New light on the Samora Machel assassination: ‘I realized that it was no accident’

Daniel L. Douek

Third World Quarterly, 2017, vol. 38, issue 9, 2045-2065

Abstract: In 1998, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held hearings that investigated the possibility of foul play in the plane crash that killed Mozambican President Samora Machel on the night of 19 October 1986, near Mbuzini, South Africa. Eight persons testified in these special Section 29 hearings, held in camera because they dealt with events that remained politically volatile in the post-apartheid era. The recently declassified transcripts from these hearings strongly corroborate previous evidence indicating that the apartheid security forces caused Machel’s plane to crash, thereby eliminating one of colonialism’s most outspoken foes.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1323550

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