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Justina Gaspar

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Justina Gaspar
Member of the People's Assembly
In office
1977–1986
Personal details
Died30 March 1986
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]

References

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