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Past winners of the prizes include Ivette Bassa, who invented bright blue jello (Chemistry) and former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates (Peace...
Botha also pledged South Africa's help in restarting Mozambique's giant Cahora Bassa hydroelectric-power dam project, whose transmission lines have been repeatedly sabotaged by the Renamo insurgents since the facility was built in 1975. That promise showed both neighborliness and self-interest, since the dam's chief customer will be South Africa. Altogether, the encounter may have reflected a new willingness on the part of Pretoria to pursue conciliatory policies toward its black neighbors abroad while continuing to crack down on opponents of apartheid at home...
...economic survival, Mozambique depends primarily on South Africa. Pretoria runs the railroad that links many South African inland cities to the Indian Ocean port facilities at Maputo. It also buys most of the hydroelectric power produced by Mozambique's Cabora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River. About 35,000 Mozambican workers are employed in South Africa's gold and coal mines. Although Machel opposes South Africa's apartheid policies, he also recognizes that the two countries share a long common border. "This is a reality that can be neither ignored nor altered," he says. "Peaceful co-existence...
...South Africa, Mozambique gains at least $250 million a year, mostly from earnings of the 100,000 Mozambicans who work in the South African mines; this represents more than half of Mozambique's national income. When electric power starts flowing to South Africa from Mozambique's Cabora Bassa dam in October, Mozambique could make another $50 million a year. Commercial ties probably outweigh ideology and are likely to continue...
...annually pours into its economy through export transits, tourism and remittances from the 100,000 Mozambique workers who make up roughly 25% of South Af rica's mining force. South Africa has also signed a ten-year contract to buy power from Mozambique's $400 million Cabora Bassa Dam, which begins operations later this month...