Marina Pachinuapa

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Marina Pachinuapa
Member of the People's Assembly
In office
1977–
ConstituencySofala Province

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.

Biography[edit]

Pachinuapa 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]

  1. ^ MARINA PACHINUAPA ÀS MULHERES: Violência não tem a ver com emancipação Noticias Online, 6 April 2017
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ AIM Reports, issues 332–415, p1
  4. ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p43
  5. ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
  6. ^ 4.° Suplemento Boletim da República, 22 September 1987