afonso marceta macacho dhlakama (1 january 1953 – 3 may 2018) was a mozambican politician. he was the leader of renamo, an anti-communist guerrilla movement from 1979 to 2018. he fought the frelimo government in the mozambican civil war before signing a peace agreement. dhlakama became the opposition leader in the early 1990s. dhlakama was born in muxúngue, sofala province.