Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which killed 34 people, including several Mozambican ministers and government officials. Machel was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Mozambique
- Citizenship
- Portugal, Mozambique
- Born
- September 29, 1933
- Died
