Samora was a hero who touched everybody’s life – Graça Machel

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Samora was a hero who touched everybody’s life – Graça Machel

8:27 CAT | 19 Oct 2018

Photo: Twitter / @NelsonMandela

Humanitarian Graça Machel lauded her former husband and Mozambican president Samora as a hero who touched everybody’s life.

She was speaking in Joburg at the launch of a photographic book on the life and times of the first Mozambican president.

Graça Machel, also the widow of Nelson Mandela, said: “It is not about Samora alone as a person. When you read this book you will understand the struggles that you are going through today.

“Samora lives in each and every one of us.”

The book, Samora Machel, is a collection of photographers by the late Kok Nam, a Mozambican photojournalist of Chinese descent.

At the launch of the book at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton on Thursday night, former Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs said: “Samora died for our liberation. He was on a mission to get the Frontline States to have solidarity. These days, people speak about how easy it is to cross the borders, but they forget how the neighbouring countries helped us,” he said.

By Tebogo Monama

The Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada Foundations are launching a book celebrating the life of former Mozambican President, Samora Machel. @KhayaJames spoke to Graca Machel. Full interview on our YouTube channel. #eNCA #DStv403 pic.twitter.com/Ni1mOrnSoY

— eNCA (@eNCA) October 18, 2018

Thank you to our speakers, Mrs Graca Machel, Judge Albie Sachs & Prof Andre Odendaal and to our guests at this evening’s launch of ‘Samora Machel’, a book by Kok Nam, we appreciate your participation. #SamoraMachel pic.twitter.com/nEqSVA0fKr

— NelsonMandela (@NelsonMandela) October 18, 2018