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With a little luck, the sprawling, sparsely populated country that lies just northeast of South Africa on the Indian Ocean should have thrived. It is blessed with rich agricultural lands, large mineral deposits and untapped reserves of natural gas and oil. But the Marxist-oriented government of President Samora Machel, who came to power in 1975 after the departure of the Portuguese, has had little opportunity to exploit these resources. In little more than a decade, everything that could have gone wrong in Mozambique has gone wrong...
Mandela arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday accompanied by his new wife Graca Machel, widow of former Mozambique Prime Minister Samora Machel, and the South African Foreign Minister, Alfred...
...80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South Africa's Truth Commission is currently probing allegations that foul play by the apartheid authorities may have contributed to that crash...
...single, he's charming, he has a great job, and he understands the meaning of commitment. NELSON MANDELA just needed to find the right woman. Now he admits he has. South Africa's Sunday Independent reports that the President, 78, and GRACA MACHEL, 50, widow of Samora Machel, former President of Mozambique, are going public with their long-rumored relationship. Machel, recipient of the Africa Prize for Leadership, knows something of commitment herself, but the two have decided not to wed. "I belong to Mozambique," she told Reuters. "I will always be the wife of Samora Machel." Instead...
...cortege at the funeral of Mozambique President Samora Machel, killed in an October jetliner crash in South Africa, was led by two founders of the ruling Marxist Party, which won independence from Portugal in 1975 after a bloody eleven-year civil war. Last week the younger of the two men, Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, was selected by the party's 130-member Central Committee to succeed Machel as President. In choosing the urbane, pragmatic Chissano over Vice President Marcelino dos Santos, who is a hard-line Marxist, the party signaled a continuation of Machel's flexible, westward-looking policies...