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enemy - the Portuguese soldier; tools with which to teach themselves and their children how to read and write; tools with which to cure diseases, etc* One old man in Niassa, who had walked for 12 days to come to the meeting put it thus: "the hoe is a much more deadly enemyto the Portuguese than a bazooka for with it you can feed thousands of freedom fighters*1' The region of Niassa Province alone needs more than 3? 000 hoes, and the same number of pangas and hatchets this year* In both. Cabo Delgado and Niassa the organisation of the masses is undergoing a revolution * In the old days, before the armed struggle started, we used to depend on the traditional structures, and leadership* Now an awareness has developed for the establishment of new institutions which put more stress on political devotion than on traditional legitimacy of power* As we were discussing problems with the various committees in the two regions we became more and more aware of the need for some kind of formal training of the leaders: training in politics, administration and at least simple accounting in order to enable the local officers to better direct the people* Even though the two provinces are very rich in agricultural resources and their potential for production is very high, the lack of trained agricultural officers makes it difficult for our people to do more than just scratch the surface of the land* When we tried to criticise them for not doing this or that, or for doing wrongly this or that, they kept answering,"Why don't you send us someone who knows how?11 Well, we had to keep quiet for we knew that we had not yet produced trained personnel in those fields of work which have practical relevance to the struggle in Mozambique* From reports of the district chairmen and secretaries who came to our meetimgs in both Cabo Delgado and Niassa, and from reports of the freedom fighters in these two provinces, it is clear that FRELIMO has managed to get the overwhelming majority of the masses on its side and more than three-quarters of the land is under the control of the liberation forces* The Portuguese forces are isolated in the few European towns and garrisoned in special fortresses encircled by Africans living in concentration camps* As the Liberation Forces receive more and better weapons and as they capture many more from the enemy himself, we must help the peasants with more simple agricultural tools with which to put our rich land under production, using modern methods of farming; we must train our youth in our schools and abroad in those fields of knowledge which can be of direct and immediate use in the**/ -2-
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Filename | CENPA-031~04.tiff |
Full text | enemy - the Portuguese soldier; tools with which to teach themselves and their children how to read and write; tools with which to cure diseases, etc* One old man in Niassa, who had walked for 12 days to come to the meeting put it thus: "the hoe is a much more deadly enemyto the Portuguese than a bazooka for with it you can feed thousands of freedom fighters*1' The region of Niassa Province alone needs more than 3? 000 hoes, and the same number of pangas and hatchets this year* In both. Cabo Delgado and Niassa the organisation of the masses is undergoing a revolution * In the old days, before the armed struggle started, we used to depend on the traditional structures, and leadership* Now an awareness has developed for the establishment of new institutions which put more stress on political devotion than on traditional legitimacy of power* As we were discussing problems with the various committees in the two regions we became more and more aware of the need for some kind of formal training of the leaders: training in politics, administration and at least simple accounting in order to enable the local officers to better direct the people* Even though the two provinces are very rich in agricultural resources and their potential for production is very high, the lack of trained agricultural officers makes it difficult for our people to do more than just scratch the surface of the land* When we tried to criticise them for not doing this or that, or for doing wrongly this or that, they kept answering,"Why don't you send us someone who knows how?11 Well, we had to keep quiet for we knew that we had not yet produced trained personnel in those fields of work which have practical relevance to the struggle in Mozambique* From reports of the district chairmen and secretaries who came to our meetimgs in both Cabo Delgado and Niassa, and from reports of the freedom fighters in these two provinces, it is clear that FRELIMO has managed to get the overwhelming majority of the masses on its side and more than three-quarters of the land is under the control of the liberation forces* The Portuguese forces are isolated in the few European towns and garrisoned in special fortresses encircled by Africans living in concentration camps* As the Liberation Forces receive more and better weapons and as they capture many more from the enemy himself, we must help the peasants with more simple agricultural tools with which to put our rich land under production, using modern methods of farming; we must train our youth in our schools and abroad in those fields of knowledge which can be of direct and immediate use in the**/ -2- |
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