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...would take over the reins of government. Unlike Angola, Mozambique has only one political party, and that party seems to have the full support of a majority of the country's citizens. Under the leadership of Eduardo Mondlane, who was assassinated in 1968, and now under that of Samora Machel, Frelimo has led the struggle against Portugese colonialism since the party's creation in 1964, and is now the only legitimate political force in the country...
Frelimo is a self-proclaimed Marxist party, and Machel's plans for Mozambique are similar to the policies followed by Tanzania's socialist president Julius Nyerere. The day before he took office, Machel announced to a cheering crowd that the new government's first actions would be to abolish rent, to take over all private medical and legal services, and to nationalize all private and missionary schools. Machel's first press release after independence called for a development strategy that relies on the party core to organize the rural population into "revolutionary societies--communal villages...where that population will have...
MOZAMBIQUE'S MAIN problem will be its economic involvement with South Africa and Rhodesia, whom Machel has promised to boycott if they do not end their apartheid policies. South Africa is Mozambique's largest trading partner, providing 20 per cent of Mozambique's imports, and the 86,000 Mozambique laborers who work in the South African mines send home nearly $2.4 billion a year in wages--equal to a quarter the value of Mozambique's entire manufacturing output. It will be difficult, if not impossible, for the newly independent country, which inherited a trade deficit of over $165 million from...
Married. Samora Moises Machel, 41, bearded Maoist guerrilla fighter who became President of Mozambique when the East African nation gained its independence from Portugal last June; and Graca Simbine, thirtyish, Mozambique Minister for Education and Culture; he for the second time, she for the first; in Lourenço Marques, the country's capital. As head of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Machel, a onetime hospital orderly, helped lead the bloody ten-year struggle that brought over 400 years of Portuguese domination to an end. Simbine formerly worked as an underground Frelimo agent, spying on Portuguese...
...relationship with Rhodesia -which relies on Mozambican rail lines and ports to handle 80% of its exports -is another matter. Though he said nothing about a blockade last week, Machel seems certain to shut off Rhodesia's vital transit trade sooner or later. That would cost Mozambique about $50 million a year in transport revenues, but might also topple the hated white regime in Salisbury. "The struggle in Zimbabwe," he said last week, using the African name for Rhodesia, "is our struggle...