them among the white settlers.But the conditions under which the black African
settlers live are much less favourable than those arranged for the white settlers.
Thus when a white settler gets a piece of land to start farming he is given money
with which to maintain himself and his employees, aside from the farm equipment
which he also receives; a tractor, a plough and a pair of cattle. The white farmer
does not have to build the house in which he starts his farming venture. The
African farmer, however, gets no money and the land which the government initially
tilled for him, has to be paid for by him out of his first crops.
Although the system of forced labour has been legally abolished, the white
settlers continue to receive African labourers who are recruited by force.   ....
..... Immoral barbarism I have already told you that the African Mozambican has
been deprived of his wife. The Portuguese are an immoral and adulterous people,
without any human principles whatsoever. Where there are Portuguese men there one
must expect an abundance of mulattoes. Women and young girls are violated by the
Portuguese as if they were bitches set on by a pack of dogs. This is especially so
where there is a Portuguese militaryt camp, or new Portuguese settlers. Portuguese
men treat African women as if they had no personality of their own, or any value
whatsoever except sex. At Chibuto, in the Goza province there is a Portuguese
military camp near a catholic mission. There the African girls know no peace. The
Portuguese soldiers get hold of any girl who may have the misfortune of meeting
them and satisfy their animal desire in public, shamelessly. Those girls who run
away are pursued by the Portuguese as if they were animals. Some African girls
have died after being assaulted in this way.What I am saying here may seem fantast*
ic, but it happens in the Portuguese colonial system.
This year the doors and windows of an African, who lived 5km. from my mission
were broken down by the Portuguese settlers who wanted to get his wife. He was a
member of the same colonato as the Portuguese whites. His name is Goba, and he
lodged a complaint to the administrator at Vila Fontes, but with no result.
Another African was beaten up by Portuguese settlers while he was sleeping with
his wife. The Portuguese broke his door down and tried to drag him out of his house
and as he defended his wife from them he was beaten. Many Africans do not know
peace in their own houses any more.
The head of the family which lived a few kms. ~rom my mission was savagely
beaten up by two white Portuguese settlers because he was refusing to let them
sleep with his 9 year old daughter. The Portuguese settlers beat the.poor man to
death and nothing happened to them, even though the government was informed of the
crime.,., *#
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