11 May 2008
Maputo — Joao Alexandre, a member of the standing commission of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, who was once general secretary of the former rebel movement, Renamo, died of a heart attack in Maputo on Sunday morning.
Alexandre had been a member of parliament for Renamo, elected from the central province of Manica, since the first multi-party elections of October 1994. He was elected to the Standing Commission, the assembly's governing board, in 2005.
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama appointed Alexandre the party's general secretary in January 1998, and he held the post for about two years. He was the first Renamo general secretary who had not taken part in the war of destabilisation.
The 60 year old Alexandre was also a member of the Renamo Political Commission.
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