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4. "There is some misconduct on the part of. some officials of the
Party and Institute."       4
I do not know what is exactly meant by "misconduct" here.  If
by misconduct is meant that the Petitioners described as giving
pregnancies to* girls, and for which one specific charge was made
against one member of the Central Committee, I also should like to
say that the case is still under investigation.  The girl who made
the accusation is still abroad.  Before leaving for practical
training that girl v/as already working within the struggle of
FRELIMO and had already had another baby from another man.  It is
not correct therefore for the Petitioners to give the impression
that the girl was a student at the Mozambique Institute during the
time she became pregnant.
5» "The Mozambique Institute impedes more than it increases the
education of the Mozambican children."
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This we believe to be the direct result of Father Gwenjere's
analysis, and sirtce we have already commented upon it earlier we do
not feel as if we should repeat our comments here. ; l
7m   "The students also demand that English replace Portuguese as the
official language and medium'cf instruction."
This question goes directly to the core of the very existence •
of the Institute.  In order to shorten my remarks in this connection
I shall limit myself to quoting what I wrote in my Memorandum to ;'■
the Second Vice-President.  The very idea of having the Mozambique
Institute was originally to help Mozambican refugee students who
had some beginning in secondary education in Mozambique to bridge
the gap, both academic and linguistic, which exists between
secondary education in Portugal and elsewhere in the world.  Later
on, we discovered that teaching the secondary school subjects in
Portuguese while the student is learning English expedites•the
learning prodess and the preparation of the student for higher
education.  It takes more than one year to teach a child English
before he can be able to understand the language sufficiently to
follow courses taught in it.  Besides, we are preparing our
children to fit into life back in Mozambique during and after the
liberation struggle, and so far the official language of Mozambique
is Portuguese, in the same way that the official language of many
independent African states today as French or English, except where
the iocal language is accepted by all.  Unfortunately Mozambique
does not have the happy advantage of an African language such as ■
Swahili in Tanzania.  I believe that aside from continuing to teach
all subjects in Portuguese, the Institute ought to increase its   <
teaching of English, in accordance with its own stated programme.
In view of the value of Swahili in East Africa and French in maiiy
parts of Africa I would suggest that later on the Institute hire
teachers to add these two important larguages to the curriculu.
8. "Resent the idea of being taught by white Portuguese teachers
and other non-Africans."
This again is an attitude which is diametrically opposed to
our official policy and practice on racial matters.  FRELIMO does I
not judge people by the pigmentation  of their skins.  Rather it is
•our policy that anybody who agrees with our position concerning
colonialism, imperialism and racism as practised in Southern Africa
is our ally and anybody who is against our position concerning these
same things is our enemy, regardless of his color, race or religion.
In the specific case of the Institute it is not by preference that
we have so many white teachers including some Mozambicans of
Portuguese origin.  As we stated it before, lack of Mozambican ~
teachers is the main reason why we have so many foreign and national
white teachers at the Mozambique Institute.  Wc hope that as more
of our students abroad complete their studies they will return to
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