History may one day be in charge of judge ...

President of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), Verónica Macamo, who came to Parliament of a regular car taking office, will now move from a Mercedes Benz S500 flagship that will cost about $ 500,000 (14 meticais) coffers of RA. An exuberance allowed in a context that Mozambicans are transported like cattle.The speech is contention, but the acts of the directors reveal something else. A source said the parliament @ Truth that this is a car that protocol and the current President of the Assembly moves a vehicle far below what the person entitled. "Now uses a Mercedes Benz S300" he says. He added: "Normally we would use the S500 and let the current to their field trips."The amount to acquire the S500 could buy in Tata Mozambique, four buses. However, in the international market would increase the number to six. So the luxury of Verónica Macamo deprives Mozambicans of four buses that could carry 320 Mozambicans.  Truth had access to the document requesting the vehicle for personal comfort Veronica Macamo.

"The General Secretariat of the Assembly requested the V.Excia the availability of a protocol car, brand Mercedes Benz S500, armored, to his Excellency the President of the Assembly of the Republic," it reads.

It was hoped, however, greater restraint in spending designed to give comfort to the President of RA. Because, at the beginning of this year, the Standing Committee of Parliament came to give a press conference to announce austerity.It is not, however, an expense than expected. It's a car that the President of RA is entitled by virtue of functions. But it is something that goes against the prevailing discourse, especially at a time when the Mozambicans face extreme difficulties in relation to public transport.

A report from  Truth last week, realized the drama facing the residents of Marracuene.

A simulation of the impact of transportation costs for residents of that populous district found that a person spends 40 meticais per day. And at the end of the month spent something like 1200 meticais. Not to mention, for those who have, with transport costs generated by the school children.Currently, most of the neighborhoods of Maputo is struggling with the same problem: lack of transport. However, on the other hand the heads travel in comfort.

Iwill be recalled that recently, the state has spent 304,805,827 meticais acquisition vehicle "luxury" for Members of Parliament in full time of austerity. For purchase of buses for public transport and there are no solutions Mozambicans can wait. The deputies, ministers and PDA's, these can not wait. The shipping price will go up while on the other hand, some people even buy fuel for the car bought with tax money from taxpayers and donors.These vehicles were acquired at a time waiting ambulance by two clearance to serve populations Chiúre and Ancuambe.In the last legislature (VI), the state bought 250 vehicles marks Ford Ranger double cab, for an equal number of Members of RA. Some MPs complained claiming that the vehicles were not resistant to the kind of work that developed in the field, under the oversight of the actions of the Executive.Moreover, "the government, even with the shockwaves of the economic crisis" consented to the complaint of "representatives of the people" by offering them the prerogative of each country to choose a car to your liking. The ceiling is set at USD 17,500. Of this amount, paid during the term congressman USD 7 000 (40%) for the sale of the vehicle. The remaining 60% is borne by the State. In cases where the price of the car is above the so-called residual value (USD 17,500), the difference is paid by the Member. The surrogate national director of state assets, Argentina Mausse, said the process of buying cars for deputies to the present legislature began in 2010. As he explained, the first fall deputies performing their first term. "In these two years (2010 and 2011) will buy 124 vehicles for an equal number of deputies. In 2012 we will buy another 126 for group of MPs who are currently using the vehicles received in the last Parliament, "he said.

The purchase of vehicles should be phased manner, according to the speaker, the financial difficulties the country is experiencing. That is, the state is unable to pay the amount required to purchase, at one time, 250 vehicles for an equal number of deputies.

After the article published in the Savannah (first independent weekly) - titled "Deputies luxury", which said the state invested in full time of austerity, 304,805,827 meticais in the circulating medium for Members 'oversee' the Executive - triggered a heated debate on social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter.Political analyst William Egidio Vaz Raposo argues that the deputies are entitled to such benefits. These perks, he says, should not scare anyone. Incidentally, "are a pittance compared with others in the region and beyond: compared to other management positions in which one need not be elected," he says.

Fox goes further and says there's a big difference between perks of ministers (unelected people) and deputies (elected officials), the difference between deputies and chairmen of councils of administration (PCA) of public companies or the difference between the allocated budget for maintenance, lubrication and fuel the cars of the Presidency with the budget for the purchase of cars for Members.Other users claiming to oppose change of mentality. Because, says Scott Nelson: "They were elected to serve and not to be served! They should have the same rights and  as any other citizen (...) It is easy to raise taxes and hold harmless the other for himself. " That is, "should use their own income to consumption and investment (house, car, etc.)."The journalist Emídio Beula, author of the play that sparked the debate, said that "the prerogative given to members to choose a car to your liking deserves our concern. "Justified" Members are more exposed to criticism precisely because they are our MPs: ie are they who shall inspect the Executive. When they begin to externalize despesismo typical signs of the executive and that should merit their interpellation believe that we should not be silent. "Edmundo Galiza Matos Junior was the only deputy who joined the debate. The patient reported that "there is a budget that was approved by the Government which includes a vehicle for the deputy justify its presence in the electorate during the five years of his term." But, "never or little is said of the hundreds of cars in ministries , provincial, district and national. "

Sidat, danger of losing support if you have not!

With the rope to stretch on several fronts, not the national daily dispenses what else touches the timeliness of Mozambique. The skirmishes in sports arenas, most often in football dictate how the adept ball up the gorge of this systematic suspicion around the sports results. Ja not to entertain even the least observant, if any, are negligible in number, compared to an activity that brings together all the sensibilities. Rises and condenses the idea in the group of professional sports, especially football, which when placed personal interests, how are above the associative dirigisme this to cement a wave of denial and outrage even physically. The result humiliating the football squad on the verge of their fifth African presence in the main race, mecheu with pride Mozambican even more unclear for the reasons leading up to the game against Morocco. Not only, also the accumulation of several abuses in internal tests, all of them on hand figures that even pressured by the media and other communication forums simply reduces the total insignficancia.

Given this impotence and it was not surprising that the protest movement who directs the Federation of Mozambican football grow, including movements created to the effect that joining vain and demanding the immediate resignation of Feizal Sidat.

The pessaos filled up the silence of the authorities can do nothing but nice chapter also does not have steps necessary to credibilzar the basic electoral processes pointedly particularly bowled over by bribery.

The latest events pinched self-esteem to the point of the recent government reshuffle provide the Ministry of Youth and Sports also from someone with experience of managing the state of things and not only, very close to the President of the Republic.

Just a confrontation, disempowerment and disrespect perpetrated in public and even to challenge by the current President of the Football Federation authorities face. A lack of education that nobody else would dare do it without being excluded from the sympathy of power.

Sidat and his older brother remains of stone and lime, the more they have as members of the state Party in the last congress of the political organization and be responsible for the solution of one of the main limitations of the important event, accommodation for delegates in particular the top of steering.

Alias ​​Feizal when he first ran for President of the Federation for Football provoked a division of opinions within some well placed political figures in the ruling party, including the current mayor of Maputo that without fear at the time as Minister of Youth and Sports classified it as inconsequential and personality that had nothing to adult.

Being free to choose each of your bets in life, so this detail becomes negative ingredient in the current tension in football, when they are exploited to justify delaying the personal interests and the shadow of the Federation.

This team family branches deeply poisoning which ha more than sublime, the image of the football squad which discipline succumbed businesses expected to face in selling players in the European market in particular, although not being in shape at the expense of more capable, all this demand for increased visibility and individual bank account.

Conflicts with previous picker, the Dutch Noij Martin, skilful in shielding the spa, responsible for the presence of CAN in Angola in Mozambique, were due to his intransigence to not allow any interference in their work whosesoever.

But ultimately the problem is not in the current leader of Mozambican football, but the system that enables all these outrages, which now appears to regain their dignity and respect as a result of the growing defense ... popular.

The meeting that took place in the last week and convened by the Ministry of Youth and Sports to hear the reasons the Federation of total silence in the face of a laundry list of issues may be the beginning of the end of the cycle. Opened the game, not face to face and side by side as seemed to be happening.

With the main objectives of the election manifesto lost Feizal not have anything else to give the national football the past two years he has left and then one realizes that behind the scenes who protected him until now can be removed by force of reason giving space to those who aware that as the mode structure in the short and medium term.

Among the figures to make a turn and with a plan of formation from the interior of the country rich in talent and Augusto Matine. Matine out in a press conference called by Feizal finally say that unkindly not have money to hire ... a wink to publicly entertain the public opinion. Feizal foresaw and felt in late September that its pillars were being undermined and own fault.

But Matine well as an entire team of teachers from different specialties so respond YES to the Ministry of Youth and Sports Federation of the cast is another.

Pressure increases on Steering the Mozambican Football Federation and one of them will be the end of the financial restraints indole coming from the state budget.

A delicate situation knowing the consolidated alliances between the business group and identified Sidat faces of politics.

Where is here the sport, particularly sport so concealed the truth?

Rumor mongers attack

The rumor circulated of an alleged event that would take place on 01 November, in the cities of Maputo and Matola, in response to the rising price of "plate", the Government left scared and put battalions of police on the streets of the capital to suppress any rebelião.A Municipal Assembly approved the price rise of urban transport from the current 5 to 7 meticais meticais and 7.5 meticais to 9. The entry into force of the amendment of tariffs continues to be tested by the Government, before yesterday circulated in Maputo information that effecting the price of transport would be the first day of Novembro.Em response to rumor and as a form of prevention, Government dispatched police officers Protection and Rapid considered probable locations for outbreaks of demonstrations, including the rotunda of Mission Roque, market Benfica in stopping the terminal semi-collective, the Green Zone neighborhood, the neighborhood of Jardim along the National Highway No. 1; zone Machava Stadium specifically at the intersection of Av 4 October and Eduardo Mondlane, the "Junta", interprovincial transport terminal, among other lugares.Logo morning, these locations were police apparatus in vehicles. The police were armed with firearms, AK47.Tudo has to do with the balance of the last manifestations (February 5, 01 and 02, 2008 to September 2010). Since then the problem of transport and living costs continue to rise at the inability of the Government to solve the problem. Everything indicates that the government no longer has ideas and the only solution is shielding itself behind the Police who earns around 2500 meticals as monthly salary.In turn, the president of the Municipal Council of Maputo City (CMCM), David Simango, the public came to calm the public about the alleged rise in prices of "plates" which reportedly come into force from the day one. Simango assured that the new tariff is not yet in force because no carrier was authorized to charge the price recently updated. The source explained that the municipality has not yet determined the date for this rate comes into force, and is still studying the best ways to do it. "We agreed with the FEMATRO to warn his carriers to not worsen the rate sheet before notice of the municipality. Now, the council is working with other agencies to find better ways appropriate to announce the new tariff, "said the president CMCM.

RENAMO CLAIMS “SECRET CONTACTS” WITH GOVERNMENT

 Mozambique’s main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, claims that it is in “secret contacts” with the government, but declines to give any details as to the nature of these supposed contacts.On 16 October, Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama moved from his house in the northern city of Nampula to a hut in the bush in the central district of Gorongosa. He demanded that President Armando Guebuza come personally to Gorongosa to discuss a string of demands raised by Renamo.On 17 October, Dhlakama gave the government a deadline of three days to send a delegation to negotiate with him. No delegation went to Gorongosa. Last Tuesday, the head of the Renamo Defence Department, Ossufo Momade, extended the deadline and demanded that Guebuza go to Gorongosa within a month. But the government seems to have decided to ignore Dhlakama, apart from sending riot police units to Gorongosa to keep an eye on the situation.Clearly Renamo expected that government members would go scurrying to Gorongosa. They have not done so, and Renamo can only fall back on vague talk about secret negotiations. Interviewed in Monday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Mediafax”, the Renamo national spokesperson, Fernando Mazanga, said “Yes, there are contacts, and I can’t tell you anything about them now. Perhaps next week”.

Renamo General Secretary, Manuel Bissopo, was equally tight lipped. Contacted on Sunday afternoon, Bissopo claimed he was unable to say anything since he was about to leave for Gorongosa himself. He said he might be able to discuss the matter when he returned to Maputo on Wednesday.In reality, there are no signs either of negotiations or of preparations to storm Dhlakama’s Gorongosa base. Mamud claimed on Friday that such preparations were in hand, and threatened a vigorous response.Mamud even made the absurd allegation that the government is recruiting mercenaries from Zimbabwe and South Africa for an attack on Dhlakama’s base. Nobody else has seen any sign of such recruitment.It seems much more likely that the government is happy to let Dhlakama stay in the bush as long as he likes, provided he and his men do not disturb the lives of Gorongosa peasant farmers.It may be doubted how long a man who has spent the past two decades in comfortable houses in Maputo and Nampula will be able to tolerate the Spartan conditions of a Gorongosa camp, that has no electricity, and none of the other amenities of city life.Dhlakama has not issued any coherent list of demands, and much of what he and Mamud told reporters cannot possibly be granted by any government. Thus Mamud wanted negotiations on a “transitional government” – which is a request for the current government to commit suicide.Dhlakama also wanted political recruitment to the armed forces and the police, and even suggested that a new riot police should be formed, 50 per cent from the ruling Frelimo Party and 50 per cent from Renamo. As for Dhlakama’s complaints about Mozambique’s electoral laws, Frelimo, Renamo and the second opposition force, the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) have been discussing amendments in the parliamentary commission on public administration since early 2010.The new electoral laws will be passed in parliament, and not in Gorongosa.

One of the faces of guilt!

No one today has any doubt that, in these times, who wins football games, who determines that the Club goes on to eliminate the evidence, who dictates the fate of the championships, who decides the winner of any prize, are the teams said arbitration. But what arbitration? They do not arbitrate whatever is obscurely because they are partial and corrupt. All of them. I smile to me, however, because all these people reading the same playbook and practicing equal corruption. The thieves all follow the same code of (dis) honor. The continuing such procedures, I believe that sooner or later, the Mozambican football die. So do not chase illusions! How does anyone even clubs decided wronged react with indignation taking attitudes as possible, for example, leave the field or, even better, send your players sit around the pitch and play alone leaving the club chosen by the arbitration predestination? Lost by 50 or 100 to zero? Leave it! Would give the same. No, I remembered Sports Vilanculo in Maputo, sending stroll to arbitration and the public did not agree with the transformation of a penalty. It also becomes disgusting and emetic hear comments from miserable safardanas of our televisions, agreeing with all this shamelessness.Definitely, football is a game very dirty, vicious and rotten and leaves me increasingly disgusted, and disillusioned away with all this stink! I am thinking seriously, for the sake of my mental health, I put in the leagues of all this rot, because I understand that there is no remedy. In turn, this makes us the soul very small and thus also no longer be worth it!

RUSSIA MAY SELL HELICOPTERS TO MOZAMBIQUE

The Russian news agency Itar-TASS has reported that the Mozambican government is negotiating with Russia to buy five or six helicopters.Itar-TASS quoted Minister of Industry and Trade Demis Manturov as saying that Mozambique is interested in buying helicopters, especially for the President’s use.Manturov said, “most likely we will sell two Ansat helicopters, since now we are working actively with our South African partners on the project of joint modernisation of these helicopters”.He added that Russia and Mozambique are also negotiating “modernisation and probably sales of various versions of Mi-8 helicopters”.Manturov said that “initially, I think we will sell five or six helicopters. I think this could be done in 2013. So far the negotiating process is not over”.The Ansat is a light helicopter capable of carrying a pilot and ten passengers. It is estimated to cost about two million US dollars.

SMOOTHING REACTOR NOW IN CAHORA BASSA DISTRICT

The smoothing reactor ordered from South Africa to repair the breakdown that has severely reduced the ability of the Cahora Bassa dam to distribute electricity has now entered Cahora Bassa district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, according to a report in Friday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”.The reactor weighs 150 tonnes and thus transporting it has been no easy task. It was driven across Zimbabwe and on Thursday was eight kilometres from the sub-station at the dam town of Songo.  The final part of the journey is over mountainous terrain. According to a source in Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the dam operating company, alterations must be made to the special truck carrying the reactor, so that it can deal with the climb and the curves on the final part of the road to Songo. If all goes well, the reactor should reach Songo on Saturday. In direct current systems, a smoothing reactor is used to “smoothen” the direct current wave shape to reduce power losses and improve system performance. In October 2010, one of the smoothing reactors at the Songo converter station suffered a major breakdown.A spare reactor was on site, but it too broke down on 24 July this year. HCB already had a plan to refurbish the converter station, but this will only begin in April 2013. Without the reactor, HCB’s capacity to send power southwards to its main client, the South African electricity company Eskom, was severely curtailed.Eskom itself had a spare smoothing reactor, and HCB negotiated for this to be sent by road to Cahora Bassa. The route was chosen to avoid taking the enormous load over many bridges. Engineering work was needed when crossing the Mazoe river, just north of the Zimbabwean border, where a provisional dike was installed.Three of the five transmission lines leaving Songo carry alternating current (taking power to northern and central Mozambique and to Zimbabwe). The other two lines carry direct current to South Africa. The direct current option was chosen because of the long distance (1,400 kilometres) from Songo to the Apollo sub-station in South Africa, The converter station changes alternating current into direct current, and it is the smoothing reactor for one of the lines to South Africa that has broken down. HCB says that because of the breakdown the company is only operating at 70 per cent of its normal capacity.

INSPECTORS SLAM TWO HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Two of Mozambique’s higher education institutions are at risk of closure following a damning report from the education inspectorate of the Ministry of Education.The report into the Mussa Bin Bique University, headquartered in Nampula, and the Alberto Chipande Higher Institute of Science and Technology in Beira, was presented on Thursday during a meeting in Maputo of the Higher Education Council (CES).According to a report in Friday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”, the inspectors found that neither institution has premises if its own. Instead, they operate out of rented buildings that are inadequate either for teaching or for administration. In both cases, the teaching staff is not large enough and consists mostly of people who have only recently graduated from university themselves, and have no proper training as teachers.Furthermore the two institutions have inadequate libraries and there is no internet access for their students. There was also lack of dialogue between the management and the teaching staff, as well as insufficient coordination with the Ministry of Education.This is not the first time that Mussa bin Bique University has come under withering criticism. It has been the subject of a power struggle between two Islamic groups in Nampula, one headed by former Justice Minister (and recently appointed Ombudsman) Jose Abudo, and the other by Momade Bay, chairperson of the Islamic Training Centre (CPI), the body which owns the university.In mid-2011, Bay announced that faculties opened by Abudo in the towns of Mocuba and Pebane, in Zambezia province, were being closed down because they were operating illegally.In May 2011, the government threatened to close the University unless it corrected all irregularities. Almost 18 months later, there does not appear to have been a great improvement.The report to the CES concluded “the team of inspectors recommend the observance of the legislation”. The two institutions “should do more so that the surrounding community feels their presence, and should take the responsibility for training teaching staff”.

Alberto kitty, new prime minister

Aires Ali resigned from the post of prime minister and to accompany him, the president has made so many modifications to the Government cengtral and in some provinces.According to the official statement from the Press Office of the Presidency, here are remoidelações:

• Aires Bonifacio Aly from the post of Prime Minister;

• Fernando Sumbana, Office of the Minister of Tourism;

• Zeferino Martins, the post of Minister of Education;

• Pedrito Caetano, the Office of the Minister of Youth and Sports;

• Venancio Massinga the post of Minister of Science and Technology

• Luis Augusto Jone's post of Vice Minister of Education;

• Oak Muária the position of Governor of the Province of Sofala;

• Alberto Vaquina the office of Governor of Tete Province;

• Itai Meque the office of Governor of Zambezia Province;

• Felismino Tocoli the office of Governor of Nampula Province.

Still other orders separated appointed the following ministers:

• Alberto Vaquina for the post of Prime Minister

• Oak Muária to the post of Minister of Tourism

• Louis Augusto Mutomene Pelembe for the post of Minister of Science and Technology

• Fernando Sumbana, Minister of Youth and Sports.

• Augusto Jone Luis for the Position of Minister of Education

In other separate orders Provincial Governors appointed the following:

• Paul Felix for the post of Governor of the Province of Sofala;

• Ratxide Abdala Ackyiamungo Gogo, to the post of Governor of Tete Province

• Joaquim Verissimo for the office of Governor of Zambezia Province.

• Manuel Cidália Chauque for the office of Governor of Nampula Province. "

For the boot-licking is mad once!

Much has been said by the most distinguished analysts and luminaries in the field. Just wanted to see another possible hairstyle in relation to "bicefalização" Frelimo in power. At that President Guebuza is the only candidate for president of Frelimo. Then he will return for another term with Pemba unfulfilled! Alright.

For a long time I thought against this "innovation." In fact, many lining the pitch do it for fear of macabre intentions of the current holder of the highest office in the country. But all this is, or may be only speculation and nervousness.

I see an opportunity to separate the waters, to have a president full time and take care of the affairs of another country and take care of the Frelimo party. Moreover, if this model is extended to the lower levels of the party hierarchy, the possibilities for extending the freedoms, reduction of corruption and conflict of interest, democratic debate that is reflected directly in economic development will be greater and beneficial to citizens and country. This decision is in my opinion the potential to finally have access to the State Government and the citizen, captured so far.

Let me explain:

I support the idea that the president should not simultaneously hold any political office within the party that militates. Come he MDM, Frelimo, or Pamomo Ngonhamo.

In theory it has numerous benefits for the citizen, to the pocket of the people paying the tax to donors, etc.., For the reasons below cast but not limited around.

One. The president spared time for the benefit of strictly matters of state: President of the Republic free of any responsibility party would have more time to deal with matters of state, with the people who elected him, with governance. The President of all and above all partisan interests, avoid mixing issues and confuse hustings. It would probably be an opportunity to pair people stop being insulted and called "distracted, apostles of doom, unpatriotic, etc.. and thus engage in the struggle for improving their lives. It would be, as it were, a president of all and above all suspicion; frelimistas that would separate the waters of the State and Government.

2nd. Corruption and conflict of interest: perhaps the point puts all Mozambicans, taxpayers, nervous. Mozambicans have a feeling that the current president is the one who is more interested in being in power to protect its economic empire. True or not, maybe that's why there is a reluctance to see the polarization of power as the Frelimo good thing, at least until the reign of shadow or hand NISO Armando Guebuza. Indeed, the polarization of power could mitigate the impact of conflict of interest or even corruption in this country. If you do not, at least the same corrupt practices will be much easier to detect and report. The confusion between state travel and travel party could end; ADVICE OF PROVINCIAL MINISTER EXTENDED TO SECRETARIES OF FRELIMO AND OTHER SENIOR PARTY will end. If this happens, it will be very easy challenge. Indeed, it is always good to remember that the day that the regime change, we collect the money spent on the invitation, transport and accommodation of all the foreign members of the administration machine STATE participating in these types of encounter and they were not few.

3rd. Accountability: a president of the republic "disconnected" the Party, the Presidencies will open end, at least in the manner in which they operate. Their size may be altered to make way for more openness and discussion of issues that actually matter to the state and the people. The machine state can recover its role as organizer of these events high, unlike what happened until very recently, when the secretaries and policymakers who were triavam ten citizens, among other macabre practices, limiting freedoms of others individual. Above all, the sense of possession (ownership) of the head of state is actually larger than the current one, in that hour, everything is attributed to Frelimo and its leadership or the apostles of doom.

4th. Pay it accounts to the President of Frelimo or not, the truth is that Mozambican citizens will experience another form of relationship governance, forgetting for a moment the black shadow absolutist that prevailed in recent years in this country. At least she will be accommodated somewhere, away from the skin to the citizen.

5th. In short, the decision to separate the Frelimo party leaders IS A GIANT STEP TOWARDS THE TRUE STATE DESPARTIDARIZAÇÃO. The tricle down this decision has the potential to advance our democracy and development by leveraging the parents!

But for the people to take dividends Mozambique this "innovation" is important to go further, placing it in the constitution of the Republic of Mozambique.

And more.

It is important that this "innovation or fitness" to unfold until the lower levels of the administration party, such as:

a) Limiting the holders of executive positions in the party that just stay there. Why not make much sense that a Secretary in a specific area is both director of an office in a university, there seeding, terror and colleagues constituting a genuine parallel to power legally established.

b) I know to family and friends who hold senior management positions in Frelimo Party and are also leaders in the various departments of the State. If you want to be President Guebuza of Frelimo full time then it must also have a machine to its full-time service, adopting schemes very strong incompatibility.

Improving the conditions of wage Frelimo members

c) I also know that Frelimo is the payers that this country has, in such a way that their employees rely upon the state to make up the shortfall, thereby fostering an authentic festival of incestuous practices and conflict of interest, corruption invariably combustibilizam rampant. Access to positions in management or Frelimo Party apparatus as it is the first step to unfettered access to state resources.

d) Mitigate the assault on state coffers by this group of people would also impose serious restrictions on holding management positions Frelimo party access to management positions in the state apparatus, confining them only to the party, as much to private sector. For this to happen, the party must (1) have the will, (2) pay their workers well and (3) professionalize its staff.

e) Guebuza can not "mufar alone" in the party, while its entirety fatten tops in the Mozambican state, devoting little time for in-depth study of various issues and strategic panels attached to them.

f) Guebuza can not "mufar alone" at the office party while its entirety deceive the systematic and intelligently through the only way they can prove that work: Facebook. Is the old maxim of Mozambican workers: they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

g) It is important for Congress to discuss the professionalism of its staff as well. The partisan political work should not be undertaken by anyone who is available to do so or for hunting treasures like those ever heard in afternoons-a-week at RM. Three or two commentators who always AGREE THE PRINCIPLE BETWEEN THEM UNTIL THE END OF PROGRAM (for an hour or an hour and a half) thus challenging the intelligence of journalist interviewer.

With the amendment of the Statutes of Frelimo, there is a chance that more sovereign that Mozambicans should not miss it, to take back the state so far captured.

If Armando Guebuza as President of Frelimo back full time, then that is rightfully due to machine components executive of the party are also 100% available to the party. Plus, the "enforcement" of Article 75 of the Statute of the proposal combined with the status of civil servant and a President of the Republic of Mozambique full-time, open us an important opportunity to draw the horns by name.

These measures will leave the boot-licking completely crazy. Pleasing two poles of power will not be easy, until they discover the whereabouts of the real power.(EGIDIO VAZ) 

Congress rejects leading presidential hopefuls

The two most prominent people vying to be Frelimo Presidential candidate in 2014 elections were both knocked off the Political Commission at the Central Committee meeting following the Frelimo 10th Congress in Pemba.

Prime Minister Aires Ali was seen as President Armando Guebuza's choice as arelatively weak President he could control, and his defeat shows the limit of Guebuza's power. Former Prime Minister Luisa Diogo was the anyone-but-Ali candidate.

The defeat of both shows that interests and power with the party are dispersed, and some compromises and negotiation will be needed before the Presidential candidate is selected next year by the Central Committee. The candidate does not have to be a member of the Political Commission, but it would be hard to select someone who did not have enough support within the Central Committee to have been elected to the Political Commission.

The Frelimo 10th Congress in Pemba 23-28 September 2012 elected the president of the party - re-electing Armando Guebuza unopposed - and elected one-third of the Central Committee. (The remainder had already been elected at provincial level.) The new Central Committee met on 27-28 September to elect the Secretary-General and Secretary of the Verification (discipline) Committee and the rest of the Political Commission.

The party president, Secretary-General, and Secretary of the Verification Committee are all full members of the Political Commission. (If not already elected members, the national President, Prime Minister, Speaker of parliament, and head of the Frelimo bench in parliament are non-voting members.)

All Frelimo bodies have quotas  for women (35%) and for new members (40%) for both the Political Commission and Central Committee, and also for war veterans (10%), young people (under 35, 20%) and business people for the Central Committee. This leads to 4 ballot papers for Political Commission and 10 ballot papers for Central Committee, in which voters tick up to the number of people who can be elected in that category.

The Central Committee only meets two or three times a year, but does select the Presidential candidate and the Political Commission. The Political Commission meets every week and is the most powerful Frelimo body, with a large influence over a Frelimo government.

New Political Commission

The Central Committee re-elected Filipe Paunde as Secretary-General and elected Jose Pacheco as Secretary of the Verification Committee; both were unopposed. Pacheco is Agriculture Minister and was an elected member of the previous Political Commission.

The Political Commission's 17 members are (by category):

Automatically members:

+ Armando Guebuza

+ Filipe Paunde

+ Jose Pacheco

By ballot paper and in order from the most voted, the remaining members of the Political Commission are: 

Re-elected men:

+ Alberto Chipande (fired first shot of liberation war; former Defence Minister)

+ Eneas Comiche (MP & chair of Plan & Budget Committee; former Finance Minister, Bank of Mozambique Governor, and Maputo mayor)

+ Eduardo Mulembwe (former Speaker of Parliament; outgoing Secretary of Verification Committee)

+ Raimundo Pachinuapa (guerrilla commander in liberation war; MP and businessman)

Re-elected women:

+ Margarida Talapa (Head of the Frelimo parliamentary bench)

+ Veronica Macamo (Speaker of Parliament)

+ Conceita Sortane (MP; former Frelimo training secretary)

+ Alcinda Abreu (Environment Minister)

New men:

+ Alberto Vaquina (133 votes, 72%; Governor of Tete)

+ Sergio Pantie (61%; outgoing Central Committee secretary for organization, and Frelimo election agent for recent municipal by-elections)

+ Carvalho MuAria (60%; Governor of Sofala)

+ Cadmiel Muthemba (52%; Public Works Minister)

New women:

+ Esperana Bias (133 votes, 72%; Minerals Minister)

+ Luclia Hama (70%; Governor of Maputo City)

Candidates defeated for re-election included Prime Minister Aires Ali, former prime minister Luisa Diogo, Planning and Development Minister Aiuba Cuereneia, and former general secretary of the Mozambican Womens Organisation (OMM) Paulina Mateus. Two members did not stand for re-election, Manuel Tome (deputy head of the Frelimo parliamentary group) and Teodoro Waty (head of the parliamentary Constitutional and Legal Affairs Commission). Waty could not stand because he was not re-elected to the Central Committee. Candidates not elected for new posts were: Edson Macuacua (34%; Frelimo Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda), Hermenegildo Infante (49%; First Secretary, Maputo City), Damiao Jose (22%; spokesperson for Frelimo parliamentarygroup) and Antonia Charre (42%; Sofala MP). Percentages were only released for the new candidates.

Note that there are inconsistencies in official spellings of names. It is Aires Ali on the Council of Ministers list but Aires Aly on Frelimo party lists. Mulembwe sometimes appears as Mulembu.

The new Central Committee secretariat, all elected unopposed, is: Sergio Pantie, Edson Macuacua, Damiao Jose, Aida Libombo (former Deputy Health Minister), Moreira Vasco (MP), Carmelita Namashalua (Minister of State Administration), and Jose Tomo Psico (director of INATUR, National Institute of Tourism).

FRELIMO

Lourenco  Rosario, rector of The Polytechnic, defends the need for the Frelimo party meeting in Pemba in its 10th congress, focus the discussion of substantive issues on the daily national, such abstentions massive who register in the elections electoral in the country.He believes that since the ruling party Frelimo, must reserve a mission to understand the causes of abstentions and find solutions to the situation.He so enjoyed the academic performance report Frelimo since the last congress in 2006, which presents encouraging data in the context of the increasing number of party members and accomplishments.Lourenco do Rosario said that although the party has been fortified, there was increasing rate of abstention in the elections and Congress should discuss what is wrong, "to avoid capitalization of malcontents."The source stated that two issues should dominate the attention of lawmakers, including national unity and achievements between the 9th and 10th congresses.He noted that in its assessment noted the need to emphasize the difficulties experienced in the space between 2006 and 2012 and this is the ideal time to discuss them.Meanwhile, journalist Mabunda Moses said not to expect major changes in the structure of Frelimo, but guess what Congress will leave "decisions that will contribute to speeding up the print fulfillment of government programs."He referred to the construction of infrastructures, offering more services to citizens, especially health, water and education, while in the latter the focus is on literacy. As for the speech of the moment, which puts national unity as a priority, the source says that this comes at a good time. However, it believes that the recent discoveries of mineral resources recommend that greater attention to the need to elevate the principle of national unity, to assess the reality of other regions.Mabunda Moses cites the cases of Nigeria and Angola, where no record of conflicts fueled by the existence of mineral resources, the fact that in his opinion should be taken into account in the country.The 10th Congress of Frelimo since Sunday that arises in Pemba has the presence of opposition parties and foreign parties friends.However, Mabunda considers the invitation to opposition parties as "a tragedy for the country," as they "offer nothing new to the event."He explained that discussions were witnessed by all parties in no time one of the opposition parties is booked for expression of its position in relation to the report of Frelimo."They are only provided spectators and not get up to say that you promised and what more did not. They are almost all comrades, "he said.The vision of Moses Mabunda defend arises from the fact that democracy is good causes divergence of opinion, which is not the case.On the other hand, indicated that, because extending the invitation to opposition parties and allowing them to witness the debates, Frelimo reveals its solidity.

Slap on the wrist

After meeting with leaders of the Muslim community, Armando Guebuza, to have the meeting with the generals Police, threatening mandar stop them if they ran out to the web and operating principals of kidnappings in Maputo and Matola. Reportedly agents Information Service and State Security (SISE) members walk behind this type of crime long ago.The reports submitted to the police is that they were not executed with the required accuracy, allegedly because of the web of commitments existing among some generals and the 'gang' of sequestros.Mas the intense pressure exerted by public opinion led the police began to experience a remarkable performance, with the arrest of the first group of suspects, succeeding if the arrests. Still, the continued kidnappings, scenario seen as an attempt to devalue the work Initial visible and that the police had done. What is certain is that kidnappings continued until the last Friday was arrested Bakhir Ayoob, who, reportedly are still assigned homicide crimes against fellow entrepreneurs from the square. There is much that the alleged mastermind, now in command of the Rapid Intervention Force (FIR) under tight security, given the their apparent dangerousness, is being followed by agents of SISE. The various interventions, spontaneous, some leaders Interior Ministry whenever they speak out about the kidnappings, did realize that the detention of "true" principals was a matter of time. Probably, the order was to stop suspects in Portugal and when these less were prepared. And the surprise effect if Bakhirpermitiu, including the seizure of some materials that may constitute evidence in court seat. Reportedly Bakhir was recently in South Africa, where he spent R21 thousand in a Casino.

"It is forbidden to put the handcuffs on the words."

Worryingly the news published by the Africa Intelligence Monitor in issue number 692 of September 11, 2012 (also published in the Official Savannah on September 13, 2012), who realizes that Edson Macuacua, Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda Frelimo promoted recently at the headquarters of the Central Committee in Maputo, a meeting with staff journalists and commentators, aka panelists, the main organs of Social Communication (OCS) Public and Private in order to toughen action against the regime of work of the CST.

According to the Africa Monitor Intelligence Edson Macuacua main speaker of the meeting stated:

"- Abound in OCS criticism of Frelimo, you have to temper or alter this evidence, through measures of responsible editorial.

- There are municipal elections in 2013 and general in 2014, to ensure a victory for Frelimo is necessary to promote a climate of rapprochement with the party's electorate and population, and the criticisms of Frelimo disfavor this desideratum.

- Those that do not proceed in accordance with the creation of a more benign climate for Frelimo could be jeopardizing their seats, "because Frelimo has that power" (sic). "

This method demonstrated by Frelimo Machiavellian represented by Edson Macuacua and assisted by Renato Matusse, Gabriel and Muthisse Nkutumula (members present at the meeting) reveals a culture anti-democratic, anti-constitutional, hopelessness, intolerance and lack of boundaries and party State (which we all participate and pay taxes and as such it is not owned by any political party). There is talk now of freedom of expression in various sectors of society, is indeed a universal human right, which must run in the family, church, school, finally, on all other public spaces, then there is no reason that in the XXI century there citizens in Mozambique who want to destroy what little we have achieved in Mozambique in terms of freedom of expression. Today the concern is to silence the OCS, my fear is that this culture evolve tomorrow and begin to silence intellectuals in universities, in churches and other religious spaces that work with the public, in fact it is a phenomenon that has already been occurring because the regime considers itself the owner of the organs of state and public. The period of totalitarianism, fascism, Nazism, Marxism and state corporatism has passed in the history of the world. It seems there are still nostalgic these days. It is necessary that these citizens not to forget that culture corporatist state always brought negative consequences to the world with the death of thousands of people. Can mute people to speak, but can never silence the ability to think and express their thoughts in other forums. Individuals wishing to regress the country as freedom of expression are slated to enter as villains in the history of the country, moreover, there is a popular saying: "prescribes the justice of men, but justice in history it is permanent," to name these demagogues citizens have their place in history. The world is full of reports of adverse effects of silencing the press. Just look at the case of Syria, Tunisia, Libya, China, just to name a few. Let journalists and commentators do their job. Have fear of criticism is synonymous with insecurity, despair and spiritual weakness, the contrary should we stimulate and exploit the criticism to improve our work performance. The country's development depends on these analyzes and critiques (understood as debates of ideas) because only then can we see our shortcomings and failures and through dialogue and tolerance we promote more effective action to the desired development. Does Edson Macuacua dome and is aware of what they are committing mistake?

Finally I would like to recall the famous phrase that gave title to the book alludes to the death of Carlos Cardoso "it is forbidden to put the handcuffs on the words." This phrase this very clear memory of Mozambicans.

10th Congress of Frelimo

The general secretary of Frelimo party, Filipe Paúnde, was apprehensive about seeing fully completed works of the complex which is being built in the neighborhood Muxara in the city of Pemba, to host the 10th congress of the party Frelimo, starting next Sunday. On Saturday morning last, Paúnde, who was accompanied by members of the political bureau and the secretariat of the Central Committee of his party, visited the works and said the Chinese contractor in charge of assembling the pavilion that will host the sessions of the event, be imperative to see the infrastructure completed and delivered to the party until the 19th day, ie four days before the start of the congress.According Paúnde, only with this term is that you can the infrastructure be available for the next phase which is the decoration and assembly of various types of devices connected to the event.Now the contractor, who has been showing his work efficiency, assured that the pavilion will be delivered before Wednesday, bearing in mind that at this moment we are in the assembly phase of about three thousand chairs, from China, like all of the material that was used to raise the flag. Another concern is the accommodation of the equipment for accredited media organs, suggesting the assembly of containers until they finish the building works crafted.

Moçambique must walk to 10 hour ...

The debate on the model of exploitation of mineral resources in Mozambique and its benefits for the state continues ... Last week was the economist and university lecturer, Firmino Mucavele, arriving on the scene. Criticized the model used by the government to manage resources and warned that "if current levels of advertising and exploitation of mineral resources continue, in a few years will only Mozambique with holes, while others will take money and go away."

According Mucavele, "we're moving at 200 kilometers per hour (in the exploitation of natural resources) and run too." According to the academic, to monitor current levels of resource exploitation, "Mozambique should send 10 thousand students per year to Australia," he said, repeating that "we will stay with holes while others will take money."

The economist said that the existence of mineral resources in the country it is not no discovery, because already in the 70s had a lot of coal in the country and the Russians and Germans spoke of these phenomena. "But now, anyone announces the findings, which is dangerous."

According to this scholar, the fight against poverty can only be effective with the work. "To teach young people do not need to use the policy, but rather simple words. Using science to create wealth. "The wealth is in the field. Leaders must know how to drive, listen. Young people have to use science to contradict dirigentes.Mucavele spoke last week at a meeting organized by the Mozambican Youth Organisation, under the "celebration of 50 years of Frelimo".

Poverty is inaccurate and useless

In 2011 the Government decided to change the name of its most emblematic instrument of public policy, the so-called Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA) that was being implemented with the concurrence of the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) from the period between 1999/2000.

Of PARPA call went up in 2010, PARP, ie Action Plan for Poverty Reduction. Was removed the word as an adjective absolute poverty. In this context, the government brought a new definition the word poverty, which came to be understood as "impossibility disability or lack of opportunity for individuals and communities to have access to the minimum according to the basic rules of society."

The previous definition officially adopted by the Government in their PARPAS referred to poverty as "the inability of individuals to provide for themselves and their dependents a set of basic minimum conditions for their livelihoods and well-being according to the norms of society."

In "Challenges for Mozambique 2012" launched last week during a conference at IESE, the investigator Anthony Francisco highly critical of the current definition of poverty and the effectiveness of the famous PARPAS. The researcher says that the current definition of poverty found by the Government under the objectives of PARP, has no limits and therefore is inaccurate and useless. "The concept of poverty and engaging in the futility inaccuracy for measuring" he says.

António Francisco says the new definition of poverty elementary lost the attributes of an operational definition, ie "be specific, concrete and measurable useful to play a guiding role and structural analyzes and methods applied in specific circumstances."

The new definition, according to the researcher, distances itself from the monetarist sense of poverty, much blame for the inability of the authors of PARP in conferring intelligibility of the multidimensional nature of poverty. "As if there was no better way to make the multidimensional nature (lack of access to health, water, sanitation, education ...) poverty intelligible, the authors seem to distance itself from the monetarist sense getting rid of the word" absolute ".

The investigator also criticizes the fact that the current PARP in no time explaining the reasons for the replacement of the previous document name and its abbreviation, and states that, take the word "absolute" may seem a minor detail, but the truth is in this case denounces analytical impoverishing an option. "The decision to remove the word poverty was simply unhappy because the definition of the word poverty has become enlarged without limits."

To the economist, the current definition of poverty suggests that the words began to choose the meaning and not the opposite. The investigator also criticizes the failure of the main objectives does not appear sufficient reason for the extinction of PARPAS. "The recent failure of the objectives and goals with the PARPA 2006-2009. Instead of reaching the target in 2009 from 45 percent the incidence of absolute poverty stood at 55 percent, a level statically equal to 2003 but that can not hide the worsening poverty in several provinces, especially absolute poverty. "

Moreover, according to the economist, defaults in any previous authors inhibited PARP in the current state even more ambitious targets: "The PARP 2011-2014 aims to reduce the rate of incidence of food poverty from the current 54.7 percent to 42 percent in 2014 ". (M. Guente)

250 millions

The volume of investment in the tourism sector in Mozambique grew 38.8 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.According to the National Director of Tourism, Martin Muatxiwa, the government approved during the reporting period a total of 160 tourism projects worth more than 250 million U.S. dollars.The $ 250 million, according to Martin Muatxiwa, corresponding to an increase of 38.8 percent compared to the figure recorded in the same period last year when the government approved tourism projects valued at more than $ 180 million.

"We are talking about tourism projects such as hotels, restaurants and logdes, which are being built in various regions of the country based on national and foreign private investment," said the national director of Tourism for later added that "with the coming into operation of the 160 projects, hopefully, on the one hand, increasing the accommodation capacity and other new jobs. "

For example, of the 160 projects approved, yet according to the National Director of Tourism, will allow increased accommodation capacity of over three thousand beds and creating over five thousand new jobs.

Inhambane tops the listAlso according to data disclosed by the National Director of Tourism, Inhambane appears as the main destination for investments. Of the total of 160 projects, 32 are being implemented in the province of Inhambane. After Inhambane, followed by the province of Cabo Delgado with a total of 14 projects and third-lying Maputo province, with 13 approved projects.

The beautiful beaches and facilities are mentioned by Martin transitability Muatxiwa as the main reasons why most investors both domestic and foreign to choose the provinces of Inhambane, Cabo Delgado and Maputo province-like main destinations for their investments. (R. Moiane)