The Cabora Bassa-Apollo project

Soon after the turn of the century the Victoria Falls Power Co was established in the Transvaal. As the name implies it was anticipated that power from this source would be transmitted many hundreds of kilometres to the rapidly growing gold mines on the Witwatersrand. While the company flourished and retained its identity until 1948 when it was incorporated in the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM), all its power came from fossilfired stations. Only now has the pipe dream of obtaining power from the Zambezi River become a reality in a manner not so remote from the 3½ to 7 Hz frequency envisaged some seventy years ago.