{"id":80587,"date":"2025-04-08T19:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:33:12","slug":"government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations","title":{"rendered":"Government calls for participation in 50th anniversary celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican government has called for massive participation by all citizens in the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the country\u2019s independence on 25 June 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Maputo to reporters on Friday, the government spokesperson, the Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, said the centrepiece of the celebrations will be a march across the country bearing the \u201cflame of national unity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Daniel Chapo will light this torch on Monday, Mozambican Women\u2019s Day, in Nangade district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. It will then pass from hand to hand, as in a relay, for 70 days, across all the country\u2019s provinces, until it reaches Maputo\u2019s Machava stadium on 25 June. It was at this stadium that the country\u2019s first president, Samora Machel, declared Mozambican independence half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Impissa said the march will take place under the slogan: \u201c50 years of independence: Consolidating National Unity, Peace and Sustainable Development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, for the Mozambican people, the flame will represent a moment of strengthening national unity, after the post-election social convulsions \u201cwhich sowed hatred among brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Impissa said the celebrations will cost between 20 and 30 million meticais (between 313,000 and 470,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate). He stressed that the gains from the flame of unity will outweigh the expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking more at the gains of national unity, at the values of reconciliation, peace and concord which we can obtain with the torch. This has no price\u201d, Impissa said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, when he opened a meeting of the Frelimo Central Committee, Chapo urged Frelimo members to participate fully in what he regarded as \u201ca broad movement of exaltation of the motherland, national unity, tolerance, citizenship, peace and inclusion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chapo said the celebrations will be a deep reflection on the gains and achievements made in the 50 years of independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should use the moment to reflect on how to overcome the challenges that the country has faced in the past 50 years, and how to turn Mozambique into a prosperous, democratic and peaceful society in the next 50 years\u201d, Chapo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mozambique<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The Mozambican government has called for massive participation by all citizens in the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the country\u2019s independence on 25 June 1975. Speaking in Maputo to reporters on Friday, the government spokesperson, the Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, said the centrepiece of the celebrations will be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-80587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government calls for participation in 50th anniversary celebrations - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mozambican government has called for massive participation by all citizens in the celebrations of the 50th anniversa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government calls for participation in 50th anniversary celebrations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mozambican government has called for massive participation by all citizens in the celebrations of the 50th anniversa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-08T19:56:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-06T23:33:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/04\/sm_1744130947.289303.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1066\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Government calls for participation in 50th anniversary celebrations\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-08T19:56:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-06T23:33:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\"},\"wordCount\":363,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2025\/04\/sm_1744130947.289303.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/government-calls-for-participation-in-50th-anniversary-celebrations\",\"name\":\"Government calls for participation in 50th anniversary celebrations - 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