Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>xIt is expected to give a much-needed lifeline to the almost 50-year-old railway, also known as Tazara, which was originally funded by Mao Zedong\u2019s government as a foreign aid project.<\/p>\nCCECC, a subsidiary of the China Railway Construction Corporation, is expected to negotiate a public-private partnership concession in the form of a build-operate-transfer model with Tanzania and Zambia to operate Tazara. It is also expected to upgrade the railway \u2013 which Chinese President Xi Jinping has called \u201ca symbol of China-Africa friendship\u201d \u2013 at an estimated cost of US$1 billion.<\/p>\n
Last month, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority announced the news, saying Chinese investors and the CCECC were poised to play a significant role, hence the company\u2019s proposal was \u201cexpected imminently\u201d.<\/p>\n
Observers have said the funding for the railway pointed to Beijing\u2019s keen interest in using Tazara for mining exports from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Competition in the area with both the EU and the US has intensified recently as the race for critical minerals used in the production of electric vehicle batteries heats up.Tim Zajontz, a lecturer in global political economy at the University of Freiburg, said while the Chinese consortium will commit \u201cThe Chinese investors have made it unmistakably clear in previous negotiations that Tazara is no longer considered an aid project but that it must be a commercially viable venture,\u201d said Zajontz, who is also a research fellow in the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at Stellenbosch University.<\/p>\n
Aly-Khan Satchu, a sub-\u00adSaharan Africa geoeconomic \u00adan\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ada\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adlyst, said the Tanzania and Zambian governments seemed to be looking for a major revamp of the railway and were happy to concede the running of this line to the private sector.<\/p>\n
to invest in the ailing infrastructure and insufficient rolling stock of Tazara, it was not an aid mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I expect this to be a revamp, to operate as the concessionaire for a meaningful period of time,\u201d Satchu said.<\/p>\n
He also noted Xi\u2019s keen interest in renovating Tazara.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis railway is a symbol of the Sino-African story and President Xi understands the power of the narrative,\u201d Satchu said.<\/p>\n
Xi had promised to renovate the railway when Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China last year and during Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema\u2019s visit in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina is willing to support the upgrading and transformation of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway in accordance with the principles of marketisation and commercialisation,\u201d Xi said when he met Hichilema.<\/p>\n
Tazara is part of the DNA of Sino-African relations, often used to emphasise that China\u2019s dealings with Africa are based on equality, solidarity and anti-imperialism, said Zajontz, whose upcoming book, The Political Economy of China\u2019s Infrastructure Development in Africa, covers the case of Tazara\u2019s planned privatisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotwithstanding the official rhetoric, Beijing has also keen geoeconomic interests in Tazara\u2019s rehabilitation which would improve the performance of the Dar es Salaam corridor, not least for mining exports from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u201d<\/p>\n
When China\u2019s involvement in the Tazara railway began in the 1970s under the leadership of Mao, the country was facing its own financial difficulties.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Zambia was desperate for a railway link to the Tanzanian coast for its main export, copper. Neighbouring white-controlled Rhodesia \u2013 now Zimbabwe \u2013 had cut Zambia\u2019s only route to the sea in response to its transfer of power to the black majority.<\/p>\n
The United States and Russia both refused to fund a new railway, so China stepped in, building Tazara for about a billion yuan, or billions of US dollars at today\u2019s rates.<\/p>\n
From 1970 to 1975, as many as 50,000 Chinese workers were deployed to build the 1,860km (1,155 miles) of track stretching from Zambia\u2019s copper belt to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n
It remains China\u2019s biggest overseas project to date, and managed to boost Beijing\u2019s political capital during the Cold War.<\/p>\n
However, the American embassy in Zambia said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that although China had funded Tazara\u2019s construction, it was the US that kept it running, providing assistance worth over US$45 million for \u201cnew locomotives and rolling stock\u201d as well as \u201csubstantial technical assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTazara has never reached its full potential,\u201d the embassy wrote on Thursday. \u201cBy the end of 1978, only two trains were operating daily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the 1980s, the United States joined international partners in responding to Zambia and Tanzania\u2019s request to rehabilitate Tazara, with the US government providing over $27 million through USAID,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Zajontz said the embassy\u2019s post was a great example of how the \u201cgreat powers\u201d competed for public opinion across Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone who knows a little bit about Tazara knows that eventually it will be privatised and that the Chinese would not allow a non-Chinese firm to run it \u2013 for obvious historical reasons,\u201d Zajontz said.<\/p>\n
He added that the tweet showed how \u201cdesperate\u201d both China and the West were in stressing how much they had invested in African infrastructure initiatives.<\/p>\n
Tazara\u2019s upgrade comes at a time when the European Union and the US have announced they will fund the building of a railway from the Zambian copper belt to an existing line to the Angolan port of Lobito. They will also develop the Lobito transport corridor, which will connect inland southern DRC and northwest Zambia to regional and global trade markets via the Angolan port city.<\/p>\n
The interest in the central African countries all circles back to minerals that are vital to the manufacture of electric batteries, including cobalt which comes from the DRC and Zambia. Chinese companies have made vast investments in both countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US wants to chalk up something on the board and this Lobito corridor is a relatively bite-sized investment \u2013 but the US is a Johnny-come-lately and woefully behind the curve,\u201d Satchu said.<\/p>\n
Zajontz said the West was keen to control its own transport routes in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth the US and the EU want to prevent a situation in which Chinese transport or logistics firms could interrupt critical value chains if prompted as part of geopolitical escalations,\u201d Zajontz said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Beijing, the recent announcement of Western investments along the Lobito corridor has certainly increased the geopolitical incentive to invest in and operate Tazara.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Matambo, research director at the University of Johannesburg\u2019s Centre for Africa-China Studies, said China understood the ideological and intangible value of Tazara, and so \u201cthe concession will not place high demands, if at all, on Zambia and Tanzania\u201d.<\/p>\n
As a landlocked country, Zambia in particular had struggled to make efficient use of its neighbours\u2019 seaports and China was alive to that, he said. \u201cThe Tazara is more than a railway; it embodies China\u2019s longstanding solidarity with the developing world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matambo added that, unlike Tanzania where the ruling party had a firm hold on the incumbency, Zambia was more politically open and China has wanted to retain Zambia\u2019s friendship through leadership changes. Helping in tangible ways such as reviving the Tazara would boost China\u2019s image in the eyes of Zambians, he said.<\/p>\n
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