predecessor birth_place nationality party office birth_date term_start image article_title name
andré matsangaissa mangunde , sofala province portuguese mozambique mozambican renamo leader of renamo 1 january 1953 17 october 1979 afonso dhlakama.jpg afonso dhlakama
 afonso dhlakama
afonso dhlakama

afonso marceta macacho dhlakama -lrb- born 1 january 1953 -rrb- is a mozambican politician and the leader of renamo , an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the frelimo government in the mozambican civil war before signing a peace agreement and becoming an opposition political party in the early 1990s .
dhlakama was born in mangunde , sofala province .
