Carlos Cardoso (1951–22 November 2000) was a Mozambican journalist. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique, ʁɛ'publikɐ d musɐ̃'bik is a country in southeastern Africa His murder in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank.
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Early life
Cardoso was born in Beira, the son of white Portuguese immigrants to colonial Mozambique, where his father ran a dairy processing plant. Beira is the second largest city in Mozambique. It lies in the central region of the country in Sofala Province, where the Pungue River meets the The Portuguese people (os Portugueses literally the Portuguese) are the Ethnic group or Nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west He was educated in Mozambique and at high school in South Africa, where he went on to attend the University of the Witwatersrand. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa The University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg is a leading South African University situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. He spoke Portuguese and second languages Ndau and English. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Ndau is one of the Shona dialects It is spoken by people from the region of Chipinge. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
Mozambican independence
After the withdrawal of the Portuguese colonial administration from Mozambique in 1974 following the seizure of power by the FRELIMO liberation movement, Cardoso was one of the minority of white Mozambicans who remained in the country. The Liberation Front of Mozambique, better known by the acronym FRELIMO, from the Portuguese Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (IPA /fɾeˈlimo/ He worked first in junior positions in government media and, from 1980, as editor of AIM, the government press agency. Following a brief spell of imprisonment, Cardoso also worked as an advisor to Samora Machel, but quit AIM in 1989 to work first as an artist, and later as founder of Mediacoop, an independent press co-operative. Samora Moisés Machel ( September 29, 1933 &ndash October 19, 1986) was a Mozambican military commander revolutionary socialist In 1989 he met his wife, a Norwegian lawyer. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional
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. Maputo, formerly Lourenço Marques, is the Capital and largest city of Mozambique. 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. Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. In the 2002 trial of six murder suspects, three suspects described Nyimpine Chissano, the son of Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, paying Cardoso's murderer by cheque. Nyimpine Chissano (1970 &ndash November 19, 2007) was the eldest son of former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. Joaquim Alberto Chissano (born 22 October 1939) served as the second President of Mozambique for nineteen years from 6 November 1986 Anibal 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. Anibal dos Santos is a Portuguese -born man who settled was sentenced in Mozambique.
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 AIM reported on 11 May 2006 an anonymous claim that an arrest warrant for Chissano had been rescinded following the intervention of former president Chissano and his wife. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
References
- 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"
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