1971 Rhodesia in 60FPS / Zimbabwe in the 70's - British Pathé

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @josenadalessaunders3066
    @josenadalessaunders3066 3 года назад +192

    I used to live and works for 6 months in Umtali (Rhodesia) in 1977, and will never forget my experience. So friendly people !

    • @oriettoberti2501
      @oriettoberti2501 2 года назад +23

      Rhodesia was the paradise in Africa

    • @wl2977
      @wl2977 2 года назад +10

      @@oriettoberti2501 only when under the British rules.

    • @tightcamper
      @tightcamper Год назад +5

      @@wl2977 Rhodesia ceased to be under British rule in 1923.

    • @wl2977
      @wl2977 Год назад +2

      @@tightcamperIn 1923, did they throw out all the government and law system built by the British people?

    • @smorrisby
      @smorrisby Год назад +2

      @@wl2977 Actually Rhodesia was under Roman Dutch Law. It was self governing after '23.

  • @victornogueira6528
    @victornogueira6528 5 месяцев назад +52

    I am completely blown away by this. A real blast from the past especially because I found that I am actually in the video!!

  • @charlottewyttle1578
    @charlottewyttle1578 3 года назад +378

    How could it have been so beautiful then and awful now?

    • @mouloudo
      @mouloudo 3 года назад +7

      Simple, white people became the minority

    • @elfulano5884
      @elfulano5884 3 года назад +183

      One word: Mugabe

    • @keziedelprado7096
      @keziedelprado7096 3 года назад +6

      Blacks dont know how to lead a nation. Look at Haiti. Its people are from African descent but are thousands of miles away. Same condition as occupied Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) maybe even worst. Its in black peoples genes to live that way. Animal instinct....

    • @Blewis1488
      @Blewis1488 2 года назад +52

      Quick Awnser: Blacks

    • @petergerber1488
      @petergerber1488 2 года назад +101

      Take a guess

  • @valbeauregard5190
    @valbeauregard5190 2 года назад +23

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @garydurandt4260
    @garydurandt4260 Год назад +47

    Used to drive the police patrol cars (B cars) around this city from 76-78, what a great time I had.

    • @thesmithersy
      @thesmithersy Год назад

      You're a hero of the BSAP.

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe 7 месяцев назад

      How was it as a cop in Rhodesia?! Did you make arrests?

    • @garydurandt5737
      @garydurandt5737 7 месяцев назад

      @@Limosethe Yes, just like most other cops in the world

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@garydurandt5737 The intention of my question was to invite all his funny/crazy arrest stories

    • @trentweston8306
      @trentweston8306 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@garydurandt5737can you please tell us some stories from Rhodesia?

  • @andrewst9797
    @andrewst9797 Год назад +48

    Looks genuinely peaceful, happy, clean, tidy and prosperous back then
    But in hindsight, how fragile it was!
    Let that be a lesson for the West now.

    • @Wasengenyie
      @Wasengenyie Год назад +1

      Pride and prejudice? The same would have been said of londinium 100 AD!

  • @vickyv6645
    @vickyv6645 3 года назад +141

    Looks better than the Zimbabwe today

    • @MrSalbego
      @MrSalbego 5 месяцев назад +5

      No shit that place is a shit hole now.

  • @tightcamper
    @tightcamper 2 года назад +118

    Imagine comparing Rhodesia in the 70s to Ghana or Nigeria. What a joke!!
    Sadly the joke is now Zimbabwe.

    • @windbuster
      @windbuster Год назад +3

      Nigeria looked good back then in the 60s and 70s too

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 Год назад +1

      It’s now one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which I find quite pleasing.

    • @Legionarivss
      @Legionarivss 2 месяца назад +1

      So is India but it isn't much saying. India living conditions were on many points likely quite a lot better under the Mauryan empire, well over 2000 years ago in cities like Varanasi&Delhi. Up until 2014 most households didn't have toilets.

  • @lleweybyrne
    @lleweybyrne 10 месяцев назад +8

    @ 2.00 A Citroën DS just casually parked up on the street. At that time this was the most technologically advanced production cars available in the world and cost twice as much as a top end Mercedes. And now…

  • @djharto4917
    @djharto4917 9 месяцев назад +22

    It’s like Europe now, I was going to say slowly being destroyed but quickly being destroyed and replaced by…….

  • @macmcc3201
    @macmcc3201 Год назад +96

    My home for 10 yrs. Hillside Salisbury. Most beautiful country in the world. And very diverse in comparison to most other countries 😊 I miss Rhodesia 😢

    • @dreamdiction
      @dreamdiction Год назад +1

      "diversity" is an idea designed to make countries self-destruct, an ethnic mono-culture is the only sustainable and progressive nation state.

    • @chuckymcchuckface8768
      @chuckymcchuckface8768 Год назад +19

      I work alongside a Rhodesian guy here in Northern ireland. Great guy, I miss Rhodesia even though I'm irish born and bread. Hate today's world.

    • @tai-hinpang3024
      @tai-hinpang3024 11 месяцев назад +3

      Rhodesia will come back. God bless Rhodesia.

    • @MichaelThompson-jq3zf
      @MichaelThompson-jq3zf 2 месяца назад +3

      No longer beautiful - sadly.
      Zim is depressingly arid, stark, with the buildings needing a coat of paint & the roads pitted with pot holes. The people look shabbily dressed & weather-beaten - matching the state of the sick country. How very very sad! 😔.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@tai-hinpang3024 how?

  • @DasTubemeister
    @DasTubemeister Год назад +81

    The used to go to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Now they go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.

    • @nuremberg119
      @nuremberg119 8 месяцев назад +2

      Is that bad?

    • @lekevire
      @lekevire 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@nuremberg119 Yup.

    • @nuremberg119
      @nuremberg119 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@lekevire Why is it?

    • @MallardInvictus
      @MallardInvictus 2 месяца назад +3

      @@nuremberg119Mugabe overthrew Rhodesia’s Government (from what I remember) and made it hyper inflated just to remake Zimbabwe. Please take what I said with a grain of salt since this is from memory.

  • @Raq20
    @Raq20 Год назад +28

    Please educate me…. Why did people chose to get rid of British ruling when they managed to establish such a beautiful country It looks better than Poland looked is 60s I have been to Zimbabwe on 2019, it is so poor and so run down Gosh…

    • @AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm
      @AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm Год назад +2

      Because they treated the majority Africans as second class citizens

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 7 месяцев назад +1

      Most of it was actually extremely poor. There are wealthy parts of Zimbabwe today.

    • @saulillustriousmakinami7737
      @saulillustriousmakinami7737 6 месяцев назад +2

      Pride

    • @therubicon
      @therubicon 4 месяца назад

      Communist terrorism under ZANU and lead by the blood thirsty Mugabe. Then the British and American governments refused support after the UDI or recognition. It lasted only as long as it did because of so many Vietnam war veterans who fought against the communists to keep people safe. But with Soviet industry on one side and no support on the other it was sabotaged on purpose as a sacrificial lamb for the Cold War.

  • @alexalston7428
    @alexalston7428 Год назад +84

    Orderliness, cleanliness and safety. Enough said.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 7 месяцев назад

      War, destruction and revolution. Wake up.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 7 месяцев назад

      There was war.

    • @alexalston7428
      @alexalston7428 7 месяцев назад +10

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 Only because of big power politics. Rhodesia should have been allowed to mature like say NZ.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@alexalston7428 and the Africans should have just waited.

    • @alexalston7428
      @alexalston7428 7 месяцев назад

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes, a form of democracy guaranteeing the presence of the white minority's continued sharing of power would have kept their expertise and stability. The place is (unsurprisingly) ruled now by corrupt thugs. Don't worry, the Chinese will maybe re-establish something akin to law an order. They pay off the thug leadership and do as they please. Don't expect them to power share!

  • @elfulano5884
    @elfulano5884 3 года назад +63

    This video's resolution is so clear. It looks as though it had been shot only a few days ago.

    • @Kalyopa
      @Kalyopa 2 года назад +4

      Definitely not 1971, this could be late 77 or 79

    • @matthewtorok-smith1967
      @matthewtorok-smith1967 2 года назад +2

      @@Kalyopa why do you think that?

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 года назад +7

      @@Kalyopa
      Fashions say 71 defo not late 70's

    • @kathrynradonich3982
      @kathrynradonich3982 2 года назад +12

      That’s the cool thing about film. If properly stored it can be scanned at much higher resolutions and you get detail that you couldn’t see with standard definition transfers.

  • @westcountrypirate7504
    @westcountrypirate7504 Год назад +11

    Ah home ................the good old days ........gone but not forgotten

  • @Better_Clean_Than_Green
    @Better_Clean_Than_Green Год назад +23

    Its sad to see a great country falling that down it was renamed to Zimbabwe..

  • @terrifier_88
    @terrifier_88 8 месяцев назад +11

    It's terrifying that in a few decades we will watch the same videos, but about Europe, and wonder where everything went wrong

  • @imperium5195
    @imperium5195 Год назад +12

    This was before Zombie Apocalypse...

  • @aphovasse
    @aphovasse 10 месяцев назад +9

    I remember those days, I worked at Salisbury city hall.

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 9 месяцев назад

      What year mate? Where did you end up?

    • @trentweston8306
      @trentweston8306 5 месяцев назад

      Do you have any stories you could tell us?

  • @salihplayer480p6
    @salihplayer480p6 11 месяцев назад +2

    everything is so clean, looks like a movie set

  • @SuperLuckao
    @SuperLuckao Год назад +8

    I travelled back to jo burg from a visit to Perth in 87. I had to spend s night in Harare. The customs guy st Harare airport called me a white birch and threw my passport to the floor. It was very terrible. My hotel in h estate was gross and I did not go out and walk on street.

    • @moirapettifr7127
      @moirapettifr7127 Год назад +4

      We are going on a univ sponsored trip to Soutern Africa to Joburg, Cape Town and Botswana next spring and we are quite excited! However our tour group and organizers will not be including Zimbabwe. That's a lot of tourist money lost to a once beautiful country!

  • @tadiwanashedzvairo5434
    @tadiwanashedzvairo5434 Год назад +15

    i definitely don't think i would want to go abroad living this behind. Beautiful

  • @ourclassicmovies1929-es1jd
    @ourclassicmovies1929-es1jd 7 месяцев назад +8

    DEPARTMENT STORES
    ELECTRICITY AND AIR CONDITIONING
    EVERYONE IS WELL DRESSED
    RUNNING WATER
    NO TRASH IN THE STREETS
    EVERYONE HAS JOBS
    NOW THEY HAVE BODIES DUMPED IN THE STREET
    THANKS MOOOO GAH BEEEE

  • @Lillyonline-gv6sq
    @Lillyonline-gv6sq Месяц назад +5

    Bring British in Zimbabwe

  • @arotogtech
    @arotogtech Год назад +12

    You didnt need to be a millionaire in rhodesia to live the lifestyle of a billionaire in the UK....

  • @ukinee8812
    @ukinee8812 Год назад +16

    hmmm, i wonder what's happened to this beautiful civilized country

    • @weqewqadsdasd
      @weqewqadsdasd 9 месяцев назад +3

      @hinokamiwarudo5505 and Zimbabwe became a rich and prosperous country. The end!

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@ukinee8812 it was neither.

  • @davegreenwood1663
    @davegreenwood1663 Год назад +16

    Its in a mess now. Wonder why?

  • @mrplumtreeandfamily9899
    @mrplumtreeandfamily9899 Год назад +19

    Old days things where so beautiful

  • @conservative-proud
    @conservative-proud Год назад +6

    Such an amazing country to grow up in !

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 7 месяцев назад +3

    it was so clean back then
    plenty of petrol and diesel at the service stations.
    Grocery store shelves were fully stocked
    clean running water,
    electricity and air conditioning
    a stable currency
    a thriving economy
    wow I wonder what happened.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@mikerilling6515 none of this is true. Most people had no access to any of that.

  • @garynewman-louw1506
    @garynewman-louw1506 Год назад +4

    looked quite different....and the country was working!!!!!

  • @jeffg6008
    @jeffg6008 Год назад +14

    This tells you all you need to know.
    South Africa soon to follow 😞

  • @danielschauffer8216
    @danielschauffer8216 21 день назад

    So orderly and peaceful! What could have been if reconciliation could have happened in some other way.

  • @danielgrigg9501
    @danielgrigg9501 Год назад +6

    Salisbury?

  • @danrhinehart1134
    @danrhinehart1134 5 месяцев назад +3

    The white Rhodesians should just make a deal with the Chinese to manage it for them. Basically using their extensive local knowlege, management skills and a proven managment track record to manage the country, keep the locals in line, and maximize Chinese business profits. The advantage here would be when the locals start to act up and declare a "Chumaranga" the Rhodesians just call the PLA to keep order.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@danrhinehart1134 that's ridiculous. Maximize profits, how? And like the natives would ever stop fighting.

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 6 месяцев назад +7

    RHODESIA HAS BECOME ZIMMGHETTO

  • @Mutukah
    @Mutukah 28 дней назад

    It worked, it simply worked!

  • @adolphdelatorre3102
    @adolphdelatorre3102 5 месяцев назад +2

    then robert mugabe came and the rest is history...

  • @a.a.3589
    @a.a.3589 9 месяцев назад +4

    You're telling me this worse than Zimbabwe?

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@a.a.3589 yes. People were ruled against their will.

    • @QuoPaperPlane
      @QuoPaperPlane 2 месяца назад

      ​@@ayodejiolowokere1076Well, natives had a darn site more than they have now but to pull off your nose to spite your face does seem the black thing to do!

  • @patrickcannell2258
    @patrickcannell2258 29 дней назад +1

    Thank you Britain for forcing this land into gangsters! You should have left Ian Smith alone!

  • @MsCaleb79
    @MsCaleb79 4 месяца назад

    How did everything turn out so bad?

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 2 месяца назад

      @@MsCaleb79 unwillingness to compromise by the dominant minority.

  • @FreaKzero
    @FreaKzero 5 месяцев назад +3

    and then ... came socialism
    But hey they are all Trillionaires now

  • @pantherakathecat4440
    @pantherakathecat4440 Год назад +1

    They had working traffic lights.

  • @alandarwin8450
    @alandarwin8450 3 года назад +15

    Still lovely people.

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton73 Год назад +7

    Black majority rule applied badly!

  • @ShodaiGojira-xn3xk
    @ShodaiGojira-xn3xk 7 месяцев назад

    If you told me this was in the US without context, I'd believe it..

  • @homerfj1100
    @homerfj1100 2 месяца назад +1

    I know he was in jail for a while but Mugabe's move to a Marxist state and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" brought today's Zimbabwe problems.

  • @gabrielmirov7819
    @gabrielmirov7819 3 месяца назад

    I can't forget my biutiful rodesia

  • @andrewthacker114
    @andrewthacker114 6 месяцев назад

    Nice clip

  • @mrplumtreeandfamily9899
    @mrplumtreeandfamily9899 Год назад

    I did subscribe

  • @Lastpicaro77
    @Lastpicaro77 Месяц назад

    Nowadays Zimbabwe is a tribe state

  • @ama8541
    @ama8541 Год назад

    Wow. This isn't SA.

  • @MisterPolitical1
    @MisterPolitical1 Год назад +6

    Salisbury's better than Harare

  • @zeburules
    @zeburules 2 дня назад

    Rhodesia was super.

  • @MavisMasuku-c5n
    @MavisMasuku-c5n Год назад +3

    Yes you can say that again, beautiful then and awful now. Shame seriously.

  • @LordDirus007
    @LordDirus007 10 месяцев назад +10

    Blacks were better off, in terms of Civil Rights, Job Opportunities, Income etc under the White Leadership.
    Zimbabwe was a mistake. If anything, they should have slowly integrated the Blacks into Leadership roles.
    Instead, they effectively took over and mass exodus of the Most Intelligent people happened

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 7 месяцев назад

      Your opinion doesn't matter. You're not from there.
      Incidentally though, blacks have a higher income per capita and more free movement. Everything you've stated is just straight nonsense.

    • @Serjant96
      @Serjant96 3 месяца назад

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 белые придумали весь прогресс, медицину и само понятие права человека.

  • @freedommugabe4900
    @freedommugabe4900 Год назад

    Kare haagari ari kare

  • @cherylmoss3632
    @cherylmoss3632 Год назад +10

    Oh yes...the world decided that Mugabe was better.

  • @byroncurrin227
    @byroncurrin227 Год назад +16

    Mugabe deserves ALL the praise for destroying Rhodesia lol....

  • @TheTenthLeper
    @TheTenthLeper Месяц назад

    🐒

  • @jacobblessing4598
    @jacobblessing4598 2 года назад +3

    Hmmm speechless Zimbabwe is beautiful

  • @stoltmain123
    @stoltmain123 8 месяцев назад

    And now one big shit.

  • @neotemper6914
    @neotemper6914 7 месяцев назад

    Clean place, well preserved. Remember the racism and Apartheid that existed in this place.

  • @brianjenneson
    @brianjenneson Год назад +7

    Gotta love all those white faces on the mannequins in the shops! In a country that must have been around 98% black! But it was such a wonderful place, of course! Especially if you were white!

    • @phyrr2
      @phyrr2 Год назад +15

      White is also just the base color of mannequins due to materials. It requires more as well as more money to make colored ones. Don't think too hard dude.

    • @mattyallen3396
      @mattyallen3396 Год назад +9

      Tell that to the 20k Matabele that Mugabe slaughtered after 1980

    • @newsheed8007
      @newsheed8007 Год назад

      where is problem? your white as well, besides who do you think built all those skyscrapers, roads and brought in cars?

    • @bruceday1960
      @bruceday1960 Год назад

      black labour you devil@@newsheed8007

    • @potatoeskimos
      @potatoeskimos Год назад +3

      bro even in Asia mannequins are white. The reason is so you can tell how translucent a clothes is.

  • @youtubesangryopinionramble1465
    @youtubesangryopinionramble1465 Год назад +8

    Remember: this was all built for the colonizer.

    • @fuwa9616
      @fuwa9616 Год назад +29

      So? The problem was, in Rhodesia, it wasn't. The Anglos there actually INVITED the natives to live among them and believed that they could be "educated" into being good citizens at which point they will be granted voting rights. Thats why South Africa survived longer, they did built cities for themselves, but because it was more beautiful then what the natives could do, they moved to what they built, generating laws to separate from them, which is why SA survived longer, and why Canada and Australia survived even longer, but soon, they will meet the same fate because all three welcomed them in.

    • @mh7a135
      @mh7a135 Год назад

      ​@@fuwa9616 Don't worry, he's brainwashed by the communists who lost their lands and destroyed such a beautiful country built by intelligent people.

    • @bracedgod4505
      @bracedgod4505 Год назад +4

      ​@@fuwa9616 I would have integrated easily. "Wypipo" were alot kinder to me than "my people" were, and I see the cultural differences objectively unlike the wokensteins.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 Год назад

      ​@@fuwa9616 push that back up your rear end.

    • @thesmithersy
      @thesmithersy Год назад +2

      For the benefit of blacks who were welcomed and encouraged to join in society.

  • @Starsky1413
    @Starsky1413 Год назад +11

    Totally destroyed now

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 6 месяцев назад +3

      By the usual suspects