 Samora Machel became Mozambique 's first president . The Reverend Uria Simango , his wife , and other FRELIMO dissidents were arrested in 1975 and detained without trial . Within about two years , fighting resumed with the Mozambican Civil War against RENAMO insurgents plied with Rhodesian and South African military support . Industrial and social recession , Marxist @-@ style totalitarianism , corruption , poverty , inequality and failed central planning eroded the initial revolutionary fervour . Peace returned only in 1992 , when the nation achieved relative stability for the first time in several decades . 
 Samora Machel became Mozambique <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>first president . The Reverend Uria Simango , his wife , and other FRELIMO dissidents <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> arrested in 1975 and detained without trial . Within about two years , fighting resumed with the Mozambican Civil War against RENAMO insurgents plied with Rhodesian and South African military support . Industrial and social recession , Marxist @-@ style totalitarianism , corruption , poverty , inequality and failed central planning eroded the initial revolutionary fervour . Peace returned only in 1992 , when the nation achieved relative stability for the first time in several decades . 
Samora Machel became Mozambique  first president . The Reverend Uria Simango , his wife , and other FRELIMO dissidents was arrested in 1975 and detained w/o trial . Within about 2 yrs , fighting resumed witt the Mozambican Civil War against RENAMO insurgents plied w Rhodesian and South African military support . Industrial and social recession , Marxist @-@ style totalitarianism , corruption , poverty , inequality and failed central planning eroded da initial revolutionary fervour . Peace returned only in 1992 , when tdanation achieved relative stability fir the first time in several decades .