VISITORS   IN    FREE   MOZAMBIQUE
THE MAN
FROM
NEWSWEEK
A reporter from the American magazine
«Newsweek» visited Cabo Delgado in
November as a guest of FRELIMO. In an
article which appeared in the November
27 issue of the magazine the reporter, Mr.
Andrew Jaffe, described his eight-day
trip to our country.
He saw how a FRELIMO school operates
with classes of 50 students being led by
our teachers. He also watched a newspaper being produced in the liberated
areas and viewed an abandoned Portuguese post.
Mr. Jaffe reported that «the guerrilla?
clearly hold sway over the rural areas in
the north». By chance, however, he
witnessed a Portuguese raid as he was
leaving a village. At the time he was
accompanied by FRELIMO militants led
by Comrade Alberto Joaquim Chipande.
Mr. Jaffe's report said:   «We were trud-
REPORTER
ANDREV
JAFFE
'THE
GUERRILLAS
HOLD
SWAY"
ging up a hill when, suddenly, the forest
ahead exploded in gunfire. At first I
thought that Chipande had arranged a
mock battle to impress me, but the
look on his face told me this was no
drill. As the ground shook from rifle,
rocket and mortar fire, I was sure we had
been caught in a Portuguese trap. But
with consummate tactical skill, Chipande
moved a squad up to pin the Portuguese
down and then led our column on a
flanking movement that took us safely
round the ambush. There was no pursuit;
we suffered no casualties)).
The reporter was also given a sharp reminder of our strong hostility to racialism
of any kind. While marching alongside
Comrade Alberto Sithole, he reported,
he found himself exhausted in the searing
daytime heat. «I jokingly chided Sithole
for walking so fast in order to demonstrate his racial superiority over the white
man. It was the only time I ever saw
him become angry.)) Comrade Sithole's
reply was: «What is the point of our
fighting racism if we are going to become black racists instead? Our fight is
against Portuguese colonialism.))
Images from Mr. Jaffe's eight-day visit
to a liberated area of Mozambique.
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