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By David Love. Samora Machel in 1985, during a state visit to the United States; image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Epilogue "He's dead." My sister stood in my doorway. It was the evening of the 20 th October, 1986. Earlier that day, around lunchtime, my mother had come to school and told us the news that Mozambiquan President Samora Machel’s plane was missing, reportedly crashed or shot down in South Africa. We’d left school early and gone home, sitting with my parents waiti