Salisbury And Suburbs - Rhodesia (1960-1969)

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  • čas přidán 12. 04. 2014
  • Salisbury and suburbs, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
    CU water fountain in park, pan out to aerial view, pan across blocks of flats. Aerial view car parking in centre of main road. Water fountain through tops of trees. Big church in square beside park. Pan out from native Rhodesian sitting on a bench. Pan along passed man crouching on grass verge. Pan along (mostly) whitewashed suburban houses and bungalows, with lawns and garages, cars and caravans. Native Rhodesian's tending one of the gardens. Pan along passed road sign 'Caithness Road' and another saying 'Midlothian Ave' ? Pan along stores including Bon Marche, Sweet Corner, Shell garage. Native Rhodesians loading groceries ? in brown paper bags into white lady's car. Native Rhodesian walking after a family with trolley full of brown paper bags and loads the front of the car.
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Komentáře • 729

  • @aubreycary7251
    @aubreycary7251 Před 4 lety +309

    I miss my lovely home town. Lovely memory. .40 years ago. Best years of my life.

    • @noahdanonce564
      @noahdanonce564 Před 3 lety +8

      weird query, did you ever hear of/ go to Ellis Robins high school in the mid 1960s, as this was the time my Dad lived there and hes trying to get in touch with old classmates

    • @aubreycary7251
      @aubreycary7251 Před 3 lety +18

      Sorry mate I was in the army in the 60 s. Good luck my friend.

    • @leemon908
      @leemon908 Před 3 lety +27

      I'm only 22. I wasn't ever alive while this great country was around. But I can tell you I would move to Rhodesia in a heart beat if it were still here! Love from 🇨🇦

    • @aubreycary7251
      @aubreycary7251 Před 3 lety +13

      @@leemon908 it was the best time for me growing up. Although I went to boarding school in gwelo. Then I joined the R L I. It was still my home town and I loved it. Cheers.

    • @paulacunha6792
      @paulacunha6792 Před 3 lety +7

      Yes i, m too.. my beautiful rodesia

  • @ladvertisement3587
    @ladvertisement3587 Před 2 lety +100

    The lack of audio just makes it seem all the more distant and surreal. Really makes you think about what we lost.

  • @Mman07311
    @Mman07311 Před 4 lety +705

    This looks like an insanely nice place to live

    • @mrx-gn2zj
      @mrx-gn2zj Před 4 lety +12

      💖👌👍

    • @MrSimonw58
      @MrSimonw58 Před 4 lety +88

      Went there in 2007 ... I ate a carrot for dinner

    • @TwoPyramid
      @TwoPyramid Před 4 lety +132

      @@MrSimonw58 The only way to truly go there is with a time machine.

    • @gazof-the-north1980
      @gazof-the-north1980 Před 4 lety +121

      It sure does. But now that country is wrecked, everyone is a Trillionaire (shame its barely worth the paper its printed on though), many were killed but the lefties think that's fine because the Whites were removed from power........

    • @Mman07311
      @Mman07311 Před 4 lety +65

      @@gazof-the-north1980 hopefully one day they'll get a non Marxist government for the sake of Zimbabweans and their health

  • @ladydianagonifas
    @ladydianagonifas Před 2 lety +107

    Oh my goodness, so many wonderful memories , those were the most wonderful years of my life growing up in Rhodesia, we never appreciated how blessed we were.

    • @oriettoberti2501
      @oriettoberti2501 Před 2 lety +1

      Where do u live now?

    • @ladydianagonifas
      @ladydianagonifas Před 2 lety +16

      @@oriettoberti2501 We live in Wyoming USA, love it here, but never forget our memorable wonderful years growing up in Rhodesia.

    • @MAGA_MAGADZE
      @MAGA_MAGADZE Před rokem +13

      Очень жаль вашу чудесную страну! Очень жаль! Rhodesia will never die

    • @Elhungarorey
      @Elhungarorey Před 11 měsíci +2

      I don’t know anyone from Rhodesia but makes me sad to see what happened.

    • @darrendixon19
      @darrendixon19 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ladydianagonifaswhat part of Rhodesia did you grow up?

  • @Stephan_01
    @Stephan_01 Před rokem +33

    This brings me back nearly 58 years, attending St. Michaels boarding school in Salisbury. Even now I mis Life in Rhodesia.

  • @truezladye1893
    @truezladye1893 Před 4 lety +332

    Zimbabweans should comment truthfully about what life is really like today 2020. My 98 yr old Granny can tell you what life was really like back then. The younger generation have been brainwashed that's why they see suffering and poverty as normal. Every month I send money ku musha (home) to my extended family, it hurts because things are getting worse and there is only so much I can do to help. 😥😭🙏

    • @kiran-yz8io
      @kiran-yz8io Před 4 lety +10

      Still whites live there??? Why west is not helping them??

    • @truezladye1893
      @truezladye1893 Před 4 lety +43

      @@kiran-yz8io bad leadership is what is making life bad. Its only China that has a grip in Zim.

    • @kiran-yz8io
      @kiran-yz8io Před 4 lety +6

      @@truezladye1893 yes those fools deserve chinese control ..... r u white zimbabwen???

    • @truezladye1893
      @truezladye1893 Před 4 lety +20

      @@kiran-yz8io no, I'm mixed race

    • @kiran-yz8io
      @kiran-yz8io Před 4 lety +3

      @@truezladye1893 do u think south africa going that way??? ..... now i know why jesus said love ur neighbours

  • @pindybaloyi8072
    @pindybaloyi8072 Před 3 lety +97

    The country was absolutely great, with smart and clean people.

    • @qr8440
      @qr8440 Před 2 lety +1

      @Der Traubengott White and Black Rhodesians, the quality of life was much better for both back then.

    • @pixel6698
      @pixel6698 Před 2 lety +14

      @@qr8440 Black people were practically treated as slaves.

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 Před 2 lety +1

      And now they starve or get murdered

    • @brothernumber1576
      @brothernumber1576 Před 2 lety +34

      @@pixel6698 Wrong. Name an African country where European colonization made life worse for the average person. For sure many atrocities were committed by the colonizers. But on the balance, if you look at life expectancy, education level, general living standards, etc, life was vastly improved everywhere in Africa, thanks to Europeans.

    • @pixel6698
      @pixel6698 Před 2 lety +11

      @@brothernumber1576 Literally reciting imperialist propaganda. Slavery and colonization absolutely devestated Africa and are largely why Africa is still so underdeveloped. Africa is still being exploited by foreign powers today. Many of the "improvements" Europe made to Africa were just to be able to exploit the continent easier.

  • @MarkSlatter
    @MarkSlatter Před 5 lety +137

    6:18 Ice cream man... Brings back good memories.

    • @MrSimonw58
      @MrSimonw58 Před 4 lety +1

      A blind kid kicked the ice cream man to death

    • @Thatsme849
      @Thatsme849 Před 4 lety +10

      Simon Watts well thats not very nice

  • @brandenburg2388
    @brandenburg2388 Před 2 lety +86

    Rhodesia was far more developed than my country in the 1960s. But today, the situation is the opposite. My country had progressed further while Zimbabwe has gone backwards.

    • @FirstNameLastName-qx8ii
      @FirstNameLastName-qx8ii Před 2 lety +3

      @B0omer96 what political ongoing could have possibly caused this downward trend in quality of life?

    • @moisesaguirre515
      @moisesaguirre515 Před 2 lety +1

      What country are you from

    • @brandenburg2388
      @brandenburg2388 Před 2 lety +30

      @@moisesaguirre515 I am from Malaysia. Rhodesia was highly regarded here in the 1960s and 1970s for its high standards of living in the whole of Africa.

  • @Wolf-hh4rv
    @Wolf-hh4rv Před 2 lety +24

    Such a wonderful place to live. Treasured memories. Gone forever, into the darkness

  • @linvans183
    @linvans183 Před 6 lety +213

    My beautiful home town

    • @blessingcharakupa3297
      @blessingcharakupa3297 Před 5 lety

      😚

    • @ColonizerChan
      @ColonizerChan Před 4 lety +49

      Keith Watson
      They tried to stop it. The west, the USA, UK, the commonwealth, we failed Rhodesia

    • @IvanIvanov-uw6nq
      @IvanIvanov-uw6nq Před 4 lety +10

      Keith Watson too bad that your politics sold Rhodesia out

    • @Thatsme849
      @Thatsme849 Před 4 lety +5

      Thumos Aeterna for obviously. Look at the state of it now

    • @Coilzz
      @Coilzz Před 4 lety +1

      @@keithwatson1384 are you do stupid the country did so well it was just that everyone betrayed them for no reason. They got called out for everything they were doing, and called racist when they had done nothing bad.

  • @arthurn8952
    @arthurn8952 Před 3 lety +43

    The last images are from the Eastlea area of Harare and Eastlea shopping centre. Some of the roads like Caithness and Thurso Close are still there to this day. Awesome trip to the past

  • @FAYABLAZER
    @FAYABLAZER Před 9 lety +339

    It was very organised...we threw the baby with the bathwater.

    • @traceymandloe1194
      @traceymandloe1194 Před 5 lety +8

      Very good expression , kkkkk

    • @KA-id4wt
      @KA-id4wt Před 4 lety +18

      Naw, they drowned the baby in the bath water.

    • @deerhunter7482
      @deerhunter7482 Před 4 lety +3

      They would tear up an anvil .

    • @sc3rwd4hk34hk
      @sc3rwd4hk34hk Před 3 lety +2

      Who is "we" ? (Many Americans then didnt like the (halfway or totally communist) ANC/ZANU garbage at all. Only left-wing ones did.)

    • @techhub901
      @techhub901 Před 3 lety +4

      Very organised and very oppressive

  • @ladydianagonifas
    @ladydianagonifas Před 2 lety +15

    I'm sure I saw our old army green Ford Anglia parked in front on the Bon Marche supermarket.

  • @AmiraSmyrna
    @AmiraSmyrna Před 2 lety +15

    Mom and dad lived there and many other places being in the BSAP he was moved around alot. Their fondest memories of a beautiful country.

    • @LornaKellyZim
      @LornaKellyZim Před rokem

      My folks also in BSAPandalsomoved around another. Such a wonderful place to be

  • @jeffb.140
    @jeffb.140 Před 3 lety +70

    UK stabbed it in its back

    • @rat_king-
      @rat_king- Před 2 lety +1

      Labour ruins everything. as usual

    • @oliverford5367
      @oliverford5367 Před 2 lety

      Would you have volunteered to go over and fight?

    • @rat_king-
      @rat_king- Před 2 lety +1

      @@oliverford5367 How much ammunition you got spare? because that is really the question.

    • @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611
      @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611 Před 2 lety +1

      @@rat_king- after ww2, colonialism was a costly project especially power capital were shifted from London, Paris to Moscow and Washington.

  • @swag_8884
    @swag_8884 Před rokem +7

    reminds me a lot of videos taken in my town in australia during the same time, down to the climate and roads

  • @Dreaded88
    @Dreaded88 Před 3 lety +67

    *RHODESIA WAS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!!*

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes, very true: for the privileged white minority.

    • @Dreaded88
      @Dreaded88 Před 3 lety +23

      @@rutasa3182 :
      Nah, they worked hard, and saved up for it!
      Then creatures like you ruined it! *_>:(_*

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Dreaded88 Yes we did! We 'ruined' racism, segregation and the oppression of black people. How good is that!!!
      All people are equal whether you like it or not. Judging by your choice of words, you don't. Sadly for you the world has moved on. Goodbye sir.

    • @nolandcharleskinder296
      @nolandcharleskinder296 Před 3 lety +7

      @@rutasa3182 moved on? Degenerated you mean.

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety

      @@nolandcharleskinder296 Sorry sir, what was your response to my comment about racism and segregation?

  • @GreencampRhodie
    @GreencampRhodie Před 3 lety +17

    Ahhh, good old Bon Marche & Dairy Den. Now that's memories!

  • @p.w.4203
    @p.w.4203 Před 2 lety +14

    What a beautiful clean country.

  • @TenOrbital
    @TenOrbital Před 3 lety +41

    Very similar to inland Australian suburbia of the time, with the eucalypts and landscape. California, too, for the same reasons. Cars not so much, maybe.

    • @TenOrbital
      @TenOrbital Před 11 měsíci

      @@jerrycarrera10 - Australia had its own auto manufacturers then, and America of course. Some overlap with British and European models I guess.

  • @michaelmajor4450
    @michaelmajor4450 Před 2 lety +13

    the place looks beautiful very neat and tidy if they only knew what hell awaited them i'm sure all the people that lived in these houses are gone i'd like to a tv crew go to the same area now i bet it wouldn't be a pretty sight now

  • @BlackApache17
    @BlackApache17 Před 3 lety +33

    This place doesn't exist anymore except in the memories of those that lived there. The place now is a dump without any clean running water

    • @tg-us3hw
      @tg-us3hw Před 2 lety +2

      please dont come back if you've left and if you haven't please leave

    • @Changowarlord
      @Changowarlord Před 2 lety +7

      @@tg-us3hw no

  • @Gre1ems
    @Gre1ems Před 11 měsíci +8

    what a nice city, i sure do hope they kept up the standard!

  • @Khayyam-vg9fw
    @Khayyam-vg9fw Před 9 lety +38

    If you're interested in getting more up to date, Bram Vermeulen has a series in Dutch (although the Zimbabweans speak English with him, of course), "Dwars door Afrika".

  • @munyaradzimasvovera5812
    @munyaradzimasvovera5812 Před 3 lety +32

    it really was a little london 👏🏿

    • @alicem.5779
      @alicem.5779 Před 3 lety +11

      London is not as beautiful as this.

    • @munyaradzimasvovera5812
      @munyaradzimasvovera5812 Před 3 lety +1

      @@alicem.5779 ohh is it, i have never been to London, we just see videos and images of it

    • @alicem.5779
      @alicem.5779 Před 3 lety +7

      @@munyaradzimasvovera5812
      Houses like these in the UK as a whole are owned by people with real money. The majority of people stay in back to back 1 or 2 story houses which were built in the 1900s or earlier than that.
      Those houses we see are still there in Zimbabwe, the upkeep and maintenance might have gone down but still an average Londoner will not even dream of buying many of the houses we see in Zimbabwean towns and cities.

    • @ElwoodBluesAK
      @ElwoodBluesAK Před 3 lety +3

      Then your kind ruined it.

    • @dumplingsbig1184
      @dumplingsbig1184 Před 3 lety

      @@alicem.5779 The buildings in London look better and have much more history but the living conditions are nothing like this.

  • @lonewolf4000
    @lonewolf4000 Před 10 lety +78

    Thanks for posting. Nice to look back on some of this old footage. Do you know which shopping center this was ?

    • @naijanistan
      @naijanistan Před 9 lety +8

      This reminds me of the horrors that we went through from the hands of the criminal settlers. To them, it reminds them of the good times.

    • @E-D-E2704
      @E-D-E2704 Před 5 lety +48

      @@naijanistan and now your horrors are a thousand times worse bwaaaahahaha bwaaahahaha

    • @traceymandloe1194
      @traceymandloe1194 Před 5 lety +5

      @@E-D-E2704 you can say that again .

    • @samwarmate9291
      @samwarmate9291 Před 4 lety +14

      The Common Sense Ambassador the horrors u are facing from fellow black rulers is purgatory itself.it has no end and over 5 million black Zimbabweans have fled the hell hole it has become.why are we black Africans so destructive? I just despair.i hope black South Africans do not follow the path the rest of Africa took economically,politically and socially.if they do they will be shooting themselves in the foot.

    • @SuperPieninja
      @SuperPieninja Před 4 lety

      @@E-D-E2704 Both are bad, get over it

  • @user-rs4hv1bo5f
    @user-rs4hv1bo5f Před 3 lety +90

    I never knew Zimbabwe looked so much nicer and more affluent than the U.S. in the 60s. It's shocking to see how the country deteriiorated. Sadly, the USA is going on the same path.

    • @emilegriffith1473
      @emilegriffith1473 Před 3 lety +6

      This is how and where a tiny tiny minority lived

    • @dumplingsbig1184
      @dumplingsbig1184 Před 3 lety +17

      @@emilegriffith1473 My uncle lived there he said most places where nice, especially the city centres. Rhodesia had a economy the equivalent to New Zealands.

    • @dantastic7
      @dantastic7 Před 2 lety +4

      @@dumplingsbig1184 Most places were nice except for all the horrible slums the majority of the nation was forced into

    • @strahinjakuresevic6570
      @strahinjakuresevic6570 Před 2 lety +11

      It's not Zimbabwe it is Rhodesia!!

    • @pixel6698
      @pixel6698 Před 2 lety +3

      @@strahinjakuresevic6570 It's not 1979 it's 2021.

  • @prebenjaeger
    @prebenjaeger Před 3 lety +40

    Have they built any new buildings since this was recorded?

    • @A-O161
      @A-O161 Před 3 lety +51

      No but they deleted many

    • @tigershoot
      @tigershoot Před 3 lety +12

      Some new buildings have been built with Chinese money. The Sheraton Hotel was built in the mid 80s as was the Karigamombe centre and the Reseve Bank building. The Sports Stadium was also built. By and large though, the layout you see and most of the buildings date from Rhodesia days.
      As for Bulawayo, then it's in a time warp as are most of the other places. All that seems to have changed is the condition. Everything looks more run-down.

    • @yani2499
      @yani2499 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ricot2000 they smell just as bad and like our previous guests, they don't know the meaning of water nor soap.

    • @016162877
      @016162877 Před 3 lety +5

      Yeah Mugabe's blue roof residence.
      I have been there several times in the past years. The cities are terrible. . Lost baggage at the airport is recorded in a blank piece of paper and a 10 year old sheet of copy paper produces a duplicate. !! Light bulbs in the international airport are so old and dim inside it's hard to tell day from night. Zero maintenance is apparent on anything in the whole country. God help anybody needing hospital care! Very sad just to think what it was to what it has become. Corruption is almost the only path to succeed in Zimbabwe. I visited schools and can only wonder at the dedication of teachers and staff. Most don't get paid regularly and what they do earn is shockingly low! Thank you Mugabe...... Terrible

    • @Pazvagwamunhumashokoanowanda
      @Pazvagwamunhumashokoanowanda Před 3 lety +3

      Of course, during this era, the Pergasus Building was the tallest. Now it is hardly visible. There are also more residential homes than this era. The only thing that did not develop is the industry and meaningful employment.

  • @andrewhaynes9839
    @andrewhaynes9839 Před 3 lety +35

    Beautiful country built by European settlers in just 90 years and now destroyed sadly

  • @edgarbanuelos6472
    @edgarbanuelos6472 Před 2 lety +8

    Nostalgia for a haven that no longer exists

  • @marianafrancisco8773
    @marianafrancisco8773 Před 3 lety +22

    Nice. Today is different

  • @BlueStarJT
    @BlueStarJT Před 3 lety +54

    The uk " government " stabbed rhodesia in the back , the average uk citizen is innocent dont tar us with the same brush as our government. the average uk citizen had a farm in that country at one point or was in the rhodesian army , huge respect for the people who lived in rhodesia and had to go through those troubled times .

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety

      Thank you Soldier Blue! There are so many Rhodesians who are trying to convince the world that Rhodesians aren't and weren't racist.
      Your answer proves my case that Rhodesians and
      Rhodesian sympathisers are incredibly racist!
      Do you think that if Germany had occupied Britain during the second world war, that that would have been acceptable?
      On what basis was the German occupation of France during the 2nd world war acceptable?
      Can you see my point?
      Your answer suggests that you see black people as subhuman: That a black indigenous population should not be seen as the rightful occupiers of their homeland.
      As a member of the civilised part of the world, you will no doubt agree that one should treat others as one would want to be treated.
      On that basis, the Chinese occupation of Great Britain today would be perfectly acceptable to you! Before you tell me that 'the Chinese already have' I mean a Rhodesian style occupation!

    • @BlueStarJT
      @BlueStarJT Před 3 lety +18

      @@rutasa3182 there is so many wrong points in your comment that i carnt even begin to answer them all , i dont think anyone is subhuman i respect all people , the point is , the "white" and black rhodesians fought and died for rhodesian safety and kept the country stable , then after the fall of the government whites were targeted hunted down and either murdered or forced to flee the country. If that is not racism and plain hatred i dont know what is .

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +3

      @@BlueStarJT You are taking the easy way out Mr Blue and I strongly suspect that if you did have an answer for every one of my 'wrong points' as you call them you would present your evidence to refute my arguments.
      I hope people who are seeking to understand the history of Rhodesia will not rely on CZcams comments but...
      1. Read historical documents concerning the Rhodesian era.
      2. Talk to black Zimbabweans who lived through the era.
      3. Talk to non-racist white and black Zimbabweans who are not seeking to rewrite Rhodesia's history.
      4. Talk to people from many parts of the world who can testify to the racism and injustice of Rhodesia, many of whom have written books about their lives and experiences in Rhodesia.
      5. Judge the failures of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia separately: Mugabe cannot be Rhodesia's defence. If anything Mugabe learnt how to oppress his political opponents from his predecessors!

    • @BlueStarJT
      @BlueStarJT Před 3 lety +7

      @@rutasa3182 your smooth talking bullshit carnt help you here my brother , your carnt chop me to death with a machete in the youtube comments , you blatantly ignore my point of whites being murdered ? That is the biggest red flag ? Black and white tried to make a beautiful country whilst dealing with the communists and every other faction and rebels from countries from all sides , my grandfather was a white rhodesian soldier , farm owner , when the government fell , one month later our family had to evacuate because a convoy of 6 vehicles of armed men were coming to murder a d burn the farm down because they refused to leave .

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +2

      @@BlueStarJT I'm very sorry about your grandfather. Being evacuated must have been very difficult for him and his family. As well as experiencing a devastating loss, it must have also been quite terrifying for them.

  • @johnnylongfeather3086
    @johnnylongfeather3086 Před 10 měsíci +8

    Ian Smith was right.

  • @blackbirdxx4613
    @blackbirdxx4613 Před 3 lety +28

    What a beautiful country we had

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před 2 lety +1

      It wasn't yours to have in the first place

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +20

      @@tvs9978 How is life in independent Zimbabwe

    • @mh7a135
      @mh7a135 Před rokem +9

      ​@@tvs9978 stop acting like your grandparents didn't have a better life in Rhodesia

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před rokem

      @@mh7a135 . Rhodesia never existed. It's a figment of your racist imagination.

  • @brolocker1591
    @brolocker1591 Před 2 lety +8

    How green was my valley!

  • @Telluwide
    @Telluwide Před 3 lety +15

    Wonder what those same places look like today....

  • @conservative-proud
    @conservative-proud Před 10 měsíci +3

    Oh yes I recognise those shops on Jameson Ave, and the Dairy Den…

  • @kudim3185
    @kudim3185 Před 3 lety +3

    stunning place

  • @user-gy8cb6dw7p
    @user-gy8cb6dw7p Před 2 lety +4

    Beautiful

  • @AS-hv2ux
    @AS-hv2ux Před 3 lety +17

    Compare now to then and enjoy. You got what you wanted!

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +1

      No, we didn't get what we wanted but we still hope. Hoping for a prosperous Zimbabwe for all.

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety

      By your tone, I suspect that what you want is a return to segregation, white privilege and racism.

    • @nolandcharleskinder296
      @nolandcharleskinder296 Před 3 lety +7

      @@rutasa3182 you've been listening to too many white SJWs. You should learn to accept diversity. Nothing wrong with whites. Or whites being in power.

    • @rutasa3182
      @rutasa3182 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nolandcharleskinder296 What makes you think that I have a problem with white people being PART OF government?
      I referred to RACISM, SEGREGATION and WHITE PRIVILEGE.
      It doesn't surprise that you failed to address that.
      No bass, sir, me statement is me own statement - no white man give me me statement, bass sir!

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +3

      @@rutasa3182 many black people had very nice home back then

  • @tanyahouse1724
    @tanyahouse1724 Před 2 lety +11

    That was the time when. Rhodesia is under the white 🥺🥺🙏

  • @markdahl3249
    @markdahl3249 Před 3 lety +5

    A Gem of a place to live....

  • @cc35506
    @cc35506 Před 4 měsíci

    Interesting. My father was griwing up somewhere in the village at that time. Decades later hed buy a house in the exact same neighbourhood being shown here.

  • @carringtonndhlovu6145
    @carringtonndhlovu6145 Před 3 lety +90

    Zimbabwe tried Marxism and learned the hard way

    • @100Mmore
      @100Mmore Před 3 lety +18

      No they let black people get into power

    • @RK18771
      @RK18771 Před 3 lety +3

      @@100Mmore that also! Lol

    • @100Mmore
      @100Mmore Před 3 lety +6

      @@RK18771 No it was just that, the USSR was still a world power that rivaled the United States until they become more liberal towards the end. Even China and Vietnam made, and is making, massive progress in building their countries.

    • @RK18771
      @RK18771 Před 3 lety +6

      @@100Mmore I agree but china and vietnam have capitalist economies.

    • @100Mmore
      @100Mmore Před 3 lety +4

      @@RK18771 Capitalism is a necessary step of human economic development, just as the slaving empires of rome, and the monarchies of europe were. China already announced plans to transition to socialism in 2017, that's why there's all this anti-china hysteria going on right now in the MSM.

  • @3l822
    @3l822 Před 3 lety +16

    damn this actually looks nice

  • @MrSwadds
    @MrSwadds Před 9 lety +40

    Big bungalow borough. And loads of French cars eh?

    • @Nonamenever557
      @Nonamenever557 Před 9 lety +15

      Nolan Swadds Peugeot made sturdy cars at the time and were popular across africa, even police forces used them.

    • @Nonamenever557
      @Nonamenever557 Před 9 lety

      Nolan Swadds Peugeot made sturdy cars at the time and were popular across africa, even police forces used them.

    • @Predikant
      @Predikant Před 5 lety +10

      The French learnt a difficult lesson in Algeria, thankfully sanctions against Rhodesia did not extend to French cars, hence all the Renault's, Peugeot's and the Citroen DS 20 that I saw.

    • @Predikant
      @Predikant Před 5 lety +5

      Peugeot 404's were indestructible, many are still use in North Africa, I saw one (504 SW) in Jeddah two years back, still going strong.

    • @mohabatkhanmalak1161
      @mohabatkhanmalak1161 Před 3 lety

      @@Predikant They were the backbone of the taxi industry in Uganda back in the 1950's and 60's, till Toyota (HiAce vans) drove into town.

  • @Valid.shorts24
    @Valid.shorts24 Před rokem +3

    It was still nice

  • @TheKillingFish
    @TheKillingFish Před rokem +4

    Rhodesia was super!

  • @greekvvedge
    @greekvvedge Před 3 lety +31

    It does look like a beautiful country, especially those suburbs. But still, the fences and gates around every single home are probably a clue that not everything was alright in Paradise.

    • @greggray8034
      @greggray8034 Před 3 lety +20

      Fences are very common in lots of suburban communities around the world. But when combined with gates...probably against animals. It is Africa after all.

    • @greekvvedge
      @greekvvedge Před 3 lety +6

      @@greggray8034 Given what we know about the history of the country in the time these photos were taken, probably doubtful.

    • @tigershoot
      @tigershoot Před 3 lety +25

      I lived there in the 60s/70s. First of all it was perfectly normal to have chain link metal fences around all the properties. Nobody had the totally open aspect that you see in so many American movies, it was just not done. Some houses as you can see had concrete walls. Burglary was always an issue, as it is in any country where there is a large disparity between the seemingly affluent middle class and the poorer community. All windows had grills, but back then they were only on the opening windows. They were, and still are in southern Africa called burglar bars.
      As crime got worse, it became the norm to remove the metal fences and install concrete walls. As it then got far worse, barbed wire or electric fences were added onto the tops of the walls. This is the case in even in the main suburbs in Harare. The window grills progressed too, to the extent that it is normal for the whole window to be covered in an external cage.
      None of these fences that you see ever had anything to do with wild animals. It was perfectly possible to spend your whole life there and never see a wild animal - they were only to be found in the game parks or out in the remote rural areas.
      Oh, and yes, it was indeed a beautiful country. There are other videos on CZcams, some purport to show what 'normal' Rhodesian life was like. Typically these show by far the most affluent areas and give the impression that the residents spent all their time poolside! Totally misleading.

    • @rosehipp
      @rosehipp Před 3 lety +2

      @@tigershoot Thank you for this information.

    • @lokumftw2621
      @lokumftw2621 Před 3 lety +2

      @@greggray8034 , they were against animals indeed. 😏

  • @cc35506
    @cc35506 Před 4 měsíci

    Which surburbs is shown here. Maybe Eastlea or Hatfield perhaps

  • @superbug1977
    @superbug1977 Před rokem +3

    At 4:25, what kind of car is that? Make, model? It has an unusual design.

    • @tigershoot
      @tigershoot Před rokem +2

      It's a Renault 6. Due to sanctions, Britain did not supply cars to Rhodesia so the French picked up the demand and sold their cars to the country like hot cakes! Renault 4s were used as taxis and were everywhere. Peugeots were very popular too.

    • @superbug1977
      @superbug1977 Před rokem +1

      @@tigershoot Good information. Thanks.

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton73 Před 10 měsíci +2

    It was a nice place to live.

  • @redseainternetcafe3157
    @redseainternetcafe3157 Před 8 lety +29

    Did you here that it no longer rains? #thankyouzanupf#

    • @mohabatkhanmalak1161
      @mohabatkhanmalak1161 Před 3 lety +2

      I once saw a weather report on TV news that it snowed there, around 10 years ago.

  • @72ecwc
    @72ecwc Před 6 měsíci

    The SR sticker on one of the cars, was this to signify Southern Rhodesia?

  • @michaeltaylor8835
    @michaeltaylor8835 Před 3 lety +12

    Clean streets No crime

    • @noahdanonce564
      @noahdanonce564 Před 3 lety +2

      not really, there was more crime then you would think, the policing was not at all great, and white people could get away with lots, for instance my Dad used to steal random cars in the street and take them to the derelict racetrack at the bottom of his road and have drag races without having to worry about policing, but my Grandad did get put in jail for a year or so

    • @A-O161
      @A-O161 Před 3 lety +1

      @@noahdanonce564 im in italy and this sort of things in the 60's were normal (as my father says), there was a lot of stealing cars parts..

    • @ReeceMarshallPersonal
      @ReeceMarshallPersonal Před 3 lety

      There is more crime in SA than Zim

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety

      @@noahdanonce564 many black people had very nice home back then

    • @brothernumber1576
      @brothernumber1576 Před 2 lety

      A lot of crime yeah, if you mean beheadings, shootings, explosions, terrorist attacks from the natives. Yeah, it happened ALL. THE. TIME in RHODESIA! Crime was RAMPANT, the Natives were savage.

  • @janicewebber5584
    @janicewebber5584 Před rokem

    How come no audio??

  • @lukebarber9511
    @lukebarber9511 Před 3 měsíci

    Did anyone else watch this while playing John Edmond's "Salisbury Town" in the background?

  • @mikeytrains1
    @mikeytrains1 Před 2 lety +6

    For what it was worth, when Zimbabwe finally gets out of the mess it was put in, hopefully it gets to a point where there’ll be footage of Harare over a nearly ten year period like this

    • @tybgycfmb8697
      @tybgycfmb8697 Před 2 lety +5

      maybe when pigs fly

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b Před rokem +1

      Harare was a suburb of Salisbury when I lived there, 1965-1966. Harare was the name of the Leprosy Hospital.
      Stay free. R 🕊

  • @user-db8hs4op7p
    @user-db8hs4op7p Před 10 měsíci +2

    Top of the world

  • @ConqueringCaffeine
    @ConqueringCaffeine Před 10 lety +40

    It looks a lot like Penrith in NSW!

    • @vasilileung2204
      @vasilileung2204 Před 6 lety +3

      ConqueringCaffeine it’s better than penrith lol

    • @mrx-gn2zj
      @mrx-gn2zj Před 4 lety +3

      Those houses remind me of places that I have seen here in Australia ! I guarantee they're black ghettos now ! May the memory of rhodesia live forever ! I wish I'd been able to live there in that era ! 👌👍💖

    • @dreadhead5719
      @dreadhead5719 Před 4 lety +3

      @@mrx-gn2zj they are not, that is where the rich government elite lives in.

    • @Thatsme849
      @Thatsme849 Před 4 lety +1

      They put up walls around all the houses now

    • @Smudgeroon74
      @Smudgeroon74 Před 4 lety

      Do you know of a place called Cronulla?

  • @ramsey633
    @ramsey633 Před 2 lety +16

    here in britain we got that degredation to look forward to its already happening its multiculturism

    • @Tar.o
      @Tar.o Před 8 měsíci

      Good luck

  • @amplifier515
    @amplifier515 Před 2 lety +4

    For the homes shown at 2:28 onwards, how much did they cost at the time, and what were the occupations of the people who owned them? Was the Rhodesian husband the sole breadwinner in those days while the wife was the homemaker?

    • @glendodds3824
      @glendodds3824 Před 2 lety +4

      The houses shown were the homes of moderately prosperous members of the white population. Elsewhere in the city, some Asians also had similar homes and a few black businessmen had similar (and larger) houses in Harare, an African township on the southern fringe of Salisbury. After Mugabe came to power, the township's name was of course given to the whole city. Finally, some married white women were housewives but many others earned a living.

  • @munroenyashashambare7859
    @munroenyashashambare7859 Před 3 lety +11

    YEA THATS THE LIFE WE SHOULD HAVE NOT THE CURRENT RUBBISH

  • @stewy62
    @stewy62 Před 3 lety

    Nice Renault 16 at @ 4.24

  • @ricardofigueiredo513
    @ricardofigueiredo513 Před 3 lety

    No sound

  • @easternkimba2753
    @easternkimba2753 Před měsícem

    Which suburb is this ?

  • @kudzanaimatongo2379
    @kudzanaimatongo2379 Před 3 lety +1

    Thats Eastlea shops

  • @hedza3000
    @hedza3000 Před 10 lety +6

    Rightly put.

  • @sansan2591
    @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +2

    How is life in independent Zimbabwe ???

  • @cxdxr
    @cxdxr Před 2 lety +1

    Legit better than Modern day America (living wise.. and in other ways too.)

  • @nicolepacker2246
    @nicolepacker2246 Před 3 lety

    minute 7 Eastlea shops in Harare. still looks the same

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b Před rokem

      Where's the Leprosy Hospital?

  • @wembadio6566
    @wembadio6566 Před 3 lety +3

    Where are the suburbs of Harari, Highfield, Mufakose, Kambuzuma, Mabvuku and Rugare????

    • @wembadio6566
      @wembadio6566 Před 3 lety +3

      Hidden for a good reason

    • @user-wq2rq4nc1s
      @user-wq2rq4nc1s Před 3 lety +2

      Video called Salisbury and suburbs, you can't read or what?

  • @LDS2709
    @LDS2709 Před 5 měsíci

    We lived in Braintree avenue

  • @raystephenson9598
    @raystephenson9598 Před 3 lety +8

    It WAS an insanely place to live.

    • @methembethomastshuma9587
      @methembethomastshuma9587 Před 3 lety +2

      if you were white lol

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +7

      @@methembethomastshuma9587 How is life in independent Zimbabwe

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +1

      @@methembethomastshuma9587 is black people living any better ?

  • @agostinhoteixeiradematos6443

    AS MINHAS MEMÓRIAS

  • @joetrump2983
    @joetrump2983 Před 4 měsíci

    Looks like some city in Australia

  • @Ramseyaremassive
    @Ramseyaremassive Před 2 lety

    Was it a colony still

    • @tigershoot
      @tigershoot Před 2 lety +1

      It was completely self-governing from 1923 onwards.

    • @mh7a135
      @mh7a135 Před rokem

      brainwashed?

  • @caseclosed9342
    @caseclosed9342 Před 3 lety +1

    06:39 does he actually live there?

    • @glendodds3824
      @glendodds3824 Před 2 lety +1

      He's a servant.

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +1

      @@glendodds3824 How is life in independent Zimbabwe ?

  • @timhufnagel7462
    @timhufnagel7462 Před 2 lety +3

    It went from this to a country with a trillion dollar bill. What a shame.

  • @thedon5748
    @thedon5748 Před 3 lety

    The beautiful Rhodesia that belonged to Yts. How about the one for the blacks?

  • @max.isaev888
    @max.isaev888 Před 22 dny

    Южная Родезия ❤. Нам не говорили всю правду о Южной Родезии в СССР. Я русский. Из России с любовью . ❤

  • @manwellmpofu3318
    @manwellmpofu3318 Před 2 lety +2

    All this just for the chosen few ,and thats what caused all the mess that Zimbabwe is today Truth be Told!!!!!!!!

  • @MAGA_MAGADZE
    @MAGA_MAGADZE Před rokem +2

    Rhodesia will never die!!!!

  • @obamalastname34
    @obamalastname34 Před 2 lety +5

    If only ww2 was prevented or ww1 or completely both colonies of empires would eventually lead to prosperity.

    • @tg-us3hw
      @tg-us3hw Před 2 lety

      the reason blacks rebelled was because they were pressed and marginalised, if the colonies had prioritised equality and inclusion, there would have been less anger towards being colonised.

    • @sansan2591
      @sansan2591 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tg-us3hw How is life in independent Zimbabwe

    • @tg-us3hw
      @tg-us3hw Před 2 lety

      @@sansan2591 better for black people than rhodesia, thnks

    • @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611
      @camelpissdrinkernabimuhamm6611 Před 2 lety

      Colonialism ruined many countries. Zimbabwe is different as they tried Marxism after decolonization.

  • @rebelnation9552
    @rebelnation9552 Před 3 lety

    and another bites the dust🤫🤫🤫

  • @RK18771
    @RK18771 Před 3 lety +1

    So sad!

  • @taucetus3657
    @taucetus3657 Před 2 lety +5

    The irony was on Great Britain. Despite the sanctions, economic blockade to sabotage Rhodesia, Rhodesia continued to exist and at one time became the breadbasket of Africa

  • @JesusMartinez-fy3yf
    @JesusMartinez-fy3yf Před 4 měsíci +1

    I bet none of this exists today and it was replaced by mud huts and trash fields... All thanks to black peepo.

  • @mr.tonyisgod1572
    @mr.tonyisgod1572 Před rokem +2

    I can not wait for these former colonial settlers from the Paleolithic era in the comment section reminiscing about the good ol' days when "everyone knew their place" to finally decompose into historical oblivion

    • @chadplow824
      @chadplow824 Před 10 měsíci

      Decompose like Zimbabwe’s economy?

  • @patolalo11
    @patolalo11 Před 7 měsíci

    2:50 Very big and beautiful houses. I truly wish to travelling to the past to living there

  • @playgirl7305
    @playgirl7305 Před 6 měsíci +1

    It's extremely disappointing, that we blacks failed to maintain the standards and even improve them for all citizens after 1980. 43 years on my country is in a mess. 😢

  • @mlfelonzo9156
    @mlfelonzo9156 Před 2 lety +1

    When uu start to wish that I wish things juss stayed the same during the days where black ppl where suppressed that's when uu know we are suffering it's juss sad 😑

  • @macmcc3201
    @macmcc3201 Před 3 lety +1

    Munday drive hillside salisbury and hillside school can't find due to name change from Mugabe

    • @tigershoot
      @tigershoot Před 2 lety

      That's because it's Mundy Drive. Still there as are most of the suburb street names. Are you thinking of Eastridge school in Hillside?

  • @Raq20
    @Raq20 Před 7 měsíci

    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….

    • @chrism1102
      @chrism1102 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I believe it was because of segregation and not allowing one man one vote. But I've always felt that Rhodesia should have continued. Eventually the restrictions would have been eased and the country would be much better off today. For everyone.

  • @blahblah5750
    @blahblah5750 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Shame of Great Britain and all those Western nations who brought this great nation to an end.

  • @DJSwezzleMusic
    @DJSwezzleMusic Před 2 lety +8

    This place needs the firm rule of the nobel white man.

    • @Swoiny
      @Swoiny Před rokem

      they don't deserve us.

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b Před rokem

      'Noble'. Whatever: *The Heart Of Darkness. The White Man's Burden.*

    • @brucemclaren-
      @brucemclaren- Před 9 měsíci

      Ungadai ur kumusha uko😂

  • @prospermandengu382
    @prospermandengu382 Před 5 měsíci

    Thats Eastlea Harare, captivating. Makes us realise how dirty we have become as a people and a society. We are now fiithy pigs, careless with no sense of beauty, only concerned about whereto get the next dollar

  • @wembadio6566
    @wembadio6566 Před 3 lety +6

    African suburbs hidden for a good reason.....

  • @l.f.c9973
    @l.f.c9973 Před 3 lety +5

    RHODESIA NOT ZIMBABWE

    • @tvs9978
      @tvs9978 Před 2 lety

      It was never and will never be Rhodesia. Suck it up

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 Před 2 lety +2

      It was when it functioned.