Frelimo's presidential candidate, Daniel Chapo, promised yesterday in Maputo that his government will build sturdy, low-cost homes for young Mozambicans.

According to Chapo, the idea is part of his party's electoral manifesto, which aims to identify spaces in the country and mobilize national and foreign investment.

"We're thinking of finding investors, whether national or foreign, so that we can start making low-cost housing, more or less along the lines of what was done in the Olympic Village," he said, quoted in an AIM publication.

"The idea is to make the houses more resistant so that we can make them available to young people," he added.

Chapo was speaking yesterday in Maputo at a meeting with religious denominations and was answering questions from young people about housing and access to land.

"The young person enters the house, applies as it happened and if the young person is already working, they pay for the house little by little over 10 to 20 years while they are living in the house... we think that this way we will be able to make more houses for our young people."

As well as building houses, Chapo said that if he is elected President of the Republic, his government will make land available with essential services such as water, energy and access roads so that young people can build their homes. (Source: AIM)