{"id":94379,"date":"2025-11-21T21:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-classifies-397-sites-as-heritage-of-struggle"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:51:41","slug":"mozambique-classifies-397-sites-as-heritage-of-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-classifies-397-sites-as-heritage-of-struggle","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Classifies 397 Sites as Heritage of Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican government tis Tuesday approved, at a Council of Ministers meeting, the classification of 397 sites as National Liberation Struggle Heritage, including former PIDE prisons and \u201cmassacre sites\u201d from the colonial period.<\/p>\n

The Council of Ministers \u201capproved the decree classifying the assets and historical sites declared as National Liberation Struggle Heritage,\u201d government spokesperson Inoce\u0302ncio Impissa explained to journalists following the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the referenced law, the National Liberation Struggle Heritage includes bases, detachments, educational centres, monuments, political police prisons (PIDE), as well as artefacts and archives related to the liberation struggle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The classification, he said, \u201caims to ensure the protection, preservation and valorisation of the National Liberation Struggle heritage,\u201d in accordance with current legislation, which \u201cestablishes a specific legal framework for the National Liberation Struggle Heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, a comprehensive survey of these sites was conducted across the national territory, identifying 397 historical sites, including bases, detachments, educational centres, medical posts, massacre sites, mass graves and commemorative monuments, as well as artefacts and documentary archives related to the liberation struggle,\u201d Impissa continued.<\/p>\n

No specific sites have yet been disclosed as officially classified.<\/p>\n

Mozambique proclaimed its independence on 25 June 1975, announced by the then first Mozambican President, Samora Machel, in Maputo.<\/p>\n

The Vila Algarve, which served as a PIDE prison during the colonial period in Maputo, is one of the most contentious sites from the colonial era.<\/p>\n

Lusa previously reported that the classified site will be transformed into a museum-hotel, intended to \u201cimmortalise\u201d the history of the Mozambican people, according to the National Director of History at the Ministry of Veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat building is a symbol of the Mozambican struggle. Mozambicans who demanded freedom from the Portuguese colonial regime were imprisoned, tortured, and even murdered there,\u201d National Director of History at the Ministry of Combatants. Guilherme Ombe explained in a recent interview with Lusa in Maputo.<\/p>\n

According to the director, the planned restoration by the Ministry of Combatants for the building \u2014 currently in an advanced state of decay \u2014 at number 10, the junction of Ma\u0301rtires de Machava and Ahmed Sekou Toure\u0301 avenues, central Maputo, will preserve this part of the country\u2019s history through a public-private partnership authorised by the government.<\/p>\n

Currently, all entrances to the villa \u2014 built in 1934 in the heart of Maputo, expanded in 1950, and this far classified as a Building of Architectural Interest \u2014 are boarded up to prevent occupation by homeless people, as had occurred in previous years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis restoration and refurbishment work aims to immortalise this history of the Mozambican people, to preserve it and bring to the attention of current and future generations what that building symbolised,\u201d stated the National Director of History at the Ministry of Combatants.<\/p>\n

Guilherme Ombe noted that the existing building will be restored and converted into a museum, with hotel services established above it: \u201cThe investor will present us with an executive project outlining how they plan to carry out this restoration and conversion into a museum-hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the imposing villa in central Maputo, once decorated with extensive mosaics featuring naturalistic motifs, today only the walls, ceilings and roofs remain, alongside dark stories from the colonial period when the PIDE confiscated the building and used it as a torture site for independence fighters.<\/p>\n

Such stories are captured in the poetry of Mozambican poet Jose\u0301 Craveirinha (1922\u20132003), notably in his 1967 poem \u201cNa\u0303o sei se e\u0301 uma medalha\u201d and in two versions of \u201cVila Algarve\u201d (1988 and 1998), reflecting on his time detained there and subjected to PIDE interrogation.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican government tis Tuesday approved, at a Council of Ministers meeting, the classification of 397 sites as National Liberation Struggle Heritage, including former PIDE prisons and \u201cmassacre sites\u201d from the colonial period. 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