Mozambique: Mondlane calls for stoppage on Fridays to sing national anthem – Watch

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Mozambique: Mondlane calls for stoppage on Fridays to sing national anthem – Watch

1:28 CAT | 21 Jan 2025

Screen grab: Venâncio Mondlane /YouTube

Former Mozambican presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane on Monday called for a 100-day Friday stoppage to sing the national anthem, in a demonstration for “justice” and compliance with the 25 measures he presented last week.

“Every Friday at 1:00 pm (…), everything, absolutely everything, in Mozambique is stopped to sing the national anthem. While we sing the national anthem, you are free to carry posters to show what you want your Mozambique of tomorrow to be like,” Mondlane said live on his official Facebook account.

“On the same Friday, at 9:00 p.m., we will play vuvuzelas and whistles as a way of drawing attention to the fact that we want justice and that the measures indicated be fully complied with,” he added.

In a document he presented yesterday and called the “first presidential decree”, to be released publicly this Tuesday, Venâncio Mondlane, who does not recognize the results of the October 9 general elections, once again called on the Mozambican authorities to comply with the 25 measures he presented last week, saying that not doing so would be “a direct affront to the people”.

“If these measures are not implemented, if these measures are not complied with before the 100 days are up, we will resume street demonstrations and in a much more intense manner,” he declared.

Among the measures, Mondlane demanded an end to what he considers “violence against the population” and “silent genocide”, accusing the Defence and Security Forces of kidnapping, murdering and burying people in “mass graves” because they were considered members of the opposition and his supporters.

He also called for the release of the more than 4,000 people detained in the demonstrations in Mozambique since 21 October, the granting of compensation to the victims of clashes with the police in these protests, and the non-payment of tolls or the reduction of prices of various essential goods and services.

Venâncio Mondlane ran for President of the Republic in the general elections of 9 October, in which Daniel Chapo was declared the winner, taking office as head of state on January 15.

On December 23, the Constitutional Council (CC), the final court of appeal in electoral disputes, proclaimed Daniel Chapo, a candidate supported by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), as the winner of the presidential election, with 65.17% of the votes, as well as the victory of Frelimo, which maintained its parliamentary majority.

The election of Daniel Chapo, already sworn in as the new President of Mozambique, has been contested in the streets since October, with pro-Venâncio Mondlane protesters – who according to the Constitutional Council obtained only 24% of the votes but claims victory – demanding the “reestablishment of the electoral truth”, with barricades, looting and clashes with the police, which have already caused more than 300 deaths and over 600 people injured by gunshots, according to civil society organizations following the process.