We have achieved many of the goals we set ourselves last
year, thus:
a) In the zone of Catur which -lies in the Southern part of Lake
Nyasa Province, adjoining Mai ami. Here the Portuguese are fighting furiously, trying to defend the whole area against a possible
breakthrough of our forces to the Zambezia Province, a very rich,
strategic region which divides the North from the South. It will
be recalled that it is in the Zambezia Province that the Portuguese
Government has ambitious plans of settling one million white Portuguese in the next ten years. The armed struggle is very hard in
this area especially because, while we have to attack the enemy
constantly, we have to maintain our supplies with great difficulty.
It is, therefore the zone with the most difficult vanguard and
rearguard. In spite of this, the freedom fighters were able to
maintain the pressure on the enemy while at the same time engaging
in agricultural production on a large scale. They have been able
to produce this year sufficient maize for one full year.
b) Zone of Marrupa / Maua, Eastern Nyasa Province, sharing borders
with the nrovinc-ss of Cabo Delgad  and Mozambique.  Because of
the flat and open nature of the landscape the enemy maintains an
intensive air bombardment of our positions. But our forces have not
slackened their attacks on the enemy, inspite of these air-raids.
Production was less than in Catur, although considerable.
c) Zone of Tete_, adjoining_southern Mnlawi, eastern Zambia and
northern Zimbabwe. As is well known, FRELIWO guerrillas were
active during the first six months of the armed struggle, but were
forced to withdraw their forces due to the difficulties encountered
in supplying them. In spite of this we were able to expand our
political activities in the zone. In this zone the African population is as eager as in other areas of Mozambique, and ready to
join, support and maintain the armed struggle. The only difficulty
is material.
d) Semi-liberated zones. It is now widely known that we have vaste
areas of Northern Mozambique virtually under the people's control,
where the Portuguese armed forces move only with great difficulty.
These areas we consider as "semi-liberated", in that, while the r
enemy continues to maintain some isolated garrisons which from
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