1971 Rhodesia in 60FPS / Zimbabwe in the 70's - British Pathé

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  • 60fps upscaled footage of Salisbury (now Harare) in the early 1970's. This is a 60FPS video, so please watch in 720p60. This video is monetized by British Pathé (Content ID claim)
    Original film footage (24fps, silent) - "Salisbury - Rhodesia (1971)" • Salisbury - Rhodesia ...

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  • @josenadalessaunders3066
    @josenadalessaunders3066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    I used to live and works for 6 months in Umtali (Rhodesia) in 1977, and will never forget my experience. So friendly people !

    • @oriettoberti2501
      @oriettoberti2501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Rhodesia was the paradise in Africa

    • @wl2977
      @wl2977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@oriettoberti2501 only when under the British rules.

    • @tightcamper
      @tightcamper ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wl2977 Rhodesia ceased to be under British rule in 1923.

    • @wl2977
      @wl2977 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tightcamperIn 1923, did they throw out all the government and law system built by the British people?

    • @smorrisby
      @smorrisby ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wl2977 Actually Rhodesia was under Roman Dutch Law. It was self governing after '23.

  • @victornogueira6528
    @victornogueira6528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I am completely blown away by this. A real blast from the past especially because I found that I am actually in the video!!

    • @trentweston8306
      @trentweston8306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Where are you in the video?

    • @victornogueira6528
      @victornogueira6528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@trentweston8306 At 1 minute 20 seconds

    • @_McCormickProductions
      @_McCormickProductions 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@victornogueira6528 Are you one of the boys talking to each other? And if so, is the other boy your brother?

    • @victornogueira6528
      @victornogueira6528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@_McCormickProductions yes

    • @КолзакМикхаылов
      @КолзакМикхаылов หลายเดือนก่อน

      What was life like in Rhodesia? Did you fight in the army?

  • @vickyv6645
    @vickyv6645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Looks better than the Zimbabwe today

    • @MrSalbego
      @MrSalbego 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No shit that place is a shit hole now.

  • @charlottewyttle1578
    @charlottewyttle1578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    How could it have been so beautiful then and awful now?

    • @mouloudo
      @mouloudo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Simple, white people became the minority

    • @elfulano5884
      @elfulano5884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      One word: Mugabe

    • @keziedelprado7096
      @keziedelprado7096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Blacks dont know how to lead a nation. Look at Haiti. Its people are from African descent but are thousands of miles away. Same condition as occupied Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) maybe even worst. Its in black peoples genes to live that way. Animal instinct....

    • @Blewis1488
      @Blewis1488 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Quick Awnser: Blacks

    • @petergerber1488
      @petergerber1488 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Take a guess

  • @macmcc3201
    @macmcc3201 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    My home for 10 yrs. Hillside Salisbury. Most beautiful country in the world. And very diverse in comparison to most other countries 😊 I miss Rhodesia 😢

    • @dreamdiction
      @dreamdiction ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "diversity" is an idea designed to make countries self-destruct, an ethnic mono-culture is the only sustainable and progressive nation state.

    • @chuckymcchuckface8768
      @chuckymcchuckface8768 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I work alongside a Rhodesian guy here in Northern ireland. Great guy, I miss Rhodesia even though I'm irish born and bread. Hate today's world.

    • @tai-hinpang3024
      @tai-hinpang3024 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Rhodesia will come back. God bless Rhodesia.

  • @garydurandt4260
    @garydurandt4260 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Used to drive the police patrol cars (B cars) around this city from 76-78, what a great time I had.

    • @thesmithersy
      @thesmithersy ปีที่แล้ว

      You're a hero of the BSAP.

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How was it as a cop in Rhodesia?! Did you make arrests?

    • @garydurandt5737
      @garydurandt5737 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Limosethe Yes, just like most other cops in the world

    • @Limosethe
      @Limosethe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@garydurandt5737 The intention of my question was to invite all his funny/crazy arrest stories

    • @trentweston8306
      @trentweston8306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@garydurandt5737can you please tell us some stories from Rhodesia?

  • @alexalston7428
    @alexalston7428 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Orderliness, cleanliness and safety. Enough said.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      War, destruction and revolution. Wake up.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was war.

    • @alexalston7428
      @alexalston7428 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 Only because of big power politics. Rhodesia should have been allowed to mature like say NZ.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alexalston7428 and the Africans should have just waited.

    • @alexalston7428
      @alexalston7428 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes, a form of democracy guaranteeing the presence of the white minority's continued sharing of power would have kept their expertise and stability. The place is (unsurprisingly) ruled now by corrupt thugs. Don't worry, the Chinese will maybe re-establish something akin to law an order. They pay off the thug leadership and do as they please. Don't expect them to power share!

  • @lleweybyrne
    @lleweybyrne 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    @ 2.00 A Citroën DS just casually parked up on the street. At that time this was the most technologically advanced production cars available in the world and cost twice as much as a top end Mercedes. And now…

  • @andrewst9797
    @andrewst9797 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Looks genuinely peaceful, happy, clean, tidy and prosperous back then
    But in hindsight, how fragile it was!
    Let that be a lesson for the West now.

    • @Heegooat
      @Heegooat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pride and prejudice? The same would have been said of londinium 100 AD!

  • @westcountrypirate7504
    @westcountrypirate7504 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Ah home ................the good old days ........gone but not forgotten

  • @valbeauregard5190
    @valbeauregard5190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @tightcamper
    @tightcamper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Imagine comparing Rhodesia in the 70s to Ghana or Nigeria. What a joke!!
    Sadly the joke is now Zimbabwe.

    • @windbuster
      @windbuster ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nigeria looked good back then in the 60s and 70s too

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s now one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which I find quite pleasing.

  • @DasTubemeister
    @DasTubemeister ปีที่แล้ว +70

    The used to go to Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Now they go to Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.

    • @nuremberg119
      @nuremberg119 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is that bad?

    • @lekevire
      @lekevire 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nuremberg119 Yup.

    • @nuremberg119
      @nuremberg119 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lekevire Why is it?

  • @elfulano5884
    @elfulano5884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    This video's resolution is so clear. It looks as though it had been shot only a few days ago.

    • @Kalyopa
      @Kalyopa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Definitely not 1971, this could be late 77 or 79

    • @matthewtorok-smith1967
      @matthewtorok-smith1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Kalyopa why do you think that?

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Kalyopa
      Fashions say 71 defo not late 70's

    • @kathrynradonich3982
      @kathrynradonich3982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That’s the cool thing about film. If properly stored it can be scanned at much higher resolutions and you get detail that you couldn’t see with standard definition transfers.

  • @Better_Clean_Than_Green
    @Better_Clean_Than_Green ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Its sad to see a great country falling that down it was renamed to Zimbabwe..

  • @mrplumtreeandfamily9899
    @mrplumtreeandfamily9899 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Old days things where so beautiful

  • @tadiwanashedzvairo5434
    @tadiwanashedzvairo5434 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    i definitely don't think i would want to go abroad living this behind. Beautiful

  • @djharto4917
    @djharto4917 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    It’s like Europe now, I was going to say slowly being destroyed but quickly being destroyed and replaced by…….

  • @Raq20
    @Raq20 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    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…

    • @AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm
      @AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because they treated the majority Africans as second class citizens

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Most of it was actually extremely poor. There are wealthy parts of Zimbabwe today.

    • @saulillustriousmakinami7737
      @saulillustriousmakinami7737 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Pride

    • @therubicon
      @therubicon หลายเดือนก่อน

      Communist terrorism under ZANU and lead by the blood thirsty Mugabe. Then the British and American governments refused support after the UDI or recognition. It lasted only as long as it did because of so many Vietnam war veterans who fought against the communists to keep people safe. But with Soviet industry on one side and no support on the other it was sabotaged on purpose as a sacrificial lamb for the Cold War.

  • @imperium5195
    @imperium5195 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    This was before Zombie Apocalypse...

  • @salihplayer480p6
    @salihplayer480p6 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    everything is so clean, looks like a movie set

  • @aphovasse
    @aphovasse 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I remember those days, I worked at Salisbury city hall.

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What year mate? Where did you end up?

    • @trentweston8306
      @trentweston8306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have any stories you could tell us?

  • @conservative-proud
    @conservative-proud ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such an amazing country to grow up in !

  • @SuperLuckao
    @SuperLuckao ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I travelled back to jo burg from a visit to Perth in 87. I had to spend s night in Harare. The customs guy st Harare airport called me a white birch and threw my passport to the floor. It was very terrible. My hotel in h estate was gross and I did not go out and walk on street.

    • @moirapettifr7127
      @moirapettifr7127 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      We are going on a univ sponsored trip to Soutern Africa to Joburg, Cape Town and Botswana next spring and we are quite excited! However our tour group and organizers will not be including Zimbabwe. That's a lot of tourist money lost to a once beautiful country!

  • @jeffg6008
    @jeffg6008 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This tells you all you need to know.
    South Africa soon to follow 😞

  • @garynewman-louw1506
    @garynewman-louw1506 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    looked quite different....and the country was working!!!!!

  • @terrifier_88
    @terrifier_88 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's terrifying that in a few decades we will watch the same videos, but about Europe, and wonder where everything went wrong

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    it was so clean back then
    plenty of petrol and diesel at the service stations.
    Grocery store shelves were fully stocked
    clean running water,
    electricity and air conditioning
    a stable currency
    a thriving economy
    wow I wonder what happened.

  • @ukinee8812
    @ukinee8812 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    hmmm, i wonder what's happened to this beautiful civilized country

    • @Arin_Yuni
      @Arin_Yuni 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @hinokamiwarudo5505 and Zimbabwe became a rich and prosperous country. The end!

  • @arotogtech
    @arotogtech ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You didnt need to be a millionaire in rhodesia to live the lifestyle of a billionaire in the UK....

  • @ourclassicmovies1929-es1jd
    @ourclassicmovies1929-es1jd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    DEPARTMENT STORES
    ELECTRICITY AND AIR CONDITIONING
    EVERYONE IS WELL DRESSED
    RUNNING WATER
    NO TRASH IN THE STREETS
    EVERYONE HAS JOBS
    NOW THEY HAVE BODIES DUMPED IN THE STREET
    THANKS MOOOO GAH BEEEE

  • @alandarwin8450
    @alandarwin8450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Still lovely people.

  • @davegreenwood1663
    @davegreenwood1663 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Its in a mess now. Wonder why?

  • @gabrielmirov7819
    @gabrielmirov7819 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I can't forget my biutiful rodesia

  • @danielgrigg9501
    @danielgrigg9501 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Salisbury?

    • @dijobson1204
      @dijobson1204 ปีที่แล้ว

      Harare

    • @meixo9083
      @meixo9083 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dijobson1204 salisbury

  • @pantherakathecat4440
    @pantherakathecat4440 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They had working traffic lights.

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    RHODESIA HAS BECOME ZIMMGHETTO

  • @MsCaleb79
    @MsCaleb79 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How did everything turn out so bad?

  • @andrewthacker114
    @andrewthacker114 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice clip

  • @ShodaiGojira-xn3xk
    @ShodaiGojira-xn3xk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you told me this was in the US without context, I'd believe it..

  • @adolphdelatorre3102
    @adolphdelatorre3102 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    then robert mugabe came and the rest is history...

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton73 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Black majority rule applied badly!

  • @mrplumtreeandfamily9899
    @mrplumtreeandfamily9899 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did subscribe

  • @danrhinehart1134
    @danrhinehart1134 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The white Rhodesians should just make a deal with the Chinese to manage it for them. Basically using their extensive local knowlege, management skills and a proven managment track record to manage the country, keep the locals in line, and maximize Chinese business profits. The advantage here would be when the locals start to act up and declare a "Chumaranga" the Rhodesians just call the PLA to keep order.

  • @MavisMasuku-c5n
    @MavisMasuku-c5n 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes you can say that again, beautiful then and awful now. Shame seriously.

  • @a.a.3589
    @a.a.3589 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You're telling me this worse than Zimbabwe?

  • @freedommugabe4900
    @freedommugabe4900 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kare haagari ari kare

  • @jacobblessing4598
    @jacobblessing4598 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hmmm speechless Zimbabwe is beautiful

    • @dorothymtetwa3844
      @dorothymtetwa3844 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was not anymore

    • @Ben-uw8wx
      @Ben-uw8wx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mugabe fucked it up when it was Rhodesia it was beautiful

    • @historiamilitaris5161
      @historiamilitaris5161 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rhodesia, only Rhodesia

  • @MisterPolitical1
    @MisterPolitical1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Salisbury's better than Harare

  • @FreaKzero
    @FreaKzero 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    and then ... came socialism
    But hey they are all Trillionaires now

  • @neotemper6914
    @neotemper6914 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clean place, well preserved. Remember the racism and Apartheid that existed in this place.

  • @byroncurrin227
    @byroncurrin227 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Mugabe deserves ALL the praise for destroying Rhodesia lol....

  • @cherylmoss3632
    @cherylmoss3632 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oh yes...the world decided that Mugabe was better.

    • @bruceday1960
      @bruceday1960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      we dont want racists kick rocks

    • @boristheviewbot6056
      @boristheviewbot6056 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@bruceday1960hope it was worth it

    • @historiamilitaris5161
      @historiamilitaris5161 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bruceday1960yeah we do not want Mugabe.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@historiamilitaris5161your opinion doesn't matter.

    • @historiamilitaris5161
      @historiamilitaris5161 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 says who? You? Really trust me I do not care.

  • @ama8541
    @ama8541 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow. This isn't SA.

  • @LordDirus007
    @LordDirus007 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Blacks were better off, in terms of Civil Rights, Job Opportunities, Income etc under the White Leadership.
    Zimbabwe was a mistake. If anything, they should have slowly integrated the Blacks into Leadership roles.
    Instead, they effectively took over and mass exodus of the Most Intelligent people happened

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your opinion doesn't matter. You're not from there.
      Incidentally though, blacks have a higher income per capita and more free movement. Everything you've stated is just straight nonsense.

    • @Serjant96
      @Serjant96 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ayodejiolowokere1076 белые придумали весь прогресс, медицину и само понятие права человека.

  • @brianjenneson
    @brianjenneson ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gotta love all those white faces on the mannequins in the shops! In a country that must have been around 98% black! But it was such a wonderful place, of course! Especially if you were white!

    • @phyrr2
      @phyrr2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      White is also just the base color of mannequins due to materials. It requires more as well as more money to make colored ones. Don't think too hard dude.

    • @mattyallen3396
      @mattyallen3396 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Tell that to the 20k Matabele that Mugabe slaughtered after 1980

    • @newsheed8007
      @newsheed8007 ปีที่แล้ว

      where is problem? your white as well, besides who do you think built all those skyscrapers, roads and brought in cars?

    • @bruceday1960
      @bruceday1960 ปีที่แล้ว

      black labour you devil@@newsheed8007

    • @potatoeskimos
      @potatoeskimos ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bro even in Asia mannequins are white. The reason is so you can tell how translucent a clothes is.

  • @stoltmain123
    @stoltmain123 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And now one big shit.

  • @youtubesangryopinionramble1465
    @youtubesangryopinionramble1465 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Remember: this was all built for the colonizer.

    • @fuwa9616
      @fuwa9616 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      So? The problem was, in Rhodesia, it wasn't. The Anglos there actually INVITED the natives to live among them and believed that they could be "educated" into being good citizens at which point they will be granted voting rights. Thats why South Africa survived longer, they did built cities for themselves, but because it was more beautiful then what the natives could do, they moved to what they built, generating laws to separate from them, which is why SA survived longer, and why Canada and Australia survived even longer, but soon, they will meet the same fate because all three welcomed them in.

    • @mh7a135
      @mh7a135 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@fuwa9616 Don't worry, he's brainwashed by the communists who lost their lands and destroyed such a beautiful country built by intelligent people.

    • @bracedgod4505
      @bracedgod4505 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@fuwa9616 I would have integrated easily. "Wypipo" were alot kinder to me than "my people" were, and I see the cultural differences objectively unlike the wokensteins.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@fuwa9616 push that back up your rear end.

    • @thesmithersy
      @thesmithersy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For the benefit of blacks who were welcomed and encouraged to join in society.

  • @Starsky1413
    @Starsky1413 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Totally destroyed now

    • @djharto4917
      @djharto4917 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      By the usual suspects

  • @buymybooks437
    @buymybooks437 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    no apartheid

    • @fuwa9616
      @fuwa9616 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And yet it collapsed even faster then SA, so much for tolerance

    • @gavinmcleod7446
      @gavinmcleod7446 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @pm Did you have Mugabe and ZPF running Kenya.?

    • @andrewst9797
      @andrewst9797 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pm3302 Kenia today isn't exactly a showcase for decent living conditions.
      Anything is better than 'Zimbabwe'

    • @fionasmith6868
      @fionasmith6868 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@fuwa9616 south Africa much faster