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#kariba ferry disaster

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Lake Kariba shoreline near Kariba town, where the Mbuya Nehanda ferry route began.
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Opinion & Analysis

Zimbabwe Keeps Declaring Disasters. It Never Prevents Them

Ninety-seven people are dead on Lake Kariba. Thirty-five years ago, it was 89 on a mountain road in Nyanga. Zimbabwe knows how to mourn a disaster. It has never learned how to prevent the next one.

Opinion & Analysis·Prosper Makunike·3 days ago

The memorial at Regina Coeli Mission in Nyanga, where the names of victims of the 1991 bus disaster are engraved.
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Local News

The Nyanga Bus Disaster: Zimbabwe's Deadliest Wreck Before Kariba

For 35 years, the 1991 Nyanga bus disaster stood as Zimbabwe's deadliest transport accident, killing 89 schoolchildren, teachers and a driver on a mountain road. This month's Kariba ferry disaster has now overtaken it, reviving painful memories of a tragedy the country never fully learned from.

Local News·Prosper Makunike·3 days ago