Roque Silva

Chapo's main attribute was not being Roque Silva the unpopular chosen successor of the equally detested President Filipe Nyusi (AC Vol 65 No 11 How Chapo won the anti-Nyusi vote)...

Chapo's unexpected victory on 5 May came after the party's fierce backlash against Nyusi's apparent first choice of successor the then-Frelimo Secretary-General Roque Silva...

We hear that Frelimo Secretary-General Roque Silva was Nyusi's chosen candidate...

' Meanwhile journalists say they have been under pressure from senior Frelimo officials not to criticise the results some receiving calls from Frelimo Secretary-General Roque Silva himself warning them to toe the line...

His loyalist Secretary-General Roque Silva held his post with almost 100% too as local media mocked Frelimo's hyperbolic 'exaltations' about their 'wise' and 'visionary' leader...

The eighth new member of the Political Commission is Frelimo secretary-general Roque Silva whose membership as with Nyusi's comes automatically with the position...