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Samora Machel's Speeches, 1974-1986
1975
This page includes an audio recording. Normally, these pages include the full texts, organised year-by-year and as published primarily in contemporary Mozambican newspapers and magazines, of some of the speeches of the late President Samora Moisés Machel. For the texts of such speeches, please scroll down.
The Speech in Beira, 14 June 1975
Below are links to three MP3 files that constitute the complete audio recording of an unpublished speech made by Samora Machel in Beira, at the football stadium of Ferroviário de Manga, on 14 June 1975, a few days before Mozambican independence. There is also a link to a recently-published English translation of that speech, and to an MP3 extract from the audio recording that deals with the behaviour of ‘the assimilado’.
The recording was originally made on a cassette recorder. It was digitised by MHN, and subsequently cleaned up and enhanced by the South African audio engineer David McLean, for whose expertise MHN is grateful.
This speech is the subject of a detailed analysis by Colin Darch and David Hedges in their article ‘Political Rhetoric in the Transition to Mozambican Independence: Samora Machel in Beira, June 1975’, Kronos available here.
The English translation was published with a brief introduction in the African Yearbook of Rhetoric vol.2, no.3 (2011), pages 67-83, and can be downloaded here.
A full Portuguese transcription of the speech together with an expanded analysis and commentary will be published in the forthcoming book by Darch and Hedges, Samora Machel: Retórica Política e Independência em Moçambique, Salvador: EdUFBa, in press.
◊ Play the first section of the speech.
◊ Play the second section of the speech.
◊ Play the third section of the speech.
◊ Play the «assimilado» section of the speech.
Please note that MHN does NOT claim that this is by any means a complete collection of Machel's speeches and public utterances. Additional resources will be added to these pages from time to time. Any substantial additions will be announced on MHN's Facebook page.
Other MHN Resources
(in chronological order)
◊ 18 April 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Carta escrita por Samora Moisés Machel, na qualidade de Presidente da Frelimo, em 18 de Abril de 1975, ao Primeiro-Ministro do Governo Provisório de Portugal. In: O Jornal [Lisbon], 12 April 1979. This is not a scan of the original newspaper article: the text of the letter has been retyped by MHN. Click here to download a PDF file, size 153 kb.
◊ 20 April 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. A África nada tem a dialogar com o regime de Pretória: Presidente Samora na OUA. In: Tempo no.238, 20 April 1975, unpaginated. Click here to download a PDF file, size 433 kb.
◊ 25 May 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Discurso na Base Beira. In: Tempo [Lourenço Marques], no.246, 15 June 1975, unpaginated detachable supplement. Speech made during the Viagem Triunfal, just before independence. Click here to download a PDF file, size 618 kb. For a copy of this speech annotated in typescript and handwriting by an unknown person, click here to download a PDF file, size 1.0 Mb.; and for a typed transcript of the whole speech, click here to download a PDF file, size 99 kb.
◊ 27 May 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Discurso no Centro Infantário, Sector I (Base Beira). In: Tempo [Lourenço Marques], no.246, 15 June 1975, unpaginated detachable supplement. Speech made during the Viagem Triunfal, just before independence. Click here to download a PDF file, size 1.7 Mb.
◊ June 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Interview: Samora Moisés Machel, President of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), speaks to Africa. In: Africa no.46, June 1975, pages 78-80. Click here to download a PDF file, size 935 kb.
◊ 16 June 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Une interview exclusive de Samora Machel, par Aquino de Bragança. In: Afrique-Asie no.85, 16 June 1975, pages 10-13. Click here to download a PDF file, size 388 kb.
◊ 25 June 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. The People's Republic of Mozambique: the struggle continues. In: Review of African Political Economy no.2, November 1975, pages 14-25. Samora Machel's independence day speech, in English translation. Click here to download a PDF file, size 879 kb.
◊ 25 September 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Mozambique: Samora Machel’s FRELIMO anniversary address In: Summary of World Broadcasts issue number and date unknown. Extract in English translation from a broadcast to mark the 11th anniversary of the launching of the armed struggle. Click here to download a PDF file, size 245 kb.
◊ 20 October 1975
Samora Moisés Machel. Samora Machel: soutien sans équivoque au MPLA, le seul movement que a mené le combat libérateur; le sort de la revolution africaine se joue en Angola; non à l’internationalisation du problème angolais; la lutte armée au Zimbabwe sera un feu dévorant dans une forêt sèche; la purification du FRELIMO est un processus révolutionnaire continu. In: Afrique-Asie [Paris], no.94, 20 October 1975, pages 11-13. Interview conducted by Simon Malley. Click here to download a PDF file, size 289 kb.