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Mozambique - Back from the Brink

Section D: Texts for Sight Translation

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Mozambique - Back from the Brink

After Marxism, civil war and famine, Mozambique begins to rebuild, and opens its doors to investors.

Useful Words and Word Combinations to sweep away = to do away with, put an end; to reduce to ...; run-down ;

to compound by (); drought [draut] ;

famine ;

per capita

basket-case , ;
about-face = a sharp turn to the opposite direction;
well on the way to = in the midst of;
to go to the polls = to vote;
incentive ;
vision = . project;
to upgrade = to modernise, improve;
iron reduction plant ;
aluminium smelter ;
to mothball (. moth-balls );
abundant ();
growth = . fast developing;
to pull itself out of ;
mire = bog, marsh ();
to lobby
= to attempt to influence ();
in the red = . broke, poor (ant in the black)

After its independence in 1975, when 500 years of Portuguese influence was swept away by black nationalist liberation forces, Mozambique was reduced to an economic and social disaster. The pro-Marxist FRELIMO government inherited a run-down country that foreigners had abandoned, and proceeded to collapse the economy even further by nationalization that put it in the hands of incompetent managers. At the same time, the government had to fight a civil war against a black anti-communist resistance movement, RENAMO, supported by the apartheid regime in South Africa. Mozambique's misery was compounded by years of the worst droughts in southern Africa's history. A million people died in famine and war. Aid agencies were dealing with 1.5 million "dislocados" homeless refugees. With a per capita income of $80, the country was a begging basket case.

Economic About-Face

Following the withdrawal of communist-bloc influence and support in Africa, Mozambique began to move away from Marxism. By 1992, with South Africa well on the way to racial reform, the RENAMO opposition had signed a peace treaty with the government of President



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