Heritage of Cahora Bassa

Heritage of Cahora Bassa - Life Beyond Tourism

Cahora Bassa is the largest hydro power plant in South Africa and the most efficient power plant in Mozambique.

The Cahora Bassa lake—in the Portuguese colonial era (until 1974) known as Cabora Bassa, from Nyungwe Kahoura-Bassa, meaning "finish the job"—is Africa's ...

Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development

The Constitution of the Cahora Bassa Dam, signed between Portugal and Frelimo on June 23, 1975, which memorialized this agreement, granted HCB ...

Cahora Bassa Dam & the Delusion of Development

Built in a remote corner of the Portuguese colony, it was at the time the fifth-largest dam in the world. Its completion confirmed that nature could be ...

Cahora Bassa Dam, Mozambique | South African History Online

Cahora Bassa, also spelled Cabora Bassa. This arch Dam and hydroelectric facility on the Zambezi River, is located in the Western part of ...

Cahora Bassa Dam & the Delusion of Development - MIT Press Direct

After five years of toil by more than five thousand workers, the construction of Mozambique's Cahora Bassa was complete. At the time, it was the ...

Cahora Bassa | Description, Dam, River, Problems, & Facts

The Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam was the last megaproject constructed in Africa during the era of decolonization and, at the time of its ...

Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965 - 2007 - jstor

For over three centuries, the waterway also figured prominently in Portugal's plans to control the Mozambican interior. The Cahora Bassa Dam was merely its most ...

The Rationale Behind The Apollo-Cahora Bassa Scheme - Heritage

Operation · Hydro · -electric AC power generated at Cahora Bassa's South Bank power station by five 480 MVA machines is transmitted at 220 kV to the Songo ...

Cahora Bassa Dam - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

A group of Portuguese, German, British, and South African companies built the dam. The work began in 1969 and was completed in 1974, while Mozambique was still ...

Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project ...

Cahora Bassa - Cool Geography

It has created a lake that is 292km long, up to 32km wide and a maximum of 157m deep. History. The dam was started in the 1960s by the then ruling Portuguese ...

Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of ...

The history of Cahora Bassa is about an authoritarian colonial state willing to achieve a set of economic and strategic objectives using all the ...

Lake Cahora Bassa Fishing, Facts, Map - Mozambique - Lakepedia

History of the Dam ... The project of building a hydroelectricity generating station in the Overseas Province of Mozambique, which then belonged to Portugal, was ...

Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Cahora Bassa Dam

The history of Cahora Bassa is about an authoritarian colonial state willing to achieve a set of economic and strategic objectives using all the coercive power ...

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute - Project MUSE

Cahora Bassa was put into operation just months before Mozambique became independent under the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (today ...

One Africa - The Cahora Bassa Dam is located in... - Facebook

The dam was finished in December 1974 after much political debate.[1] This dam is used to convert the Zambezi River power into electricity by ...

MHN: Cahora Bassa - Mozambique History Net

As used here, the term «Cahora Bassa» refers to the dam and the hydroelectric project, as well as the associated and complex trilateral politics ...

Cahora Bassa: The Intersection of Politics, Economics and ...

Little wonder that “Cahora Bassa” means “the job is finished” in the local Nhungwe dialect. The road from Songo winds 600 metres down to the dam ...

Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of ... - jstor

The Cahora. Bassa project demonstrates that questions of sustainability are linked to relations of domination and struggles over meaning. The history of Cahora ...