IMBECILIDADE, DESESPERO OU LOUCURA?

As loucuras que nos chegam da Cidade Beira, so nos lembram o diabo! Apesar do povo da Beira ter falado claro e sem equivocos, parece que existem pessoas que querem tapar o sol com a peneira! Nao se perceberam ainda que o comboio da moderniade ja partiu! E que eles ficaram orfaos! orfaos da sua teimosia, imbecilidade e arrogancia!


Avisos nao faltaram, mas quem tem a cabeca so para por chapeu e ouvidos para enfeitar nao deve chorar depois do leite derramadao!

Avisamos neste e noutros espacos sobre as consequencias de certos actos! Mas quando alguem tem a coragem, (sim e preciso ter muita coragem) para dizer ao mundo que se aconselha sozinho, ja pouco resta fazer!

Mas porque a duvida metodica e um instrumento impotante de analise permita-me fazer alguns perguntas metodicas, so para ingles ver!

Sera que aqueles que deram a sua juventude, seus membros, e quica suas vidas para que Mocambique tivesse a paz e democracia merecem este espetaculo barato vindo do Chiveve e protagonizado pela 'gang dos quatro'? E as estruturas do partido permitem que este espetaculo barato continue?

Afinal de que lado esta a direccao da Renamo? Do lado dos 'tachistas' ou dos membros na base? Cada minuto que passa vai ficando claro qem esta de que lado! O silencio cumplice comecara a fazer-se ouvir estrondosamente, e ai ja ninguem segurara a barra!

Politica de avestruz ja nao funciona: chegou a altura de cada membro da Renamo mostrar de que lado esta: se dos 'tachistas[, se daqueles qUe deram a sua vida, seus membros e sua juventude pela causa nobre - A DEMOCRACIA!

A HISTORIA nos julgara: A TODOS! E NAO DIGAM QUE NAO AVISEI! O QUE ME PREOCUPA NAO E O BARULHO DOS MAUS, MAS SIM O SILENCO DOS BONS!
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Mozambique: Hand Over Beira, Renamo Demands
Maputo — Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo has demanded that the mayor of the central city of Beira, Daviz Simango, should resign and hand the city over to them on the grounds that he was re-elected with Renamo votes, reports Tuesday's edition of the independent daily "O Pais".

This demand was raised on Monday by a group of Renamo politicians and former guerrillas, headed by the Renamo Sofala provincial delegate, Fernando Mbararano, and the defeated Renamo candidate for mayor, Manuel Pereira.

Simango was expelled from Renamo in September, but ran in the 19 November municipal elections as an independent, and achieved an overwhelming victory, with about 62 per cent of the vote. Pereira was solidly beaten, coming in a bad third behind Simango and the candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, Lourenco Bulha. The explanation for this defeat now offered by Mbararano is that Simango bribed the Beira electorate, and so should resign.

The Renamo group claimed that Simango won with Renamo votes, and so "we demand that he hand over what is ours without any fuss. It was our members, corrupted by Daviz, who voted for him. So we feel that the position of mayor of Beira belongs to us".

Mbararano, Pereira and their followers also turned upon those intellectuals in Renamo who have called for an extraordinary congress of the party to elect a new leadership. The call for a congress was first publicly raised by former Renamo parliamentary deputy Dionisio Quelhas. It was subsequently taken up by academics Ismael Mussa, Manuel de Araujo, and Joao Colaco, who are all members of the current parliament.

"We found these gentlemen sweeping rubbish in Frelimo", claimed Mbararano's group. "Our president (Afonso Dhlakama) gave them bread and shelter (presumably a reference to their parliamentary wages), to the detriment of many others who were disabled during the war. Today, with their stomachs full, they demand Dhlakama's dismissal and that he be replaced by someone expelled from the party. We're talking about Daviz Simango. Who is Daviz Simango to be president of Renamo?"

In fact, neither Simango, nor any of the Renamo intellectuals have publicly proposed that he become president. Thoughtful Renamo members may however discern a significant difference between Dhlakama and Simango - whereas Dhlakama loses elections, Simango wins them.

The Mbararano group also demanded that Mussa, Colaco and Quelhas come to Beira to explain themselves. They did not ask that Dhlakama visit Beira - since the expulsion of Simango from Renamo, Dhlakama has not dared set foot in the city.

If the three refuse to come to Beira, Mbararano promised that the former guerrillas would travel to Maputo to demand explanations from them. Pereira added that Renamo "will not be held responsible for anything that might happen" to the deputies or to anyone else who calls Dhlakama's leadership into question.

Renamo's military wing had a simple explanation for the party's crushing defeat in the municipal elections. Frelimo "always stole our votes", they said.

Meanwhile, Simango's supporters are appealing to the Constitutional Council, the body which has the last say in electoral disputes, about the composition of the Renamo group in the future Beira municipal assembly. Renamo drew up one list of candidates before Dhlakama ditched Simango as the Renamo candidate for mayor, but replaced it with a second list when it became clear that Simango would run as an independent.

On the second list, all the prominent supporters of Simango were thrust to the bottom. The list contains 45 names - but the election results suggest that Renamo will only have 17 members in the Assembly. So anyone at the bottom of the list stands no chance of entering the Assembly.


According to "O Pais", seven of the pro-Simango candidates for the assembly have contacted both the National Elections Commission (CNE) and the Constitutional Council about the changes to the list. They say that the CNE accepted the first list, but then changed it illegally, at Renamo's request.

According to the electoral law, lists of candidate can only be changed when candidates are ruled ineligible for office by the CNE, or if they die, resign or are incapacitated. Since nothing of the sort had happened, Simango's supporters argue that the changes to the list are illegal, and should be ruled null and void.