Cape Town ETC: Two arrested after five-year-old’s Samora Machel murder
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Samora Moisés Machel
Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which had killed 34 people, including several Mozambican ministers and government officials. Machel was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism.
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politics · President of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 · politician · also Samora Moisés Machel, Samora Machel, Machel
Born 29 September 1933 · Died 19 October 1986 · Q219918
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2026· 4 entries
EWN: Samora Machel CPF points to aunt in 5-year-old's murder
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Magic 828: Police arrest relatives in the murder case of a five-year-old girl in Samora Machel
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Windhoek Observer: CoW pushes to formalise 10 settlements in Samora Machel
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2019· 2 entries
Africa Check rated the claim “Samora Machel said: “The day you hear the whites speak of me in good terms, don’t share your secrets with me, because that means I would have betrayed you already.”” False.
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Africa Check rated the claim “Samora Machel “used to say if you are applauded by white people you must know something is wrong with you”” False.
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2007· 1 entry
Jacinto Veloso, one of Machel's most unconditional supporters within Frelimo, had sustained in his memoirs that Machel's death was due to a conspiracy between the South African and the Soviet secret services, both of whi
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1999· 1 entry
By Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça, and by President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique
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1998· 1 entry
Twelve years after Samora Machel's death, Graça Machel married Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, thus becoming the only woman to have been First Lady of two countries
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1995· 1 entry
Former security minister Sergio Vieira publicly confirmed “the traitors were executed”
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1986· 2 entries
Died 1986-10-19.
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Machel attended a summit in Mbala, Zambia, called to put pressure on Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, over his support for the Angolan opposition movement UNITA
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class (1984).
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On a railway carriage in the non-man's land between South Africa and Mozambique, Machel and South African President P
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1981· 1 entry
South African commandos attacked three houses in the southern city of Matola, killing 12 ANC members as well as a Portuguese electrician
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1980· 1 entry
Machel gave a warning: "To ensure national unity, there must be no Shonas in Zimbabwe, there must be no Ndebeles in Zimbabwe, there must be Zimbabweans
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1977· 1 entry
A rebel army known as RENAMO launched a rebellion backed by Rhodesia, plunging the country into civil war
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1976· 1 entry
The government nationalized all rented housing
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1975· 5 entries
Just a month after independence, all health and education institutions were nationalized
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Machel proclaimed "the total and complete independence of Mozambique and its constitution into the People's Republic of Mozambique"
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Until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which had killed 34 people, including several Mozambican ministers and government officials
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Had made a public appearance at the Nachingwea military camp for a lengthy show trial of former FRELIMO militants who had opposed the party's power consolidation, including Paulo Gumane and Uria Simango
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Career landmark: President of Mozambique (1975–1986).
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1974· 3 entries
Which agreed to transfer full power to Frelimo with the date for independence set for June 25, 1975
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Portuguese officers, tired of fighting three unwinnable wars in Africa, overthrew the government in Lisbon
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Made his way into Mozambique the following year
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1973· 1 entry
After graduating in modern languages from Lisbon University
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1972· 1 entry
FRELIMO crossed the Zambezi, striking further and further south
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1970· 3 entries
Of Machel as Frelimo President, with dos Santos as Deputy President
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Concentrating on what was regarded as the FRELIMO heartland of Cabo Delgado in the far north
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Travelled to the Soviet Union to seek a diagnosis for her chronic ill-health, but to no avail
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1965· 1 entry
On her second attempt to flee Mozambique
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1964· 1 entry
Machel soon became a key commander, making his name in particular in the grueling conditions of the eastern area of the vast and sparsely populated province of Niassa
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1963· 1 entry
It was widely believed that the war for independence would last years, if not decades, and that the chances of Frelimo cadres being reunited with their families in Mozambique were vanishingly small
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1942· 1 entry
Was sent to school in the town of Zonguene in Gaza Province
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1933· 2 entries
In the village of Madragoa (today's Chilembene), Gaza Province, Mozambique, to a family of farmers
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Born 1933-09-29.
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