Legislação sobre a protecção do património cultural da luta de libertação nacional em Moçambique: o modelo de inventário

Abstract

In Mozambique, the National Liberation Struggle Heritage occupies a special place, although many challenges still remain, for its proper conservation. Discussion of the problem it focused on the management of this heritage, which does not pass only through the existence of Laws. Like happens in the other components of Cultural Heritage, at the institutional level, there is a disproportion between its management needs and the existing means, whether human, material and financial. Despite the remarkable effort made by the State, through the Ministries of Culture and Tourism and Combatants, involving educational institutions and custody by local communities in the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the National Liberation Struggle o even vulnerable remains. This paper analyzes the Legislation on the Protection of Cultural Heritage from the Struggle National Liberation and its implementation in the period from 1988 to 2013. With Based on the existing legal devices, a proposal for an inventory model is formulated, as starting point to ensure adequate protection of this heritage, including property existing at national and international level. The example used is the Chilembene Historic Site, in the Chókwè District, in the Province of Gaza, land that saw the birth of Samora Machel, Founder of the Mozambican State and first President of the People's Republic of Mozambique. Based on interviews at DNPC, ARPAC, DNH, either through direct observations and informal conversations, in addition to consultation bibliography, it was possible to perceive the richness of the legacy represented by the Património da Luta de National Liberation in the period between 1960 and 1974, whose conservation is urgent, for the present and future generations.