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Mozambique the Portuguese have established over the last
100 years what they still hope to be a permanent empire,
from which they v/ill derive an endless source of income
to enrich the coffers of the Portuguese banks, help to
pay their constant deficits in foreign trade and to which
they will continue to shift their excess population.
In Mozambique the Portuguese have established a
system of exploitation v/hich has no equal in the modern
world.  In order- to facilitate their work the Portuguese
have put all natural resources of our country under the
direct control, of Lisbon.  These include land, which was
traditionally the main source of livelihood for the majority
of the people;  the right to own livestock is restricted
and thoroughly controlled; and our water resources for
irrigation have been put beyond the reach of majority of
the people.  They have further harnessed all manpower on
to the exploitative yoke of both the Imperialist government
and the large foreign ecomomic interests, including the
supply of labour to the internationally controlled mining
interests of South Africa and the Rhodesias.
In order to make certain that the majority of the ■
people will not understand the why's and the howfs of the
situation in which they suffer, the Portuguese handed
over the education of their children to an organisation
whose main purpose is to encourage dreaming rather than
thinking and fantasies rather than facts.  Even this
organisation is systematically starved of funds in order
thct not enough boys and girls will be educated in it.
Consequently, since 1942, the Portuguese colonial government has never bothered to establish an educational institution aimed1 at teaching an African child, and the
Catholic Church v/hich inherited the right to educate
the black child has increased the teaching of the spiritual
mysteries of God rather than God's material wonders..
The result was the creation of what modern students of .
social organisation have euphorically called "modern slavery",
characterised by the ownership of slaves without the usual
financial and moral responsibilities.
Therefore, every year the colonial government of
Portugal helps the South African mining companies to
recruit more than 100,000 African men, convey them to.
the main industrial centres of South Africa, collects
two,pounds sterling in gold bullion per African man
delivered; then collects half the wages of each one of
them for four months, supposedly to pay for general
services rendered by the Portuguese government; then
confiscates half the wages of the labourers during the
rest of the two-year contract, deposits them in South African
banks in the name of Portugal, to be handed over back to
the worker in Mozambique, two years later, without
interest.
Aside from the above, the Portuguese government
acquired the rights of rounding up all Mozambican African
v/orkers who in one way or another managed to cross the
border into South Africa to work in the farms, plantations
and secondary industries.  These hapless people are then
forced to accept work in the gold mines, consequently '
subjecting themselves to the same conditions described
above.  Also, under the same legal arrangements between
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