IT'S A LONG WAY TO MUKUMBURA

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @TheAthelasProject
    @TheAthelasProject  4 года назад +1459

    Well boys, we've hit 1 million views. This video is going mere hours prior to the alleged Boer uprising in South Africa, so I guess it's kinda symbolic. Other than that, I don't know what to say other than to thank you all for watching this video and recommending my other "WAVE" content, if you're into that! Cheers!
    ruclips.net/p/PL4W6iYnlciFAlpr57FPQS0hP6Cm_2Bpnu

    • @SBhunter
      @SBhunter 4 года назад +15

      As a Moroccan i support the uprising

    • @militaryhumveerevisions8183
      @militaryhumveerevisions8183 4 года назад +10

      Its happening

    • @jamesmadisonwilliams4210
      @jamesmadisonwilliams4210 4 года назад +37

      White Rhodesia shall never Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will save White America and South Africa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @LimanBrate
      @LimanBrate 4 года назад +6

      Od belgijskih placenika u Kongu , pa do Rodezije i slucajno ove pesme pa do pada Djukanovica bio je dug put jbt

    • @dunamoose3446
      @dunamoose3446 4 года назад +13

      Roof Koreans?
      Return to Rhodesia?

  • @christopherdean9684
    @christopherdean9684 5 лет назад +12411

    My history teacher calls Zimbabwe “Occupied Rhodesia”, what a lad

    • @captainmemelord4978
      @captainmemelord4978 4 года назад +2164

      Based Teacher

    • @dirtpounder
      @dirtpounder 4 года назад +1394

      making me jealous, mine praised mugabe...

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 4 года назад +799

      This makes my FN FAL the big FN FAL

    • @Browndogdiesel
      @Browndogdiesel 4 года назад +501

      Well he’s not wrong 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @joeblow9657
      @joeblow9657 4 года назад +266

      @@oz_jones This takes the carrying handle and adds green camo to my FN FAL

  • @mrfofboy
    @mrfofboy 5 лет назад +11038

    There's two types of people I like seeing in short shorts:
    1. Attractive women
    2. Rhodesians

    • @4x4ozventures10
      @4x4ozventures10 5 лет назад +286

      F.O.F. 3. Troops in the North Africa campaign😉😂

    • @supersonictv8916
      @supersonictv8916 5 лет назад +328

      4. Attractive Rhodesian women
      5. Attractive female troops in the North Africa campaign

    • @davet2783
      @davet2783 5 лет назад +163

      I wouldn't mind seeing a few ira freedom fighters in shorts

    • @alpaka7672
      @alpaka7672 5 лет назад +178

      @@davet2783 Well I suppose It'll be a bit chilly for them up in Derry

    • @alpaka7672
      @alpaka7672 5 лет назад +30

      That sorta irish guy Idk first Irish city that came to my mind might as well said Belfast

  • @strictlynunya790
    @strictlynunya790 5 лет назад +6238

    Mugabe is dead.

  • @Gungho1a
    @Gungho1a 5 лет назад +2843

    Greetings from Australia. I had the pleasure of serving in the aust. reg army back in the '70s and '80s with former Rhodesian servies, listened to the changeover broadcast with them, a sad day. Respects to the RLI.

    • @patrikturek2646
      @patrikturek2646 5 лет назад +69

      Thank you for your service!

    • @ap9019
      @ap9019 5 лет назад +31

      Good on ya sir

    • @andretorres75
      @andretorres75 5 лет назад +53

      Rhodesian never die!

    • @silvervalleystudios2486
      @silvervalleystudios2486 5 лет назад +21

      Was that broadcast in 1980? Its wierd how the British chopped up Rhodesia. The north became Zambia. I think Nyasaland/British West Africa became Namibia.

    • @scottspires3935
      @scottspires3935 5 лет назад +50

      The US should have supported Rhodesia. Especially the internal aggrement. Sad. It's just sad.

  • @HappySerafim
    @HappySerafim 6 лет назад +3852

    The missing lyrics are "We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze, and if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase" Stoppies being the places the troopies stop off before reaching their AO, graze is food and Lekker is Afrikaans for "good"

    • @thecbrndude6208
      @thecbrndude6208 6 лет назад +279

      The first persin I've stumbled across with the final bit of the song.
      *Audible clapping in the distance*

    • @HappySerafim
      @HappySerafim 6 лет назад +23

      @@thecbrndude6208 same here mate 😂

    • @TheGameBusterPL
      @TheGameBusterPL 5 лет назад +47

      I thought it said: If we really scheme and SLACK UP when we start in outer space!

    • @HappySerafim
      @HappySerafim 5 лет назад +30

      @@TheGameBusterPL well that would be a journey indeed

    • @michaelgpd1103
      @michaelgpd1103 5 лет назад +35

      Lekker is tasty in German

  • @RUdigitized
    @RUdigitized 4 года назад +1494

    I had an employee about 10 years ago who was Rhodesian. I never forgot him because, and I swear to you this is true, that man was surrounded by angels. Everything he did prospered, and everything he touched turned to gold. I never forgot that man.

    • @MrCornstalker
      @MrCornstalker 3 года назад +135

      A blessed people who fought for their blessed land.

    • @josipmarinic9663
      @josipmarinic9663 3 года назад +5

      @@MrCornstalker pedophiles who's corpses are now covered in shit

    • @zucaritasenjoyer7259
      @zucaritasenjoyer7259 3 года назад +9

      @@josipmarinic9663 ?

    • @manolisiatrou5537
      @manolisiatrou5537 3 года назад +28

      @@josipmarinic9663 a people thrown out of their land by an incompetent dictator who ruined it,mugabe sympathiser.

    • @josipmarinic9663
      @josipmarinic9663 3 года назад +7

      @@manolisiatrou5537 if the "dictator" was "incompetent" how did they manage to depose supposedly "competent" people?
      Surely incompetence is not superior to competence, especially in an armed conflict.

  • @waffle_burger8499
    @waffle_burger8499 4 года назад +2586

    The Rhodesians were bad ass, they even had their own SAS that would do free-fall night parachute drops from 20,000 feet and only open their chutes at 2,000 feet to avoid detection. Best goddamn counter insurgency soldiers ever.

    • @blandmalls
      @blandmalls 4 года назад +251

      @Sergei Suvorov they won the military war by a longshot, just lost the political war.

    • @lmao.3661
      @lmao.3661 3 года назад +94

      @Sergei Suvorov they lost like america lost in vietnam

    • @adankmeme651
      @adankmeme651 3 года назад +52

      @@lmao.3661 both wars were literally happening in the same time by the way

    • @GhostRanger5060
      @GhostRanger5060 3 года назад +178

      @@lmao.3661 Except America didn't lose it's country when it lost Vietnam. Rhodesia was an unparalleled tragedy of modern Western led globalist hypocrisy. #blamekissinger

    • @anneramsey4655
      @anneramsey4655 3 года назад +16

      @@lmao.3661 communism back stab

  • @rimantasletukas984
    @rimantasletukas984 5 лет назад +2842

    The world will never forget about brave men in short shorts and their FALs.

    • @aregularperson7573
      @aregularperson7573 3 года назад +11

      JA

    • @jamesw9933
      @jamesw9933 3 года назад +9

      Vector R1s after the first year just South African made and adapted FALs

    • @jamesw9933
      @jamesw9933 3 года назад +4

      @@josipmarinic9663 what do you mean by that?

    • @josipmarinic9663
      @josipmarinic9663 3 года назад +3

      @@jamesw9933 they're already full of shit,might as well pile it on top too

    • @axldlimas7554
      @axldlimas7554 3 года назад +11

      @@josipmarinic9663 too far bro.way too far.

  • @harlanthompson7295
    @harlanthompson7295 5 лет назад +1482

    Mugabe died today. I'll be enjoying my time tonight having a drink and listening to this song, among others.
    Never forget boys that the old guard that destroyed Rhodesia are gone and that their successors are far more incompetent than they were. All empires self-cannibalize in the end

    • @deraltekaiser6361
      @deraltekaiser6361 5 лет назад +8

      Harlan Thompson Here, here!

    • @godfreyberry1599
      @godfreyberry1599 4 года назад +23

      I doubt you could find anyone on the planet more destructive than Mugabe. The 'new' government is trying the best they can to match the level of depravity - who knows they might just discover the winning formula!.

    • @TheBackwoodsbastard
      @TheBackwoodsbastard 4 года назад

      I'll be there to fight salute

    • @pixo4552
      @pixo4552 4 года назад +3

      Not like Mugabe and his gangbangers were any more competent..

    • @Mitchell_WerBell_III
      @Mitchell_WerBell_III 3 года назад

      Except for Rhodesia of course

  • @stavka4996
    @stavka4996 5 лет назад +943

    The lyrics for 2:48
    "We all dig the stoppies, the haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase"

    • @slater3570
      @slater3570 3 года назад +10

      Lekker man lekker

    • @DurangoCzechoslovakia
      @DurangoCzechoslovakia 3 года назад +11

      I mean, I’m not native English and even I could understand that. Idk why nobody only can’t.

    • @Foxygrandpa1912
      @Foxygrandpa1912 3 года назад +2

      @@DurangoCzechoslovakia it’s their accents

    • @spec4393
      @spec4393 3 года назад +5

      It’s english with some dutch words

    • @johnandy2587
      @johnandy2587 3 года назад +1

      Legend you are.... even though I know the lyrics, still though legend.

  • @jpb252
    @jpb252 5 лет назад +1701

    Ode to Prime Minister Ian Smith
    "I didn't go to a first class school in Rhodesia, yet Rhodesia gave me a
    first class education.
    I had no right then to vote in Rhodesia, yet Zimbabwe gave me the right to
    vote for a devil.
    I was brought up to hate you Smithy, while young, but as a man I grew up
    to hate your Enemy.
    I believed that Rhodesia would never have black rule, but I can now. I
    will never live under a Zimbabwean fool.
    I'm not white and never took you to be my PM then, but I'm black and would
    rather have had you as my PM now!
    You were right and had to leave your government, yet I was wrong and left
    my beloved country.
    I am not a poet, but these are my thoughts. I am proud of what I have
    become, yet you are the man who made me what I am!
    On behalf of the many black faces who dare not say, if ever you were
    hated, you are missed today.
    The only PM we should have kept!"
    - Signed: Black Man in Canada, the sad night we witnessed Ian Smith's passing.

    • @nobilesnovushomo58
      @nobilesnovushomo58 5 лет назад +115

      Judging by the fact the cowardly mainstream media won’t show Ian Smith’s house, for fear of it appearing too humble, in comparison to Mugabe’s mansion, I’m guessing he died with humble dignity. “ you can’t show how stupid we were!”

    • @HolkHugan
      @HolkHugan 5 лет назад +39

      Look at South Africa now under black rule. After the Afrikaaner left the government, it became another war torn, shit economy country

    • @nobilesnovushomo58
      @nobilesnovushomo58 5 лет назад +18

      Alfnir Bjornson some people try to use this as an excuse that Rhodesia government was white prioritizing. This is wrong. Today in Zimbabwe you can meet very many whites that are just trying to get by. The economic system emphasized Learning by one’s family as well as institutions. It wasn’t perfect to any race in particular. By taking from those that could produce you worsened the situation for everyone.

    • @rethguals
      @rethguals 4 года назад +17

      *I didn't go to a first class school in Rhodesia, yet Rhodesia gave me a
      first class education.*
      Verrrry interesting claim. 90% of the education budget went to whites (who were entitled to free education), whereas blacks received no entitlement to a free education, and had limited prospects to receive one. Few received even a primary education - you generally only had a chance at one if:
      - You lived near a mission (missionaries provided free educations for blacks, completely independently and without government support)
      - You were fortunate enough to be the child of a nanny or cookboy employed with a white family
      - You were the child of a soldier, police officer, or someone else in a relatively privileged profession
      Considering this gentleman purports to have not had the right to vote, but had the means to receive an education and emigrate to Canada, I'm not very inclined to believe him (surely that would have at least gotten a spot on Rhodesia's B Roll).
      *Judging by the fact the cowardly mainstream media won’t show Ian Smith’s house*
      Ian Smith died in a retirement home in South Africa. Not saying he didn't deserve something a bit more befitting his past, but it's a bit retarded to rage at the media for not making the trip out to Ian Smith's former house in Gwenoru, regional Zimbabwe.
      *Look at South Africa now under black rule. After the Afrikaaner left the government, it became another war torn, shit economy country*
      Ummmm....
      - What war is South Africa currently embroiled, in exactly? (as opposed to the South African Border war and other messy interventions that happened during the Apartheid Era)
      - Funnily enough, South Africa's economy did not really go to shit after Apartheid. Their GDP per capita and living standards have actually largely risen since those days, and are projected to do so
      - South Africa was a crime-ridden country under Apartheid too - in fact, it largely spiked in the years just before Apartheid ended, and has gradually lowered since then
      *Today in Zimbabwe you can meet very many whites that are just trying to get by.*
      This is more to do with the fact that as soon as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the generous social net and institutions that favoured the white population disappeared overnight. This includes:
      - No more free education for whites, no more 90% of the education going to schools reserved for whites
      - Healthcare became universal, rather than skewed predominantly towards white communities
      - No more reserved jobs and occupations for whites
      - The scrapping of the Native Urban Areas Accommodation Act (1947) meant whites were no longer reserved urban areas, or protected from having to compete with blacks for housing
      - The end of the Land Tenure Act (1969) meant whites were no longer reserved the best and most fertile farmland
      Indeed, the fast-tracked land reform that seized white farms without compensation was a stupid mistake, but don't pretend the days of Rhodesia were inherently fair or superior - it simply concentrated the wealth of a relatively modest country (look up the GDP per capita of countries from 1960-1980, you'd be surprised how poorly Rhodesia performed) into a small segment of its population

    • @nobilesnovushomo58
      @nobilesnovushomo58 4 года назад +20

      Sir Pants initially, but by the time of Ian Smith in the 1960s, quality education was available to everyone, though it was highly technical and more geared towards employment in sophisticated industry and agriculture. This was done in part for UDI (Unilateral declaration of Independence), and they had the ‘standard six,’ standing for six years of education, after which many blacks were qualified to work in many professions, provided they did not opt for further education. Unlike Mugabe, who sulked and brewed at sanctions, Ian Smith overcame them and engaged in reforms and substitutional imports. You really don’t vet your claims do you?

  • @SantaClaus-kk8zr
    @SantaClaus-kk8zr 5 лет назад +1595

    Best damn counter-terrorism units out there.

    • @klenk5062
      @klenk5062 5 лет назад +178

      they f****d those terrorists
      6000 terrorists killed per killed rhodesian service man

    • @russianivan9651
      @russianivan9651 5 лет назад +26

      Well that’s very debatable

    • @kennymccormick4092
      @kennymccormick4092 5 лет назад +12

      Russian Ivan what’s debatable?

    • @nihilistcentraluk442
      @nihilistcentraluk442 5 лет назад

      To what end?

    • @riflegreen937
      @riflegreen937 4 года назад +73

      @@russianivan9651 While that claim about 6,000 kills per man is probably shit, what isn't shit is that pretty small teams of these dudes could kill nearly half that amount alone with minimal losses.

  • @camdavey5073
    @camdavey5073 5 лет назад +777

    My family are Rhodies through and through, now in Australia, but I’m proud of all of them, the death of Rhodesia was the death of real men. Rhodesians never die.

    • @kingturtle2197
      @kingturtle2197 4 года назад +2

      Another good song

    • @abcde8293
      @abcde8293 2 года назад +7

      The death of Rhodesia? No such thing. Think of it as a vacation.

    • @yusufdemirci5665
      @yusufdemirci5665 2 года назад +2

      And death of racism

    • @jeffpickens4467
      @jeffpickens4467 2 года назад +2

      Here in NZ. Mix of South Africans and Rhodesians on my side

    • @dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748
      @dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748 2 года назад +15

      @@yusufdemirci5665 when there is more racism in Zimbabwe then Rhodesia.

  • @HispaniaGothorum
    @HispaniaGothorum 6 лет назад +5527

    Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia again

    • @toasterpastries5811
      @toasterpastries5811 5 лет назад +37

      Razón Histórica
      excellent comment. Excellent avatar icon.

    • @blackirish781
      @blackirish781 5 лет назад +174

      They kicked all the whites out and now they are begging for them to come back to their farms. South Africa is going the same way now. Black majority countries never succeed.

    • @Skankhunt-mt5dy
      @Skankhunt-mt5dy 5 лет назад +20

      Pero sera un camino largo hacia Mukumbura.

    • @agentepolaris4914
      @agentepolaris4914 5 лет назад +72

      Make Latin America, Southwestern US and Filipinas Spain again

    • @Me-eb3wv
      @Me-eb3wv 5 лет назад +19

      @@agentepolaris4914 Sounds good

  • @SantaClaus-kk8zr
    @SantaClaus-kk8zr 5 лет назад +1837

    When is a brave producer going to make a movie about Ian Smith or Rhodesia?

    • @xclonejager6959
      @xclonejager6959 5 лет назад +256

      Rhodesians Never Die when someone in Hollywood grows a back bone and covers something non American and controversial

    • @tm863
      @tm863 5 лет назад +333

      Rhodesians Never Die they will just make it about some brave native Marxist fighting against the evil white racist Smith and Rhodesian army, every white person in the film will be portrayed as the devil of Hollywood touches that film concept.

    • @DoughBoi_1918
      @DoughBoi_1918 5 лет назад +91

      I am becoming a movie director in the future....

    • @StevenTheAristolianNerd
      @StevenTheAristolianNerd 5 лет назад +22

      @@melgibson5029
      Can you explain this thing against Jews? I hear so many people on both sides of the political spectrum hate on the Jewish. I want to know why.

    • @narancsman3034
      @narancsman3034 5 лет назад +30

      @@melgibson5029 What the fuck are you talking about? The extreme left and right both hate the Jews, because they are "rich" and some of them are "multicultural", and then they somehow control the governments or some bullshit. People like to blame their problems on someone else.

  • @jesupcolt
    @jesupcolt 4 года назад +219

    I ordered a pair of brushstroke swim trunks. I returned them because they weren't short enough.

    • @jesupcolt
      @jesupcolt 4 года назад +4

      @BlipyBlopy, show me a group of men who fought a war in speedos, "bruh." (You took the "bruh" out. 🤣)

    • @jesupcolt
      @jesupcolt 4 года назад +4

      @BlipyBlopy, we project onto others that which we hate most about ourselves, and you're projecting so hard, you could sell tickets to a picture show. 📽🎟🍿🥤

    • @jesupcolt
      @jesupcolt 4 года назад +1

      @BlipyBlopy, there's that projection again. Will you be selling concessions at this showing too?

    • @jesupcolt
      @jesupcolt 4 года назад +1

      @BlipyBlopy, you just can't stop projecting, can you? I obviously got under your skin since you removed the "bruh" after I poked fun. And then, you've been on those petty personal attacks since. 🤣

    • @jesupcolt
      @jesupcolt 4 года назад +3

      @BlipyBlopy, you've done nothing but project your own insecurities onto, and I'm the one grasping at straws?! 🤣 You just stay on that cope, don't you, "bruh?" If you feel this inadequate as a man, you should talk to your therapist, not me.
      "Bruh" wasn't necessary at all. It's just cringe, but you only removed it after I mocked it. Makes you wonder... 🤔
      You said "real men wear speedos," to which I responded by asking to name one war in which men fought in speedos, since you're comparing a speedo to Rhodesian Brushstroke short shorts that men wore into battle. You dodged the question and started projecting your feelings of male inadequacy onto me. Are you just actually a child? Because that would explain a lot, including your complete lack of self-awareness. 🤷‍♂️

  • @avaloff-truppe3558
    @avaloff-truppe3558 4 года назад +1149

    Rhodesia is more than a country, it’s also a symbol of the world we’ve lost.
    Greetings from Russia!
    Родезийские вперёд!

    • @jimmu8689
      @jimmu8689 4 года назад +14

      Юстиниан Великий hopefully we can reclaim what we lost like belisarius reclaimed Italy

    • @67thCloneSquadron
      @67thCloneSquadron 4 года назад +18

      @C-shift Report naw Russia still its its own cultural world seperate from the West

    • @DanielAstorias
      @DanielAstorias 4 года назад +3

      Well say, brother

    • @avaloff-truppe3558
      @avaloff-truppe3558 4 года назад +36

      C-shift Report C-shift Report but Rus was exactly a European country lol. I see no point in this division between “Russia” and “European” worlds, especially in these dark times of general decline. I miss Rhodesia as a European, which doesn’t prevent me from being a Russian nationalist.

    • @avaloff-truppe3558
      @avaloff-truppe3558 4 года назад +21

      C-shift Report of course orthodox civilization differs a lot from the Latin one, but that’s not so much a case with the educated part of Russian society, at least since the times of Peter the Great. Moreover, I’m pleased to see that Russia sometimes preserves traditional European values better than the actual European nations.

  • @bridgetgibson3012
    @bridgetgibson3012 6 лет назад +1028

    Only those of us who were born and bred Rhodesian know what we had. We may not have it any more but we had something no other country will ever have or achieve.

    • @jeffreay161
      @jeffreay161 6 лет назад +15

      Only those born and bred? We were all there to do something

    • @glendodds3824
      @glendodds3824 5 лет назад +140

      @@jeffreay161 I am a Rhodesian born and bred, but many of the people who emigrated to the country from the UK etc loved Rhodesia just as much. For instance, my father was born in England but proudly served in the Rhodesian Air Force and my maternal grandparents were South Africans but bravely lived on their farm during the darkest days of the war. Indeed, most white adults in Rhodesia were born elsewhere, as every census showed. In 1969, for example, only 40 per cent of whites were born in the country. In that respect, Rhodesia had a lot in common with Angola and Mozambique where the white populations grew rapidly in the decades after the Second World War.

    • @nielllubieRS
      @nielllubieRS 5 лет назад +39

      @@sandrojones8068 Yes. The land is now known as Zimbabwe. Thanks commies!

    • @briankandiye1274
      @briankandiye1274 5 лет назад +20

      agree ,it was a beautiful and well run country.

    • @hankhill9393
      @hankhill9393 5 лет назад +62

      Bridget Gibson I’m Polish and Serbian I don’t have any connection to Rhodesia but I have massive respect for y’all, and if I could have fought I would’ve

  • @nnvist
    @nnvist 6 лет назад +783

    It's a long way to Triperar...
    Oh, wait...

    • @frederickblackadder4981
      @frederickblackadder4981 6 лет назад +26

      I think you mean Tiperary

    • @sambradley2975
      @sambradley2975 6 лет назад +28

      That sounds like " It's a long way to Tipperary ".

    • @Nyckname
      @Nyckname 5 лет назад

      @@frederickblackadder4981 😉

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 5 лет назад +3

      GamersOnVideos
      *trip*

    • @thebrutusmars
      @thebrutusmars 5 лет назад +6

      GamersOnVideos
      I meant to tag you.
      Frederick was pointing out that the dude said “Triperar”
      It’s Tipperary, not TRIPperary.

  • @timotje25
    @timotje25 5 лет назад +2573

    Put it on 1.25 speed. Thank me later!

  • @krisstarring
    @krisstarring 4 года назад +293

    This song is basically the "Fortunate Son" by CCR for the Rhodesian Bush War.

    • @billybigbone
      @billybigbone 3 года назад +4

      It's basically awesome I think you mean

    • @Mitchell_WerBell_III
      @Mitchell_WerBell_III 3 года назад +9

      Also it's to the style of it's a long way to Tipperary

  • @PopeMcGrope
    @PopeMcGrope 2 года назад +371

    When he sang
    “Nobody online has the rest of these lyrics”
    I felt that.

    • @venkkooo
      @venkkooo 2 года назад +20

      We all, dig the stoppies the haircuts and the graze and we really sceem it lekker

    • @stealthza138
      @stealthza138 2 года назад +4

      @@venkkooo ...when we start on our first phase

  • @fredricgreenblott283
    @fredricgreenblott283 3 года назад +166

    For those unaware or confused on some of the things they mention... “mukkas” is South African/Afrikaans slang for “friends”, they also of course mention many towns of significance to the Rhodies (many of which were hosts to battles, like Mukumbura, Umtali, the Montclair hotel, etc)... “ek se” is Afrikaans for “I say”, “tot siens” is Afrikaans for “goodbye”, JOC Inyanga refers to the Rhodesian Joint Operations Center in Inyanga, “wide tar” is a type of road category in Rhodesia (and now Occupied Rhodesia, I will not call it Zimbabwe) indicating at least a two-lane road, FN is the ubiquitous FN FAL rifle used by the Rhodies... the “stoppies” were all the stops made along the way by the Rhodies, getting haircuts and graze (food) along the way, and “lekker” is slang for good or great. Correct me if I’m wrong on any of this!

    • @nopeoppeln
      @nopeoppeln 3 года назад +4

      i didn’t know that English in Rhodesia was that much Afrikaans influenced

    • @MC-ip8gb
      @MC-ip8gb 3 года назад +5

      We use it in the UK as well.

    • @yuppieNL
      @yuppieNL 2 года назад +3

      Tot siens means till next time, lekker can mean multiple things, it can mean good, nice, tasty, good looking, delicious etc

  • @rurushu8094
    @rurushu8094 4 года назад +1248

    *Inhales deeply*
    We idolize the Rhodesian bush war not because of racism or politics, but because, at its most fundamental level, it speaks to every man's deepest desire to escape his current boring life, and embark on a great adventure. The Rhodesian trooper in his short shorts, clutching his FAL, is a symbol for a man partaking in a great journey of survival, brotherhood punctuated by moments of thrilling action. The defeat of the rebels and renaming of the country to Zimbabwe symbolizes the realization that we are all insignificant ants, and will never get to experience something so thrilling in our lives, and must return to our servitude.
    Also brushstroke cammies and FAL's are great

    • @rbkfan200
      @rbkfan200 4 года назад +37

      Chin Chin The Dark Lord that’s pure poetry mate. Also FALs are just the bee’s knees, aren’t they

    • @rurushu8094
      @rurushu8094 4 года назад +5

      iappreciatejellyfish Δ oof I don’t live in the US

    • @thecoolnerdplaysvr5674
      @thecoolnerdplaysvr5674 4 года назад +15

      @@rurushu8094 come now. Join us in the adventure

    • @Khoros-Mythos
      @Khoros-Mythos 4 года назад +12

      @@rurushu8094 To think I regretted moving to the US a few years ago. I almost missed the Boogaloo.

    • @i.p.freely8465
      @i.p.freely8465 4 года назад +4

      Some of us just wanted to kill people

  • @pro-ductionspelis2455
    @pro-ductionspelis2455 4 года назад +115

    My grandfather fought in the Bush war. A great man. RIP

    • @adankmeme651
      @adankmeme651 3 года назад +1

      what regiment was he in?

    • @connorp4928
      @connorp4928 3 года назад +1

      @@adankmeme651 the dead one

    • @adankmeme651
      @adankmeme651 3 года назад +2

      @@connorp4928 Ik he is dead just asking what regiment he fought in while still alive

    • @connorp4928
      @connorp4928 3 года назад +2

      @@adankmeme651 battlefield dead company

    • @adankmeme651
      @adankmeme651 3 года назад +1

      @@connorp4928 true, that shit was god, wish they could make more

  • @jamesscott7944
    @jamesscott7944 5 лет назад +180

    My uncle a former USMC vietnam veteran fought in the Bush war with the Selous Scouts from 1974 to 1977.

    • @rez4958
      @rez4958 5 лет назад +5

      He must have some great stories.

    • @jamesscott7944
      @jamesscott7944 5 лет назад +16

      @@rez4958 He was proud of his outfit and would always miss the good old scenery of Lake Kariba. He passed away 10 years ago from Liver cancer

    • @michaelgmail5968
      @michaelgmail5968 5 лет назад +6

      RIP to your uncle. A hero in my book, friend.

    • @akejohansson2860
      @akejohansson2860 4 года назад +2

      Big Up, from Sweden

    • @hootdeflector6270
      @hootdeflector6270 4 года назад

      @@jamesscott7944 dope

  • @TheAthelasProject
    @TheAthelasProject  4 года назад +1252

    Well, we've crossed 350,000 views. I can't believe this has become so popular. My "Vaporwave" videos usually remain between 1-10k views and then I have this. This is my one hit wonder guys. I want to thank you all for watching and enjoying this!
    If you want, check out the other "waves" I made on this playlist:
    ruclips.net/p/PL4W6iYnlciFAlpr57FPQS0hP6Cm_2Bpnu
    A lot of these videos revolve around conflicts, politics and such and are not politically correct (just like this one isn't). Again, thank you all, so freaking much!

    • @НовакВукашиновић
      @НовакВукашиновић 4 года назад +8

      Samo jako!

    • @t_y8274
      @t_y8274 4 года назад +19

      This one is the best recording of the song readily available since it's been removed from spotify

    • @joewilson3575
      @joewilson3575 4 года назад +4

      Oh my, looky here we got an "I'm not politically correct" hard man.

    • @ripvanwinkle6760
      @ripvanwinkle6760 4 года назад +11

      TheAthelasProject we need Rhodesians never die pls

    • @jamesmadisonwilliams4210
      @jamesmadisonwilliams4210 4 года назад +27

      Make Rhodesia White Again and we shall have our Rhodesia we love again.

  • @legioix4538
    @legioix4538 5 лет назад +2229

    BuT iTs rASciSt!!!
    *npc computing noise intensifies*

    • @ticluna5295
      @ticluna5295 5 лет назад +214

      Legio IV “iT’s RaCisT bEcAuSe It HaD a WhItE rUlEr”
      “iT’s ArPaThEiD”

    • @theojudice5609
      @theojudice5609 5 лет назад +133

      They aren’t wrong. The white minority was fighting to control a black majority.

    • @legioix4538
      @legioix4538 5 лет назад +323

      @@theojudice5609 There's a reason why white rule was a thing, Zimbabwe being devoid of white people now is no coincidence, the belgian congo saw congolese rebels butchering people for being white or working for whites, and South Africa and then Rhodesia realised this. It wasnt so much fueled by racism as it was by self preservation, hell a black comedian from the US recieved a cordial welcome in Rhodesia by white Rhodesians.
      Its not so black and white like how you described it.

    • @legioix4538
      @legioix4538 5 лет назад +41

      @@ticluna5295 *laughs in colonialism*

    • @ticluna5295
      @ticluna5295 5 лет назад +182

      @@legioix4538 When the colonialist turns out to be better than your fellow black

  • @criminals
    @criminals 4 года назад +847

    Teacher: We are going on a trip to africa
    Girls: ewwww it's hot there
    Boys:

    • @jakemocci3953
      @jakemocci3953 4 года назад +40

      Teacher: We’re going on a trip to Chicago!
      Girls: Oh but what about the riots???
      Boys:

    • @eriksjud9465
      @eriksjud9465 4 года назад +3

      Boys: Roland get the Thompson.

    • @rdhffhfhhgffgj2079
      @rdhffhfhhgffgj2079 4 года назад

      Long live the NPFL

    • @modables
      @modables 2 года назад

      Teacher: We are going on a trip to africa
      Everyone: why the fuck are we going 50k miles away from the country

  • @limpchimp06
    @limpchimp06 5 лет назад +137

    Mugabe is dead :)

  • @mixtapeWA
    @mixtapeWA 6 лет назад +535

    amazing

    • @TheAthelasProject
      @TheAthelasProject  6 лет назад +52

      Thank you so much. Never expected to see a big cat such as yourself on my channel!

    • @TN-xx4ih
      @TN-xx4ih 6 лет назад +28

      R H O D E S I A W A V E

    • @michaelmikeymike0015
      @michaelmikeymike0015 5 лет назад +5

      Fancy seeing you here, mixtape

    • @srb_guy3487
      @srb_guy3487 5 лет назад +3

      Don't I know you from somewhere?

  • @Moomoo254
    @Moomoo254 4 года назад +151

    Lived 19 year's on this earth and didn't even know this conflict existed at all, thank's public schooling.

    • @rockyaer1
      @rockyaer1 4 года назад +23

      Schooling in general tends to miss out so much interesting world history. Thats why you need to take matters into your own hands and educate yourself about things like these

    • @Moomoo254
      @Moomoo254 4 года назад +3

      @@rockyaer1 I would have to agree

    • @JakeGittes84
      @JakeGittes84 4 года назад +2

      @@rockyaer1 Any recommendations for other interesting pieces of history that the school corriculum happened to leave out?

    • @rockyaer1
      @rockyaer1 4 года назад +5

      @@JakeGittes84 South African history, The Spanish civil war, Chinese history before WW2, Reunification of Germany and Italy and a more in depth look at the Roman empire and how they managed to rule the world at their time. There is also a RUclips channel called "History matters" with short videos about many interesting events.

    • @JakeGittes84
      @JakeGittes84 4 года назад +1

      @@rockyaer1 Good looking out big fella. Thanks.

  • @TheAthelasProject
    @TheAthelasProject  5 лет назад +76

    *UPDATE: WE'VE HIT 90,000 VIEWS HOLY SHIT*
    Hello everyone! I just want to tell you a huge thank you for getting this video over 50000 views! In order to honor that achievement (and considering I've just returned from a trip to my people's holy land), I made a follow-up video called "European Rhodesians" revolving around the Kosovo conflict - ruclips.net/video/cldWgfqcHKY/видео.html

  • @ripvanwinkle6760
    @ripvanwinkle6760 5 лет назад +73

    Mugabe bites the dust, god speed

  • @fernpaz9570
    @fernpaz9570 5 лет назад +49

    Mugabe died last night, Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again
    (Sept. 6, 2019)

  • @HeyItsJakegaming
    @HeyItsJakegaming 5 лет назад +500

    I bloody love his accent, south africans have the best english speaking accent imo

    • @kangobango2115
      @kangobango2115 5 лет назад +8

      But there is different types of south-african accents tho

    • @HeyItsJakegaming
      @HeyItsJakegaming 5 лет назад +10

      Kango Bango ok?

    • @kangobango2115
      @kangobango2115 5 лет назад +2

      @@HeyItsJakegaming Woops sorry for the repeated reply

    • @sauceru99
      @sauceru99 5 лет назад +30

      Pretty much on the same level as Bush accent in Australia

    • @HeyItsJakegaming
      @HeyItsJakegaming 5 лет назад +10

      @@sauceru99 yea, over here in England everyone just sounds like thugs lmao

  • @Tomartyr
    @Tomartyr 5 лет назад +93

    Ah the Rhodesian Bush War, aka 'The War with all the Short Shorts'.

  • @Astorath_the_Grim
    @Astorath_the_Grim 6 лет назад +247

    Rhodesia never dies!!!

  • @adankmeme651
    @adankmeme651 3 года назад +189

    Mugabe: dies
    Me: Finally we can make Rhodesia Rhodesia again
    Friend: It's called Zimbambwe dumbass
    Me: *puts on shorts and jungle cap and grabs FN FAL* I SAY WE RHODESIA TODAY!

    • @Exxperiment626
      @Exxperiment626 3 года назад +4

      Rhodesia exist only in fantasy like Narnia or Mordor.

    • @leonodonoghueburke4276
      @leonodonoghueburke4276 3 года назад +3

      @BossHossGT500 Cry harder. Imagine being a simp for a failed state

    • @googlesearchhistory5249
      @googlesearchhistory5249 2 года назад +2

      @@leonodonoghueburke4276 good argument, unfortunately, I read your search history

  • @АлексаМихајловић-з3г
    @АлексаМихајловић-з3г 6 лет назад +184

    *riping Athelas' head in the comment section, because he knows how controversial Rhodesia is*

    • @ОльгаСословская
      @ОльгаСословская 6 лет назад +17

      Rhodesia was, is and will be.

    • @Johnny-ws1oh
      @Johnny-ws1oh 5 лет назад +6

      @James Madison Bradley sometimes I wonder what a 2 state solution would of looked like?

    • @ninds437
      @ninds437 Год назад

      @@Johnny-ws1oh terrible, especially in Africa

  • @jamesmadisonwilliams4210
    @jamesmadisonwilliams4210 4 года назад +26

    The Missing Lyrics are "We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase"!

  • @Nyckname
    @Nyckname 5 лет назад +156

    "Heaven, I'm in heaven."
    😂

    • @gonnabemoreorlesswild
      @gonnabemoreorlesswild 4 года назад +19

      Shooting commies in a trip throught the bush, how life can be better ?

    • @gangiskhan6948
      @gangiskhan6948 4 года назад +6

      2020 gonna be wild a true man carries a FAL and wears short shorts. I wish I could’ve fought with the rhodisions!

    • @josephstalin7353
      @josephstalin7353 4 года назад +3

      @@gonnabemoreorlesswild shooting commies is always fun

    • @nomore9004
      @nomore9004 3 года назад +3

      "Hevvveeen, I'm in heaaavennnn"

  • @jakobstanton4480
    @jakobstanton4480 5 лет назад +59

    You can call us rebels and you can call us rogues. We were founded by an Englishman by the name of Cecil Rhodes.

  • @TheAthelasProject
    @TheAthelasProject  5 лет назад +90

    Well, we've hit 100,000 views. This is my first video that did this well! In order to celebrate this grand success, I've made two follow-up videos to this one:
    *We are the Shumba drinkers:* ruclips.net/video/-g1RrwtldmA/видео.html
    *European Rhodesians:* ruclips.net/video/cldWgfqcHKY/видео.html

  • @goaboa_
    @goaboa_ 6 лет назад +158

    Let's give those floppies a good hiding

    • @KM-hw6tw
      @KM-hw6tw 6 лет назад +6

      We had joy, we had fun....

  • @owensmith6357
    @owensmith6357 3 года назад +16

    Respect .. I served in the British Army with an ex RLI bush war veteran . My Troop commander no less. Top bloke .. knew his shit & respect for him came naturally .. one of those characters you meet in life that stay with you .

  • @PikaPower131313
    @PikaPower131313 5 лет назад +45

    Red Orchestra/ Rising Storm style game but in Rhodesia? hell ya

    • @cameronbeatty6631
      @cameronbeatty6631 5 лет назад +8

      That game if it ever got mainstream would piss off so many pc haha

    • @cameronbeatty6631
      @cameronbeatty6631 5 лет назад +4

      @wyomarine unfortunately im unfit for military service but atleast i tried

    • @raz_hz
      @raz_hz 5 лет назад +5

      @@cameronbeatty6631 rip

    • @rhodie.
      @rhodie. 5 лет назад +9

      wyomarine Shut up boomer

    • @angus4678
      @angus4678 5 лет назад +2

      Soviet-Afghan war would be better for a RO3

  • @TN-xx4ih
    @TN-xx4ih 5 лет назад +223

    What's this song? It's a Rhodesian version of "It's a long way to Tipperary".

    • @fuzzy4461
      @fuzzy4461 5 лет назад +8

      Yes

    • @stalker5299
      @stalker5299 5 лет назад +10

      Long way to Mukumbura, so yeah Rhodesian version of that song

    • @JagerLange
      @JagerLange 5 лет назад +6

      Answered your own question there, mun.

  • @captainmemelord4978
    @captainmemelord4978 4 года назад +92

    I may have a controversial opinion but, I honestly think the song slowed down like this sounds better.
    Thanks for uploading this.

    • @g.l.81
      @g.l.81 3 года назад +3

      I 100% agree

    • @josephstalin7353
      @josephstalin7353 2 года назад +3

      Fast: helicopter
      Slow: foot/mobile vehicle patrol.

  • @AndrewLale
    @AndrewLale Год назад +15

    Grew up in Gwelo. A lot of the boys from my school ended up in the forces. One in the SAS, one in the Gray Scouts, the rest in the RLI. There is nobody, NOBODY on earth I'd trust more than a Rhodesian. Great people. A great little country. A horrible loss to Africa when it went.

  • @SurajSinghTomarArya
    @SurajSinghTomarArya 3 года назад +21

    Guys, grab your guns. We are going to Rhodesia:Electric Boogaloo.

  • @dannyboy4256
    @dannyboy4256 4 года назад +10

    My Great Grandfather was a Captain in the Southern Rhodesian Regiment during ww2, but my family left Rhodesia about a decade after to go to Britain. Sad that Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe.

    • @dannyboy4256
      @dannyboy4256 4 года назад +4

      @Skrooge Lantay Someone is "oppressed by the government" because they are "a person of colour", why don't you read something before commenting something which makes no sense? Be respectful, you have no idea who the man was, or who anyone is here.

    • @dannyboy4256
      @dannyboy4256 4 года назад

      @@jussim.konttinen4981 ?

    • @dannyboy4256
      @dannyboy4256 4 года назад

      @@jussim.konttinen4981 interesting but not sure why you wanted to show me

  • @TheAthelasProject
    @TheAthelasProject  5 лет назад +202

    200,000 views guys! Let's keep this video growing! Spread the word about this gem of a country and an even bigger gem of a song! Thank you for every view, like and subscribe!
    *We are the Shumba drinkers:* ruclips.net/video/-g1RrwtldmA/видео.html
    *European Rhodesians:* ruclips.net/video/cldWgfqcHKY/видео.html

    • @basicallyhell4150
      @basicallyhell4150 5 лет назад +3

      Press f to keep them north of that river till that river is running dry

    • @smo-king6504
      @smo-king6504 5 лет назад +2

      @@basicallyhell4150 F

    • @Endremael
      @Endremael 5 лет назад +2

      song cannot be bigger of a gem than the country :-) cheers.

    • @dreadpiraterobertsii4420
      @dreadpiraterobertsii4420 5 лет назад

      Delete this video and il give you 1,000,000 Zimbabwean dollars

    • @jamesmadisonwilliams4210
      @jamesmadisonwilliams4210 5 лет назад +3

      White Rhodesia will be Re-Established Again Hail Victory my White Brothers and Sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @oliversykes8464
    @oliversykes8464 5 лет назад +66

    Mugabe is dead lads!

    • @mattbarbarich3295
      @mattbarbarich3295 5 лет назад +1

      Oliver Sykes Yes but his party is still in power so what has really changed? How many white farmers or other businessman have returned to their property?

  • @bargluftnationalism1054
    @bargluftnationalism1054 5 лет назад +43

    I love his accent

  • @biggestnibba3254
    @biggestnibba3254 6 лет назад +191

    Rhodesia will never die

    • @90sBoyzBand
      @90sBoyzBand 4 года назад +12

      it did

    • @joem7085
      @joem7085 4 года назад +1

      You must be fun at parties

    • @Shrapnel-tj3il
      @Shrapnel-tj3il 3 года назад +6

      Where's Poland
      Points at map
      Where's Romania
      Points at map
      Where's Russia
      Points at map
      Where's Rhodesia
      Points at Heart

    • @TRPilot06YT
      @TRPilot06YT 3 года назад +1

      @@Shrapnel-tj3il points at short shorts and FAL*

  • @magpie9-298
    @magpie9-298 5 лет назад +27

    This made my shorts become even shorter after hearing this.

    • @sexybastard5824
      @sexybastard5824 4 года назад

      nice name, btw is the barrel on my fal clean

  • @carmensrobloxrp3658
    @carmensrobloxrp3658 3 года назад +23

    Its a long way to tipperary: Who are you?
    Its a long way to Mukumbura: I'm you but Rhodesian

  • @jeremygilmore3208
    @jeremygilmore3208 3 года назад +25

    FULL LYRICS:
    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your home-town
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas...
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura
    And we're going up there to stir
    It's a long way to JOC Inyanga
    It's a long way, ek se
    It's a long way from Umtali
    But it's wide tar all the way
    Well, nearly...
    Goodbye to the Cecil
    Hello the Mont Claire
    It's a long, long way to JOC Inyanga
    And the crowd is fighting there
    It's a long way to Kariba
    It's a long way to run
    It's a long way from Mukute
    But you can do it on your THUMB
    With your FN...
    We love our Sergeant Major, when he drives it on RL
    When he takes us on the bush road, it's just like going to-
    Heaven, I'm in Heaven
    It's a long way to Llewelyn
    It's a long way on the train
    We can kwai it to the North Pole
    But they'd build one just the same
    With a parade square
    We all dig the stoppies, the haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker, when we start on our first phase
    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your home-town
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas...
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura
    And we're going up there to stir
    Stir
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir
    Ensure
    END
    >genius.com/Mike-westcott-and-leprechaun-its-a-long-way-to-mukumbura-lyrics

  • @aqswde110
    @aqswde110 3 года назад +16

    There’s only one weapon more deadly than a Rhodesian FAL... Rhodesian short shorts!

  • @redranger1949
    @redranger1949 4 года назад +39

    Safari cruise :We are going to africa !
    Girls: Omg animals and sunny beaches !!
    Boys: Floppies REEEEEE * LOADS FAL *

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 4 года назад +20

    It’s a damn shame what happened to Rhodesia and it’s people.

  • @richboitalkin99m
    @richboitalkin99m Год назад +9

    LONG LIVE RHODESIA!!! RHODESIANS NEVER DIE!

  • @thegamingrhino5864
    @thegamingrhino5864 4 года назад +36

    IT'S A LONG WAY TO MUKUMBURA
    to the sweetest girl I know!
    IT'S A LONG WAY TO MUKUMBURA
    But my hearts right there

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 3 года назад +2

      IT'S A LONG WAY TO MUKUMBURA
      to the Fabrique Nationale ! (FN)
      IT'S A LONG WAY TO MUKUMBURA
      But my Fusil Automatique Léger (FAL) right there !

  • @mustynutzzz7886
    @mustynutzzz7886 5 лет назад +11

    I've never even heard of the country Rhodesia but now I'm very intrigued

    • @JWWhiteTX
      @JWWhiteTX 3 года назад

      Rhodesia became Zimbabwe after it was handed over to people not ready for prime time (kind of like South Africa). When it was Rhodesia, it was a first world nation where everything worked and everyone ate, now, not so much. Say what you will about those icky ol' colonizers, but they knew how to build and maintain advanced nations.

    • @C4Cole05
      @C4Cole05 3 года назад

      @@JWWhiteTX Correction, knew how to build and maintain advanced nations for themselves while leaving the rest of the population behind and then being surprised when the rest of the nation doesn't like being 2nd class citizens

  • @jerrycarmody6717
    @jerrycarmody6717 5 лет назад +45

    S L O T T I N G F L O P P I E S

  • @tmdrm9817
    @tmdrm9817 3 года назад +9

    My Dad was a machine gunner for the Rhodesians he was part of the house mounted infantry. I do not know from which company.

  • @theflyinggasmask
    @theflyinggasmask 4 года назад +53

    UK leaves the EU: **Nothing**
    Rhodesia leaves the UK: **Gets sanctioned and has to fight soviets by themselves**
    Seems fair!

    • @willemvanstaden3292
      @willemvanstaden3292 2 года назад

      Hey, at least the Boers helped them... At least until betrayel from within our ranks forced our "police forces" (soldiers) to leave Rhodesia to its fate. The planned communist takeover of both it and SA.

    • @xXXArchangellXXx
      @xXXArchangellXXx Год назад

      They didn't fight the soviets you degenerate

    • @theflyinggasmask
      @theflyinggasmask Год назад

      @@xXXArchangellXXx Thanks :)

  • @homeristro3472
    @homeristro3472 4 года назад +8

    This is the fortunate son of the rhodesian people

  • @epicver
    @epicver 4 года назад +19

    2:48 - 3:05
    We all dig the stoppies, the haircuts, and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase

    • @krisbecka8789
      @krisbecka8789 3 года назад

      Anybody who knows anything about gunning for a living heard "first phase" in there

  • @asoggycracker8773
    @asoggycracker8773 4 года назад +3

    I stumbled upon this video a few weeks ago after listening to swallowing dust and thank the lord for that to. What a fantastic channel. I’ll be praying for you all in Montenegro.

  • @pasaerc
    @pasaerc 3 года назад +27

    Sort of sad to realize God Save the Queen and the Star Spangled Banner will be reduced to a relics like this... songs about dead places where the most alive once lived.

    • @sanwayachilles
      @sanwayachilles 3 года назад +2

      I don't think England and US will suddenly be reduced to relics like Rhodesia. Unless you're talking about nuclear war?

    • @anothernpc4943
      @anothernpc4943 3 года назад +3

      @@sanwayachilles you dont get it

    • @sanwayachilles
      @sanwayachilles 3 года назад +1

      @@anothernpc4943 What?

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING 3 года назад

      @@sanwayachilles You really don't get it

  • @SomerandomShmuck
    @SomerandomShmuck 3 года назад +25

    first time: This is sort of disturbing
    third time: It kinda good ngl
    tenth: TOT CECIL SQUARE!

  • @GayFrogsTho
    @GayFrogsTho 4 года назад +29

    I grew up next door to a Zimbabwean family in the UK, they where white. Their daughter, Bronwyn, was the hottest female I've ever seen. Rock on you stone cold fox.

    • @rbkfan200
      @rbkfan200 4 года назад +6

      Benjamin Pickersgill «stone cold fox» now that is an expression I’ll adopt.

    • @Chris-yy5pj
      @Chris-yy5pj 3 года назад +2

      rhodesian* not zimbabwe

  • @garydurandt4260
    @garydurandt4260 3 года назад +8

    Mate it brings back happy memories. If I could do this again, even knowing what the outcome was, I would do it! Best days of my life

  • @jeandeville807
    @jeandeville807 3 года назад +8

    Good old times.

  • @djmuzeak4351
    @djmuzeak4351 3 года назад +28

    As an African American I want Rhodesia back!

  • @___-lr5lj
    @___-lr5lj 5 лет назад +29

    Nice song,good soldiers. Respect from Russian special police forces!

  • @mr.zondide2746
    @mr.zondide2746 4 года назад +12

    I wonder if you could add a short phrase key on here, such as the meaning of “mukka” “jawl” and “stir” I figure JOC stands for Joint Operations Command or control. For us increasingly isolated, , but interested, yanks.

    • @Gorteenminogue
      @Gorteenminogue 4 года назад +4

      Muckers = friends. Jawl = party. Stir = cause mayhem; such as a boisterous night out or a firefight.

  • @DroughtBee
    @DroughtBee 3 года назад +13

    Full Lyrics (Because the one on this video has incomplete ones.)
    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your hometown
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura And we're going up there to stir
    It's a long way to JOC Inyanga
    It's a long way, ek se
    It's a long way from Umtali
    But it's wide tar all the way
    Well, nearly
    Goodbye to the Cecil
    Hello the Mont Claire
    It's a long, long way to JOC Inyanga
    And the crowd's fighting there
    It's a long way to Kariba
    It's a long way to run
    It's a long way from Mukute
    But you can do it on your THUMB
    With your FN
    We love our Sergeant Major, when he drives it on RL
    When he takes us on the bush road It's just like going to
    Heaven, I'm in Heaven
    It's a long way to Llewelyn
    It's a long way on the train
    We can kwai it to the North Pole, But they'd build one just the same
    The parade square
    We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase
    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your hometown
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura And we're going up there to stir
    Stir
    Stir
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir
    Ensure
    Stir

  • @seamy8959
    @seamy8959 3 года назад +9

    Father: It's a long way to tipperary
    Son: It's a long way to mukumbura

  • @ninds437
    @ninds437 Год назад +6

    The fall of the Republic of Rhodesia, though much underrated, is one of the most important moments in Africa in the 20th century.
    The end of white minority rule in 1980 coincided with the rapid decline and loss of prestige that Apartheid would experience over the course of the decade, resulting in the complete end of the British and Dutch colonial legacy in Africa.
    We can say with great certainty that Rhodesia will not return and no phenomenon similar to such a nation will be seen any time soon, and perhaps never again.
    The young republic was surprisingly prosperous, and in just 15 years it was able to build one of the most efficient counter-guerrilla forces in the world, as well as an extensive musical folk culture.
    Unfortunately, after the end of the Bush War, figures like Mugabe usurped and destroyed the economic and military progress developed during the Ian Smith government, which although it was not correct to preserve minority rule, was extremely popular among the population:
    "While acknowledging the priveleged position whites had under Smith, several commentators have latterly agreed whit his claims that many black zimbabweans preferred him to Mugabe whit hindsight, albeit a very low bar. "Smith's image improved inversely as Mugabe's plummeted" Johnson wrote. "When he walked the streets of Harare, Afticans would almost queue up to grasp his hand and wish him well. "If you were to go Harare today (in 2007) and ask ordinary black zimbabweans who they would rather have their leader--Smith or Mugabe--the answer would be almost unanimous", Boynton asserted; "And it would not be Mugabe.""

  • @plamenatanasov1091
    @plamenatanasov1091 5 лет назад +29

    After watching this video all my pants became shorts.

  • @jacobcriswell3751
    @jacobcriswell3751 4 года назад +18

    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your hometown
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura And we're going up there to stir
    It's a long way to JOC Inyanga
    It's a long way, ek se
    It's a long way from Umtali
    But it's wide tar all the way
    Well, nearly
    Goodbye to the Cecil
    Hello the Mont Claire
    It's a long, long way to JOC Inyanga
    And the crowd's fighting there
    It's a long way to Kariba
    It's a long way to run
    It's a long way from Mukute
    But you can do it on your THUMB
    With your FN
    We love our Sergeant Major, when he drives it on RL
    When he takes us on the bush road It's just like going to
    Heaven, I'm in Heaven
    It's a long way to Llewelyn
    It's a long way on the train
    We can kwai it to the North Pole, But they'd build one just the same
    The parade square
    We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase
    It's a long way to Mukumbura
    It's a long way to jawl
    It's a long way from your hometown
    But you can have yourself a ball
    With your mukkas
    Goodbye Bulawayo, tot siens Cecil Square
    It's a long, long way to Mukumbura And we're going up there to stir

    • @Endremael
      @Endremael 3 года назад

      why jawl when u can slot.

    • @jacobcriswell3751
      @jacobcriswell3751 3 года назад

      @@Endremael I'm confused, on what both means, I just found the lyrics

    • @C4Cole05
      @C4Cole05 3 года назад

      @@jacobcriswell3751 Slot refers to the slang term "slotting floppies" which some troops used in the bush war for shooting people. Jawl sounds to me like the afrikaans slang jol(pronounced how you would say jawl in English) which means to party so maybe all the lyrics are wrong and its actually jol or Jawl is some other thing I dont know.

  • @8oio871
    @8oio871 3 года назад +9

    The unknown lyrics are:
    "We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase"

  • @edgychico9311
    @edgychico9311 6 лет назад +64

    The older version is : It's a long way to Tipperary.
    The new version is : It's a long way to Mukumbura.

    • @geoffleach5390
      @geoffleach5390 5 лет назад +2

      Ice Wallow Come Chico there power chords in that make it slightly different.

    • @hyperboreanspiritreborn3981
      @hyperboreanspiritreborn3981 4 года назад +1

      German version is Weit ist der Weg zurück ins Heimatland. By the way, i respect Smith

    • @beyondblesscrissy4063
      @beyondblesscrissy4063 4 года назад +1

      Chicomatsu Slicous newer version: its a long way to Tehran.

    • @v5in88
      @v5in88 4 года назад

      It's a long way to Marawi

  • @markaxworthy2281
    @markaxworthy2281 4 года назад +9

    It could also be "stompies" - cigarette stubs, if I remember correctly.
    I also think it is "in our RL" - the Bedford RL truck.

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 4 месяца назад +1

    “ we all dig the stoppies the haircuts and the graze
    and if we really scheme it’s Lekker
    when we start on our first phase “

  • @nfnc1292
    @nfnc1292 4 года назад +11

    Rhodesians never die but mugabe sure did

  • @emperorclaudius5499
    @emperorclaudius5499 4 года назад +9

    Australia is what Rhodesia could have been, Rhodesians will always have a home here🇦🇺

  • @theunknowngamer5486
    @theunknowngamer5486 5 лет назад +11

    When your kill to death ratio is 80 to 1

  • @hendrikalbertusjanssens7933
    @hendrikalbertusjanssens7933 3 года назад +5

    From 2:48-3:04 the lyrics is:
    We all dig the stoppies, haircuts and the graze
    And if we really scheme it's lekker when we start on our first phase

  • @markaxworthy2281
    @markaxworthy2281 4 года назад +2

    I remember Leprachaun playing at Flanagans in 1978. They were an Irish band.
    If I remember correctly, it was on the evening that Rhodesia last played Northern Transvaal at rugby under its own name.
    Quite apart from an Irish nationalist band, the place was full of bubble-arsed Rhodies, who resented Britain over UDI, and well hammered Afrikaaners, who have never forgiven the Boer War concentration camps.
    As perhaps the only Brit present, I didn't dare open my mouth all evening and just hid among the Aussies and Kiwis I was with.
    Happy days!

  • @jjoyjit_162
    @jjoyjit_162 2 года назад +9

    0:27 Leonardo DiCaprio spotted

  • @dennile_7355
    @dennile_7355 6 лет назад +108

    apartide south afrika

    • @Latrine1999
      @Latrine1999 5 лет назад +8

      Idk, south africa was proud of the apartheid, rhodesia had to say they didnt have it when segregation was a thing anyways

    • @LockenJohny101
      @LockenJohny101 5 лет назад +23

      no appartheid was the best time in South Africa. Races have to be seperate and in hierarchy.

    • @scipioafricanus2195
      @scipioafricanus2195 5 лет назад +16

      @@Latrine1999 there was no apartheid in rhodesia.

    • @Latrine1999
      @Latrine1999 5 лет назад +7

      @@scipioafricanus2195 Not officially, but segregation existed and it was a minority rule

    • @scipioafricanus2195
      @scipioafricanus2195 5 лет назад +44

      No. segregation did not exist in rhodesia. Im from there. I know. Yes minority rule because that minorty built that country. Thats what colonies are. They were better off under rhodesia, and all my african friends still suffering in zim agree with me. Dont spread shit about a country you know nothing about

  • @akejohansson2860
    @akejohansson2860 4 года назад +4

    In my former life, i was a Rhodesian bush soldier. Big up from Sweden.

  • @fancy_cyka3594
    @fancy_cyka3594 3 года назад +3

    This song is an absolute bop

  • @operatorblack
    @operatorblack 3 года назад +3

    I listen to this to get hyped to train. A true classic. Good boys those Selous Scouts.

  • @Zanitus_huh
    @Zanitus_huh 3 года назад +13

    I believe black Rhodesians want Rhodesia instead of occupied Rhodesia
    gg

    • @frankyboy8513
      @frankyboy8513 3 года назад

      Black Rhodesians? You mean zimbabweans?

    • @Zanitus_huh
      @Zanitus_huh 3 года назад +1

      @@frankyboy8513 did you read the god damn joke

    • @frankyboy8513
      @frankyboy8513 3 года назад

      @@Zanitus_huh yes?

    • @Zanitus_huh
      @Zanitus_huh 3 года назад +1

      @@frankyboy8513 I said Zimbabwe is occupied Rhodesia so I said black Rhodesians instead of black Zimbabweans