Maputo — The Mozambican government, irritated at the apparently interminable negotiations with Portugal over the future of the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi, is considering taking unilateral ...

AS THE sun's first rays dance on limpid waters, Bomba Kango, a Mozambican fisherman, pushes his canoe out on to Lake Cahora Bassa. It is one of Africa's largest lakes, 270km (170 miles) long, teeming ...

In the 1960s, Portugal, the coloniser of what would become the independent country of Mozambique, and South Africa built the Cahora Bassa Dam along the Zambezi River. South Africa provided the ...

The only thing missing was James Bond abseiling down the side of the giant generator hall. Amazing is an overused word. But Cahora Bassa is an amazing feat of engineering. In 1969 when it was started ...

The Mozambican government-owned hydroelectric power company is looking at Eskom as a potential customer for the additional 1,245MW generation capacity that it plans to add to its existing plant at the ...

Cape Town - Eskom, which has managed to stave off load shedding for more than five weeks, warned that its daily supply from the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric scheme will be reduced by more than half to ...

Discover how South Africa's electricity exports surged in 2024, with coal still powering 83% of the nation's energy needs.

Portugal has agreed to give up its remaining stake in a giant hydroelectric dam in Mozambique, ending a long-running dispute. Portugal, the former colonial power, had retained control of the Cahora ...

Hidroelétrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) has approved the acquisition of 25.2% of the share capital of the state-owned Linhas ...

Sharply falling water levels at Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa dam, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest hydropower plant, are threatening electricity supplies to countries including South Africa, which buys about ...