27 July 2008
Maputo — Mozambique's Defence minister, Filipe Nyussi, was evacuated to South Africa on Friday after he was injured in a traffic accident in the northern province of Niassa.
Nyussi was one of many dignitaries who were traveling to Matchedje, near the Tanzanian border, for celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the second congress of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the predecessor of today's Frelimo Party.
The Congress was held from 20 to 25 July 1968, during the independence war, in a part of Niassa liberated from Portuguese colonial rule by the Frelimo guerrilla army.
Nyussi was traveling by road to Matchedge, and shared a vehicle with Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca. About 70 kilometres north of the provincial capital, Lichinga, the car overturned.
Health Minister Ivo Garrido told reporters that Nyussi had broken his left arm. He was operated on successfully in South Africa and Garrido believed that he would soon be able to return to Maputo.
The vehicle's driver, however, was more seriously injured, and is currently under intensive care in the Niassa provincial hospital, in Lichinga.
Soares Nhaca escaped from the accident unharmed.
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Speed recovery to the Defence minister. I am a Moza living in Zim. My worry is why was the driver also NOT taken to SA? Are our hospitals only fit for the povo? Please do not turn Moza into another Mugabeism
The government has got no money to transport a driver if he dies we will find another one. But we cannot not find a replacement for Camarada Ministro.
Poor driver Working for the black colonisers
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Our Mozambican government is being runned by self-centred ministers. They want to use you. All the Mozambican vip drivers live in {Pobreza absoluta} poverty. They enjoy good food when they are travelling with them, when they go home they will face the usual salted dried fish. I know a governor's driver in Chimoio the guy is always drunk he drinks (nipa) a home brewed beer with 50-80 percent vol. when i asked him why are you drinking nipa he said it is affordable, when i asked him about his salary the guy loughed he said 3.000 meticais = Aprox $… [Read Full Text]
This is the problem with our Revolutionary paries they think the people owe them for the liberation. They forget its the people who were the freedom fighters and aslo without the support from the people they could not have won over the colonisers. Sorry to say this that Chimoio driver earns more than 80% of the Zim workers, teachers and soldiers incuded. These ruling parties feel they are doing us a favour. It was all about them getting reach not equal oportinity for all.
Speed recovery to the Defence minister. I am a Moza living in Zim. My worry is why was the driver also taken to SA? Are our hospitals only fit for the povo? Please do not turn Moza into another Mugabeism