Maria Angelina Enoque

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Maria Angelina Dique Enoque shortly Maria Angelina Enoque (* 18th April 1953 in the district of Manica , Manica province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican politician ( RENAMO ). She is a member of the national parliament, was Vice-President of Parliament from 2010 to 2015 and chaired the RENAMO group until 2015.

biography

Maria Angelina Enoque was born on April 18, 1953 as one of four children in the Manica district in the province of the same name. While her father came from Mozambique, her mother held southern Rhodesian (later Zimbabwean) citizenship.

education

After completing primary school, she attended the teacher training school in Dondo ( Sofala ) and started working as a teacher at the age of 18. With the independence of Mozambique in 1975 she moved to Maputo with her husband. There she made up her high school diploma and then studied to become a teacher at what is now the Universidade Pedagógica . In Maputo she taught at primary schools and later headed the Escola Primária 3 de Fevereiro. From 1994 she worked at the State Institute for Educational Planning ( Instituto Nacional do Desenvolvimento da Educação )

Political career

With the constitutional reform of 1989/90 and the end of the civil war in 1992, the first free multi-party elections took place in Mozambique in 1994 . Her brother, a member of the then rebel organization RENAMO and after the end of the civil war, a general in the newly founded Mozambican army , enrolled her in the RENAMO electoral list of the Manica province without her knowledge. She only found out that she had been elected when the election results were announced.

Since then she has held the parliamentary mandate and was always re-elected for Manica via the provincial list in 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 . She was Deputy President of Parliament from 2010 to 2015. Until 2015 she was the chairman of the RENAMO parliamentary group, her successor being Ivone Soares . Among other things, she was also part of the main committee ( Comissão Permanente ) as group leader . She was also elected as Mozambican representative for the Pan-African Parliament .

Private

Enoque married in 1972 (at the age of 19), has been a widow since 2009 and has four children.

plant

  • Mulheres Manyika Contam. . . Sexualidade e Família (Micro-estudo Exploratório), in: Cadernos de Pesquisa No. 4 , Instituto Nacional do Desenvolvimento da Educação, 1994, Maputo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d “Entrei na política de uma forma estranha”. In: A Verdade. April 4, 2013, accessed March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Chomera eleito primeiro vicepresidente as AR. In: A Verdade. January 23, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Enoque, Maria Angelina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria Angelina Dique Enoque (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician (RENAMO), Member of Parliament and Deputy President of the Assembleia da República
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Manica district , Manica province , Portuguese East Africa