Basílio Zefanias Muhate (born 28 September 1979 in

Chimoio Chimoio is the capital of Manica Province in Mozambique. It is the fifth-largest city in Mozambique. Chimoio's name under Portuguese administration was ''Vila Pery''. Vila Pery developed under Portuguese rule as an important agricultural and tex ...

) is a Mozambican economist and politician who served as the chairman (General Secretary) of the

FRELIMO FRELIMO (; from the Portuguese , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's first ...

Party's youth organization, the

Mozambican Youth Organisation The Mozambican Youth Organisation ( pt, Organização da Juventude Moçambicana, OJM), the oldest and largest youth organisation in Mozambique, is the youth wing of the FRELIMO FRELIMO (; from the Portuguese , ) is a democratic socialist politi ...

(OJM), and is a member of the Central Committee of FRELIMO since November 2010. Muhate studied Economics at

Eduardo Mondlane University The Eduardo Mondlane University ( pt, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane; UEM) is the oldest and largest university in Mozambique. The UEM is located in Maputo and has about 40,000 students enrolled. History The institution was set up as a center for ...

is a member of the Mozambican Association of Economists (AMECON), blogger columnist and commentator on economics. Basilio Muhate recently ceased his functions as General Secretary of OJM, along with the entire leadership of OJM, for reasons not yet made public officially by the leadership of Frelimo Party and after younger party activists made their voices heard with demands that the resources windfall should be managed for the benefit of the wider society and not monopolised by anyone.

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