Chibuto

"I killed and I robbed and I feel ashamed," says Rodrigo Novela, now in his teens and enrolled in an elementary school in the district capital of Chibuto.

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On the day she finally decided to tell me about her own tattoos, Rosalina Malungana, the Swiss Mission-educated woman who, as we saw in chapter 3, reminisced so romantically about her common-law marriage to a Portuguese truck driver, acknowledged one source of conflict in their relationship that stemmed from Rosalina's desire to befriend her new non-Christian and nonliterate neighbors in Chibuto:

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

From Chibuto to here, it's only this one [i.e., epigastric scars].

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Rosalina, for instance, said that both her mother, Anina Tivane (Nguni, by clan), and one of her father's half-sisters, Tshamatiko Malungana, bore at least one of the same tattoos, the xinkwahlana a design popular among women in that area in the 1920s and 1930sthat Muziosse cut for Rosalina in Chibuto.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

According to this man, in the mid-1890s "Kwambate" was serving as a member of the "police" force for a female chief named N'waNgecene, and one of his regular duties was to travel to Chibuto to deliver tribute to the Portuguese administration there.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

We caught up with Rosita, her mother Sophia and the rest of the family in Chibuto, southern Mozambique.

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OKE: Sophia and her family live in Chibuto, southern Mozambique.

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Mega-projects such as the MOZAL aluminium smelter and the exploitation of titanium bearing mineral sands at Chibuto, in Gaza province, account for much of the investment, but the figure also includes smaller projects approved in such areas as agriculture, agro-industry, tourism and construction.

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Armando Chauque, a local leader in Keke village in Gaza province's Chibuto district, said water has also become a problem.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

Delfina Macuacua, who lives in another village in Chibuto, said women now spend all day, every day searching for water for their families.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002