Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama

In 1992 Hunter as a lobbyist went to the Bophuthatswana 'homeland' KwaZulu (as a friend of Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party) and Mozambique (as guest of the Mozambique Institute which lobbied for Afonso Dhlakama's Resistência Nacional Moçambicana)...

Afonso Dhlakama President of the opposition Renamo party walked out after five hours of talks with President Joaquim Alberto Chissano on 29 March handing over a letter prepared in advance...

Police detained several hundred Renamo supporters including briefly five MPs: Issufo Momade Manuel Pereira Rui de Sousa Albino Faife and Domingos Dhlakama (uncle of Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama)...

This has caused some backlash in these areas and is one reason why Afonso Dhlakama leader of the opposition Resistência Nacional Moçambicana increased his vote in December's presidential election (AC Vol 41 No 3)...

Characteristically Afonso Dhlakama had asked the government to 'facilitate' Renamo's participation in companies that had been or were to be privatised 'so that the financial problems affecting some of its leaders can be resolved...

7 for his rival Afonso Dhlakama; in the voting for the national assembly Chissano's ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) scored 48 per cent and took 133 of the 250 seats against 38...

29 per cent of the vote in the presidential poll while his old antagonist Afonso Dhlakama of the Resistência National Moçambicana got 47...

Chissano faces little challenge for the presidency from Afonso Dhlakama whose Resistência Nacional Moçambicana may well do better this time in the northern provinces and should hold its support in central Mozambique...

Both bills were defeated but the stature of Renamo's parliamentary leader Raúl Domingos is growing overshadowing that of party President Afonso Dhlakama...

UNITA is repeating the tactics of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana which finally delivered a favourable peace settlement and state-funding for a political party for its leader Afonso Dhlakama...