Audio

This page contains audio from interviews with various people around various election issues. You are free to use this audio, but we ask that you contact Terra Angolana News at john.t.daniels@gmail.com before doing so.

To download audio, click on the link.

Interviews with Adalberto da Costa Jnr. (Portuguese)
UNITA Spokesperson
1 – On pre-election intimidation and escalating violence
2 – On election observers, the need for them to investigate more deeply, and the monopolisation of media by MPLA
3 – On irregularities in campaign financing

Interview with Fernando Macedo (English)
President, Justice, Peace and Democracy Association
1 – Response to SADC statement applauding Angolan elections preparations, and need for observers to set clear indicators for free and fair elections.
2 – On electoral irregularities, corruption around election campaigning and financing, private control of government funds, and suppression of private and international media.(25Megs)

Interview with Alexandre Salombe (Portuguese)
Former director of Radio Despertar
On the closure of Radio Despertar, media freedom in the country, and people’s growing mistrust of state media.

Interview with Petro Santa Maria (English)
Acting National Director – Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Angola
On MPLA use of government funds, media control, role of SADC observers, the conflation of the MPLA with the state.

Audio Features
1 – Media freedom surrounding the elections
2 – Government corruption and oil revenues
3 – Pre-election intimidation and suppression