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((Short description|Former president of Mozambique (1933–1986)))
((more citations needed|date=October 2017))<!--many paragraphs without citations-->
((Use mdy dates|date=June 2013))
((Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[His Excellency]]
| name                = Samora Machel
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = Samora Moises Machel detail DF-SC-88-01383.jpg
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| alt                 = 
| caption             = Machel in 1985
| office              = 1st [[President of Mozambique]]
| term_start          = 25 June 1975
| term_end            = 19 October 1986
| primeminister       = [[Mário da Graça Machungo]] ((nowrap|(Jul–Oct 1986)))
| predecessor         = Office established
| successor           = [[Joaquim Chissano]]
| office1             = President of the [[FRELIMO|Mozambique Liberation Front]]
| term_start1         = 14 May 1970
| term_end1           = 19 October 1986
| vicepresident1      = [[Marcelino dos Santos]] ((nowrap|(1970–1977)))
| predecessor1        = [[Eduardo Mondlane]]
| successor1          = [[Joaquim Chissano]]
| birth_date          = ((birth date|df=y|1933|09|29))
| birth_place         = [[Gaza Province]], [[Portuguese Mozambique]]
| birthname           = Samora Moisés Machel
| death_date          = ((death date and age|df=y|1986|10|19|1933|09|29))
| death_place         = [[Mbuzini]], [[Transvaal Province|Transvaal]], [[History of South Africa#Apartheid era (1948–1994)|South Africa]]
| nationality         = [[Mozambique|Mozambican]]
| party               = [[FRELIMO]]
| spouse              = ((plainlist| 
* ((marriage|[[Josina Machel|Josina Mutemba]]|1969|1971|reason=died))
* ((marriage|[[Graça Machel|Graça Simbine]]|1975))
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| relations           = 
| children            = 8 including [[Josina Z. Machel|Josina]]
| alma_mater          = 
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'''Samora Moisés Machel''' (29 September 1933 &ndash; 19 October 1986) was a [[Mozambique|Mozambican]] military commander and political leader. A [[Socialism|socialist]] in the tradition of [[Marxism–Leninism]], he served as the first [[President of Mozambique]] from the country's independence in 1975.  

Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft [[1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash|crashed]] near the [[Mozambique–South Africa border|Mozambican-South African border]]. 

==Early life==
Machel was born in the village of Madragoa (today's Chilembene), [[Gaza Province]], [[Mozambique]], to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been an active collaborator of [[Gungunhana]]. Under [[Portuguese Mozambique|Portuguese rule]], his father, like most Black Mozambicans, was classified by the demeaning term "indígena" (native). He was forced to accept lower prices for his crops than White farmers; compelled to grow labour-intensive cotton, which took time away from the food crops needed for his family; and forbidden to brand his mark on his cattle to prevent thievery. However, Machel's father was a successful farmer: he owned four plows and 400 head of cattle by 1940. Machel grew up in this farming village and attended mission elementary school. In 1942, he was sent to school in the town of Zonguene in Gaza Province. The school was run by Catholic missionaries who educated the children in [[Portuguese language]] and [[Culture of Portugal|culture]]. Although having completed the fourth grade, Machel never completed his secondary education. However, he had the prerequisite certificate to [[Higher education in Portugal#History of the polytechnic subsector|train as a nurse anywhere in Portugal at the time]], since the nursing schools were not degree-conferring institutions.((citation needed|date=December 2017))

Machel started to study nursing in the capital city of Lourenço Marques (today [[Maputo]]), beginning in 1954. In the 1950s, he saw some of the fertile lands around his farming community on the [[Limpopo river]] appropriated by the provincial government and worked by White settlers who developed a wide range of new infrastructure for the region. Like many other Mozambicans near the southern border of Mozambique, some of his relatives went to work in the South African mines where additional job opportunities were found. Shortly afterwards, one of his brothers was killed in a mining accident.<ref>"Samora Machel, a Biography", Author(s) of Review: David Hedges, ''Journal of Southern African Studies'', Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 1993), pp. 547–549. ((JSTOR|2636927)) </ref><ref>Azevedo, Mario, ''Historical Dictionary of Mozambique'', African Historical Dictionaries, No. 47, Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1991. ((oclc|484407056))</ref><ref>Christie, Iain, ''Machel of Mozambique'', Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1988. ((oclc|475379458))</ref><ref>Henriksen, Thomas H., ''Revolution and Counterrevolution: Mozambique's War of Independence, 1964-1974'', Greenwood Press, 1983. ((oclc|925180827))</ref><ref>''Mozambique: A Country Study'', edited by Harold D. Nelson, Foreign Area Studies, American University, U.S. Government, Research Completed 1984. ((oclc|11841169))</ref> Unable to complete formal training at the Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lourenço Marques, he got a job working as an aide in the same hospital and earned enough to continue his education at night school. He worked at the hospital until he left the country to join the Mozambican nationalist struggle in neighbouring [[Tanzania]].

==Independence struggle==
((Marxism–Leninism sidebar))
((Main article|Mozambican War of Independence))
Machel was attracted to anti-colonial ideals and began his political activities in the Miguel Bombarda hospital in [[Lourenço Marques]], where he protested against the fact that black nurses were paid less than whites doing the same job. Machel decided to leave [[Lourenço Marques]] ([[Maputo]]), when a white anti-fascist, the pharmaceutical representative João Ferreira, warned him that he was being watched by the Portuguese political police, the [[PIDE]]. He slipped across the border, and made his way to join [[FRELIMO]] in [[Dar es Salaam]], via Swaziland, South Africa and Botswana. In Botswana, he hitched a lift on a plane carrying recruits of the African National Congress of South Africa to Tanzania. Impressed by the young Mozambican, a senior ANC official J.B. Marks (according to [[Joe Slovo]]) bumped one of the ANC recruits off the flight to let Machel on.<ref>Christie, ''Machel of Mozambique'' (1988), p. 23. ((oclc|475379458))</ref>

In Dar es Salaam, Machel volunteered for military service, and was one of the second group of FRELIMO guerrillas sent for training in Algeria. Back in Tanzania, he was put in charge of FRELIMO's own training camp, at [[Kongwa]]. After FRELIMO launched the independence war, on September 25, 1964, Machel soon became a key commander, making his name in particular in the grueling conditions of the eastern area of the vast and sparsely populated province of [[Niassa]]. He rapidly rose up the ranks of the guerrilla army, the FPLM, and became the head of the army after the death of its first commander, [[Filipe Samuel Magaia]], in October 1966.

Frelimo's founder and first president, [[Eduardo Mondlane]], was assassinated by a parcel bomb on February 3, 1969. His deputy, Rev [[Uria Simango]], expected to take over – but instead the FRELIMO Executive Committee appointed a presidential triumvirate, consisting of Simango, Machel and veteran nationalist and poet [[Marcelino dos Santos]]. Simango soon broke ranks, and denounced the rest of the FRELIMO leadership in the pamphlet “Gloomy Situation in Frelimo”.<ref>Full text available macua.blogs.com/files/uria-simango-glomy-situation-in-frelimo.doc</ref> This led to Simango's expulsion from the liberation front, and the election, in 1970, of Machel as Frelimo President, with dos Santos as Deputy President.

Like the late Mondlane, Machel identified himself with Marxism–Leninism, and under his leadership these positions became central to FRELIMO, which evolved from a broad front into a more Marxist party.<ref name="Munslow">B. Munslow, editor, ''Samora Machel, an African Revolutionary: Selected Speeches and Writings'', London: Zed Books, 1985 ((oclc|30979404))</ref>

The new commander of the Portuguese army in Mozambique, Gen. [[Kaúlza de Arriaga]], boasted that he would eliminate FRELIMO in a few months. He launched the largest offensive of Portugal's colonial wars, [[Operation Gordian Knot]], in 1970, concentrating on what was regarded as the FRELIMO heartland of Cabo Delgado in the far north. Kaúlza de Arriaga boasted of destroying a large number of guerrilla bases – but since such a base was just a collection of huts, the military significance of such supposed victories was dubious. 
Machel reacted by shifting the focus of the war elsewhere, stepping up FRELIMO operations in the western province of [[Tete Province|Tete]]. This was where a massive dam was being built at [[Cahora Bassa]], on the Zambezi, to sell electricity to South Africa. Fearful that FRELIMO would attack the dam site, the Portuguese set up three concentric rings of defence around Cahora Bassa. This denuded the rest of Tete province of troops, and in 1972 FRELIMO crossed the Zambezi, striking further and further south.
By 1973, FRELIMO units were operating in Manica and Sofala Province and began to hit the railway from Rhodesia to Beira, causing panic among the settler population of Beira, who accused the Portuguese army of not doing enough to defend white interests.<ref>Couto, Fernando Amado, ''O Fim do Império e o Nascimento da Nação'', Maputo 2011. ((oclc|726828235)) See also Vieira, Sergio, Participei, por isso Testemunho, Maputo 2010</ref>

The end came suddenly. On April 25, 1974, Portuguese officers, tired of fighting three unwinnable wars in Africa, [[Carnation Revolution|overthrew the government in Lisbon]]. The coup was almost bloodless. Nobody came onto the streets to defend Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. Within 24 hours, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) was in full control of Portugal.

==Independence==
[[File:Mz-map.gif|left|thumb|150px|Independent Mozambique with Maputo as capital]]
Frelimo's immediate warning was that there was no such thing as democratic colonialism, and that nobody should imagine that Mozambicans would tolerate Portuguese rule just because there had been a change of government in Lisbon.
Frelimo's fears were well-founded. The MFA allowed General [[António de Spínola]] to become the first post-coup [[President of Portugal|President]]. He had been commander of the Portuguese forces in [[Guinea-Bissau]], then [[Portuguese Guinea]], and was believed to be deeply implicated in the assassination of the Guinean nationalist leader, [[Amílcar Cabral]].
 
Spinola had no intention of letting [[Mozambique]] and [[Angola]] go. He dreamed of a [[Lusophone]] commonwealth run from [[Lisbon]], and wanted a referendum on independence. Machel rejected such plans with the pithy remark: "You don't ask a slave if he wants to be free, particularly when he is already in revolt, and much less if you happen to be a slave-owner".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fz1ZTaHkCE4C&dq=%E2%80%9CYou+don%E2%80%99t+ask+a+slave+if+he+wants+to+be+free%2C+particularly+when+he+is+already+in+revolt%2C+and+much+less+if+you+happen+to+be+a+slave-owner%E2%80%9D&pg=PA19 ''How Fast the Wind? Southern Africa 1975-2000''], Sergio Viera, William Martin, and Immanueal Wallerstein, Africa World Press, 1992, page 19</ref>
 
Initial discussions between Frelimo and the new Portuguese government, held in [[Lusaka]] in June 1974, proved fruitless. It was clear to Machel that the Portuguese foreign minister, [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] leader [[Mário Soares]], had no power to negotiate independence. So Machel sent one of his top advisers, [[Aquino de Bragança]], to Lisbon to find out who really held power in Portugal. His answer was that Frelimo should really be talking to the MFA, particular to military intellectuals such as Col. [[Ernesto Melo Antunes]], whose power was on the rise, as that of Spinola waned.
 
Machel refused to give the Portuguese the ceasefire they wanted. For as long as there was no commitment to Mozambican independence, the war would continue. Frelimo re-opened its front in Zambezia province, and stepped up operations throughout the war zone.
There was little resistance. Following the collapse of the Caetano government, rank and file Portuguese soldiers saw little point in continuing to fight, preferring to stay in their barracks.<ref>Couto, Fernando Amado, ''O Fim do Império e o Nascimento da Nação''. Maputo, 2011. ((oclc|726828235))</ref>
 
More serious talks between the Lisbon government and Frelimo ensued, and this time the MFA played a dominant role. The result was an agreement, signed in [[Lusaka]] on September 7, 1974, which agreed to transfer full power to Frelimo with the date for independence set for June 25, 1975. That day there was a short-lived settler revolt against the agreement, put down within a day by Portuguese and Frelimo troops acting jointly. A transitional government was set up, containing ministers appointed by both Frelimo and Portugal, but headed by Frelimo's Joaquim Chissano as Prime Minister. Machel continued to run Frelimo from Tanzania. He returned home triumphantly, in a journey "from the Rovuma to the Maputo" (the rivers marking the northern and southern boundaries of the country), in which he addressed rallies in every major population centre in the country.
 
The journey was interrupted at the beach resort of Tofo, in [[Inhambane Province]], for a meeting of the Frelimo Central Committee, which drew up Mozambique's first Constitution. This gave the outline of the one-party, socialist state which Frelimo intended to establish. Frelimo was constitutionally the leading force in Mozambican society, and the President of Frelimo would automatically be President of Mozambique.<ref>An English translation of the constitution was published in the Frelimo English-language magazine ''Mozambique Revolution'', in 1975. The official Portuguese text is in the first issue of the Mozambican government's official gazette, ''Boletim da República'', 1 Series, no. 1, June 25, 1975,</ref>
On June 25, 1975, Machel proclaimed "the total and complete independence of Mozambique and its constitution into the [[People's Republic of Mozambique]]". This, he said, would be "a state of People's Democracy, in which, under the leadership of the worker-peasant alliance, all patriotic strata commit themselves to the destruction of the sequels of colonialism, and to annihilate the system of exploitation of man by man".<ref>The full text of the independence speech can be found in vozdarevolucao.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/mensagem-da-proclamacao-da.html</ref>
 
Machel's government moved quickly to bring key areas under state control. All land was nationalized – individuals and institutions could not hold land, but leased it from the state. On July 24, 1975, just a month after independence, all health and education institutions were nationalized.<ref>((cite AV media
 | people =Ron Hallis (director), Joyce Sikakane and Ophera Hallis (producers)
 | title =Samora Machel Son of Africa
 | medium =Motion picture
 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q_6VmN0uU
 | access-date =11 Dec 2013
 | time =Interview with Samora Machel at 11:30 minutes
 | quote =we nationalised schools and hospitals that were serving the minority; they were institutions or privilege
))</ref> National health and education services were set up, and all private schools and clinics were abolished. The Catholic Church immediately lost the privileged position it had held in these areas. On February 3, 1976, the government nationalized all rented housing. “Landlords? What do we want landlords for in our country for?”, asked Machel at the rally announcing the measure. Private ownership of houses was not banned. Anyone, Mozambican or foreign, could own a house for their own use - but building private property for rent was forbidden. This changed the face of Mozambican cities – black Mozambicans moved from the suburbs into blocks in the centre of the cities, occupying houses and flats, once owned by Portuguese landlords, and many of which had now been abandoned.
 
In February 1977, at its 3rd Congress, Frelimo declared that it was now a Marxist–Leninist party, dedicated to the building of socialism, based on the “worker-peasant alliance”. The Congress re-elected Machel as President of Frelimo, and thus automatically as President of the Republic.
 
Frelimo was reorganized into ''celulas'' (“branches”) throughout the county. The party was to be a Leninist vanguard, and state institutions, at whatever level, were to be subordinate to the party. In 1978 elections were held. Since this was a one-party state, there was no organized opposition. Instead, candidates were presented by Frelimo at meetings – and were sometimes rejected when people complained of offences ranging from wife-beating and drunkenness to acting as an informer for the PIDE during the colonial government.
 
Frelimo faced a hostile environment, with the white minority governments of Ian Smith's Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa on Mozambique's borders. In March 1976, Machel's government implemented United Nations sanctions against the Smith government, and closed the borders with Rhodesia. In retaliation, Smith's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) recruited dissatisfied Mozambicans and former Portuguese settlers and helped set up an anti-Frelimo movement. Initially this “Mozambique National Resistance”  operated as an auxiliary branch of the Rhodesian armed forces. Frelimo dismissed them as “armed bandits”.<ref>Flower, Ken, ''Serving Secretly'', London. 1987. ((oclc|827681309)) Fauvet, Paul, ''Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique'', Cape Town, 2003. ((oclc|937247428))</ref>

As part of the measures accompanying the new Frelimo government, Machel introduced "reeducation centers" in which petty criminals, political opponents, and alleged anti-social elements such as prostitutes were imprisoned, often without trial. These were later described by foreign observers as "infamous centers of torture and death."<ref>Peter Worthington, "Machel Through Rose-Tinted Specs," ''Financial Post'' (Canada), November 1, 1986.</ref> It is estimated that 30,000 inmates died in these camps.<ref>Geoff Hill, "A Crying Field to Remember," ''The Star'' (South Africa), November 13, 2007.</ref>

==Rhodesian Bush War==
Frelimo had longstanding links with Zimbabwean nationalist movements. Even during the independence war, guerrillas of ZANLA ([[Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army]]), the armed wing of ZANU ([[Zimbabwe African National Union]]), were able to operate from Frelimo-held areas in Tete province into northern areas of Rhodesia. After the implementation of the UN sanctions against the Rhodesian government, the entire length of the border was now available for nationalist incursions into Rhodesia.
 
ZANU leader [[Robert Mugabe]], released from Salisbury Prison, Rhodesia in 1974, made his way into Mozambique the following year. Initially, Machel was suspicious of the apparent coup within ZANU that had brought Mugabe to power, and he was effectively rusticated to the central city of [[Quelimane]], where he taught [[English language|English]].<ref>LeFanu, Sarah, ''S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream'', London, 2012. ((oclc|1046043555))</ref> Tired of the divisions within Zimbabwean nationalism, Machel sponsored an alternative to both ZANU and its rival ZAPU. This was the Zimbabwean People's Army (ZIPA), which took credit for many operations in eastern Zimbabwe, and was enthusiastically promoted by the Mozambican media. But it soon turned out that the dominant force within ZIPA were ZANLA guerrillas who had never abandoned their loyalty to ZANU and to Mugabe.<ref>Christie, ''Machel of Mozambique'' (1988). ((oclc|475379458))</ref>
 
Machel accepted the reality that the people doing most of the fighting in Zimbabwe were ZANLA. To bring the war to a successful conclusion, Machel embarked on a dual strategy, military and diplomatic. He sent Mozambican units into Zimbabwe to fight alongside ZANU guerrillas, while also insisting that the new British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government, under [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]], should resume its responsibilities as the colonial power.<ref>Veloso, Jacinto, ''Memorias em Voo Rasante'', Maputo, 2006. ((oclc|893691382))</ref>
 
The UK Government hosted a conference at [[Lancaster House]] in London, aimed at ending White minority rule and drawing up a constitution for an independent Zimbabwe. Mozambicans, notably Machel's British-trained advisor, Fernando Honwana, were in London to advise the ZANU delegation – and ensured that Mugabe accepted the  [[Lancaster House Agreement]], despite its failure to solve the land question, with a small minority of white commercial farmers still holding most of the country's fertile farmland. Machel, with his own intelligence teams on the ground, was certain that ZANU would win any fair election. Indeed, ZANU won 57 of the 80 seats reserved for Black Zimbabweans, while the second nationalist movement, ZAPU, won 20. [[Ian Smith]]'s [[Rhodesian Front]] took the 20 seats, which Mugabe had reluctantly agreed to allocate to the [[Whites in Zimbabwe|Whites]].

Machel was fully aware of the dangerous ethnic divisions in Zimbabwe, with ZANU drawing most of its support from the [[Shona people|Shona]] majority, and ZAPU from the minority [[Ndebele people (Zimbabwe)|Ndebele people]]. On his first state visit to Zimbabwe, in 1980, Machel gave a warning: "To ensure national unity, there must be no Shonas in Zimbabwe, there must be no Ndebeles in Zimbabwe, there must be Zimbabweans. Some people are proud of their tribalism. But we call tribalists reactionary agents of the enemy".<ref>''Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique'', Paul Fauvet, Juta and Company Ltd, 2003, page 73. ((oclc|937247428))</ref>

==Civil War==
In 1977, a rebel army known as RENAMO launched a rebellion backed by [[Rhodesia]], plunging the country into [[Mozambican Civil War|civil war]]. Following the collapse of Smith's government, the rebel force began to receive backing from South Africa.<ref>Flower, Ken, ''Serving Secretly'', London, 1987. ((oclc|827681309)); Hanlon, Joseph, ''Mozambique: The Revolution under Fire'', London, 1984.((oclc|896559732))</ref> The movement was initially known as the RNM (translated into English as MNR), but as from 2003 adopted the acronym Renamo.
 
During the 1980s, the [[South Africa]]n government took an increasingly hostile attitude to the Front Line States. Mozambique, in particular, was accused of harbouring military bases of the [[African National Congress]]. On June 30, 1981, South African commandos attacked three houses in the southern city of Matola, killing 12 ANC members as well as a Portuguese electrician. While those killed were members of the ANC's armed wing, [[Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (MK - Spear of the Nation), the houses were not a guerrilla base, as visiting diplomats and journalists soon confirmed. A fortnight later, Machel threw down the gauntlet. At a rally in Maputo's independence square, he embraced ANC leader [[Oliver Tambo]] and declared "They want to come here and commit murder. So we say: Let them come! Let all the racists come!... Let the South Africans come, but let them be clear that the war will end in Pretoria!"<ref>Fauvet, Paul, ''Carlos Cardoso: telling the Truth in Mozambique'', Cape Town, 2003. ((oclc|937247428))</ref>
 
Helped by weapons airdropped by the [[South African Defence Force]] (SADF), Renamo spread its operations across the entire country with the exception of the far north. Frelimo reacted with a series of authoritarian measures, some of which deeply shocked its supporters inside and outside the country. The death penalty, already in force for serious security offences, was now extended to a range of economic crimes. In addition, corporal punishment was imposed as a penalty for a range of offences. Both laws fell into disuse within a year or so but had done severe damage to Frelimo's image.((citation needed|date=September 2013)) It is widely believed that, at about this time, former Frelimo officials regarded as “traitors” were executed, including Simango and his wife Celina. To this day, [[Frelimo]] has published nothing about the circumstances of the execution, though in the [[Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique)|Mozambican parliament]], in 1995, former security minister Sergio Vieira publicly confirmed “the traitors were executed”. Renamo supporters published colourful versions claiming that the executions happened in 1977,<ref>See, for example, Ncomo, Barnabe, ''Uria Simango Um Homem, Uma Causa'', Maputo, 2004. ((oclc|1053889270))</ref> but a date of 1983 seems more likely. In either case, this violated a promise which Machel gave to the [[Tanzania]]n and [[Zambia]]n Presidents, [[Julius Nyerere]] and [[Kenneth Kaunda]] in 1975.
 
At the Frelimo Fourth Congress, in April 1983, Frelimo reaffirmed its commitment to [[Marxism]], but admitted economic mistakes, particularly in agriculture.<ref>Partido Frelimo, Colecção IV Congresso, Maputo, 1983.</ref> Machel was re-elected President of Frelimo, and once again warmly embraced Oliver Tambo.
 
But the deteriorating military and economic situation drove Frelimo to give the apartheid government what it said it wanted – a non-aggression pact. On March 16, 1984, on a railway carriage in the non-man's land between South Africa and Mozambique, Machel and South African [[State President of South Africa|President]] [[P. W. Botha]] signed the [[Nkomati Accord]] on Non-Aggression and Good Neighbourliness. The deal expressed in the agreement was extremely simple – South Africa would drop its support for Renamo in exchange for Mozambique dropping support for the ANC.<ref>The full text of the agreement, and the speeches made at the ceremony can be found in a collection published by the Mozambican Information Ministry: ''Pela Paz: Acordo de Nkomati'', Maputo, 1984.</ref>
 
Machel only partially honoured commitments to expel various ANC members from his territory. South African support for Renamo did not stop – massive shipments of arms were airlifted to Renamo immediately prior to the Accord, and a senior South African official, Deputy Foreign Minister Louis Nel, even visited the Renamo base at Casa Banana in Gorongosa district, using an airstrip which South Africa had helped Renamo build. In mid-1985, the Mozambican and Zimbabwean armed forces launched a joint offensive to drive Renamo out of [[Gorongosa]]. Zimbabwean paratroopers ensured the capture of Casa Banana, but Renamo leader [[Afonso Dhlakama]] fled north, and re-established the Renamo HQ in the district of Maringue. Visiting Casa Banana on September 5, Machel was optimistic. "We have broken the back of the snake, but the tail will still thrash around," he said.<ref>Mozambican Ministry of Information, ''Documentos de Gorongosa (extractos)'', Maputo 1985; Fauvet, Paul, ''Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique'', Cape Town, 2003. ((oclc|937247428))</ref>
 
But in fact, the war continued, although its focus shifted northwards to [[Zambezia Province|Zambezia]] and [[Tete province]]s, with Renamo operating with impunity out of Malawi. Machel loathed the [[Malawi]]an "life President" [[Hastings Kamuzu Banda]], who was the only leader of an independent [[Africa]]n state who had established diplomatic relations with [[Pretoria]]. After an unsuccessful meeting with Banda, Machel openly threatened to place missiles on the Mozambique-Malawi border and to prevent trade from landlocked Malawi passing through Mozambican territory.<ref>LeFanu, Sarah, ''S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream'', London, 2012. ((oclc|1046043555)); Christie, ''Machel of Mozambique'' (1988). ((oclc|475379458))</ref>

==Fatal aircrash and investigations==
[[File:Samora Machel Plane Wreck.jpg|thumb|Remains of the wreck]]
((Main article|1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash))
On 19 October 1986, Machel attended a summit in [[Mbala, Zambia|Mbala]], [[Zambia]], called to put pressure on [[Zaire]]an dictator [[Mobutu Sese Seko]], over his support for the [[Angola]]n opposition movement [[UNITA]]. The strategy of the Front Line States was to move against Mobutu and Banda in an attempt to end their support for UNITA and Renamo, who they regarded as [[South Africa]]n surrogates. Although the Zambian authorities invited Machel to stay in Mbala overnight, he insisted on returning to Maputo. He had a meeting scheduled for the following morning at which he intended to reshuffle the leadership of the armed forces. Machel thus overrode the instruction from the Security Ministry that the President should not travel at night – with fatal consequences. The plane never reached [[Maputo]]. That night it crashed into a hillside at [[Mbuzini]], just inside South Africa. Machel and 33 others died. Nine people sitting at the back of the plane survived.<ref>Cardoso, Carlos, ''Samora Machel: The Last Ten Minutes'', Mozambique News Agency (AIM), Maputo, 1987, reprinted in LeFanu, Sara, ''S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream''. ((oclc|1046043555)); Veloso, Jacinto, ''Memorias em Voo Rasante'', Maputo, 2006, Christie, ''Machel of Mozambique'' (1988). ((oclc|475379458))</ref>

The Margo Commission, set up by the South African government, but which included high-level international representation,((Citation needed|date=October 2008)) investigated the incident and concluded that the accident was caused by pilot error.<ref name="ASN">((cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19861019-0|title=Accident description|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|access-date=2007-12-18))</ref> Despite the acceptance of its findings by the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]], the report was rejected by the Mozambican and Soviet governments. The latter submitted a minority report suggesting that the aircraft was intentionally lured off course by a decoy [[radio navigation]] beacon set up specifically for this purpose by the South Africans. Speculation about the accident has therefore continued to the present day, particularly in Mozambique.<ref name="suspicion">((cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1608628.stm| title=Samora Machel remembered| publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=October 19, 2001|access-date=March 30, 2008))</ref>

Hans Louw, a [[Civil Cooperation Bureau]] operative, claims to have helped bring about Machel's death.<ref name="confession">((cite web | url=http://www.dispatch.co.za/2003/01/13/southafrica/EMACHEL.HTM| title=Ex-CCB man in Machel death claim|work=Daily Dispatch| access-date=2008-10-06))</ref><ref name="confession2">((cite web|url=http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/postamble/vol2-2/assassination.pdf|title=A Case of Assassination?|publisher=University of Cape Town|access-date=October 6, 2008|archive-date=October 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001024821/http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/postamble/vol2-2/assassination.pdf|url-status=dead))</ref> [[Pik Botha]], South African foreign affairs minister at the time, who later joined the [[African National Congress|ANC]], said that the investigation into the plane crash should be re-opened.<ref name="pikbotha">((cite news |url=http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/?fSectionId=3536&fArticleId=nw20081006154944165C741265|title=Probe Samora Machel's death - Pik Botha|work=Sunday Independent|access-date=2008-10-06))</ref>

The Portuguese [[journalist]], ((ill|José Milhazes|pt)), who lived in [[Moscow]] from 1977 to 2015 and currently((When|date=June 2020)) works for the Portuguese newspaper ''[[Público (Portugal)|Público]]'' and as a correspondent for the Portuguese television channel ''[[Sociedade Independente de Comunicação|SIC]]'', maintains that the plane crash had nothing to do with any attempt or any mechanical failure, but was due to several errors of the [[Russia]]n crew (including the pilot), who, instead of diligently performing their duties, were busy with futile things, like sharing alcoholic and soft drinks unavailable in Mozambique that they had had the possibility to bring from [[Zambia]]. In Milhazes' opinion, both the Soviet and the Mozambican authorities had an interest to spread the thesis of an attempt by the South African government: the Soviets wanted to safeguard their reputation (exempting the plane and the crew from any responsibility), the Mozambicans wanted to create a hero.<ref>José Milhazes, ''Samora Machel: Atentado ou Acidente?'', ed. Alêtheia, Lisboa, 2010.</ref>

In 2007, however, Jacinto Veloso, one of Machel's most unconditional supporters within Frelimo, had sustained in his memoirs that Machel's death was due to a conspiracy between the South African and the Soviet secret services, both of which had reasons to get rid of him. According to Veloso, the Soviet ambassador once asked the President for an audience to convey the [[USSR]]'s concern about Mozambique's apparent "sliding away" towards the West, to which Machel supposedly replied "''Vai à merda!''" (Go to hell!). Having then commanded the interpreter to translate, he left the room. Convinced that Machel had irrevocably moved away from their orbit, the Soviets allegedly did not hesitate to sacrifice the pilot and the whole crew of their own plane.<ref>Jacinto Veloso, ''Memórias em Voo Rasante'', pp. 204-209, ed. Papa-Letras, Lisboa, 2007. ((oclc|893691382))</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ People who died in the crash alongside President Samora Machel
|-
! Name  !! Function
|-
| Luís Maria de Alcântara Santos || Minister of Transport & Communication
|-
| José Carlos Lobo || Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
|-
| Fernando Honwana || Special Assistant to the President
|-
| Alberto Cangela de Mendonça|| Head of the National Protocol
|-
| Cox. C. Sikumba || Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia
|-
| Tokwalu Batale || Ambassador of the Republic of Zaire
|-
| Aquino de Bragança || Director of the Center for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane
|-
| João Tomás Navesse || Deputy Director of the Directorate of Legal & Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
|-
| Muradali Mamadhusen || Private Secretary to President 
|-
| Ivete Amós || Secretary of the President
|-
| Osvaldo de Sousa || English interpreter of the President
|-
| Bernardino Chiche || French interpreter of the President
|-
| Gulamo Khan || Press Attaché 
|-
| Daniel Maquinasse || President’s private photographer
|-
| Azarias Inguane || Photographer of Jornal <i>Notícias
|-
| Henriques Bettencourt || Doctor of President
|-
| Ulisses La Rosa Mesa || Personal Doctor of President
|-
| Capitão Parente Manjate || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Nacir Charamadame || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Adão Gore Nhoca || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Eduardo Viegas || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Albino Falteira || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| José Quivanane || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Alberto Chaúque || member of staff of the Presidency
|-
| Orlando Garrine || Flight attendant
|-
| Esmeralda Luísa || Flight attendant
|-
| Sofia Arone || Flight attendant
|-
| Ilda Carão || Flight attendant
|-
| Iuri Novdran  || Aircraft Commander
|-
| Igor Kartmychev || Flight Engineer
|-
| Amatoli Choulipov || Flight Engineer
|-
| Fernando Nhanquila || Flight Engineer
|}

==Funeral and burial==
Machel's state funeral was held in [[Maputo]] on 28 October 1986. It was attended by numerous political leaders and other notable people from Africa and elsewhere, including Dr. [[Robert Mugabe]] of [[Zimbabwe]], Dr. [[Kenneth Kaunda]] of [[Zambia]], [[Julius Nyerere]] of [[Tanzania]], King [[Moshoeshoe II]] of [[Lesotho]], [[Daniel arap Moi]] of [[Kenya]] and [[Yasser Arafat]] of [[Palestinian State]]. Also present were the ANC leader [[Oliver Tambo]], the U.S. President's daughter [[Maureen Reagan]], the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union [[Heidar Aliyev]], and the civil rights leader, [[Jesse Jackson]].<ref name="LA Times">((cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-28-mn-8219-story.html|title=Thousands Line Streets for Machel Funeral|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 28, 1986))</ref>

At the funeral, the acting leader of Frelimo, [[Marcelino dos Santos]], said in a speech: "The shock of your journey from which there is no return still shudders through the body of the entire nation. You fell in the struggle against apartheid… You understood apartheid as a problem for all humanity."<ref name="LA Times"/>

Samora Machel was buried in a star-shaped crypt at Mozambican Heroes' Square, a traffic junction in Maputo.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/29/world/in-somber-ceremony-mozambique-buries-its-leader.html|title=In Somber Ceremony, Mozambique Buries its Leader|work=[[New York Times]]|date=October 29, 1986))</ref>

==Marriages and family life==
[[File:Почтовая марка СССР № 5797. 1986. Памяти Саморы Машела.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Postage stamp issued by the Soviet Union in Machel's honor in 1986]]
In the late 1950s, when Machel was working as a nurse on Inhaca Island, he met a local girl, Sorita Tchaiakomo, and set up house with her. Their first child, Joscelina, was born on Inhaca in 1958. Idelson (1959) and Olívia (1961) were both born after the family returned to the mainland, where they lived in Mafalala, a suburb of Lourenço Marques. Machel returned to the Miguel Bombarda Hospital and was accepted onto a course of further training. At the hospital he began a relationship with another nurse, Irene Buque. She gave birth to their daughter Ornila in February 1963, three weeks before Machel left Mozambique to join Frelimo. N’tewane, Tchaiakomo's fourth child with Machel, was born that September, six months after Machel had left the country.<ref>Sopa, Antonio (ed), ''Samora: Man of the People'', Maputo, 2001. ((oclc|53224174)); LeFanu, Sarah, ''S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream'', London, 2012. ((oclc|1046043555))</ref> Later, Machel expressed remorse for what he had come to see as bad behaviour towards Sorita and Irene.<ref>Martins, Helder, ''Porque SAKRANI?: Memorias dum Medico duma Guerrilha Esquecida'', Maputo, 2001.</ref>

Machel was not married to either Tchaiakomo or Buque. When he joined Frelimo in 1963 it was widely believed that the war for independence would last years, if not decades, and that the chances of Frelimo cadres being reunited with their families in Mozambique were vanishingly small. Josina Abiatar Muthemba, who had been active in the anti-colonial student organisation NESAM, arrived in Tanzania in 1965, on her second attempt to flee Mozambique. In Tanzania she worked first as an assistant to [[Janet Mondlane]], Eduardo Mondlane's wife and director of the Mozambique Institute. She became one of the earliest recruits to the Women's Detachment of the guerrilla army, and campaigned vigorously for women's full inclusion within all aspects of the liberation struggle. She and Machel were married at Tunduru in southern Tanzania in May 1969. In November their only son Samora, known as Samito, was born. Josina returned to work as head of Social Affairs, with special responsibility for the welfare of war orphans, and for the health and education of all children in the war zones of northern Mozambique. But she felt increasingly unwell. In 1970 she travelled to the Soviet Union to seek a diagnosis for her chronic ill-health, but to no avail. She was probably suffering from [[leukaemia]], although [[pancreatic cancer]] is another possibility. She died on April 7, 1971, aged twenty-five. Machel was devastated.<ref>See Darch, Colin, Mozambique History Net, www.mozambiquehistory.net for further details; also Christie ''Machel of Mozambique'' (1988). ((oclc|475379458)); Sopa, Antonio (ed), ''Samora: Man of the People'', Maputo, 2001; LeFanu, Sarah, ''S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream'', London, 2012.</ref>

Machel's second wife, Graça Simbine, joined Frelimo in 1973 after graduating in modern languages from Lisbon University. She worked as a teacher, first in Frelimo-held areas in Cabo Delgado province, and then at the Frelimo school in Tanzania. She became Minister for Education and Culture in newly independent Mozambique. She and Machel were married three months after Independence, in September 1975. In April 1976 a daughter, [[Josina Z. Machel|Josina]], was born, and in December 1978 a son, Malengane.<ref>Sopa, Antonio (ed), Samora: Man of the People, Maputo 2001. ((oclc|53224174))</ref> At Independence Machel's five older children joined Josina Machel's son Samito in the Presidential household. In 1998, twelve years after Samora Machel's death, [[Graça Machel]] married [[Nelson Mandela]], President of South Africa, thus becoming the only woman to have been First Lady of two countries.

==International relationships==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1983-0303-423, Berlin, Margot Honecker, Samora Moises Machel.jpg|thumb|Machel meeting [[Margot Honecker]] in Berlin, 1983]]
Samora Machel established a strong relationship with [[Italy]], because of its interest in fighting [[apartheid]] and Portuguese colonialism. In particular, the city of [[Reggio Emilia]] organized many initiatives to draw Italian attention to the great political problems of southern Africa. On 24 and 25 March 1973, Machel took part in the first "National Conference of solidarity against colonialism and imperialism for freedom and independence of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau".<ref>((cite web|title=Prima "Conferenza nazionale di solidarietà" al Teatro Municipale di Reggio Emilia|url=http://www.comune.re.it/retecivica/urp/retecivi.nsf/DocumentID/4A71214EA8F33440C1257A8B0032BCBE?opendocument|language=it|access-date=December 9, 2013))</ref> 
When Reggio Emilia sent the first solidarity ship "Amanda", Machel welcomed it at the port of Maputo. He said: "Solidarity is not a charity act. It's cooperation, mutual support between peoples striving to reach the same goal. This ship brings peace, it brings the solidarity of the whole Italian people for every population."<ref>((cite web|title=Kitabu, primo quaderno del Tavolo Reggio-Africa|date=May 20, 2013|language=it|url=http://www.slideshare.net/comunereggioemilia/kitabu|access-date=December 9, 2013))</ref>
He returned to visit Reggio Emilia in 1981.

==Foreign honours==
* ((flagu|Cuba))
**[[File:Ribbon jose marti.png|40x40px]] Recipient of the [[Order of José Martí]]
**[[File:Order of Playa Girón (ribbon bar).png|40x40px]] Recipient of the [[Order of Playa Girón]]
* ((flagu|Italy))
**[[File:Cordone di gran Croce di Gran Cordone OMRI BAR.svg|40x40px]] Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]]<ref>((cite web|title=MACHEL SAMORA S.E. Moises decorato di Gran Cordone|url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/15555|website=PRESIDENZA DELLA REPUBBLICA|access-date=6 July 2021))</ref>
* ((flagu|North Korea))
**[[File:DPRK ribbon bar - Order of National Flag 1st Class.svg|40x40px]] [[Order of the National Flag]], First Class<ref>((cite book |last=Gills |first = Barry |title = Korea versus Korea: A Case of Contested Legitimacy |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2LIoka6roqAC |date = 21 June 2005 |publisher= Routledge |location = London/New York |isbn = 978-1-134-76625-3 |page=164))</ref>
* ((flagu|Portugal))
**[[File:PRT_Order_of_Prince_Henry_-_Grand_Collar_BAR.png|40x40px]] Grand Collar of the [[Order of Prince Henry]]<ref>((cite web|title=O Presidente Ramalho Eanes (1976-1986) condecora o Presidente Samora Machel de Moçambique de Grande-Colar da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique. Novembro de 1981. MPR|url=https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=128|website=Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas|access-date=6 July 2021))</ref>
* ((flagu|Soviet Union))
**[[File:Leninpeace.jpg|50px]] [[Lenin Peace Prize]]<ref>((cite web|title=Samora Machel|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/samora-machel|website=South African History Online|access-date=8 July 2021))</ref>
**[[File:Order_friendship_of_peoples_rib.png|40x40px]] Recipient of the [[Order of Friendship of Peoples]]<ref>((cite web|title=Визит президента Народной республики Мозамбик С. М. Машела в СССР. (1981)|url=https://www.net-film.ru/film-8463/|website=NET FILM|access-date=6 July 2021))</ref>
*((flagu|Tanzania))
**[[File:Order of the Torch of Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) - ribbon bar.gif|40x40px]] Order of the Uhuru Torch of Mount Kilimanjaro, First Class<ref>((Citation |title=FRELIMO Leader Samora Machel Honoured By President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania ((!)) May 1975 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkU6jk9Rxak |language=en |access-date=2022-12-26))</ref>
* ((flagu|East Timor))
** [[File:Order_of_Timor-Leste.png|40x40px]] [[Order of Timor-Leste|Great-collar of the Order of Timor-Leste]]<ref>((Cite web|url=http://clubofmozambique.com/news/samora-machel-posthumously-decorated-by-timor-leste/|title=Samora Machel posthumously decorated by Timor-Leste))</ref>

* ((flagu|Yugoslavia))
** [[File:Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star Rib.png|40x40px]] [[Order of the Yugoslav Great Star]]<ref>((Cite journal |date=13 October 1983 |title=Јачање сарадње |url=http://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp&#124;issue:UB_00064_19831013&#124;page:1&#124;query:%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%20%D1%98%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%20%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5 |journal=Borba |volume=61 |issue=282 |pages=1))</ref>

==Legacy==

===Eponyms===
*Samora Machel Air Force Base in [[Mbala, Zambia|Mbala]], [[Northern Zambia]].
*Samora Machel [[Avenue (landscape)|Avenue]], in the [[Dar es Salaam]] [[central business district]] in [[Tanzania]] (about 1.75&nbsp;km)
*Samora Machel [[Stadium]], in [[Iringa]], [[Tanzania]] 
*Samora Machel [[Secondary School]], in [[Mbeya]], [[Tanzania]] 
*Samora Machel Avenue, in [[Gaborone]], [[Botswana]]
*Samora Machel Avenue, in [[Harare]], [[Zimbabwe]]
*Samora Machel Avenue, in [[Luanda]], [[Angola]]
*[[Samora Machel Bridge]], (formerly Tete Bridge) across the [[Zambezi River]] in [[Tete, Mozambique]] (762 metres)
*[[Samora Machel constituency]], (formerly Wanaheda constituency in 2003) in [[Khomas Region]], [[Namibia]]
*Samora Machel House, residence for female students at the [[University of Limpopo]], Turfloop Campus
*Samora Machel School of Veterinary Medicine, [[University of Zambia]]
*Samora Machel Street, in [[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]
*Samora Machel Street, in [[Asokoro]], [[Abuja]], [[Nigeria]]
*Samora Machel Street, in [[Utrecht]], [[Netherlands]]
*Samora Machel Road, in [[Accra]], [[Ghana]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.africalocal.net/GH/Greater-Accra-Region/Accra-Metropolitan/Streets/Samora-Machel-Road/|title=Samora Machel Road|website=AfricaLocal.net))</ref>
*Samora Machel [[Park]], in [[Reggio Emilia]], [[Italy]]
*Samora Machel Avenue, [[Mbombela]] (formerly Nelspruit), [[South Africa]]
*Samora Machel Street (Formerly Aliwal Street) in [[Durban]], [[South Africa]]

===Memorial===
((Main article|Samora Machel Monument))
A memorial at the [[Mbuzini]] crash site was inaugurated on January 19, 1999, by Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça, and by President [[Joaquim Chissano]] of Mozambique. Now the monument is made professional and the memorial service is held on October 19 each year. Designed by Mozambican architect José Forjaz, at a cost to the South African government of 1.5 million Rand (US$300,000), the monument comprises 35 steel tubes symbolising the number of lives lost in the air crash. At least eight foreigners were killed there, including the four Soviet crew members, Machel's two Cuban doctors and the Zambian and Zairean ambassadors to Mozambique.<ref>"Monument for Machel plane crash site", ''Panafrican News Agency'' January 5, 1999.</ref>

There is a large street in downtown Dar es Salaam, the de facto capital of Tanzania, called Samora Avenue. One of the largest streets in [[Harare]], the capital of [[Zimbabwe]], was renamed Samora Machel Avenue (from Jameson Avenue) after independence in a gesture of gratitude for Machel's support for black liberation activities before [[majority rule]]. Also, a street in Moscow bears his name and the Zimbabwean band [[R.U.N.N. family]] had a hit song that mourned his loss.

===Printed sources===
* Munslow, Barry (ed.). ''Samora Machel, An African Revolutionary: Selected Speeches and Writings'', London: Zed Books, 1985.

==See also==
*[[List of unsolved deaths]]

==References==
((Reflist|30em))

==External links==
((Commons category|Samora Moisés Machel))
*[https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/machel/index.htm Samora Machel Archive] at [[marxists.org]]
*[http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1999/nm0119.htm Speech by Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial]
*[http://www.news24.com/Content_Display/TRC_Report/2chap6a.htm The TRC's Special Investigation into the death of President Samora Machel]
*[http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/postamble/vol2-2/assassination.pdf A case of assassination? President Samora Machel and the plane crash at Mbuzini] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001024821/http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/postamble/vol2-2/assassination.pdf |date=October 1, 2011 ))
*[http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/machel-s.htm Biographical notes on Samora Machel]
*[http://www.niza.nl/uk/press/mandela/graca.html Graça Machel and Mandela]
*[http://www.docsonline.tv/Archives/description.php?doc=123 Historic film essay on Frelimo and Samora Machel's rehabilitation program]

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