Few people can understand what Stephen went through.......the Rhodesian Bush war or the South African bush war is something the world knows little or nothing about.
Agreed James... Stephen never truly recovered from the war. I remember being with him to watch a film that was set in Johannesburg and it contained some violent scenes and we had to turn it off. He just couldn't watch it. As he got older, he found it harder to rationalise the situations he was in during the fighting.
@@CapturingMemoriesmy father had served the south African army at Angola in 75, when he had to wear a military uniform ones again in 82 being drafted in the Greek army got his first grey hair.. And I can still remember him changing the channel when a war movie was playing at TV and getting very silent for a moment.. I guess some memories never go away.. Even if you want to
The Police and Army were notorious for doing this in the early to mid 80s. Badly educated and ill informed with all the power, paranoia & hatred of any military aged white males, their former ...or current enemy as it happened. I was in my teens in that country with my Dad having served in the Rhodesia Regiment as a front line infantry soldier. We regularly travelled out of Harare to a lake to go fishing (Lake Mcilwayn...or Lake Mac as it was better known). We regularly used to get stopped at police road blocks...the dreaded black and white 'Police Ahead ' signs which were usually preceded by oncoming traffic, flashing their lights at us. We would be pulled off to the side for 'inspection ' as soon as they saw it was a 30 something aged white male at the wheel. Endless, belligerent questions not quite at gun point but not far from it. They would make us unpack everything and just generally try an piss you off to provoke a reaction. My Dad never gave in. He was a perfect gentleman and smiled through it all, never gave them the satisfaction. Saved all his cursing once we were back on the road. Once on the way back from holiday in South Africa, my mom's hair dryer in the suitcase aroused suspicion of it being some kind of firearm. Ordered to explain what it was and how to use it, it was only until a slightly more enlightened superior arrived on the scene who upon seeing the electrical plug on the corded end, embarrassingly waved us on. Friends of friends we heard of weren't so lucky, who gave in and lost their temper, ended up getting beaten up and a few cold nights in a prison cell.
Wow!! Thank you for sharing this!! I used to do a lot of sailing at Lake Mac 😊 We as a family used to caravan at the lake every weekend and then we stopped as the war intensified.
I left South Africa in 2008. When I landed in Sydney, then I thought of the Rhodesians and the stories I was told. I will never go back to South Africa.
@@tightcamper it’s a case of power and revenge. Yes the class bully terrifying anyone who stands in his way to get what he wants. And killing people as no one will stand up to him Terrible.
@@charliemartin4392. But he had the undeveloped mind of one. If it wasn't for the whites in Africa, the locals would still be squatting in the shade with their balls dragging in the dirt.
You misread me. I think that man is a devil. He was no child, but a man that played the race card for decades. Every time his ratings dropped, blame everything on the white people. Gets complete control, kill thousands of his own people (different tribe tho) creates 2 classes. Extremely rich, extremely poor. A child can't overthrow a country. Hate can. Now there starving and the dude the ousted him is begging white farmers to come back. Id say, not in a thousand years......
The British Govt saw the writing on the wall... They were an aging colonial power & times were changing globally...Only a long & slow protracted 20 year handover might (might...) have avoided what Zimbabwe has turned into...& even then, the accusations would have been "colonials hanging-on to power"...
I met a Black guy from Rhodesia here in New Zealand 🇳🇿. Great guy. I played rugby with him. He and his mother moved here from Rhodesia. He said they moved here because Mugabe ruined his country. He told me to always call Z...........we Rhodesia. He said its Rhodesia and will always be Rhodesia.
Nothing dodgy about this story. No holes. Missionary Dr Peter Hammond experienced even worse when he was arrested as a 'spy' (he wasn't) in Mozambique and again in Zambia. He courageously distributes bibles in many African languages to Christians all over Africa who were being persecuted by Marxist governments.
The story is further elaborated in another video. Long story short, they were in the process of selling their farm, and the buyer was someone in the Mugabe government who didn't actually want to pay. It's believed that this had something to do with it.
Few people can understand what Stephen went through.......the Rhodesian Bush war or the South African bush war is something the world knows little or nothing about.
Agreed James... Stephen never truly recovered from the war. I remember being with him to watch a film that was set in Johannesburg and it contained some violent scenes and we had to turn it off. He just couldn't watch it. As he got older, he found it harder to rationalise the situations he was in during the fighting.
In Guine'- Bissau things were different but in Angola and in Mozambiqueit was much the same pattern .
@@CapturingMemoriesmy father had served the south African army at Angola in 75, when he had to wear a military uniform ones again in 82 being drafted in the Greek army got his first grey hair.. And I can still remember him changing the channel when a war movie was playing at TV and getting very silent for a moment.. I guess some memories never go away.. Even if you want to
The Police and Army were notorious for doing this in the early to mid 80s. Badly educated and ill informed with all the power, paranoia & hatred of any military aged white males, their former ...or current enemy as it happened.
I was in my teens in that country with my Dad having served in the Rhodesia Regiment as a front line infantry soldier.
We regularly travelled out of Harare to a lake to go fishing (Lake Mcilwayn...or Lake Mac as it was better known).
We regularly used to get stopped at police road blocks...the dreaded black and white 'Police Ahead ' signs which were usually preceded by oncoming traffic, flashing their lights at us.
We would be pulled off to the side for 'inspection ' as soon as they saw it was a 30 something aged white male at the wheel.
Endless, belligerent questions not quite at gun point but not far from it. They would make us unpack everything and just generally try an piss you off to provoke a reaction.
My Dad never gave in. He was a perfect gentleman and smiled through it all, never gave them the satisfaction. Saved all his cursing once we were back on the road.
Once on the way back from holiday in South Africa, my mom's hair dryer in the suitcase aroused suspicion of it being some kind of firearm. Ordered to explain what it was and how to use it, it was only until a slightly more enlightened superior arrived on the scene who upon seeing the electrical plug on the corded end, embarrassingly waved us on.
Friends of friends we heard of weren't so lucky, who gave in and lost their temper, ended up getting beaten up and a few cold nights in a prison cell.
Wow!! Thank you for sharing this!! I used to do a lot of sailing at Lake Mac 😊 We as a family used to caravan at the lake every weekend and then we stopped as the war intensified.
This just made a 44 year old man cry...
Horrific!
Mugabe destroyed Rhodesia. May he burn in hell forever.
Reminder that this is the future we all face in the US and to not take preparations for the future lightly
Bwahaha...!!! You Americans are comedy gold...! 🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately, there are those who would like to see America go the way of Rhodesia.
I left South Africa in 2008. When I landed in Sydney, then I thought of the Rhodesians and the stories I was told. I will never go back to South Africa.
I felt lost for a long time after moving... it took years before I felt settled.
I'd never go there. What an awful place. Can't imagine the worry of leaving your parents in a dodgy country like that.
This is what happens when children run a country.
Mugabe wasnt a child
@@charliemartin4392 Ha Ha Who told you that? He was the class bully.
@@tightcamper it’s a case of power and revenge. Yes the class bully terrifying anyone who stands in his way to get what he wants. And killing people as no one will stand up to him Terrible.
@@charliemartin4392. But he had the undeveloped mind of one. If it wasn't for the whites in Africa, the locals would still be squatting in the shade with their balls dragging in the dirt.
You misread me. I think that man is a devil. He was no child, but a man that played the race card for decades. Every time his ratings dropped, blame everything on the white people. Gets complete control, kill thousands of his own people (different tribe tho) creates 2 classes. Extremely rich, extremely poor. A child can't overthrow a country. Hate can. Now there starving and the dude the ousted him is begging white farmers to come back. Id say, not in a thousand years......
I lived worked in South Africa in 96 it’s great place but sad for Rhodesian people that lost everything 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
What year did this happen in ?
It happened in December 1987.
@@CapturingMemories I was in Rhodesia in 1979 have never been back.Don’t think I want to visit again hearing stories like yours.
@@joejoe809 Surely things must be different now
They probably just wanted the car, the thugs...
Coming to America soon!😢
God bless
The British Gov have a lot of stories to tell as well Libya/Iraq but they never will wonder why?.
The British Govt saw the writing on the wall... They were an aging colonial power & times were changing globally...Only a long & slow protracted 20 year handover might (might...) have avoided what Zimbabwe has turned into...& even then, the accusations would have been "colonials hanging-on to power"...
Corrupt bunch ,just goes to show the corruption in Zimbabwe started after independence.
level 1000 corrupt
Whers was the international community?
Where dafuk was the US?
Pisses me off
I met a Black guy from Rhodesia here in New Zealand 🇳🇿.
Great guy.
I played rugby with him.
He and his mother moved here from Rhodesia.
He said they moved here because Mugabe ruined his country.
He told me to always call Z...........we Rhodesia.
He said its Rhodesia and will always be Rhodesia.
Where the dead people on the side of the road blacks or whites or both
We have a lot of black people who were killed, jailed, tortured... Look at Chimoi...rest vana Abhero
I feel great that you were jailed. You jailed countless black people in Rhodesia
Such a dodgy story soo many holes i dont know where to begin i really do think he was a spy
Better start at the beginning then, give us all the benefit of your expertise. Better still, just STFU, and keep your bullshit to yourself.
Nothing dodgy about this story. No holes. Missionary Dr Peter Hammond experienced even worse when he was arrested as a 'spy' (he wasn't) in Mozambique and again in Zambia. He courageously distributes bibles in many African languages to Christians all over Africa who were being persecuted by Marxist governments.
MKa: the only dodgy thing here is you. you have obviously no idea about that time.
Troll...or "drol" as I think they would call you in Afrikaans
The story is further elaborated in another video. Long story short, they were in the process of selling their farm, and the buyer was someone in the Mugabe government who didn't actually want to pay. It's believed that this had something to do with it.