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AFRICA
22 August 1963
S. Zwane, national executive member of Swaziland1s Ngwane National
Liberation Congress, said:  "The statement has not only exposed, the
crime of the so-called civilized world but also presented a general
approach to the world to get rid of this crime." He said:  "This
statement, written by the Chinese people1s leader, who understands
world questions so well, rightly hit the nail on the head concerning
world problems." Both the representative of SWAPO (People's Organization
of Southwest Africa), P. Mueshihange, and a trade unionist of Basutoland,
N. Sejake, hailed the statement as "a great encouragement" and "very
stimulating" for their struggles at home*
Many said that Chairman Mao's statement reminded them of the deep-rooted
evils of racial discrimination practiced in their own countries by the
colonialists. Reviewing the reasons why the imperialists and colonialists
wanted to maintain such an inhuman policy as racial discrimination,
almost all of them, judging from their own extensive and bitter experiences,
endorsed Chairman Maofs profound generalization that: "In the final analysis,
a national struggle is a question of class struggle."
Nokwe of South Africa pointed out: "Basically, racial discrimination
is designed to maintain the American Negroes and Africans as sources
of cheap labor to produce huge profits for the monopolists." He
cited many figures to prove this—in the mining industries in South Africa,
white men's wages are 17 times more than those of African workers, while
in agriculture, white men earn 16 times more than African workers.
Zwane of Swaziland said: "It is easier to exploit the people after
taking away all their political and human rights.  Both in the United
States and in South Africa it is one and the same thing—that if you
are black you will be looked upon not as human beings, but as objects
and tools to be exploited to make money for them. "
Mondlane, who lived in the United States for many years, pointed out that
the social and economic structure there is based on the racial line
where Negroes are the most oppressed and are at the bottom, with only
a few^exceptions at the top as showpieces to decorate this structure.
He said the imperialists, who prospered on the slave trade from Africa,
have in the later period exported capital to Africa to exploit cheap
labor on the continent itself. That is why at present about one-third
of the mining laborers in South Africa are brought by the colonialists
from his country of Mozambique as cheap labor.