Mozambique: Human Trafficking Or Religious Indoctrination? Oct 28, 2008
But in both cases the children themselves said they were not being trafficked, but were being taken to a madrassa (koranic school) in the southern city of Matola to continue their "Islamic studies". To check this story out, the police, according to a report in Monday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais", decided to escort the second bus all the way to Matola. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Brazilian President Wants Better Cooperation Oct 17, 2008
The site for the factory is in the southern city of Matola, and it is hoped that it will go into production in mid-2009. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
Child traffickers target Mozambique schools, activists say Oct 13, 2008
Police are investigating at least two instances of children who were recently kidnapped from a primary school in the southern city of Matola. Police about two months ago detained the driver of a minibus transporting 20 children from the central province of Manica without documentation amid suspicions they were being trafficked to South Africa. (USA Today -- News)
Southern Africa: Guebuza And Mbeki in Economic Talks Apr 12, 2008
The meeting also expressed strong support from the two governments for a project to produce steel in the southern Mozambican city of Matola, using iron ore (magnetite) stockpiled at the South African mining town of Phalaborwa as the raw material. This magnetite is a by-product of copper mining. (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Trade Unions Concerned At Fuel Prices Feb 2, 2008
The latest fuel price rise was the main factor behind the increase in fares charged by the private minibuses that provide much of the passenger transport in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola ... Thus the Maputo bus company, TPM, has only 40 operational buses to cover the entire Maputo-Matola connurbation. (allAfrica.com)
Fighting disease Jun 28, 2007
U.S. first lady Laura Bush, observes an initiative's indoor residual spraying for mosquitoes at Matola. Slideshow. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Teledata Mozambique chooses Redline's WiMAX systems for nationwide network Jun 11, 2007
In March, the company expanded its network to bring WiMAX to the cities of Matola and Nampula to serve enterprise customers. The next deployment stage will include the introduction of user self-installable RedMAX Indoor Subscriber Units that will enable customers to benefit from nomadic and limited portable WiMAX services. (Canada Newswire)
20 M Dollars to rehabilitate Maputo-South Africa railwayMaputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique's publicly-owned Ports andRailway company, CFM, is fully rehabilitating the Maputo-SouthAfrica railway, at a cost of 20 million US dollars. 19/05/2007 Full Text... May 20, 2007
In some cases the damage is natural: carrying limestone from the Salamanga quarries west of Maputo to the Matola cement factory eventually corrodes the wagon walls and they have to be replaced. But a more serious problem was the repeated theft of metallic parts from wagons. (Panapress.com)
Is sex on a plane legal? Feb 15, 2007
" Although the airline cannot fine passengers, it can ban them for offensive behaviour, although she's unaware if this has ever happened. There is nothing in transport law governing the matter of having sex on public transport. And the Civil Aviation Authority says there's nothing specific about it in aviation law - but there are other considerations. "To comply with health and safety laws, they would have to be sitting with their seatbelts on for take-off and landing," a spokeswoman says. And... (BBC News -- UK)
Richards Bay coal exports plunge Feb 6, 2007
South Africa also exports coal through Durban and Matola in Mozambique. - Bloomberg. (Business Report, South Africa)
SA may export 13% more coal this year Jan 9, 2007
Some coal is also loaded at the southeastern port of Durban and at Matola in neighbouring Mozambique. Richards Bay coal terminal is owned by the mining firms, while Bidvest Group owns the Durban terminal and Grindrod operates the Matola terminal. (Business Report, South Africa)
