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Table 3.3
Educational Provision in Colonial Mozambique and Other Countries
|
Xozambique |
Other Countries | ||
|
Literacy rate (1960 |
and 1970) |
2-2 |
Tanzania 10 - 15/20 |
|
% of Population 5-19 |
yrs. (1964) |
26 |
Swaziland 25 - 36 Kenya 25 - 25 Zambia 10 - 15/20 Con/Zaire 49 - 58 Angola 3 - 3 Rhodesia 62 |
|
No.of University Students(1964) |
357 |
Ghana 31 Swaziland 49 Lesotho 66 Zambia 47 Angola 10 Ibadan (1964) 1.100 | |
|
% of Budget spent for Education |
5.6 |
Dakar (1961) 1.398 Xakarere (1961) 912 Iigerla 38.8 Zambia 19.1 Ghana 13.4 Kenya 16.9 | |
Source: Azevedo,1980: 195,199,201,203
finances. This was known as xipadre, as xibalo was the forced labour, a
common practice in the Portuguese administration (Hedges ,1982 - quoted in
Marshall,1985).
I studied at the mission, but we weren't well taught. In the first
place, they taught us only what they wanted us to learn-the
catechism; ... Then every morning we had to work on the mission
land. They said our fathers didn't pay for our food or our school
things. The mission also received money from the government, and
our families paid them fees. After 1958 our parents even had to
buy the hoes with which we cultivated the mission land. (Gabriel
X. Mantimbo, quoted in Xondlane,1969:72).