Atribuição de pensão aos antigos combatentes desmobilizados: o impacto na reintegração social no Centro de Produção dos Antigos Combatentes 25 de Setembro, em Umbeluzi, distrito de Boane na província de Maputo, no período 1986-2001.

Abstract

The present work was carried out at the Former Combatants Production Center 25 de Setembro, in Umbeluzi, District of Boane, in the province of Maputo. The fieldwork lasted twenty days and fifteen interviews were carried out in the field. The work focuses on the social condition of former demobilized combatants. The motivation stems from the realization that this target group, even receiving a pension that is above the national minimum wage, appears to be in a state of absolute poverty, whose eradication is one of the Government's priorities. From the research carried out, it was found that the weak social reintegration capacity of this target group is fundamentally associated with two factors: on the one hand, the fact that the Laws approved for the benefit of these are not fully implemented due to the lack of human and technical availability capable, due to the country's economic and financial fragility; on the other hand, former demobilized combatants are full of expectations to see these Laws implemented, but this does not happen, leading them to frustration and, therefore, not directing the pension they receive into assets that translate into improved their social conditions.