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7:30 CAT | 04 Jul 2025
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Former Minister of Mineral Resources John Kachamila died yesterday, in Maputo, aged 79.
Kachamila died at the Central Hospital in Maputo, where he had been admitted for a medical procedure.
Born in Lago district, Niassa province, on January 30, 1946, John William Kachamila migrated to Tanganyika, present-day Tanzania, with his parents when he was about four years old, in search of better living conditions.
He began primary school at the age of six and completed the eighth grade at St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Mbeya in 1962.
He joined the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) in 1963.
He underwent military training in Tanzania. He lived for ten years in Yugoslavia, where he studied geology and mining.
He began his academic training in Tanzania, and completed his degree in Geological Engineering in Yugoslavia in 1978.
Kachamila served as Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy from 1987 to 2000 andas Minister of Coordination of Environmental Action from 2000 to 2004.
He is the author of the work “From the Rift Valley to the Dream of Freedom: Memories of Lissungo”.
As a member of the Frelimo party, John Kachamila served as a member of the Central Committee. He was also an honorary member of the OJM (Mozambique Youth Organization) and served as Secretary for Cooperation of the National Liberation Struggle Association.
His death was confirmed by Frelimo spokesman Pedro Guiliche, who said that it constitutes an irreparable loss as Kachamila contributed to the party and government in an exemplary manner, with integrity, reverence, humanism and responsibility, in favor of the country’s development.
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