The late Mozambican president and freedom fighter Samora Machel was remembered Monday at a joint ceremony by South Africa and Mozambique that marked 40 years since his death in a mysterious plane crash.
The ceremony took place in Mbuzini, an area in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province near the crash site.
Machel led Mozambique from its independence from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, until his death in 1986.
An inquiry into the cause of the plane crash that killed Machel and more than 30 other people blamed the pilots, but 40 years later, there are still questions about what really happened.
Here’s what to know about Machel and the crash that killed one of Africa’s leading political figures:
Questions still hound the plane crash
On Oct. 19, 1986, Machel was killed alongside some members of his cabinet, journalists and flight crew when their plane crashed into the Lebombo mountains in the
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