Mozambique is going through a post-election period marked by demonstrations that have had a very negative impact on the modus operandi. Protesters have vandalized and looted public and private property. Protesters, non-protesters and police lost their lives. The police fired countless times. There were also outbreaks of revenge against the police who kill in an attempt not to kill and to restore order. The police also died!

Various sectors of society, including the international community, have deplored the escalation of violence during the supposedly peaceful protests.

It seems that the calls for non-violence by Venâncio Mondlane, the face of the protests, and those of the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, have been heeded.

This Wednesday, the country once again saw demonstrations in broad daylight, which lasted less than an hour, as Venâncio Mondlane suggested. What we saw throughout the country, according to the images that travel on our cell phones with proprietary internet, were vehicles that suspended their marches where they were and honked their horns. There were cases where the human body of the demonstrators occupied the roads, saying prayers and singing protest songs.

In the interest of the presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, pacifism in the protests has two essential aspects: to demonstrate that his calls are against acts of violence and to identify "the infiltrators" who promote violence.

For PR Filipe Nyusi - who made a statement to the nation yesterday - it is fundamentally important to avoid more deaths and to ensure that the socio-economic movement continues with the same trend as before the demonstrations.

And what does it matter to the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, who stress and repeat the need to obey the country's legal procedures for holding demonstrations?

Today's demonstrations haven't climbed the steps of the country's competent institutions to ask for permission, but they have crossed all the dignified instances if they make themselves vital in the streets and avenues. Will there be traffic fines for these serious transgressions of the Highway Code? Or were they not illegal? Or will someone suck up to everyone? Fine scams? Even you, Mr. Policeman, were forced to stop today, punctually at 12 noon, to obey Superior Orders! I've never seen it! (In: Chronicle of the Ghost Town)