Carlos Cardoso (journalist)

Carlos Cardoso
A memorial at the location of his murder in Maputo
Born
Carlos Alberto Lopes Cardoso

(1951-08-10)10 August 1951
Died22 November 2000(2000-11-22) (aged 49)
Maputo, Mozambique
Cause of deathAssassination by gunshot
EducationUniversity of Witwatersrand
OccupationJournalist
SpouseNina Berg
Children2

Carlos Alberto Lopes Cardoso (10 August 1951 – 22 November 2000) was a Portugese-Mozambican investigative journalist.[1] His assassination in 2000 followed his newspaper's investigation into corruption in the privatisation of Mozambique's biggest bank.

  1. ^ Fauvet, Paul; Mosse, Marcelo (2003). Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique. Juta and Company Ltd. pp. 11, 20–27, 213. ISBN 978-1-919930-31-2.