Nascimento de Samora Machel, um líder visionário cuja vida foi dedicada à luta pela liberdade
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Neste 29 de setembro, celebramos o nascimento de Samora Machel, um líder visionário cuja vida foi dedicada à luta pela liberdade e à construção de um Moçambique independente e soberano. Embora sua presença física já não esteja entre nós, seu espírito de coragem, resistência e determinação continua vivo em cada um de nós.
Neste dia, renovamos nosso compromisso com os ideais que Samora defendeu, inspirando-nos em sua visão de um Moçambique próspero, inclusivo e unido. Ele permanece como um farol, iluminando nosso caminho à medida que trabalhamos para realizar o futuro que ele sonhou para nossa nação.
Samora Machel vive em nós, em nossas ações e em nossa busca constante por um Moçambique melhor!
Born this day (September 29) in 1933, Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975.
Born more than 200 miles north of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, Machel received his education through mission schools. He refused to enter a seminary for higher education and instead became a nurse in Maputo. The experience radicalized him, and, after 10 years in the profession, he joined the clandestine Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), which sent him to Algeria for military training. He rose quickly through the leadership ranks and became Frelimo’s leader in 1970, after the 1969 assassination of Eduardo Mondlane.
Machel claimed that his radical political stance came originally not from reading Marxbut from the experiences of his family; his parents were forced to grow cotton for the Portuguese and were displaced from their land in the 1950s in favour of Portuguese settlers. After Mozambique became independent in 1975, Machel became president. Frelimo followed Marxist ideologyby nationalizing many institutions and supported Robert Mugabe in his fight to end white domination of his country, Zimbabwe. Machel, however, did sign the Nkomati Accord with South Africa in 1984, under which each country agreed not to support the other country’s opposition movements, and thereby maintained an economic relationship with the white minority government battling the African National Congress. His charismaand personal style kept his government in power despite the droughts and floods of the early 1980s and the ongoing civil war with the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo).
In 1986 Machel was returning to Mozambique from Zambia when his plane crashed in South Africa. It was believed by many that the South African government was somehow responsible for the crash, although it strongly denied a connection. Machel’s widow, Graça, who married South African President Nelson Mandela in 1998, gave evidence to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that supported the involvement of the minority South African government. A memorial to Machel was erected in 1999 at the site of the crash.
Neste dia, renovamos nosso compromisso com os ideais que Samora defendeu, inspirando-nos em sua visão de um Moçambique próspero, inclusivo e unido. Ele permanece como um farol, iluminando nosso caminho à medida que trabalhamos para realizar o futuro que ele sonhou para nossa nação.
Samora Machel vive em nós, em nossas ações e em nossa busca constante por um Moçambique melhor!
Born this day (September 29) in 1933, Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975.
Born more than 200 miles north of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, Machel received his education through mission schools. He refused to enter a seminary for higher education and instead became a nurse in Maputo. The experience radicalized him, and, after 10 years in the profession, he joined the clandestine Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), which sent him to Algeria for military training. He rose quickly through the leadership ranks and became Frelimo’s leader in 1970, after the 1969 assassination of Eduardo Mondlane.
Machel claimed that his radical political stance came originally not from reading Marxbut from the experiences of his family; his parents were forced to grow cotton for the Portuguese and were displaced from their land in the 1950s in favour of Portuguese settlers. After Mozambique became independent in 1975, Machel became president. Frelimo followed Marxist ideologyby nationalizing many institutions and supported Robert Mugabe in his fight to end white domination of his country, Zimbabwe. Machel, however, did sign the Nkomati Accord with South Africa in 1984, under which each country agreed not to support the other country’s opposition movements, and thereby maintained an economic relationship with the white minority government battling the African National Congress. His charismaand personal style kept his government in power despite the droughts and floods of the early 1980s and the ongoing civil war with the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo).
In 1986 Machel was returning to Mozambique from Zambia when his plane crashed in South Africa. It was believed by many that the South African government was somehow responsible for the crash, although it strongly denied a connection. Machel’s widow, Graça, who married South African President Nelson Mandela in 1998, gave evidence to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that supported the involvement of the minority South African government. A memorial to Machel was erected in 1999 at the site of the crash.
Palavra-chave: história de samora machel
