How Frelimo betrayed Samora Machel’s dream of a free Mozambique

Ideals of liberation were doomed from the start as Rhodesia and SA waged war on the newly independent country

19 July 2021 - 19:35 By David Matsinhe

Forty-six years ago, Samora Machel, the leader of Mozambique’s liberation movement and the country’s first president, stood before an euphoric crowd at Machava Stadium and declared the “complete and total independence of Mozambique”...

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