Families of Mbuzini victims to hold ceremony in Lhanguene Cemetery on Wednesday, 30th anniversary of the tragedy

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Families of Mbuzini victims to hold ceremony in Lhanguene Cemetery on Wednesday, 30th anniversary of the tragedy

4:07 CAT | 17 Oct 2016

www.mozambiquehistory.net / The funeral ceremony of some of the victims who died alongside President Samora Machel at Mbuzini

Victims of the Mbuzini tragedy will be honoured by family and friends on Wednesday, with the laying of wreaths on their graves, in Lhanguene Cemetery, Maputo city.

Family members and friends of Samora Machel and his collaborators decided together to pay a simple tribute to loved ones who perished on 19 October 1986 in the hills of Mbuzini, South Africa, said Odzi Honwana, spokesman to the group.

Associated with this initiative are survivors Filimone Jossefa Machango, Manuel Jairosse Campira, Daniel Samuel Cuna, Fernando Manuel João Vasco Langa, Carlos Djambo, João Rendição, Eusebio Guido Martinho, Josefa Machango, Vladimir Novosolov and Almeida Pedro Pidjoro.

“For each of the families, these special people who left our lives never left us completely. By remembering the anniversary of their death, we remember how each one was and always will be important to us. No one can take away from us the longings we feel, which is why we remember the passage of these 30 years with nostalgia,” the spokesman said.

The Mubuzini Victims

AIM released a translation of the Political Bureau ‘Communique on Victims’ on October 20, 1986, which we partially transcribe. Please read below:

Communique on Victims

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Frelimo party, the Standing Commission of the People’s Assembly, and the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Mozambique inform, with deep sorrow, that in the tragic event in which the President of the Frelimo Party and President of the People’s Republic of Mozambique, Marshal Samora Moisés Machel, was a victim, the following members of the Presidential delegation also lost their lives :

Luís Maria de Alcantara Santos – Minister of Transport and Communications

José Carlos Lobo – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Aquino de Bragança – Director for the Centre for African Studies

Fernando Honwana – Personal Assistant to His Excellency the President of the Republic

Alberto Cangela de Mendonça – National Chief of Protocol

Muradali Mamadussen – Private Secretary to His Excellency the President of the Republic

João Tomas Navesse – Assistant Director in the Directorate for Juridical and Consular Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ivete Amos – Secretary to His Excellency the President of the Republic

Osvaldo de Sousa – Interpreter for English of His Excellency the President of the Republic

Bernardino Chiche – Interpreter for French of His Excellency the President of the Republic

Gulamo Khan – Press Attache in the Presidency of the Republic

Daniel Maquinasse – Official Photographer of His Excellency the President of the Republic

Parente Manjate – Employee of the Presidency

Naçir Charamandane – Employee of the Presidency

Adão Gore Nhoca – Employee of the Presidency

Eduardo Viegas – Employee of the Presidency

Albino Falteira – Employee of the Presidency

Alberto Chaúque – Employee of the Presidency

José Quivanhane – Employee of the Presidency

Azarias Inguane – Photographer with Notícias newspaper

Fernando Nhaquila – Flight Engineer

Orlanda Garrine – Stewardess

Esmeralda Luisa – Stewardess

Sofia Arone – Stewardess

Ilda Carão – Stewardess

At the same time, the following internationalist workers perished :

Henriques Bettencourt – Personal Physician to His Excellency President of the Republic

Ulisses La Rosa Mesa – Personal Physician to His Excellency President of the Republic

Yuri Novodran – Captain of the aircraft

Igor Kartamychev – Co-pilot

Oleg Koudrianov – Flight Engineer

Anatoli Choupilov – Flight Engineer

Travelling with the Presidential delegation were Their Excellencies the Ambassadors of the Republic of Zambia and of the Republic of Zaire, Cox C. Sikumba and TokwaÌu Batale Okulakama respectively, both accredited in the People’s Republic of Mozambique, and who also perished in the disaster.

The following members of the Presidential delegation, some of whom are in serious condition, survived the tragic event : Eusebio Guido Martinho, Carlos Jambo, Fernando Manuel João, Almeida Pedro, Manuel Jairosse, Daniel Cuna, Jossefa Machango, Vasco Langa, João Rendição, Vladimir Novoselov.

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Source: Folha de Maputo