Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso remembered at WITS

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Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso remembered at WITS

2:33 CAT | 11 Nov 2016

Joe Hanlon (File photo) / Slain Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso

Carlos Cardoso, murdered 16 years ago in Maputo, was a student at WITS university in South Africa before being expelled from the university and deported from South Africa in 1974 because of his connections with Frelimo.

About 300 journalists, academics and students from 28 countries including Mozambique, recalled the professional courage of the Mozambican journalist at the South African university of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Coincidentally or not, Cardoso’s countryman and founder of Frelimo, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, was also expelled from WITS by the apartheid regime in 1949, one year after the victory of the National Party, on account of his colour.

Observing the truce in the student battle for free education in South Africa, WITS held a talk in memory of the Mozambican journalist, in which Mozambique participated with 11 journalists and students. Carlos Cardoso’s professional courage was described by journalist Mercedes Sayagues, who met him personally.

According to Mercedes, in the late 1980s, Cardoso and other Mozambican journalists persuaded President Joaquim Chissano to facilitate the passage of a progressive press freedom law in Mozambique in the face of ruling Frelimo party opposition.

Cardoso later used the law to open the first post-independence private newspaper in Mozambique. Ironically, he was murdered while investigating a bank fraud case involving Chissano’s eldest son.

Source: Voa Portugues