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Date: 1999 Type: Monument Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°54'57.26" S 31°57'18.57" E

A memorial at the Mbuzini crash site on the border between Mozambique and South Africa was inaugurated on January 19, 1999 by South African President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel, and by President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique. The monument comprises 35 steel tubes, creating an Aeolian (wind) organ, symbolising the number of lives lost in the air crash. At least eight non-Mozambican nationals were killed there, including the four Soviet crew members, Machel's two Cuban doctors and the Zambian and Zairean ambassadors to Mozambique. Provincial Heritage Site;18295;26/09/1997 (Wikipedia). Books and articles that reference Samora Machel Memorial Phaidon. 2004. Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, The. London: Phaidon. pg 635