EDITORIAL
THE COLONISERS, exploiters and oppressors of Africa will stop
* at nothing in their drive to sustain their crimes against the
African people. They will bribe, they will buy leaders, they
will confuse the ranks of Africans. And finally they wiH kill
leaders.
We remember these tactics of colonialism, neo-colonialism and
imperialism because three years ago to-day these enemies
of Africa assassinated one of the foremost leaders of African
Liberation. Dr. Mondlane, President of Frelimo. The
Portuguese who are errand boys of imperialism and capitalism
in the so-called Portuguese colonies resorted to the assassination of Dr. Mondlane in the vain hope that this would
strike a decisive blow to the movement for the liberation of
Mozambique.
But their hopes have been decisively dashed. The assassination
welded the Mozambique Liberation Front even more strongly,
and the Front's fighting forces have executed the war against
the Portuguese army of occupation in Mozambique more
vigorously. All attempts to divide the leadership have
failed, because in the last analysis the Mozambican revolution is so strong and authentic that it automatically weeds
out the pretentious and treacherous leadership as it
progresses.
One of the prongs of the Portuguese has been to try to get
deserters from the Mozambican Liberation Front. Those they
have succeeded in winning over during the last three years
have been little men. So little have they been indeed that
the attempt on the part of the Portuguese to nresent these
quislings as men of Mozambican stature around whom people
should rally have proved both ridiculous and ineffective.
On the battlefront Frelimo's fighting forces record more and more
victories. Where the Portuguese used to deny any military
activity, now they acknowledge it and put out some of their
casualties. Where before they used to pretend that resistance to Portuguese occupation was confined to "a few
pockets" in the northern Cabo Delgado province, now they
openly admit that fighting '« going on in this, in Niassa and
in Tete provinces. Where before they pretended that the
Cabora Bassa Dam project was not threatened by Frelimo
forces, now they admit of their being hard-pressed. It can
thus be seen that Dr. Mondlane's assassination far from
weakening the fighting spirit of frelimo has strengthened
ft many times fold.
But for the forces of colonialism and imperialism, the assassination was intended to be a blow also to Tanzania, ft was
intended to intimidate us into relaxing our support for the
liberation struggle in Africa as a whole, and in Mozambique
in particular.
In this regard also the enemy has miscalculated. Tanzanians have
not and will not have "second thoughts" about the necessity
for supporting the freedom struggle in Africa and in
Mozambique. On the contrary TANU has reiterated that it is
ftsetf still a liberation movement and Tanzanians must
strengthen themselves to bolster their support for the liberation of our continent.
And so as we remember the supreme sacrifice which Dr. Mondlane
made 'm the service of the liberation of Mozambique, ft
behoves us to reaffirm that our own "UHURU" is not
complete until the whole of Africa and Mozambique are free
from colonialism and imperialism. It behoves us to reaffirm
that our struggle to build socialism will only succeed if we
support the struggle of our brothers in Mozambique to rid
their country of Portuguese colonialism. It behoves us to
assert yet again that our commitment to be truly free means
also a commitment to support to final victory the liberation
movements fighting to eliminate colonialism on our continent.
TANZANIA'S  TRIBUTE
TO MONDLANE
On February 3, 1972, the national newspapers of
Tanzania paid tribute in leading articles to the
memory of Eduardo Mondlane. Above is the
editorial from TANU's daily, The Nationalist.
Below - the comment of the Government
paper. The Standard.
THE people of Mozambique
today pay tribute to the
memory of one of their
embattled land's greatest
sons, Dr. Eduardo Chivambo
Mondlane.
Three years ago today
the first President of
the Mozambique Liberation
Front died tragically when
a parcel bomb exploded in
his face in Dar es Salaam.
The people who perpetrated this vile deed, the
Portuguese fascists and
their stooges, were jubilant,
confident that this loss to
Frelimo would reverse the
freedom fighters' march to
victory. Today, the colonialists must be asking themselves what went wrong.
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True, Dr. Mondlane's death
was followed by a period of
confusion and demoralisation
among the militants. He was
loved, respected and was a
symbol of unity; so it was
natural that his death was felt
profoundly.
But in spite of this and in
spite of the massive military
and propaganda offensive which
the Portuguese launched following the murder, Frelimo fought
on with undaunted spirit. They
made sure that Dr. Mondlane's
death was not a useless sacrifice.
He had forged the unity of
the Mozambican people in their
struggle for independence. He
had made the crucial decision
that armed struggle was the
only way to this freedom. Such
a man's death had to be
avenged.
And it is being avenged, as
the enemy casualty list grows,
as the foreign capitalists fret
over their precious investments
in Cabora Bassa, as the people
march to  inevitable victory.
The Portuguese need no
further evidence of the failure
of thc aim behind their brutal
deed of February 3, I960, than
the fact the Frelimo has since
extended the struggle south of
the Zambesi, and is now pinning
down thousands of Portuguese
troops around Cabora Bassa.
Dr. Mondlane has not died
in vain. Like all others who
have died in the struggle
against colonialism, his example
lives on to light the path to
victory.
Throughout the world, everyone who cherishes the ideals
of freedom and self-determina
tion will join ith the oppressed workers and peasants of
Mozambique in paying tribute
to the memory of this great
freedom fighter.