew and still do people who have shown extraordinary resilience and. love to this country.

[@龍天-y4k]

Nice try , but wholly inaccurate - obviously an armchair politician. You're the sad one Know nothing - squark everything.

[@arcsaberzslash]

Dr. James Dearmore was one hell of a man. RIP to you sir

[@MoonVoice01]

Certainly hellish

[@ericbivins8014]

Sad what it is now.

[@tg-us3hw]

nah we good homie and we getting better

[@rhodierhoderson4222]

​@@tg-us3hw😂 how's that going for ya?

[@tg-us3hw]

@@rhodierhoderson4222 good actually

[@panamahub]

This conflict was more complicated than it seems. It was black vs. white on the surface but it wasn't the case entirely. Many whites were against segregation policies and many blacks didn't want black majority rule. Many wanted governance by merit not by race. If it wasn't for Ian Smith's discriminatory apartheid type of government the international community would've accepted Rhodesia's independence but as we know politicians play by divide and conquer.

[@KB4QAA]

@TheSmithersy Yet Smith pissed away ten years from 1968 on, without even removing the petty segregation laws. He bears responsibility for the fall of Rhodesia.

[@KB4QAA]

@TheSmithersy He did nothing for ten years. He pissed away every opportunity to shed racism and incorporate blacks. Had he made significant changes in the before 1972, the bush war may never have gained momentum. What a shame.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

@@KB4QAA No no no no no. That is not the issue. The issue is Democracy is not a fair form of government. If the majority of voters (80%+) are black and the minority is white, what do you think is going to happen to the whites? They get voted out, the new black government is now allowed to create anti-white legislature and soon the whites would be either gone or pushed into serfdom. This is not speculation. Multi-racial governments do not work, as seen by all other previous de-colonization attempts in Africa. I want to speculate that maybe it was done to secure a 50% white 50% black demographic outcome in the country to then switch to a Democratic system, but I doubt Rhodesia would ever live long enough to get up to this point. The reality is, the country was doomed to fail because there was failure to act. If the country wanted to become a white majority, they had all the power to do such a thing. Smith tried to wait it out and play it fair. Africans didn't want to wait and they don't like the white man telling them what to do on their own continent. Now the region is a Black majority. Again. And the whites have all migrated, been slaughtered violently or forced out. All because Democracy doesn't work with multi-racial representation. One race has to win totally: Outright. That is just nature in action. In this case it was the native African population.

[@westmax8491]

@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname africans were not inherently against white people. Africans hatred of colonialism was due to the indignity of it. The problems with Europeans in Africa is they failed to view the humanity of Africans which led to mistreatment of Africans. Africans knew that Europeans knew how to run and organize a country however they weren't willing to be serfs or 2nd class people in their own indigenous lands. The African valued the freedom and dignity. During colonial days, Africans in countries like Kenya or Rhodesia were restricted in economic activities that would threaten European economics. For instance they weren't allowed to grow cash crops like coffee as that would bring competition to European farmers or at certain extents, their cash crops would be given the last priority for exporting. Such acts would gradually build resentment against colonial settlers which brought about independence in Africans colonies. Even in Congo, when they attained independence, the Congolese were not against Europeans staying however, there was sabotage attempts by some Belgians who wanted to retake Congo into white rule which passed of Africans and then shortly after, there was anti white attacks since the Congolese felt betrayed.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@catharperfect7036 if Africans have found success and high office in Western countries and Asians are sometimes poor in Western countries your claim is false.

[@T8RZTOTZ]

Dr. Dearmore makes me so proud to be a Texan!

[@donaldtelfer8468]

Fake news, in part, Rhodes did not buy Rhodesia for Britain. My understanding of the history is Rhodes purchased mineral concessions in Matabeleland from Lobengula in exchange for 1000 rifles and 10 000 rounds of ammunition (and perhaps other goods). This led to an influx of European miners. The number of miners was beyond Lobengula's expectations and conflict broke out in the form of two wars between the natives and Europeans, which the Europeans won. Lobengula soon died. Subsequently Britain chartered the British South Africa Company to administer the territory. The company's charter was withdrawn in 1923 and Rhodesia became a colony. Somewhere in all that numerous grants of tracts of land were made to colonists / pioneers / armed irregular troops (soldiers of fortune ?).

[@tmachinga]

And a gunboat to patrol the Zambezi

[@donaldtelfer8468]

@@tmachinga Thanks for that. I did not know about any gunboat. My figure of 10 000 rounds of ammunition was wrong, it was 100 000 rounds. Lobengula was the king (or head chief), so perhaps when he died the (African) royal succession was disrupted (and there were two wars, possibly thanks in part to the availability of rifles and ammunition), giving the British pretexts to impose themselves on Matabeleland via a (British) royal charter. This could be interpreted as an egregiously pernicious process. i.e. Sign a mining agreement with an illiterate king. Provide the illiterate king's subjects with rifles and ammunition. Break the mining agreement. Foment a war. Polish off the Africans armed with spears and rifles by the using superior firepower of machine guns and cannons. Take over. Confiscate land, tax the natives, etc, imperialism & capitalism triumph.

[@tmachinga]

I admire the way you've diagnosed the historical purview without exhibiting any form of bias whatsoever. Remember also that Lobengula and company where very susceptible to raids from the South by their Kin they had left behind in the Kwazulu kingdom, hence the need and urgency to engage the pioneer's for military supply chains without giving a thought about due-diligence. An influential movement of missionaries had been dispatched prior to contact so as to lay ground for arbitrary and diplomatic purposes, these turned out to be the biggest investment the BSAC and CO made at that point.......reason why you hear most Africans mourn that the bible was used to colonize them!

[@kevanmallison8610]

Correct. But irrespective of morality in acquisition by British Europeans, Rhodesia became the harbinger for Western Civilization. That Civilization is now collapsing globally, intrinsically and permanently.

[@obinnaosuagwu3685]

Reporters are hardly ever thorough and they keep getting people misinformed.

[@donnynaranji3983]

Smith should have made a deal for majority rule in the late 60s. Unfortunately his hardline stance put the country on a confrontation course..

[@KB4QAA]

DN: You can find a video here on YT from 1968 where Smith promises full voting rights for all blacks in three years. He then pissed away a decade without even removing the petty racial segregation laws. Smith bears all the responsibility for Rhodesia's failure.

[@valentinius62]

Majority rule = Communist rule.

[@catharperfect7036]

Wouldn't have made a difference. Majority rule or not they butcher white people. The only difference is that under white majority rule there was civilization.

[@madmike786]

Happy memories❤

[@brucemcdonald8529]

The intro pipes and drums were playing at Churchill Boys High, "Pamberi ne Bulldogs"!!

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

3:16 oh dear... how sad is that - "special Rhodesian Army bomb-proof vehicles"

[@TEDROACH]

elizabeth sheffield V shaped hulls deflect the explosion.

[@V0YAG3R]

elizabeth sheffield So sad that they, Rhodesia's Army, and the SADF were decades ahead of everyone else when it came to bomb resistant and bomb proof vehicles. It's called physics, including ballistics, and engineering, concepts impossible to grasp by ignoramus dolts like you and by those who liked your comment 👌🏻 Tras de ladrona, bufona.

[@stormywindmill]

elizabeth luvvie I was travelling in a convoy when just such a "special Rhodesian Army bomb-proof vehicles" hit a land mine. It blew the front wheel off but apart from a few bruises the men inside were alright.

[@MichaelThompson-jq3zf]

Steven W 😁 Isn't that what the white North Americans did, the Australians, New Zealanders, they are there to stay & make up the majority of the population, hence are dominant over the indigenous people and I can't see that change anytime soon.

[@simonh6371]

Sad that 25 years later the British troops in Afghanistan were getting blown to smithereens in soft-skinned landrovers, such vehicles would have saved a lot of lives.

[@GhostRanger5060]

Mugabe is in hell. His remaining "faithful followers" are soon following him to hell. God help Zimbabwe experience spiritual and economic revival.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

This will never happen. They will continue to be stuck in the 1980's because that is the last era of the world they have been shown.

[@rutasa3182]

As one of God's angels who sees the path from this life to the next, you are no doubt praying for his 'remaining faithful followers'.

[@GhostRanger5060]

@@rutasa3182 Yes, in fact, I often pray for Zimbabwe to have genuine spiritual revival. It is a nation of great potential. And it's people are its greatest treasure. But like buried treasure, we cannot shine until we are brought to the light and cleaned up by Christ. #blessings

[@JDVmusicSound]

@@GhostRanger5060 christ aint gonna do it

[@rutasa3182]

@@JDVmusicSound It sounds like you are 'seated at the right hand of Christ' Please explain, what it is that 'Christ ain't going to do'.

[@nateowen1064]

I just wanted to learn about history, I didn’t wanna see racists in the comments!

[@owensmith6357]

Name me a black run country that is prosperous .... I,ll wait.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

The Bahamas?

[@superbug1977]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Prosperous and terribly saddled with crime. "Violent crime is extremely common in the Bahamas. The country is ridden with violent crime, and armed robberies, kidnappings, and murders are extremely common, usually not affecting tourists though violence towards foreigners has been on an increase during the past couple of years." Not a great place.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@superbug1977 there's violent crime in Russia. What's your point?

[@superbug1977]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 You'll need to consider my point within the context of the gentleman's question. But I think the point is quite obvious. If it needs to be explained than you might stick to less difficult fields of discovery. His point, for what it's worth, is excruciatingly clear. Also, Russia is not a "black run country." So that your response is burdened with a fallacy of inconsistency. Consequently, it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to ask of you your point. But I'm not asking, only responding rhetorically. Cheers!

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@superbug1977 you understand the context why? It's not your question. Question was answered. Don't create another random parameter for your own agenda.

[@eameam3772]

Anyone know whatever happened to the "Pistol-packing Preacher" Dr. James D'Amore from Dallas, TX?

[@macmax8452]

Joe Slovo would have been saddened to see apartheid living on in Israel and expanding into Palestine.

[@johnwalsh4948]

Joe Slovo was a sack of vomit.

[@龍天-y4k]

Joe Slovo would have taken his money and run to Israel.

[@rhytch20]

God bless Rhodesia

[@rutasa3182]

God forgive Rhodesia.

[@mich722]

What a disaster.

[@catharperfect7036]

The big problem is: different ethnic groups are radically different at their ability to create civilization. It leads to a situation where it's almost impossible to integrate with black people.

[@pepe922]

Rhodesian Independence Day is tomorrow

[@wezite1983]

2:03 That's a haunting picture! That poor child looks like a battered doll. I hope the animals who did that were destroyed!

[@МаринаМарина-д2е8р]

Не были. Они победили. Животные совершившие это правят страной по сей день.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

All the people with any gumption left Scotland long ago.

[@SW-yu2zz]

Rhodesians Never Die.

[@rutasa3182]

Because you are all saved?

[@jonwayne70]

The American missionary who preaches to his flock and has a Uzi with spare magazines in case he needs to arrange intruders meeting with God.

[@razor24actual14]

Been there got that t shirt

[@HH-pk2wh]

Bring it back

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Dream on. It's not gonna happen.

[@vondvtch9821]

5:42 "thats racists"

[@professionaltaxevader4638]

well the white minority was in danger, it´s like making a weapon that only kills someone who has ill intentions against you.

[@vondvtch9821]

Its just "racist"🤷🏾‍♂️

[@professionaltaxevader4638]

@@vondvtch9821 well everyone there was racist specially mugabe

[@vondvtch9821]

@Im up for new crusade, that maybe true too

[@moarbuttsecks539]

Because it's only racist when whites do it right? Fun fact: there are numerous ethnic groups within the blacks, and they all hate each other, even among the same ethnic groups based on tribe. Of course naturally, they all hate whites bc of their skin color.

[@citic101]

good old days , why didnt south africa help more ?

[@brucemcdonald8529]

Boys on rugby field at 8:10 also at Churchill Boys High...

[@randbarrett8706]

5:46 “Great Danes which he’s trained to attack blacks only” Yep sounds about right

[@steven19767]

these people had to be fucking crazy if they think they was just gonna move to another mans land and take over forever...smh

[@dreamdiction]

Now the blacks have moved to Europe and America so they can take over forever.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

That wasn't what was happening. You're missing crucial details.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@dreamdiction What crap. There is no huge migration of black people to white countries. Quit listening to far right propaganda.

[@dreamdiction]

​@@SymphonyBrahms Your comment is not appearing in the thread so I have copied it below: " @Dream Diction What crap. There is no huge migration of black people to white countries. Quit listening to far right propaganda." Since Africans and Indians began enjoying the benefits of colonialism in 1850 they have doubled their population every 23 years, by comparison white people only double our population every 100 years. Over White people have used our genius for technology to create a sustainable world, over-population is not a white problem but globalists have set up a conveyor belt of African and Indian migrants into Europe to ruin our success.

[@龍天-y4k]

Hahaha, you so miss the point - IDIOT

[@rsabardoelectrical]

attack on a mission and seeing those dead kids, killed by barbarians, savages and thugs, and the audacity to call them freedom fighters, may their killers rot in hell.

[@yankiefrenz1367]

tell that israel

[@FelonyVideos]

Whites took a backseat. The problem was, there was no driver.

[@nadiapropertyrealtor9779]

Being discriminated in your own mother land is a painful pill to swallow.

[@ndumisomthunzi6624]

What a nice country used to be I was a small child Rhodesia was the best

[@stevenhartley318]

Why did the South African government no longer support the Rhodesian government in 1975.

[@glendodds3824]

Hi. South Africa’s prime minister, John Vorster, recalled the vast majority of South African military personnel and drastically cut back on the supply of ammunition, weapons and fuel to Rhodesia, because he had decided that Rhodesia was doomed. A key factor in his decision was that Portugal’s new left-wing government had decided to grant independence to its colony of Mozambique, which had a longer border with Rhodesia than any other country. Hence, in 1975 Mozambique was handed over to left-wing black nationalists, FRELIMO, who had been fighting against the Portuguese since 1964. Vorster knew that FRELIMO would now offer support to Mugabe and his men fighting against Rhodesia and thus concluded that Rhodesia’s long-term prospects were bleak. However, Vorster’s defence minister, P.W. Botha, was eager to continue supporting Rhodesia and increased South African involvement in the Rhodesian Bush War after he became prime minister in 1978. For instance, South African special forces and military aircraft (including 13 SAAF Puma helicopters) took part in a joint operation with the Rhodesian security forces in September 1979. In his introduction to the book, “The Search for Puma 164”, Lieutenant-General Peter Walls (the former head of the Rhodesian Armed Forces), thus commented: ‘It gives me pride to recall how soldiers and airmen from two countries . . . cheerfully and willingly gave their all and didn’t want to be left out of it. They had a job to do and they did it well.’ www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Puma-164-Operation-Assault-ebook/dp/B084JDRW98/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+search+for+puma+164&qid=1587543190&s=books&sr=1-1

[@stevenhartley318]

Glen Dodds hi thanks for your reply. Yes the withdrawal of South African government support came at a crucial moment in the Rhodesian governments Bush war. Up until then the Rhodesian government seemed to be on top of the Marxist rebels. Fr hartley

[@ludo9234]

S A could see the writing on the wall.

[@MichaelThompson-jq3zf]

@@stevenhartley318 The real reason SA stopped supporting Rhodesia was after Henry Kissinger's (former USA secretary of States) visit to SA. He pressurized SA by promising Britain & USA would not apply sanctions on SA if they withdrew the support they were giving Rhodesia. They felt sanctions against Rhodesia weren't 100% effective because of SA support. They bargained with the SA white government by saying Rhodesia will eventually fall sooner rather than later and if SA withdraws support for Rhodesia, they would not give their full support to those forces which will turn their full attention on bringing down the white SA government. That sudden change of attitude was immediately after Kissinger's visit to SA.

[@dreamdiction]

@@MichaelThompson-jq3zf South Africa was self-sufficient is all food, fuel and weapons therefore South Africa was immunised against international sanctions. Vorster was a freemason traitor, same and Botha and De Klerk.

[@makara80]

....Now I wonder if the narrator/interviewer was around to cover/investigate 5th Brigade's state-sanctioned attempts at _genocide_ across Matabeleland in the early eighties? And, if he was, did he conduct himself with as much moralistic passion and biased disdain as he does here.... Perhaps he just 'looked the other way' like many of his media ilk did content that, with whitey deposed, it was mission righteously accomplished....shocking reports of mass murder, an irrelevance.... ^Not a rhetorical question but let's just say I'm quietly confident of the probable answer... ;)

[@makara80]

"I have a better question for you , why did England and USA turn there backs" Firstly, in the interests of factual accuracy it's _Great Britain_ or _The United Kingdom_ rather than just "England" in this bespoke context and secondly, in answer to your question: Pressure/threats from African Commonwealth countries (likely resulting in considerable job losses for British workers) and _Andrew Young_ , respectively. ;) Naturally there were numerous _other_ contributory factors but arguably the above two were amongst those that hammered the _final_ nail in Rhodesia's coffin.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@makara80 Rhodesia couldn't have survived anyway. It was doomed from day one.

[@makara80]

@@SymphonyBrahms …That assertion has absolutely no relevance to anything I originally stated!

[@billtev9846]

Our old rail station in Gweru was nice quaint, well kept and it worked like a Swiss clock, We even had some well-minted steam trains. I am not sure what the problem is with Gweru Park but its not rocket science.

[@smeggerssmeghead3100]

The betrayed

[@RobinMacDonald-lx9dt]

30 years later and a Zimbabwe is a basket case WHY simple Simon Sayes

[@Objectiveansthensome]

The Issue in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. was that the two Black Tribes had been at war since 1830 ( whites dont even turn up until 1890) ...So this doc missed the point completely !!!!... its was "White Centric" ... not actually racist... just could not see what was really going on .... Had that war not been the main issue ... the would have transitioned successful from white rule.. & I think the whites would have gone along with it

[@clementspaidamoyomaguranya2269]

Oliver Mtukudzi

[@owensmith6357]

The blacks knew better .. what a fantastic prosperous Country it is now .

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

They rule themselves. That was the point.

[@catharperfect7036]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 The point is that black ppl are not capable of creating civilization such as white people (and Asians) are. It's evident to see all throughout the world, not just here.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@catharperfect7036 Europeans had no civilization until 3 000 years after Middle Easterners. Africans created civilizations in West Africa and the Swahili Coast before colonialism. Consider what you say carefully and if you're full of hate seek God.

[@catharperfect7036]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Europeans created the greatest standard of civilization ever known. That's why you're speaking a European language and everything around you was created by Euros, including what you're typing on. Sub-Saharan Africa didn't even have written language or the wheel until Euros arrived. They were in the early iron age (at best). And even that came from Arab colonizers.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@catharperfect7036 European civilization comes from the Fertile Crescent which is why you're writing in Phoenician script and writing at all. There was a time when the most advanced civilization was in Iraq and an Arab in Baghdad was saying everything you're saying about Africans of Europeans. These things come, go and change all the time. In another 500 years, another people will be the most advanced. And some kid from that culture your age will make the same comments you're making.

[@loudcryministriesnetwork]

Cecil bought the country for Britain 🇬🇧? What an absolute joke!

[@CZECHMATE650]

Because BLM

[@davidroux7987]

The formidable problem of integrating the IQ 70 sector

[@MoonVoice01]

The formidable problem of self assured ignorance and misplaced concept of self.

[@ancianoviejo1711]

! Viva el pueblo blanco de Rhodesia ! Rhodesia fue la nación numero uno de Africa cuando la gobernaban los blancos.

[@larrypacman8511]

Mugabe and his friends....starvation. nothing To be proud of

Typical Texan !

[@UnstoppableEmpire]

1 ear

[@groverwashington1480]

The short shorts are back in style with young people in 2023 😅

[@groverwashington1480]

Shiftless and lazy. Still.