Early protester of Portuguese domination and unequal treatment for the native population. Includes early history as a cotton grower, nurse, and a member of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique trying to create an independent nation. The page also gives details about the revolutionary leader's sudden demise in a plane crash.
Twenty years later, South Africa said it would reopen a probe into the death of Mozambique's first president Samora Machel, who was killed in mysterious circumstances in a plane crash during the apartheid era.
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Machel,_Graça
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