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The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 17. predilection for constantly passing laws with very little interest in setting up the proper machinery to carry them out. It seems to us that the Portuguese issue laws mainly in order to find something to quote when attacked by those concerned with certain injustices. When one reads a whole series of labour laws passed by the colonial government from 1899 to today, one notices that all of them are intended to correct abuses, and therefore are repetitive. The philosophy behind all these laws has alv/ays been the same, namely, forcing the African people to work, as if otherv/ise they might not engage in any remunerative labour activity. The 1928 Code tries to check abuses of the system while maintaining it intact. Therefore, it showed concern for the payment of wages, transportation, lodging and feeding of the workers and the provision of health and educational facilities. There v/as no intention of putting these directives into effect either before or after. The Portuguese colonial government ought to have known that once the law demanded that the African should be forced to work, and as long as that law remained, the door was open for those in power to exploit the African worker. Earlier in this paper v/e outlined some activities cf the Portuguese colonial government which are aimed at the exploitation of the natural resources of our country for the benefit of Europeans and Asians. Later on we indicated that this exploitation included the use of the human resources as a direct instrument of the exploitation of the natural resources. The various labour laws above outlined indicate the legal measures which the Portuguese government felt compelled to promulgate in order to justify its actions in forcing the African worker to serve European and Asian interests to the detriment of his ov/n. At this point it is necessary to extend this analysis to include the exploitation of Mozambique African Labour by the Portuguese government, cooperating directly with foreign governments and international economic interests. It has often been indicated in international publications and discussed in conferences dealing with southern African affairs, that there exists an international chain of interests, economic, administrative and political, which cooperate with each other to control, hold and exploit not only the natural resources, but also the African peoples living in southern Africa. The Mozambique people are probably the most directly affected by these interests. The Mozambique African labour force, working in South Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, amounts to about 500,000 by the
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Full text | The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 17. predilection for constantly passing laws with very little interest in setting up the proper machinery to carry them out. It seems to us that the Portuguese issue laws mainly in order to find something to quote when attacked by those concerned with certain injustices. When one reads a whole series of labour laws passed by the colonial government from 1899 to today, one notices that all of them are intended to correct abuses, and therefore are repetitive. The philosophy behind all these laws has alv/ays been the same, namely, forcing the African people to work, as if otherv/ise they might not engage in any remunerative labour activity. The 1928 Code tries to check abuses of the system while maintaining it intact. Therefore, it showed concern for the payment of wages, transportation, lodging and feeding of the workers and the provision of health and educational facilities. There v/as no intention of putting these directives into effect either before or after. The Portuguese colonial government ought to have known that once the law demanded that the African should be forced to work, and as long as that law remained, the door was open for those in power to exploit the African worker. Earlier in this paper v/e outlined some activities cf the Portuguese colonial government which are aimed at the exploitation of the natural resources of our country for the benefit of Europeans and Asians. Later on we indicated that this exploitation included the use of the human resources as a direct instrument of the exploitation of the natural resources. The various labour laws above outlined indicate the legal measures which the Portuguese government felt compelled to promulgate in order to justify its actions in forcing the African worker to serve European and Asian interests to the detriment of his ov/n. At this point it is necessary to extend this analysis to include the exploitation of Mozambique African Labour by the Portuguese government, cooperating directly with foreign governments and international economic interests. It has often been indicated in international publications and discussed in conferences dealing with southern African affairs, that there exists an international chain of interests, economic, administrative and political, which cooperate with each other to control, hold and exploit not only the natural resources, but also the African peoples living in southern Africa. The Mozambique people are probably the most directly affected by these interests. The Mozambique African labour force, working in South Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, amounts to about 500,000 by the |
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