{"id":216629,"date":"2025-12-14T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-class-central-for-economic-independence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:16:30","slug":"mozambique-class-central-for-economic-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-class-central-for-economic-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Class Central for Economic Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo declared on Saturday that the working class is &#8220;the central pillar for the construction of the economic independence of Mozambique&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Opening the 8th Congress of the country&#8217;s main trade union federation, the OTM (Mozambican Workers&#8217; Organisation), in the southern municipality of Matola, Chapo said &#8220;it is the workers who build Mozambique&#8217;, and that the labour stability achieved in the country is now one of its main competitive advantages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Matola is the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512080044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambican President Daniel Chapo declared on Saturday that the working class is &#8220;the central pillar for the construction of the economic independence of Mozambique&#8217;. Opening the 8th Congress of the country&#8217;s main trade union federation, the OTM (Mozambican Workers&#8217; Organisation), in the southern municipality of Matola, Chapo said &#8220;it is the workers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,5934,6285,3576,7690,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-216629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-class","tag-economic","tag-independence","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}