Forty years after Mozambique’s founding president died in a plane crash near the borders of South Africa and Mozambique, a tribute from his widow, Graça Machel, has revived memories of a liberation leader whose death remains one of Southern Africa’s most contested historical events. LUSAKA, Zambia – “Samora, forty years on, we are still building.” […] The post Samora Machel: The president who died over Mbuzini, and the mystery that remains 40 years later first appeared on Zambian Eye.

Forty years after Mozambique’s founding president died in a plane crash near the borders of South Africa and Mozambique, a tribute from his widow, Graça Machel, has revived memories of a liberation leader whose death remains one of Southern Africa’s most contested historical events. LUSAKA, Zambia – “Samora, forty years on, we are still building.” […]