| In 1992 the World
Bank named Mozambique as the poorest nation on earth, with 99%
illiteracy. Yet the Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River feeds
the Tete Province, in Mozambique, one of Africa's richest graneries.
250,000 people had owned and managed the `property and lives
' of 8 million Africans until the mid 1970's. On leaving, the
occupiers pillaged and burnt everything during their exodus.
Today there are estimated to be in excess of 1 and a half million
land mines still in place in this rich fertile region. |
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