By Malundo Kudiqueba
Tchizé dos Santos, daughter of the former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, has expressed deep hurt and disappointment towards General Higino Carneiro, a prominent figure within the MPLA regime. In statements filled with emotion and indignation, Tchizé broke her silence to denounce what she views as an act of disloyalty and ingratitude from someone who, in her view, owes his rise within the MPLA to her father.
“My father promoted General Higino Carneiro. He gave him trust, positions, prestige. And in the end, what did he get in return? Disloyalty.”
Tchizé’s words resonate not only as a personal outcry but as a serious political accusation, once again lifting the veil on the internal fractures within the MPLA and among those who directly benefited from the dos Santos era.
She recalls with bitterness how her father was treated in his final years — isolated, politically silenced, and, according to her, betrayed by many who once shared both table and power with him. Higino Carneiro, in her eyes, has become a symbol of that betrayal.
“There are those who owe history a little more gratitude. But they chose to turn their backs on the man who lifted them up.”
In a country where power has a short memory and loyalty is often cast aside when convenient, Tchizé’s outcry is more than a cry of pain: it is a political accusation, with names and faces. The figure of Higino Carneiro, once seen as a trusted ally of the former President, now stands accused of opportunism and betrayal.
In societies shaped by networks of loyalty and cronyism, the public rupture between figures like Tchizé dos Santos and Higino Carneiro paints a portrait of a country where power often outweighs memory, and gratitude is discarded with the first shift in political winds.
Birmingham, 8 June 2025
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