Afonso Dhlakama | |
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Leader of RENAMO | |
In office 17 October 1979 – 3 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | André Matsangaissa |
Succeeded by | Ossufo Momade |
Personal details | |
Born | Mangunde, Sofala Province Portuguese Mozambique[citation needed] | 1 January 1953
Died | 3 May 2018 Gorongosa, Sofala Province, Mozambique[1] | (aged 65)
Political party | RENAMO |
Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama (1 January 1953 – 3 May 2018) was a Mozambican politician and the leader of RENAMO, an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace agreement and becoming an opposition political party in the early 1990s. Dhlakama was born in Mangunde, Sofala Province.[2][3][4]