The tragic fate of the ‘old’ ferry

It sits at the Quadripoint, just below the far-reaching steel and concrete of the Kazungula Bridge. Like a veteran benched after a long and bruising career the old horse was once the crossing, but now he is the backdrop.

For decades, the Kazungula ferry a broad, motorised pontoon of grit and roar carried the hopes of traders, the impatience of truck drivers and the nervous excitement of travellers crossing the 400-metre stretch of the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia.