Additional resources will be added to these pages from time to time. Die sowjetische Untersuchungsgruppe verwies auf einen 37-Grad-Schwenk des Flugzeuges nach rechts in Richtung hügeligen Geländes und vermutete ein falsches Bodensignal, auf Grund dessen die Cockpitcrew weiterhin von flachem Areal ausgegangen sein müsste. Frelimo dismissed them as “armed bandits”.As part of the measures accompanying the new Frelimo government, Machel introduced "reeducation centers" in which petty criminals, political opponents, and alleged anti-social elements such as prostitutes were imprisoned, often without trial. Be the First to Comment! Josina Abiatar Muthemba, who had been active in the anti-colonial student organisation NESAM, arrived in Tanzania in 1965, on her second attempt to flee Mozambique. In English. These pages include the full texts, organised year-by-year and as published primarily in contemporary Mozambican newspapers and magazines, of some of the speeches of the late President Samora Moisés Machel.

Frelimo's fears were well-founded. Please note that MHN does NOT claim that this is by any means a complete collection of Machel's speeches and public utterances. Some people are proud of their tribalism. N’tewane, Tchaiakomo's fourth child with Machel, was born that September, six months after Machel had left the country.Machel was not married to either Tchaiakomo or Buque. Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambican-South African border The question I would ask is why?

One of the largest streets in Full text available macua.blogs.com/files/uria-simango-glomy-situation-in-frelimo.docAn English translation of the constitution was published in the Frelimo English-language magazine The full text of the independence speech can be found in vozdarevolucao.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/mensagem-da-proclamacao-da.htmlPeter Worthington, "Machel Through Rose-Tinted Specs," Partido Frelimo, Colecção IV Congresso, Maputo, 1983.The full text of the agreement, and the speeches made at the ceremony can be found in a collection published by the Mozambican Information Ministry: See Darch, Colin, Mozambique History Net, www.mozambiquehistory.net for further details; also Christie Sopa, Antonio (ed), Samora: Man of the People, Maputo 2001 President Machel’s widow visits grave. Click here to download a PDF file, size 467 kb.

Idelson (1959) and Olívia (1961) were both born after the family returned to the mainland, where they lived in Mafalala, a suburb of Lourenço Marques. For as long as there was no commitment to Mozambican independence, the war would continue. Today in many cities of Mozambique you find people listening to pirated CDs containing Samora Machel’s speeches, and after a while they would say: ‘This one was indeed the real leader and President; I wish he was here all this we are witnessing wouldn’t be happening’. Frelimo faced a hostile environment, with the white minority governments of Ian Smith's Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa on Mozambique's borders. Why?”Reverend Amosse said President Machel was a leader of a broad mass liberation movement which represented the hope of many Mozambicans that liberation was possible and that “you can’t ask a slave with a gun in a hand if he/she wants freedom”.He said President Machel was politically advanced and hardly could be understood but was appreciated by many poor people and also disliked by few elites mostly because of his pro-poor social policies and the way he used to interact with the masses and articulate his ideas.This year’s commemorations must never lose sight of the fact of the need for a closure in terms of what caused the plane crash on that fateful night.It is clear that even if the Russian crew had made a wrong turn, they still had no chance of surviving.There was a strong presence of highly trained special South African forces in the area who were prepared to finish off the task had the decoy beacon plan failed.Four commissions have to date failed to conclusively point to the actual cause of the plane crash. "Frelimo had longstanding links with Zimbabwean nationalist movements.