Renamo’s leader Ossufo Momade appears finally to be edging towards the exit. After years of internal dissent, public embarrassment and electoral decline, even his allies now speak openly of a transition.
But to frame this as a simple leadership change would be to miss the point. Renamo’s problem is not just Momade: it is survival.
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For all its organisational weakness, the party retains a national constituency. Its voters have not disappeared — they have simply drifted, become disengaged, or lent their support elsewhere. In the next electoral cycle, they may well coalesce again, if Renamo is reenergised by a new leader. That explains the current manoeuvring for the leadership of a party that had already been declared dead by some observers.
