in the zones of Madamba, Sandifolo,
Mocumbura, Mague, Chicoa, Chalibuca,
Goba, Changara, Funculamoco, Mandie.
In addition, we mounted ambushes on
the road Tete-Cahora Bassa on January
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 25, 27, 28 and February
6, 14 and 15. These ambushes on the
Tete - Cahora Bassa road resulted in 10
vehicles destroyed and at least 40 enemy
soldiers killed.
rhodesian soldiers killed
A convoy of 6 lorries carrying Rhodesian
soldiers to Changara was ambushed on
January 9. One of the lorries was destroyed and 4 Rhodesian soldiers were
killed.
On February 4, we ambushed a convoy
on the same road, Rhodesia - Changara.
One lorry was blown up, 3 Rhodesian
soldiers were killed and 2 were wounded.
On February 14, Rhodesian forces entered a zone under FRELIMO control in
Cambototo. They were ambushed by our
forces: 3 Rhodesian soldiers were killed
and 4 were wounded.
Manica e Sofala
The armed struggle for national liberation
in Mozambique was extended last March
into two new regions: Pungoe and Goron-
goza, situated approximately in the centre
of Manica e Sofala Province.
During the months of December, 1972 —
April, 1973, FRELIMO fighters in this
Province launched 50 major ambushes in
the areas of Mandie, Mungari, Vila
Gouveia, Buzua, Chemba, Macossa, Ma-
ringue, Pungoe and Gorongoza, which
resulted in more than 170 Portuguese
soldiers killed and 47 vehicles destroyed.
In Mungari region, our main target was
the road between Changara and Guro.
Eight major ambushes were launched on
December 23, 1972, January 6, 17, 28
and 29, February 24 and March 20 and
24, 1973. They resulted in 6 vehicles
destroyed and 16 enemy soldiers killed.
On March 19, five more enemy soldiers
were killed when we attacked their camp
at Gatio. The soldiers were in charge of
defending the workers engaged in the
erection of pylons for the transmission
lines from Cahora Bassa.
In addition, our comrades destroyed 3
telephone poles on the road Changara -
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Guro (April 17), and 12 poles on the
road Mungari - Guro (April 30), cutting
respectively 450 and 1500 meters of
telephone line and thus disrupting the
communication system.
In Vila Gouveia, our fighters destroyed
10 vehicles and killed 24 of the enemy in
ambushes carried out on the Vila Gouveia
- Guro road on December 23 and 25,
1972, and on January 1 and February 3,
6, 8 and 23.
On 17 March we attacked an enemy unit
garrisoned in a shop at Nham'phasa. Five
enemy soldiers were killed and 1,454
escudos in cash and one radio and several
wrist-watches were captured.
In the region of Mandie on the main road
Mungari Mandie, 4 vehicles were destroyed and about 20 of the soldiers in
them were killed.
On March 2, enemy soldiers from the
camp of Nhamaswonje entered our zone.
They were ambushed twice 9 were
killed and many more wounded.
In the region of Buzua, our fighters were
active, setting up ambushes on the roads
Mungari Chivuri, Guro Changara,
Mungari - Guro, Buzua Marirenhanga,
and Guro Mungari. Six vehicles were
destroyed and 10 of the enemy were
killed.
In Macossa, the roads ambushed by our
forces were: Macossa Nhansalala,
Macossa N'sangaza and Macossa Vila
Gouveia. We destroyed 3 vehicles and
killed 12 Portuguese soldiers.
In one of the ambushes, on April 18, on
the road Sena Nhangalale, in Chemba,
guerrillas forced one lorry to stop which
was carrying wood from the timbermill
at Nhangalale to the town of Sena. The
driver and his 3 assistants were left free.
The lorry and its contents were burnt.
In Gorongoza, a .similar operation had
taken place on March 19, at 14.00 hours
on the road between Vila Paiva de
Andrade and the National Game Park of
Gorongoza. Two lorries were involved
loaded with wood from the Gorongoza
Park. The 2 drivers and their 2 assistants
were left free after political mobilisation.
The lorries and the wood were burnt.
Soon after FRELIMO had established
its military structure in Gorongoza, our
comrades received a complaint from the
people that many Mozambicans of the
zone of Khaunda had been recently expelled from their fertile lands, and that
these lands were now the property of a
Portuguese landlord named Fernando.
Our comrades decided to take action.
On March 13, 1973, at 7.00 a.m. we
attacked Fernando's farm. There were
20 Mozambicans working for the Portuguese exploiter under conditions similar
to forced labour. They were set free
after an explanation of the reasons and
objectives of our action. The 2 storehouses and most of their contents were
burnt, as well as the house and one caterpillar. The farm's owner, thc colonialist
Fernando, was at that time absent. The
farm produced cotton, maize and sunflower seeds.
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