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The story of Rhodesia is the story of a British settler colony’s struggle for survival against a changing political landscape and social environment, on top of a physical struggle against enemy states and militia groups. The Rhodesians had a lot going for them, but even more acting against them. Between the Rhodesian Bush War, sanctions by Britain, and an inability to gain recognition of its independence, the Rhodesians were ultimately forced to compromise with Britain and the militias, and thus Rhodesia ceased to exist, being replaced by Zimbabwe. But what if that changed? What if in an alternate timeline Rhodesia survived? How would Rhodesia have impacted Southern African geopolitics in the late Cold War, especially with the wars occurring in its neighboring states of Portuguese Mozambique and South African Namibia? We’ll be explaining how Rhodesia could have survived, and what the consequences of that would be in this Alternate History.
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I grew up in Ghana and it's just sad to see Africa being destroyed by Africans. You look at how backward things have become and just have to shake you're head.
Ian Smith and Rhodesia:
Everything the world feared this man would do, Mugabe did. Once again, the international community ruined a country. Mugabe, the marxist, ruined both Rhodesia and Zimbabwe while Ian ruined neither. The international community isolated Rhodesia, leaving them helpless against "guerrilla fighters"/terrorists, which proved deadly for all groups. At least Rhodesia had tribal reservations and tribal land purchases, which is far less horrible than the situations Mugabe put both blacks and whites through… Even in Canada there's demographic rules for Quebecois which are there to maintain the Quebecois population percentage, Mugabe didn't do that with white Rhodesians who were born there, he took everything from them and essentially forced them to leave and wonder the world pretending to be south africans. It's kind of just a fact life would be better if Rhodesia still existed
It’s worth remembering that the white minority government did not actually want equality, they wanted “parity.” Where the whites would have 50 seats permanently, and the black majority would have to “earn” their seat, which capped out at 50. So, 50/50 isn’t equal when one population was much larger. Interesting history
And i think to myself, what a wonderful world.
So Black Ops 2 the good ending?
Idea, what if the Eastern Roman empire fell instead of the West
Rhodesians never die
@Blank177 I never said he was, just to clarify. He did acknowledge that the native africans wanted to live amongst their own and not be forced into a white dominated society. Shame the rest of the colonies in afirca weren't governed this way. Would've made for a peaceful solution to the continent's racial issues.
Interesting video, thanks.
A referendum was held in Southern Rhodesia on 27 October 1922. Voters were given the options of establishing responsible government or joining the Union of South Africa. After 59% voted in favour of responsible government, it was officially granted on 1 October 1923.
If Southern Rhodesia joined the Union and its economy (potentially the second richest Union province after Transvaal considering the mineral, agricultural and tourism riches) gradually integrated with the much bigger Union economy, large numbers of South African whites would have moved there. It's quite possible that the white population of the South African province of Rhodesia could have been about one million by 1980.
Now there's less than 30,000 whites in Zimbabwe.
It would still be part of a black-majority South Africa now, but South Africa (despite the huge present-day problems) is still a much better place than Zimbabwe.
Would Britain have given Bechuanaland (Botswana), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi) to South Africa after this referendum? Possibly.
Could the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique have survived because Zambia (which gave bases and support to UNITA and Frelimo after 1964) doesn't exist and is a South African colony for another 30 years? Possibly.
How many 1922 votes prevented this scenario? A mere 2,785.
The breadbasket of the world
It’s important to remember that just because Zimbabwe is arguably one of the worst states in the world it doesn’t mean that failure should put Rhodesia in a better light. I feel many people do that because of the failure of the post colonial Mugabe regime. The Smith government was a white supremacist body which promoted segregation and no long term solution to the immediate issues that plagued the country. This is not a good comparison but it’s something akin to the modern comparisons of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany. Such a shame that post Rhodesia Zimbabwe was squandered by corrupt dictators
The amount of Apartheid-sympathizing in these comments is horrendous
Rhodesia died along with its glory days. Now, Zimbabwe is hungry, bankrupt, corrupted, and infested with poachers.
I don't know if you've done this or not but can you do a "what if" video of the USA collapsing in 91 not the ussr. Then further it along with secessionist movements all gaining successful splits, Texas, California, New England remaining the USA, Great plains becomes "Native America" with Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. But more importantly have California eventually drop out of alliances with the other states and start seeking Warsaw pact membership… then when texas, the northeast and the south all agree they don't like the idea of Warsaw pact being at their front door, Native America allows them to move troops through its territory to take back California by force. You could literally turn the entire ukraine invasion around to a vice versa situation.
Remember Rhodesia was a country funded by Israel and Britain so when people call you racist for saying anything positive about it call them Anti-Semitic
We will not buy into nefarious propaganda. Long before the coming of Rhodes and his mercenaries Africa was well built, civilised with a thriving economy as far back as the 15th hundreds.The maps are there to prove this fact and you have hidden them away from black people so they can think Africa was wild with no development.Instead Europe was built on the back drop models that was found in Africa. You destroyed Africa and shipped away its elite back then only to came back after 300 years and claim to have civilised Africa.Rhodes and his bunch new were he was going.They had maps and knew what was where. The land of Ophir in the Bible is Masvingo province and Rhodes had a Bible and he knew the gold of Ophir mentioned in the Bible and he was after it. You can't keep lying about history so that you dominate a certain people and Rob them of their resources.There won't be Europe if Africa turn back and refuse with their resources.Slowly the African is waking up to the reality that he's been lied to in everything that he's been taught.Rhodes and his hordes were a terrorist group bent on killing and raping and stripping bare the riches of Southern Africa.
how would Rhodesia compare to South Africa in regards to aparthied?
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When does the alternate history start? most of the video is just what happened irl
Im proud to be Rhodesian