Tuesday, March 27, 2012

WHO'S AFRAID OF "Cabinda in Mozambique?"

During these visits, which often have done in some provinces than in recent times have been discovered certain natural resources or wealth, such as Tete and Cabo delegate who now become the kingdoms of the coal and gas, respectively, have noted that some local citizens being victims of the virus of xenophobia, that makes Look upon these riches and should benefit only and only the inhabitants of these provinces, not all Mozambicans. If this was my observation is wrong, so now I ask indulgence, but this was the feeling that I was when I visited Tete in December last year, so that's the perception I have whenever I hear the discussions in TV'se radios here in our country was really believing that this feeling can become a big and serious problem for us, I chose to start this article I shall look into the controversy about the mega-projects and mineral resources that are finding by some Mozambican provinces, citing these two assertions relating to dynastic China, which in this case teach us how the Chinese of ancient times, made the wealth of each of its provinces, a de facto national wealth.
I quoted your experience because I am of those who strongly believe in the theory of Cicero, is that from past experience, what better learn to do better what we do at present, while the same is past, we can avail ourselves to prepare for the future.
Cicero said that those who do not avail themselves of the past, children die, even if they live more than 100 years. At least the Chinese they are based in the past to build the present and look to the future or new contracts, and time has proved and still proves that it is the best recipe for winning in life.
The two quotes make it clear that China did not become a great and invincible nation, when their different tribes came together and become one people, and more than that, they began to share the material wealth and unattainable that they had in each one of its provinces. They had realized that the tribal divisions were his weakness and vulnerability before their common enemies, as illustrated by this sentence which states that'' if the tribes are divided between them, remain weak and will be easy to keep subjugated them,'' written by one of the scribes of the Ming Dynasty, which lasted in China between the years 1402 to 1413, and quoted by GVMelikhov, in his Ming Policy Toward Nuzhen, and that in turn transcribed from a study SLTikhvinski, both Russians.
It is obvious that the study was based on experiences of other people or even works of this nature, that our great visionary, Professor Eduardo Mondlane, who realized that we could to win the so heinous Portuguese colonialism, first had to unite and fight as one people, one and indivisible. And indeed, once united, we were able to star in the miracle of overcoming colonialism that we had already spent 500 dominating long and tragic years, a fraction of only 10 years a fierce struggle under the leadership of Frelimo, which he had founded the from the merger of three movements that were each trying to fight alone against colonialism.
Unless I am poor observer, I have noticed that there are some Mozambicans, who for whatever reason, believe that the riches that are discovering this or that province, are the exclusive property of those provinces where they are located, and therefore does not can be shared by other provinces of Mozambique.
Of all the times that dialogue with some of these provinces in Mozambique that is now found some wealth, such as Tete, which is the kingdom of coal that is now being exploited by multinationals, or the Cape delegate, where it has been discover a lot of gas that will give us and also the rest of the world, I have noticed that there are strong signs of the emergence of an economic xenophobia, which is being fueled by those who think there should be your enjoyment only and solely the tetenses and cable- delegadianos.
For those who think like that, do not realize that they are concerned by what is most sacred and invigorating for us as a people, which is our national unity, which allowed us to overcome colonialism and later the attacks of racist regimes that prevailed in the region and then they were so against our freedom as against our prosperity.
They do not realize that they are concerned by this same drive that allow us to defend and win new and more dangerous enemies who now will certainly wish to divide us again, in order to reign, and they are enjoying these immeasurable wealth who sleep on our land, soil and seas that surround us almost.
How can we realize the two quotations with which I began this article, China has only become great, prosperous and powerful when the different tribes came to share the riches of each of its provinces, and acted as one people, despite each one continued to speak their language or their local language or province. United, they repelled invasions of several nations of the world for centuries, were trying to seize their wealth or colonize them, counting among these countries invading Japan, India and even the U.S.. Alias, even Mao Zedong, made it clear in their political preaching, one of the sources of prosperity and strength of the United States of America, is the unity of its people living in each of the 50 states that constitute one super-power and leader of the Western World, but above all its ability to decentralize power and share the tangible and intangible wealth that is in each of these states.
Those who know the U.S., know that each of the 50 states have different wealth, including oil in some, but that is consumed throughout the country and never considered unique wealth of the state in which it is extracted.
To tell the truth, our greatest asset is our unity, without unity because wealth is wealth to foreigners who come to dominate us, as long as we live 500 years under Portuguese colonial rule, in which our wealth were only for Portugal while we ourselves were sold as commodities they called slaves, while those of us that were not sold, we were treated like beasts to load. It is therefore imperative that we always united mentenhamos because only then are we really independent, sovereign and strong forever. We must never forget that life is a vicious cycle that imbalance is a constant and a temporary equilibrium, in which to be constant, it requires a continuous effort or constant too. This means that if one day we lose our unity, we will be weak and vulnerable to those we envy our wealth.
Those who think that only their provinces is that they have wealth, they are very wrong, because strictly speaking, all 10 Mozambican provinces each have a wealth or resources to give its inhabitants as those of others. It is true that wealth differs or may differ, but wealth is not complete or is not enough when it boils down to a single product. The wealth of each province específeca will only be complete if combined with the tangible and intangible wealth of other provinces or regions of our country. So required by law or the principle of complementarity of the comparative advantages designed by economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo in his famous work The Wealth of Nations.
Is that even the provinces that may have nothing in terms of material wealth, they always have something to give too, because the best wealth is, above all, the intangible, which is to say, knowledge, especially now we are in the era of the Knowledge Revolution.
As we know, there are countries that have no material wealth, but are not as affluent as are those who hold natural resources. Among those countries that have not been blessed with material wealth but still thrived thanks to the wisdom of their children, include Germany, Japan and Singapore who are so wealthy and rich as it is not Nigeria or Gabon, which are sitting on top of immeasurable oil wells and other resources.
Thus said, the view that the discovery of coal in Tete or gas as sufficient reason to start thinking about the kind of isolationism that is required now weakened by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda, FLEC in Angola or in short, people are who see the wealth the same way as they were seen by our ancestors for millennia of years. These are people who belong to overcome an era that is no longer part of the XXI century we are. Must be repudiated and taught to see with the eyes cde see, because they are a threat to our unity and sovereignty.
The same should be done about those who think that the mega-projects being implemented in the country has produced so much wealth that was already flooding the desks or homes of each and every one of the more than 23 million Mozambicans. Those who spread this vision can lead us to lose sight and correct assessment, and fall into the impatience that is the source of all human tragedies. Most mega-projects have not generated any profits, because it has amassed is too little and not more than the replacement of millions of dollars that were spent in propespeções and other investments. To demonstrate this, suffice it to say that prospeções of petroleum and gas in Cabo Delgado have cost hundreds of millions of dollars to the multinationals that lead out there, and even if they were to begin now to exploit this gas would have to recover these first million before of starting to inject money in bulk to our coffers. So, speaking of the distribution of wealth that comes from mega-projects as has been touted in the televised debates, I do not have to be as linear as has been ae now, because we may be talking about distfribuição chicken whose eggs do not even left the egg. This is because the Tete coal only began to be exported in the middle of last year, Cabo Delgado and gas is still under the ground where ever. It was only that location and located only cost $ millions. For example, the drilling of a well to see whether or not oil or gas in a certain area, it costs a million dollars per day. As far as I said in Texas, the headquarters of Anadarko this American multinational that will make these drilling for nearly two years, ie about 700 days, which multiplied by one million dollars, has more than 700 million dolores . Even the mega-projects that are already producing income, such as Mozal, should be to recover what it spent on its construction, and as we know, was in the order of more than one billion U.S. dollars.
To better evaluate the stage of our development, we must know where we started. We are a country that emerged from the war fractricida just 20 years ago, and already we should rejoice, because we are part of the 10 countries from among about 200 who delight the world, which recorded a growth of at least eight percent a year over the last 10 years. And we remain in this grupingo resgistam of countries that this rapid growth that China and Angola are some of them, although nearly all other countries are on fire, and have an almost stagnant growth of between zero and a little more , 9 percent, counting among them, all of the European Union and the U.S..
But after 5150 when it is greater than 4080?
During the visit I made last December to Tete, one of the things I said, there was a strong feeling that the recruitment of workers for companies that are now extract the immeasurable deposits of coal in Moatize, were almost all the South of our country. Those who told me that the conviction and said so, let it be said in defense of truth, with a certain doze of anger and even outrage, implying that there would be another major revolt much more serious than was the protagnizada resettled in Cateme. Temoroso and I confess I was worried, because I always thought that the discovery of coal and other resources was a blessing to the inhabitants of Tete in particular, but the country as a whole, because as I said, I believe that all the wealth that is to discover a corner of our country, is a treasure for us all Mozambicans.
Some of those who spoke, went so far as to say that if they do not correct this problem, one runs the risk of having therein a Mozambican Cabinda, that is, an attempt to secede from the rest of Tete in Mozambique. When I heard this, said to myself that this is such a serious matter that can not continue to ignore or not to debate, to make it clear to all of us whether there is a breakdown of the benefit of local Mozambicans South, or as stated there, the machanganas ...
In order to understand if indeed there would be an apartheid there, just tried to give me a TPC that I could ever lead to crack this job discrimination. Of the data obtained so far does not confirm that it is before a different point of apartheid in that country, as discussed below.
In fact, the data obtained hitherto unsuspected sources show that, of those positions 11 145 mega-projects built up here, are occupied by Mozambicans 9234, and of these about 10,000, 5150 that there are occupied by Mozambicans Tete or tetenses, and of these, just over five thousand, include 1928, or nearly two thousand, that are of Moatize. However, unless these data are forged, then the much heralded theory that most jobs are with the southerners, not true. This is because the 9234 Mozambicans who work it, only 4084 are not of Tete, but other regions of the country, which all of the lights is just, because it would make sense that they were all Tete alone, just because coal is in Tete . It would be unfair because if we are to defend this thesis, then Mozambicans Cabo Delgado could also say that only they should work in the exploration of gas that day after day are discovering in their province. And who speaks of Cape delgadenses, to speak of compatriots from other areas such as Panda and Pomene, where for many years it is exploring gas, but never raised the issue that there are Mozambicans who are not there they are monopolize the jobs. As we know, for centuries, the region south of the country, especially Maputo, was Mecca for all of us because this was part of the country, there were more chances of getting a job or be a business, because it was where the colonial had done some development.
And it was here, especially in Maputo, Mozambique who came from all other provinces to try to employ as is happening now with Tete. And many are employed often at the expense of the natives of this province or at least city, but as far as I know, the natural barriers and never created much less hostile to those who came from other provinces. It is curious that ended up being a Penela Maputo that Mozambique has absorbed all the tribes of Mozambique, to the point that today is a city where multi-linguistic own local language, the Ronga, succumbed to the dominance of dandio place changana which is the neighboring province of Gaza. Strictly speaking, Maputo today is a salad that pleases all the tribes that make up our parents, and try to see it as a city of machangas or people from the South, is a grave error of Paddling.
This fact alone proves that now is not worth seeing people who live in the south, center and north of the country as originating in those regions. In fact, the advent of our independence just opening the doors of each of the provinces of the country which finally resulted in a migration that is mutual giving way to a new tribe, which is a generation of young people who can speak only one language, that aa officer or Portuguese. In fact, what we must do for the national languages ​​do not die once, is to teach each of them in each of the provinces of the country so that they can now be truly national and not local and are up to now. It is imperative that we teach not only to ensure their survival, but above all because there are now many seniors who were in their provinces, but they already have grandchildren or nephews who are now vice-versely speaking, South, North, Central, and who speak the languages ​​of the provinces where they were born and not those of their grandparents, uncles or cousins ​​who remained where their ancestors left them.
All this I have just summarized here, shows that there is not worth trying to erect barriers not to be employed in Tete and Cabo Delgado are not only that these provinces, because the people of the South and the other provinces are not limited now to the originating , as I pointed out the basis of this salad is now the tribal area sona south of the country and, in particular, the city and around the greater Maputo. This salad is catalyzed human maputense more because it was in Maputo that had most of the secondary schools that colonialism had left as there was here where the only university, which is the Eduardo Mondlane, before the building we see today in other provinces and which now total over 40. The fact that it was in Maputo where he had the best schools and universities only causes was also here where there Mozambican higher academic standards and has references from employers who have been investing in the country, as is the case that Tete is absorbing most of which has higher education, especially geologists. This shows that Confucius was right when he said that the greatest wealth of a people is the knowledge that comes from the study.
Even the material wealth that sleep in the land, soil and seas and lakes of our country, only that we will benefit from them, is mastering the knowledge, because the contrary, we are mere servants and porters of the multinationals that will explore and then take them in large ships to their countries, while we stay with the holes, as we warned our legendary Samora Machel when he insisted that we estuar seriously to mastering science and technology can have power in its true essence. Thus said, we should nurture and promote the employment of those who studied with us, no matter whether they are North, Central or South of our country, provided they are competent and able to defend our interests. Valuing those who had been studying the China of today could take over the Western science and technology and leverage up to become a super-modern society that everyone envies now only 30 years. (G.Mavie). *title Moznews

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