Explain the challenges that faced the nationalists in Mozambique.
Answer:
- They lacked basic needs such as food, medicine, clothes etc.
- Formation of rival guerrilla movements e.g. FRELIMO, COREMO, MANU etc due to ideological and personal differences.
- The assassination of their leader Eduardo Chirambo Mondlane demoralized them.
- The Portuguese were very harsh and ruthless in suppressing the nationalist movement activities causing fear among the nationalists
- The Portuguese banned all nationalist political movements and detained their leaders forcing them to go underground.
- The apartheid regime in South Africa assisted the Portuguese to fight the nationalists in Mozambique.
- Opposition from the church which declared FRELIMO a terrorist group and hence African faithful did not support it.