'Rhodesian Forces - A Tribute In Sound'

[kingjayapala]

Its amazing that Mugarbage immediately disbanded the best unit that could have provided the perfect blueprint for the new Zimbabwe. I think the one at 1:50 was the Selous Scouts, right? And he disbanded them because he hated the idea that blacks could actually be loyal to an army that fought against him or something like that? Unbelieveable.

[kingjayapala]

Rhodesia was not an apartheid country. South Africa had laws and walls that kept blacks apart from society in every aspect of life. A white employee could not even have a black boss It seems in this video that blacks and whites walked the streets together, fought together, and marched together with almost no regard to race. Only in elections was there any separation but in every other way, Rhodesia created a system that may have evoked a subconscious envy among Americans and ZAers.

[theredraven]

As a Tory, the one thing I will hold against Maggie is how she sold out Rhodesia to that madman Mugabe.

I won't even call the country by that new name. It's awful.

[MegaGenius84]

:...(

[nighthawk006phoenix]

Awesome upload! I guess Mugabe is the one dislike ;

[tafadzwankala]

sucks. makamama chete

[ChitungwizaBandit]

I don't cry easily, but this made me come close.

[daltonagre]

@ChitungwizaBandit Rhodesia lost the will to fight and this was its end. I live in Brazil.

[Jonte89]

PC-People seem to forget that the Rhodesian Army consisted of 2/3 black soldiers and black officers! Wonderful Army!

[breizhcatalonia1993]

@Jonte89 they usually don't know that, and a important point is that of that they not were only black soldiers, but also black commands , in more or less grade¡

[Jonte89]

@breizhcatalonia1993

Yes you are absolutly right. I forgot to mention that! Its good that you brought it up!

[Edwardjsa]

1:54 ...... impossible

[breizhcatalonia1993]

@Edwardjsa yeah 1:54 look the officer giving the orders is not white :P altough yeah they areother images that define better.

[breizhcatalonia1993]

that image at 1:54 gives me goosebumps, in the positive way, blacks and whites serving as comrades in your army, no insulting or uneducated comments in this video, not hate. And after all that a man ruined it all in 1980, a man, and i am not talking of the determinate colour of that man.

Rhodesia¡¡¡¡¡¡

[Tarapsa]

You Rhodesians should have never given up. Every time I work in South Africa (I don't have any work in Zim), that is what I say to myself. You fools. Now its too late.

I salute all of you, but you so f-ed up!

[svonasek]

Great Country! Liked to see black and white man side by side as comrades, that could have been a symbol for a better Africa....now Mugabe ruined it!!

[hoplite46]

The last post chokes me up every time!!!!

[richardcadbury]

Rhodesia was a multiracial society that actually worked, and the Left, there and in Britain, deliberately smashed it up. The professed reason, of course, being that Rhodesia was "racist".

Huh???????

[Brecconable]

Bloody hell those Hunters look awesome 2:27

[chubbysmith1]

QE2 made an interesting speech in Northern Ireland last week saying "we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.” When thinking about my life in Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, there are many things I would have done differently to make the country a better place to live. Would I have still fought in the war - of course. Should I have treated my fellow man with greater respect - of course. I have learned my lessons. Mugabe has learned nothing.

[123kharma]

PS mr 'magic' - Rhodesia was a BRITISH colony. britain no doubt felt, as you put it, that the country ''wasn't worth the time & effort in maintaining'' so they did indeed sell us out & left the country to the mercy of mugape & his bunch of loons - Ian Smith (RIP) need not have declared UDI (yes, he TOOK independence) had britain fulfilled its obligations as the nation from which most of us came from & supported us against mugape's marxist terrorists.

[MrSkosig]

thats interesting considering the state of the country now.Its sad what has happened with Mugabe and the political scene. The Rhodesian army was a tough bunch of blokes.

[MrSkosig]

did the black and white guys fight side by side?

[Zahrdoz]

@MrSkosig Yes they did.

[Jonte89]

@MrSkosig They did more than just fight together. They were brothers in arms!

[heywoodjerbloume]

@MrSkosig they most certainly did and died side by side as well.Dont forget the blacks were fighting alongside to protect thier native land.A lot of the bush craft training was run by black trackers.Pamwe chete,ous.

[53Africa]

@heywoodjerbloume? Rhodesia was a waste of time, we won the war so dont forget our ZANU-PF 

[MrSkosig]

@heywoodjerbloume good comments. All seems so sad to see the final fate of the country.

[kkpotter30]

@MrSkosig Yes so sad

[daithemuff]

Good times, paradise lost

[whiteozzie1]

That was a great tribute , well done ,loved it!!!!

[123kharma]

Undefeated in battle but ignominiously sold out by Britain, USA, Sweden et al...

[1MagicAndMayhem1]

@123kharma Sold Out?

Fuck Off

Rhodesian were crying out for more independence from Britain, And They Got It

Just because they failed to do a good job of keeping the country running is nobody elses fault but their own,

[RhodesianBok]

@1MagicAndMayhem1 We didn't 'get' Independence from Britain. We took it, just like the Yanks did. Unfortunately there were only 300,000 of us and so the British elite, found it easy to organise the world's rabble to place sanctions on us and slowly destroy Rhodesia in a fit of spite. However, look at Britain now......Ho! Ho!

[MrZingy]

@RhodesianBok ....well we took it right back!! Shows the futility of swimming against the tide of human decency!

It was never yours to have. The country belongs to the majority and its their human right to govern it .......even if that means failures along the way!

[123kharma]

@MrZingy

Human decency? you call what mugape has done to the country decent? You were handed the country on a platter by the rest of the world - you 'took' nothing.

[MrZingy]

@123kharma ...no Mugabe is not decent, but neither was your Ian Smith or your Rhodesian Front. The root cause of all this misery for black and white was the ideologies of the Rhodesian Front. Mugabe survives and thrives on these miserable memories that still haunt the majority.

[123kharma]

@MrZingy , 30 years after independence, you cannot keep blaming the RF for modern-day zim's problems. A new generation has grown up under mugape, so what happened? Why is the place a wreck? Ask a 'mdala' if life is better now or as it was under Smith. Fact of the matter mugape is a megalomaniac who has destroyed the country. For all his perceived faults, ''Smith aive nani''.

[1MagicAndMayhem1]

@RhodesianBok Are you a drunk or just plain dumb?

You didn't take anything, The Americans didn't take or and Rhodesia certainly didn't either, You were allowed what Britain gave you, As far as it goes, Rhodesia wasn't worth the time and effort in maintaining,

After Britain stepped out and let you do your thing, Look at the mess you have become, its also embarrassing,  I suggest you move back there and "take it" huh? bet that would be quite a sight

[123kharma]

@1MagicAndMayhem1

Just the sort of foul-mouthed response I would expect from an uneducated moron. As RhodesianBok says, there were @ 300 000 of us vs the world. Unfortunately the lily-livered liberal governments listed folded & sucked up to mugape & his cronies. Where are they now? Why aren't they protesting against the human right abuses being perpetrated by mugape's regime? Your time will come - Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech was spot on. Enjoy.

[1MagicAndMayhem1]

@123kharma Go look back over your own comments you stupid hypocrite, The very fact your quoting a man like Powell says a lot about you, Feeling nice and safe in Britain are we?

[123kharma]

@1MagicAndMayhem1

Showing your ignorance again then? Quoting Enoch Powell hardly makes me a supporter just as quoting Gladstone wouldn't make me liberal. You are also aware of Powell's policies, so by your own definition what does that make you? The fact of the matter is that britain deserted its own in Rhodesia & pursued a policy of appeasing terrorists i.e. sold us out. And no, britain doesn't feel safe thanks to the continuing unchecked immigration that Powell warned of all those years ago.

[RhodesianBok]

@1MagicAndMayhem1 Balls. Anyway Britain is kaput. Read the recent demographic reports. Before 2066 the British will comprise less than 48% of the population. Ho! Ho!

[irisinathens]

@RhodesianBok

So glad there are others think like me! Whenever i go to London I am so happy to see there are more blacks that brits! They are paying for all the pain, deaths and heartbreak they have caused in the colonies.

[waynejefferies]

I was not born when it was called Rhodesa.... Dam i wish i was.

[bentraves]

Be A man among men, Fight for the Rhodesian army.

[whiteozzie1]

@bentraves , be a man among men and fight for the restoration of Rhodesia! Be a man among men and fight against the Zanu-pf terrorists and mugabe!!!!!!

[buckfelize]

What a country. What an army. What a waste.

[kagedaproducer]

@buckfelize fuck the rhodesian forces ,those fuckin oppressors !!!!!!!!

[PatsGrandson]

@kagedaproducer

So you're good with Communists and what used to be the Bread Basket of Africa, a country that exported food starving to death because they can't for the life of them figure out how to farm well? Live it up may Zimbabwe starve then.

[MsasaVideos]

@buckfelize

What a comment! nrt

[56wenzel]

@MsasaVideos that movie make me crying ,such a beautiful land gone for ever...thanks to the white countries...

[53Africa]

@buckfelize? Thanks to the Zimbabwe African People's Union which was a militant organization and political party that fought for the national unity together with ( ZAPU) · Zimbabwe African National Union. They got Ian Smith out coz he was cruel and now Zim is great country with peace and stability!

[kkpotter30]

@53Africa If you believe that you are a complete brainwashed dead head

[53Africa]

@kkpotter30?Dead Head is u and your Rhodesia that u always dream about. Zimbabwe is our name so dance our song

[suryavajra]

I like the the first song....sounds really beautiful....