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Center (Maputo; elections<br />

every five years)<br />

Provincial (11; new elected<br />

assemblies, governors)<br />

Municipality (33)<br />

District (125+)<br />

Locality (more<br />

urban)<br />

Locality (rural<br />

and non-urban)<br />

Secretario do<br />

bairro<br />

Regulado<br />

structure<br />

Chefe do<br />

quartarão<br />

Figure 2-2. The structure of decentralized government in Mozambique<br />

from public and formal institutional life exited the political realm and instead engaged in an<br />

‘alternative politics’ of the invisible, which illustrated itself in through localized voluntary<br />

associations “which suspend sectarian and political differences in pursuit of shared aims, such as<br />

spiritual security, cultural improvement and self-help and self-repatriation initiatives.” (Chingano<br />

1996: 152) The high incidence of poverty has helped to sustain informal work such as that done<br />

at home, making cakes, selling firewood, helping out on machambas (small plots of land),<br />

cooking and selling, and the trade of several different types of sexual relationships. Additionally,<br />

throughout recent history, Mozambicans have mobilized for a variety of causes: business<br />

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