I 27 AFRICA
22 August 1963
"While trying hard to replace the Portuguese colonialists in my country,
the U.S. neocolonialists are closely colluding with them in suppressing
the Mozambique people's struggle for independence. The some is the case
in other parts of Africa.  So the American Negroes1 struggle is closely
linked with the liberation movement in Africa, and our enemy is the same,
U.S. imperialism."
Mahlayeye said:  "We people of Mozambique have suffered a great deal
from apartheid and all sorts of suppression by Salazar and his supporters.
We deeply sympathize with our American Negro "brothers in their struggle.
We shall intensify our struggle in overthrowing the Salazar colonialist
regLme, thus dealing a telling blow to its backer, U.S. imperialism. We
think this is the best support for our Negro brothers."
David Mabunda, vice president of the Mozambique National Democratic Union,
strongly condemned the racial discrimination practiced "in the United
States, which claims to be a democratic and civilized country." Mabunda
said:  "Despite the false promises by the Kennedy adminstration, hundred
of Negroes still go to prison because of their just demand. To our
Negro brothers in the United States, we say your struggle is just and we
are with you.  So carry on until victory is achieved. Your victory will
yet be another blow against imperialism."
Peter Molotsi, representative of the Pan-Africanist Congress of South
Africa, said:  "The people of South Africa completely and totally support
Chairman Mao's statement supporting the American Negroes' struggle. The
American white racists use Negroes as slave labor to guarantee their hugh
profits.  Behind racial discrimination are the big monopolists which are
financing the Kennedy adminstration."
Molotsi said that if Kennedy were really against racial discrimination,
as he claims, then the big monopolists would get rid of him.  Molotsi
said:  "The victories achieve by the African liberation movements have
inspired the American Negroes in their struggle for freedom.  In turn,
the development of the American Negroes' struggle has encouraged the
African people.  Our sturggles are closely linked with each other. Whatever obstacles there may be in the way ahead, final victory will belong
to the struggling peoples.  History is on our side."
Phiri, secretary of the Northern Rhodesian United National Independence
Party (UNIP) Cairo office, said Chairman Mao Tse-tungTs views in support
of the Negroes' struggle for justice in the tfeited StatrAS x-epresent the
views held by all peace-loving people of the world.