Pakutanga kwehondo, FRELIMO yaive netariro shoma yekukunda kwemauto, iine varwi zviuru zvinomwe chete vaipesana neuto rakakura kwazvo rePortugal. Tariro yavo yaive yekukurudzira vanhu vemuno kuti vatsigire vapanduki, kuitira kuti vamanikidze kuzvimiririra kubva kuLisbon. Portugal yakarwira vhezheni yayo yehondo yakareba, uye simba guru remauto rakatumirwa nehurumende yePortugal kudzvinyirira mhirizhonga, nenhamba dzevarwi dzichisimuka kubva pa8,000 kusvika pa24,000 pakati pa1964 na1967.
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