Being an ex Rhodesian, I'm so happy to come across your chanel. Gosh it brings back so many beautiful beautiful memories. Unfotunately also the horrific and sad memories. Thank you for the time you put into this in telling the stories...good or bad 👍
Been watching a lot of Rhodesia documentaries and interviews lately. We had two boys (Eastwick) in my house at school. In the late 70s to 80. Never realized tortured their country was during this time. I’m sure there is a special place in hell reserved for those who prey upon the vulnerable Thank you for sharing your journey
Are u a member of the Cole family that lost their dairy farm if you are the one I have been trying to contact you for 2 yrs do you have an email address.l have great news for you and your family
On top of all the Cole family went through, a scammer stealing the money they had left in Zimbabwe? Insane! I hope the story will go on to resolve itself eventually!
My mother was only just saying yesterday how hard it was to correlate our lives now compared to those days. It comes back to one of my favourite quotes: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” Part 4 will be mainly about how my mother dealt with the accountant.
My heart literally hurts when I read these exRhodesian tales. People like Alexandera Fuller whose ability to weave magic with her prose and whose parents stayed there even after the war, they lived in a literal open air shack, but that says a lot for love of one's country no matter what.
Strange i never heard yoir story i was always reafing the papers the herald i was back and forth from uk great yarmouth working on the rigs then i vecame a diver i remenber reading about the sa spies barry bawden etc but not yoir story i was back and forth from abu dhabi on my leaves staying with my father in greystone park till late 90 s when my sister father all ledt for new zealand and i relocated to tenerife ,spain very sad to read your story
I know… it feels like that sometimes to us too!! There will be future videos about how others can document their own life stories like this. We have also written the first 15 chapters of 23.
Thank you 🙏 Marsden apparently had a very serious car accident on Moffat Street near the hospital. Later… The employees informed us in the early 2000’s that Marsden had died of a brain tumour.
Yes I fully understand your suffering. I left in 1981 as I had three children and My husband passed away. My two sons had been beaten up then they demanded my daughter to come to them for their lustful pleasure. I immediately came to SA lost a lot of my furniture due to long fingers etc
This exact thing happened to our neighbor in Ca. He wasnt Rhodeaian he is Filipino. His family had sugar plantation of 900 hectares of sugar cane, piggery, duck pen and poultry farm in the province of Iloilo. When Marco's was deposed, his family were centrist but the Aquino administration had minions who tried to seize their property, it was so bad, they moved to California to escape the alleged NPA gunmen (They were warned by reliable sources in their province's governors office) trying to ambush them. In their part of Iloilo, they were fine with the NPA and the Government under previous presidents before Aquino. They fled in Ca to the patriarchs brother in laws home who was our local dentist, until Ferdinand Ramos became president and when they were assured they would be fine they returned. the Ramos administration told that family the alleged New Peoples Army (NPA) gunmen were actually Philippine National Police corrupted to try to force the family to take cents on the dollar for their agricultural business from Aquino officials. Allegedly Pres. Aquino was unaware. Their family lost 14 workers and 6 relatives in their absence over the years. They stayed to protect and work their farm/plantation (at that point, owned for 70 years) in those six years of exile. The man, my dads neighbor lost his two younger brothers and a sister in law. When that family returned, the patriarch was asked by the local military to broker or help negotiate a cease fire with the military/national police and the NPA that held until Duterte came to power in 2015? THATS how respected and loved they were in that region. They're not political, just want to live their lives in peace and farm. I sure hope they're OK with the renewed government offensive against the NPA.
Also i forgot my brother was arrested in victoria falls in 1990 with cassie du plesis ( ex 32 battalian soldier they were working as rangers in the caprivi with 2 fn s and 40 rounds of amunition i had arrived back at harare airport day after from abu dhabi and my father said a week earlier special branch police had searched the house anyway they were released after 6 months i drove them out to beitbridge and then i heqrd rumoyrs they wanted to throw us out the country but nothing else happened crazy days going to chikurubi to visit my brotger in the d wing with varry bawden and the other guys
I have read kevin wood's book and how some of those ex RLI soldiers were arrested in their very own beds. Why did you all even stay after the war? Why not go to Australia or start new somewhere else? You must have loved the land very much. Thank you for sharing these stories, it is important that you document this part of colonial history.
@@chiyenyumba7135 1) Yes, South Africans are being compensated, on an ongoing basis, for Apartheid: BEEE (Black Economic Empowerment), Land Reform, Sports Quotas and more. Some see this Rampant Corruption that's going on in South Africa also as compensation for the past, but I disagree because only the trough feeders (political elite) benefit from that; 2) Zimbabwe did get compensated for being colonized - they got civilized (well, to some exent anyway). Their standard of living improved from Iron Age to the 20th Century in a matter of decades. That's HUGE compensation let me tell you; 3) To be relevant, leave out slavery. We're not living in the past. Slavery in the Cape ended in 1836 - before South Africa even existed. To place slavery in perspective: slavery (white-on-white) in Rome ended in centuries ago, slavery in North Africa (Arabian-on-black) also ended long ago. To the best of my knowledge, black-on-black slavery also don't exist anymore, not in in Southern Africa anyway. Yes there are still slavery today, but it's not in Southern Africa and it's not relevant to this. Please grow up. But I repeat - ZANU PF destroyed Zimbabwe to such an extent, and they're so banckrupt, that compensation can't be paid anyway.
Being an ex Rhodesian, I'm so happy to come across your chanel. Gosh it brings back so many beautiful beautiful memories. Unfotunately also the horrific and sad memories. Thank you for the time you put into this in telling the stories...good or bad 👍
Thank you for your kind words 🙏
@@CapturingMemoriesi
As a 3rd generation black Zimbabwean it's really nice to get the other side of the story rather than being fed propaganda. Thanks a lot boet👍
Been watching a lot of Rhodesia documentaries and interviews lately.
We had two boys (Eastwick) in my house at school. In the late 70s to 80. Never realized tortured their country was during this time.
I’m sure there is a special place in hell reserved for those who prey upon the vulnerable
Thank you for sharing your journey
Thank you 🙏
Are u a member of the Cole family that lost their dairy farm if you are the one I have been trying to contact you for 2 yrs do you have an email address.l have great news for you and your family
Riveting and so sad at the same time , thank you for posting this and looking forward to the final two episodes .
This series is harrowing. I can't wait for the next part. Mrs. Cole's narration is riveting and moving. Greetings from Germany
Thank you 🙏 I will pass on your kind words to my mother. Part 4 will be covering how she dealt with the accountant! Greetings from Wales 🏴 😊
Listening to this honestly gets my blood boiling.
On top of all the Cole family went through, a scammer stealing the money they had left in Zimbabwe? Insane! I hope the story will go on to resolve itself eventually!
My mother was only just saying yesterday how hard it was to correlate our lives now compared to those days. It comes back to one of my favourite quotes:
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”
Part 4 will be mainly about how my mother dealt with the accountant.
My heart literally hurts when I read these exRhodesian tales. People like Alexandera Fuller whose ability to weave magic with her prose and whose parents stayed there even after the war, they lived in a literal open air shack, but that says a lot for love of one's country no matter what.
Strange i never heard yoir story i was always reafing the papers the herald i was back and forth from uk great yarmouth working on the rigs then i vecame a diver i remenber reading about the sa spies barry bawden etc but not yoir story i was back and forth from abu dhabi on my leaves staying with my father in greystone park till late 90 s when my sister father all ledt for new zealand and i relocated to tenerife ,spain very sad to read your story
Like something out of a novel.
I know… it feels like that sometimes to us too!! There will be future videos about how others can document their own life stories like this. We have also written the first 15 chapters of 23.
You are are a strong lady and I prey the Embwa Marsden faces KARMA 🙏🙏🙏🤜🤛.
Thank you 🙏 Marsden apparently had a very serious car accident on Moffat Street near the hospital. Later… The employees informed us in the early 2000’s that Marsden had died of a brain tumour.
KARMA BOET 🙏.
Evil all around... Trust being abused by conniving parasites.
White Zimbabwe was badly let down by the west
Yes I fully understand your suffering. I left in 1981 as I had three children and My husband passed away. My two sons had been beaten up then they demanded my daughter to come to them for their lustful pleasure. I immediately came to SA lost a lot of my furniture due to long fingers etc
This exact thing happened to our neighbor in Ca. He wasnt Rhodeaian he is Filipino. His family had sugar plantation of 900 hectares of sugar cane, piggery, duck pen and poultry farm in the province of Iloilo. When Marco's was deposed, his family were centrist but the Aquino administration had minions who tried to seize their property, it was so bad, they moved to California to escape the alleged NPA gunmen (They were warned by reliable sources in their province's governors office) trying to ambush them. In their part of Iloilo, they were fine with the NPA and the Government under previous presidents before Aquino. They fled in Ca to the patriarchs brother in laws home who was our local dentist, until Ferdinand Ramos became president and when they were assured they would be fine they returned. the Ramos administration told that family the alleged New Peoples Army (NPA) gunmen were actually Philippine National Police corrupted to try to force the family to take cents on the dollar for their agricultural business from Aquino officials. Allegedly Pres. Aquino was unaware. Their family lost 14 workers and 6 relatives in their absence over the years. They stayed to protect and work their farm/plantation (at that point, owned for 70 years) in those six years of exile. The man, my dads neighbor lost his two younger brothers and a sister in law.
When that family returned, the patriarch was asked by the local military to broker or help negotiate a cease fire with the military/national police and the NPA that held until Duterte came to power in 2015? THATS how respected and loved they were in that region. They're not political, just want to live their lives in peace and farm. I sure hope they're OK with the renewed government offensive against the NPA.
Who is Marsden?
Also i forgot my brother was arrested in victoria falls in 1990 with cassie du plesis ( ex 32 battalian soldier they were working as rangers in the caprivi with 2 fn s and 40 rounds of amunition i had arrived back at harare airport day after from abu dhabi and my father said a week earlier special branch police had searched the house anyway they were released after 6 months i drove them out to beitbridge and then i heqrd rumoyrs they wanted to throw us out the country but nothing else happened crazy days going to chikurubi to visit my brotger in the d wing with varry bawden and the other guys
I have read kevin wood's book and how some of those ex RLI soldiers were arrested in their very own beds. Why did you all even stay after the war? Why not go to Australia or start new somewhere else? You must have loved the land very much. Thank you for sharing these stories, it is important that you document this part of colonial history.
Make Zanu pf compensate
They can't compensate - they have nothing.
Compensate what...were slaves compensated...did south africans get compensation for apartheid suffering 🇿🇼 never got compensation for being colonised
@@chiyenyumba7135 1) Yes, South Africans are being compensated, on an ongoing basis, for Apartheid: BEEE (Black Economic Empowerment), Land Reform, Sports Quotas and more. Some see this Rampant Corruption that's going on in South Africa also as compensation for the past, but I disagree because only the trough feeders (political elite) benefit from that; 2) Zimbabwe did get compensated for being colonized - they got civilized (well, to some exent anyway). Their standard of living improved from Iron Age to the 20th Century in a matter of decades. That's HUGE compensation let me tell you; 3) To be relevant, leave out slavery. We're not living in the past. Slavery in the Cape ended in 1836 - before South Africa even existed. To place slavery in perspective: slavery (white-on-white) in Rome ended in centuries ago, slavery in North Africa (Arabian-on-black) also ended long ago. To the best of my knowledge, black-on-black slavery also don't exist anymore, not in in Southern Africa anyway. Yes there are still slavery today, but it's not in Southern Africa and it's not relevant to this. Please grow up.
But I repeat - ZANU PF destroyed Zimbabwe to such an extent, and they're so banckrupt, that compensation can't be paid anyway.
@@tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782 i wanted the people to be compansated for the genocide that happened between 1896 and 1920.
What will they pay with? Button's
Terrible state of affairs robber's and scumbags!
CIO were nothing more than Gestapo and still are .
crooks