Word: bassa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...white supremacists have still more vested interests in sympathetic governments in Angola and Mozambique. The Cabora Bassa dam, the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa south of Aswan, is scheduled to be completed this year with its principal customers being industrial South Africa and Rhodesia. Another huge dam, on the Cunene River in Angola, is now being built with South African money. Black insurgents have been trying to stop both projects since their inception...
Plus, last year in an ambush, Frelimo killed two South African engineers and captured a vehicle containing maps, charts, diagrams and equipment to be used on Cabora Bassa. The South Africans were furious. The South African engineering company withdrew its engineers and said "The Portuguese are incapable of protecting us." They requested and received more South African troops at Cabora Bassa to supplement the Portuguese garrison. And right now, today, Frelimo is within twenty miles of the construction site, and soon they will be able to begin shelling the dam. And then the Portuguese will send in more troops...
There is another one that they are trying to build in Angola, called the Kunene River Scheme. This is not one big dam, like Cabora Bassa, but a series of eighteen small dams. Here they plan to settle a half-million European settlers as a second line of defense. And here they hope to set up a buffer zone. They've learned a little from Cabora Bassa. This time, in Angola, they are depending primarily on Portuguese and South African capital...