Curse of Kariba Dam | Full Documentary

[@Wallacenawa]

Im very proud of you as a Zambian. Dont relent, its not easy but fight even harder so more people can see your work. We need this (our history) much more than most people realise. Lesa ukupale boi

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Wallace. Your encouragement means alot 🙏🏼🇿🇲

[@stevemuntalima7734]

Great documentary.....the 'Nyaminyami' Legend is still sound especially in the southern regions of zambia (Tonga areas). There are also a lot of mermaid stories in the Tonga lands... The sacred water holes, water bodies or shrines where these water spirits dwell are refered to as ' Malende' in Tonga language. A place where the natives elders go to seek for divine favors. I once stumbled upon such a place/shrine, albeit ignorantly with my 2 friends in 2004 when i was in 9th grade at Kafue Boys secondary school. One saturday morning my friend and i decided to go out of bounds into the mountains and forests to get away from the hectic boarding life. We were led on this hiking adventure by an older guy, who was a local lad and a grade 9 also, and wished to join us on this trip. So we were 3 guys. This local guy talked about this place he thought was fun to visit. So we took the bait. We then arrived at this place deep in the forests which looked and felt like a dream....like a different realm. The vegitation and stones in this place just looked different. The water flowing in a nearby stream looked blue or even crystal green at times depending on where you are standing when you observe the stream. The fauna and insect life we encountered was only endemic to this place. The flowing water then discharged into this calm pool which was dead still and so deep. Time seemed to stop all the while we were in this place. And that deep pool at the foot of the hill is where the MERMAID was said to live......we didnt see it or her, but we knew and Could feel that we were not alone that afternoon in that jungle...we felt like we were been stalked. When i got back to school later that evening, i knew straight away that that's a place i should never have gone to in the first place... But i still thank God for my experiences and adventures.

[@augustinegrahamkasapo4051]

Bro....I really Appreciate your Documentaries.....Mad Love, Mad Respect....💯💯🔥🔥....I wish ZNBC would buy Rights to Televise these stories....🎯🎯

[@TheZHistorian]

Cheers Bro. Much Appreciated. 💯🙏🏼🇿🇲

[@rigalaitheseer]

Another great video👍👍 I wish more Zambians can find this channel

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Maria. Feel free to tell a friend and share the vidoes for more to find the channel🙂🇿🇲

[@rigalaitheseer]

@@TheZHistorian of course

[@anxioushampongo8376]

You're really professional.. Plus you've a lot of passion that's what makes your work much much enjoyable👏👏. Keep going strong, you're making a strong foundation

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks for the positive feedback @Anxious, it means alot 🇿🇲🙏🏼

[@officialfaychi7941]

This is a great documentary ,proudly Zimbo🇿🇼

[@tanakacraigmasvaure9786]

Great documentary 👏🏽this is amazing

[@Inyokernjb]

Well documented on Kariba such in-depth information and very eye opening. I can remember only too well the UDI from 1965 when living at Kalewa Barracks in Ndola. I wanted to go to boarding school in Bulawayo where some of my friends were but being British it at that time was a NO go for me( Mr Smith) put paid to that nevertheless my schooling at Kansenji in Ndola was perfect and enjoyable. Tough times in Zambia in the 60’s but President Kaunda stood stellar in his position as President and for the Zambian people. 🇿🇲

[@oscarnyambe]

So how old are you now?

[@Inyokernjb]

@@oscarnyambe I am 68 this month

[@michaelchipepo3121]

U are briton?

[@HilaryMurewerwi]

That's a profound documentary. You are one with a distinct genre when it comes to information gathering and presentation. This idea of documentary composition and presentation like an other discipline calls for talent, innovation and charisma. You have qualities bro. Keep up the genre, you are inimitable

[@davisonbanda2372]

I love your works sir, kindly also research on our zambian tribes migration into zambia from various places we are tired reading lies which reduce African to only luba-lunda yet alot trace a far as Egypt, SA, Mesopotania

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Davison. Migrations are an important topic to cover and will do likewise.

[@nkosinathi7242]

Bravo 👏 👏 👏. Nice documentary We must not let this history be forgotten. This is what they should teach in schools not Bismark

[@Thouzandinonemedia]

Amazing Work

[@theblessmediagroup1222]

Well articulated.... lotsa respect from ZIm

[@TheZHistorian]

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[@mooc2547]

My first time here and I love this channel! 💥

[@Beez187]

I'll admit. I had no idea about this side of the Kariba dam story. Keep bringing these stories to masses Victor. Powerful documentary. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

[@TheZHistorian]

Glad the story was informative sir.

[@twapalwatns]

This is really good information. Keep up the good work 🔥

[@DavyKapiji]

Great video we need to learn more about our country and neighbors

[@chipo-lweendomwiindilila3689]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one

[@nomazizizembe8662]

Very educational my brother watching from cape town south Africa

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks bro. Much appreciated 🙏🏼 🇿🇲🇿🇦

[@peaceign6194]

I loved this, the editing, visuals and background ambiance was spot on.

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks for the feedback @Peace. It's much appreciated.

[@drd3702]

Great documentary! Thank you!

[@rovnew988]

Quite interesting and informative. Thanks

[@Chris-gu2mo]

Bruh! How didn't I know this channel. You doing great 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Chris. And better late than never 👌🏽😅

[@clemorejoshua1680]

Great works! This is hard work to put these pieces together

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks for recognizing the efforts. It means a lot.

[@wasamoongwa8377]

The cinematography 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😭

[@mpangilwa]

WONDERFUL.KEEP IT UP

[@jerrysakala3651]

Brilliant video. Keep it up

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @ Jerry.

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

My grandma's brother was one of the local African construction labourers who worked on this project. He died a couple of years ago. Nice to see the experience of the locals being resurfaced.

[@grahamt5924]

That's cool. It was an amazing plan. Produce abundant electricity and use it to produce nitrogen fertilizer at Sable Chemicles. For an agricultural society, its the way forward. For the Batonka, a massive lake to fish. Win win situation. I have meet many living alongside Kariba who are very happy with what Kariba provides.

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

@@grahamt5924 Zambians today, appreciate the dam, it's an important infrastructure for us. But the point is that there were many sacrifices and tradeoffs that went into the making of it, and many lost out. No way you can disregard the >60k people who lost their land and the many more victims of the permanent ecological disasters that followed. (Countless studies have been written on this) As with many developments, it is mainly the privileged urban populations who benefited whilst the majority of the population who were based in rural areas did not. Even today, 60 years later only 96% of rural Zambians (10 mil people) still don't have any electricity access. Rural Africans always adapt and try to get the best out of any situation. But the villagers were not consulted and never asked for a lake, and were already happy with their river. And sable Chemicals was in Rhodesia, not Zambia. It's amusing, this idea of solving 'problems' that never existed in the first place. As if the colonialists ever had the average African in mind.🤣

[@grahamt5924]

@@user-vw6bk4pb4l Everything you and I use, someone has had to sacrifice for it. The rubber in our car tyres comes from a rubber plantation that has destroyed an ecosystem somewhere, the iron ore mine has moved someone else, the road to get the stuff to market has killed something else. That's the cost of progress. If you had to only do something when everyone was in agreement nothing would have been done. Yes sable chemicals is in Rhodesia, but that nitrogen fertilizer produced is part of the reason 8 billion people are alive today. Its progress and there will be many other people who will require sacrifices to make the progress that is required so that the global population can increase to 10/11 billion people and so it goes it on. Also, you make it out as though white people only care about themselves. You really beleive that. Has no white person ever done something just to be kind in your world?

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

@@grahamt5924 I never implied that progress doesn’t require sacrifices. I simply stated facts given the context of the debate. The question is; can we really call it ‘progress’ if it’s primarily meant to serve a tiny section of the privileged urban population? You presented a rosy ‘win-win’ picture that does not reflect reality at all, given the facts and historic setting. And as I said, one can’t claim to ‘fix’ a problem that never existed in the first place. Agriculture still produces less than 20% of our GDP and most people are starving. Zambia has been amongst the hungriest countries on earth for decades, with the radical shift in the local diet, prioritisation of cash crops, and poor national food security planning, among other issues. Dams have long been linked with severe droughts. This is not a white vs black people issue. That’s ridiculous. Can’t you have a debate without taking things personally? It just so happens that back then the country was run by foreign settlers who were also the dominant urban population. But since independence, the demographics have evolved drastically but the problem still exists, and I myself am part of the urban privileged greatly benefitting from this ‘progress’ whilst the vast majority of the country has been permanently neglected, and in many cases adversely affected. So it's one step forwards for some but two steps backwards for others. And lastly, any local community should have a say on anything directly affecting their well-being and livelihood, or at the very least adequately compensated for losing everything and missing out on said ‘progress.’ As with everything in life it’s about striking a balance, which is the basis of this debate.

[@grahamt5924]

@@user-vw6bk4pb4l I don't know what happened to the Batonka at the time of the dam, but I would have assumed some were very pissed off by it, but I do know that when I lived in Binga, the Batonka were very happy in that area with the outcome. Kariba is in an area of less than 300ml rainfall a year, so agriculture is no existent. It was already a drought zone. Kariba actually improved the amount of access to calories in the area. I agree that people should be compensated when they lose land for progress but that does not generally happen regardless of skin colour. I think on balance of everything, Kariba was a good idea and what it produces has helped millions, not just a minority. I don't know what Zambia does with the energy Kariba provides but after working at Sable Chemicals in 1993, I know where most of the power on the Zim side gooes and for me fertilizer is a worthy goal. At the end of the day, go to any dam in England and there is a village drowned at the bottom of it and compensation seldom happened.

[@bupekabamba6017]

I really appreciate that you used Mosi-o-tunya.

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Bupe. I really appreciate you noticed that.

[@proggymaticsmahureva6075]

I follow your documentaries and they are on point, thank you so much

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks for your support. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

[@josephmoela2960]

Very educative material

[@misheck3861]

Bro this is like some jake tran type of vid. Nice

[@georgechiwalamendoza9623]

thank u so much i wish one day your channel to be big

[@simonphiri1481]

You did a stellar job on this documentary 👏 Well done!

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks Simon. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

[@Lusimo1832]

Well documented good stuff

[@andysonm]

Great stuff👍

[@gabriellamulikita2867]

Your documentary is amazing

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks @Gabriella. Glad you like it.

[@tacisiuschishimbaofficial7339]

Well documented , keep up the good work

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[@joelmfune1685]

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[@legend-cy1nd]

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[@MsChungu]

Interesting how does one get in.touch with u sir

[@TheZHistorian]

Hi, you can email me on [e-mail]

[@UnbelievablySpectacular]

Very well done 👍👍👍

[@tila_019]

My opinion , Your stories carry more authenticity when you tell them in a slower tone like you've done on a previous ones, otherwise Well documented.

[@TheZHistorian]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's well noted 🙂

[@alickmkhola5238]

Good content indeed. Can you also do the bush war and Zambia's role in it.

[@TheZHistorian]

Sure thing Alick. Thanks for suggestion.

[@drd3702]

I will be happy to learn about that too

[@henrychiyaba1885]

Watching along the Zambezi River in Zambezi District.

[@elliamsimutami]

10/10

[@delmatv2388]

Thumbs up

[@augustinemoomba]

A dam just took only five years has disrupted the social fabric of the Tonga, Korekore and others up to this day...more needs to mitigate the suffering of these people....food for your thought!

[@jasonmadyanenzara5821]

It's surprising that the Korekore Gova people are not mentioned in the documentary. The dam wall site area of Zimbabwe was inhabited by the Shona not Tonga.

[@TheRealKlinky]

I think in balance kariba brought more prosperity than anguish to all the people displaced by the waters...think about it - ELECTRICITY, kapenta fisheries, etc...

[@dobanisingojunior8591]

Top stuff.

[@ourlivesmatter.960]

I am here from Holland would love to meet you. Thank you I have news for you.

[@TheZHistorian]

Great! Send me an email on [e-mail]

[@TheRealKlinky]

The survey completed years before the dam was built, accurately established the high water mark - I have seen the original surveying beacons near chete gorge, hundred kms from the dam site & the accuracy is absolutely astounding. Point of correction - the dam wall never collapsed, it was the coffer dam that was flooded by the "once in a lifetime" floods in 56/57 & washed away. Once floodwaters receded, another coffer dam was erected, water pumped & work continued.

[@TheZHistorian]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏽

[@misheck3861]

My question is where did he get the footage

[@inessmwauluka2249]

Definitely from national archives

[@burtonphiri5984]

I hear k plus's voice over ine mmm

[@collinskanazache8682]

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[@legend-cy1nd]

I'd continue watching but have an exam tomorrow 😭😭

[@fiustardaka837]

😄😄😄😄

[@singlemomsambassador]

The video has no volume

[@pianobwoyonthebeats6017]

I'm Tonga , watching that part hates ..

[@ignatiuszulu6285]

I call it the great sacrifice.

[@s.wvazim6517]

Look at the old footage no potholes everything maintained...before zanu

[@jimmyndumba40]

Old folks and their nyaminyami theories 😂😂😂😂.

[@moreblessingmangoya2720]

I happen to think they are not just theories.. Some places are sacred

[@sausage9806]

Those old folks were there and u were not so they know wat they experienced

[@grahamt5924]

It also meant the production of 240 000 tons of Nitrogen fertilizer per year. For an agricultural society, that's very valuable.

[@grahamt5924]

@UC1dkyiA_ymeN5oRYmiA5zRQ There are 16milion Africans in Zimbabwe and the only reason they survive and are feed is due to a discovery that adding nitrogen to soil doubles crop yields. Four Billion people on this planet owe their lives to that discovery. You really think that you can grow enough food to feed 8 billion people with organic farming?

[@streethuztlerstiff8959]

I think our freedom fighters should have waited for the white people to develop the country more before fighting for independence Just imagine how developed this country could have been if they waited upto somewhere the 80s or 90s A good example we can look at is SA

[@stripesfilmszm]

I hope you are just joking. Otherwise the implications for prolonged slavery was more death and poverty, it's only good if you leaving in 2022 and not in the 60s. Aside from buildings what development would they have left because the agenda was to pull minerals from Africa to there countries

[@streethuztlerstiff8959]

@@stripesfilmszm thank you for the correction 🙏🙏🙏

[@margaretmarh]

That makes us look incompetent It starts with you to change the nation don't wait for others

[@shadowbeast232]

I would recommend you seek guidance from your ancestors to fully understand what it means to fight and be independent ‼️

[@streethuztlerstiff8959]

@@shadowbeast232 thank you 🙏🙏

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thank u so much i wish one day your channel to be big