Prime-Minister Joaquim Chissano ( who would become President of the Republic after Machel's death twelve years later ) managed to convince the majority of the white population that only those bearing heavy responsibility for the darkest pages of the colonial era should fear FRELIMO's rule.

Joaquim Chissano succeeded to the presidency in 1986 when Samora Machel's presidential aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain in South Africa.

After Machel's death in 1986, in a suspicious airplane crash, Joaquim Chissano began to lead both the party and the state.

* October 19 – Mozambican president Samora Machel's plane crashes in South Africa.

Simultaneously, Banda used the MYP as couriers and active supporters of Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ) which had been fighting against Machel's government since the 1980s.

However, Machel's father was a successful farmer: he owned four plows and 400 head of cattle by 1940.

When Machel's unelected revolutionary government took over, he became independent Mozambique's first unelected president on June 25, 1975.

Even Machel's first wife, whom he had deserted in 1963, was detained, despite her total abstention from political activity.

In his memoirs, Dr António de Almeida Santos, a renowned lawyer from Lourenço Marques who, after the fall of Caetano's regime, became Minister for the Coordination of Portuguese-Administered Territories and who was a close friend of Machel's, sustains that FRELIMO's President was strongly affected by two outbursts of violence involving the white population.

Hans Louw, a Civil Cooperation Bureau operative, claims to have assisted in Machel's death.

In 2007, however, Jacinto Veloso, one of Machel's most unconditional supporters within Frelimo, had sustained in his memoirs that Machel's death was due to a conspiracy between the South African and the Soviet secret services, both of which had reasons to get rid of him.

Machel's widow, Graça ( née Simbine ), is convinced the aircrash was not an accident and has dedicated her life to tracking down her husband's alleged killers.

At least eight foreigners were killed there, including the four Soviet crew members, Machel's two Cuban doctors and the Zambian and Zairean ambassadors to Mozambique.

One of the largest streets in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, was renamed Samora Machel Avenue ( from Jameson Avenue ) after independence in a gesture of gratitude for Machel's support for black liberation activities before majority rule.

Following Machel's death in a plane crash in South Africa, he was part of a committee investigating the circumstances of the crash, which came to no certain conclusion.

Once Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, direct support for RENAMO came from South Africa with the intention of destabilizing Machel's government.

Together with his friend Fred Rwigyema and his brother Museveni, he trained in Mozambique with Samora Machel's FRELIMO rebels.

Konstantin von Neurath's chief defence strategy was predicated on the fact that his successor and fellow defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop was more culpable for the atrocities committed in the Nazi state.

Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff was the successor of Joachim van Plettenberg as Governor at Cape Town in 1785.

The second quartet was premiered by the Klingler Quartett-the successor of the Joachim Quartett.

His successor, Joaquim Chissano, continued the reforms and began peace talks with RENAMO.

However, the civic traditions of many boroughs were continued by the grant of a charter to their successor district councils.

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

Epicurus ' cheerful demeanor, as he continued to work despite dying from a painful stone blockage of his urinary tract lasting a fortnight, according to his successor Hermarchus and reported by his biographer Diogenes Laertius, further enhanced his status among his followers.

In September 1933 Dollfuss merged his Christian Social Party with elements of other nationalist and conservative groups, including the Heimwehr, which encompassed many workers who were unhappy with the radical leadership of the socialist party, to form the Vaterländische Front, though the Heimwehr continued to exist as an independent organization until 1936, when Dollfuss ' successor Kurt von Schuschnigg forcibly merged it into the Front, instead creating the unabidingly loyal Frontmiliz as paramilitary task force.

By the 1860s, the Russian Empire – continued as the Soviet Union – became the largest contiguous state in the world, and the latter's main successor, Russia, continues to be so to this day.

Monroe resigned as Secretary of State on October 1, but no successor was ever appointed, so he continued doing the work.

The uncertainty about what would happen after Henry's death continued to grow ; Richard was keen to join a new crusade and remained concerned that whilst he was away Henry would appoint John his formal successor.

This diplomacy would be continued under Murad's successor Mehmed III, by both the sultan and Safiye Sultan alike.

He continued to direct the affairs of his son and successor, Fujiwara no Yorimichi.

This continued under his son and successor Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed ( Grand Vizier 1661 – 1676 ).

This new practice was continued under his successor Psusennes II and the twenty-first dynasty kings.

After Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf died in 1441, his successor, Konrad von Erlichshausen, continued to negotiate a compromise until his own death in 1449.

The successor of Pope Honorius III, he fully inherited the traditions of Pope Gregory VII and of his cousin Pope Innocent III, and zealously continued their policy of Papal supremacy.

At the same time the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, the only remaining successor to the Golden Horde, continued to raid Southern Russia.

However, the change had not yet been officially ratified by Britain when Rhodesia declared itself independent, and as a result, the British Government continued to refer to the breakaway colony as " Southern Rhodesia " throughout its existence, a stance it maintained regarding the June – December 1979 successor state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

After the dissolution, Serbia continued to be the legal successor of the union, while Montenegro re-applied for membership in international organizations.

The process was begun in earnest by Alexander II and was continued by his successor Alexander III.

The Athenians were certainly aware throughout this period that the Persian interest in Greece had not ended ; Darius's son and successor, Xerxes I, had continued the preparations for the invasion of Greece.

His successor, Anne, continued the war.

He and his successor Shulgi were both deified during their reigns, and after his death he continued as a hero-figure: one of the surviving works of Sumerian literature describes the death of Ur-Nammu and his journey to the underworld.

Although King William III died in 1702, his successor in England, Queen Anne, continued the vigorous prosecution of the war, under the guidance of her ministers, Godolphin and Marlborough.

Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, Ehud Barak, at the Camp David 2000 Summit in July 2000.

After Baibars died in 1277, his successor Qalawun continued expansionist policies.

As the DC's role was ended, the 1919 PPI strongholds and the DC's traditional heartlands were to become Lega Nord's power base, while the successor parties of the DC continued to be key political actors only in the South, where the clientelistic way of government practised by the Christian Democrats and their allies had left a mark.