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have and never had admittance to any
higher positions of the legislative or executive systems of Portugal's Public administration.
in the Central Executive Power, it is
not even necessary to mention. Also in
the Regional Administration of the so-called " overseas province " the indigenous
population has no access, in spite of the
merely formal presence of two hand picked chiefs in the Legislative Council.
In the Educational Field, it is practised all sort of legal chicanery, which
have always succeeded in view of the
fact that the Portuguese do not allow the
indigenous population to have equal and
fair legal means to put an end to these
abuses.
In the Labour Field, the functional
and salary disparity is alarming in its
discriminatory character, prirnarily because when functional equality scarcely
exists, salary equality does not exist. Secondly, because the rare access to higher positions is carried out in the following manner : First, white men, then
mulattos and finally the black. The access therefore, to public and private employment, in spite of the selection tests,
are ironically racial discriminatory tests,
in the following order, which we emphasize once more : whites, mulattos and
blacks.
In the Social Field, the autochthonous population has no admittance to
public entertainment places such as hotels, restaurants, cafes and others exce
pt as servants. Furthermore, residential
areas remain also separated, in spite of
the Portuguese Government lullabies.
The Portuguese claim that Mozambique is a province, however, she always uses  the discriminatory  adjective
"overseas". Thus we entreot the United
Nations to allow us to put before you
the following questions : (1) In which
country of the world do customs barriers exist from one province to another ?
(2) On the other hand, in which country
of the world is a passport required to
travel from one province to another ?
For the knowledge of Your Excellencies,
we inform you that the Portuguese authorities require a passport to all races
indiscriminately, when one wishes to travel from the so-called province of Mozambique to the province of Lisbon.
Portugal has passed a great number
of formal laws for her pretended provinces. As a Matter of fact, some of these colonial laws are good. Unfortunately,
they have never been put into action,
mosdy when these laws refer to the rights of the African population. Reverting
to the politico-administrative discrimination, we wish to call your attention that
Portugal has among others, two distinctive ministries, the Ministry of interior
and the Overseas Ministry. The Interior
Ministry deals with the Portuguese European Provinces home affairs, whereas
the Overseas Ministry, covering an attribution parallel to the Interior Ministry,
deals with the so-called "Overseas Province affairs. This proves once more
the unequal and discriminatory policy
between European Provinces and the so-
called Overseas Provinces.
In the Judicial Sector, it should be
remarked that there are special courts
to judge the Africans, while the white
settlers are judged in regular courts. This
proves once more the inequality of treatment between the autochthonous, and
the non-autochonous, the white and non-
white, the European and the African. In
the colonies, these courts are ironically
called "Tribunal Privativo". that is. private or special courts.