AFRICA-EUROPE: FROM MOZAMBIQUE, THOUSANDS OF FORCED LABOURERS IN SOUTH-AFRICAN PLANTATIONS

(from our correspondent) – Another phenomenon reported by the bishop is breadwinning men travelling from city to city within Mozambique, in search of work during the dry season. "But more often than not, they go back home empty-handed – he specifies – and demand of women what they strenuously managed to produce even they had been left home on their own with work to do and five or six children to look after". In his opinion, because of all these problems associated with migration, the Church "must work on people’s consciences so that the new slavery of unpaid work will not be tolerated".