Tonga people in Zambia and Zimbabwe were displaced
when the Kariba Dam was being built in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. Their tribal lands were flooded and the ZRA was
established in 1987
to manage the dam and its environment.
Many drowned during the process of building the dam and countless
thousands of endangered African species were wiped out.
“There was no environmental assessment
impact done when Lake Kariba was constructed. A lot of the people who
were displaced are dead but their decedents are the ones needing
compensation,” Zambezi River Association Corporate Secretary and Finance Director, Jonathan
Kangwa, said recently.
“The responsibility lies with the governments to
compensate the affected people. We are offering social
corporate responsibility programmes to the people. This has been a
challenge. Under the Zambezi Valley Development Fund, the authority established income generating projects such as live stock
production, drilling of boreholes and schools.
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