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Mozambique

Samora Moisés Machel

Date of Birth: 29 September 1933
Place of Birth: Madragoa (Chilembene), Gaza Province
Died: 19 October 1986


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Poll knocks Frelimo confidence

This is the current of opinion which President Samora Machel's son Samora Machel Junior known as Samito is attempting to rally...


No son, you can't run

Samito son of Mozambique's first President Samora Machel is a businessman who has been quietly gathering support for a bid to follow in his father's footsteps we hear...


New faces, old issues

He still has some influential opponents in Frelimo though including Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and later of South African President Nelson Mandela...


Ruby wedding

The MRM Chairman is Samora Machel Júnior son of Founding President Samora Machel and Graça Machel...


Frelimo picks a candidate

Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and then of South African President Nelson Mandela disappointed many by refusing to put herself forward but threw her weight behind the Chissano faction making an impassioned speech that helped expand the candidate list...


The race opens up

She also has the backing of ex-President Joaquim Chissano and Graça Machel widow of South Africa's Nelson Mandela and of Founding President Samora Machel...


Renamo conflict escalates

It was leaked that a group of senior party members close to ex-President Joaquim Chissano and other grandees of the early Independence era under the late President Samora Machel had lodged a formal complaint with the Central Committee's Verification Committee...


Obrigado Graça

As the widow of Founding President Samora Machel Graça has iconic status among a public that sees her as free of the taint of corruption that has alienated so many from the governing party...


Frelimo's gold rush

Chipande and the presidency Chipande’s status as an undisputed hero of the party makes him an attractive presidential prospect for anti-Guebuza elements such Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel wife of South African former President Nelson Mandela and a successful businesswoman in her own right...


Armando Guebuza

Since the country won Independence from Portugal in 1975 he has held various government posts: he was Interior Minister from 1975-1977 in the government of Samora Machel the country's first President and again in 1983-1985; he was also Minister of Sofala Province from 1981 to 1983...


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