The Achievements of Rhodesia: Who Paid? | Upright Films Documentary

What did Rhodesia build, who benefited, and who paid the cost? This documentary examines railways, tobacco, Kariba, industry, sanctions, the Wankie mine disaster, Salisbury, the liberation conflict and the infrastructure inherited by independent Zimbabwe. Economic achievements are considered alongside colonial exclusion, unequal access and human costs.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:59 Iron roads
4:23 The golden leaf
7:20 Kariba
10:26 Factories
13:22 Sanctions
17:28 Wankie
18:45 The city in the sun
22:10 The war
24:48 The inheritance
27:48 Who paid

SOURCES AND CREDITS
Research references supplied with the production include historical accounts of Kariba Dam, Victoria Falls Bridge, the Land Apportionment Act, Rhodesian currency, tobacco, Sable Chemicals, ZISCO and the Wankie coal mine disaster.
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v16/d144
https://csmonitor.com/1986/1020/orhod-f.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankie_coal_mine_disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Apportionment_Act_of_1930

Claude-assisted production for Upright Films using supplied photographs, explanatory graphics and synthetic narration. The slogan T-shirt image around 23:50 is illustrative; its historical provenance is unverified and it may be a modern or AI-generated recreation. It is not authenticated period evidence.

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