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THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO THE
NATION ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
A State
f our
stru
Mozambican women,
Mozambican men,
Workers, peasants and fighters,
Compatriots,
At 00 hours today the People's Republic of Mozambique was born, a
State born of our people's struggle for
freedom and independence, which
spanned many centuries, a State in
which the power of the alliance of
working people is being established in
our country for the first time.
The profound historical significance of
this moment in the life of our people
cannot escape any Mozambican, nor
any citizen of any other country, whether free or still oppressed, and neither
can the international dimension of this
fact in relation to the community of
nations, of which we are now becoming
a full and integral part.
But it is not so much about the present we are living through, although
exalting, which can be seen in our faces, houses and streets, and which
exists even more profoundly in our
consciousness, it is not so much about
18
the present of happiness, enthusiasm
and euphoria that we are going to
speak. We wish, above all, to recall
the past, so as to foresee and plan the
future better.
We wish first and foremost to recall
the memory of our heroes, those who
fell in the struggle against the foreign
invaders, those who perished in the
slaughter-houses of Portuguese colonialism, through deportation, the slave
trade and forced labour, those who
were condemned by colonial-fascism
to slow death, family disintegration,
spiritual disintegration and depersona-
lisation.
We wish to honour the memory of all
the glorious fighters who have fallen
in the course of the armed struggle for
national liberation and, before all else
and to remind everyone, we cite the
imperishable memory of the First President and founder of FRELIMO,
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane. Their
blood laid the foundations for the new
Mozambican nation which asserted
itself in the course of those ten years
in our zones of struggle and clandestine
work, which already took on material
form in our liberated areas and which,
before it was transformed into the national reality we are celebrating today,
was already alive in our consciousness.
We ask every Mozambican from the
Rovuma to the Maputo to join us in
observing a minute of silence in their
memory.
The People's Republic of Mozambique
is being born as the fruit of the Mozambican people's unshakable will and
iron determination to win back their
freedom and enjoy the supreme and
inalienable right of all peoples — national independence.
At this time when we are winning this
independence, we must reflect on the
reality which prevailed in the previous
situation, under colonial domination.
Why did colonalism kill? Why did it
seize, deport and massacre people?
Why were our mothers and wives raped, our traditions humiliated, our civilisation negated and Mozambicans
arrested for the slightest show of pa-
Object Description
| Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 61 (1975 June 25) |
| Title (Alternate) | Mozambique revolution - Independence - The People's Republic of Mozambique, no. 61, 25 june 1975 |
| Description | Contents: Editorial: With our people's victory over colonialism and the establishment of the independent State of Mozambique, a new phase of struggle has begun (p. 1); FRELIMO delegations visit five socialist countries (p. 3); President Samora in Tanzania and Zambia, two bastions of support and solidarity during the armed struggle against Portuguese colonialism (p. 5); In the month which preceded independence our President toured Mozambique, holding meetings with the people in every province from the Rovuma to the Maputo. Pictures of the tour (p. 6); Independence was marked by celebrations and cultural activities throughout the country. Report and pictures (p. 9); The National Anthem of the People's Republic of Mozambique (p.13); Proclamation of Independence and the birth of the People's Republic of Mozambique. Full text (p.14); By decision of FRELIMO'S Central Committee Comrade Samora Moises Machel was entrusted with the task of President of the People's Republic of Mozambique. Declaration of the CC, read by Comrade Marcelino dos Santos, Vice-President of FRELIMO (p.17); The President's Message to the Nation on Independence Day (p.18); The Constitution of the PRM (p. 24); The first Council of Ministers of the (p. 28). Special independence issue. |
| Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
| Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
| Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
| Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273480 |
| Coverage date | 1975-06-21/1975-06-29 |
| Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
| Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
| Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
| Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Date issued | 1975-06-25 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 32 p. |
| Format (aat) | newsletters |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
| Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
| Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
| Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
| Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
| Filename | CENPA-360 |
Description
| Title | CENPA-360~20 |
| Filename | CENPA-360~20.tiff |
| Full text | THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO THE NATION ON INDEPENDENCE DAY A State f our stru Mozambican women, Mozambican men, Workers, peasants and fighters, Compatriots, At 00 hours today the People's Republic of Mozambique was born, a State born of our people's struggle for freedom and independence, which spanned many centuries, a State in which the power of the alliance of working people is being established in our country for the first time. The profound historical significance of this moment in the life of our people cannot escape any Mozambican, nor any citizen of any other country, whether free or still oppressed, and neither can the international dimension of this fact in relation to the community of nations, of which we are now becoming a full and integral part. But it is not so much about the present we are living through, although exalting, which can be seen in our faces, houses and streets, and which exists even more profoundly in our consciousness, it is not so much about 18 the present of happiness, enthusiasm and euphoria that we are going to speak. We wish, above all, to recall the past, so as to foresee and plan the future better. We wish first and foremost to recall the memory of our heroes, those who fell in the struggle against the foreign invaders, those who perished in the slaughter-houses of Portuguese colonialism, through deportation, the slave trade and forced labour, those who were condemned by colonial-fascism to slow death, family disintegration, spiritual disintegration and depersona- lisation. We wish to honour the memory of all the glorious fighters who have fallen in the course of the armed struggle for national liberation and, before all else and to remind everyone, we cite the imperishable memory of the First President and founder of FRELIMO, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane. Their blood laid the foundations for the new Mozambican nation which asserted itself in the course of those ten years in our zones of struggle and clandestine work, which already took on material form in our liberated areas and which, before it was transformed into the national reality we are celebrating today, was already alive in our consciousness. We ask every Mozambican from the Rovuma to the Maputo to join us in observing a minute of silence in their memory. The People's Republic of Mozambique is being born as the fruit of the Mozambican people's unshakable will and iron determination to win back their freedom and enjoy the supreme and inalienable right of all peoples — national independence. At this time when we are winning this independence, we must reflect on the reality which prevailed in the previous situation, under colonial domination. Why did colonalism kill? Why did it seize, deport and massacre people? Why were our mothers and wives raped, our traditions humiliated, our civilisation negated and Mozambicans arrested for the slightest show of pa- |
| Archival file | Volume24/CENPA-360~20.tiff |
