In connexion with Hospitals, it should
be taken into consideration that medical
hospitalization assistance, as well as accommodation and wards, are conducted
in a manner of racial separation. It should be also noted that in general, while
v/ards for whites are divided into rooms
for two, those for the Africans are big
dormitories for many patients.
Portugal has constantly and energetically refused to permit whatever inquiry commirtees from the United Nations or any other International organizations, to visit her colonial territories and
freely examine and scrutinize their real
situation However, we do not believe
that any country in the world, being most
proud of its national internal rights, if
accusea of untrue acts, would refuse tc
accept the visit of an international Press
committee to inquire on the reality of the
accusations. However, this has never been
accepted by Portugal. Nevertheless, if the
Portuguese Government has. nothing to
hide or to fear, why do they not allow
at least an international written and spoken PreS3 committe. composed of at least three members from each of the following countries : Brazil. Mexico. Cuba.
Canada. Senegal, Chile, Finland. Czechoslovakia. Italy. Romania. Holland. Yugoslavia, Ceylon, Japan. Burma, Liberia^
United Arab Pepublic. Lebanon. Ghana.
Ethiopia and Algeria, to visit freely Mozambique, not to be followed or traced
by the police or censorship authorities,
entering in whatever part of Mozambique they want and interviewing whomever they choose Then they would give
their advice and report of what they really have seen in that Portuguese colony.
To conclude our brief introduciion.
it is necessary Your Excellencies, to put
an end to this odious discriminatory co
lonialist domination which Portugal exercises over more than 7 million African
souls, scattered in an area of approximately 783,000 sq. km., and who ate only
waiting for the day in which the chains of this multi-century domination shall
break off and have the honour to sit together with you to work in harmony for the
progress of mankind, for world peace
and   security.
BRIEF HISTORY OF MOZAMBIQUE
Four hundred and sixty-eight years
ago. 1498, a Portuguese fleet under the
command of Vasco da Gama, in search
of the sea-way to India, anchored in the
coast cf Mozambique.
Portuguese occupation became effective in the year 1505. when Captain
Pedro de Anaia landed on the island of
Mozambique, then called the Captaincy
of Sofala. The Captaincy was not autonomous. It was dependent of the State of
India, therefore, under the Governor Francisco de Almeida. The latter, in 1507.
sent his men to the island of Mozambique to build a fortress.
The first occupation years were solely for commerial exploitation. Christia-
nizauon and improvement of the political
conditions in India. This was followed
by the construction of more fortresses in
big commercial centres like sofala, Tete
and Sena, where they concentrated troops.
The African people did not fear these
troop concentrations and thus they invaded the fortresses of Mozambique.
Later, the Portuguese began tj explore the country's hinterland and went
up the rivers Zambezi and Limpopo. The
land north of the Zambezi was inhabit-
ated by th» Macalangas, a tribe of Mas-
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