Streets to Chipande, Dhlakama, Chissano, Simango,Mandela....

With the vote of the majority of MDM (Democratic Movement of Mozambique), the list also includes figures like Uria Simango, the municipal leader of the father and allegedly shot in 1979 for alleged betrayal of FRELIMO (Liberation Front of Mozambique) which he founded , the former number two in Renamo (Mozambique National Resistance) and negotiator Raul Domingos Peace Agreement or the Franco-Mozambican constitutionalist Gilles Cistac, killed by unknown in Maputo in 2015.Segundo the proposal, which must be validated at the level provincial and central, one of the main arteries of the city, N6, the road to the greatest extent in the metropolis and giving access to the border, will have the name of Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Renamo, the main opposition party, which threatens take by force the six provinces where claims election victory, including Sofala, that the border is capital.Já Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique and Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa post- "apartheid", will, according to the document, included in the main avenues of the city center of Beira.A Frelimo minority party in Beira but the power in the central government since 1975, he told Lusa that his strength voted against considering that there are names "contradictory and provocative" national interests.

In all, the Municipal Assembly of Beira reshaped names of 700 avenues, streets, squares, buildings and wide and 200 impasses (streets and avenues reduced the paths due to disorderly occupation), in a process initiated in October 2015.A list includes other names political, social, cultural, sporting and academic life, including historical names of Frelimo, as Alberto Chipande, known as the "man first shot" against Portuguese colonialism, activist Graça Machel, widow of the first Mozambican President Samora Machel and also Mandela, or the founder of the ruling party Marcelino dos Santos.Também the president of the Human rights League, Alice Mabote, the artist David Mazembe, journalist Carlos Cardoso, assassinated in Maputo in 2000, the former Olympic champion Lourdes Mutola and former footballer Chiquinho Conde have provided a place in the new place names. Estefani Mataveia, head of the MDM bench, said the approval of the new place names respected the will of the border population. "We passed the new place names in the city of Beira because we believe to be the result and wish the will of the people" said Estefani Mataveia, disqualifying the controversy.

"We will continue to approve all that will directly benefit the citizens", insisted Estefani Mataveia, arguing that during the five months of public consultation, several consensual names were proposed and approved at the Eleventh Ordinary Session of the Assembly also Municipal.Acrescentou Heads of benches participated in the process, with technical experts and members of political parties represented in the body, to "prevent noise" .On the other hand, Anthony thought, head of the Frelimo considered the approval of the new place names of Beira intends to measure the atmosphere the country's politics. "Until [the approval of names] is not enough to be politicized, it is a challenge to see the political environment and what the reaction will be," he said. "it is not time to time we can indicate that the guy must be it, "he argued, noting that Mozambique's independence was won at the cost of blood and there were" serious problems [during the liberation struggle] some people who fled to surrender to settler ".