+Jabzy Is this 100 trillion dollars at least worth more than the paper used to produce it?: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
Considering they have long since moved to use the US dollar as the national currency, does this mean you are the richest man on Earth and have 1oo trilion USD spare?
Mugabe truly ruined perhaps one of the greatest nations in all of Africa. "The Great Breadbasket of Africa" is now one of the poorest countries in the world.
GDP is up all over the world, has little to do with race and everything to do with population levels and technological advancement. People like Mugabe and Mobutu, Idi Amin are just wannabe arab nationalists.
I'm sorry? Rhodesia lived much better off. It's interesting to see people defend Mugabe, with Rhodesia-Zimbabwe going from the breadbasket of Africa to having a *famine*.
"It's wrong to oppress the majority population!" And that makes it okay to oppress the minority? I'm black and I find that reasoning to be a bit backhanded.
+Plebeian+ oh for Chrissakes that's a straw man right there; that's obviously not what he meant. The statement "It's wrong to oppress the majority population!" clearly does not necessarily imply its right to oppress the minority
I wonder if the region will become destabilized when Mugabe dies. It happened in Egypt, Libyia, etc. When a dictator loses power, there is usually war.
I was brought up in this Stunningly Beautiful country with it's warm lovely people. Although I'm white and from English blood, when my family felt it safer to return to the uk, i found the uk to be a very strange country to me and the children not as nice and polite as back in Zimbabwe. I still kick my shoes off as soon as I'm home and miss the sound of crickets at night and sadza.
"Mugabe is still in power in Zimbabwe and although he is still pretty popular" yeah, in the same way Stalin and Hitler were "popular". "land grabs, hyperinflation and disputed elections have made him a controversial figure" I don't think I've ever heard his violent sadistic dictatorial lifestyle described in a more mild way. You make him sound like a cheeky lad
@@SIGNOR-G Eh, Stalin was unpopular before WW2 due to his numerous purges, but his popularity skyrocketed in the immediate aftermath of WW2, though his popularity would plummet again in the ensuing years. Hitler was mildly popular before WW2, but during the war his popularity plummeted as the German economy collapsed and millions of German youths died abroad in an unwinnable war. Mussolini was deeply unpopular from the start of his rule to the bloody end, mainly because he achieved literally nothing and just made life worse and worse from the get-go. Most of the Italian countryside was controlled by communist partisans by the end of his reign, when he was executed by them and left in a ditch.
@@SIGNOR-G Fascism is born out of mixing socialism and nationalism. That's why it hates communists: because in true extreme-socialist manner, it hates anything that isn't its own brand of socialism. It leans into the Nationalism aspect enough to end up on the far-right of the spectrum, past the center-right because of this as well. Fascism is not born out of communist terror. It's born out of embracing a different interpretation of Marx's manifesto by Mussolini. Mussolini came to power through what was basically a coup. Communists hate Fascists back for the same reason they hate other communists, other socialists, and anyone that isn't their specific brand of communism (e.g.: Stalinism, Maoism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Marxism, etc).
Shortly after Mugabe gaining independence from colonialism he was intrigued by the totalitarian nature of North Korea. claiming after his 1980 visit he was a changed man. this led to a new height in relations between the two nations built also on the back of war belligerency. subsequently kim-il sung sent 106 military advisors to train up to 3500 members of the Zimbabwean liberation army into the Fifth Brigade to fight an ethnic cleansing in Matabeleland as Mugabe had feared an Matabele cleaning on his own mashona as well as more importantly an attack on his position. after this genocide he purposely cut all ties to north Korea until recently were north Korea has expanded industrially across all of Africa
Wurde nicht irgendwie letztes Jahr ein Nordkoreanischer Hubschrauber in Syrien abgeschossen? War genauso überrascht dass die DVR im Ausland operiert....
Overall this is a good summary of a conflict that I remember well. For instance, on my way to school in Salisbury during the 1970s I sometimes saw members of the Rhodesian Light Infantry heading off to fight and felt a sense of awe and gratitude. The RLI were all white but many blacks volunteered to serve in the army as well. I also remember the impact the war had on my grandparents and other relatives who likewise lived on farms. They had to carry guns and fortify their homes. They also risked the danger of being killed by landmines when driving along farm roads. Moreover, they were in daily contact with the security forces via the Agric-Alert system and sometimes heard other farmers calling for military support by that means. My father was in the Rhodesian Air Force and was mostly based at New Sarum on the outskirts of Salisbury. He sometimes mentioned aspects of the war and told us that South Africa (the region's economic and military super power) was providing assistance. For instance, South African planes and air crew were often present at New Sarum. Indeed, the SAAF played a role in the war from late 1967 when the initial deployment arrived at Thornhill on the outskirts of Gwelo. In February 1979, for example, three SAAF canberra bombers took part in a joint raid with the Rhodesian Air Force against a ZIPRA base in Angola. Furthermore, in September 1979 a South African puma helicopter was shot down during another joint operation and the three-strong crew and their passengers, members of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, were all killed. South African ground forces also played a role in the war from 1967 onward when para-military police (and some soldiers seconded to the police to make them more combat effective) were sent to Rhodesia to help fight the terrorists. They were withdrawn by President Vorster in 1975, who began putting Ian Smith under great pressure to come to terms with moderate blacks. However, although South Africa was fighting another war in Namibia and Angola, Vorster's successor P.W. Botha was much more eager to provide military assistance and in the late 1970s D squadron of the Rhodesian SAS was in fact the cover name for South African special forces deployed in Rhodesia. In short, although some Rhodesians feel that they were betrayed by South Africa, the economic and military support received from south of the Limpopo was much greater than many Rhodesians realise.
jhunscrown And yet they were losing the war and were driven from the battlefield and forced to sue for peace. Make no mistake, it was black military pressure that ended Rhodesia. Those racists weren't going to budge otherwise..
Actually everybody forgot about it unless you keep up with current events and Pass events nobody asked the common man they don't know what the f*** is a Rhodesian
Charles Charlemagne-Martel there's a place called Liberia, American colony. 1800s govt shipped freed slaves there. once they got there, the African Americans oppressed the native Africans all but officially enslaving them. not many freed slaves went because they weren't born in Africa, their parents and grandparents were born in the American colonies, plus Liberia wasn't where the slaves originated from anyways. 80% came through port Angola, they were also sold by their own people, they weren't captured or taken by whites.
I had an employee who was a Rhodesian refugee he was the only one I ever met and I swear to God that man had a supernatural gift. Every thing he touched turned to gold he was like an angel.
What everyone fails to understand or remember is that Rhodesia was the crown jewel of Africa. Most of Zmbabweans today wish they could go back to the prosperous times under Rhodesian rule. All of those that took control eventually we're Communists and communist trained by the Soviet Union and China. Zimbabwe floundered under its new and current leadership. Current inflation rate in Zimbabwe is 319%. Compare that to Botswana's 2.4% and you can see just how horrible conditions are in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is another classic example of how idealism AKA socialism AKA communism AKA M never succeeds.
Imagine African guy live in this country for years and white do his own boats come along with guns and tell him he has to move to the desert ain't that sad
it's not his country, africa is for the blacks. your folk so vehemently argue for an all white europe, why can't blacks have the same? i'm not even black btw.
Thanks Jabzy for taking the time to make videos on African history, it's a subject few people cover and it's really fustrating as an African history lover to see so many interesting stories ignored
Here's another one that seems to be fair and accurate: ruclips.net/video/CZjFZjZBD78/видео.html I really liked this one. From comments it's a rare snapshot of truths we are almost never told anymore: ruclips.net/video/0S2NKlMW0vc/видео.html Blacks could be rich and were in govt. in small numbers. Communists hate meritocracy though, which it seems Rhodesia was.
Multiracialism will always fail, it’s failing in South Africa as we speak and the media is denying and obfuscating as hard as they can. They don’t want to admit their golden boy Mandela who they made movie after movie about fuckked South Africa: AIDs, crime, rape, farm murders all rampant. And they want to turn every European-majority nation from America to Russia into the same thing, at the same time they hold up a black nationalist like Mandela or an Indian nationalist like Gandhi (who’s slogan was literally “India is for the Indians”), they call all white nationalists “racist” and censor them. So yeah, it’s pretty relevant, it is the past that we’re doomed to repeat.
@@blackassasin175 LMFAO you've had white ethno states it's just they failed miserably *cough *cough Nazi party 1941-1945 4 years was all a WHITE ethno state could do to survive pretty pathetic mate
@@JohnWalterGates But Rhodesia was open to comprimise, they wanted to get more people educated and capable before handimg the goverment over because all the previous colonies that did so without doing this ended up in civil wat amd genocides of whites and whatever the minority tribes of the area were. See the congo, Rhodesia was on par with America in the aspect of Civil rights at the time.
Mugabe's controversial reputation might also have to do with his imprisonment of vast groups of people without trial or his extensive use of torture... but I'm sure disputed elections has more to do with his bad reputation. Come on, if your going to cover the bush war, don't downplay what followed.
Their crime was invading a black country as rapist and thieves. If you fail to finish your enemies off, they will bite back. Doesn'y matter if you are good or evil. European invaders are, in fact, evil
You forgot to mention what happened in the Congo that the Rhodesians were fearful of happening there. I suggest people research that themselves. You also forgot to emphasise that the white man although not native to the area was the first indigenous man there, with the Bantu and Zulu tribes only arriving after white settlement. Or the fact that the communist insurgents were backed by the USSR and a modern standing army where as the Rhodesian indigenous whites were literally just farmers with some imported rifles. (Inb4 this comment gets yeeted too.)
Yes they would cut white women's legs off, and then r@pe the leg holes. They would staple torn off dog ears onto the farm houses of White settlers, truly horrible stuff
0:06 - Southern Rhodesia became a British Colony in 1923, Before this it was owned by the British South Africa Company, who were British, but their land was not an official Crown Colony. 0:30 - Another reason for the unification of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was to help strengthen the White foothold in Africa, as they felt that their dispersed numbers across multiple Colonies made them weak to the threat of African Nationalists. 1:36 - Rhodesia had 3 "Allies" in South Africa, Portugal, and Israel, Though none of these alliances were official. 1:57 - Also trained largely by North Koreans, The 5th Brigade, which you later mention for the Gukurahuni Massacre were NK Trained. 2:24 - It is worth mentioning that these 3 nations would only support one of the Terrorist groups, and would, for the large part, actively attempt to engineer the downfall of the other group. 2:35 - Not a correction, but Fireforce was an evolution of the experiences of the Rhodesians in the Malaysia crisis, combined with the predominantly American developed Air Cavalry doctrine, 2:35 - The Selous scouts were a relatively minor Special forces branch of the Rhodesian Security forces, Regiments like the Rhodesian African Rifles, R Light Infantry, and R Regiment were much more common in these Fireforce operations. 2:57 - The UN had denounced Rhodesia years before Eland and Dingo, though they would be the reason South Africa withdrew support for the RF Government, as Zanla propaganda convinced the world that the attacks had been launched on Refugee camps, though Zanla stated this was a blatant lie after the war. 3:03 - It's worth mentioning that many hundreds of more men were conscripted by Zanla and Zanu, and even more School children were kidnapped from their schools, forced to adopt the Communist viewpoints, or were shot. 3:15 - The Viscount tragedy would cause the end of internal talks with Nkomo, as it reinforced the view that even when at the negotiating table, Zanla were nothing more than Terrorists. 3:23 - Rhodesia's economy was hardly effected by these Terrorist attacks, Rhodesia was a predominantly Agricultural and Clothing Material based Nation, 3:41 - The Terrorists didn't accept the election and carried on fighting because Zanla and Zanu were banned from running for election due to their terrorist actions, causing the UN Sanctions to carry on. 4:29 - The Gukurhundi started in 1983, and the deaths were in the tens of thousands, not just the thousands, 20k, to be specific.
Hi Rex, Thanks for clarifying. You seem very knowledgeable about the Rhodesian Bush War and history of Zimbabwe. Please can you spare some time to tell me more? I would like to get in touch with you for an in depth discussion as I am not nearly as knowledgeable. Spread knowledge, prevent ignorance, world becomes a better place. Can you message me with your email/preferred contact on RUclips? Or please email on etherevening@gmail.com. Much Appreciated.
@@dapenguin4637 unfortunately there’s more racist in the comments. Rhodesians are like confederates. They just refuse to move on. And instead just insist that there government good
"We're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin. We’ll keep our land a free land, stop the enemy coming in. We’ll keep them north of the Zambezi till that river’s running dry. This mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die." RIP Rhodesia, a prosperous nation wrongfully condemned by the world and stolen by communists who ran it into the ground.
Under the leadership of exiled king Leka Zogu (King of Albanians) were many Albanian volunteers. On their way to Rhodesia, Zogu’s plane landed in Gabon where armed fighters hired by the Communist Albanian regime surrounded his plane. Zogu was visibly unhappy at this inconvenience. Bad tempered like a hooked knitting craft, he came to the door of the plane wearing his iconic birth control glasses and a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The troops backed down and Leka Zogu, his wife, and his entourage of hundreds of anti-Communist Albanians made up of former Royal Guard members, landed safely in Rhodesia. When the Rhodesian Bush War broke out, Leka Zogu was not going to miss his chance to kill Communists. He pulled out all the stops and provided a small detachment of highly trained, Communist-hating former Royal Guard members to assist the Rhodesian Security Forces in their fight against Communist guerilla groups like ZAPU. Following the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and Robert Mugabe coming to power, Leka Zogu was once again in exile and moved to a large farm near Johannesburg in neighboring South Africa where the government there issued him and his family diplomatic status leading them to remain there for many years.
Here's the story of Rhodesia a land both fair and great on the 11th of November an independent state this was much against the wishes of certain governments who's leaders tried to break us down and make us all repent but we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin we'll keep our land a free land stop the coming in we'll keep them north of the Zambezi till the rivers running dry and this mighty land shall prosper for Rhodesians never die
Rhodesia was full of racial issues but comparing them to what Mugabe did is like comparing a matchstick to the nukes dropped on Japan. Think of how other British colonies and Britain itself turned out from a racist past. If we still had Rhodesia I'm sure it would be very comparable to modern western countries. However, with everything that happened, we can only speculate...
Came here to get a grip about Mungagwas role in the Bush war, the war, that created the modern Zimbabwean state, both politically and ideologically. Mugabe being out, the new leader will possibly be even worse...
I've been hooked onto your videos for hours now and I have been waiting for Zimbabwe's Independence war! Just a question though. at 1:11 are you sure it's not ZIPRA (Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army)
There is nothing better than freedom, dignity and self esteem. I would rather be a Mayor in a poor country than a slave in the White house. Africans under Rhodesia had food without respect.
@@nicholaswoel-nogueira4074 So you have no idea what you're talking about then. Waysis this, waysis that. Everything is waysis. Why not get off the computer since it was invented by a colonialist? gtfo.
@@cowboyanimal_1 Are you saying you should call racist things racist or colonial things colonialist because there are a lot of racist and colonialist things in the world
Many blacks volunteered to serve in the Rhodesian Army. On the other hand, they received a lower rate of pay than white soldiers and for most of the war all their officers were of European descent. Furthermore, none of the black soldiers could become members of the Rhodesian Front (the political party which ran Rhodesia from 1962 until 1979) because membership of the party was not open to blacks. I suspect that some of the Ndebele who joined the army concluded that it was better to be a second class citizen in a white run country than a second class citizen in a land where the most numerous tribe, the Shona, had the upperhand.
Merab Beridze its not because blacks are in power its because communists are in power and blacks were equal to the whites if they were educated/employed and owned land and that went for every person there is only one successful black nation that was never colonized and its Ethiopia blacks can be good
Surely at 0:43 you mean just “Ian Smith”. I only mention it out of appreciation of the irony. You see, Ian “Duncan” Smith is a modern day British politician who only uses his middle name to avoid any association with Rhodesia’s former prime minister..
@@hongxiuquan69 100% said Ian Duncan Smith. And whilst we are on it 1:08 it's ZiPRA not ZiRPA. It doesn't seem like much but to people who care it is a big deal.
Dude this is weird, I didn't think that many people cared about Rhodesia. I am related to cecil, and read a ton of the history behind it and how all of it went down. However I didn't expect to see this many people care.
That's how it went with most ex - colonies. Collapse of national structures as the concept of nation hadn't appeared yet in the minds of most wakandans - same way it hadn't really existed in europe before the XVII - XVIIIth century.
+against the wind well genghis gave power to the Lower class and they had some decent rules. However, it's stupid to ignore the chaos and destruction the Mongols brought to China, Central Asia, Russia, and Muslims
Some people like to say that Zimbabwe won that war. But my question would be; What did they win?... They certainly didn't win the battles. People just poured money into their side. But the Rhodesians left with their lives and beat the hell out of them on their way out. So that's not a win in my book. Especially since the Globalists are the ones who made out in the end. So the Rhodesians may have lost some land, but Zimbabweans certainly didn't gain anything. If anything they lost because look at how they're living now. Not so good.
my grand parents met each other in Rhodesia they both come from England in 1960 aged 17 they lived there happy entill around 1979 when they left for south Africa i wish with all my heart that i could have been born in that era so could have experienced it and fought in the war . ps i was born in England as well
Tons of similar events happening in South Africa amd all around africa as we speak. Chinese invading Africa, Farmers being killed, and A socalled "Civil war" en route
A few issues and neglected points: - It's "ZIPRA", not "ZIRPA" - Video doesn't really go into the politics or government of Rhodesia, other than to say it's a white minority government. It was pretty exploitative - most Africans were deliberately disenfranchised by a constitution that set education, income and ownership requirements to vote. 90% of the education budget went to white Rhodesians, the country was largely segregrated (49 million acres of the most fertile land was set aside for a quarter of a million whites, while the several million blacks were largely limited to 36 million acres of less-desirable "Tribal Trust" and "Native Purchase" land), and very little infrastructure was extended towards the rural African communities. - Fireforce tactics actually only composed a small portion of the Rhodesian Security Force's strategy - few units were used in this role (largely a few battalions of prestigious troops - the RLI and RhAR), while the vast majority of the forces were simple footsloggers tasked to patrol and guard areas of operation far too large for them. Around half of the troops engaged in the war were from the policy or internal affairs, while the Army were largely reservists and national servicemen from the Rhodesia Regiment (perpetually being called-up). - Abel Muzorewa was a relatively unpopular figure groomed by Smith to be the first black leader of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe, leading most blacks to see him as a lackey. It was no surprise that ZANLA and ZIPRA knew they had too much popularity at this point to accept the Internal Settlement - 4:12 is a bit misleading - Smith was on a separate roll (white roll) and couldn't run against Tongogara or Mugabe, and no mention is made of Muzorewa, who stood in that election on the common roll (winning only 8.3% of votes). Otherwise, a pretty concise summary, not bad
odd what you choose to spend your time adding detail to. 3:20 airplane has 2 dots for windows. 3:29 white guy has friggin lines showing his curly hair...
decent video. i will donate 100 trillion zimbabwe dollars to your channel.
+Rr rr Cheers - if a couple more people do the same I can finally buy a new pair of socks.
+Jabzy Is this 100 trillion dollars at least worth more than the paper used to produce it?:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse.jpg
LOL
Considering they have long since moved to use the US dollar as the national currency, does this mean you are the richest man on Earth and have 1oo trilion USD spare?
Ricky Ricky actually, by the time you posted your comment, they had began circulating an new Zimbabwean currency... it's also not worth much
Mugabe truly ruined perhaps one of the greatest nations in all of Africa. "The Great Breadbasket of Africa" is now one of the poorest countries in the world.
GDP is up all over the world, has little to do with race and everything to do with population levels and technological advancement. People like Mugabe and Mobutu, Idi Amin are just wannabe arab nationalists.
Ben false . zimbabwe has one of the weakest economies in the world .
Its gdp is lower than somalia and venezuela.
I'm sorry? Rhodesia lived much better off. It's interesting to see people defend Mugabe, with Rhodesia-Zimbabwe going from the breadbasket of Africa to having a *famine*.
+XZDrake
Could you give me your source please?
Rhodesia was never the “breadbasket of Africa.” Europeans did not encounter hungry Africans when they showed up. Please keep your nonsense.
It's worth noting that Portugal was an ally of Rhodesia until 1974.
True
+Hippie Eradicator also france Iceland Shahs Iran Southern states usa. ( quietly )
I knew of Israel giving them weapons, seen even today in the R4 rifle of South Africa, but what was France, Iceland, and Iran's involvement?
Also worth noting that 1974 marked the end of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship
Iran Provided Oil to Rhodesia.
It should also be noted that the US and Japan traded with Rhodesia despite officially standing with the UN.
"It's wrong to oppress the majority population!"
And that makes it okay to oppress the minority?
I'm black and I find that reasoning to be a bit backhanded.
+Plebeian+ oh for Chrissakes that's a straw man right there; that's obviously not what he meant. The statement "It's wrong to oppress the majority population!" clearly does not necessarily imply its right to oppress the minority
Wibhad Strenchvorkel You're telling me that's not what Mugabe meant, but that's clearly not what's going on in Zimbabwe right now is it?
I wonder if the region will become destabilized when Mugabe dies. It happened in Egypt, Libyia, etc. When a dictator loses power, there is usually war.
Damir Pryce
Huh, I haven't heard much about her.
It was stable before?
I was brought up in this Stunningly Beautiful country with it's warm lovely people. Although I'm white and from English blood, when my family felt it safer to return to the uk, i found the uk to be a very strange country to me and the children not as nice and polite as back in Zimbabwe. I still kick my shoes off as soon as I'm home and miss the sound of crickets at night and sadza.
@Sam is it ok to go to this country for tourism? Thanks!
@@kettelbe no
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@@kettelbe Of course It is safe to travel to Zimbabwe! I just highly recommend getting it organised by a certified travel agent.
You want to return?
"Mugabe is still in power in Zimbabwe and although he is still pretty popular" yeah, in the same way Stalin and Hitler were "popular". "land grabs, hyperinflation and disputed elections have made him a controversial figure" I don't think I've ever heard his violent sadistic dictatorial lifestyle described in a more mild way.
You make him sound like a cheeky lad
Why export food when you can import hyperinflation
Hitler and Mussolini were very popular actually. Dont mix them with the likes of Stalin and Kim Jon Un
@@SIGNOR-G Eh, Stalin was unpopular before WW2 due to his numerous purges, but his popularity skyrocketed in the immediate aftermath of WW2, though his popularity would plummet again in the ensuing years.
Hitler was mildly popular before WW2, but during the war his popularity plummeted as the German economy collapsed and millions of German youths died abroad in an unwinnable war.
Mussolini was deeply unpopular from the start of his rule to the bloody end, mainly because he achieved literally nothing and just made life worse and worse from the get-go.
Most of the Italian countryside was controlled by communist partisans by the end of his reign, when he was executed by them and left in a ditch.
@@11Survivor wasnt Fascism born as a response to the commie terror? (Both in Italy and Spain)
@@SIGNOR-G Fascism is born out of mixing socialism and nationalism.
That's why it hates communists: because in true extreme-socialist manner, it hates anything that isn't its own brand of socialism.
It leans into the Nationalism aspect enough to end up on the far-right of the spectrum, past the center-right because of this as well.
Fascism is not born out of communist terror. It's born out of embracing a different interpretation of Marx's manifesto by Mussolini.
Mussolini came to power through what was basically a coup.
Communists hate Fascists back for the same reason they hate other communists, other socialists, and anyone that isn't their specific brand of communism (e.g.: Stalinism, Maoism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Marxism, etc).
"North Korean-trained troops..."
Were did they train them? How did North Koreans get to Zimbabwe?
Shortly after Mugabe gaining independence from colonialism he was intrigued by the totalitarian nature of North Korea. claiming after his 1980 visit he was a changed man. this led to a new height in relations between the two nations built also on the back of war belligerency. subsequently kim-il sung sent 106 military advisors to train up to 3500 members of the Zimbabwean liberation army into the Fifth Brigade to fight an ethnic cleansing in Matabeleland as Mugabe had feared an Matabele cleaning on his own mashona as well as more importantly an attack on his position. after this genocide he purposely cut all ties to north Korea until recently were north Korea has expanded industrially across all of Africa
Ships man. They can sail ships.
Wurde nicht irgendwie letztes Jahr ein Nordkoreanischer Hubschrauber in Syrien abgeschossen? War genauso überrascht dass die DVR im Ausland operiert....
Dea Cheyzah
That's new to me. Probably a false report. Just like the claim that North Korean units are fighting on the ground in Syria.
+BountyFlamor that's what I thought too. Kind of hard to imagine that they'd let Korean troops leave the People's Republic.
Overall this is a good summary of a conflict that I remember well. For instance, on my way to school in Salisbury during the 1970s I sometimes saw members of the Rhodesian Light Infantry heading off to fight and felt a sense of awe and gratitude. The RLI were all white but many blacks volunteered to serve in the army as well.
I also remember the impact the war had on my grandparents and other relatives who likewise lived on farms. They had to carry guns and fortify their homes. They also risked the danger of being killed by landmines when driving along farm roads. Moreover, they were in daily contact with the security forces via the Agric-Alert system and sometimes heard other farmers calling for military support by that means.
My father was in the Rhodesian Air Force and was mostly based at New Sarum on the outskirts of Salisbury. He sometimes mentioned aspects of the war and told us that South Africa (the region's economic and military super power) was providing assistance. For instance, South African planes and air crew were often present at New Sarum. Indeed, the SAAF played a role in the war from late 1967 when the initial deployment arrived at Thornhill on the outskirts of Gwelo. In February 1979, for example, three SAAF canberra bombers took part in a joint raid with the Rhodesian Air Force against a ZIPRA base in Angola. Furthermore, in September 1979 a South African puma helicopter was shot down during another joint operation and the three-strong crew and their passengers, members of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, were all killed.
South African ground forces also played a role in the war from 1967 onward when para-military police (and some soldiers seconded to the police to make them more combat effective) were sent to Rhodesia to help fight the terrorists. They were withdrawn by President Vorster in 1975, who began putting Ian Smith under great pressure to come to terms with moderate blacks. However, although South Africa was fighting another war in Namibia and Angola, Vorster's successor P.W. Botha was much more eager to provide military assistance and in the late 1970s D squadron of the Rhodesian SAS was in fact the cover name for South African special forces deployed in Rhodesia.
In short, although some Rhodesians feel that they were betrayed by South Africa, the economic and military support received from south of the Limpopo was much greater than many Rhodesians realise.
If you wrote a book about this, I'd read it.
Glen Dodds your comment is very enlightening, thankyou
Derrick Times Two, thanks for your comment. My initial reply was terse, but I was pressed for time.
Thanks Anthony.
Fuck Yo pops!
We're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin...
Ian Smith did nothing wrong.
Make sure to bring your own body bag.
My dad fought as a government conscript and I'm ashamed of nothing (for the most part)
jhunscrown And yet they were losing the war and were driven from the battlefield and forced to sue for peace. Make no mistake, it was black military pressure that ended Rhodesia. Those racists weren't going to budge otherwise..
It was pressure from Western countries, the black militants were out classed at every turn.
Rhodesia never forget
WE WUZ RHO..... who?
*spoon clank*
That's about all, peace out
Actually everybody forgot about it unless you keep up with current events and Pass events nobody asked the common man they don't know what the f*** is a Rhodesian
robotrip M make America great again
sarttee
white supremacists~ we wuz Kings n shiz
down with that tyrant Robert Mugabe and his ruin of a country of Zimbabwe. Long live Ian Smith and the prosperity and greatness that was Rhodesia.
Ben
if europe stole it's wealth from other nations, how did it gain the power to do it in the first place?
Titus Snyder this comment aged very well
Charles Charlemagne-Martel there's a place called Liberia, American colony. 1800s govt shipped freed slaves there. once they got there, the African Americans oppressed the native Africans all but officially enslaving them. not many freed slaves went because they weren't born in Africa, their parents and grandparents were born in the American colonies, plus Liberia wasn't where the slaves originated from anyways. 80% came through port Angola, they were also sold by their own people, they weren't captured or taken by whites.
Fighting Type Gym Leader Michael Vick apathy, trickery, and immorality. Being in legion with the devil.
Cumniggas have nothing to search in aftica lol
I had an employee who was a Rhodesian refugee he was the only one I ever met and I swear to God that man had a supernatural gift. Every thing he touched turned to gold he was like an angel.
Rhodesia was alright.
Shuwa Rhodesia was alright. In fact it was paradise ...if your skin colour was white chete!
Thats very correct.
It was all right if you were white. Now it's shit whether you're black or white
Interesting line of argument I must say!
Even for blacks, it was better than it is now. Political freedom isn't everything.
What everyone fails to understand or remember is that Rhodesia was the crown jewel of Africa. Most of Zmbabweans today wish they could go back to the prosperous times under Rhodesian rule.
All of those that took control eventually we're Communists and communist trained by the Soviet Union and China.
Zimbabwe floundered under its new and current leadership. Current inflation rate in Zimbabwe is 319%. Compare that to Botswana's 2.4% and you can see just how horrible conditions are in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is another classic example of how idealism AKA socialism AKA communism AKA M never succeeds.
I have Rhodesian coin 😂
I have a sanitized pistol
I have german dick.
I make 11,580 ZW an hour
@Bender What's the exchange rate on that? 30 cents?
I've got this kink in my left shoulder
Imagine being a white Rhodesian soldier, fighting in this war for years, only to have your country be torn apart, and your family deported.
Imagine African guy live in this country for years and white do his own boats come along with guns and tell him he has to move to the desert ain't that sad
it's not his country, africa is for the blacks.
your folk so vehemently argue for an all white europe, why can't blacks have the same?
i'm not even black btw.
Imagine being a black soldier overthrowing White rule and deporting white farmers to now have your people starving
leder hosen then tell the blacks in europe to go to africa
Belarus-chan WHITE PEOPLE GO HOME!!!
Thanks Jabzy for taking the time to make videos on African history, it's a subject few people cover and it's really fustrating as an African history lover to see so many interesting stories ignored
Here's another one that seems to be fair and accurate: ruclips.net/video/CZjFZjZBD78/видео.html
I really liked this one. From comments it's a rare snapshot of truths we are almost never told anymore: ruclips.net/video/0S2NKlMW0vc/видео.html
Blacks could be rich and were in govt. in small numbers. Communists hate meritocracy though, which it seems Rhodesia was.
Well, this is quite relevant now isn’t it?
how?
+Silmarillion isnt it what always happens?
Multiracialism will always fail, it’s failing in South Africa as we speak and the media is denying and obfuscating as hard as they can. They don’t want to admit their golden boy Mandela who they made movie after movie about fuckked South Africa: AIDs, crime, rape, farm murders all rampant.
And they want to turn every European-majority nation from America to Russia into the same thing, at the same time they hold up a black nationalist like Mandela or an Indian nationalist like Gandhi (who’s slogan was literally “India is for the Indians”), they call all white nationalists “racist” and censor them. So yeah, it’s pretty relevant, it is the past that we’re doomed to repeat.
@@blackassasin175 LMFAO you've had white ethno states it's just they failed miserably *cough *cough Nazi party 1941-1945 4 years was all a WHITE ethno state could do to survive pretty pathetic mate
Nick Farrell Rhodesia wasn’t an Ethnostate
>along with sanctions
bit of a brushover that
What A Time it was
When all we did seemed Wrong
We'd broken all our bonds
And the Battle Lines We're Drawn
What A Time, What A Time It was
NEEDS MORE SHORT SHORTS!
RIP Rhodesia, gone, but not forgotten.
so Rhodesia was the good guy of this war the way I see it
edit: i dont know how i feel about this 2 year old comment lol
indeed they were.
i think there is no such thing as good guy or bad guy
It's complicated. It's black nationalist commies vs white nationalists. I'm with Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, black led govt but not communist
@@JohnWalterGates But Rhodesia was open to comprimise, they wanted to get more people educated and capable before handimg the goverment over because all the previous colonies that did so without doing this ended up in civil wat amd genocides of whites and whatever the minority tribes of the area were. See the congo, Rhodesia was on par with America in the aspect of Civil rights at the time.
@@JohnWalterGates no it was blacks and whites vs communists from Mozambique
Mugabe's controversial reputation might also have to do with his imprisonment of vast groups of people without trial or his extensive use of torture... but I'm sure disputed elections has more to do with his bad reputation.
Come on, if your going to cover the bush war, don't downplay what followed.
Their crime was invading a black country as rapist and thieves.
If you fail to finish your enemies off, they will bite back. Doesn'y matter if you are good or evil. European invaders are, in fact, evil
Rhodesia never dies! A proud culture and people, never forgotten.
White supremacy cope
Rhodeboo
Blacks took there land back
Proud but murderous
@@AsAWhiteManMarriedToALatinaKilling kneegers is not murder, it's cleansing and a moral duty. They worth less than fecal matter.
Rhodesia - Lest we forget
Heres the Story of Rhodesia
A Nation Fair and Great.
On the 11th of November,
An Independent State!
this was much against the wishes of certain governments..
Whose leaders tried to break us down
And make us all repent
but we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin
You forgot to mention what happened in the Congo that the Rhodesians were fearful of happening there. I suggest people research that themselves. You also forgot to emphasise that the white man although not native to the area was the first indigenous man there, with the Bantu and Zulu tribes only arriving after white settlement. Or the fact that the communist insurgents were backed by the USSR and a modern standing army where as the Rhodesian indigenous whites were literally just farmers with some imported rifles. (Inb4 this comment gets yeeted too.)
bantu is not a tribe
@@paerek it is a group of ethnically close tribes that in fact arrived there after the white colonists.
@@koulematon7359 just as ethnically similar as the dutch and British settlers of the cape
@@paerek it is good you get it.
Yes they would cut white women's legs off, and then r@pe the leg holes. They would staple torn off dog ears onto the farm houses of White settlers, truly horrible stuff
Rhodesians never die
*BUT MUGABE SURE DID*
0:06 - Southern Rhodesia became a British Colony in 1923, Before this it was owned by the British South Africa Company, who were British, but their land was not an official Crown Colony.
0:30 - Another reason for the unification of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was to help strengthen the White foothold in Africa, as they felt that their dispersed numbers across multiple Colonies made them weak to the threat of African Nationalists.
1:36 - Rhodesia had 3 "Allies" in South Africa, Portugal, and Israel, Though none of these alliances were official.
1:57 - Also trained largely by North Koreans, The 5th Brigade, which you later mention for the Gukurahuni Massacre were NK Trained.
2:24 - It is worth mentioning that these 3 nations would only support one of the Terrorist groups, and would, for the large part, actively attempt to engineer the downfall of the other group.
2:35 - Not a correction, but Fireforce was an evolution of the experiences of the Rhodesians in the Malaysia crisis, combined with the predominantly American developed Air Cavalry doctrine,
2:35 - The Selous scouts were a relatively minor Special forces branch of the Rhodesian Security forces, Regiments like the Rhodesian African Rifles, R Light Infantry, and R Regiment were much more common in these Fireforce operations.
2:57 - The UN had denounced Rhodesia years before Eland and Dingo, though they would be the reason South Africa withdrew support for the RF Government, as Zanla propaganda convinced the world that the attacks had been launched on Refugee camps, though Zanla stated this was a blatant lie after the war.
3:03 - It's worth mentioning that many hundreds of more men were conscripted by Zanla and Zanu, and even more School children were kidnapped from their schools, forced to adopt the Communist viewpoints, or were shot.
3:15 - The Viscount tragedy would cause the end of internal talks with Nkomo, as it reinforced the view that even when at the negotiating table, Zanla were nothing more than Terrorists.
3:23 - Rhodesia's economy was hardly effected by these Terrorist attacks, Rhodesia was a predominantly Agricultural and Clothing Material based Nation,
3:41 - The Terrorists didn't accept the election and carried on fighting because Zanla and Zanu were banned from running for election due to their terrorist actions, causing the UN Sanctions to carry on.
4:29 - The Gukurhundi started in 1983, and the deaths were in the tens of thousands, not just the thousands, 20k, to be specific.
Hi Rex,
Thanks for clarifying. You seem very knowledgeable about the Rhodesian Bush War and history of Zimbabwe. Please can you spare some time to tell me more?
I would like to get in touch with you for an in depth discussion as I am not nearly as knowledgeable. Spread knowledge, prevent ignorance, world becomes a better place. Can you message me with your email/preferred contact on RUclips? Or please email on etherevening@gmail.com.
Much Appreciated.
Official deaths are 20kish. Go there and talk to people, and you realize the number is an order of magnitude higher.
Mugabe &Co took the Bread Basket of Southern Africa & turned it into a Basket Case! Always happens .
I love how he used something like MS Paint, and it doesn't look crappy.
With the recent coup, I think an updated version, or at least additional annotations, are in order.
Good history as always, another tactful overview of events which still invoke very stong opinion.
how is that communism working out?
That's an odd way to spell racist
@@dapenguin4637 unfortunately there’s more racist in the comments. Rhodesians are like confederates. They just refuse to move on. And instead just insist that there government good
"We're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin.
We’ll keep our land a free land, stop the enemy coming in.
We’ll keep them north of the Zambezi till that river’s running dry.
This mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die."
RIP Rhodesia, a prosperous nation wrongfully condemned by the world and stolen by communists who ran it into the ground.
When your bodyguards start to sing Sweet Banana...
Press F to keep them north of the Zambezi
“Here’s the Story of Rhodesia...”
It’s hard to stay in power. When country don’t have a economic structure, and when 90% of world determine that your money is no good.
Under the leadership of exiled king Leka Zogu (King of Albanians) were many Albanian volunteers.
On their way to Rhodesia, Zogu’s plane landed in Gabon where armed fighters hired by the Communist Albanian regime surrounded his plane. Zogu was visibly unhappy at this inconvenience. Bad tempered like a hooked knitting craft, he came to the door of the plane wearing his iconic birth control glasses and a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The troops backed down and Leka Zogu, his wife, and his entourage of hundreds of anti-Communist Albanians made up of former Royal Guard members, landed safely in Rhodesia.
When the Rhodesian Bush War broke out, Leka Zogu was not going to miss his chance to kill Communists. He pulled out all the stops and provided a small detachment of highly trained, Communist-hating former Royal Guard members to assist the Rhodesian Security Forces in their fight against Communist guerilla groups like ZAPU. Following the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and Robert Mugabe coming to power, Leka Zogu was once again in exile and moved to a large farm near Johannesburg in neighboring South Africa where the government there issued him and his family diplomatic status leading them to remain there for many years.
Here's the story of Rhodesia a land both fair and great on the 11th of November an independent state this was much against the wishes of certain governments who's leaders tried to break us down and make us all repent but we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin we'll keep our land a free land stop the coming in we'll keep them north of the Zambezi till the rivers running dry and this mighty land shall prosper for Rhodesians never die
Another great video, i'll have to look for some your older video's, enjoying
Your audio mixing is absolutely terrible. Please fix.
Wish I could
Jabzy
You make alright videos.
I came looking for men with FALs in short shorts but I actually learned a lot.
The zanu and sapu where terrorists that failed to take over a farm with 30 men against a familiy of farmers
Rhodesia was full of racial issues but comparing them to what Mugabe did is like comparing a matchstick to the nukes dropped on Japan.
Think of how other British colonies and Britain itself turned out from a racist past. If we still had Rhodesia I'm sure it would be very comparable to modern western countries.
However, with everything that happened, we can only speculate...
Can you do The Philippine-American War?
do it pls
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An authentic new book on the war is A Brutal State of Affairs by Henrik Ellery and Dennis Anderson PS it was Winston Field not Fields.
Jabzy first mistake 1:13 in Nkomo's armed wing was ZIPRA not ZIRPA
This is surprisingly unbiased. Good job. You videos are great, by the way.
You gotta admit Rhodesia had good tactics
I like how they keep coming
Came here to get a grip about Mungagwas role in the Bush war, the war, that created the modern Zimbabwean state, both politically and ideologically. Mugabe being out, the new leader will possibly be even worse...
What's the music mate it's fantastic
^This.
"It's a long way to Mukumbura"
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Minecraft
Darude sandstorm
I've been hooked onto your videos for hours now and I have been waiting for Zimbabwe's Independence war! Just a question though. at 1:11 are you sure it's not ZIPRA (Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army)
+Tinotenda Chemvura My bad, I'll add an annotation
Zipra. For sure shamwari
For a moment there, I thought you said it was led by "Iain Duncan Smith".
There is nothing better than freedom, dignity and self esteem. I would rather be a Mayor in a poor country than a slave in the White house. Africans under Rhodesia had food without respect.
Camo short-shorts and a FAL battle rifle... Tell me Rhodesia did not have the best military uniform of all time.
“I have walked a thousand miles, and slept, with a thousand women. AAAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaahhh”
What a time it was.
With so few friends to turn to...
do the Second Sino-Japanese war, invasion of Panama, Ecuadorian-Peruvian war of 1941, Boshin wars.
Ian Douglas Smith was a saint and fought for all creeds and colors under a united Rhodesia.
Ian was a giant racist I have no idea what ur talking about
@@nicholaswoel-nogueira4074 You lack basic education. Poor babby brainwashed by your great mugabe that fucked your country.
@@cowboyanimal_1 I am from Baltimore Maryland?
@@nicholaswoel-nogueira4074 So you have no idea what you're talking about then. Waysis this, waysis that. Everything is waysis. Why not get off the computer since it was invented by a colonialist? gtfo.
@@cowboyanimal_1 Are you saying you should call racist things racist or colonial things colonialist because there are a lot of racist and colonialist things in the world
"3 MIN" HE SAID
Suddenly I want some shorts and a FAL
bring rhodesia back!
Rhodesia is shit as fuck
We need wakanda
@@DonKrieg-382 so is Zimbabwe
@Kj_mast_er a big yes and you know that
@Kj_mast_er the only pink thing is your fat lips
Come and try to Bring it back boy. Bring your shroud as well.
Many blacks volunteered to serve in the Rhodesian Army. On the other hand, they received a lower rate of pay than white soldiers and for most of the war all their officers were of European descent. Furthermore, none of the black soldiers could become members of the Rhodesian Front (the political party which ran Rhodesia from 1962 until 1979) because membership of the party was not open to blacks. I suspect that some of the Ndebele who joined the army concluded that it was better to be a second class citizen in a white run country than a second class citizen in a land where the most numerous tribe, the Shona, had the upperhand.
Further to my previous comment, bad blood existed between the Ndebele (also known as the Matabele) and the Shona.
you can see why they did not let black people into politician membership. just look new government what they do.
Merab Beridze its not because blacks are in power its because communists are in power and blacks were equal to the whites if they were educated/employed and owned land and that went for every person there is only one successful black nation that was never colonized and its Ethiopia blacks can be good
And now the US is turning into Zimbabwe 2.0
Algorithm is suddenly flooding my feed with Rhodesia vids
#Rhodesiansneverdie
The land-gibbons have never nor will ever be capable of building and maintaining modern civilization.
Surely at 0:43 you mean just “Ian Smith”. I only mention it out of appreciation of the irony.
You see, Ian “Duncan” Smith is a modern day British politician who only uses his middle name to avoid any association with Rhodesia’s former prime minister..
Tbf most brits would rather associate with Ian Smith than Ian Duncan smith! 😂
His full name was Ian _Douglas_ Smith. You know, what he said.
@@hongxiuquan69 100% said Ian Duncan Smith. And whilst we are on it 1:08 it's ZiPRA not ZiRPA. It doesn't seem like much but to people who care it is a big deal.
@@vincespeedmk223
Sounds like "Douglas" to me, but I can somewhat hear a "Duncan". And I wasn't aware of the "ZIPRA" thing earlier.
Dude this is weird, I didn't think that many people cared about Rhodesia. I am related to cecil, and read a ton of the history behind it and how all of it went down. However I didn't expect to see this many people care.
MUGABE IS DEAAAAAAD
Rhodesia is one example of a country that was better off under British rule than it is now
That's how it went with most ex - colonies. Collapse of national structures as the concept of nation hadn't appeared yet in the minds of most wakandans - same way it hadn't really existed in europe before the XVII - XVIIIth century.
Can you do the Mongol conquests?
+against the wind well genghis gave power to the Lower class and they had some decent rules. However, it's stupid to ignore the chaos and destruction the Mongols brought to China, Central Asia, Russia, and Muslims
It's a long long way to Mukumbura...
so its britain's fault for dropping the ball.
Some people like to say that Zimbabwe won that war. But my question would be; What did they win?... They certainly didn't win the battles. People just poured money into their side. But the Rhodesians left with their lives and beat the hell out of them on their way out. So that's not a win in my book. Especially since the Globalists are the ones who made out in the end. So the Rhodesians may have lost some land, but Zimbabweans certainly didn't gain anything. If anything they lost because look at how they're living now. Not so good.
A little one sided and light on facts about the evils of Mugabe.
Portugal was also a ally of rhodesia until the Portuguese decolonised
We don't use the "Z" word around here, We say "Occupied Rhodesia".
You left out how Henry Kissinger was the orchestrator of the UN backstab
my grand parents met each other in Rhodesia they both come from England in 1960 aged 17 they lived there happy entill around
1979 when they left for south Africa i wish with all my heart that i could have been born in that era so could have experienced it
and fought in the war . ps i was born in England as well
Bruh..actually had to hold a lecture about it but a disease got me
Now I see this video in my recommend
A blessing from the Monolith?
Tons of similar events happening in South Africa amd all around africa as we speak. Chinese invading Africa, Farmers being killed, and A socalled "Civil war" en route
Rhodesia, we shall never forget you.
A few issues and neglected points:
- It's "ZIPRA", not "ZIRPA"
- Video doesn't really go into the politics or government of Rhodesia, other than to say it's a white minority government. It was pretty exploitative - most Africans were deliberately disenfranchised by a constitution that set education, income and ownership requirements to vote. 90% of the education budget went to white Rhodesians, the country was largely segregrated (49 million acres of the most fertile land was set aside for a quarter of a million whites, while the several million blacks were largely limited to 36 million acres of less-desirable "Tribal Trust" and "Native Purchase" land), and very little infrastructure was extended towards the rural African communities.
- Fireforce tactics actually only composed a small portion of the Rhodesian Security Force's strategy - few units were used in this role (largely a few battalions of prestigious troops - the RLI and RhAR), while the vast majority of the forces were simple footsloggers tasked to patrol and guard areas of operation far too large for them. Around half of the troops engaged in the war were from the policy or internal affairs, while the Army were largely reservists and national servicemen from the Rhodesia Regiment (perpetually being called-up).
- Abel Muzorewa was a relatively unpopular figure groomed by Smith to be the first black leader of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe, leading most blacks to see him as a lackey. It was no surprise that ZANLA and ZIPRA knew they had too much popularity at this point to accept the Internal Settlement
- 4:12 is a bit misleading - Smith was on a separate roll (white roll) and couldn't run against Tongogara or Mugabe, and no mention is made of Muzorewa, who stood in that election on the common roll (winning only 8.3% of votes).
Otherwise, a pretty concise summary, not bad
All the comments you have posted about Rhodesia are well-written and informative. I suspect that you lived north of Beitbridge!
Ah, what a time it was...
It’s a shame that the good guys, the Rhodesians, were finally overcome.
I learn history so fast in these I like to watch them in 1.25 speed. And sometimes.......1.5
1:38 I think South Africa at that time included all of Namibia
Rhodesians never die!!!!
Smith is one of the greatest lands that ever lived !!!
Good things Rhodesians never die.
The voters got exactly what they asked for.
What do you learn today? Be careful what you wish for...
WE'RE ALL RHODESIANS AND WE'LL FIGHT THROUGH THICK AND THIN
at 0:47 it sounds like your saying Iain Duncan Smith instead of Ian Douglas Smith.
You ever reminisce about things you weren't there for (Rhodesian bush war)
odd what you choose to spend your time adding detail to. 3:20 airplane has 2 dots for windows. 3:29 white guy has friggin lines showing his curly hair...