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they wanted us to learn - the catechism; they didn't
want us to learn other things0 Then every morning we
had to work on the mission land. They said our^fathers
didn't pay for our food or our school things, ^he mission also received money from the government and our
families paid them fees. After 1958 our parents even had
to buy the hues with which we cultivated the mission
land.
Previously I was in a state of servitude but I
didn't know it. I thought that was just how the world
was. I didn't know that Mozambique was our country. The
books said we were Portuguese. Then about 1961 I began
to hear other things. The old men in their cooperatives
were also beginning to agitate. In 1962 even the children saw the truth. FRELIMO began operating in our zone.
Some comrades explained about it and I wanted to join.
By the end of 1962 even the government felt that the
party was growing and they started a great campaign of
repression, arresting and torturing everyone they suspected. Many preferred to die rather than betray their
comrades. But the party gained strength. The leaders
explained the tiuth to us, taught us our own strength
and we saw clearly ho Mozanbique, which belongs to us
and not to Portugal, had been dominated.
Nov/ there is the war. If I compare the present with
the past I see that in my region the people have a
better life. There are difficulties but it's different.
When the people produce crops now they eat better; the
companies don't come to rob them; there is no forced
labour, our people are free; we can say that the war
is liberating the peopleo
We are also united. In the units I have been in
there were people from all over. The colonialists want
to divide us. Since 1963 when I joined FRELIMO I have
fought together with comrades from all the tribes of
Mozambique. In all sectors where I have worked I have
seen the national dimension of our struggle. Our struggle is a political and military struggle but the military struggle is an aspect of our political straggle;
without the people we are nothing; divided we are weak
and can be defeated0
V/e shall fight« I want to rid our country of foreign
domination. We shall win*
GABRIEL M. NANTIMBO • . .
V.-13-
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| Full text | they wanted us to learn - the catechism; they didn't want us to learn other things0 Then every morning we had to work on the mission land. They said our^fathers didn't pay for our food or our school things, ^he mission also received money from the government and our families paid them fees. After 1958 our parents even had to buy the hues with which we cultivated the mission land. Previously I was in a state of servitude but I didn't know it. I thought that was just how the world was. I didn't know that Mozambique was our country. The books said we were Portuguese. Then about 1961 I began to hear other things. The old men in their cooperatives were also beginning to agitate. In 1962 even the children saw the truth. FRELIMO began operating in our zone. Some comrades explained about it and I wanted to join. By the end of 1962 even the government felt that the party was growing and they started a great campaign of repression, arresting and torturing everyone they suspected. Many preferred to die rather than betray their comrades. But the party gained strength. The leaders explained the tiuth to us, taught us our own strength and we saw clearly ho Mozanbique, which belongs to us and not to Portugal, had been dominated. Nov/ there is the war. If I compare the present with the past I see that in my region the people have a better life. There are difficulties but it's different. When the people produce crops now they eat better; the companies don't come to rob them; there is no forced labour, our people are free; we can say that the war is liberating the peopleo We are also united. In the units I have been in there were people from all over. The colonialists want to divide us. Since 1963 when I joined FRELIMO I have fought together with comrades from all the tribes of Mozambique. In all sectors where I have worked I have seen the national dimension of our struggle. Our struggle is a political and military struggle but the military struggle is an aspect of our political straggle; without the people we are nothing; divided we are weak and can be defeated0 V/e shall fight« I want to rid our country of foreign domination. We shall win* GABRIEL M. NANTIMBO • . . V.-13- |
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