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Shortly before Udenamo merged with other independent parties to form the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), Sigauke was suddenly jerked from the political picture. On April 13, 1962, he was arrested in Salisbury by the Rhodesian government and illegally handed over to the Portuguese Security Police, the PIDE, who whisked him off for interrogation in Mozambique. Then began two years of torture, imprisonment, and finally trial, which completed Siguake's transformation from traveling salesman-politician to revolutionary...
...then released but kept under constant watch to prevent him from leaving the country. But last July, during a state visit to Mozambique by the president of Portugal, Americo Thomas, Sigauke slipped out of Lourenco Marques and across the border into Swaziland where he was met by Frelimo agents. A few days later Sigauke and his friends daringly recrossed the border and stood smiling in a crowd of African peasants as Amerigo Thomas rode past. "Of course we could have shot him," said Sigauke...
...being captured. An English friend in Swaziland arranged for him to be driven, non-stop, across South Africa by Land Rover and into the Bechaunaland Protectorate. From there he crossed into Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and made his way to join the other Mozambican revolutionaries in Tanzania. There he became Frelimo's secretary for internal organization within Mozambique. Because of his knowledge of the secret police, he now directs the Frelimo agents within the country...
...recent months, the leaders said, FRELIMO's forces have carried out numerous small attacks in the country, including one major strike in December in which 115 Portuguese soldier were killed. However, the rebels refuse to engage in terrorist tactics against civilians, they maintained, because the movement receives support from anti-government whites inside the country...
Sigauke, director of FRELIMO activities inside Mozambique, told a harrowing story of more than two years confinement in Portuguese prisons before he escaped from the country last July. Forced to watch the fatal beating of other prisoners, Sigauke himself spent a month in hospital as a result of torture from security police...