Reneilwe Morema reports on the recent Mozambique unrest that plagued the country after the results of the recent elections.

Popular discontent started long before voters went to the polls this year to choose a new president.

For years, Frelimo, the party that has governed Mozambique since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, has faced allegations of election rigging. Public dissatisfaction with the party grew amid corruption accusations and the revelation of a debt scandal that nearly caused the collapse of the economy, and defrauded American investors. Declining investment in public services, growing poverty and unemployment and extravagant spending by people connected to Frelimo left many Mozambicans feeling like the promises of post-colonial progress were nothing but a farce.

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