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Cahora Bassa is one of 'the most important projects yet to be undertaken
by an alliance of international capitalistic and imperialistic forces*.
The aim is to build a £150 million dam and electric power station on
the Zambezi to provide the cheapest source of power- in the world for the
racist regime in South Africa, It will also enable the irrigation of
thousands of acres of land on which the Portuguese intend to settle
one million immigrants in order to thwart the advance of the nationalist
forces. It will therefore result in even further entrenchment of white
power in Southern Africa.
The ill-fated Cahora Bassa project has beisn beset with difficulties since
its inception. First of all there was the mutual distrust between the
two major partners- South Africa blew hot and cold as she did have
suitable sites nearer home, less vunerable to sabotage, and the Portuguese
were not too happy about the increased dependence on its already domineering neighbour that the project will necessaril" produce. Moreover,
the Portuguese have always gone to great lengths tc distinguish their
own "multiracial" policy from South African apartheid and a shift from
South African to British or American capital might possibly avoid a too
close involvement with the regime and thus make the project more acceptable internationally0 Thus the preparatory work scheduled to start
on November 1, 1968 never took place0 In April, 1969, Caetano announced
that the ZAMCO Consortium might not get the contract after all, but
eventually this was signed in September. Apparently one of the factors
in ZAMCO's favour, that outweighed the disadvantage of South African
predominance was the participation of the Swedish firm ASEA, with its
unique experience in building the long distance, hugh voltage, direct
current transmission lines.
So the project received quite a blow when ASEA suddenly announced its
withdrawal from the consortium. There can be no doubt that this decision
was forced by the mass opposition to the whole project demonstrated in
Sweden, and by the great efforts of our friends in Sweden who publicised
the full implications of Swedish involvement in such a colonialist and
imperialist plan, and also more important for forcing their government
and the firm to reacts the outright contravention of any sanctions
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| Title | CENPA-037~20 |
| Filename | CENPA-037~20.tiff |
| Full text | Pit ■ |tf^ ^ Cahora Bassa is one of 'the most important projects yet to be undertaken by an alliance of international capitalistic and imperialistic forces*. The aim is to build a £150 million dam and electric power station on the Zambezi to provide the cheapest source of power- in the world for the racist regime in South Africa, It will also enable the irrigation of thousands of acres of land on which the Portuguese intend to settle one million immigrants in order to thwart the advance of the nationalist forces. It will therefore result in even further entrenchment of white power in Southern Africa. The ill-fated Cahora Bassa project has beisn beset with difficulties since its inception. First of all there was the mutual distrust between the two major partners- South Africa blew hot and cold as she did have suitable sites nearer home, less vunerable to sabotage, and the Portuguese were not too happy about the increased dependence on its already domineering neighbour that the project will necessaril" produce. Moreover, the Portuguese have always gone to great lengths tc distinguish their own "multiracial" policy from South African apartheid and a shift from South African to British or American capital might possibly avoid a too close involvement with the regime and thus make the project more acceptable internationally0 Thus the preparatory work scheduled to start on November 1, 1968 never took place0 In April, 1969, Caetano announced that the ZAMCO Consortium might not get the contract after all, but eventually this was signed in September. Apparently one of the factors in ZAMCO's favour, that outweighed the disadvantage of South African predominance was the participation of the Swedish firm ASEA, with its unique experience in building the long distance, hugh voltage, direct current transmission lines. So the project received quite a blow when ASEA suddenly announced its withdrawal from the consortium. There can be no doubt that this decision was forced by the mass opposition to the whole project demonstrated in Sweden, and by the great efforts of our friends in Sweden who publicised the full implications of Swedish involvement in such a colonialist and imperialist plan, and also more important for forcing their government and the firm to reacts the outright contravention of any sanctions 18 |
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