Zitamar News

Good afternoon. Early each morning, thousands of domestic workers travel from the outskirts of Mozambique’s cities to cook, clean and care for other people’s children. Their labour allows many of their employers, especially women, to leave home and earn a salary. Some of those workers, in turn, depend on relatives or still more poorly paid helpers to care for their own famili...

Good afternoon. Mozambique now has a regular public shipping service carrying commercial freight along its coast. Civitas Partners’ CPG Shipping connects Maputo, Beira, Nacala and the LNG project at Afungi, shifting cargo away from a deteriorating road network and offering businesses an alternative route across a long and geographically difficult country.

The advantages...

A member of Mozambique’s Local Force militia was killed near the border between Nangade and Palma districts this week, amid increased insurgent activity in the surrounding forests.

Good afternoon and welcome to yesterday's newsletter. South African police last week raided a warehouse in Pretoria containing what they described as a Mandrax laboratory capable of producing as many as 800,000 tablets a day. Two Mozambicans were arrested and described as “runners” - intermediaries working for people whom investigators have yet to identify.

Their arrest...

Good afternoon. While President Daniel Chapo was visiting Inhambane last week, armed men arrived at the home of Ilídio Facitela Gustavo in Morrumbene. According to Anamola, they identified themselves as police officers and took him away in front of his wife and child. His body was found the following day in neighbouring Homoíne.

Gustavo was Anamola’s political mobilisat...