VISITORS   IN   FREE   MOZ AMBIG UE
For 25 days at the end
of October and beginning
of November a three-man
delegation from the TANU
Youth League of Tanzania
marched deep into liberated Cabo Delgado. The
delegation consisted of Mo-
rogoro Urban District
Chairman Seleman Malon-
goza, Iringa Region Secretary Ali Mchunga and Cpt.
Andrew Shija, Deputy Secretary-General of the TYL.
Here they comment on
their  journey.
The visitors address a public meeting
Our gratitude to President
Samora Machel, FRELIMO
and the Mozambican people
for welcoming our first delegation to the liberated areas
of   Cabo   Delgado   Province.
TANU Youths thank you for
the huge carving symbolising
UNITY : united we are with
you in the struggle against
colonial and capitalist oppression.
We did march and talk a lot
with the heroic combatants
of FRELIMO.
We did some grounding with
the Mozambican people.
We traversed up the mountains, down the valleys, across
the streams, and under cover
of the thick, evergreen Mozambican forest.
We learnt about the Mozambican Revolution from the
Mozambican People for twenty five days: production,
study and combat were what
we saw.
Schools, dispensaries, shambas
and guns, of course, where
there were none before. Those
vital instruments of your armed struggle and the Revolution.
The
guns
mat
summon
freedom
We heard the voice of peasants, students and combatants all in unison with a
complex mixture of anger,
hope and determination signifying the SUCCESS of the
combination of the People's
War, People's Army evolved
by FRELIMO's correct ideological analysis.
We went into your country
full of apprehension because
we didn't know. We have
come back full of confidence
and certainty that the Mozam
bican Revolution will triumph
from the Ruvuma to the
Maputo.
We remember the thundering
of scared Portuguese bomber
jets which dare not come
within the range of the Mozambican people. We saw the
isolated enemy posts and the
croaking enemy helicopters
rushing in to supply them
with food; meanwhile they
remain     imprisoned  by  the
Captain
Shija picks
a     cabbage
^^ from  a  people's
*** shamba  in   Cabo  Delgado
mighty force of the Mozambican people; the Revolution
keeping a close surveillance
on them.
And at dawn or at sunset we
would  hear  the   staccato  of
machine-guns,   rockets   and
cannons summoning Mozambican Freedom.
Comrades, you will win. This
is the message we are carrying
to our People.
Long live the liberation war!
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