On what would have been Samora Machel’s 80th birthday, Dan Moyane asks the burning question Samora Machel would have turned 80 today. From his birth in 1933 to his untimely and tragic death in 1986, ...

African dignitaries are in Mozambique for the 25th anniversary of the Southern African country’s founding leader Samora Machel. Machel died in a mysterious plane crash along the border of Mozambique ...

A TOP-SECRET inquiry has been launched into the plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel more than two decades ago. The investigation by the Hawks began in earnest last month after a ...

The South African government is trying to solve one of the great mysteries of the apartheid era - the 1986 plane crash that killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique. He died when his aircraft hit ...

Mozambican authorities need to continue to seek the truth on who killed Samora Machel, the country’s first president, almost 21 years ago. The call was made by Feliciano Gundana, Minister for the ...

Photo taken on June 11, 2014 shows the Samora Machel bridge on the Zambezi River in Tete city, central Mozambique. The bridge is one of the two major highway bridges across the Zambezi River, linking ...

Shakespeare, in one of Nelson Mandela's favourite lines, now strangely apposite, says that "the valiant never taste of death but once". As the world waits for Mandela to make his final rendezvous with ...

Samora Machel was a staunch ally of the former Soviet Union South Africa's police have launched a new investigation into the 1986 plane crash that killed Mozambican leader Samora Machel, a spokesman ...