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.
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