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In 1975, many street names were changed in Maputo. They are listed below, translated into English: Sagres Street → 10 November Avenue (1975) João Albasini Square → 21 October Square (1975) 7 March Square → 25 June Square (1975) Avenue of the Republic → 25 September Avenue (1975) Afonso de Albuquerque Avenue → Ahmed Sekou Touré ...
Graça Machel (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡɾasɐ mɐˈʃɛl]; née Simbine; born 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. Machel is an international advocate for women's and children's rights and was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for her humanitarian work.
The 2024 COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship (Portuguese: Campeonato Feminino Sub-17 COSAFA Moçambique 2024) is the fifth edition of the COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship, the international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of COSAFA. It was initially scheduled to be hosted by ...
Sportspeople from Maputo (1 C, 41 P) Pages in category "People from Maputo" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Maputo, the capital city of Portuguese Mozambique since 1898, was founded as Lourenco Marques before this Overseas Province of Portugal, the so-called Portuguese East Africa where was the seat of the governor-general, became independent from the colonial power in 1975: the city got its present name on 3 February 1976, giving its name to one of the six districts into which the province was divided.
When the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries was founded in 1996, many Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilians arrived for economic and educational aid to Mozambique. They have helped increase Portuguese-language fluency especially in remote rural places and improved the economy, as the metical has a large value converted from the Euro ...
Mouzinho de Albuquerque Square (today Independence Square), Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), Portuguese Mozambique, 1971. The City Hall is in the background, and in front of it is the statue of Mouzinho de Albuquerque. The Portuguese overseas province of Mozambique was the first territory of Portugal, including the European mainland, to ...
According to the 1997 census, [2] 40% of the population of Mozambique spoke Portuguese. 9% spoke it at home, and 6.5% considered Portuguese to be their mother tongue. According to the general population survey taken in 2017, Portuguese is now spoken natively by 16.6% of the population aged 5 and older (or 3,686,890) and by one in every five people aged 15 t