Good afternoon. Venâncio Mondlane, the leading opposition figure in Mozambique, yesterday revealed his latest move to stay one step ahead of the government and other opposition parties. His new party, Anamola, is launching its own public consultation on how politics in Mozambique should be reformed — in parallel to the public consultation launched under the so-called inclusive dialogue process, from which Mondlane and Anamola have, ironically, been excluded.
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No politician in Mozambique is better at speaking to the Mozambican public than Venâncio Mondlane, and it seems likely that his public consultation has a better chance of being genuinely inclusive, though both processes still need to prove themselves.
The continued exclusion of Mondlane and Anamola represents a denial of reality by Mozambique’s leaders: that Mondlane and his party are now the most significant political force in the country after Frelimo, and look set to remain so for years to come.
