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9:21 CAT | 22 Jan 2016
File / Former Mozambique's president Armando Guebuza.
Former Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday night launched his Internet web page, at a ceremony that coincided with his 73rd birthday.
Flanked by his successor, Filipe Nyusi, and by his predecessor, Joaquim Chissano, Guebuza announced that the website would focus not only on his ten years of office as President of the Republic, but also on all the events in which he had been involved in the past half century. This includes his clandestine activities in Maputo as a young anti-colonial militant, his participation in the armed independence struggle led by the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), and the various responsibilities he held, in government and in parliament, before his election as President.
Guebuza said he hoped the website would “contribute to a reflection on a journey that is collective and belongs to the entire Mozambican people”.
The theme, he added, was “the march of Mozambique to achieve an ever more dignified life. As we learn throughout our historical trajectory, this march will never be easy. It will require a continual process of learning and of commitment of each Mozambican”.
Just as his own generation “dared to fight against foreign rule, dared to believe it was possible to found a state and a united nation, and dared to believe it possible to eradicate the most degrading expressions of poverty”, so future generations of Mozambicans “will have to believe and struggle so that Mozambique may be a prosperous country, always united and at peace”.
“We are fully aware”, he said, “that each phase in the development of Mozambique is connected dialectically to the preceding phases”.
Guebuza said he intended to make relevant information available on his website, as part of the task of “preserving history and knowledge”.
“A nation which preserves, knows and takes pride in its history advances more rapidly towards progress”, he added.
The website, Guebuza continued, “will be a space for reflection, linking our past to the future that Mozambicans want for their country. Our expectation is that this, and similar initiatives, will generate an appetite for seeing the past, recent or distant, as a repository of lessons, with all its achievements and mistakes, which can help us advance more decisively”.
Nyusi praised Guebuza for his initiative which should ”encourage all Mozambicans in the struggle for the development of the country”.
The former president “is thus placing his achievements in an authentic library for his entire people and for future generations. He is showing that he remains willing to make his contribution to the building of the nation”.
The address of the website is:
www.armandoemilioguebuza.mz
Source: AIM
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