Carlos Cardoso (journalist)
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Carlos Cardoso | |
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University of Witwatersrand | |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse | Nina Berg |
Children | 2 |
Carlos Alberto Lopes Cardoso, known as Carlos Cardoso (10 August 1951,
His murder in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank.Early life
Cardoso was born in
Mozambican independence
As a student, he became an activist against apartheid, leading to deportation from South Africa to Mozambique on 1 September 1975.[1][3]
After the withdrawal of the Portuguese colonial administration from Mozambique in 1974 following the handover of power to the
In 1989 he met his wife Nina Berg, a Norwegian lawyer. They had two children together, Ibo and Milena.
Newspaper editor and local politician
In 1997 Cardoso founded the business daily news-sheet Metical, and was elected to the Maputo city council in 1998. Metical ceased publication in December 2001.
Murder and investigation
Cardoso was shot dead in central Maputo on 22 November 2000, while investigating a US$14 million fraud connected with the privatisation of Mozambique's largest bank, Banco Comercial de Moçambique. In the 2002 trial of six murder suspects, three suspects described Nyimpine Chissano, the son of Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, as paying Cardoso's murderer by cheque. Aníbal dos Santos, a Portuguese citizen who was said to have masterminded Cardoso's murder, was convicted in absentia in 2003 after escaping from prison; and a retrial in 2006 (following dos Santos' second escape) upheld his sentence of 30 years in prison.
Nyimpine Chissano was charged with "joint moral authorship" of Cardoso's murder and various economic crimes by the Mozambican Public Prosecutor's office in May 2006. The Mozambique News Agency reported on 11 May 2006 an anonymous claim that an arrest warrant for Chissano had been rescinded following the intervention of the former president and his wife.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-919930-31-2.
- ^ IPI Global Journalist: The Magazine of the International Press Institute. Vol. 7. International Press Institute. 2001. p. 13.
Carlos Alberto Cardoso was born to Portuguese parents in 1952 in the Mozambican town of Beira. His parents sent him to South Africa for his high school and college education. As a student at the University of Witwatersrand (...)
- ^ So this is Democracy?: Report on Media Freedom in Southern Africa. The Institute. 2004. p. 165.
- The Guardian, "Carlos Cardoso - His tenacious journalism exposed corruption in Mozambique", 24 November 2000
- BBC News online, "Mozambique murderer sent to jail", 20 January 2006
- Mozambique News Agency AIM Reports, "Carlos Cardoso murder trial update", 10 December 2002
- Committee to Protect Journalists, "Africa 2001 - Mozambique"