I 26 AFRICA
22 August 1963
Mueshihange of South-West Africa believed that in order to fight against
racial discrimination Africans must intensify their struggle for national
independence and against imperialism and colonialism old and new. Only
when the complete liberation of the whole African Continent has been
achieved can this evil be uprooted. He said the American Negroes and
their kinsmen will be firmly supported in the difficult struggle ahead
by the people of the world.
One Zanzibar trade unionist stressed that it is important in the struggle
not to cherish any illusion on handful of imperialists (as received).
He added:  "The task of annihilating racial discrimination and changing
the evil system can be completed only by the oppressed masses, and never
by the oppressors." r>\
Interviews in Cairo
Peking NCNA in English to Asia and Europe 15^2 GMT 21 August 1963--W
(Text) Cairo, 20 August—African nationalists of Mozambique, South Africa,
and Northern Rhodesia in Cairo, in their interviews with NCNA, voiced
their full support for Chairman Mao's statement calling on the people of
the world to unite against racial discrimination by U.S. imperialism and
support the American Negroes' struggle.  They pointed out that the struggle
of the American Negroes against racial discrimination and that of the
African peoples for national liberation are supporting and inspiring each
other and closely linked together.
C.Z. Mahlayeye, joint secretary general of the Mozambique African peopleTs
anti-imperialist united front and secretary general of the Mozambique
National Democratic Union, declared:  "We fully support Chairman Mao's
stat^ent'Ja support of the U.S. Negroes' struggle.  The struggle of
the AmeriC".. Negroes is a just one.  Their sufferings under the racial
discrimination of the U.S. imperialist system and their struggle against
it have demonstrated to the world what American democracy and freedom
really are. Discrimination, murders, and suppression of Negroes by the
U.S. imperialists have also shown what their high-sounding talk about
peace really means. All this has thoroughly laid bare the hypocrisy of
the Kennedy administration and the essence of the system it serves."
He said:  "I fully agree with Chairman Mao's viewpoint on the inner link
between the U.S.' reactionary policies at home and its aggressive
policies abroad.  It is true from our own experiences. The United States
is now penetrating into Mozambique rapidly.