What If Jonas Savimbi Didn't Die?

Angolan history is full of painful, delicate, and complicated facts to be told; but history is to be told, not kept.

The citizen was of tremendous courage, a brutal physical portrayal, and an unmatched intelligence that probably ended up being underestimated and became dangerous. Today there is a new generation that is unaware of important parts of the great contribution of a

A tenacious son, born in the beautiful and rich province of Bié, Jonas Malheiro Savimbi died 20 years ago in the Lucusse region (Mexico), was an Angolan politician and guerrilla leader of Unita for more than 30 years. A man of unbreakable convictions, owner of the orality, and persuasive ability like few of his time, Brother Jonas possessed a tremendous prophecy of the times.

"Let us not be afraid to go through this arduous journey, you have also made many mistakes, but there will come a time when we will have to pass the mistakes to the past. " (Jonas Savimbi)

During the struggle for independence and the civil war, Jonas Savimbi had at different stages the support of the governments of the United States of America, the People's Republic of China, the apartheid regime of South Africa, Israel, and some African leaders as was the case of Mobutu Sesse Secou of former Zaire. In the annals of Angolan history, there is an undeniable truth, Jonas Savimbi and like Agostinho Neto and Holden Roberto, young men possessed by strength and patriotic sense without equal, surrendered to the cause of our national independence, achieved in 1975. After rivers of tears and seas of blood, which flooded and saddened the world. Each one of them in a different part of the country, they made black life for the Portuguese colonist alongside hundreds, why not thousands of other nationalists, although many truly anonymous.

In military and other terms, Savimbi spent in the then Soviet Union and Cuba, a man who devoured books, had dozens of children as is normal in times in the name of African tradition. An intelligent man forged in academia as a calculating and pragmatic young man, Malheiro lived most of his life in the forests of Angola and died at 67 with a gun in hand.

What if Jonas Savimbi didn't die?

20 years after his death the country embarks on an absolute sad and perhaps needless crisis that has been going on for more than 8 years. The remains and the holding of the funeral obsequies of the historic Black Rooster leader were delivered and buried in 2019 in his homeland, but his family never mourned. Today Savimbi's family is claiming his recognition as a national hero on par with Agostinho Neto of the MPLA and Holden Roberto of the FNLA. - "After all we are children of the same land." (Jonas Savimbi)

Savimbi was born on August 3, 1934, in Munhango a small town in Bié province, studied in the United States of America to complete high school and study medicine in Portugal. The man who could also have been

President of all Angolans, according to some evidence published in manuals, Savimbi was betrayed in several fronts of negotiations and that made him change his side. According to António Oliveira in his book "O padre de Savimbi" in the last paragraph on page 51 he says: "to war with its procession of violence, release the demons within us, promising all kinds of atrocities. " end of the quote... "all men carry within themselves good things and bad things, although Savimbi is known for all the bad he did directly and indirectly to many families, it is true that Jonas Malheiro Savimbi trained hundreds and hundreds of young people, many of them after the war, were used to build a new Angola.

"We do not build a promising future, without first solving our emotional problems, mastering the ego, and forgiving each other. "

"And it is important at this moment to be sincere, to the history of our own land, we appreciate the role Portugal played, at the same time Say why I am here, I am first and foremost, I am a nationalist and I am a patriot. " (Jonas Savimbi)

People in fear can never change the country, and those who put their interests above the interests of the nation, contribute to the misfortune of the world.

Today Angola is witnessing a great change headed by the largest opposition party founded by Jonas Savimbi and connecting all the truths that once its leader had announced but there were doubts about.