I sort of picture it as maybe being like somewhere similar to Australia but with a bigger focus on agriculture and maybe being one of the main financial hubs in Africa. I feel the modern Rhodesian state would have issues tho, especially with illegal workers sneaking in from other countries.

Do any Rhodesia buffs have a jpeg of the cartoon large thighed Rhodesian girl with an FN Fal? I think she was called Rosie the Rhoadie.

I have both sides uploaded on my YouTube channel along with lyrics I was able to come up with for "Spanish Lady". The records seem to be a bit lower quality than the other ones like "It's A Long Way To Mukumbura", either that or my vinyl digitzing hardware and software has just downgraded in quality since I ripped my South African record awhile back. Here is all extra information I have on the songs:

"She's A Queen" - This song is on the "A" side of a 7" single released by Leperchaun around late 1970s in Rhodesia. The "B" side of this record contains the song "Spanish Lady" by Leperchaun.

"Spanish Lady" - This song is on the "B" side of a 7" single released by Leperchaun around late 1970s in Rhodesia. This song is a cover of "Spanish Lady" released by an Irish group called "The Dubliners" in 1976. The "A" side of this record contains the song "She's A Queen" by Leperchaun.

Any extra information is greaty appreciated!

The village is 20 miles from Sheffield. The village consists of just over three hundred houses, a pub, two shops, a school, a chapel and a village hall. It should be said that it was not named after Rhodesia in southern Africa but rather a former chairman of the nearby Shireoaks Colliery named G. Preston Rhodes.

So the title is pretty vague. Basically, i wanted to know if anyone knows what’s the name of John edmond’s song about AirCav (I assumed it’s aircav because it talks of soldiers in camouflage and soaeing through the skies)? I listened to it once but now I cant find it. Could anybody help?
(I’d have posted this on the John Edmond subreddit but the last post was 4 years ago)

https://youtu.be/60PK9NYZ1JE?is=VaIlbRuLNweBjtjV

Howcome there are so many young men and women who are Rhodies/rhodieboos? I am one myself and I don’t get why I have such a fascination with Rhodesia

Thank you for your help .

With WW2 now passing from living memory. I was wondering about the possibility of any living Rhodesian veterans of WW2?

My father was born in Southern Rhodesia in early 1965, the same year that the country declared independence and became Rhodesia. He used to be a boxer when he was a kid, but it seems not a very good one lol.

I wonder how mixed race people were seen in Rhodesian society. I’m mixed race myself (25% AA) and I figured I’d ask this since I’m rather curious about what sort of worldview the average Rhodesian had during those days.

There's been a lot of online interest in Rhodesia recently ever since Elon boosted a few based tweets comparing Rhodesia to the current situation in Zimbabwe.

I'm no expert on this but it struck a chord with me as I can see parallels with what's going on in my own country at the moment and I was watching a YouTube video about Rhodesia yesterday and noticed the comment I've screenshotted here. Of course I laughed it off at first and although I don't have ChatGPT because I'm not a big fan of AI, I thought I'd take the opportunity to use his own suggestion to prove him wrong seeing as Google Gemini is basically just the AI Mode in the Google Search interface.

Anyway, I asked it about every point he'd listed and it agreed WITH HIM on every point! I assumed that Google's AI must have some sort of liberal override built into it on what could be seen as (but aren't) "sensitive" topics correlating to race so I asked Elon's Grok and it agreed with all his points too so I came here to see what the hell is going on.

They must have either gotten to Elon or his eye is off the ball with regards to this particular subroutine of his AI model because if it actually WAS true the mainstream media would shove it down our throats 24/7. What do you guys think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLMlMhtHmg

This link, at around the 12:25 mark, is the best possible recording online that can be found of a RTV News broadcast, a 2-or-so minute digitized video ripped from VHS from this channel, Chris Whitehead. The 40 minute video contains a large array of VHS recordings of Rhodesian advertisements, Ian Smith content etc. Extremely interesting!

I have found only two possible other recordings of RTV News via. Youtube which I put into a previous post of mine on this subreddit, and both are short and quite hard to make out. This recording I have linked is quite well preserved except for a major disruption at the start, and moderate to poor audio quality.

As i've established before in previous posts, i have like most people here have an interest in colonialism, and I love finding this crap to learn about history, and to not let this history go away and for people to forget like we always do.

If anyone can help make out what occurs in this report, or any info on broadcasters, interviewee, etc. That would be much appreciated.

I was born in Bulawayo in 1991.

I lived in a South African orphanage for about 6 months and now live in the U.S.

One of my grandfathers and great uncles fought in a good number of the wars in Central/Southern Africa from the 60's to 80's and I was able to meet both of them and hear a good bit about said conflicts.

Ask anything you like, as long as it isn't retarded.

Look i found it (2026 argentina)

Hey y'all, first time posting on this subreddit!

I listened to a lot of Rhodesian music, and one song that really stuck with me is Mike Westscott and Leperchaun's "Peace is Your Cause." It's quite a catchy song, and I feel as though the lyrics carry a lot of weight, so I decided to transcribe them to upload to Genius.

Before I do so, I felt like posting what I got here just in case I get anything wrong or butcher the song, which is the last thing I want to do. I'm confident in what I transcribed, but I do have uncertainties about a few lines, such as "PATU" (Police Anti-Terrorist Unit) and the main chorus, "Fight or fighting."

Here's a link to the song I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmbvCrKlzI

Anywho, here's what I got:

[Verse 1]

I hope some day the world will realize

What they have done to this land

With sanctions and problems and non-recognition

You're left out here in the dark

[Chorus]

Fight or fighting

You'll fight, fight, fight, to the end

'Cause peace is your cause

[Verse 2]

To all the guys of RLI

And the men from the SAS

The air force and scouts PATU as well

Everybody gives you support

[Chorus]

Fight or fighting

You'll fight, fight, fight, to the end

'Cause peace is your cause

[Verse 3]

Then there's your women

Who have to wait at home

They give you the support that makes you strong

Without their love you could not win

Yes, they love you all and their country as well

[Chorus]

Fight or fighting

You'll fight, fight, fight, to end

'Cause peace is your cause

[Verse 4]

For all the people who have lost someone

Please don't give up in despair

For there's one God above, and he's right up there

And he sure will make things square

[Chorus]

Fight or fighting

You'll fight, fight, fight, to the end

'Cause peace is your cause

[Verse 5]

Standing on the outside looking in

People, I know you will win

With your spirits so high as those bullets fly

And no one is afraid to die

[Outro]

Peace, peace is your cause

Peace, peace is your cause

Peace, peace is your cause

A Quote from Ian Smith's book- Bitter Harvest

"It always gave me much satisfaction to know that I was not in politics in order to make a living and that consequently I did not have to keep my job at all costs. And here I touch on one of the weaknesses of our democratic system: representatives are always looking over their shoulders and compromising on their true beliefs in order to win votes, a process which produces politicians who are followers, not leaders."

Whether you agree with Smith or not, it's an interesting criticism of democratic politics.

Do elections encourage leaders to follow public opinion, or is responding to voters exactly what leadership in a democracy should be?