{"id":235242,"date":"2026-06-03T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-leader-venancio-mondlane-carries-the-cross-of-mozambiques-democracy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:13:58","slug":"mozambique-opposition-leader-venancio-mondlane-carries-the-cross-of-mozambiques-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-opposition-leader-venancio-mondlane-carries-the-cross-of-mozambiques-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Opposition Leader Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane Carries the Cross of Mozambique&#8217;s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>He says he was cheated out of victory in 2024. Now Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane is building his party to win in 2029.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to carry this cross,&#8221; says Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">That cross is his onerous and perilous mission to topple Mozambique&#8217;s ruthless ruling party, Frelimo, while living on the run and watching as his comrades die at the hands of political assassins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mondlane is not just a charismatic politician and an engineer but also a part-time pastor, so his almost religious devotion to his cause&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030158.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>He says he was cheated out of victory in 2024. Now Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane is building his party to win in 2029. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to carry this cross,&#8221; says Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane. That cross is his onerous and perilous mission to topple Mozambique&#8217;s ruthless ruling party, Frelimo, while living on the run and watching as his comrades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670606:363f55d2c77f801abe3b8118e1b706c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,14086,8816,4854,7079,16741,4704,682,10439,257,5675,254,20604],"class_list":["post-235242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carries","tag-cross","tag-democracy","tag-leader","tag-mondlane","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-venancio"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670606:363f55d2c77f801abe3b8118e1b706c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235242","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=235242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}