#zimbabve

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Political activist Didymus Mutasa (left) at a protest outside Rhodesia House, The Strand, London (1975).

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November 17th 1855 saw David Livingstone reach Victoria Falls in Africa.

Of course it wasn't called Victoria Falls, but in the local Bantu language of southwestern Zambia and surrounding countries it is known as Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke that Thunders", what a sight it must have been for the Scottish explorer, the first known European to view the falls. The World Heritage List officially recognizes both names. Livingstone also cites an older name, Seongo or Chongwe, which means "The Place of the Rainbow" as a result of the constant spray.

Livingstone had heard about ""The Place of the Rainbow"" from local scouts and in early November 1855  traveled down the Zambezi River to see for himself. Approaching the spot in canoes, the party could see the columns of spray and hear the thunderous roar of water miles away from the fall he wrote;

"When about half a mile from the falls, I left the canoe by which we had come down thus far, and embarked in a lighter one, with men well acquainted with the rapids, who, by passing down the centre of the stream in the eddies and still places caused by many jutting rocks, brought me to an island situated in the middle of the river, and on the edge of the lip over which the water rolls. In coming hither there was danger of being swept down by the streams which rushed along on each side of the island; but the river was now low, and we sailed where it is totally impossible to go when the water is high. But, though we had reached the island, and were within a few yards of the spot, a view from which would solve the whole problem, I believe that no one could perceive where the vast body of water went; it seemed to lose itself in the earth, the opposite lip of the fissure into which it disappeared being only 80 feet distant. At least I did not comprehend it until, creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen or twenty yards." he went on to say "it was the most wonderful sight I had witnessed in Africa."

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Viktorya Şelalesi / ZİMBABVE- ZAMBİYA

Tam 128 metre yüksekten düşen su, arkasında bir sis tabakasının yanında çok büyük bir gürültü oluşturuyor. Orta Afrika Platosu’ndan doğan Zambezi Nehri, kilometrelerce süren uzun yolculuğunun ardından yorgun sularını Viktorya Şelalesi’nin kollarına bırakıveriyor. Dev su kütleleri, sınırlarını çizdiği iki ülkeye adeta özgürlüklerini haykırıyor. Yüzyıllar boyunca birlikte yaşamış Zimbabve ve Zambiya toplumları arasında 720 kilometrelik sınırı oluşturuyor. Zambezi Nehri, uzun süren sömürge dönemlerinin ardından ayakta kalmaya çalışan iki ülke için bir hayat kaynağı. Son dönemlerde ise doğal ve vahşi yaşamı bir arada görmek isteyenlerin uğrak yeri.

Yerel halkın Mosi-oa-Tunya (Gürleyen duman) dediği Viktorya Şelalesi’ni 1855 yılında, İskoç kaşif David Livingstone keşfetmiş. İngiltere Kraliçesi Victoria’nın anısına aynı zamanda özgürlük anlamında bu şelalelere Viktorya adını vermiş. Şelale UNESCO Dünya Mirası Alanı listesinde.

Zambia içlerinden doğan Zambezi Nehri uzun menderesler çizdikten sonra tektonik bir kırılma sonucu oluşan Viktorya Şelalesi’nden aşağı dökülür.

Dünyanın en büyük şelalelerinden biri olan Viktorya, 1,7 km genişliğinde 120 kadar küçük şelaleden oluşuyor. Bu şelalelerin sayısı yağmur mevsimine göre değişiyor. Yüksekten düşen sular vadi içinde büyük bir sis tabakası oluşturuyor. Bu nedenle Viktorya Şelalesi’nin üstünde gün içinde hiç kaybolmayan bir gökkuşağı görenleri büyülüyor. Bu şelaleleri gezmek isteyenler tabii ki ıslanmayı göze almak durumunda. Yüksekten düşen suların oluşturduğu sis tabakası rüzgârın etkisiyle çevreye yağmur gibi yağıyor.

Ziyaretçiler için iki ülkede de farklı seyirlik alanlar mevcut. Ufak bir tüyo: Şelalelerin görünümünün en iyi noktaları ise Zimbabve’de.

https://medium.com/tr724/viktorya-%C5%9Felalesi-ya-da-g%C3%BCrleyen-duman-aed833cc10a7

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Two specialists never agree.

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Music from Africa Part 4: Shosholoza

I'm taking you to my home country South Africa for two songs in my series about music from Africa. The first song is Shosholoza, a Ndebele folk song that has become so popular in South Africa that it's often called the unofficial anthem.

The song originated with Ndebele men who used to travel by steam train from Zimbabwe to South Africa's gold mines. ("Sho sho" uses onomatopoeia to imitate the sound of a steam train.) It was usually sung in a call and response style: one man sang a solo line and the group responded by copying him.

It was also sung by prisoners, including South African President Nelson Mandela while doing hard labour in the prison on Robben Island. He described it as a song that compares the apartheid struggle to the motion of an oncoming train. According to him, the singing made the work lighter.

Nowadays it's mostly sung at sporting events to show solidarity. It was also used in the soundtrack of the movie Invictus, a 2009 biographical drama based on Mandela's life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Which, may I add, we won.

Tomorrow: a song called Weeping.

Today in Tokyo (who lives in Tokyo but was born in South Africa)

@todayintokyo 

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15A 414 der NRZ (National Railway of Zimbabwe) zwischen Victoria Falls und Livingstone, Sambia

Baureihe: NRZ 15A Autor: Pascal Zingg Aufnahmedatum: 16.07.2017 07:15

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