 By the end of the year, sixty people had been arrested for organising pro-FRELIMO rallies.In Mozambique, the announcement sparked an uprising by right-wing elements in the white population, joined by disgruntled veterans of the colonial army and some black Mozambicans outraged by FRELIMO's pending unilateral assumption of power.The rebels appealed to South Africa and Rhodesia for military assistance to preempt the installation of a FRELIMO government.