Manuel Chang

Guebuza's Finance Minister Manuel Chang is being readied for sacrifice should it be judged necessary insiders say...

He may be maintaining a delicate balancing act but it has not been helped by the leak to local media of two documents that he signed while Defence Minister apparently approving the Proindicus project and instructing the then Finance Minister Manuel Chang to proceed with funding the project in January 2014...

Part of the argument rests on the contention that the sovereign guarantees given by former Finance Minister Manuel Chang for the three original loans were illegal which could make them null and void (AC Vol 57 No 23)...

Former Finance Minister Manuel Chang and the Chief Executive Officer of the three companies that received the loans António Carlos do Rosário effectively admitted that they knowingly broke laws and that the creation of a state tuna fishing fleet was as reported by Africa Confidential a mere cover-up for a huge military programme...

Guarantees given by the previous Finance Minister Manuel Chang were illegal under Mozambican law and kept secret even from senior Ministers...

She however was heavily involved in the hidden loans saga while Secretary to the Treasury under the then Finance Minister Manuel Chang...

Yet his very public distress is diverting attention from his predecessor Manuel Chang who signed all the state guarantees for the dubious loans to even more dubious companies (AC Vol 56 No 14 The fishing deal got fishier)...

Ultimately Maleiane like his predecessor Manuel Chang had little choice but to protect the party...

The possibility of Guebuza or his Finance Minister Manuel Chang facing the music however remain extremely remote...

That was taken as a sign that Nyusi does believe his statement that 'no one is above the law' but whether it can extend to the ex-President or his Finance Minister Manuel Chang is doubtful (AC Vol 55 No 20 Narcotics links tarnish Frelimo)...