offensive in Tete District, the dam’s home. It made no effort to conceal its intentions, vowing in Mozambique Revolution, Frelimo’s English-language periodical, to destroy Cahora Bassa because it represented “a hostile act against the Mozambican people.”361The colonial government found the Tete offensive especially worrisome; not only did it actually endanger Cahora Bassa, but, if Frelimo were able to cross the Zambezi River, it would gain access to the more populous southern half of Mozambique—a region that included the white highlands of Manica and Sofala and the cities of Beira and Lourenço Marques.
The combination of economic uncertainty and mounting security threats compelled planners to rethink both the purpose and timeline of the project. Anxious to guarantee a market for hydroelectric power and to obtain military support for the embattled colonial state, Portugal turned to neighboring South Africa, where sufficient capital existed to finance the dam’s construction—and whose own power requirements were projected to double between 1967 and 1980.362Counting on the racist politics of the white minority regime, Portuguese proponents of the dam lobbied for a combined energy and military agreement with South Africa.363
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