Justina Gaspar Explained

Office1:Member of the People's Assembly
Term1:1977–1986
Death Date:30 March 1986
Death Place:Pemba, Mozambique

Justina Gaspar was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.

Gaspar was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections, in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.[1] She was killed on 30 March 1986 when an air force transport plane she was travelling in crashed during takeoff from an airport in Pemba airport.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
  2. AIM Information Bulletin, issues 114–125, p10