Marina Pachinuapa is a Mozambican independence fighter and politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.

Marina Pachinuapa
Member of the People's Assembly
In office
1977–
ConstituencySofala Province

Biography

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Pachinuapa was involved in the Mozambican War of Independence, founding the Female Detachment of FRELIMO.[1] She later held the rank of colonel in the military reserve,[2] and was among the founders of the Organization of Mozambican Women.[3] Following independence, she was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,[4] in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.[5] She was re-elected in 1986 from Sofala Province representing Moçambique Industrial.[6] In 2010 she was appointed to the National Defence and Security Council.

References

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  1. ^ MARINA PACHINUAPA ÀS MULHERES: Violência não tem a ver com emancipação Noticias Online, 6 April 2017
  2. ^ Jonna Katto (2014) "Landscapes of Belonging: Female ExCombatants Remembering the Liberation Struggle in Urban Maputo" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 40, number 3, pp539–557
  3. ^ AIM Reports, issues 332–415, p1
  4. ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa issues 1857–1867, p43
  5. ^ Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
  6. ^ 4.° Suplemento Boletim da República, 22 September 1987