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	Samora Machel
		Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene.
		Machel was attracted to Marxist ideals and began his political activities in a hospital where he protested that the fl nurses were paid less than whites, who were doing the same job.
		Machel spent most of his time in the field with his men, leading them in combat and sharing their dangers and hardships.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/bios/machel-s.htm (811 words)

	Samora Machel Summary
		Samora Moises Machel was born on September 29, 1933, in a village in the District of Gaza in the south of Mozambique.
		Machel was born in the village of Chilembene, Mozambique, to a poor peasant family.
		Machel was attracted to Marxist ideals and began his political activities in a hospital where he protested the fact that fl nurses were paid less than whites doing the same job.
	www.bookrags.com /Samora_Machel (2749 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Samora Machel
		Machel was born in the village of Chilembene, Mozambique, to a poor peasant family.
		Machel was attracted to Marxist ideals and began his political activities in a hospital where he protested the fact that fl nurses were paid less than whites doing the same job.
		Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samora-Machel (1479 words)

	World Remembers Mozambican Leader Samora Machel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On this date in 1986, Samora Machel was killed when his presidential aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain where the borders of Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa converge.
		Samora Machel was a leader of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), founded in 1962.
		In commemoration activities today, it was recalled that Samora Machel began his political activities against Portuguese colonial rule in a Mozambican hospital where he protested the fact that Black nurses were paid less than whites doing the same job.
	www.periodico26.cu /english/history/zamoramachel101906.htm (471 words)

	SAMORA Consultancy – Samora Moises Machel
		Samora Machel was born in Gaza, a province in the north of Mozambique, at that time a colony of Portugal.
		At the moment Machel was elected as president of Frelimo, the movement was divided about the direction of the liberation struggle.
		Samora Machel and 33 other people, including 2 members of the government die.
	www.samora.org /EN/Samora_MachelEN.htm (476 words)

	Samora Machel Biography
		Samora Machel (September 29 1933 - October 19 1986) was a prominent leader of FRELIMO and president of Mozambique.
		Samora Moisés Machel was born in 1933 in the village of Chilembene Mozambique to a poor family.
		On October 19 1986 Machel was on his way back from an international meeting in Lusaka in Tupolev 134 plane when the plane crashed into the hillside in the Lebombo Mountains.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/4136/samora-machel/bio.htm (238 words)

	Remembering Samora Machel - SouthAfrica.info
		Machel was a leader of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) which toppled the colonial Portuguese government through guerrilla warfare in 1974.
		The cause of Machel's plane crash remains a mystery, but it is believed that South Africa's apartheid government might have had a hand in causing the accident.
		Samora Machel and ANC president Oliver Tambo in Maputo in 1986, the year of the Mozambican president's death (Image: Digital Imaging South Africa)
	www.southafrica.info /africa/machel-monument.htm (464 words)

	Samora Moïsès Machel - Encyclopedia.com
		Samora Moïsès Machel, 1933-86, president of Mozambique (1975-86).
		Machel joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in 1962, led its guerrilla forces by 1968, and in 1969 became president of the organization.
		Committed to creating a Marxist state, Machel was faced with extreme economic difficulties, including dependence on a hostile South Africa, unreliable Soviet aid, civil war in neighboring Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and a South African supported guerrilla resistance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Machel-S.html (543 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Samora Machel remembered
		Samora Machel was a gifted orator who created a sense of national pride.
		To the delight of the crowd, she performed "A Luta Continua", a song originally written in honour of Samora Machel, and which inspired a generation of Southern Africans in their fight for independence.
		For many of South Africa's current ANC leaders, Samora Machel's Mozambique was a safe-haven during the apartheid years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1608628.stm (552 words)

	afrol News - South Africa to review Samora Machel death
		Late President Machel's widow, Graça Machel, is a prominent person in South Africa and now married to former President Nelson Mandela.
		President Samora Machel was at the time the leader of Marxist Mozambique, one of the few countries with a common border with South Africa to defy the potent apartheid regime with strength.
		While Namibia was occupied by South Africa and Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana had to keep a low profile due to their dependency on South Africa, Angola and Mozambique had turned into the two countries where the front line fighting between apartheid followers and opponents was occurring.
	www.afrol.com /articles/18043 (769 words)

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		Por um lado, utilizar a morte de Samora Machel no âmbito da luta contra o apartheid, apresentando o seu desaparecimento físico como mais um exemplo da agressividade de Pretória em relação aos seus vizinhos.
		Da leitura da carta-aberta se deduz que não era de excluir a hipótese de ter existido uma conspiração interna contra Samora Machel e que ele poderia vir a ser deposto ou até mesmo assassinado.
		A visita de Machel aos Estados Unidos em 1985, onde foi recebido com pompa e circunstância por uma administração que, por insensatez, vinha projectando a imagem dum presidente moçambicano capaz de romper com o bloco comunista, terá selado o seu destino.
	www.samoramachel.com /introducao.doc (2327 words)

	Samora Machel - Morte em Mbuzini
		O livro de João Cabrita, ‘A morte de Samora Machel’, lançado esta semana em Maputo, proporciona muito útil informação para se tirar as conclusões sobre o que, realmente, se terá passado na fatídica noite do dia 19 de Outubro de 1986.” - Editorial do semanário Zambeze (www.zambeze.co.mz)
		Esta é a conclusão expressa por João M. Cabrita, que acaba de lançar, em Maputo, A Morte de Samora Machel, reacendendo uma polémica com quase duas décadas." - Armando Rafael (Diário de Notícias www.dn.pt, 6 Nov 05).
		"Os serviços de segurança moçambicanos cometeram diversos erros durante a viagem aérea de Samora Machel, denuncia um livro publicado em Maputo sobre o desastre que vitimou o presidente moçambicano, passam hoje 19 anos.
	www.samoramachel.com /opiniao.htm (635 words)

	P Pasha, S Masango and N Mtsweni to visit Samora Machel memorial, 2 Aug
		The estimated R11,2 million planned for the renovation and upgrading of infrastructure in and around the Samora Machel Memorial Site, which was unveiled on the 19 January 1999, is an initiative of the National Department of Arts and Culture and was erected in memory of the assassinated Mozambican leader Samora Machel and 33 others.
		The commemorative statue of Samora Machel is a donation from the Anti-Apartheid Norwegian artists.
		There will also be an exhibition on the history of Samora Machel and his role in the liberation struggle in southern Africa.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2006/06080211151002.htm (591 words)

	Volume TWO Chapter SIX
		President Samora Machel and twenty-four others died when the plane crashed in the mountainous terrain near Mbuzini near Komatipoort.
		After the meeting, President Machel called a news conference at Maputo airport, saying that he would place missiles along the border with Malawi and would not hesitate to launch a pre-emptive strike if necessary.
		Ms Graça Machel confirmed previous attempts on his life, attacks on his residences and attempts by South Africa to attack the Mozambican capital.
	www.news24.com /Content_Display/TRC_Report/2chap6a.htm (2607 words)

	Zimbabwejournalists.com: Samora Machel Remembered 20 Years After Crash
		Machel's widow, Graca, now married to former South African President Nelson Mandela, and Machel's children are expected to attend the event, which will include the dedication of a monument honouring the guerrilla leader's life.
		The ANC forged close ties with Machel in the 1970s and 1980s, a bond that was tethered by their common experience fighting minority white rule and Machel's willingness to continue supporting the group after Mozambique's independence.
		Machel allowed ANC activists to use Mozambique as a base to train and plan operations and did the same for the guerrillas fighting to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
	www.zimbabwejournalists.com /print.php?art_id=1158 (467 words)

	Kituo cha katiba >> Graca Machel - Profile
		Graça Machel is recognized for her dedication to educating the people of Mozambique, and for her leadership in organizations devoted to the children of her war-torn country.
		Machel became Chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique, an organization that places orphans in village homes while reinforcing the role of the family and community in the healing process.
		Machel was recently appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations as an Expert to Chair the Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.
	www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /graca.htm (1322 words)

	Machel's son grateful for investigations into father's death, brought to you by African News Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Samito, his sister Josina, their mother Graca Machel and other family members were part of the commemoration; they also laid a wreath on their father's monument along with the 34 families of the other victims.
		President Machel was regarded as the world statesman who had been instrumental in shaping a democratic Mozambique and critical in the struggle against colonialism in Africa.
		Mr Machel concluded that although his father had physically gone, but he still lived in the ideals he stood for, he dreamt of and he fought for.
	www.andnetwork.com /index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.fullStory&sp=l53954 (362 words)

	Graça Machel and Mandela
		Machel is convinced the crash was no accident and has dedicated her life to tracking down her husband's killers.
		Machel is a little disillusioned with politics, believing the Mozambican Parliament has not accorded her husband his proper place in history.
		When she married Samora Machel on September 7 1975, she was already minister of education and culture in the first post-independence Mozambican government, and the only woman in the cabinet.
	www.niza.nl /uk/press/mandela/graca.html (2970 words)

	Mail & Guardian 14 July 1998
		Machel had entered into a pact with the devil and signed what many would argue was his own death warrant.
		Machel was planning to fire several of his generals for profiting from the war with Renamo, but never lived to carry this out.
		It was this that led him to Samora Machel, whom he fought with against the Portuguese colonialists.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /hist247/Resources/mg14july98deathwarrant.htm (4035 words)

	Nelson Mandela and Gracia Machel
		Calling herself a child of the Methodist Church, Gracia Machel told the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church this evening that it was the teachings of the church that led her to see that she, a girl living in poverty, could become educated and lead.
		Machel is the former minister of education of Mozambique and widow of Mozambique liberation leader and first president Samora Machel.
		She told the bishops that between the ages of 15 to 24, 76% of those in Mozambique infected with the virus are women and girls.
	homepage.mac.com /larryhol/iblog/C1482802393/E20061105150515/index.html (623 words)

	ELECTRONIC MAIL
		MOZAMBICANS remembered yesterday the country's first President, Samora Machel, who was killed in a plane crash 12 years ago, in the South African locality of Mbuzini.
		Speaking in those ceremonies, members of the Mozambican government, in different provinces, praised Machel’s life and work and stressed that the best way to remember him and those who died with him was to continue their work, consolidating peace and national unity.
		''To remember Samora, after 12 years, is to remember the Mozambique of the past, it is to recall the Mozambique of the present, and it is to think of the Mozambique of the future, because Samora is part of that heroic and determined Mozambique,'' the document says.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /hist247/Resources/mg20oct98machel.htm (351 words)

	The case "Samora Machel" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Place: Machel's plane travelling from Lusaka (Zambia), over Zimbabwe and Mozambique to Maputo crashed in South African territory, into a hillside belonging to the Lebombo mountains in the Mbuzini area, the corner of the eastern Transvaal, near the junction of the Mozambican, Swazi and South African borders (see map).
		President Samora Machel was 'a major target' of SA [AIM:21/10/86] and accused, 2 weeks before the crash, of renewing support for ANC rebels.
		The SAns expected that the death of Samora Machel would cause a powerstruggle in Maputo and that no Mozambican troops would be sent to counter the Renamo offensive, until the leadership crisis would be over.
	www.contrast.org /truth/html/samora_machel.html (3055 words)

	Bhlasen.com: Archive
		Unlike the assassination of Verwoerd, the death of Samora Machel wasnât a JFK moment for me. I remember the shock of it but not where I was and what I was doing at the time.
		And it was the year of two political deaths rumoured to have been at the hands of the South Africans, Olof Palme and Samora Machel.
		Whatever your opinions of Samora Machel, opinions that are bound to be clouded by your political beliefs, Mozambiquans still refer to him as 'o Pai da NaÃ§Ã£o', the father of the nation.
	www.hcs.harvard.edu /bhlasen/day.php?m=10&y=2006&d=19 (698 words)

	Guebuza vows to continue search for Samora Machel killers
		Machel was returning from a summit in Zambia, and there were strong indications that his plane was diverted from its path by a pirate navigational beacon linked with the apartheid military.
		Guebuza later laid the foundation stone of a new monument for Machel, to be built at the Independence Square, in front of Maputo City Hall.
		He said this would be an "indelible tribute" to Machel, and a sign of the consolidation of peace and national unity.
	www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng005968&dte=19/10/2006 (738 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Truth behind Machel death sought
		Deputy President Jacob Zuma promised Mozambicans on Saturday that the truth about an air crash that claimed the life of their communist leader Samora Machel in 1986 would be uncovered.
		Machel, Mozambique's first president, died while returning from a Southern African Development Community peace summit in Zambia when the plane he was travelling in crashed in northern South Africa on October 19, 1986.
		"The uncovering of the truth around Samora Machel's death will be an important way of thanking Mozambique for its sacrifice for our country," he told the religious ceremony which was attended by Methodist clergymen and bishops, politicians and members of the ANC.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/302617.htm (299 words)

	Machel Death’s S.A. Probe
		Machel threatened to close the Mozambican border with Malawi if Banda did not stop supporting Renamo, which was funded by apartheid South Africa.
		Machel seemed to have been aware of the plot to assassinate him and shortly before he left Maputo for the last time for the Lusaka Summit, he told senior members of his party and army that he was aware of plans to eliminate him by some people collaborating with South African apartheid agents.
		Machel's Russian pilot - Vladimir Novosselov, a crew member and one of nine survivors also believed that the crash was not an accident.
	blackstarnews.com /?c=135&a=1989 (888 words)

	Kuxa Kanema
		The new president Samora Machel had a strong awareness of the power of the image, and understood he needed to use this power to build a socialist nation.
		Samora Machel's death marked the end of Mozambique's cinema (the current government prefers television).
		Samora Machel, Son Of Africa: Before his death in a mysterious plane crash, Mozambican President Samora Machel gave the filmmaker and exclusive interview that forms the basis for the look at one of Africa's most important freedom fighters and revolutionaries.
	www.frif.com /new2003/kuxa.html (559 words)

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