Esperança Abiatar Muthemba was a Mozambican independence activist and politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.
Biography During the Mozambican War of Independence Muthemba was involved with the underground movements in Lourenço Marques.Teresa Cruz e Silva (1998) "Identity and Political Consciousness in Southern Mozambique, 1930-1974: Two Presbyterian Biographies Contextualised" Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 24, number 1, pp223–236 After being arrested in João Belo by the PIDE, she was exiled to Muecate in Nampula Province, where she was required to report to the administration on a daily basis.Renato Matusse (2008) Josina Machel: ícona da emancipação da mulher moçambicana, p197 In 1967 she began working for the Credito Agricola de Nampula as a bookkeeper.
Following independence in 1975, she was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections and was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p297 Re-elected in 1986, she was a substitute member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Council.Summary Records of the LXXXth Inter-Parliamentary Conference, 1988, plxii She also served as the secretary of the Maputo branch of the Organization of Mozambican Women.Douglas H. Graham, Irae Baptista Lundin de Coloane, Antonio Francisco, Willian Nall, Mindy Walker & Paul Jenkins (1991) Resultados Da Pesquisa Peri-urbana Básica: Maputo, Moçambique
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