Esperança Abiatar Muthemba was a Mozambican independence activist and politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Esperança Muthemba | |
|---|---|
| Member of the People's Assembly | |
| In office 1977– | |
| Constituency | Nampula |
Biography
editDuring the Mozambican War of Independence Muthemba was involved with the underground movements in Lourenço Marques.[1] After being arrested in João Belo by the PIDE, she was exiled to Muecate in Nampula Province, where she was required to report to the administration on a daily basis.[2] In 1967 she began working for the Credito Agricola de Nampula as a bookkeeper.[2]
Following independence in 1975, she was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections and was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.[3] Re-elected in 1986, she was a substitute member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Council.[4] She also served as the secretary of the Maputo branch of the Organization of Mozambican Women.[5]
References
edit- ^ Teresa Cruz e Silva (1998) "Identity and Political Consciousness in Southern Mozambique, 1930-1974: Two Presbyterian Biographies Contextualised" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 24, number 1, pp223–236
- ^ a b Renato Matusse (2008) Josina Machel: ícona da emancipação da mulher moçambicana, p197
- ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p297
- ^ Summary Records of the LXXXth Inter-Parliamentary Conference, 1988, plxii
- ^ Douglas H. Graham, Irae Baptista Lundin de Coloane, Antonio Francisco, Willian Nall, Mindy Walker & Paul Jenkins (1991) Resultados Da Pesquisa Peri-urbana Básica: Maputo, Moçambique