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  2. Maria Mutola - Wikipedia

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    Mutola was born in 1972 in the poor shanty town of Chamanculo on the outskirts of Maputo, then known as Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese Mozambique. [1] Her father was employed by the railways and her mother was a market vendor. As a young girl she excelled in football. She played with boys, as there were no leagues or teams for girls.

  3. 2024 COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Teresa Heinz - Wikipedia

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    Teresa Heinz (born Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira; October 5, 1938), [1] [2] also known as Teresa Heinz Kerry, [2] is a Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist. Heinz is the widow of former U.S. Senator John Heinz and the current wife of former United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate , longtime U.S. Senator ...

  5. Bertina Lopes - Wikipedia

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    Bertina Lopes (July 11, 1924 – February 10, 2012) [1] was a Mozambican-born, Italian painter and sculptor. Lopes' work displays a deep African sensibility with saturated colours and bold compositions of mask-like figures and geometric forms. [2]

  6. Lucrécia Paco - Wikipedia

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    She was featured in the 1984 documentary Maputo Mulher. [2] In 1986, Paco was one of the founders of the Mutumbela Gogo troupe, the first professional theater troupe in Mozambique which is still ongoing today. She was influenced by the many Soviet films that she watched, and created short plays about what it was like to be Mozambican.

  7. Iolanda Cintura - Wikipedia

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    Iolanda Maria Pedro Campos Cintura Seuane (born 24 October 1972) is a Mozambican chemist and politician who served as Minister for Women and Social Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and has been governor of the capital city Maputo since 2015.

  8. Mozambican Portuguese - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Mia Couto - Wikipedia

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    He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the 1950s. When he was 14 years old, some of his poetry was published in a local newspaper, Notícias da Beira. Three years later, in 1971, he moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques.