It is stunning how so quickly this country went into ruins. The irony is that the institutional kleptocracy, widespread corruption, and utter lack of governance coupled with incredible incompetence hurt the most vulnerable people of the country majority rule was supposed to help.
It realistically is no rocket science. The west vowed to see it through.Yhey were almost believing that they and only they owned Zim abwe,so if they can't have her, mrather they would destroy her through sanctions
@@frogfinance4605 well I don't think the rise of Mugabe had any thing to do with white hardliners. The only hardliner here who got away with his extremism was Mugabe, a terrorist who killed thousands of blacks ( he also killed whites of course ) because most blacks supported Ian Smith, and this conflicted with the narrative of the white colonialist and racist who kept the blacks poor and ignorant in order to oppress them. All to the contrary, Ian Smith had to keep giving up to international blackmail ( sanctions ), specially from UK and US, and pressures from SA, on which it was dependent on security and other items. The last to steps were sharing the government with blacks, who he always sustained were not apt yet for the task, and he proved correct, and then through the Lancaster House Agreement, holding new elections where the Patriotic Front ( that is, the terrorists headed by Nkomo and Mugabe ) would participate. The Agreement stipulated that any party who resorted to intimidation would be suspended for participation in the elections, but this was to no effect, Mugabe won the elections through indulging in wild terrorism to intimidate the black population into voting for him ( and not for Smith ) and the British ( who had retaken the government of the country for the period of elections ), betraying for the umpteenth time their agreements with Smith, accepted it and left the country leaving Mugabe in power ( for its utterly destruction ). Smith tried to always do what was better for Rhodesia, and that is why he had to step down from the premiership, leaving a marvelous country in spite of 15 years of international sanctions. Mugabe never cared for Zimbabwe, he only cared for holding power, that is why he kept almost 40 years the head of the government and left a devastated country. But Mugabe is considered by many a hero, and Ian Smith a racist colonialist.
Whatever good intentions Mugabe might have had at the beginning of his rule in Zimbabwe (and trying to be fair - which isn't easy - he did have some good things going on in the beginning, but those quickly faded), in the end he let everyone down - he let them down bad.
Mugabe was an asshole, but I'm glad someone here isn't just trashing the guy just because. Most of the comments here just make me lose faith in humanity tbh
The Problem is he tried to be fair 😂😂😂, should have bought to justice all the whites who killed people, war crimes should have been investigated , should have changed the launguage of instruction to Shona
You can see in this video he's beginning to get drunk on power and admiration, which I think is what did him in. Here he is, prime minister, going back to the guerillas and seeing how much they revere him, basically worship him. I think after a few years it set in that he could do anything he wanted and get away with it, so could his followers... so, they did.
@@Awakeningspirit20 this video is honestly a revelation to me, previously I thought he only became mad with power during the late 80s-early 90s amid tension with south africa and unrest over land reform. But this piece shows that those were merely the last straw, he already have those mad power ambition since the beginning. He just hid it away until there's enough justifications to act on it.
19:52 Robert Mugabe says: "The concept of setting a party merely to oppose, and not to assist the government in being, is repugnant to me". He hated parliamentary democracy even then...
@@sicelo9033 He knew how to make a corrupt dictatorship and betray the people of Zimbabwe for his own personal benefit. If a free democracy had formed instead, free from dictators and racism, Zimbabwe wouldn't be the shithole it is today.
Another prime example how when an pillar or power and responsibility that is typically learned or earned over time is given to someone that has NOT earned or learned the importance of that pillar... it goes to shit in a short period of time. That pillar of power and responsibility includes power and money. South Africa is another fine example. No, I won't claim either Rhodesia or South Africa were beacons of equality or justice, but it is obvious who brought prosperity and then who let it die.
many questions indeed for example;the roots of the inevitable armed insurrection frm former guerilla colleagues who refused disarmament which eventually led to Gukurahundi period! very insightful documentary.
If those Rhodesian pilots knew what Mugabe would bring, especially to his own people, they would have thrown him over the side of that chopper without a doubt.
for what it's worth, and from what my research has shown me, the majority of the people there hated him from before he gained power. They were intimidated, often at gunpoint into allowing it happen. As much as I miss the good days, I can't blame them, even if I should.
I remember crossing from poor Botswana to Rhodesia to get quality education, and we bought Vinyl records, record players, a Supersonic Radio Receiver and some Exotic food we didn't have in Botswana, this Mugabe failed miserably and mnangagwa will be the worst
PorckChopz Mugabe did not fail, he went a distance further, we will take it from here and move forward thank you. It took centuries for the west to be were they are now, so we are prepared to find our own way to prosperity.
@@purothadamaja , why then do we have thousands upon thousands of zimbabweans here in botswana, who are harassed everyday by police because they have crossed illegaly, they stay in farms as non paid securityguards, they stay in houses with no running water, electricity and can only work as very cheap labour, that man failed miserably and he died a sad man according to his family relatives,
BLACK STARR mugabe starved a bunch of people and got rich off the back of Africans living in luxury. He literally died in Singapore! And he is a dictator.
@@virginiansupremacy Hard to believe anyone could be that stupid. I guess you're just a racist fascist who loved to see the invaders kill innocent Africans
@dude man and he shit in more of his own black peoples mouths and then sucked it back out their arses and then ahd them murdered for stealing his shit in the first place... ut he is burning in hell with his arch enemy mandela, fighting for the spot next to satan
@@slb7429 Black people had the highest living standards of all of Africa in Rhodesia. In all of Africa, let that sink in. It was one of the richest and well of countries. Mugabe fucked it up and sold out his nation to China and the ussr. A great nation was lost in 1980
When you subjugate 6 million people into a system of service for 1million others you can pretend that services were better. I'm assuming you didn't include the keeps and reserves in your summary of healthcare and road condition. When people like you speak I wonder how white men rule the world.
And when people like you who take only the information of one biased side into account and then use them in your statements it makes it perfectly clear how you were able to destroy such a successful and beautiful nation.
LOL. Instead of identifying the actual bias and errors you speak in vague "people like you" isms. Miss me with that buffoonery mate. Feel free to elaborate which part of the point I made was inaccurate.
+vdotme LOL indeed. Nice non specific reply. The simple visual facts of economy and stability then and now prove the idiocy of your theories. But, please do continue.
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 aAfter Mugabe got into power some people were dissatisfied so they broke away and became dissident, the government tried to engage without success, and the dissidents did some atrocities that the government had to sqaush, if Nkomo had been president he would have done the same thing
Zim flame please talk about factual things that you can back up. Not things you saw on a documentary. This is just someone’s interpretation of the current events back then.
Any reasonable President be it in the US will quash any dissent. However, Mugabe's reaction was too hash. He used a jack hammer to squash a mosquito, lm sure a rubber hammer wld have done the job
It's a shame Mugabe never lived up to his promises to make a successful nation you need all diverse types of people irrespective of you colour .Mugabe has systematically destroyed his homeland. Today Rhodesia is just another third world African state. What has it achieved for his people.
A lot . He was prevented and sabotaged by whites colonizers . As usual they break your Wings and turn around and accused you for not being able to fly. They smashed your eyes and turn around and accused you for not being able to See. They blackmail and Sanctioned the whole Country and shamelessly Think they're superior . SHAME .
@@alibabakano2971 Ali you talk a lot of nonsense, but surely your focus should be on the well being of the people, today and the fact is that the vast majority of Zimbabweans have nothing in life, what are you going to do to fix that.? You have had a dictator for decades who plundered his people and nation, you can't change the past, you can only learn from it. So focus on the future.... and get Zimbabwe out of its 3rd world status. Give the people something to be proud of, show the whole world what a prosperous nation you can be. You need to focus on comparing your yourself with other african continent countries, not the other nations, they don't pay any attention to you because you have nothing to offer...there are no sanctions or blackmail whoever tells you this is taking advantage of you....
@@AccountAccount-pn5hz clearly you have never travelled to know anything better I appreciate the truth hurts. I am sure there are many good people in Zimbabwe. Mugabe just isn’t one them he has gone down in world history as a dictator who tortured the souls of his nation.
Democracy is not practical in a young country, with inedequate education ,absence of social amenities and understanding of self identity as individuals. Mugabe remains great in his own way.
Mugabe as a person was not perfect in some areas of decision making but you hear how remarkable his speech was.on the Zimbabwean war and liberation not everything went as promised and making the other war fighters feeling betrayed and wanting to continue with the fighting until a total independence was attained.this zipra side led by Joshua Nkomo refused to surrender weapons of war to Mugabe zanupf that was now in power citting a betrayal of the liberation struggle and wanted to continue until whatever they had promised each other both zanupf and zipra or zanla if I'm not mistaken was achieved now that Mugabe was in power through a settled negotiation between him and the whites the other side saw it a betrayal.so the jenourlist continue to ask Mugabe what is he going to do as a leader to make sure of the total surrender of arms weapons and Mugabe smartly answers the question that the weapons will be surrendered not what.And he comes the question how did Mugabe managed to that???
i mean if you want to starve to death and be killed by a brutal government rather than be in a stable nation, with food supplies enough to export and have a just system....
2 года назад+1
Con lo quien que hubiera sido que Rodesia hubiera seguido....
Oh they were killed within the next few years for sure. Once Mugabe couldn't fix anything they had to put all the blame back on white people. Same as south africa still blaming white people even though the Marxists in charge have had power the past 30 years.
@@Jarmint you make it seem like people were kicked out of the country. They ran away. Only farmers were kicked off their farms 20 years after this video when Tony Blair and the Labour Party reneged on an agreement between Thatcher's Conservative government in 1979 at the Lancaster House Conference. The agreement was for the British government to pay the farmers for the land and give it back to the the state. The argument being that the Matabele had given away land to the British South Africa Company that wasn't theirs
It seems Mugabe was initially magnanimous and promoted reconciliation but then something went terribly wrong. It didn't help that Ian Smith remained in the new government. That only inflamed old divisions eventually. No Mandela was Mugabe though. Whether his initial moderation was genuine or not is up for debate. The Matabele certainly didn't find him conciliatory. I stayed in Bulawayo in 2019 for a week. While I was treated well, never felt unsafe and even made friends, I didn't see a single other white person. The former white community is seemingly no more for whatever reason. Harare still has a small one. Now I feel it's changing and hopefully now the xenophobic policies of Mugabe are history the country can recover.
What are you talking about. Didn't you watch the documentary? He has been planning his dictatorship from day one. Everyone was too caught up in the euphoria of independence to see what was going on.
So I guess we're just going to ignore the brutal, heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the fascist Rhodesia apartheid Nazis? I see your game...
@endurogrip xr650r Zimbabwe is not a wasteland, but a product of sanctions that have starved the nation. In Rhodesia, it was the British who were running the show and so whatever prosperity they had was held exclusively for the British, by the British, and not enjoyed at all by the native people of Mother Zimbabwe. This is a fact.
Now I understand why forming a party on ethnic or tribal lines and failure to genuinely engage the minority sowed and continues to sow divisions in Africa.The one party state ideology and crushing dissent/opposition through magnifying it as a threat has led to failed states in Africa.
I agree with you to an extent, but please read up on what Malcolm X believed in and his ideology later in his life before you criticize Mugabe. I know for a fact he was well aware and in full agreement of what you said about reconciliation, but the brother had to work with conditions the way he saw best. I can't speak against him since I didn't walk in his shoes in the face of racist demons who wanted his quick demise.
Malcolm x before he died believed in reconciliation. He realized that blacks couldn't be successful while isolating themselves from whites the same way whites can't be successful while isolating themselves from us blacks. The problem with Africa isn't the lack of natural resources but the lack of human resources such as skills, and knowledge.
Ndozvakamamisirea Nyagumbo. Didymas Mutasa is not innocent. His sister is in control of Kuwadzana constituency. Guy Clutton Brook knows about Cold Comfort Farm!
An unfortunate facet of high security prisons in Zimbabwe. (Its to stop you escaping). Lower risk prisoners are allowed one item of top clothing. E.g. shorts OR t-shirt)
You must understand that the whites have little choice but to be as they are. They have recessive genetics, and their homelands are resource poor. Either they do this or they perish.
IQ. A test created by whites to rate the intelligence of its takers. Tell me how is it that your own nations are buried in tens of trillions of debt? But you guys are supposed to be so much smarter? But even now african children are producing IQ higher than Einstein. Research it for yourself. Educate yourself. Your world is crumbling all around you. Even your IQ fantasy is falling apart. Oh well I guess if you have no more ammo you will be forced to use childish insults. LMAO
He was a dictator even from the his country's independence. The British gave him freedom and education. Instead of of giving the same empowerment to his people, he rather empowered his cronies and families alone. What an oppressor; what a trash!
+Thandi Rizzi have you heard of Gukurahundi.??Survivors of that massacre are still alive. Why don't you go to Matabeleland and ask them. You Mugabe cheerleaders are so dumb. Thandi...with a name like that you should know. It was people of your tribe. Get a fucking clue.
Thandi Rizzi - Are you serious? Are you even remotely serious??? I am a regular White guy from America, and you will doubtless say that this colors - no pun intended - my judgment, but Mugabe has proven himself one of the nastiest, most selfish, most self-serving, vile tyrants who has ever blighted the face of the earth. I would have applauded him and ZANU, had they actually liberated Zimbabwe and brought in a majority-ruled government that cared for all the people of Zimbabawe - but that is *_not_* what happened. He ended up making himself a BILLIONAIRE by plundering the nation, utterly destroyed the value of the currency to the point where it is more valuable as wallpaper, openly threatens those who deign to vote against ZANU-PF with death (just search for "Vote ZANU-PF and Live" on youtube, and check out what passes for political advertisement in Mugabe's Zimbabwe; it's totally insane!), rewarded all his cronies with farmland he stole from others (for no other reason than the color of the owner's skin) only to then have the land lay fallow while the country that used to be the breadbasket of Africa now has to keep its citizens alive with bananas donated as foreign food aid, ZANU-PF literally just pretends cholera outbreaks aren't happening (this is their health plan), and he slaughters those who would object to all this. He is a failure in every sense of the word, and what makes it even worse is that racists now use his horrid tenure as President as some sort of proof that Blacks are incapable of running their own country, rather than put the blame squarely where it belongs - on one single man and his sick political party.
One party state and life president fetish a dismal failure, mugabe left Zimbabwe in tatters and in helter skelter mode, what a mess, what a waste of resources and people's lives, sad
In 2020, Zimbabwe, once the bread and food basket of the region now one of the poorest countries on the continent. Ruled by a dictator Mugabe, the real Africa continent style. A murderer who murdered 22000 innocent indigenous Matabele people because of political intolerance. Turned out today in a country with about no press freedom. Hunger and poverty part of the daily lives of citizens, land grabs part of the ruling party's strategies to stay in power. Nationalization of the gold, diamonds and mineral mines gave birth to ghost and only skeleton operations left behind to generate income. Politicians that live in luxury.
He's a murderous, Marxist piece of shit who turned the bread basket of Africa into such a ass backwards country that can't even feed itself enjoy your money with 36 zeroes on it though, I'm sure you can buy *one* piece of bread with 1 *sextillion* Zimbabwean Dollars.
We're not the ones murdering each other because of some retarded tribalistic culture are you just a bit buttmad that we managed to accomplish more in 100 years *AS A MINORITY* than you ever will in your miserable lifetime, buddy? oh wait, *YOUS WAZ KANGZ N SHIET*, my bad.
Well to be fair, that inflated currency has been abandoned. They have a new currency called the bond note, and US dollars are legal tender, but there is an extreme shortage of cash, and people have to wait hours in line to get a minimum amount from the banks. But I agree Mugabe and the whole ZANU-PF cabal has turned Zimbabwe into almost a failed state that cant even feed itself.
It is stunning how so quickly this country went into ruins. The irony is that the institutional kleptocracy, widespread corruption, and utter lack of governance coupled with incredible incompetence hurt the most vulnerable people of the country majority rule was supposed to help.
it really isn't. It was predicted, step by step. Ian Smith, for his faults, was right about literally everything
It realistically is no rocket science. The west vowed to see it through.Yhey were almost believing that they and only they owned Zim abwe,so if they can't have her, mrather they would destroy her through sanctions
@@frogfinance4605 which were the faults of Ian Smith ?
@@juliomiguel6597 bending to the will of the hardliners who wanted absolutely no change and not pressing the SA government hard enough on their bs.
@@frogfinance4605 well I don't think the rise of Mugabe had any thing to do with white hardliners. The only hardliner here who got away with his extremism was Mugabe, a terrorist who killed thousands of blacks ( he also killed whites of course ) because most blacks supported Ian Smith, and this conflicted with the narrative of the white colonialist and racist who kept the blacks poor and ignorant in order to oppress them.
All to the contrary, Ian Smith had to keep giving up to international blackmail ( sanctions ), specially from UK and US, and pressures from SA, on which it was dependent on security and other items.
The last to steps were sharing the government with blacks, who he always sustained were not apt yet for the task, and he proved correct, and then through the Lancaster House Agreement, holding new elections where the Patriotic Front ( that is, the terrorists headed by Nkomo and Mugabe ) would participate. The Agreement stipulated that any party who resorted to intimidation would be suspended for participation in the elections, but this was to no effect, Mugabe won the elections through indulging in wild terrorism to intimidate the black population into voting for him ( and not for Smith ) and the British ( who had retaken the government of the country for the period of elections ), betraying for the umpteenth time their agreements with Smith, accepted it and left the country leaving Mugabe in power ( for its utterly destruction ).
Smith tried to always do what was better for Rhodesia, and that is why he had to step down from the premiership, leaving a marvelous country in spite of 15 years of international sanctions. Mugabe never cared for Zimbabwe, he only cared for holding power, that is why he kept almost 40 years the head of the government and left a devastated country.
But Mugabe is considered by many a hero, and Ian Smith a racist colonialist.
Whatever good intentions Mugabe might have had at the beginning of his rule in Zimbabwe (and trying to be fair - which isn't easy - he did have some good things going on in the beginning, but those quickly faded), in the end he let everyone down - he let them down bad.
Mugabe was an asshole, but I'm glad someone here isn't just trashing the guy just because. Most of the comments here just make me lose faith in humanity tbh
Very fair assessment. Not common these days.
The Problem is he tried to be fair 😂😂😂, should have bought to justice all the whites who killed people, war crimes should have been investigated , should have changed the launguage of instruction to Shona
You can see in this video he's beginning to get drunk on power and admiration, which I think is what did him in. Here he is, prime minister, going back to the guerillas and seeing how much they revere him, basically worship him. I think after a few years it set in that he could do anything he wanted and get away with it, so could his followers... so, they did.
@@Awakeningspirit20 this video is honestly a revelation to me, previously I thought he only became mad with power during the late 80s-early 90s amid tension with south africa and unrest over land reform. But this piece shows that those were merely the last straw, he already have those mad power ambition since the beginning. He just hid it away until there's enough justifications to act on it.
I remember watching this on the television 38 years ago!!
Booooooooooo
Were you also involved in the mass killing of Black People,,,,, and tell me,,,Where you born in Africa
@@simbarasheapostle9042 and how many people did he kill
Wow are you still in Zimbabwe
19:52 Robert Mugabe says: "The concept of setting a party merely to oppose, and not to assist the government in being, is repugnant to me". He hated parliamentary democracy even then...
He was an idiot, the greatest mistake to happen to Zimbabwe. Ironically he was toppled by his own party.
@@tinoendakure658 he was one of the greatest African leader. He knew how to kick ass
@@sicelo9033 He knew how to make a corrupt dictatorship and betray the people of Zimbabwe for his own personal benefit. If a free democracy had formed instead, free from dictators and racism, Zimbabwe wouldn't be the shithole it is today.
@@sicelo9033
I think you mean he knew how to KISS ass. Particularly, Chinese.
@@justincase4892 nope I said it right.
Glad everything worked out so well for Zimbabwe. Quite the economic and technological superpower these days, go google it
Lol it’s dead.
Mugabe was GUSHUNGO! He liberated Zimbabwe from the vile imperialists.
@@ancupola1994 lol anything but admitting the reality around yoy
We rather live free under poverty than under servitude and white oppression
Wakanda forever
Rhodesia was a beautiful & prosperous country!… Zimbabwe is a hellhole now!
And how the fk would you know?
Rhodesia was jst a racist nazi paradise
Effects of the freezing weather 😂. Makes you guys abusive, sad, and depressed lol.
@@roddymcniven8734 and how the fk you don't know ?
This is the funeral for Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe
Another prime example how when an pillar or power and responsibility that is typically learned or earned over time is given to someone that has NOT earned or learned the importance of that pillar... it goes to shit in a short period of time. That pillar of power and responsibility includes power and money. South Africa is another fine example. No, I won't claim either Rhodesia or South Africa were beacons of equality or justice, but it is obvious who brought prosperity and then who let it die.
This documentary answers many questions
many questions indeed for example;the roots of the inevitable armed insurrection frm former guerilla colleagues who refused disarmament which eventually led to Gukurahundi period! very insightful documentary.
If those Rhodesian pilots knew what Mugabe would bring, especially to his own people, they would have thrown him over the side of that chopper without a doubt.
The pilot's were probably thrown out after the cameras left.
LONG LIVE MUGABE
@@AccountAccount-pn5hz you must have been one of the one's who got free firewood before his election.
@@Adrian-ju7cm You must be one of those whose mum dropped him on the ground when he was a baby and hence why you right stupid comments like that
@@AccountAccount-pn5hz you need psychological help.
I would love to know what’s going through the guards’ minds at 4:09 it must have been quite the change for them!
They knew it would go down the tube
I was there 2 weeks ago. Everyone is consoled to the fact that’s everything is fucked and won’t get better anytime soon.
for what it's worth, and from what my research has shown me, the majority of the people there hated him from before he gained power. They were intimidated, often at gunpoint into allowing it happen. As much as I miss the good days, I can't blame them, even if I should.
Was their choice
I remember crossing from poor Botswana to Rhodesia to get quality education, and we bought Vinyl records, record players, a Supersonic Radio Receiver and some Exotic food we didn't have in Botswana, this Mugabe failed miserably and mnangagwa will be the worst
@Nimrod Mugabe didn't succeed in any way other than ruining his nation via hyper-inflation and famine.
I don't know how people like you can't just think past what you hear from the media and use common sense.
PorckChopz Mugabe did not fail, he went a distance further, we will take it from here and move forward thank you. It took centuries for the west to be were they are now, so we are prepared to find our own way to prosperity.
Prometheus Chiwara if taking a step forward means taking a step into the shitter of poverty, inflation, and famine then okay my dude
@@purothadamaja , why then do we have thousands upon thousands of zimbabweans here in botswana, who are harassed everyday by police because they have crossed illegaly, they stay in farms as non paid securityguards, they stay in houses with no running water, electricity and can only work as very cheap labour, that man failed miserably and he died a sad man according to his family relatives,
this is so sad. the question is will the world learn from history. Look to South Africa to find the answer.
when he died the news correspordent was tallking in the streets they were all black people just like london
Scooby Doo busht, what solutions? foreign fear?
@morton christie the fear of other blacks is amakwerekwere
You mean south Africa run by a corrupt socialist party that cant even keep the lights on?
anyone back in 2017 following the military coup?
Fuck u
so respected journalist, julian manyon, I don't suppose your left wing opinion has changed after 40 years of majority rule under your hero mugabe
BLACK STARR mugabe starved a bunch of people and got rich off the back of Africans living in luxury. He literally died in Singapore! And he is a dictator.
@@virginiansupremacy Hard to believe anyone could be that stupid. I guess you're just a racist fascist who loved to see the invaders kill innocent Africans
Mugabe didn't kill enough of his own.
@dude man and he shit in more of his own black peoples mouths and then sucked it back out their arses and then ahd them murdered for stealing his shit in the first place... ut he is burning in hell with his arch enemy mandela, fighting for the spot next to satan
Breadbasket of Africa, now it's the world's biggest net importer of foreign aid.
Bread basket of Europeans you were trying to say?
@@slb7429 Black people had the highest living standards of all of Africa in Rhodesia. In all of Africa, let that sink in. It was one of the richest and well of countries.
Mugabe fucked it up and sold out his nation to China and the ussr. A great nation was lost in 1980
@@slb7429 yeah and now they just import food from anywhere and barely export anything
great piece of history
The British South Africa Police Regimental Association ("BSAPRA") has ten Associations worldwide, under a College of Delegates.
Right
I think he does well according to his side✅❤his a excellent 🎉the Heroe😢
What hymn are they singing at the funeral in Bulawayo?
The Lord is my Shepherd.
Well if not perfect but his experience pave a way of how to be part of the Equation.
Tsvina
Hallo
state of the prisons back then was excellent and roads health care everything
When you subjugate 6 million people into a system of service for 1million others you can pretend that services were better. I'm assuming you didn't include the keeps and reserves in your summary of healthcare and road condition. When people like you speak I wonder how white men rule the world.
And when people like you who take only the information of one biased side into account and then use them in your statements it makes it perfectly clear how you were able to destroy such a successful and beautiful nation.
LOL. Instead of identifying the actual bias and errors you speak in vague "people like you" isms. Miss me with that buffoonery mate. Feel free to elaborate which part of the point I made was inaccurate.
+vdotme LOL indeed. Nice non specific reply. The simple visual facts of economy and stability then and now prove the idiocy of your theories. But, please do continue.
NZ Patriot I didn't propose a theory. I gave a fact. But I see these levels are not worth my time.
pamberi ne zanu .......... garai pasi eish we was a dictator from the beginning though he was energetic
I have just learnt that people are good in the short run. Nice documentary though
now i understand the roots of Gukurahundi
I do too, and I think a lot of people don't understand
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 aAfter Mugabe got into power some people were dissatisfied so they broke away and became dissident, the government tried to engage without success, and the dissidents did some atrocities that the government had to sqaush, if Nkomo had been president he would have done the same thing
Zim flame please talk about factual things that you can back up. Not things you saw on a documentary. This is just someone’s interpretation of the current events back then.
@@tanakatshuma4154 explain yo opinion or facts
Any reasonable President be it in the US will quash any dissent. However, Mugabe's reaction was too hash. He used a jack hammer to squash a mosquito, lm sure a rubber hammer wld have done the job
Wow! A great documentary.
Nietzsche's nightmare came true
You are soo funny
Now I understand what caused Gukurahundi
Oh! this is Nyafaru Tangwena Area, Nyanga
Sekuru kafera
Change from Zimbabwe will always come from the military & angry oppressed citizens. #ZDF RESPECT
It's a shame Mugabe never lived up to his promises to make a successful nation you need all diverse types of people irrespective of you colour .Mugabe has systematically destroyed his homeland. Today Rhodesia is just another third world African state. What has it achieved for his people.
A lot . He was prevented and sabotaged by whites colonizers . As usual they break your Wings and turn around and accused you for not being able to fly. They smashed your eyes and turn around and accused you for not being able to See.
They blackmail and Sanctioned the whole Country and shamelessly
Think they're superior . SHAME .
@@alibabakano2971 Ali you talk a lot of nonsense, but surely your focus should be on the well being of the people, today and the fact is that the vast majority of Zimbabweans have nothing in life, what are you going to do to fix that.? You have had a dictator for decades who plundered his people and nation, you can't change the past, you can only learn from it. So focus on the future.... and get Zimbabwe out of its 3rd world status. Give the people something to be proud of, show the whole world what a prosperous nation you can be. You need to focus on comparing your yourself with other african continent countries, not the other nations, they don't pay any attention to you because you have nothing to offer...there are no sanctions or blackmail whoever tells you this is taking advantage of you....
@@Tracertme Zimbabwe remains a great nation shut up and stay out of our affairs
@@AccountAccount-pn5hz clearly you have never travelled to know anything better I appreciate the truth hurts. I am sure there are many good people in Zimbabwe. Mugabe just isn’t one them he has gone down in world history as a dictator who tortured the souls of his nation.
Democracy is not practical in a young country, with inedequate education ,absence of social amenities and understanding of self identity as individuals. Mugabe remains great in his own way.
Tell that to Botswana
You solve alot of promblem in our content my almighty God bless your soul.
This was the time ,a game changer
Well, this was 81. After 85 black started redistribution of lands
And what a disaster that was
when we matabele made a fuss british never said anything but when eurodesent farmers got atacked british reacted.
Yes, cz the matebele killed white farmers as an act of disobedience to Mugabe. Go against them they will turn a blind eye. Ask Ian smith
Wow! quite honorable indeed
Mugabe as a person was not perfect in some areas of decision making but you hear how remarkable his speech was.on the Zimbabwean war and liberation not everything went as promised and making the other war fighters feeling betrayed and wanting to continue with the fighting until a total independence was attained.this zipra side led by Joshua Nkomo refused to surrender weapons of war to Mugabe zanupf that was now in power citting a betrayal of the liberation struggle and wanted to continue until whatever they had promised each other both zanupf and zipra or zanla if I'm not mistaken was achieved now that Mugabe was in power through a settled negotiation between him and the whites the other side saw it a betrayal.so the jenourlist continue to ask Mugabe what is he going to do as a leader to make sure of the total surrender of arms weapons and Mugabe smartly answers the question that the weapons will be surrendered not what.And he comes the question how did Mugabe managed to that???
Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans 🇿🇼
i mean if you want to starve to death and be killed by a brutal government rather than be in a stable nation, with food supplies enough to export and have a just system....
Con lo quien que hubiera sido que Rodesia hubiera seguido....
And now, nobody listens to old Bob
How on the hell are the jailers still in country?
probably not for long
Oh they were killed within the next few years for sure. Once Mugabe couldn't fix anything they had to put all the blame back on white people. Same as south africa still blaming white people even though the Marxists in charge have had power the past 30 years.
@@Jarmint you make it seem like people were kicked out of the country. They ran away. Only farmers were kicked off their farms 20 years after this video when Tony Blair and the Labour Party reneged on an agreement between Thatcher's Conservative government in 1979 at the Lancaster House Conference. The agreement was for the British government to pay the farmers for the land and give it back to the the state. The argument being that the Matabele had given away land to the British South Africa Company that wasn't theirs
but chirungu mudhara vanosvisvina zvavo shem
i think this good explanation of many questions
In Africa is has always been like this. The saviors are the worst opressors after they get to power
It seems Mugabe was initially magnanimous and promoted reconciliation but then something went terribly wrong. It didn't help that Ian Smith remained in the new government. That only inflamed old divisions eventually.
No Mandela was Mugabe though. Whether his initial moderation was genuine or not is up for debate. The Matabele certainly didn't find him conciliatory.
I stayed in Bulawayo in 2019 for a week. While I was treated well, never felt unsafe and even made friends, I didn't see a single other white person. The former white community is seemingly no more for whatever reason. Harare still has a small one.
Now I feel it's changing and hopefully now the xenophobic policies of Mugabe are history the country can recover.
Lol
My Idol
Its your oppinion my man, but just by statistics, Zimbabwe was a great mistake and his leadership a failure
@@nono-kr7um it's your opinion too
I greatly appreciate all the positives&gud things he did for his country
In all honesty, I don't live there, so you may just be right with that
Surely this world is not our home
what we only want its the fulfillment of their promises
this is not the man that we have now , this man is now long gone
What are you talking about. Didn't you watch the documentary? He has been planning his dictatorship from day one. Everyone was too caught up in the euphoria of independence to see what was going on.
My friend he killed josiah tongogra the man who should have been president, our country has been spoiled by this man
James Blake lt is. Joshua Tongagara,
Voetsak Lapalapa Josiah 🙈
"Our children are starving..."
Was that before or after you fought Rhodesia and started closing down the farms?
@seanolaocha940 No one was starving in Rhodesia unless they wanted to. Take your revisionist BS elswhere.
Time flies
Our Superman, Go well. U were such an inspiration. I will rise to follow your steps, precept upon precept, for the betterment of our nation, 🇿🇼
Lol!
Deee Nice cringe
Mugabe may have died, but Rhodesians never die!!!
Haha good luck
Zimbabwe can't even feed its citizens. Enough said.
He destroyed Zimbabwe!
You mean Rhodesia?
@@boblobchippymig5697 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 u moron
Imagine a world where Rhodesia wasn't a racist state...maybe they could have had a peaceful transition to majority rule...
Sweeping crime and corruption he brought
So I guess we're just going to ignore the brutal, heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the fascist Rhodesia apartheid Nazis? I see your game...
@endurogrip xr650r Zimbabwe is not a wasteland, but a product of sanctions that have starved the nation. In Rhodesia, it was the British who were running the show and so whatever prosperity they had was held exclusively for the British, by the British, and not enjoyed at all by the native people of Mother Zimbabwe. This is a fact.
@@hakeemsd70m Glad everything worked out so well for Zimbabwe. Quite the economic and technological superpower these days
@@hakeemsd70m What did Zimbabwe use for lights before candles? Electricity 😁
@morton christie The sanctions destroyed Rhodesia, then Zimbabwe happened.
Eloquence in a different degree ...
At the same time, Irish Republican prisoners languished in British cells, suffering and dying on "British" soil that Ireland might be free.
Now I understand why forming a party on ethnic or tribal lines and failure to genuinely engage the minority sowed and continues to sow divisions in Africa.The one party state ideology and crushing dissent/opposition through magnifying it as a threat has led to failed states in Africa.
MUGABE GAVE US EDUCATION AND OPENED OUR EYES👀 Nometer they call us names no one is perfect , atleast he gave education to his people ,
Intresting
Fueron los blancos los que hicieron de Rhodesia la nación numero uno de Africa
🤡🤡💩💩💩
Mugabe was GUSHUNGO! He liberated Zimbabwe from the vile imperialists.
RIP Gushungo
now there is no fuel for helicopters. no pilots
SAVAGE
Hung for wanting freedom in your own country. Wow.
Chef Tim kkk
@Be Frank I would've to disagree with you on that....
The Zanu disgrace.
Mugabe was a master of double speak from the very beginning.
This "Reconciliation" thing with whites will never work. We need to practice and follow the ideologies of Malcolm X.
I agree with you to an extent, but please read up on what Malcolm X believed in and his ideology later in his life before you criticize Mugabe. I know for a fact he was well aware and in full agreement of what you said about reconciliation, but the brother had to work with conditions the way he saw best. I can't speak against him since I didn't walk in his shoes in the face of racist demons who wanted his quick demise.
You are right about black and white living in harmony. Racial resentments and human tribalism proves it doesn't work.
Malcolm x before he died believed in reconciliation. He realized that blacks couldn't be successful while isolating themselves from whites the same way whites can't be successful while isolating themselves from us blacks. The problem with Africa isn't the lack of natural resources but the lack of human resources such as skills, and knowledge.
@@BernardBrunu1 whites would be fine.
@@jdlc903 America wouldn't sustain its success without blacks, whites would struggle if they had to rely only on themselves.
Ndozvakamamisirea Nyagumbo. Didymas Mutasa is not innocent. His sister is in control of Kuwadzana constituency. Guy Clutton Brook knows about Cold Comfort Farm!
It is in this regard that Zimbabwe failed
And now.....🤔🤔🤔
Long live Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Long live Mugabe✊🏾🔥
@@nadlax5920 Long live Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🇿🇼
@@nadlax5920 No it is not it is a great state Richer than the UK and Greater than other countries
@@AccountAccount-pn5hz 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TheHistoryGuy1993 Long live Zimbabwe ✊🏿🔥
Mugabe had a very nice place to live, lots of money of money! What a lucky b'stard. He miraculasly turned a "Breadbasket" into a "Basket case!"
Road to Independence wasn't tht easy.
There's was bloody sheets
And how has that independence shaped the country ?
From food basket to basket case in a jiffy...
Bread basket to empty worn out carrying bag
How did Mugarbage work out for Zimbabwe?
What did Zimbabwe use for light before using candles.... electricity! Rhodesians never die!
@4:50 there is a guy butt naked in the prison yard!!!
An unfortunate facet of high security prisons in Zimbabwe. (Its to stop you escaping). Lower risk prisoners are allowed one item of top clothing. E.g. shorts OR t-shirt)
One party to greenness and cruelty
Pamhata umisila khanyoko!
Zanu n mugabe should jus go
mugabe must go
ɷɷ I Haveee Watched Thiss Movieee Leakeddd Versionnn Hereeee : - t.co/SaFQ6vaRSb
Well, he's gone now....
Nyafaru 1982
Why no comments about New Zealand and their occupation of a non European country, but thousands of words about the occupation of an African country?
If you do not tell your own story people will not know.
You must understand that the whites have little choice but to be as they are. They have recessive genetics, and their homelands are resource poor. Either they do this or they perish.
580player RH negative gene / African IQ 70 - 80 (>_
IQ. A test created by whites to rate the intelligence of its takers. Tell me how is it that your own nations are buried in tens of trillions of debt? But you guys are supposed to be so much smarter? But even now african children are producing IQ higher than Einstein. Research it for yourself. Educate yourself. Your world is crumbling all around you. Even your IQ fantasy is falling apart. Oh well I guess if you have no more ammo you will be forced to use childish insults. LMAO
Ham. After looking at the debt totals of white nations it is whites that cant manage their own affairs. We don't need or want your help.
He was a dictator even from the his country's independence. The British gave him freedom and education. Instead of of giving the same empowerment to his people, he rather empowered his cronies and families alone. What an oppressor; what a trash!
The British gave him "freedom and education" 😃 I strongly recommend a brief history for idiots for you buddy
You are a total idiot dude
What an idiot you are
freedom was not given in this part of the world
you know nothing about our presdent mugabe pliz shut up
Zimbabwe will be great
Hope so.
Long Live cdeMugabe..AFRIKAN LION ROAR
African Lion eating his own cubs now. He has killed more of people that look like me, than people that look like his jailers.
Mambo..Proof?
+Thandi Rizzi have you heard of Gukurahundi.??Survivors of that massacre are still alive. Why don't you go to Matabeleland and ask them. You Mugabe cheerleaders are so dumb. Thandi...with a name like that you should know. It was people of your tribe. Get a fucking clue.
Thandi Rizzi - Are you serious? Are you even remotely serious???
I am a regular White guy from America, and you will doubtless say that this colors - no pun intended - my judgment, but Mugabe has proven himself one of the nastiest, most selfish, most self-serving, vile tyrants who has ever blighted the face of the earth. I would have applauded him and ZANU, had they actually liberated Zimbabwe and brought in a majority-ruled government that cared for all the people of Zimbabawe - but that is *_not_* what happened. He ended up making himself a BILLIONAIRE by plundering the nation, utterly destroyed the value of the currency to the point where it is more valuable as wallpaper, openly threatens those who deign to vote against ZANU-PF with death (just search for "Vote ZANU-PF and Live" on youtube, and check out what passes for political advertisement in Mugabe's Zimbabwe; it's totally insane!), rewarded all his cronies with farmland he stole from others (for no other reason than the color of the owner's skin) only to then have the land lay fallow while the country that used to be the breadbasket of Africa now has to keep its citizens alive with bananas donated as foreign food aid, ZANU-PF literally just pretends cholera outbreaks aren't happening (this is their health plan), and he slaughters those who would object to all this. He is a failure in every sense of the word, and what makes it even worse is that racists now use his horrid tenure as President as some sort of proof that Blacks are incapable of running their own country, rather than put the blame squarely where it belongs - on one single man and his sick political party.
Thandi. We're the fuck u get that name from bitch go make some coffee for me girl, 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Mugabe ! The musical coming to a community centre near you. 👹🙈👹
Long live Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Long Live Mugabe
One party state and life president fetish a dismal failure, mugabe left Zimbabwe in tatters and in helter skelter mode, what a mess, what a waste of resources and people's lives, sad
very sad indeed. the jewel trashed. probably never to be put right.
Arrogance kills personalities
😂😂😂😂 Now we open our eyes see Get away the British with all those lies. We take our land from you that all.
My very good leader🤝
Mugabe an African hero
Go Bob ! Go ! ( and NEVER come back )
FREE RHODESIA NOW
Unfortunately the same elements which our fore-bearers fought are the same we are fighting today..
In 2020, Zimbabwe, once the bread and food basket of the region now one of the poorest countries on the continent. Ruled by a dictator Mugabe, the real Africa continent style. A murderer who murdered 22000 innocent indigenous Matabele people because of political intolerance. Turned out today in a country with about no press freedom. Hunger and poverty part of the daily lives of citizens, land grabs part of the ruling party's strategies to stay in power. Nationalization of the gold, diamonds and mineral mines gave birth to ghost and only skeleton operations left behind to generate income. Politicians that live in luxury.
it'ssafetyforwarding's
THE SMUG on the interviewer and narration leaks from it. What a crock.
He can't control his own party simple as that.
All African we must respect mugabe he is hero of Africa
He's a murderous, Marxist piece of shit who turned the bread basket of Africa into such a ass backwards country that can't even feed itself
enjoy your money with 36 zeroes on it though, I'm sure you can buy *one* piece of bread with 1 *sextillion* Zimbabwean Dollars.
We're not the ones murdering each other because of some retarded tribalistic culture
are you just a bit buttmad that we managed to accomplish more in 100 years *AS A MINORITY* than you ever will in your miserable lifetime, buddy?
oh wait, *YOUS WAZ KANGZ N SHIET*, my bad.
Well to be fair, that inflated currency has been abandoned. They have a new currency called the bond note, and US dollars are legal tender, but there is an extreme shortage of cash, and people have to wait hours in line to get a minimum amount from the banks. But I agree Mugabe and the whole ZANU-PF cabal has turned Zimbabwe into almost a failed state that cant even feed itself.