Legacies of Socialist Solidarity by Müller Tanja R.;

Author:Müller, Tanja R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

Even though there was a general recognition among the students at the SdF that things had somehow changed, it was hard to envisage what this may mean in concrete for their lives. Jorge, who became a FRELIMO member during his time in Germany ‘I did not really want to but they told me I was capable of being a good cadre, so I accepted,’ reflects: ‘I was very disappointed but then I thought about it and felt it had to be like that, because that we went to Germany was the idea of Samora Machel together with Erich Honecker, they were friends. . . . Our disadvantage was that Samora died while we were still in Germany, if Samora would still have been alive our lives today would have been very different.’ Jorge still has his FRELIMO membership card but is not active any longer, even though in his current profession as a teacher he might be asked one day to take an active role again and says ‘in principle I think it is not bad to participate in the party, but then again I think about what has happened to us, it all comes back, the bad memories when we returned.’[74]

What equally comes through in those statements is the propensity to actually be part of building a better—more prosperous and more just—Mozambique, as the remarks by Lourenco and Alex equally show. Lourenco says:

We students who were at the SdF, if all of us would work in the professions we learnt we could build up an industry, and perhaps we could have sent other groups to Germany in the future and really develop our country . . . but it all developed differently. . . . When we were there Samora Machel wanted to industrialize our agriculture, but when he died those projects died. . . . Those who went to Cuba to learn they are all working now, some for the government in Maputo, they came back earlier when Samora was still here or learned different things. . . . Because he died we are in this difficult situation, in the Third World life is always so complicated.[75]

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