APARTHEID'S WAR ON MOZAMBIQUE | Socialist Action 1983

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Just days before the plane crash which killed Samora president of Mozambique, South African defence Magnus Malan, made apartheid's intentions clear. Mozambique is on the brink of collapse' he said.

Malan's comment was no simple premiuon. He wreatened to take action' against Mozambique over alleged bases for the African Congress (ANC) inside Mozambique territory.

Malan's warning came alongside a build up of South African troops along apartheid's borders Machel, the minister, on when tion movement National Mozambique, with Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It came in the wake of an 11 year campaign by South Africa against the Mozambique government. South Africa's war Mozambique started on 25 June Portugal finallly surrendered its then colony to the liberaFrelimo. Samora Machel had led Frelimo to victory. When Portugal's African colonies had the been staunch protectors of the apartheid regime. Victory of Frelimo the MPLA Angola, was a huge blow to Pretoria.

In 1975, South African military forces invaded Angola. The defeat of the invasion by the combined forces of the MPLA and the Cuban troops, was followed by South African backing to the UNITA forces of Savimbi.

In Mozambique, Pretoria finances and arms the so-called Mozambique National Resistance (MNR) sometimes referred to as Renamo.

Mozambique forces

MNR headquarters earlier this year they found strong evidence of the South African regime's committment to overthrowing Machel.

On 11 October a Mozambique government communique warned of the likelihood of South raids. Security minister, Sergio Vieira said that an MR commando group had infiltrated Maputo, the Mozambique capital. The mediately pointed the finger at South responsibility for death. Either the have directly committed this heinous crime or their henchmen the MR' overran charged ANC Alfred Nzo. 'We are saying it is deliberately committed crime until it is proved otherwise? Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda said I accuse them (the South openly of involvement in the death of President Machel until they are proMozambique.

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Mache's death is a serious blow to Killed alongside Machel were the country's transport minister, Alcantara Santos and deputy foreign minister, Jose Carlos Lopo. Frelimo's previous leader, Eduardo was himself assassinated 1974. The struggle against apartheid was always going to spill over South Africa's borders. The of Samora Machel, massing of South African troops on Mozambique's border, shows it is going to be a struggle which will engulf the whole of the Southern African • Mozambique under attack p.10

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Socialist Action SociAlist 24 Oct 1986 THE MOST basic of all alliances the British working class has to make is with the struggle of the Irish people for self determination. This struggle for Irish freedom has, in the past fifteen years in the North of Ireland, passed through the most varied and rich exparliament during the 1981 Hunger alongside Bobby Sands' Westminster