Talk:Maputo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article has been reviewed by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. | ||||||||
 |
This article has been selected for Version 0.7 and subsequent release versions of Wikipedia. | ||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Africa, which collaborates on articles related to Africa in Wikipedia. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as start-class on the quality scale. | ||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. | ||
 |
This article is supported by WikiProject Mozambique. | ||
|
Assessment comments
|
|||
 |
This article is supported by WikiProject Cities, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to cities, towns, and various other settlements on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, visit the project page. | |
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) |
|
| Top | This article has been rated as Top-importance on the priority scale. | |
Terms like "native" and "tribal villages" have associations that are not conducive to NPOV (what's tribal affiliation got to do with building maintenance?). Besides, Maputo was the centre of post-independence government and thus many of the people moving into Maputo were the new governmental and administrative elite (not sure of the exact numbers tho). And "all but destroyed" is putting it a bit strong. I've been visiting Maputo once or twice a year since the mid-90s and most of the pre-independence houses are/were still standing! Pretty run down, and services often cut, but hardly "all but destroyed".
Have rephrased this section in an attempt to make it more NPOV.
--ThirdWorldEye
Being born and raised there, I can say that most of the infrastructure existing today really IS rundown and in need of a revamp. It is sad to see that MozAl (Mozambican Aluminium), a joint South African-Australian venture recently setup near Maputo, accounts for about 2% (last time i checked) of total Mozambican exports. And this is an aluminium refinery(?) with a working force of less than 2000 people (once again, last time I checked, not taking into consideration further expansions they were carrying out). This project was undertaken in Mozambique and not South Africa, where the purified aluminium is then taken for shipping, because it is too polluting. Offer a few bribes to the government and they close both eyes on the environmental effects. Although Mozambique is in bad shape now, it is home, after all, and nothing will change that. There is also a lot of beauty to be found everywhere, its just that who is in charge should make a bigger effort for a better country.
The InTeRLoPeR
[edit] Date of establishment
All the languages that were translated directly from English read, as this one did until now, that Maputo (Lourenco Marques) was founded in the "late 18th century"... However, those articles that are independent of this English one, namely the German and French ones, give more specific dates, in the late 19th century. The German article states that it was established (as Lourenco Marques) in 1875, while the French says this happened in 1876. I suspect "late 18th century" was an error that crept from here into several other languages. 70.16.251.230 22:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
