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Railways of Zimbabwe
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The Train Leaving Salisbury
"THE TRAIN LEAVING SALISBURY....... Four decades of memories - an African railway story" authored by Kenny Rukovo is a narration of his experiences growing up as a child whose parents worked for the Rhodesia Railways which subsequently became the National Railways of Zimbabwe following the country's independence in 1980. Mr and Mrs Ngara ( Kenny's parents) joined the Rhodesia Railways as new weds in 1963 as nurses. Ironically, they were hired as a couple to man a railway clinic which was part of the unit that was laying the new railway line in the low veld of the country, from Mbizi to Triangle. The family was transferred from station to station throughout their railway careers spanning over 40 years. Kenny and his wife Nessies also worked for the same organization from 1983 to 2001 when they decided to migrate to Canada with their children. The family worked a total of 107 years among themselves. Their railway service was filled with interesting experiences and adventures as narrated in the memoir. Enjoy this interesting unique railway experience.
Africa's Freedom Railway
The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.
Meeting Technology's Advance
In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change. His principal concern is with indigenous people whose efforts to meet this technological advance has been neglected or underestimated. Gao shows how different cultural traditions, political situations, and individual interests create an attractive variety of local responses to the challenges and opportunities afforded by technology. He not only describes the final consequences of railway development, but emphasizes the dynamic process by which indigenous people first derived, then gradually lost, most of the gains from modern transport advances. In addition, Gao explores a number of permanent impacts of railways on the two areas, including demographic and structural changes, and divisions of race and class. An intriguing study for researchers and students of imperialism, and Chinese and African history.
Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1888–1947
This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system. Covering the period 1888-1947, when the Rhodesian railway system was privately owned by Cecil Rhode's British South Africa Company, this book uses the Rhodesian railway system as a prism through which it refracts many dimensions of the imperial experience in central and southern Africa, ranging from the impulses underpinning the regional ambitions of Rhodes himself to the origins of black worker protest in the Rhodesias.
A History of Zimbabwe
Examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.
