MOZAMBIQUE: GRACA MACHEL FORMER MOZAMBICAN FIRST LADY MARRIED TO NELSON MANDELA BLASTS INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS AS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

Record ID: 981525

  • Title: MOZAMBIQUE: GRACA MACHEL FORMER MOZAMBICAN FIRST LADY MARRIED TO NELSON MANDELA BLASTS INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS AS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
  • Date: 7th March 2000
  • Summary: CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. AERIAL: FLOODED AREA 0.12 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (SABC - NO ACCESS SOUTH AFRICA) 2. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) FORMER WIFE OF EX-MOZAMBIQUE PRESIDENT, SAMORA MACHEL: "You know we have dozens of countries sending military stuff and helicopters and boats to rescue people, they just came too late. Those that could be rescued have been rescued, the South African Army has done that. And those that are dead, are dead. There's nobody to rescue anymore." 0.38 CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 3. AERIAL: BODY IN WATER 0.44 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (SABC - NO ACCESS SOUTH AFRICA) 4. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) MACHEL SAYING: "Always we have to be dying in thousands...If they are told it's dozens of people dying, it's fine. When there are hundreds they start to say oh is there a problem. And when we are dying in thousands then they come running. It's always too late." 1.06 CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 5. SLV: VOLUNTEERS UNLOADING BODIES IN BAGS (2 SHOTS) 1.34 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000)(SABC - NO ACCESS SOUTH AFRICA) 6. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) MACHEL SAYING: "I wish they could turn themselves to become brigades helping in resettlement...and to help people go back to their places of origin. If they can do that, then it is useful their presence here. If they are not prepared to do that I really don't know, I don't think they should stay long." 1.53 CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 7. ZOOM: SURVIVOR AND HIS SURROUNDINGS 2.08 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000)(SABC - NO ACCESS SOUTH AFRICA) 8. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) MACHEL SAYING: "How is it that South Africa was here from the first minute to help to rescue people? Is it because the South Africans, they dreamed and they had to guess what was happening here. At the same time the appeal was made to the South African government, actually to the African governments, it was made also to the international community. I don't buy that, I must say. Second, you have a country like Malawi, they only have three helicopters in the country as far as I know, they gave us two of these three. They were here as the first minute." 2.49 CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 9. AERIAL: FLOODS 2.55 MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (SABC - NO ACCESS SOUTH AFRICA) 10. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) MACHEL SAYING: "Let us not just concentrate on Mozambique. I think there at least three or four countries here, because Namibia has been affected recently, there are at least four or five countries that are in an emergency situation. And the continent, now they are coming, but again, they are coming too late, as the other people." 3.18 CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE (MARCH 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 11. LV: SURVIVORS (2 SHOTS) 3.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MAPUTO AND CHOKWE, MOZAMBIQUE
  • Country: Mozambique
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