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VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE Jenerali Ulimwengu, a journalist with Tanzania's English- language national newspaper, The Daily News, accompanied The OAU Liberation Committee delegation on their trip to Cabo Delgado. In a series of articles for his newspaper, he gave a detailed account of the visit. Here Mr. Ulimwengu summarises his impressions for ((Mozambique Revolution.» FRELIMO: an inspiration for the youth of Africa Even in the articles I wrote for the «Daily News» I failed to convey my real emotions on what I witnessed in Mozambique. The experience was too novel, too surprising for me to record with the necessary accuracy and intensity. But one thing rests in my mind: FRELIMO's successes do not depend on chance. They stem from the fact that the guerrillas are clear ideologically about what they are doing, and regard their struggle as more fundamental than the mere wielding of guns. Here are young men, as young as I, some of them initially trained in western ways, but who have managed to surrender their whole selves to the struggle, damning all else that does not relate to this noble cause. They can offer nothing less than inspiration for me and for the whole body of youth in Africa. The fact that a new life thrives in Mozambique today is a monument to what the ideological clarity of any fighter can do. The liberated areas have no electricity, no motor transport, no concrete houses, no tarmac roads. But they have confidence, they have freedom, they have willpower. And all this they put into practice, by making the lives of the people better, through economic production, to prepare the people for the inevitably protracted struggle. Soldiers and civilians, working shoulder to shoulder, produce the revolution. Education is growing, and here are young Mozambicans trained in the virtues of being men, thinking men. The whole future is taken care of by teaching these young people what it means to fight for liberation. The outmoded nonsense of male chauvinism no longer has a place in free Mozambique, where men and women fight alongside each other having shed all complexes. The women guerrillas help to prove one point: women are also human beings. President Samora Machel introduces Jenerali Ulimwengu to villagers and militants in Cabo Delgado. Tough soldiers, that is what FRELIMO guerrillas are. Flexibility, constant mobility - the cardinal rules of guerrillas warfare — make FRELIMO such a force as the unprincipled colonial army cannot cope with. I must admit that the tough march was a test for me, but one I happily took as the education I got out of it is simply invaluable. Then of course, the company of learned- in-the-struggle men was simply overwhelming. The cheerful but serious Comrade Samora; the analytical Armando Gue- buza; the thoughtful Alberto Sitholc; the compact Joaquim Chipande; the swift and humorous Candido Mondlane; the kind Veronica in fact all the guerrillas that accompanied us to Cabo Delgado were to me teachers, but above all comrades. One day Mozambique will be free and, just as I said while in Mozambique, wc shall cross this artificial border to learn from the wisdom of the struggle that FRELIMO has successfully waged so far. 11
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Full text | VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE Jenerali Ulimwengu, a journalist with Tanzania's English- language national newspaper, The Daily News, accompanied The OAU Liberation Committee delegation on their trip to Cabo Delgado. In a series of articles for his newspaper, he gave a detailed account of the visit. Here Mr. Ulimwengu summarises his impressions for ((Mozambique Revolution.» FRELIMO: an inspiration for the youth of Africa Even in the articles I wrote for the «Daily News» I failed to convey my real emotions on what I witnessed in Mozambique. The experience was too novel, too surprising for me to record with the necessary accuracy and intensity. But one thing rests in my mind: FRELIMO's successes do not depend on chance. They stem from the fact that the guerrillas are clear ideologically about what they are doing, and regard their struggle as more fundamental than the mere wielding of guns. Here are young men, as young as I, some of them initially trained in western ways, but who have managed to surrender their whole selves to the struggle, damning all else that does not relate to this noble cause. They can offer nothing less than inspiration for me and for the whole body of youth in Africa. The fact that a new life thrives in Mozambique today is a monument to what the ideological clarity of any fighter can do. The liberated areas have no electricity, no motor transport, no concrete houses, no tarmac roads. But they have confidence, they have freedom, they have willpower. And all this they put into practice, by making the lives of the people better, through economic production, to prepare the people for the inevitably protracted struggle. Soldiers and civilians, working shoulder to shoulder, produce the revolution. Education is growing, and here are young Mozambicans trained in the virtues of being men, thinking men. The whole future is taken care of by teaching these young people what it means to fight for liberation. The outmoded nonsense of male chauvinism no longer has a place in free Mozambique, where men and women fight alongside each other having shed all complexes. The women guerrillas help to prove one point: women are also human beings. President Samora Machel introduces Jenerali Ulimwengu to villagers and militants in Cabo Delgado. Tough soldiers, that is what FRELIMO guerrillas are. Flexibility, constant mobility - the cardinal rules of guerrillas warfare — make FRELIMO such a force as the unprincipled colonial army cannot cope with. I must admit that the tough march was a test for me, but one I happily took as the education I got out of it is simply invaluable. Then of course, the company of learned- in-the-struggle men was simply overwhelming. The cheerful but serious Comrade Samora; the analytical Armando Gue- buza; the thoughtful Alberto Sitholc; the compact Joaquim Chipande; the swift and humorous Candido Mondlane; the kind Veronica in fact all the guerrillas that accompanied us to Cabo Delgado were to me teachers, but above all comrades. One day Mozambique will be free and, just as I said while in Mozambique, wc shall cross this artificial border to learn from the wisdom of the struggle that FRELIMO has successfully waged so far. 11 |
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