Presenting...the Past

THE DAM

           In the 1820's the Kololo tribe is pushed out of the north and down to Zambezi. As the tribes conquered and governments were slowly built, the Federation came to rule from 1953 to 1963. The new Federation was a compromise between the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federation. One of the most significant decisions that resulted was the building of the first Dam in Zambezi. An economic benefit and a more convenient source of energy, the Kariba Dam was completed in 1958 and the Cahora Bassa Dam following in 1974. This barrier to prevent the flooding of the lower river, increased the drought of Lower Zambezi (http://www.zambiatourism.com/travel/places/kariba-history.htm, 2012)

PHOTO OF TERRENCE SPENCER

Though it created thousands of jobs, employing people on the construction of the dams, there were many thousands of lives that were depending on the very flow of the Zambezi and it's natural ecosystem was the Mozambican villagers' only knowhow to living.
(http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad27)

The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi

(http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2011/11/18/zimbabwe-has-no-capacity-to-pay-zambia-260m-says-minister/, 2011)

Operation NOAH

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xaKRk870JU&feature=player_embedded#!,2010)

The dam has changed the hydrolical cycle of the river and the region of Zambia, hurting animals and preventing the natural floods from reaching certain areas of the Zambezi. Thus brave rangers came in to save the day in a rescue operation, called Operation NOAH, by relocating 6,000 animals to the mainland from the years of 1958 to 1964. Without the rangers these animals homes would have been flooded and they would have died with the creation of  the Lake Kariba.


References from this page:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xaKRk870JU&feature=player_embedded#!)
(http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2011/11/18/zimbabwe-has-no-capacity-to-pay-zambia-260m-says-minister/, 2011)

(http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2011/11/18/zimbabwe-has-no-capacity-to-pay-zambia-260m-says-minister/, 2011)

(http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad27)
(http://www.zambiatourism.com/travel/places/kariba-history.htm,2012)