Welwitschia José dos Santos (Tchizé)

Only his close relations especially Welwitschia 'Tchizé' dos Santos are still defending the paterfamilias...

Lourenço has dissolved Grecima the presidency's public relations agency which sub-contracted all its work to Semba Comunicação owned by Dos Santos friends and relatives including two younger children Welwitschia 'Tchizé' and José Eduardo Paulino 'Coreón Dú' dos Santos (AC Vol 58 No 18 Secrets of the Dos Santos media empire)...

Semba Comunicação is the state-subsidised private corporation controlled by Welwitschia 'Tchizé' dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos's 39-year-old daughter and his 32-year-old son José Paulino 'Coreón Dú'...

' That's how Welwitschia 'Tchizé' dos Santos 39 explained the June ruling by Portugal's highest court against her...

Much less well-known is the pervasive role in the mass media of a company run by two of President Dos Santos's lesser-known children the 39-year-old Welwitschia 'Tchizé' and her younger brother José Paulino 32 aka 'Coréon Dú' (AC Vol 53 No 2 Marques takes them on)...

His other daughter Welwitschia José dos Santos 'Tchizé' made her three-year-old son named José Eduardo like his grandfather record an audio message claiming the President was in good health and watching television in Barcelona...

Two new names on the Central Committee stand out: the President's son José Filomeno de Sousa dos Santos 'Zenu' who runs Angola's sovereign wealth fund and the lesser known of his two daughters Welwitschea dos Santos 'Tchizé' an MPLA member of parliament...

As well as Welwitschea dos Santos 'Tchizé' the cohort of new women promoted included Yolanda Carneiro daughter of Luanda Governor Higino Carneiro and Djamilla Prata a rising figure in the capital's party structure...

His evidence to the Portuguese prosecutors which cites material also reported by Rafael Marques is also understood to name two of the President's children Welwitschia dos Santos ‘Tchizé' and Isabel dos Santos who have extensive diverse investments in Portugal as well as several other high-up MPLA figures...

Unlike his half-sisters Isabel dos Santos and Welwitschia José dos Santos 'Tchizé' who have vast business portfolios Zenu has maintained a low profile and the Fsdea is his first formal public role...

Much of the campaign was based on a saccharine video entitled 'Angola I Believe' produced by the Luanda-based Semba Comunicação which is run by two of Dos Santos's children Welwitschia José dos Santos 'Tchizé' and José Paulino dos Santos 'Coréon Dú'...