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A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ", after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques founded the city in 1545 and gave his name to it.

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A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ," after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques first visited the site in 1545 and gave his name to it.

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