Mozambique: Prominent businessman, and champion of electric vehicles, dies – AIM report

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Mozambique: Prominent businessman, and champion of electric vehicles, dies – AIM report

5:55 CAT | 19 Sep 2025

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One of Mozambique’s most prominent business figures, Amade Camal, died on Thursday morning at the age of 71, after undergoing surgery in a hospital in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto.

Camal was politically outspoken and was a deputy of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, for the ruling Frelimo Party, between 1994 and 1999.

He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Sir Motors group, which operates in road transport and real estate. According to a report in Friday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Moçambique’”, Camal’s latest venture was the import of electric vehicles.

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Here he had to fight against senseless tariffs imposed by the Mozambique Tax Authority (AT) on electric buses. Despite the government’s commitment to the switch away from fossil fuels to electrification, the AT has slapped tariffs of 40 per cent on the import of electric buses.

Camal had been given to understand that, as part of the government strategy for energy transition, there would be a drastic reduction in tariffs. But this has not yet happened. Camal imported 40 electric buses, but, because of the AT’s tariffs, they have not yet been cleared through customs

The AT policy makes no sense because polluting, diesel fired buses only pay a five per cent tariff.

“Carta de Moçambique’” argues that the best tribute the government could pay to the memory of Amade Camal would be to oblige the AT to eliminate the tariffs on electric vehicles.

Source: AIM