Alberto Massavanhane

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Alberto Massavanhane

Alberto Massavanhane (born February 9, 1930 in João Belo , Portuguese East Africa , † September 29, 1993 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a Mozambican politician ( FRELIMO ) and diplomat. Massavanhane was also the first black mayor of the Mozambican capital Maputo .

Life

Alberto Massavanhane was born on February 9, 1930 in João Belo, today's Xai-Xai , the youngest of three sons of the Massavanhane family. His family ran a small farm. At the age of 13, Massavanhane moved to the colonial capital Lourenço Marques, where he attended the Christian Mission School of Magude. At the age of 20 he married his wife Rosa Paulo Chadraca in the Church of the same mission.

After his school education, Massavanhane worked as a teacher at the Liceu Salazar , where he taught, among others, Joaquim Chissano , who later became President of Mozambique. Massavanhane worked underground against the Portuguese colonizers.

In the course of Mozambique's independence, FRELIMO appointed Massavanhane as the first mayor of the colonial capital Lourenço Marques, which after independence received the new name "Maputo" after the neighboring river of the same name. Lourenço Massavanhane held his mandate from 1974 to 1980. The Mozambican state government appointed him mayor for the second time in 1983, and he held the second term of office until 1988.

In his second term in office, he linked Maputo primarily on an international level. In 1985 the city administration - together with other African cities - was particularly committed to combating the malaria epidemic. In 1985 Massavanhane founded the lusofone capital city " União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas " (UCCLA) together with the Lisbon mayor Nuno Krus Abecasis .

In 1988 President Chissano named Massavanhane the first Mozambican ambassador to Sweden. He died there on September 29, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joaquim Chissano: Vidas, Lugares e Tempos . Texto Editores, 2011, ISBN 978-972-47-4512-1 .
  2. ↑ ND archive: Neues Deutschland from April 23, 1985. Neues Deutschland, accessed on June 28, 2018 : “The President of the Executive Council of the Mogambiquan capital Maputo, Alberto Massavanhane, was received on Monday by the Mayor of Berlin, Erhard Krack. Alberto Massavanhane is currently visiting the GDR with other local politicians from his country. The two city leaders discussed the further development of municipal cooperation between Berlin and Maputo. "
  3. ↑ Worldwide Report - Epidemiology. (PDF) Foreign Broadcast Information Service, December 26, 1985, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Embaixada da República de Moçambique | Estocolmo nos Países Nórdicos. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Massavanhane, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician (FRELIMO) and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH João Belo , Portuguese East Africa
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 1993
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden