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Funding for the project which will cost about US$12,642,000, has been sourced from World Bank and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). The beneficiary community is expected to contribute 25% of the project cost.
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Kariba Dam
Kariba Dam, concrete arch dam across the Zambezi River at Kariba Gorge, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Construction of the dam began on Nov. 6, 1956, and was completed in 1959.
The structure is 420 feet (128 m) high with a crest 1,899 feet (579 m) in length and a volume of 1,350,000 cubic yards (1,032,000 cubic m).
The dam creates Lake Kariba, and it supplies some 6,700,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, generated by Kariba North Bank and South Bank companies (Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively).
Its creation required the resettlement of more than 30,000 Batonka tribespeople of Zambia and the evacuation of thousands of wild animals (“Operation Noah”).
Some Africans initially opposed construction of the dam, seeing it as a symbol of the unpopular Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which dissolved into Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Zambia in 1963.
Later, however, the dam was accepted because of the inexpensive electric power it furnishes to Zambia’s prosperous copper industry.
Lake Kariba
Robert Mugabe on Zimbabwe
In it he recounts the black majority’s struggle for independence and details his government’s plans to address the problems facing the nascent country.
Mugabe’s title of prime minister changed to president in 1987, and his rule continued until his resignation in 2017.
He ends this article with the African liberation cry “A luta continua!” (Portuguese: “The struggle continues!”).
Struggling for Nationhood: The Birth of Zimbabwe
When, in 1652, Jan van Riebeeck.
representing the Dutch East India Company
.landed at the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa and laid the foundations of a future Dutch Cape Colony.
no one could have foreseen that the process thus begun would assume such proportions 250 years later. It engulfed, in successive stages.
not just the Cape Colony but also the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, Natal, Basutoland, Swaziland, Bechuanaland, Southern Rhodesia, and Northern Rhodesia.
The national liberation struggle that transformed Southern Rhodesia into Zimbabwe was an event in this process and was the sum of many linked events.
Colonial Background
In the competitive game of colonial adventures played out in Africa and the Far East during the 15th to the 19th century.
the law of the survival of the fittest ruled just as it did in the jungle.
The Portuguese eliminated the Arabs.
the Dutch the Portuguese, while the French and British, as they struggled for supremacy.
together annihilated the Dutch in many areas.
Having survived alone in the Cape, the British began pursuing the Dutch settlers moving northward in search of greater freedom.
This northward movement by the Afrikaners resulted in the establishment of two republics:
the Orange River Republic (now the Orange Free State) .
and the Transvaal Republic (now Transvaal), whose northern border was the Limpopo River.
Armed Struggle Begins
The realization by a core of the ZAPU leadership that the old political methods had failed and that a new leadership .
had to be found to confront the enemy by force of arms led to the formation of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). From its inception.
ZANU aimed at armed struggle as the main thrust of national effort.
Within a few months of its formation it began recruiting cadres for training in China and Ghana.
The Conflict Intensifies
The failure of the Victoria Falls talks held between the Smith delegation .
and that of the ANC led by Bishop Muzorewa convinced the front-line states.
that Smith was still not amenable to political change.
There was no alternative but the continuation of the liberation war.
After some dissension the ZANLA commanders finally began to work in unison.
expanding their military zones stage by stage and transforming many of them into liberated and semiliberated zones.
