Samora Machel’s Tupolev Tu-134 crashed into the Lebombo Mountains at Mbuzini, where South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland meet, on 19th October 1986. Had it come down 500 metres to the east, Machel would have died in his own country not in ours, but that was not the will of whoever was controlling the mysterious events of that day. A memorial marks the distant site of the crash but how much more remote this place must have seemed to the two Cuban doctors and the Russian flight crew, even than for the President, several of his cabinet ministers, various officials and an ambassador, all of whom died there with him. But was the apartheid government involved? It has never been proved.