Samora Machel 1933-1986 - 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.
Mail & Guardian - SA to Reopen Probe into Machel 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. (July 10, 1998)
