"Parents never die because they are the truest love that children know in their entire lives. They live forever inside us", wrote Tchizé dos Santos on the social network Instagram, in a message accompanied by a collage of old family photographs.
José Eduardo dos Santos died this Friday at the age of 79 in Barcelona, after a prolonged illness, announced the Presidency of the Republic.
The former President had been in intensive care for two weeks at a clinic in Barcelona.
During this period, the daughter Tchizé dos Santos filed a complaint with the Catalonia police, arguing that the former head of state was not taking the care he considered adequate.
As the lawyer representing the Angolan woman, Carmen Varela, then told Lusa, the complaint was aimed at investigating alleged crimes of attempted murder, failure to provide assistance, injuries due to gross negligence and disclosure of secrets by close people.
As a source close to the family also told Lusa, Tchizé dos Santos wanted to remove Ana Paula dos Santos, the ex-wife of José Eduardo dos Santos and mother of three of his children, and to prevent the machines that kept the former president alive from being turned off.
The former first lady, who recently reconnected with José Eduardo dos Santos after a few years of estrangement, went on a collision course with her eldest children, namely Tchizé dos Santos, who publicly said that Ana Paula dos Santos "abandoned her husband" and contributed to hasten the father's death.
José Eduardo dos Santos, 79, is the father of eight children with five wives and has been at the forefront of Angola's destiny for 38 years.
Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola between 1979 and 2017, having been one of the longest-serving Presidents in the world and was regularly accused by international organizations of corruption and nepotism.
In 2017, he resigned from re-candidate and the current President, João Lourenço, succeeded him in office, having also been elected by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which has governed the country since independence from Portugal in 1975.
