(from our correspondent) – In Mozambique, every year thousands of men migrate in the summer to go and work in the big plantations of South-Africa, but they go back home after six or seven months of hard, illegal labour, with no salary or documents. This is the new form of slavery that has been reported to SIR by mgr. Lucio Andrice, bishop of Xai-Xai, in Mozambique, one of the people attending the workshop organised by Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences) and by Secam (Symposium of African and Madagascan Bishops Conferences) in Cape Coast, the Ghana, until November 18th. "After working months without a contract in the farms that sell produce to multinational corporations says mgr. Andrice , these men are dispatched to the borders, travelling by train in inhuman conditions, with no money and no documents. People tell me about this problem and some offices of the Church are monitoring this phenomenon with more care. We want to be the voice of our fellow countrymen, but so far we have not found the government or the media or the south-African bishops to be too sensitive to this". (continued)
