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2. Sources of the Present Difficulties
It is our considered opinion that the present difficulties at
the Mozambique Institute result from the steady and definite direction
which our educational programme has been following since the end of
1966.  Until the end of that year the purpose and direction of the
education of a young Mozambican at the Institute was vague and unclear.
An impression was therefore given that the education acquired by our
students was for 1heir own private use and unrelated to the total
struggle of the people of Mozambique.  The present programme of the
Moaambique Institute is clearly directed towards preparing the students
for fulfilling the basic responsibilities of the liberation struggle.
In order to achieve this purpose we heve insisted that our students
1) be Mozambicans who are dedicated to the complete liberation of
their country and are ready to, at any time, do everything they can,
including even suspending their studies, to achieve this single
purpose; 2) every school vacation during the year is used for engaging
the students in short term training programmes and in working in
practical tasks such as teaching adults to read; 3) finally those few
who have already finished their Form IV have had to be sent to our
main training centers at Nachingwea where they are given a basic
three months training in politics and military action.  According to
this policy, therefore, no Mozambican graduate is allowed to work in
anything before undertaking a training period of three months.  It is
only after a graduate has had this basic training and has served in
some capacity in the liberation struggle that he can be considered for
further studies abroad.
This general programme was being inplemented more or less
smoothly until the students began to note some practical applications
of it.  The first application of the new policy of involving our
graduates directly into the struggle was in the end of 1966 and 1967•
In 1966 we had two Mozambicans graduating from the KIEC Form IV class.
One of them disappeared in Tanzania and the other is still with us."
after graduation v/as sent to Nachingwea
After that he joined a guerrilla detach-
fighting in Mozambique after spending a
Primary School at Tunduru.  He is now
working in the Radio Tanzania, doing the FRELIMO Pjpd grammes in
Portuguese and some
group of Mozambican
posed of 7 students
stayed with FRELIMO
basic training.  After that
in some function or other.  The best of them will be selected
further studies abroad, in academic or technical studies.
Th6 one who stayed with us
for a period of training,
ment and serveda period of
few months teaching at our
of the Mozambican
graduates of KIEC
,  Of these 3
and they are
they
African languages.  Tht,
was in 1967 > and it was
disappeared in Tanzania, but
now at Nachingwea undergoing.
will serve in the liberation
second
corn-
four
their
struggle
f or
It was after the students had seen that our stated purpose of
engaging all our graduates in all phases of the liberation struggle
was finally being implemented that we began to sense a certain
amount of uneasiness amongst them.  The most clear indication of
this uneasiness was the steady increase in the number of senior
students disappearing from the school.  For example, between November
1967 and February 1968 no less than 25 students disappeared from
the Mozambique Institute most of whom were studying at the Kurasini
International Educational Centre.  When we tried to invest!-/ te
as to where they might have gone we were told that mo t of them
were in Nairobi", where we understand some religious organizations
are offering them shelter and scholarships in Kenyan Secondary
Schools.
This situation was aggravated by the attitude of Father Mateus
P. Gwenjere, a Mozambxfian refugee priest, who since his arrival has
openly op osed our central policy concerning the future of the
students.  Before I enter into the discussion of what we believe to
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