Nani alimuua Samora Machel?

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CHE GUEVARA huyu alikuwa mwamba wa dunia.

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Wakati ndugu zetu wa Msumbiji wakimkumbuka Mmoja wa viongozi mashuhuri Kamarade Samora Machel, baada ndege aliyopanda pamoja na abiria wengine 34 ilipotunguliwa katika milima ya jimbo la Mpumalanga kuelekea Msumbiji mwaka 1986, je ni nani alihusika na mauaji wa Mwana-Mapinduzi huyu toka jirani zetu hawa Wamakonde?

Una uhakika ilitunguliwa?

 

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Theory iliyokuwepo ni kuwa waliitegeshea fake beacon ya Maputo airport na ilitua hapo eneo ambapo halikuwa na uwanja.

 

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Makaburu watu wabaya sana

 

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Ilisemekana kuwa baada ya ndege kuanguka Samora aliuawa bado yuko hai pale chini kwa mujibu wa mlinzi wake.[Huenda aliuawa pamoja na wengine waliokuwa wakingali hai.] Mlinzi wake ambaye naye alinusurika aliondoka mahali pale mara tu baada ya ndege kuanguka kwenda kutafuta msaada.

Habari zilisema askari wa Makaburu walifika hapo muda mfupi baadaye na kummalizia Hayati Samora akiwa amelala majeruhi ardhini. Mwingine aliyenusurika katika ajali hiyo ni rubani wa ndege Mrusi aliyejeruhiwa vibaya sana.

Mtu mmoja maarufu aliyekufa katika ajali hiyo ni Aquino Da Braganca, msomi aliyekuwa mshauri mkuu wa Rais Samora.

Ila Machel katuacha Imara!

 

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CHE, ndio alikua kiboko ya wadhalimu duniani (Mungu amrehemu) mwanamapinduzi aliechukukia ukandamizaji iwe Africa, America Asia , yaani dunia nzima!!!

Hongera Sana Che

 

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Nyerere! Look! Uhuru hailetwi tu kama bidhaa. Nyerere ndie aliyeratibu mapinduzi ya Seychelles miaka ya 70 na kumuweka msoshalist mwenzake Robert Rene na kumuondoa mafarakani Mancham. Unajua mapinduzi yale wangapi walikufa?

Pia kulikua na jaribio la kumyoa Robert Rene miaka ya sabini wakati baadhi ya wanajeshi watanzania walikua wamesha ondeka but wachache walikuwepo na waliweza zima mapinduzi yale na wanajeshi kibao walipelekwa usiku huhuo Seychelles, victoria.

Miaka ya 80 walijaribu tena walishindwa baada ya mapigano makali kati ya makabiru na cia kuchemsha dhidi ya majeshi ya Tanzania.

Mpaka leo idadi ya wanajeshi waliokufa or kujeruhuwa Seychelles haijulikani.

Mkuu kongole naomba kuuliza baadhi ya maswali nini kilikuwa nyuma juu ya kifo Cha Sokoine?

Na vipi ushiriki wa Tanganyika katika mapinduzi ya Zanzibar?

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Aliye muua samora ni kaburu mliye mpatia Bank ya NMB! baaasi

 

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TREATMENT OF TRAITORS - ENGLISH : Samora Machel : PART II



Samora Machel interrogates a group of native Mozambicans who supported the Portuguese regime in Mozambique and were responsible for the deaths of countless Mozambicans. Inoque Limbobo 62 years old PIDE ...
Source: African Roots

 

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Sio huyu, Josina alifariki ktk hospital ya Muhimbili. Mke wa Machel aliyeolewa na Mandela anaitwa Graça Machel,yuko Maputo kwa raha zake
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Josina si ni binti wa Graca Machel?

 

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Josina si ni binti wa Graca Machel?

Josina Machel alizaliwa Vilanculos 10/8/1945.
Amefariki - Dar és salam 7 April 1971 kabla hajaolewa na Samora Moisés Machel alikuwa akiitwa Josina Abiathar Muthemba.

Nchini Msumbiji kila tarehe 7 ya mwezi wa nne wanasherehekea sikukuu ya mwanamke wa Msumbiji ili kumuenzi shujaa huyo.
Ndio Graça Machel na Samora Machel wanaye mtoto anayeitwa Josina na amezaliwa 1976 na bado anaishi,picha yake hiyo hapo chini,ni mke wa mwanamuziki maarufu nchini Msumbiji aitwaye Ziqo

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11 October 2021
SAMORA MACHEL JÚNIOR REVEALS EVERYTHING ON THE WALL | FULL VIDEO


Samora Machel Júnior revela tudo no paredāo: Video Completo

Source : Cortes Fred Jossias Show

 

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23 October 2021

The life of Samora Machel / Maisha ya Samora Machel




Samora Junior asimulia wasifu wa Samora Machel, mbali ya miaka 35 kupita baada ya kifo cha rais Samora Machel, bado kama familia wanasubiri majibu ya kutosheleza kuhusu kifo cha baba yake kutoka serikali za South Africa na Mozambique.

Makuzi yake kama mmoja ya watoto nane wa rais Samora Machel, ambaye baba yao aliwakumbusha kuwa urais ni wa mtu mmoja na kuwa ipo siku ataondoka ikulu hivyo aliwasukuma wasome sana na kuwaheshimu raia pia wawe na nidhamu. Samora Machel alikuwa anawapa adhabu ya kwenda kuishi kijijini kwa baadhi ya watoto wake watukutu.

Sakata la jina lake Samora Junior kukatwa jina alipotia nia ya kugombea umeya wa jiji la Maputo baada ya baadhi ya vigogo wa chama cha FRELIMO kuingia hofu.

Samora Junior kuamua kugombea umeya nje ya chama cha FRELIMO baada ya wanachama kutoridhishwa na figisu za wajumbe waliokata jina lake hata baada ya wilaya 6 kati ya 7 za jiji la Maputo kukubali agombee.

Matatizo ya jimbo la Cabo Delgado nchini Mozambique, Samora Junior anasema mbali ya kupewa msaada na majeshi ya SADF ya South Africa na nchi zingine lakini changamoto hii inatakiwa imalizwe na wananchi wa Mozambique.

Kwani nchi zilizojitolea kujaribu kurudisha amani Kaskazini ya Mozambique majeshi yao ya kigeni hayawezi kubaki daima Mozambique hivyo ni wajibu wa Mozambique kutafuta suluhu kwa mazungumzo.

It's been 35 years since former Mozambican president Samora Machel died. The statesman passed away in 1986 after his plane crashed in South Africa's Lebombo mountains. The country has recently been troubled by the uprising of insurgents. The late president's son, Samora Machel Junior, looks back at the life of the late leader, and to review the state of Mozambique.

Source: Newzroom Afrika

 

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Carlos Jambo aliyenusurika katika ajali ya ndege iliyosasabisha kifo cha Samora Machel



The following members of the presidential delegation survived the tragic event:

Eusébio Guido Martinho (later deceased- on January 1987- as a result of the crash); Captain Carlos Jambo; Captain Carlos Rendição; Fernando Manuel João; Almeida Pedro; Manuel Jairosse; Daniel Cuna; Jossefa Machango; Vasco Langa; Vladimir Novoselov – Flight Engineer.

Samora Machel and another 25 Mozambican members of his escort (26 persons), two ambassadors, four members of the Soviet crew and two Cuban doctors died. As a result, a total of 34 people died in the crash of the TU 134. There survived nine Mozambicans and the Soviet board engineer, thus 10 persons. A total of 44 people were in the plane on this flight. One of the survivors died in January 1987 as a result of the crash: Eusébio Guido Martinho. This increased the number of deaths to 35.
Source : Samora Machel's death, 35 years on: Families want investigation into Mbuzini crash reopened - Watch

MBUZINI ,The Death of Samora Machel​

19 October 1986​

Dossier MZ-0017

Source : MHN: Mbuzini

The Crash​

At just after twenty minutes past nine on the evening of 19 October 1986, the Tupolev TU-134A-3 airliner, registration C9-CAA, carrying President Samora Machel and 43 other people crashed at Mbuzini, just over the Mozambican border with South Africa. Machel and 33 other people were killed; 9 passengers and one Russian crew member survived. Despite four commissions of enquiry and a session at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), it is widely believed that the causes of the crash have still to be satisfactorily explained.

Above: The presidential Tupolev TU-134, although an old design, was specially built to specification for the Mozambican government, was properly maintained, and was equipped with modern navigational technology.

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Questions remain about the circumstances of the Mbuzini disaster, and various authors, academics and journalists have written books and articles advancing different arguments about what really happened. Below are some links to a selection of such works: please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list.

Above: The covers of four of the various books and pamphlets that have been written about the Mbuzini disaster. From left to right: Samora: Why He Died (Maputo: Mozambique News Agency [AIM], 1986), 95 pages; Álvaro Belo Marques, Quem Matou Samora Machel (Lisbon: Ulmeiro, 1987); António Ramos, Samora Machel: Morte Anunciada (Johannesburg: África Repórter, 1998), 110 pages; and João M. Cabrita, A Morte de Samora Machel (Maputo: Novafrica, 2005), 85 pages. Below: Covers of three more general works on Samora Machel and his life and times, as well as a recent Portuguese publication on the crash. From left to right: Samora: Homem do Povo; Iain Christie, Samora: uma biografia; José Milhazes, Samora Machel, atentado ou acidente; and Sarah LeFanu, S is for Samora (Durban: UKZN Press, 2012).

◊ 1986
Allen Isaacman, Samora Moises Machel and comrades: a tribute. Africa Today vol.33 no.1 (First Quarter 1986),

◊ December 1986
Shubi Ishemo, Samora Machel. Review of African Political Economy no.37 (December 1986), pages 1-2. A tribute written on behalf of the ROAPE editorial collective.

◊ December 1986
Maria Eloisa Gallinaro, La scomparsa di Samora Machel. Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell’Istituto italiano vol.41, no.4 (December 1986),

◊ 1987
Barry Munslow, Samora Machel, president of Mozambique. Journal of Communist Studies vol.3 no.1 (1987).
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◊ 1987
Jordi Duch i Sesplugues, Moçambic sense Samora Machel: l’ombra de Sud-áfrica plana sobre el magnicidi: l'hereu de Machel. [Mozambique without Samora Machel: South Africa’s shadow looms over the assassination. Machel’s legacy. Catalan]. DCidob no.16 (1987),

◊ January 1988
Barry Munslow, Mozambique and the death of Machel. Third World Quarterly vol.10 no.1 (January 1988),


◊ 2003
Chris J. van Vuuren, Memories, a monument and its meaning: the monument on the site of the Samora Machel plane crash. South African Journal of Art History vol.18 (2003)

◊ September 2006
Phyllis Johnson, Samora Machel, 1986-2006. Review of African Political Economy [London], vol.33 no.110 (September 2006),

◊ 2006
David Robinson, A Case of Assassination? President Samora Machel and the Plane Crash at Mbuzini. Postamble vol.2 no.2 (2006),

◊ 24 November 2006
João Cabrita, Re: David Robinson’s «A Case of Assassination? President Samora Machel and the Plane Crash at Mbuzini», h-luso-africa (24 November 2006),

MHN Resources​

◊ 20 October 1986
Death of President Samora Machel: official communiqué. Communiqué on victims. Mozambique Information Office [London] (20 October 1986)

Two documents: an unofficial English translation by AIM of the full text of the statement read on radio on the evening of 20 October by Marcelino dos Santos, on behalf of the Political Bureau of the Frelimo Party, the Standing Committee of the Assembleia Popular, and the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Mozambique; and, an unofficial English translation by AIM of the communiqué on the victims who died alongside President Machel.

◊ 20 October 1986
South African president expresses deep regret over Machel’s death. SAPA report dated 20 October 1986, reprinted in the Summary of World Broadcasts

Reports the disaster and summarises other reports from Lisbon and Maputo. Says that the police commissioner, General Johan Coetzee has gone to the crash site.

Above: The front page of the Maputo daily newspaper Notícias for 21 October 1986, printed entirely in black, officially announcing the death of President Samora Machel.

◊ 20 October 1986
Auguste Mpassi-Muba. Pan-African Agency report on Machel’s death: accidental or planned? Text of PANA report datelined Dakar, 20 October 1986, published in the Summary of World Broadcasts [London]. The Pan-African News Agency immediately raises the question of whether the disaster was accidental.

◊ 21 October 1986
Alan Cowell. Mozambican chief dies in air crash in South Africa: at least 25 others killed. Samora Machel was traveling from Zambia meeting, Pretoria denies a role. New York Times [New York] (21 October 1986)

Above: One of the last photographs ever taken of Samora Machel, in Zambia just before boarding the presidential aircraft for the ill-fated flight back to Maputo.

◊ 21 October 1986
Tony Stirling and Erik Larsen. Machel crash: claims he was shot down, but pilot was off-course. Citizen [Johannesburg] (21 October 1986), p.1-2. In English. Pages one and two are entirely devoted to photographs of the crash site and speculative reporting.


◊ 22 October 1986
Mozambican communiqué announces death of Samora Machel. Summary of World Broadcasts [London] no.ME/8396 (22 October 1986), p.B/1-B/3. In English.

Transcribed and translated from the statement read on Radio Mozambique on the evening of 20 October by Marcelino dos Santos, on behalf of the Political Bureau of the Frelimo Party, the Standing Committee of the Assembleia Popular, and the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Mozambique; and, the second communiqué on the victims who died alongside President Machel with the addition of notes from SAPA reports on those injured and killed. This communiqué was also republished elsewhere; see for example the version in the Review of African Political Economy no.37 (December 1986), pages 2-4

Above: The section of fuselage from just above the wing lying in pieces on the ground at Mbuzini. Some South African police uniforms can be seen.

◊ 21 October 1986
Alan Cowell. Mozambique leader killed in plane crash. International Herald Tribune [Paris] (21 October 1986). Another version of Cowell’s report in the New York Times, see above.

◊ 21 October 1986
Mozambicans weep in the streets. The Citizen [Johannesburg] (21 October 1986).

◊ 21 October 1986
Mozambique on full alert: media power tussle reports refuted. New Nation [Johannesburg] (21 October 1986). In English.

◊ 21 October 1986
The death of Samora Machel. Summary of World Broadcasts [London] no.ME/8395 (21 October 1986), p.ii. In English.. A short summary of radio reports of the disaster, with the times of the broadcasts.
◊ 24 October 1986
[News item]. Financial Mail [Johannesburg] (24 October 1986). Click here to download a PDF file, size 461 kb. A laconic one-paragraph report from South Africa’s main business weekly dismisses out of hand the claim that the aircraft «was shot down», asserting already, after four days, that «the evidence suggests otherwise».

◊ 24 October 1986
The last photos of Samora Machel: all aboard for the ill-fated trip home. Weekly Mail [Johannesburg] (24-30 October 1986)

Source : MHN: Mbuzini

 

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Johannesburg, 17 October 2016 - The South African and Mozambican governments held a commemoration for President Samora Machel in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga on Monday. eNCA anchor Dan Moyane was meant to be on board the plane when it crashed in 1986.




Dan Moyane : I still maintain that the plane crash was no ordinary accident. It was a well-planned and sophisticated assassination. The Machel family, the people of Mozambique, Africa and rest of the world deserve to know the truth. For me President Samora Machel evokes emotions of courage, inspiration, and purpose. The stuff that leaders should be made of. As the founding President of an independent Mozambique, President Machel was a major influence in African liberation politics and the struggle for freedom and social justice. As a result, he had enemies inside and outside Mozambique. Among them the apartheid regime which orchestrated the Mbuzini plane crash.....

Source : eNCA

 

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Samora Machel - O Filme (Samora Vive)

Filamu Maisha ya Samora Machel

Video with English subtitles


Mapambano msituni, hotuba zake kuhusu ukombozi kamili wa nchi za Afrika ikiwemo Afrika ya Kusini ya ubaguzi na uhuru wa Zimbabwe ya weupe wachache, vibaraka kama Hasting Banda wa Malawi alivyoshirikiana na majeshi ya usalama na vikosi vya ujasusi vya Afrika ya Kusini kuhujumu uchumi na usalama wa Mozambique.

Safari yake ya mwisho toka Zambia ambayo ilisababisha kifo chake, 'live' mazishi ya kitaifa yaliyohudhuriwa viongozi wa dunia wakiwemo mwalimu Nyerere, Rais Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Rashid Kawawa, Salim Ahmed Salim

Salaam za rambirambi zilizosomwa na wajumbe wa kamati kuu ya chama cha Frelimo, pia hali ilivyokuwa mjini Maputo wananchi walivyojipanga kutoa heshima za mwisho kwa rais wa kwanza wa Mozambique comrade Samora Moises Machel, Maoni ya wananchi wa Mozambique kuhusu mambo muhimu aliyokamilisha kama rais wa Mozambique ...
Source : Camiro Stefane

 

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2021 11 March

Samora Machel visits Malawi (Complete)​

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Samora Machel is received by the president of Malawi and his people at the airport. In a newly independent Southern Africa, its leaders come together to find a way to develop the region as a whole and fill the inequality gaps created by colonialism.
Source : African Roots

 

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Samora Machel- by Kok Nam​

by Jacob MAWELAOctober 24, 20180329
Book on the Mozambican leader titled: Samora Machel by Kok Nam.
Saturday, May 24th 1975. Footage of FRELIMO leader Samora Machel leaving Dar-es-Salaam,

FRELIMO leader Samora Machel leaving Dar-es-SalaamTanzania for Mozambique where he was due to become president after his country gained its independence from Portugal o Jue 25th.

That background is contained in Nam’s monochromatic photography book on the Mozambican leader titled: Samora Machel by Kok Nam.
Publisher, Dr Andre Odendaal (middle) posed with Josina and Graca Machel after handing them a copy of Kok Nam’s book on Samora Machel. All images Jacob MAWELA.

Number 13 in the African Lives Series, an independent writing and publishing initiative which aims to contribute to a postcolonial intellectual history of South Africa, the book – by CTP Printers and under the editorship of Honorary Professor of History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape, Dr Andre Odendaal [for its English-language edition] – was launched to much fare at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, with Graca Machel in attendance.

Also present was a familiar patriarch the local Hellenic community affectionately refer to as, “Papou”, namely, George Bizos – in addition to who’s-who’s such as Albie Sachs, Elinor Sisulu, Buti Manamela, Florence Masebe, Pali Lehohla, Bonang Mohale, Josina Machel and the hosting venue’s CEO, Sello Hatang.

One of the designated speakers on launch night, former South African Justice, Albie Sachs, who lost his right arm as well as sight of an eye in an attempted assassination in Maputo, expounded on the intertwined history his country shared with Mozambique – of how, although he only got away with the loss of a limb, two locals lost their lives in the car bomb incident. “I owe Mozambique my courage”, pointed out Sachs, continuing, “Samora died for our liberation!”
In fact, in the book’s introduction, the erstwhile Constitutional Court principal went further by evoking times shared in the neighbouring southern African nation with comrades such as Ruth First, Rob Davies and Tom Moyane – recalling how they would all feel so proud when Samora would lead the vivas for the just struggle of the oppressed people of South Africa.

In written form, he reminded of the immense price that Mozambique paid for supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle!
On the other hand, Machel’s widow, Graca, who alongside her daughter, Josina symbolically accepted a copy of the book from Odendaal– insisted that her late husband and the like of Thomas Sankara, were assassinated. “They thought that killing him would destroy his ideals!” punctuated home the only woman to have been the First Lady of two countries.

The second wife to Mozambique’s first president at independence in 1975 and a minister of education and culture in her husband’s cabinet, Machel in Nam’s book is quoted thus: “Samora had an extraordinary capacity to communicate: with his tone of voice, with his hands, with his eyes, and even with the movements of his body.”


“When you read the book, you’ll identify yourself with the struggles”, she hinted to the audience in Houghton, further urging young people to take the legacy as a tool to understand their society.

Thanking the publisher, Odendaal for making the book available to South Africans – Machel drove across the point that “our sophisticated weapon is that we are anti-racism. And leafing through to a page depicting Samora and the late ANC leader, Oliver Tambo clasping hands on a podium at an event, Machel suggested in reference to her first husband, “He is still with us in his thinking.”
Amongst those in attendance on the night also was Alves Gomes, credited as an executive editor in the production of the book and the man unto whom Nam entrusted his collection of Samora Machel images.

A man of erudite posture as he held sway in front of guests at the foundation, Gomes, on the book’s preface, recounted the background to the project, starting with the late photographer handing him an envelope one afternoon in June 2012 – with the specific instruction to keep it in a safe place. That, pointed Gomes, happening after having reminded Nam about still not having done anything with his collection of Samora Machel pictures.

A mere two months later, Nam was gone and thus did Gomes embark on sifting through a world of the lensman’s imagery documenting, inter alia, colonial Mozambique and onto the country’s first multi-party elections of 1994.

The envelope Nam had entrusted into his care, Gomes disclosed, contained what he described as the now late photographer’s masterpiece: an image of Samora Machel taken at the guerrilla training camp of Nachingwea, Tanzania, in 1974.

This was in the form of a print Nam had preserved like a rare diamond, since he had lost the negative thereof. Gomes described the photograph as reflective of the personality of the man most Mozambicans still keep in their hearts and minds – their point of reference for what is right and wrong!

Gomes also let the reader in on the nature of the relationship between the photographer and the statesman – stating that Nam was not afraid to tell Machel what few others dared to say.

Such as an incident when the president invited the photojournalist to help with the rice harvest in Gaza province by swopping his camera for a scythe. Sans hesitation, Gomes recalled, Nam replied that he was there to take pictures while the president ought to comply with his duty of serving the people.

Published in a landscape format, Samora Machel by Kok Nam contains only monochromatic imagery juxtaposed to quotations brimming with definitions of his ideals, values and principles – with Machel’s excerpts understandably outnumbering those by the ilk of the late Lesotho leader, Leabua Jonathan, Kenneth Kaunda, then Bishop Desmond Tutu to even an adversary pending the war for independence, the Portuguese General Costa Gomes, who had this to say about the sworn socialist: “I was his opponent, as Commander of the Military Region of Mozambique. He was a highly respected and valiant adversary, very generous and intelligent, who knew how to conduct operations very well, particularly between 1969 and 1973 … He knew how to deceive, and knew how to choose the place where he wanted to operate.”

Described as a great communicator who when in flow would hold a crowd in lyrical engagement, the pearls of wisdom he dispensed on his sojourns are vividly and generously thrown around the book’s pages.

As though a prophet, considering that he was to perish in a plane crash back in 1986 and some years ahead of South Africa’s transition to a democracy, below an image depicting him clasping hands with then ANC president, Oliver Tambo on a podium at an unspecified event, he rang these words: “History has proved that the aggressor is always defeated. Liberation is an irreversible force … The minority racist, aggressive and colonialist regime will be defeated by the South African people. Apartheid will disappear.”

And not simply because he was selective in his denunciations based on as pertained unto others rather than himself or own domestic affairs – far be it the case with him, for he was exacting of himself also.
“Leaders come and go, but the People never die,” Sachs recalled him telling them. And in another quotation which would rankle the current narrative causing polarization among South Africa’s multi-racial populace, Machel, whose FRELIMO movement wasted no time in implementing Marxist-Leninist measures across the People’s Republic of Mozambique, expounded: “Our independence will make no sense while our land remains in the hands of a few people: that means that we are still not independent, that people are still not liberated.”
From a fellow artist’s perspective, the author of this article, whose own work happens to appear with that of Nam in a 2000 book by Australian scholar, Margaret Waller, titled, A Bigger Picture: A Manual of Photo–Journalism in Southern Africa – wondered what would the photographer, of whom it’s noted in his book that he preferred developing and printing his own work, had made of the mostly head and shoulder picture selection of the subject.

Maybe Gomes, in his role as the executive editor and the photographic editor, Joao Costa, intended it thus, with the mentioned matching of each photo with quotations from Machel’s speeches. Or peradventure one’s answer to one’s question lies in Gomes’ claim that it would not make sense to publish Kok Nam’s pictures without linking them to expressions of Samora Machel’s ideological values and principles.
Former Chief Justice, Albie Sachs addressed an audience at the Nelson Mandela Foundation at the launch of Kok Nam’s book on Samora Machel.

Apart from the misgiving, extending to the missed opportunity of including snapshots of Machel and his family, Nam’s book – naturally also available in Portuguese [published as a 1st edition in 2016, in Maputo] – bursts with affirmative text and illustrations of a late 20th Century spellbinding figure in varying moments of, one suspects, a fulfilled Life!

Reminiscent of the animated poise of a Fidel Castro suitably clad in military gear, the book’s cover lures a potential reader with an image of Machel, back to the camera, gesticulating with what became to be regarded as his famous finger as he drove a point home toward a vast crowd gathered below.

Perusing along through the pages, one will also come across a Kalashnikov-toting Machel seemingly in revolutionary cry and conversely, a scythe in hand, about to wade into a field populated by workers in the background [most probably recorded by Nam pending the incident where he defied the president]. Another moment depicts Machel hoisting aloft a young girl who appears to be of Portuguese extraction, with someone who looks like the young one’s mother, smiling whilst simultaneously staring in the camera’s direction.
Samora Machel and Oliver Tambo clearly shared ties which bound – what with their association with the Reggio Emilia region of Italy?
Pending the exile period, Tambo and the ANC survived with the assistance of the folk of that region, in what came to be known as the Reggio Emilia Hip Alliance.

Machel too, came to forge solidarity with the city within the context of a conference against colonialism and imperialism for freedom and independence of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau. As gleaned from Wikipedia, according to Joe Slovo, a young Machel once made such an impression on J.B. Marks that the senior ANC official bumped one of the movement’s recruits off a flight enroute to Tanzania – just so as to let the Mozambican on.

Given the present shape of the movement they sacrificed so much for, Tambo, Slovo and Marks would have approved of this typical thunder from Machel: “If the brewery worker can take beer home, if the poultry worker can take chicken home, then the cashier can take money home. That is theft!!! Corruption leads us to vice, and this leads us to crime. An ambitious person is a criminal.”

On the penultimate page of the book is an image dated the 19th October 1986, the very same day Machel perished in a plane crash at Mbuzini. In it, White South African policemen are captured sifting through parts of the wreckage, with a colleague standing in the foreground donning a T-shirt inscribed with the words: Terrorism stops here!
Asked Alves Gomes on the preface: Has anyone seriously considered that premeditated threat?

Described in 2010 by Mozambique’s Minister of Culture, Armando Artur, as “the living memory of Mozambique”, Nam, who died in 2012, was the son of Chinese emigrants who settled in Mozambique at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Born in the then Lourenco Marques [present day Maputo] back in 1939, Nam began his journalistic career at the Focus studio, at the age of 16 and was later invited to join the team of journalists on Diario de Mocambique. He also worked for Noticias da Tarde where, according to Wikipedia, he became friends with Ricardo Rangel – a well-known Mozambican photographer.

1970 saw Nam and a group of other journalist found the magazine, Tempo, which was opposed to Portuguese colonisation and at which he reported on FRELIMO goings-on. Upon the fall of the autocratic regime in Portugal in 1974 – the magazine followed an openly leftist course towards the independence of Mozambique.
In 1990 Nam was one of the leaders of a group of journalists who wrote the document, “The Right of the People to Information”. It was the precursor to the current law on press freedom in Mozambique.

From Nam’s archive comes a series of photographs which document important phases from the beginning of the history of independent Mozambique, ranging from the period of the nationalizations, through the liberation war of Southern Rhodesia, the creation of agricultural cooperatives and communal villages, to the civil war which ripped the country apart for 16 years.

Kok Nam left a rich series of portraits and photographs of Samora Machel which well reflect the personality of an essential figure of the Mozambican motherland.

His work has been exhibited at home and in Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Zimbabwe – as well as having appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Observer, among others.

 

[Myangu]

Mtoto wa Fr. Augustine unatupiga sound. Francis De Sales iko Kihonda sio Mazimbu

Hii shule ni yazamani sana kumbe.