Mozambique: Graca Machel Calls for Closure

Maputo — Graca Machel, widow of Mozambique's first President, Samora Machel, on Wednesday urged the Mozambican and South African governments to complete the investigations into her husband's death, so that the full truth may be known.

25 years ago, on 19 October 1986, the presidential aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev-134, crashed into a hillside at Mbuzini, just inside South Africa, killing the Mozambican leader and 34 members of his delegation.

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