Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe’s Downward Spiral
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feels weird watching this from Zimbabwe....with my 4 hours of electricity and no running water, yes I choose to spend 20 minutes of my 4 hours watching Simon talk
Ian Smith was right
Blame Mugabe for that. Such a shame what happened to Rhodesia.
What a shame about your infrastructure. So, how do you grade Simon’s piece?
What an eye-opener
@@vg_grover4828 I believe Stephan Molyneaux has a slightly different view of Mugabe from a philosophical view, here on You Tube. A study in contrasts.
it’s weird to call a genocide “chasing away” and calling murder “leaving”
It’s because for some reason every major source calls the genocide a myth.
@@ghostrangerz8273 What major source would that be? Even the BBC says many white farmers were forced out with great violence and mass slaughter.
Simon is British, he’s too polite to say those things.
@Chris Ramos obvious bait is obvious
@Chris Ramos I sure hope they enjoy their poverty and famine.
My adopted Grandmother, was a white Rhodesian. She is one of the nicest, sweetest old lady any one could meet, but she never had a single nice thing to say about Mugabe.
You granny was a racist old biddy colonizer. She was right about Mugabe though.
@@SluttChops Alright here we go. All Rhodesians were not racist. That is a general statement. Saying that is like saying that every single white person in the 1800's in America was racist. It's just blatantly false. As well as, not all Rhodesians were colonizers. I'm sure people like Ian Smith, who were born in Rhodesia, were not colonizers. If you have an issue with the actual colonizers, I suggest aiming your rage at... Well... real colonizers.
SluttChops not everyone is racist chill that’s just like saying I’m racist because I’m white which makes no sense at all
SluttChops you can live somewhere that has a racist government and not be racist
Shenay Everest
Not true.
If your grandma killed someone does that make you a murderer?
"Finally, we're free from oppression"
"Actually, you're free from *white* oppression"
Yeah, this was a nice red herring from the reality that we are in. Now, let's fix the problem, rather than rationalizing it.
Yup
Rhodesia had it's problems but was way better than Zimbabwe
@@LaneCorbett You are correct. But only for white people.
@@LaneCorbett Rhodesia used to be the "bread bssket" of Africa.
There is no more "bread basket" there.
It was replaced by a "basket case". That's all Marxism ever does when it enters a new venue.
I'm from Zim, that man really did some damage to my country. I was glad when he died.
I hope your country can recover, socialism is a disease and people here in the US are wanting to bring this disease here
Tell me? What did this man did??? U are blind if u can't see this man was fighting a force that has been the root cause of your sufferings..... Nothing good comes without suffering,,,
What did the pink people do so good for you?
what happened to all his embezzled money, was it returned to the country?
@John Licon so do black people "need" white people?
I have a couple Z$100,000,000 bills along with some other Zimbabwean money. Probably over a billion dollars. At the time he took power this would have made me one of the wealthiest people on the planet. At the peak of his power, it couldn't buy me a cheeseburger.
This and death are his legacy. Nothing more.
Zim could appreciate a lot and soon...
polifatts Most African countries are the way they are DUE TO colonialism.
@@JesusDevonteChrist That's an excuse many Africans use for their own failures.. Since colonialism ended, Europe has more than repaid for it's sins. Giving African billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid. But they just can't seem to establish a competent government. It is the African leaders own corruption ruining Africa. There are several countries in Africa that were never colonized, like Ethiopia. It is no better.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath foreign aid truly cripples a country if you think about it. Its like domesticating a wolf. Now it cant hunt for itself and likes being told "good boy".
I have 9 billion dollars. Bought my last 500 million for 50 bucks.
“Chased away the farmers”....
Right? That comment earned a dislike from me
Kind of like how an Austrian painter chased away some people in the 40s.
If I helped chase away jews or Blacks as a White man, I wonder what Simon would say then? 🤔 He is either a self-hating White man or a jew. Which makes me wonder: why do jews chose to live upon non-jews in their nations rather than in a jewish nation of their own (and jewish-occupied Palestine doesn't count as a jewish nation)?
@@stormrider1375 Totally not antisemitic at all!
@@anthonythatcherchurchilled285 haha found the jew
I lived in Zimbabwe in the early 80's and again in the late 80's. It was such a beautiful, prosperous country then. It makes me sad to see what it has become.
Almost like socialism doesn’t work 🤔
@@ThomasCallahanJr true
@@ThomasCallahanJr Almost like people aren't really ready for the responsibility that is protecting all people and the earth, whether that be through capitalism or socialism
Ah Rhodesia
You need to stop listening to too much Western propaganda warfare
During the hight of Zimbabwes hyperinflation I visited Zim with my family. The hotel we stayed in was empty as tourism to Zimbabwe had ground to a halt, yet ironically above the reception area there was a huge portrait of him. South Africa is full of Zimbabweans who suffered and fled under Mugabe yet the media is treating him as a hero
Themediais owned by the state. They have no choice
In many African states, having a portrait of the president is part of the requirements in opening up a business in addition to the licenses. Its not an indication of popularity.
I struggle to understand why some tourists will bring their money to countries that are in the midst of suffering from a despotic, murderous dictator. You used the word "visited" which does not necessarily mean tourism, I understand - and my comment isn't specifically aimed at you individually. But, I am aware of things like the continued popularity of tourism to Victoria Falls and safaris in Zimbabwe during Mugabe's reign of destruction in that country.
I agree. I have no interest in visiting a Communist state so no Cuba, China, Israhell, and so on for me.
@@stormrider1375 "Israhell"?
No such country exists unless you mean "Israel" in which case you would still be wrong.
Israel isn't communist.. in fact their government is right-wing.
Robert Mugabe gave a speech in the UN . He said we are not gays LOL.
😂😂😂😭😭😭
Vee are not gei
😂😅😂😅😂😅
What more can you expect from someone like Mugabe?
But why are you gay?
By “land reform” I think you mean “outright genocide”.
Truth
Sadly if the Democrats to get their way and other left-wing political groups get their way this would be the case
@@djmars1983 Imagine having your life, business and livelihood at the mercy of AOC and Rashida Tlaib. I shudder at the very thought.
@@abelreyna8781 sadly those type of people are Bush League I fear someone that would probably be Major League bad news
@@djmars1983 They might be Bush League for now, but they have big ambitions. I would not underestimate their ability to gain and accumulate power. They and the other Justice Democrats are a big reason for the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party. It's only a matter of time before they inherit the party.
17:48
>Only candidate
>Still loses 15% of the vote
If you're going to be a dictator, at least do it properly.
That is the point it doesn’t matter how many do not vote for you 🤦🏽♂️😂 that is why you are a dictator you don’t give a damn about those who don’t vote for you sooo what do you happened to that 15%👀🤔
Mugabe did nothing wrong
Pauly Mugabe did everything wrong
@@pauly260 yea man, at first it looked good but guy did massacre an entire culture bro
Ian Smith and Cecil Rhodes are both fascinating and highly controversial figures that would make excellent biographics episodes!
Add to them Paul Kruger and Louis Botha
Ian smiths memoir is really interesting
Im frm SA and been learning how Ian Smith was wrongly vilified by Mugabe. He may have been white, but he predicated what hell would descend on the ppl. He cared more than Mugabe and his thugs...
@@regalsmartie11 it is actually has been said when the news of his death broke out in Zimbabwe no one was happy most were saddened
You have to be a real piece of work to be worse than leader of an apartheid country
Ian Smith seems like a decent leader while Cecil Rhodes was a first-rate sociopath and imperialist. Rhodes might have been a British supremacist but I don't think he gave a damn about the common British people. He certainly hated the Boer people and anyone who got in the way of his imperialist ambitions.
Technically, you could be a billionaire in Zimbabwe and be poor as hell at the same time lmao
What's funny about it?
Patrick McAsey Rich for Zimbabwe is still poor in Western countries.
@@stunner9005 I am well aware of this. But I don't know what 'stag beetle' finds funny about being 'poor as hell' in Zimbabwe. This person sounds like a fool.
😆
😂 Actually you could be a trillionaire in 2008
The whole farming landgrab is one of the worst blunders of his tenure. He didn't evict them, he straight up murdered many.
Not only that, the response from the international community was pathetic. Most had to be dragged out kicking and screaming to say something.
@JeffChad that’s so racist dude
@JeffChad Bruh. You believe that it's just to murder the white people there, who are just descendants of the original colonists?
Then maybe all the Bantus in southern Africa should move back to West Africa since that is where the Bantu people originated?
I am opposed to racism, colonialism, and genocide, but that goes for BOTH sides.
@JeffChad tbh you blacks are the ones crying. 😔 I'm doing very well.
@JeffChad what exactly is the problem with people moving from place to place?
Surprise that killing and chasing away people with farming knowledge resulted in failure in crops
Really good job Simon! Im glad you covered the genocide of the Ndebele, as it’s often swept under the carpet. I wish you had explored the violence of the land grabs and how it was not just the white farmers but the mainly black farm workers who were killed and beaten.
My grandmother knew Sally and said that she was a wonderful person and a moral compass. And her death was the beginning of the end for us all.
Im in my 30s so I am a Zimbabwean of the generation whose family and friends lost their farms and even loved ones.
I grew up in the most beautiful country in the world, a country of good kind black, brown and white people. The breadbasket of Africa.
And then I watched it burn under Mugabes hate , greed and corruption.
Isn’t it terrifying how one man can hold such terrible power and be so unaccountable and untouchable.
Holy hell, sending love to you and your grandma and other family affected. I hope you guys are doing better and your country can get back on its feet.
As a Zimbabwean as well, I couldn't have put it better. Zimbabwe had such an amazing chance. It had one off the best educated populations in Africa, it had genuinely _good people_ as a whole - I will say to my death that Zimbabweans are the kindest people I have ever met - it had a population with incredible ingenuity (just look at kariba) and it had just enough natural resources to benefit without falling prey to the resource curse. It even, for a short period, had a good prime minister. Mugabe took all that and burned it to the ground
@@endergamer7483 thanks so much! we are all fine, but I can’t say that for majority of Zimbabweans.
@@christophvonpezold4699 I completely agree! I hope in time a younger generation will have a chance to bring Zimbabwe back.
@@nadiabairamis3854 I hope so too =)
Breadbasket of Africa, now basket case. Mugabe’s and ZANU PF’s legacy is a nation in ruins.
At the time Mugabe took over, Zim was a top economy in Africa. Being one of the biggest exporters of tobacco in the world. Now we see their issues here across the border. But fear not! We here in South Africa are heading that way too....
Bring back colonialism. Africa was honestly better that way.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Certainly the rule of law was more reliable.
Black administeration=incompetence
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath never. Dream on.
The 4500 white owned farms produced enough food to feed 1/3rd of the entire African Continent's population. Also the farms employed tens of thousands of black employees who were paid decent and had good lives compared to most people in Africa. After the reforms the employees all lost their jobs and the farms couldn't produce enough food to feed even Zimbabwe. They started out making millions exporting food to other African countries, ended needing to import food. Some of the soldiers who took over farms would sell the equipment for instant cash. Some would tear out the irrigation pipes to sell as scrap metal for instant cash. This turned the farms and orchards back into deserts.
interesting anecdote, Hitler cat
Well, if Rhodesia was a shithole as you say, then ALL of Africa must be even more of a shithole then.
@JeffChad You have no clue what you are talking about. "It was just jungle" There is no jungle in Rhodesia, never was. You want me to take you seriously when you think just because it's in Africa it's jungle?
You can look up the history of Rhodesia under colonial rule, and later independant under white rule. They grew and exported lots of food and tobacco, among other things. Compare that to Mugabe's communism, redistribution of land and wealth (to his friends). Modern Zimbabwe. What currency are they using right now?
Even if Rhodesia had an economic success under the white rule we just can't ignore that the indigenous people had no right to their own country. Is it fair to just accept oppression just because the oppressors are giving the people decent money and food? Life is not just about getting a decent meal. In other words u ar saying its okay to become inferior because you are getting money, food, clothes and other human needs? I am sure that is what every colonizer and slave owner thought "we are making their lives better. We are thr salvation" lol white people are just strange 😂😂😂
@JeffChad yes they do.. Its sad and pathetic
The World Health Organization made Mugabe an Ambassador late in his life, which should tell you something about that organization.
Just like the UN all corrupt as hell
@@adrianfernand33s yes! I truly believe they have always been.
The World Health Organization was founded by the United States.
@@DavidKeithWilliams Way to ignore my point. But do You actually have a point? Do you support Mugabe? Did you think The Who is not in the pocket of China?.
@@robertgiles9124 Because Trump said so, it must be the truth! 😂
Zimbabwe, the example on how not to do South-Africa.
Yet South Africa i following this blueprint step by step. It seems that they would rather die of hunger than be fed by a white farmer owning land.
@@Donavan37 When will folks like you ever get that 8% owning 75% of land that their ancestors FORCEFULLY disenfranchised from the majority cannot be sustainable. I support dialogue not dispossession but that conversation HAS to occur like it or not.
@@machine525 It was and is sustainable. Not sure why people think certain parts of the globe belong to them. People have been "disenfranchising" other people for thousands of year. The same people that forcefully lost it to the white people stole it from another group of people.
I have this awful feeling that the trouble facing South Africa in the near future is going to make Zimbabwe seem like a trip to Disney. In 1980 at least one thing was done right (mostly) and that was disarmament. In South Africa you have a LOT of pissed off people who were promised the world and a LOT of those people still have their "war" weapons. The blood is trickling now when the flood gates open I think the bloodshed will be of biblical proportions. Hope I am wrong..
@@machine525 city press did an article, you can read about it....
He died on my birthday. Best birthday ever!
I wish I could like this comment more than once
Max Haly Did you ever live in Zimbabwe or know someone that has?
Sabaton is epic
deeply moronic
@@tannerwilson4843 I will put it this way....It was called "breadbasket of Africa" ....Yet somehow he managed to make tens of thousands people starve right in the breadbasket... And didn't he make his country first in the world...in terms of inflation rate? Like...one of the highest if not THE highest since Weimar in 1920s and early 30s?
I knew the moment he died that you’d do something on him. Kudos ✊🏽
The research was on point. He played a role in killing many of my people. He’s not a hero in my book.
Lionel Ndebele Than you're a fool. Let me guess your in Europe
@@turtlecoal how can you just call someone a fool for saying his opinion?
bryan allan abian ignore him, probably a 4 chan edge-lord
@@turtlecoal the guy is black LOL
mazimbo muriko here uko
This is so heartbreaking. In South Africa we meet people everyday who have been hurt by this monster.
Please do a video on Samora Machel.
One of my old classmates interned at a place where a (severely underpaid) Zimbabwean dude is the one carrying the company labour-wise and the feller smiles every day despite his weak pay and years of great service with barely any increases. I guess the life he lives here is better than there, that's how bad it is because of the dictator
My friend, every time you say Sithole, I hear "shithole". It's "Sit-aw-leh".
I love this channel, but a lot of names were butchered in this video
South Africa following in the steps of Zimbabwe
As long as south Africa don't expect aid when the country starts starving,because they bought it on themselves
@@jamesbradley582 It´s fault of Apartheid if it happen.
@@ArtjomKoslow explain how. The cape was built entirely by white, DUTCH settlers, besides walking thousands of miles from the congo to live a better life with the white people beyond the desert what exactly did sub-saharan africans do to contribute to South Africa? ( You dont have an answer unless you are about to make something up because there is none).
America now following the steps of zimbabwe!
Long live Mugabe!!
(To the lefty arsehole that keeps on deleting this post, piss off!)
Robert Mugabe certainly did NOT find inspiration from Ghandi! In Karl Marx, yes.
Oh, 6mil blacks were not "pushed" into the driest parts of the country. When Rhodesia was created, there was not even close to a million blacks, and they increased in numbers where they were. Furthermore, Zimbabwe is by no means a dry country. If you can't farm in Zimbabwe, you are simply incompetent. If farmers in the Freestate province in South Africa, a much much drier region can successfully farm on an industrial scale, "liberated" Zimbabwean farmers have absolutely no excuse for being unproductive.
I wish people making documentaries about history and countries would actually do some real homework, including getting on a plane to the country they purport to be so knowledgeable about.
Some notes from a South African. 🇿🇦
Good riddance to mugabe. He destroyed a beautiful country and should never be forgiven.
The people would be better led by the "white minority "
Looking at your profile pic while reading your comment suddenly filled me with the will to colonize the lands of Stone age primitives
Anthony johnson THE EVIL BRITISH EMPIRE DESTROYED AFRICA and your time of reckoning has come...None of you will ever have a sustainable stake in Africa EVER AGAIN, THANKS TO AFRICAN LEADERS LIKE MUGABE, unlike NELSON MANDELA, HE STOOD HIS GROUND TILL THE END...you wished, prayed and prophesied the same doom against CHINA and yet today you’re like mere ants next to them...MAKE NO MISTAKE AFRICA WILL RISE AGAIN...we will judge our own leaders, you have no say in it and your opinion will never mean anything to us. No amount of evil or destruction could ever surpass that of your colonial powers...we’ll never forget who you really are....
Fred Red that’s exactly what your ancestors said about China, yet look at it today...if you despise blacks that much better stay away from Africa, we can do with one less racist...
@Ali Kiwan really? from what i've seen China wants to pit Africa against Europe and is slowly trying to build up the nations (just as the Soviets did for them).
Its no coincidence, the ECO is progressing so quickly as well as the East Africa Confederation. It is being funded and directed by China.
Good video man! This man wrecked my homeland and countless lives.
Not a very african name
@@valentinamedojevic8512 what do you know about Africa sweetheart? 3rd generation born and bred. Would you tell someone born in your country whose parents, grand parents and great grand parents all originated from your country that they don't belong there? How bigoted of you.
Take care it is worse than ever, although you really should have accepted the internal settlement, would have been 10 times better than anything Mugabe brought
@Grant Armstrong internal settlement would have kept the white farmers in and gradually lifted up the black pop
Now those white farmers live somewhere else and those black pop are starving to death
Thank you so much for making this. We Africans need more unbiased coverage of our geopolitical history in order to learn both the good and the bad and the grey middle and you did it with this video.
Thank you for being candid in making this. I cry bitterly for the relatives I have lost because of his leadership. 🇿🇼 Cheers x
So sorry for your loss. Blessings and hope you and yours will do better in the near future.
@@erikagehm2805 Thank you x
@@Firegen1 no problem. Be keeping you and your family in my prayers for the next week.
Blessings to you and your lovely country. People like you will make Zimbabwe a shining light among the nations of the world.
@@aaronmarks9366 Thank you man, you made me a little weepy with that comment. I'm honestly usually tougher than this. AllI can say is I want to make sure that my grandfather's years of campaigning don't go to waste.
I feel for the poor people of Zimbabwe. They were ruled by a dictator who had no knowledge of basic economics and when the inflation spiked, he just opted to print more money 🤦♂. Also nobody will also forgive him for snatching all the lands of the white farmers and gave it to the black farmers who obviously had no idea of how to run a farming agriculture. People really suffered a lot under his regime and couldn't afford basic essentials. I'm glad that murderous despot is dead, and I hope Zimbabwe's economy will start to improve.
I so wanna send you a video on this topic
I hope that, now, all groups in Zimbabwe will be able to move forward with true reconciliation.
When you mean nobody will forgive him I'm guessing you're white right??
The legend of Timbuktu im not and i agree w op
@@DirtyEdon so giving the lands to incompetent workers and the country starves is better than letting the white people stay and the country gets fed?? Come on man the life expectancy is like 61 there amongst the lowest on earth.. I already know you're reply.. blame the whites regardless of how ridiculous it is
Ian Smith predicted exactly what happened.
Ian Smith is a bigot
@@xGribbles but was he wrong?
@@ironearth7013 not wrong but too unwilling to compromise until he had no choice and it wasn't on his terms if they ended the overt white supremacy earlier they could have had a chance of being like south Africa at worse.
@@MohammedAli-hl4mr there is a common misconception that Rhodesia's discrimination was as trough and complete as apartheid. Rhodesia was not like south Africa at all. south Africans needed to appease the Boers who had a long and violent history of with the African. Dating back to oranj and the Transvaal republic, Rhodesia's whites were British not Boers. the Rhodesian experiment was far different from the south African experiment. the south Africans wanted to continue a quasi slavery like they had always had while the Rhodesian wanted after stability was gained, co-prosperity. albeit with a white majority rule.
@@memyself6486 either way modern day south Africa seems like a best case scenario
I have family that we’re victims of this POS. They survived and still live in Canada today.
*Mugabe*
📢 _I blame _*_Wakanda_*_ for not sharing Vibranium!_ 💪🏿👴🏿
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lol
Can yo now do Ian Smith? (Prime Minister of Rhodesia)
The Hero himself
Yes! Thank you!
this
What hero ffs 😡😡😡 they came to our country and colonised us.... typical colonisers
Missy Chelsea you don’t have the sense of nationhood yet when you were still tribes killing for pastures and some pack of cows
*destroys the greatest economy in Africa’s History*
2019: *MUGABE IS GONE* 🦀 🦀
Why do I have the feeling that once he died people started singing the Zimbabwe's aquivalent of "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead"
He may be dead but remember - all the people who stood behind him all the way and allowed his rule are still alive and well. This will be another DPRK scenario. "Glorious leader" has died, regime continues marching.
ΝΙΚΟΣ ΝΙΚΟΣ I’m at least singing it and I’m not in anyway from that area.
The leader dies, but the kleptocracy he built lives on.
The video failed to describe the progressive economic decline that started in the 1980s as his policies slowly ruined the economy, in the 1990s things got worse until 1997 when his war veterans demanded a pension (which he paid for by printing money), in 1999 populous had enough of him which is when MDC was formed.
Whilst yes the white farms weren't procured in a noble manner, by then they'd become big commercial businesses offering employment to many and being the primary way the country acquired foreign currency reserves. The white farmers were happy to give back some land and or buy it back, to undo the colonial seizure of those lands initially.
However, Mugabe wasn't interested in doing that since he saw the white farmers as a threat to his rule, so he sent the war veterans to kill, murder, and destroy the white farmers and the commercial farming businesses. That depleted the foreign reserves the country had and launched the hyperinflation.
Yes. I recall seeing articles in the AMERICAN FREE PRESS (formerly The SPOTLIGHT). Most of the white farmers were systematically chased off of their farms or murdered, or in some cases BOTH. Most of those confiscated farms never reached profitability again.
Just another benefit of Marxism.
The rest of their "GDP" consisted mostly of currency inflation.
@@lestergillis8171 Robert Mugabe took land from Whites and gave them Blacks.
You probably see the problem with this.
White Zimbabwens on average had a college degree while the average Black Zimbabwens did not have a high school diploma.
White Zimbabwens on average were 20x richer than Black Zimbabwens.
So White Farmers usually were far more productive than Black Farmers due to their higher education and wealth.
By taking land and farms from whites and given them to blacks just because of their race, Mugabe was actually given farms from more productive farmers to less productive farmers.
This killed food supply and caused a lot of starvation
@@shalyfemusic Yes. This is true.
I'm sure there are more facets to this.
The white farmers SHOULD HAVE BEEN compensated for their losses.
Like some sort of "imminent domain ".
@@shalyfemusic land was not given to blacks due to race. Land was given to address the colonial land seizure carried out by whites. Land seizure by whites was happening as late as 1950s and early 1960s so it could be given to the post ww2 British migrants. So what Mugabe did was more of a retribution or revenging the land seizure the British colonialists carried out earlier. Otherwise black Zimbabweans were peasants in their own land which was further exacerbated due Rhodesian regime
@@westmax8491 Yes, and how did that work out for them?
A born-free myself, having experienced the downward spiral, this a good summary
Am from and still in Zimbabwe ... This guy destroyed Zimbabwe he is no hero to majority of Zimbabweans
The only people who see him as a hero are either ZANU-PF loyalists or not from Zimbabwe.
Seeing how he managed to ruin his country one must ask, what was the real value of those degrees that he got
The problem was that he fell for socialism. Socialism sounds great but, when examined more closely, makes no sense at all. Add to that, you don't have to be intelligent to have a degree in economics. Just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
@Katherine Sparkes How tf did he study economics and fall to socialism? Cs get degrees I guess
@@idipped2521 Best Economics education is read some Thomas Sowell books, specifically Basic Economics and Knowledge and Decisions.
@@xenobob2773 Add Milton Friedman and you're in for a treat. Maybe sprinkle some Reaganomics.
@@petroleumcrypt707 Reagan sucked.
COVER THE CONGO CIVIL WAR. Would love you to do lengthy history lessons. Keep up the good work Simon :)
As a South African who has close contact with Zimbabwean refugees, I found this most enlightening. Thank you!
Typical Boer. The South African people will take their land soon. You are next
Will happened to you too in future
@@shaun1364 what do you mean?
Rhodesia.. breadbasket to begging bowl, majority rule has been an outstanding success.
Today is Sunday and I am binge watching all the Biographics videos. It is amazing the things you don't know about famous people and worse the things you thought you knew that were false. Keep up the good work, Simon.
Hmmm...if you kept out the dates and names, I'd swear you were speaking of South Africa today...
So true.
And the fact the South African leaders, and their supporters, can't see that is the worst thing. It's not exactly the other side of the world or a hidden history from centuries ago.
@@danielwebb8402 The beauty about SA is that it is a democratic country. If you ain't happy, you can always leave instead of bitching and moaning, which is what y'all been doing for the past 25 years. Do you really wanna spend another 25 years pressed?
@@GraceLeo-mc4rr I've never even been to S.A..
But I know taking farms from people who know how to farm by force at below market rate / nothing has been tried in the Ukraine (so borhing to do with race) 70 years ago and Zimbabwe the past 20 years and the result is starvation.
So the current proposed S.A. policy of "land reform" is morally wrong, as theft, and intelligently wrong, as will result in the population it is trying to help having less food.
@@GraceLeo-mc4rr and it doesn't meet all criteria for a democracy.
There hasn't under the current system been a change of government where handover of power has been implemented with ease. Which is a material part of the definition of a democracy in many analyses.
@@danielwebb8402 For somebody that claims to have never lived in SA, you sure seems to know a lot. Btw which farmer in SA had their farm forcefully been taken away from them?
The land reform has been something the government has been talking about for years now but that's all it's been..talks. So what are you on about?
After using his ashes to line a communal kitty litter box for a colony of cats suffering from chronic diarrhea, they should then be dumped down the nearest 3 day festival portaloo.
Wait, you're saying a Socialist Revolutionary got into power and turned into a genocidal dictator? Wow. That almost never happens.
Oh, wait...
Socialist? No, Mugabe was a Communist. Mugabe was certainly no National Socialist ("Notsee").
He was seen as a ruthless leader, just for wanting to give his people their farms and land back. R.i.p Gushungo
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His people as in who? The average Zimbabwean (at least the ones who knew how to farm) the ZANU-PF members and supporters?
@@shauncameron8390 I meant his people as in the Black Zimbabweans
he didn't say there will never be black rule he said this 'Let me say it again. I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia-not in a thousand years. I repeat that I believe in blacks and whites working together'
Your point is?
Cameron Jones he made it look like Ian smith was a racist by not including the full quote.
You should do one on Lewis & Clark..
Or the Marquis de Lafayette . 19 year old ignores King Louis and buys a ship to leave cushy life at Versailles to fight alongside Washington for free. Ends up becoming like a son to Washington and continued his entire life Dedicating his wealth, time, etc to liberty. Was so dedicated that twice he was asked to become king or dictator of France and turned it down.
Yeah, Lafayette would be super cool! Comments would be flooded with Hamilton fans, though...
Henryk Gödel Yeah he came back for the 50th anniversary of the revolution and spent a year traveling to all 24 states. They said in NYC 80,000 people came out to welcome him (NYCs population was 120,000). Everywhere he was celebrating and meeting with Jefferson (they both cried) , Madison, Monroe, etc.
He wrote The Rights of Man (Frances bill of rights) but he was stuck in the middle. He wanted a constitutional monarch because there were too many institutions and customs in France . When people tried killing the king and queen he managed to stop the mob but he had them come to Paris. In the middle of the night Thomas Paine (who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense) was awoken by Lafayette saying “the birds tried fleeing!!” The reign of terror began. He tried fleeing and ended up in Austrian prison because they said he was a “dangerous revolutionary”. The last year his wife and daughters joined him (after a year of silence And solitary confinement). She had sent their son Georges Washington Lafayette to live with the real George Washington. Her mother. Sisters, etc were all guillotined. He returned to France under Napoleon and refused to be in his government. He continued following the example of Washington.
People had been really critical of him but like Jefferson said, he wanted to be liked so he got caught up in trying to please everyone because he didn’t please anyone. But they recently found letters of his in his old home. He preached liberty to all.. after his wife died (the prison caused her health problems) he would spend 15 min in her memory than spent over 2 hours a day writing and linking people together. His correspondence was with: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Simón Bolívar, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles James Fox, Andrew Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, La Colombe, Louis XVIII, James Madison, James Monroe, Napoleon I, Thomas Paine, Louis-Philippe Ségur, Madame de Staël, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Pèrigord, Martin Van Buren, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, George Washington, and Martha Washington.
He also was vehemently opposed to slavery and even bought a plantation and over time gave them land etc to show how slowly they could integrate into society. He also hid revolutionary’s in his home.
There’s so much more. Like when Jefferson asked him to be in charge of the Louisiana Purchase but he turned it down because his “work wasn’t done “. and before Napoleon and after he was asked but said no.
My grades are going down of binge watching this videos but for some reason I have an A on my history class
WIN WIN
Thank you for the heart.
I love the content you make
Well you only need either money or education in the world. Hopefully you have money.
That's a Win/Lose.
Oh my, stay in school.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
PHALANX Odds are you’re getting a far better education here. Cheers.
I see thos as an absolute win!
Rhodesians never die, but Mugabe sure did.
Sure did the other Rhodesians.
Zimbabwe will never be colony again.
@@terencetizirai125 Amen bro
Too bad it wasn't from a FAL.
@@Demospammer9987 FAL?
Could you do a video on Ian Smith? Considering Rhodesia was one of the few successful African states post colonialism before Mugabe tore it all down.
Actually, Somalia was once considered “the Switzerland of Africa” that was before Siad barre took it over.(look it up)
Rhodesia turning into Zimbabwe is the perfect storm of Cold War Politics, Decolonization, Self Determination, and Race Issues
@@LaneCorbett Never did. Rhodesia forever. " Occupied Rhodesia ", perhaps
@@Chino56751 Exactly Brother Rhodesia is occupied by Comunist Black Supremacists and if we're not careful South Africa will wind up the same
Am glad Mugabe turned a so called Western country into our own self dependent country called 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼
Please Simon do a video on Ian smith, the Prime minister of Rhodesia during the UDI period.
A big thanks to Andrew Young for insisting that Mugabe be president - and an even bigger one to the UK for pushing for "democracy" in Rhodesia. One of your brighter moments of collusion with the devil.
Yep. The UK governments can be as cretinous as any African one.
Regarding Zimbabwe, it would be interesting to see a bio of someone almost forgotten in the western lexicon, Abel Muzorewa. Zimbabwe could have been a functioning democracy were it not for the stupendous incompetence of Jimmy Carter, who refused to recognize Muzorewa's government.
Lived in Rhodesia through all that, then 1 year of Zimbabwe. Thought it would take 5 years for them to trash it... One was enough to see the writing on the wall. Mugabes role models were Stalin and Hitler. He greatly admired both. The statistics for the 5th brigades slaughter of the Endebele was closer to 5,000. Pamphlets were captured in raids in the 70,s hat outline Mugabe's three phase plan of the chimerical, freedom war, 1 . Win war , 2 eliminate any opposition. 3 violently take productive farms. He fooled the western nations big time.... So sad , it was a beautiful country with huge potential, now its another failed African state.
Rhodesians never die ✊
Finally he's gone. He will not be missed. Epic crabs dancing.
Impressive timing - so did you have it on the back burner just waiting ?
Amanda Morton It’s hilarious to imagine the Biographics team circling like vultures over the guy’s head while the comments section begs them to do a video on him, and Simon just responds “Soon, my children, soon...”
🤣🤣🤣I swear they had the script half written already
While this is once again a good video, "chase away" is not nearly strong enough of a description for the crimes that happened on those farms.
This, however, gives you an excellent opportunity to make a video about this subject, or the adrift whites no longer welcome in the country they once proudly called home.
Keep up the great content!
No less euphamistic than Whenwe Rhodesian description of the black experience under apartheid rule.
@@ShingiSamudzi atleast they had something to eat and live in decent infrastructure, because the people leading them had an IQ of 100, not 70 like Mugabe
Save South Africa! Wake up world! My country is falling...
South Africa will fall. The question is will the US be dumb enough to fall to the same mistakes
@@idipped2521 the US will be fine. Because your founding fathers were geniuses. Whereas ANC Mandela govt deliberately centralised power in 94.
@@regalsmartie11 To a certain degree you are right but but the left here are trying to centralize power and tighten their grip over our society. And the "intellectuals" at universities love it. The U.S. will be headed towards the same direction if the threat is not dealt with
@@idipped2521 all threats must be dealt with. But the ultimate level of threat is thwarted by the genius design of your political system. The ANC hated it and thats why they chose a Commie design...
Come to America!
Rip Rhodesia. Woulda been a great nation
Yes. A great nation where the black citizens are second class citizens to white colonizers.
Jalen Lane haha clearly you haven’t done your research on Rhodesia🤦🏾♂️
@@virginalax44 A simple Google search proves that I'm right. I'll take the word of people from Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe's grandson is a doctor in Las Vegas Nevada. He is my baby daughters and her mother's doctor. He's a pretty good doctor no complaints. Except the long wait to get in to see him! Next week is her doctor's appointment. I'm going to go and give my condolences! Thanks for the video Simon
What's that got to do with anything?
@@Firegen1 Obviously you didn't listen to the subject matter!
Rhodesia was Africa’s most prosperous nation.. then Mugabe burned everything down.
As the saying goes, "You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain."
4:20 the name of this guy is "sithole" .
hahah
sounds like....SHITHOLE...coincidence? I think not >:)
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Do Ian Smith
People didn't starve in Rhodesia
A Zimbabwean once told me a joke to illustrate the desperation of what .ordinary thieves would do to get something of value. A man goes to the shops to buy some bread,he uses a wheelbarrow full of Zimbabwe dollars, on his way to the shops,some thieves steal his wheelbarrow and throw away the money
Thanks for the great content as always. I appreciated your final thoughts of the video.
Any interest in Huey "King Fish" Long?
+1. That's makes me think of a related person, Upton Sinclair.
My friend Dave grew up in Rhodesia and fought in that war for the Rhodesian army. Mugabe had him jailed after the war ended and he spent 3 years in the notorious prison in Harare. He told me some pretty amazing stories of his adventures there.
We here in places like America need to take this to heart. We are never more than one generation away from complete tyranny.
no that is ridiculous, if we didnt have the constitution this would have happened years ago. but if someone did do this we have the second amendment and militias to fight back
Here's the story of Rhodesia, a land both fair and great. On 11th of November an independent state. This was much against the wishes of certain governments. Whose leaders tried to break us down, to make us all repent.
'Cause we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin. We'll keep our land a free land, stop the enemy coming in. We'll keep them north of the Zambezi till that river's running dry. This mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die.
They can send their men to murder and they can shout their words of hate. But the cost of keeping this land free will never be too great. For our men and boys are fighting for the things that they hold dear. This land and all its people will never disappear.
'Cause we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin. We'll keep our land a free land, stop the enemy coming in. We'll keep them north of the Zambezi till that river's running dry. This mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die.
We'll preserve this little nation, for our children's children too. For once you're a Rhodesian, no other land will do We will stand forth in the sunshine, with the truth upon our side. And if we have to go alone, we'll go alone with pride.
Cause' we're all Rhodesians and we'll fight through thick and thin. We'll keep our land a free land, stop the enemy coming in. We'll keep them north of the Zambezi till that river's running dry. This mighty land will prosper for Rhodesians never die
But you've died.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain." Mugabe embodied this quote more than any known leader out there.
no he was never a hero
He called himself 'the modern Hitler'. Proudly i might add. What kind of a fucking hero does anything like that.
Our last communist leader, Nicholas Ceausescu, also embodied this quote before his execution on 25th December 1989 after the Romanian revolution.
@@shaun1364 He didn't give independence to anything you moron. He was a murderer and ruined the countries economy. The only independence the people gained was an independence to be exiled, executed or starve to death.
@@shaun1364 He killed fellow Africans and took their property under the pretext of liberation, all for personal power like any other dime-a-dozen warlord. Rhodesia had much better racial integration than Zimbabwe has ever had.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - A student & a teacher
4:05 - Chapter 2 - A slow rise to the top
8:25 - Chapter 3 - The rain & the chaff
11:40 - Chapter 4 - Executive President
14:10 - Chapter 5 - Land grab
18:40 - Chapter 6 - How to ruin a country
20:35 - Chapter 7 - A bloodless correction
'Chase away' is real polite way of saying butchered them.
Nice , you left out a war though. Pretty odd
Not to forget trade embargoes by the US, EU and Australia interestingly coinciding with Zimbabwe's economic collapse, as was also done by Washington to demoralise Venezuela and bring the people against another leader the West disliked.
I bought one of those hundred trillion dollar bills. For like... $5. Now it's worth a whole lot more than that. But while I was looking for them, I came across a picture of a guy in Zimbabwe holding a sign that said "Starving billionaire"... that really spoke out to me.
I was in Zimbabwe in 2000, it was a really sudden shift from running normally to massive fuel crisis. It only got worse after I left.
The same week Mugabe died, there was a searing heat wave in most of South Africa. We joked that the heat was a result of the gates of hell opening up to receive him.
It was very cold in Zimbabwe when he died
1:08 ..... the White population in Rhodesia wasn't 270k until the mid 1970s, or even above 100k until after WW2. the stats you showed early in the video seem to be from the UDI period, not colonial times
I urge you to watch Stefan Molyneux' video on him. He goes into the numbers a bit
Could you please do video about António de Oliveira Salazar ?
He was a Portuguese Dictator from 1932 to 1968.
Portuguese history often gets overlooked. Salazar would be a good one.
Simon, I have seen your Zimbabwe coup video on VisualPolitek and I have to say that although you are on point with the facts there is one subtle but important omission and that is the clan differences among the Shona speaking peoples. Many centuries ago these different clans were actually different tribes, but have converged linguistically, culturally and genetically over time. Mugabe and his acolytes come from the Zezuru clan whereas Mnangagwa and his supporters are mainly drawn from the Karanga clan. The coup was not just about replacing the leader, but an entire overhaul of the patronage network within Zanu Pf, ushering in a period of Karanga hegemony to the detriment of the Zezuru faction. The same party is still in power, but the centre of power has moved within it.
Tatenda Shamwari for taking about this Simon, love your content.
I wish that when I was at school that they taught us key figures in as much detail as you do in your videos!
Do your best, and look forward to knowing science and technology will help the next generations be better off.
Would you want to do exams on them though. I have watched so many of these videos that right now I start videos in my recommended and realize halfway through the video that I've already seen/heard this one. I would not do well when given a test on Simon's contents, for as much time as I spend consuming them.
School is only a basis after all. That's why College exists. Their intention is not to teach you everything, nor the most interesting bits... but just enough to try and prevent history from repeating itself. From there, our education is in our own hands to stuff our heads with whatever we're passionate about.
I saw someone suggests Mugabe the other day on your comment section for another video. It is amazing how quickly your team adapts to it's fan base. I love the channel and will continue to watch in the future. I'm just starting this video but I'm looking forward to learning a few new things before I go to bed. Best of luck in your endeavors. Thanks for the video!
Do one on his polar oposite, Sir Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana.
proudly Zimbabwean , this is amazing Simon , loving the historical diversity
Now you must do a video about Ian Smith.
I'd love it if you could make a video on Ozzy Osbourne
The Prince of Darkness himself? Si.
I don't think they could monetize a video that referenced cocaine and hookers every other sentence.
Ozzy's still alive, I don't think they do alive people for bios anymore for reasons
Odd. It's almost as if the civilian populace were better off under British rule.
always very enlightening and educational biographies! PLEASE do one about General Sani Abacha of Nigeria. PLEASE!!
“The rain which washes the chafe away”
That’s a pretty badass.
Should do a video on rhodesian pm Ian Smith and the Bush war from the rhodesian army perspective
im am zimbabwean i saw this happening
Only one murderer gone, but so many are still in office.
Brilliant speech at the end Simon lovely bit of sarcasm
What about a video on Ferdinand Marcos?(10th president of the Philippines)
I was in Zimbabwe around the time of Bob Mugabe’s funeral. They locals had a great song.
“Bob the builder, can he fix it?!
Bob the builder….no, no he can’t.”
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A degree in economics! Off a cereal box by the looks of it.