Vale Jose Oficio
		
		
				
				
		
			
				
					Yesterday was a momentous day for my family both here in Mozambique and Melbourne.  My 'Sogro'..Father-in-law..Sr Jose Oficio passed on, into a better place.  He had been sick for some time, and his passing was a blessing at the end of one of the fullest lives I could imagine.
He was born, and was taken back to die in his home town of Madendere, a locality near Chidenguele, above Xai Xai on the main road going north.  He was a MaChope man who had come into a changing world, out of a very traditional existence.  He'd grown up in the Portuguese colonial times, was married to 3 wives, and fathered 26 children..and you thought your life was busy? 
He survived through some 20 yrs of violent conflict and was one of the most humble, and human person I've had the pleasure to meet...Vale Sogro.



				
			 
			
		 
			
				
			
			
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