You've got it - Livingstone Airport, Northern Rhodesia - sorry for not telling you when you were in the correct country, but there aren't a huge number of airports in the region so it would have been too easy.
I was thinking more of the River Zambezi being the connection - especially as the Kariba Dam hadn't been built in 1950
The chap opening the airport was Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation -
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