Friday, May 25, 2012

Force buddy!

Armando Guebuza will continue to lead the party Frelimo after the Tenth Congress next September, according to assurances from Secretary-General of political education. Philip Paúnde says there is no reason to depart Guebuza of the party leadership, but rather for his reappointment to the position.
"We want the party remains strong, with this vitality and, therefore, Armando Guebuza will continue in the leadership of our party," said Paúnde, adding that "the party has never been on stage in what is now, has never been perfect in terms of its operation. The committees, resident cells are working as never before. The central school is to train cadres and the party is working out the right direction thanks to President Guebuza. "  Paúnde further explained that this will not conflict with the statutes of the party.  "Our statutes do not place a limit on the mandates of the president of the party and therefore will be doing so legally," he said.  Frelimo, through its secretary general, reiterated that Armando Guebuza will not reapply for president under the Constitution."Our laws are not above our Constitution, and between these two laws the Constitution prevails," he said.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

NCONDEZI COAL TO COMPLETE FEASIBILITY STUDIES BY 2014

The London-based Ncondezi Coal Company has agreed with Mozambique’s Ministry of Mineral Resources (MIREM) to complete feasibility studies on its coal mines in the western province of Tete within the next two years.This is the one of the key conditions imposed by MIREM for granting a mining concession to Ncondezi Coal.According to a press release issued by the ministry, the agreement was signed by Minister of Mineral Resources Esperanca Bias and David Eshmade of Ncondezi Coal.Established in Mozambique in 2005, Ncondezi Coal was initially operating under the name Zambezi Energy Corporation Limited.The company holds two exploration licenses in the area of Ncondezi, in Tete province, and is currently investing 60 million US dollars on prospecting and feasibility studies. It is also investing a further two million US dollars on social projects in local communities, under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed last year with MIREM.Ncondezi Coal plans to invest five billion US dollars on developing the mine and associated infrastructure. It has completed initial studies on the use of lower quality coal locally in power generation, and has commissioned a feasibility study on the development of a 3600 megawatt coal fired power station. It is also looking into coal gasification.Production is expected to start by 2015, and to reach its peak in 2020 with the extraction of 10 million tonnes of coal per year. When it reaches full production the mine will employ about 500 Mozambican workers.The company estimates that the concession holds up to 4.7 billion tonnes of coal. Of this, four billion tonnes of coal is less than 250 metres below the surface, making it available to open cast mining.

PRESIDENT BLASTS FOREIGN INVESTORS WHO BREAK LA

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday declared that foreign investors are welcome provided that they are willing to abide by the country’s labour legislation.Addressing a rally in the southernmost tourist town of Ponta do Ouro, as part of his “open and inclusive presidency”, President Guebuza criticised foreign investors who were accused by local residents of ignoring the country’s labour law, while also barring trade unions in the workplace.In Ponta do Ouro some foreign investors have been accused of abusing Mozambicans and firing workers without just cause. According to residents, this often ends up degenerating into poorly handled labour disputes due to the lack of regular labour inspections.“Investments in Mozambique are governed by the country’s legislation; therefore, it is unacceptable to break those laws. All investors, irrespective of their origin and identity, are welcome provided they abide by Mozambican legislation and respect people as human beings”, warned President Guebuza.According to the President, this is the only way “we are going to build the society of tolerance and harmony that we all want”.The President pointed out that workers have rights, duties and responsibilities which are dictated by the country’s rules and laws which must be respected by all.He stressed that the war Mozambicans waged against colonialism was precisely to restore human dignity. “Anything that is against this principle is reprehensible”, said the President.During the rally, residents also complained that some foreign investors have privatised access roads to the beach by erecting fences. As a result, they are forced to walk several kilometres even when the beach is not more than 500 metres away.Answering this particular concern, the President stressed that the land is owned by all Mozambicans, hence people must not be held hostage in their own space.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Matos, blamed the defeat of Frelimo in Quelimane

A document produced by the Provincial Command of the PRM (Police of the Republic of Mozambique) in Zambezia Provincial Commander for on the midterm elections of December 7, 2011, which we reproduce below in its entirety once it is published by the weekly firsthand the Mozambique Channel, proves that the Police are at the service Party Frelimo.A Police are supposed to treat all citizens as free and "nonpartisan" as expressed in the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique. But the paper copy that we have in our power to conclude definitively that the PRM is used to harm the citizens do not revêm the Frelimo party, although the CNE / STAE and the Constitutional Council constantly ignore what is happening on the ground and in the case of earliest to realize is that even conivência.Um to note is that the provincial commander of the PRM in Zambezia, Lawrence Catandica, on December 6, 2011, the second day of reflection and the eve of "interim" to elect the mayor of Quelimane, sent strong and a large contingent of FIR (Rapid Intervention Force) occupies the site of the headquarters of the MDGs in the capital of Zambezia and there deploy two bamboo poles with their respective flags of the Frelimo party beside the flag of the MDGs, saying that the achievement of MDM was the seat of a plot of the Frelimo party, because that would be denied to the press by the landlord of the space, with official documents of proof.Noteworthy is also a relevant fact: the commander of the PRM in Zambezia province, Catandica Lawrence is married to Permanent Secretary of the Government of that province, Claudina Mazalo.In the report of PRM in Quelimane, is described that nominations for the formation of tables of polling stations is supposed to pass through the control of Frelimo and Quelimane have been people that Frelimo's own party sabotaged procedures. The CNE completely ignored what the police did in Inhambane. The Constitutional Council also. This body, in its judgment stated that all elements of the logistics of MDM that were arrested in the elections on 18 April this year in Inhambane, were so because they were to misbehave.We transcribe the report of the command to his commander about the defeat of the Frelimo Party candidate, Lawrence Abubacar nozzle, in the race for the presidency of the City Council he was elected Professor Dr. Manuel de Araujo, MDM.
Report of the Command of PRM in ZambeziaRepublic of MozambiqueMinistry of InteriorSUBJECT: REPORT OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESSFor the acquisition of knowledge by the Hon. Lord Commander Provincial Elections on the recent Interim occurred on December 7, 2011, where they were won by the candidate of the MDGs, Manuel Araujo, the current mayor of the city of Quelimane.
1.1 - Causes of the Defeat of the Frelimo Party CandidateFor Mr. Pio Matos ensure their stability to dominate the city of Quelimane certain condicções created within the city of Quelimane:- To ensure their stability corrupt high-level committee of the city, the Frelimo bench in the Assembly Hall and the Provincial Committee, created the following structure:- Created the structure of Permanent Secretaries at the Zone, a structure that does not exist, and appointed to those positions Comrades 1.The Secretaries Zone without consent of the party, going to receive triple the salaries of Secretaries 1.The Zones that culminated in the suspension of the Secretary of the Committee of the City now in office.
- From the creation of this figure, these Secretaries, began to disobey the guidelines issued by the Frelimo Party, following the guidelines of the outgoing mayor.- This is to demonstrate the achievement of the conference committees of the Zone and the city has created much controversy because os1.os Secretaries of areas as the city did not want to obey the rules of the Party because they heard the Lord's guidance Pio Matos.- That is why, when he was elected the 1st Secretary of the Committee of the City, Mr. Simplicio Damian de Andrade, the outgoing mayor bought a (sic car) brand TOYOTA RAVA, in token of appreciation because the line was that he wanted made to entrench its hegemony, in addition to paying compensation to 1.The Secretary of the Committee of the City and Circles.After the resignation of the mayor of the city of Quelimane Mr Pio Matos, created great discontent within all Councillors, officials of the Municipal Council, the Secretariat of the Committee of the City of Quelimane, Members of the City Committee, the Secretaries Committees and Areas of Circles also including some members of the OJM, despite some members of the Assembly Hall at the City of Quelimane, claims to be unfounded since the resignation was forced by the Frelimo government and not by mere and spontaneous will of the mayor .This is the scenario experienced after the resignation of IOP Matos in the city of Quelimane.This happened because the IOP Augusto de Matos had won all the heads of administrative posts with the exception of the Chief (sic post) Administrative n.0 3 Comrade ABILIO MONTEIRO, the Secretaries of the Committees Zone for a few gifts (money) not to indicate that it committed any fault, the outgoing mayor, said he was very influential in the Catholic church.After his departure from office he promised to MANUEL DE ARAUJO unconditional support, including all information passed the electoral process and strategy of the Frelimo Party, said the same to the candidate of MDM, the secret of victory in the Municipality of Quelimane is based on money not only to tarnish the image of the Frelimo Party sieved by a theater group called "Lightning", whose strategy was exploited by the opposition, reaching the point of convincing the aldermen, Zone Secretaries and members of the Municipal Assembly to act on behalf of MDM during the election campaign.
- Other weaknesses that were exploited by the opposition was the dismantling of labor between the Secretariat of the Provincial Committee and the City.
- Lack of understanding and articulation of how to direct the bills paid by members of the Provincial Government and other institutions where the Provincial Committee he was responsible for the collection thereof.
- Another advantage of the fact that the opposition was the lack of overtime pay and promotions in Education.
- Widespread discontent of teachers in the treatment of its subjects aggravated the way the case was solved by the Director of Eduacção the city of Quelimane.
- Late payment of wages to health officials.
- The total abandonment of the city sanitation works by Conduril Construction Company, says also that the Muslim community became apathetic the Frelimo candidate Mr. LORENZO Abubacar BICO by internal disagreements and business, some employees infiltration Sector Keys,
Party in the MDM, the operating room of the Bureau of Elections did not work with defense and security.From this followed by clandestine meetings and subsequent proposal for the possible successor of the same, driven by Mr Pius Augusto de Matos and Simplicio Damian de Andrade, a former mayor of the city of Quelimane and 1 Secretary of the Committee of the City, with 1.The participation of Secretaries of the Committees Zone, Circles, Aldermen of the City Council some members of the Municipal Assembly of confidence, these meetings had been amputated Mr. Mario Silva Dubalelane Simplicio and Damian de Andrade, an official of the City Council and 1 Secretary of the Committee of the City respectively. Circulated the proposal was rejected by the Provincial Party Committee and proposed the Frelimo Mr. Jose Carlos da Cunha and Lawrence Abubacar Nozzle, Deputy Provincial Director of Finance and Entrepreneur of the square respectively, as not enough discontent increased taking convened a meeting where they decided boycotting the electoral process Frelimo party with its candidate a clandestine manner.
1 - In the internal elections Frelimo party vote in favor of Jose Carlos Cunha and abandon the campaign process to vote.2 - The outgoing mayor promoted tribalism phenomenon among members, sympathizers of Frelimo Party and the general population, and to this end accommodated Manuel de Araujo, the candidate of the MDGs by supporting it as originating machuabo not come to LORENZO Abubacar BICO.3 - Sabotage the whole process of elections Frelimo Party candidate, giving full support to the candidate of the MDGs.4 - To mobilize all members of the Frelimo Party of its confidence, to do marketing year for the MDGs, posing as members of the Frelimo party holding signs, posters and pamphlets of the Frelimo candidate, with the main objective to misinform and to encourage to vote for the candidate of MDM, giving as examples, Francis John Ponta, Eugene Albert, John Chingoma Nabula, Castro Pinto know Gemo and Rufino Muibo secretaries are the 1st, 4th 2.ae zone, respectively.5 - The Secretary of the Committee of the City of Quelimane, in coordination with the MDM, recruited young men to constitute members of the polling stations and sent the list to STAE, when there was 24 hours, to the beginning of their formation, without passing commission area where you can check to be selected case by case basis with the Defense and Security Committee of the City, with the aim of securing victory for the candidate of the MDGs.
Phase Election CampaignDuring the process, various materials from posters, T-shirts, shawls, caps, etc.. Were distributed to five areas that make up the city of Quelimane, raised by the respective secretaries of the committees of zones. It is noted that in the second raised zones of 450 shirts were distributed 128 t-shirts for about eight committees of the circle, leaving a circle for each committee 16 shirts, a fact that created embarrassment in the Frelimo Party members who were more group shock. In a tone of these complaints, the corresponding secretary of the area committee gave the following answer: "lonely hungry, I do not chateiem, go to your fields," such pronouncements desmotivou all mass youth who were in shock on the campaign trail, and some were abandoned and are joining the campaign of the candidate of the MDGs. This type of behavior occurred in all districts as a way of discouraging the electorate not to vote for Frelimo candidate, with the exception of the 5th district.Even during the campaign, some Councillors relied on not to vote for the candidate of the Frelimo Party, to the detriment of the waiver are required (NR: ex) mayor of Quelimane.
Polling procedureThe outgoing mayor attended the EPC Quelimane, to encourage young people affiliated to the MDGs. The make efforts to control the possible maneuvers of Frelimo during the vote count.
ConclusionIn general, the defeat of the Frelimo Party candidate was conditioned by the members of this political formation, that they passed as militants and sympathizers of the same party led by Augusto Matos IOP in the company of the Secretariat of the Committee of the City of Committees Zones, Circles, Aldermen of the City as well as some members of the Municipal Assembly.Quelimane, December 2011
However annex to the report of the Provincial Command of the PRM for their respective provincial commander, is a "Nominal Value of some staff who campaigned in favor of open MDM under the direction of Mr. Augusto de Matos and IOP 1 Secretary of the Committee of the City"
.See also contained in this Annex:ALDERMEN MUNICIPAL1. Florida Munguambe2. Paula Sunde3. Augusto Antonio Redondo4. Manuel Adriano5. Mario Silva Dubalelane6. Santiago - Councilman Area Infrastructure7. Anabela Bila - Head of the Office of the Mayor8. Laura - Director of EMUSA9. Realdo Days - Advisor to the Mayor10. Danião Simplicio de Andrade, 1st Secretary of the Committee of the City
Members of the Government1. Josefa Sing Sang - Provincial Director of Industry and Trade2. Jose Luis Barbosa Pereira - Provincial Director of Eduacação3. José Carlos da Cunha - Provincial Deputy Director of Finance4. Candida Magalhães Ferraz, Secretary of the Verification Committee of the city.
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The Secretaries of the Committees of Zones1. - John Francis Tip2. - Eugenio Alberto Afonso3. - Rufino Muibo Pinto - perished4. - Clement Borges Agents - Secretary of the Organization 3rd Zone5. - Castro know Gemo6. - John Chigoma Nabula - Team Coordinator
Heads of Administrative Posts1. - Xavier Mora Abilio2. - John Will Cabrámea3. - Bernardino Uassone
Circle Secretaries of the Committees1. - Humberto Fear - Circle City Council2. - Jaime Cipriano - Torrone Circle-Old3. - Partner - Airport 1. "
Note that the text of the report of the PRM has not been edited. Is published as it is written. (F.V)

Friday, May 11, 2012

GUEBUZA RECEIVES BUSINESSMEN IN LONDON

Several British companies, particularly in the mining industry, have expressed an interest in investing in Mozambique during meetings with President Armando Guebuza now on the second day of an official visit to Britain.Since his arrival on Monday, Guebuza has granted audiences to representatives of several major mining companies, such as Subsea 7, Stanley’s Oil and Gas, and Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC). He also has meetings scheduled with British Petroleum (BP), and with the Italian ENI, which is one of the companies that has made major discoveries of natural gas in the Rovuma Basin in the far north of the country.According to the Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias, who is accompanying Guebuza, the companies that have approached the government are financially solid, with every prospect of doing business in Mozambique.“The interaction with British businesses is positive”, she told reporters. “We have been receiving companies with various interests, including companies that want to be part of financing in the country, companies providing services and companies that want to build facilities to produce equipment. One of these companies works in Angola and wants to provide equipment for the petroleum industry in Mozambique”.“The government wants to continue contacts with various British companies to attract them to invest in the country and to support projects in coal, hydrocarbons and heavy mineral sands”, said Bias. “We want to attract business people of this country to support geological and mining activity and add value to the resources that are being exploited in Mozambique”.One of the companies received by Guebuza on Tuesday is ENRC which has 12 coal exploration licences in the western province of Tete. Of these, licence 871 in Chitima, in Cahora Bassa district, in the most advanced .According the ENRC national manager for Mozambique, José Eduardo Dai, the Chitima licence will soon become a mining concession, in order to order to allow the company to extract the coal. Dai expects mining to begin in 2015 – but the logistics are formidable. The export of the coal will require a new railway from the district of Chiuta to the northern port of Nacala.Dai hoped that the railway will be operational by 2015, and said that negotiations with the government on building it are under way. The route for the railway and the viability study have been drawn up. Presumably this line will link up with the railway that the Brazilian company Vale is planning from its concession in Moatize district, across southern Malawi, to Nacala.“In the Chitima area we are making investments of hundreds of millions of dollars”, said Dai. Funding was assured from the company’s own resources and from bank loans.

Chicken heads, ambitious, selfish

When it comes to benefits for members, there is no opposition Frelimo in parliament. The three benches joined the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality and decided that if the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants, now changed to the Law of Public Probity between into force, the Government should increase "properly" the wages of 250 Deputies. Some people have apelide the exercise of "political blackmail". This is because the Code of Ethics for Civil Servants, approved in general the last Wednesday, provides that it becomes prohibited from receiving compensation from other public institutions or companies that have government ownership, whether in the form of salary, attendance fees or fees. This prohibition does not apply when the salaries come from the practice of teaching in public schools, or those resulting from being part of the official delegation, as well as those arising from the performance of roles in charities. Members are also expected to become prohibited from being able to enter directly or indirectly, or by representation, contract with government or local government or companies that have involvement of the state. In this respect, it is understood that when indirectly engages in some of these positions in companies co-contractors of the State are performed by the spouse, brother, Mr ascending or descending in any degree straight line. Seeing himself in the possibility of outside of parliament, can earn money only in academic activities, and the most Members of Parliament do not have academic competence, there was no other alternative but to ask salary increase. That the Government was left to pay for exclusivity waty Teodoro, deputy president of Frelimo and the Board of Directors of Mozambique Airlines (LAM), submit a request for salary increase which is nothing less than a new burden on the public accounts. Waty said that the duties of deputy should indeed require broader exclusivity, the state must guard the necessary economic and financial conditions. "The uniqueness of the performance of the deputy should be extended to all professions, that is, who was deputy would be so full time. But this exclusivity naturally implies an adequate remuneration, and that politicians should be very well regarded for their role as there should be no doubt that good people should be adequately remunerated in any  sector, and policy and needs good professionals, good full-time, "said waty. Therefore one can expect in the coming days, ie after the Law was finally approved and when it is sent to the PR for enactment, the National Assembly send the invoice to the Office of wage increases for Chang, given the pressure Members, especially those that Frelimo had pots in state enterprises are making at all levels. (M. Guente)

Guiniezação Mozambican police

Our society is facing today, more than ever, a major challenge: to eradicate a threat and a problem. This danger and the problem is called Jorge Khálau is commanding general of Police of the Republic of Mozambique. It is revealed that George Khálau be a danger to a society that is peaceful and intended that slowly is consolidating democratic processes to bring the rules of a ministry (Ministry of Interior) as a legal instrument and legal above which there other. This is Jorge Khálau overlapped the Rules of the Ministry of Interior to the ordinary laws, and even the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique (Law-mother).
It is worth recalling what he said: "We know the laws. We do not obey any judge. We take our internal measures. Now say it (the regulation) is outdated! Thank you! The penal code is that year? 1886. Only the police is that regulation is outdated? There was a violation of internal rules (...). ". More: "The police have internal rules. We do not need authorization from the attorney to discipline our players when they commit irregularities. The attitude taken by the court seeks to discourage efforts to fight crime, but we will not stop. " These statements make clear that not only Khálau seems to live a dilemma of comparing the rules of the ministry employs the Criminal Code, but also challenges various constitutional provisions, including Article 38, which states that "All citizens have the duty to respect the constitutional order. "Now, one of the constitutional order established in Article 215 of the same constitution, which sets" Court decisions are binding for all citizens and other legal entities and shall prevail over those of other authorities " and that "In exercising its functions, the police obey the law (art. 254/3)."
I mean, not even Khálau its rules of procedure have jurisdiction, power and authority to override the decisions of the courts.
I never imagined existed in Mozambique, a kind of people with a thought to the counter. Today, I have to give me a happy, because finally, I found that, in fact, Mozambique is a country not only in terms of pluralist democracy as well as in the human species. We certainly species for all tastes. It is this abnormality that makes this country one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. A country where a degree in law ignores the basic rules governing their own area of ​​training and do not know that the decisions of the courts take precedence over the rules of his ministry.
Khálau as Cistac Gille said the teacher, have to revise their notions of law. It is unacceptable that a licensed individual in law fill her lungs with air to release such crap. Too bad we are in Mozambique, a country where leaders are not accountable for their statements. If we were in another world, perhaps Khálau was not, at this point, the general commander of the Police by the severity of their pronouncements.
What Khálau is said, indeed, is the police who, unfortunately, he never addresses must abide by decisions of any court, where such a decision contrary to the rules of the police. It is certainly disruptive to deploy the police, as too undisciplined. With that, morally, Khálau no longer has the conditions to stay ahead of an organ of great responsibility for the security of the country. Is that Khálau is not naive, much less children, then we must recognize that their public pronouncement is the result of a premeditated and there is, here, any dose of innocence. However, since these statements, there is no doubt that the commanding general is a dangerous individual to the type of society we want to build a society cultivated by the values ​​of pluralist democracy. And if it's dangerous, it means that your hazard can undermine the whole effort of a country, consisting of little more than 20 million inhabitants, hence the need for an urgent decision: shock therapy, or his removal from positions of decision. It seemed that Mozambique had literally confused with Guinea-Bissau.(L.Mabunda)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

MOZAMBICAN ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION UP BY 15 PER CENT

 Consumption of electricity in Mozambique increased by 15 per cent in 2011, according to Augusto Sousa, chairperson of the publicly-owned electricity company, EDM.This was a much higher rise than in any other member country of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), The average rise in electricity consumption among the other SADC members was between two and 2.5 per cent.Sousa announced these figures on Wednesday at a business conference on energy in Maputo, organised by the Portuguese Energy Agency (ADENE), the Mozambique-Portugal Chamber of Commerce and the Portuguese Investment and Foreign Trade Agency. Peak demand for electricity in Mozambique has now reached 616 megawatts (a figure that excludes the Mozal aluminium smelter, which is not supplied by EDM). To deal with the increased demand for power, the government is working on a range of electricity projects, said Sousa.He announced, for example, that EDM is negotiating with the National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH) to convert an obsolete thermal power station in Maputo to run on natural gas, which could generate 70 megawatts.About 85 per cent of the electricity in the EDM system is purchased from HCB, the company that runs the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi. The remaining 15 per cent comes from EDM’s own power stations at the Chicamba and Mavuzi dams in Manica province, and the Corrumana dam in Maputo province.“We must implement new sources of energy, such as small scale hydropower stations, wind energy and photovoltaic systems”, said Sousa. Other large scale projects on the drawing board include a second power station at Cahora Bassa, and a new dam on the Zambezi at Mpanda Nkuwa, some 60 kilometres downstream from Cahora Bassa. It is estimated that about 1,050,000 households are connected to the national grid. That is about 5.3 million Mozambicans, or 23 per cent of the total estimated population of the country in 2011. If the households supplied by isolated, non-EDM power sources (mostly solar panels) are included, the percentage of Mozambicans with access to some form of electricity rises to around 35 per cent. Energy Minister Salvador Namburete told the conference that Mozambique can make a substantial contribution to energy security in the SADC region, in Africa and even beyond Africa.But much of the country’s energy potential, he added, is not yet developed due to lack of investment. The development of new sources of electricity requires large sums of money – but it is not enough to generate power, Namburete stressed, it must also be transmitted to the consumers. The construction of electricity transmission lines, and of oil and gas pipelines, he said, needed the mobilization of resources on favourable terms in order to make economic activities viable, and ensure that power is accessible to lower income consumers. “Such infrastructures will allow an increase in the availability of energy to meet the short, medium and long term needs of economic growth and social development, and to export the surplus, thus contributing to an increase in transactions and the development of the energy market in the region”, said Namburete.The Portuguese Secretary of State for Energy, Artur Trindade, claimed that Portugal can help Mozambique attract the investments required to develop the energy sector. “Portuguese companies have a great deal of prestige in Europe”, he said, “because there are several projects in the European Union where Portugal has been in the front line, and its role in this area is recognised. This could help consolidate Mozambican projects from the technical point of view, and that will also have an impact from the financial point of view”.The Portuguese mission to this conference includes representatives of Portuguese banks and of more than 20 energy and fuel companies.

SENA LINE CAPACITY TO QUADRUPLE THIS YEAR

 Improvements to the Sena railway, which runs from the Moatize coal basin in the western Mozambican province of Tete to the port of Beira, could bring its capacity up to 12 million tonnes of cargo a year, according to Deputy Fisheries Minister, Gabriel Muthisse.Muthisse, acting as government spokesperson, told reporters on Wednesday that a meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) that day had discussed a Transport Development Strategy, aimed at reducing transaction costs through the rational use of all modes of transport – road, rail, air, maritime and river. The basic conditions for implementing this strategy, he said, include the “definition, rehabilitation, improvement and construction of roads, rail lines, ports and airports”. He took the Sena line as an example. Currently it can move three million tonnes of coal a year from Moatize to Beira – manifestly insufficient for the huge amounts of coal that mining companies hope to extract from the Moatize basin in the near future.But rehabilitation of the stretch between Beira and the town of Dondo is under way which should double the capacity to six million tonnes a year. Muthisse said that this work should be concluded in July or August.This month, the government is launching a tender to double the capacity of the line again, bringing it to 12 million tonnes a year,“It is hoped that by the end of 2012, the Sena line will be in a fit state to carry 12 million tonnes a year”, said Muthisse. “So the idea is to grow from an annual capacity of three million to 12 million tonnes by the end of this year”.He also announced that rehabilitation of the second line in the central rail system, from Beira to Machipanda, on the border with Zimbabwe, is under way, and should double the capacity of this line, from three million to six million tonnes of cargo a year. He added that the Transport Ministry is looking into the possibility of raising the capacity of the Machipanda line to 25 million tonnes a year.This, however, would only make economic sense with a dramatic increase in the Zimbabwean use of the line, which in turn depends on a sustained period of economic recovery and growth in Zimbabwe. Muthisse also announced that this year’s wage increase for state employees will be a flat rate six per cent. The increase in the minimum wage in the public administration was set last week at six per cent, and the government has decided not to widen differentials. Thus the six per cent increase will be applied across the board from the lowest to the highest pay categories in the public administration and in the defence and security services.The state pension for all categories also rises by six per cent.

POLICE MUST OBEY CONSTITUTION - JUSTICE MINISTER

Mozambique’s Minister of Justice, Benvinda Levi, has insisted that the police must obey the country’s constitution.Her remarks follow police defiance of the Constitution last month in the northern port city of Nacala.The Nacala district police commander, Adriano Muianga, and four of his subordinates, were detained in late March when 62 firearms were found stored in the Nacala Police Command. They were to be used by security guards on ships moored in Nacala port, for protection against Somali pirate gangs operating in the Indian Ocean.In April, a magistrate ordered the release of the men – they could await any eventual trial in freedom. But the police promptly re-arrested the five, and took them to cells in Nampula city on the express orders of the General Command. The police excuse for this was that this time they were detaining the men, not for criminal proceedings but for disciplinary action under the police internal regulations of 1987.Lawyers for the detained police officers then submitted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Muianga and one of the other four. Once again they were called into court, and once again a magistrate decided to grant the men provisional freedom. Intervention by the Attorney-General’s Office ensured that this time the court ruling was respect.But on Monday, the General Commander of the Police, Jorge Khalau, insisted that the police had acted correctly. “We know the laws. We don’t obey any judge. We take our own internal measures”, he said.Interviewed by the independent television station STV, Benvinda Levi, pointed out that obedience to court rulings is a principle of the Mozambican constitution.“The Constitution of the Republic is the mother of all laws in the country, and we must all obey it”, she declared. “The Constitution is clear in this respect – it is obligatory to carry out court decisions”.Hermenegildo Gamito, the chairperson of the Constitutional Council, Mozambique’s highest body on matters of constitutional law, declined to comment on Khalau’s statements. He told STV that the Council “is a body which only makes rulings when it is called upon to do so. We will have an appropriate moment to give our position, if we are asked to do so”.The Council will have such an opportunity. For one of the bodies that may request rulings from the Council is the Attorney-General’s Office, and on Thursday Attorney-General Augusto Paulino announced that he has requested the council to rule on whether the police internal regulations, the document Khalau invoked to defy a court order, violates the constitution.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The "great master" who graduated from the Faculty of Law

The Commander-General of Police of the Republic of Mozambique, Jorge Khálau, said yesterday in Nampula, the police know the law and will not obey any court order in relation to arrests and measures to its agents who violate the rules internal. Khálau hinted that the rules of the PRM overlaps the laws of the country, which is why the police are independent of the courts in decisions.
"We know the laws. We do not obey any judge. We take our internal measures. Now say it (the regulation) is exceeded. thank you! The penal code is that year? 1886. Only the police is that regulation is outdated? There was a violation of internal rules (...) ".
To Khálau, what the public knows is that the police found weapons that entered the country illegally. "You have seen. These weapons are weapons of war who entered illegally, "he explained, stressing that those who have power to authorize the entry or transit of weapons" is the Interior Minister is the Minister of National Defence, is the finance minister and the minister is Transport and Communications, according to Decree 8/97. To say that these weapons entered the country illegally, without obeying these rules, these procedures. "
Police officers, also commented, knowing it was illegal to keep arms, should first have alerted the institution (guardianship), the higher courts. However, taking advantage of the opportunity "were demanding money."
"The commander (the district of Nacala) has accumulated a lot of money. He committed the crime of enriching your question. Therefore, we are not here to disrupt things, "advised Khálau, for whom the PRM has the internal rules.

As a woman, I think so ...

When decisions are taken by trawling the leaves can rnas hands of others, they do not repeatedly been identified with the procedures and hence causes drifting. It is not fair and even inresponsavel authorities starting from this type of positioning face their responsibility in front of thousands and thousands of people. The attempt to want a screen to cover the sun continues to be widely impossible to determining who leads the fate of the country, specifying among other things, the approval of the criminal code by the Assembly of the Republic. A unique opportunity to assert a national initiative originally, laying to waste the obsolete and Fascist Law produced by the colonial state. In sufficient time the body of jurists accepted the challenge because the requirement until the judiciary had the stamp policy. The heated debates between Members were not around the essence of the proposal but for the reasons preventing the bench for most of the discussion is not a legal instrument so necessary to prevent the looting of property of the Mozambican state. A contrarieadade that messing with the class of judicial power that is embodied by technicians of political trust not fail to put forth the nonconformity. The proposed new criminal code imposes a wide range of impairments who holds public office in the interests of the institutions of the state and its citizens. It was clear how the incompatibilities has served with the naked eye who is not never been interested in modern management, fair and respect for the taxpayers and not only. The reasons for delaying the debate on the forum own vain Law since its complexity to the lack of sufficient time that the agenda of the Assembly of the Republic for the purpose intended. There is no will, but this course also deal with the selfishness delipidation of the pillars of our sovereignty. With each passing year the Court Adminsitrativo, more professional politician, has made known his report on the management of public affairs, showing the details of the large sums diverted from their purpose and their whereabouts unknown, or else no disciplinary or judicial procediementos . At this time the National Heritage Board controls only 10% of state assets, including real estate. Given the stark situation in which it is the public administration is permissible and even repugnant let everything remain the same. From within the system came the call for politicians authorize the end of the mismanagement of the study, design of legal instruments and then return at the time of approval ago. The speed of events is such that the instituted power seems not to have understood that the national situation is no longer confined to national borders. The country is being sacrificed for the simple reason of being at stake interests of economic groups that are mixed with the occasional stay of political beliefs. Time is running out, the scope and minimum, you lose the opportunity to catapult bases of regulation of a State which is not as young as intended to justify perpetuating the problems. The best interests of the citizen as the application of a justice that is just one of the pillars for the young multiparty democracy. There is no time to entertain, because the independence of the country dictated the emergence of a critical mass more erudite and informed. The positions of intellectual power on the quiet are known and some do get them to the comrades of the old guard who knows dissatisfied with the direction given for the organization that helped found half a century. Democratic societies, such as Europe, many years practicing and setting up pillars to sustain them live moments of social explosion result of adverse economic policies such as the loss of rights essential to the lives of families and workers. The approval is not a debate in the Assembly of the Republic of the proposed code of Criminal Law and an error and large. The weariness of injustices, unemployment, ostentation are enough ingredients to the slippage of peace conquered and convincing the world that has invested in us. A cord vision, perspective surrounding selfish can lead to limits and everything will be different to what happens in the old continent, it is because humans democratic mechanisms instituted in accordance with their wishes. It is not possible to be equal but also do not seize opportunities for us, always giving foreign economic pressure to change when the house could do with more propriedade.O proposed criminal code also leads to court without excepccoes all those who serve the state. This is the great fear because private property is now confused with the public, or vice versa ...Faced with this conditioning dictated by political elites, legal career and exercise have circulated behind the scenes to influence the approval outputs protectionist. The inclusion of an article amnistiava looters of public goods by the date of entry into force of the Act or for exclusivity then determine the maximum 10 months for offenders can voluntarily resarcir the state. Anyway, the draft law put in the drawer at any time it will be approved, the pressure poque social well obrigar.É a dangerous game will go to the limits of tolerance, because the background do not give credit to those who begs for the correctness justica.Sem law to prosecute the criminals who live at the expense of the state, the power falls into the street and the crimes will eventually judge them.

For those who do not want to believe

On April 19 chain, so one day after the vote, in Inhambane, the Provincial Election Commission published the local election results that gave victory to Frelimo. Among frelimistas denoted to the bitterness of party to a victory, in which for her to be given as such, the winner received the involvement of the coalition's National Electoral Commission (CNE), Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), Office Information and State Security (SISE), GDs (GD's), performing the action and psychological state terrorism and institutional, in partnership with Frelimo.After that it was this election, we who were on the ground, we can only count the modus operandis quoted in the coalition to win that election. For parties. Convene:1. Frelimo had plans A, B and C for the elections in Inhambane. Thus, on the 17th, before the vote, concerned with the trend of youth groups to vote, imposed by Ana Rita Sitole was 'invited' by the management of University Mussa Bin peck to this institution of higher education to give a lecture on "Exercise Citizenship 'to young students of Inhambane, which gazetaram this event;2. On the morning of April 18, the morning (outside the election period), the Secretaries of ten houses and neighborhoods - in Inhambane assets as these are the years of dictatorship machelista, was asked to contact them house to house, calling for they themselves would be in the polling stations and would take care of registering the name of everyone who was there, and also be able to observe by their means (occult, crystal ball or philosopher's stone?) about who they voted or not voted for Frelimo;3. Passing the message ubiquitous, the GD's passed the message of retaliation that Frelimo had prepared them: administrative acts that would require would be blocked in the future. Thus, they would have difficulties to have access to provincial and qualify for benefits in health, education and youth;4. On the 18th, at dawn stirred Inhambane, we run into the frenzied excitement of some popular, many of which put the secretaries of the districts and ten houses, apart from any contact with them, raising hence the nervousness on the part of GD's and their superiors;5. On the morning of 18, in the suburbs, the GD's, appointed by Frelimo, put under the doors of the houses pamphlets in which appealed the manhambanas the opponent Benidito Guimino was a representative of Mulungos (white and strange) - psychological action / terrorism psychological aspects in their thoracic and tribal, to discourage the vote of conscience in favor of Fernando Nhaca;6. At 4:00 pm on April 18 men, women, old men and women, mostly elderly is meant, began to flock to polling stations;7. Up at 7:00 the influx of young people was very scarce, if not nearly zero, which lasted up to 13 hours, which was subject to review by certain journalists, with some believing that they should be at rest after have been partying the day before, know that for 18 days had decreed tolerance point;8. From 8:00 am entered the plan in motion The Frelimo: all secretaries of the districts were at the polling stations with white sheets presses where they should register the names of voters of their districts;9. At 8:30 pm the secretaries of the GD's in parallel to identify voters were among the 'mulungos' FGrelimo understood as calling for the young and active members of the MDM, mostly from Beira, Nampula and Zambezia, experts in neutralizing fraud by filling urns, that there had been deployed to monitor elections and teach young people of Inhambane. He then went to Plan B chain: undo the MDM machine via arrest of its activists who had identification, the situation of having a carrying food in cars or waiting nearby for any emergency and contingency. Up to 13 hours there were 37 prisoners. 53 were arrested but only 37 were in prison;10. The case was fragrant identified by us when an employee driving a car STAE this institution was accompanied by a member of the PRM, in their attempt to arrest activists of MDM in the school on September 25. Fernando Veloso, director and editor of Canalmoz and the Mozambique Channel in an attempt to shoot this act which violates ethics and law, the employee suffered threats (Carlos Alberto Guila), who did not want photographed and the police officer. Veloso told them that if they did not want to be photographed to stay home and seeing that their "prey" and did not give further that the scene was being watched by international observers Germans eventually get in the car and the two shook with the photographs to succeed to the point of his own police, knowing the unlawful where they had gotten, fled in the car to hide his face with his own Casquete police. A case that sets up state terrorism and institutional;11. The police also arrested Inhambane Custodio Duma, when it photographed a stone placed at the school Sept. 25, where emphasis is Dr. Itai Meque, the then provincial governor now being planted in Zambezia curiosity Custodio Dumaque know that the time pespegaram / posted to this board, Meque was not no doctor - finally stuck to please ... excellences;12. C The plan was to put teachers and school managers and even directors like tellers in their own schools in which they teach, which can be seen in advance that the Provincial Election Commission to have produced such 'conscidência' unprecedented, was already in move the party that advocates the slogan Force of Change;13. The coalition CNE, FRELIMO, SISE, GD's put it this way the orchestra to work, so to relieve the psychological action / psychological terrorism, did not forget to bring armored cars and assault to move around the city and very close of polling stations while in their own assemblies positioned themselves just the first few minutes of voting inside the rooms, until police armed with AK47;14. Until 14:00 hours inquires to several people who had smeared his fingers with indelible ink is why they had not gone to vote and the answer was unanimous: 'so the police in the streets and polling stations are afraid to be arrested', ' this is not the election is nothing, it's war ',' I'd rather stay at home to have complications';15. The police in any of the polling stations were positioned more than 300 meters as required by law. And so the Cops have become protagonists of April 18 in Inhambane, a situation which relied on plainclothes agents in all polling stations, to which members of the MDM labeled 'privileged' Frelimo, but we moments of arrests had active role, calling for the command and participating in the arrest of opponents;16. The previous day has Leopoldo da Costa, president of the CNE, said that voters should vote, after which the result would have to wait at home. For those who heard the exhortation Leopoldo da Costa of the previous day, widely repeated on the radio, now 18 days it was clear that those who remained in the Assembly vote to defend the votes, as has been the practice, was behind the police, and members MDM that had been chased out these instructions as well as three hundred meters up and many of them prisoners;17. In school Chamane, Energy Minister, Salvador Namburete, who was not even scrutineer or voter or delegate application, like other members of Frelimo became master of the situation in this poll. He and his other supporters remained with the assemblies Chamane to order the police to arrest their opponents. Namburete interviewed on the spot and told me the mouthful that he sent the police away from there for the members of MDM that "acting like drunks," which did not prevent the police chase out of party delegates this opposition party deputies. Neither did blood alcohol test. The plan was just to disassemble the control ring from opponents. And for the Police were also opponents of the MDGs. The police stayed in the game so amazing;18. On April 19 we were called by the Provincial Election Commission of Inhambane to witness the publication of the results that gave victory to Benito Guimino;19. The merit of the victory of Guimino due to the action part of the PRM, STAE, CNE. It is this coalition, more Frelimo, which is due to failure of "manhambanas" in this election. Officially, a total of 43,206 registered voters, 16,763 voters were voting apena, which corresponds to thirty-eight percent, 26,444 abstained. 19:20 On this day we saw a handful of frelimistas (no more than three dozen) partying in three cars just the result that CPE was announced. What seems to us, this victory, as it was and told, Guimino to have a bitter taste because it reflects the will of the electorate. These elections do not run those organizations that Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, where he put out to tender, as Frelimo your student has just demonstrated, state terrorism and institutional agents derived from the complicity of STAE, CNE and CPE are constrained, such as the police, to act as they did;20. The elections of Inhambane, as demonstrated by no means can be considered fair, free and transparent. The elections of Inhambane, the enforcement procedures that characterized, demonstrate the kind of dictatorship that the country is experiencing election: plebiscitary dictatorship, where the vote of conscience is forbidden at the outset, and the ruling party has the whole machine on its side, and STAE officials, CPE and CNE, and the Police act as if they were puppets, cranking arrests and no crimes typified in the law. Arrests are not justified by the intention to perform successfully throughout the chain of plans, as you just refer;21. From what we witnessed on the ground, comes to legitimize what the Renamo says Frelimo does not want democracy! Included Renamo argues that the armed security that has served to protect democracy and elections protect Afonso Dlhakama humiliation police. We agree! If Dlhakama disarm his men, then come back to be beaten by Frelimo in the same proportion as we attacked in 1975 and has been doing so far, with the same intensity, though fearful warriors by Renamo;22. It is urgent that a rule of law and democratic, that brings together all the forces of society and political parties. We do not want state institutions embody terrorism dictated by the establishment and frelimista nomenklatura. We no longer want to watch and witness the operation of this type of coalition inhospitable sponsored with funds from public funds and donations from the international community!The good of the Nation!(Tithy Adelino in Inhambane)