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Missionary i^pueemen* referred to aboveh  by which so-called Native
Educatioa was ^aude<* to the Church, wh&le the Government concentrated on eduf?a\ing the children of t^ie Europeans and Asians.
Nowadays* su| a Result of the pressures coming from all over
Africa and the< r^st o£ the world, and especially because of the
constant discussions o£  Portuguese colonialism at the United
Nations, the Portuguese governmentvhae been struggling to disentangle itsel£ from the knot whicii Ijinds it to the Concordat,
without violating the  letter of the Missionary agreement.  It
seems to us that the government is trying to return to the earlier
conception of education, which was rejected in the forties in
favour of a religious programme.  In this connexion, we v/ould like
to stress the pojgat that so long as policy is set by a government
which does not represent the majority of ijhe people, there cannot
be a satisfactory programme for the education of the African
children.
Labour Policies
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Another phase of Portuguese colonial policy which irritates
the African population in Mozambique ha&  to do with labour laws.
After Portugal had seen to it that the natural resources of the
country were properly organized to serve the interests of the
European settlers and the large foreign economic interests, it
decided to harness the human resources to serve the same interests.
The government rationalized its policies by talking about what it
call the "obligation to work" as a characteristic of a civilized
people.  It claims that by nature the African is lazy and incapable of initiative.  Therefore, it is the duty of the colonial
government to take the initiative, forcing the native African to
employ himself in some economic enterprise which will profit him
and the country.  If one were to look at the whole policy as a
continuing system, assuming that it had some logic in it, one
might state it in the following manner:  If the main goal of the
policy is assimilation, its achievement may be seen to depend
upon getting Africans to put their services to profitable use for
the State, the private employer and for himself,  as early as
sixty years ago, Antonio Enes, on of the first governors of the
colony, insisted that the African had to be forced by every means
possible to work in European enterprises.  The use of African
labour by Europeans has, over the centuries, been the main point
of contact between the Portuguese and the Africans.  All other
programmes aimed at raising the African's cultural and economic