Marina Pachinuapa is a Mozambican independence fighter and politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Marina Pachinuapa | |
|---|---|
| Member of the People's Assembly | |
| In office 1977– | |
| Constituency | Sofala Province |
Biography
editPachinuapa was involved in the Mozambican War of Independence, founding the Female Detachment of FRELIMO.[1] She later held the rank of colonel in the military reserve,[2] and was among the founders of the Organization of Mozambican Women.[3] Following independence, she was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,[4] in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.[5] She was re-elected in 1986 from Sofala Province representing Moçambique Industrial.[6] In 2010 she was appointed to the National Defence and Security Council.
References
edit- ^ MARINA PACHINUAPA ÀS MULHERES: Violência não tem a ver com emancipação Noticias Online, 6 April 2017
- ^ Jonna Katto (2014) "Landscapes of Belonging: Female ExCombatants Remembering the Liberation Struggle in Urban Maputo" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 40, number 3, pp539–557
- ^ AIM Reports, issues 332–415, p1
- ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p43
- ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
- ^ 4.° Suplemento Boletim da República, 22 September 1987
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