Kommentare zu: Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique

Von: adidas soccer cleats

adidas soccer cleats — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:46:15 +0000

From now on, the Grande Hotel served as the main accomodation for forces against the Portuguese.

Von: nike ctr360 maestri

nike ctr360 maestri — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:22:19 +0000

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Von: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:47:44 +0000

Nao ha palavras para descrever a situacao actual.
Vivi na Beira muitos anos de 1952 a 1969 e para mim era como algo de muito especial aquela pequena mas tao bela cidade. Vejam pois no que deu a Independencia e depois se os brancos falam algo sao racistas, mas uma verdade e que pretos nao fazem nada de jeito so servem para provocar a destruicao. Meu querido Grande Hotel onde eu e muito colegas passamos grandes momentos a comecar nas passagens de Ano. Doi-me o coracao de ver as fotos daquele que foi o melhor e maior hotel de Africa. E Triste mas infelizmente e uma realidade.

Von: wedding updos

wedding updos — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:46:21 +0000

This article not only shows us the trend that took off after the colonial rule it shows how Africans are in competent with resources can imagine all furnitures, wooden, glass and metal parts, even silver and gold cuttleries and sanitary parts where sold.

Von: Smith Taylor

Smith Taylor — Sun, 16 May 2010 23:57:40 +0000

Well, I *have* to leave a comment in this thread.. Well put :)

Von: marie vigier

marie vigier — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:37:08 +0000

bonjour Rolando Furioso,

je suis étudiante en quatrième année à l’école d’architecture de Saint-Etienne. Je souhaite effectuer un travail anthropologique sur les lieux et les habitants de cet hôtel,et cela dans le cadre d’un mémoire de fin d’études. Je suis en train d’organiser mon voyage sur place pour septembre 2010 et j’aimerai avoir vos conseils et surtout votre retour sur votre voyage. Serait-ce possible?
Pouvons nous communiquer autrement? Notamment par mail?

Je ne parle pas trés bien anglais et revanche si vous parler portugais et que vous ne comprenez pas ma demande je peux la reformuler en portugais.

Merci d’avance pour votre aide précieuse,

Marie Vigier

Von: susan

susan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:34:27 +0000

Is there any thought that this is the hotel depicted in jorge’s Murmuring Coast. And who was the architect?

It is a fantastic building, thank you for the posting.

Von: Dale

Dale — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:23 +0000

Some statements made are simply incorrect. The hotel never served as accommodation for forces against the portuguese. The occupation only happened after the independence. Until then, although not functioning as a hotel, it was a venue for functions, and the swimming pool. I know, I swam there many time in my early teens. Beira was as peaceful as all the other main cities in Mocambique, where the war hardly made headlines on the newspapers.
The occupation of the hotel started well after 1975, initially by the military that used the basement of the hotel as the dugeons to torture political prisoners.
It was only later on that the general population started taking over. Of course by that time I was no longer living there, but I know this from an article on a maputo newspaper.
Also, contrary to the statement, Beira was never the capital of Mocambique. In the early days of the colony (for 400 years until 1898) the capital was the island of Mocambique, otherwise the capital was Lourenco Marques, now called Maputo.

Von: aldo

aldo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:19:41 +0000

Very very sad, I am a south african, and only hope to God that this is not the future of South Africa, because evedently, this is how most of the African Continent looks like. A good example is Zimbabwe.

Hope a lesson will be learn oit of this mess.
aldo

Von: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:05:57 +0000

Dear Joao,
Your comment could,t be more accurated… it is painful just to look at the pictures of the Hotel where I learned to swim 38 years ago. Today, 33 years,1 month and 16 days after the independence the progress is what we see. The democracy to the people of Mozambique came with a very high price and this is a debt these guys will be paing for many generations to come.
God bless you all guys

Carlos