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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. He was educated in Mozambique and at high school in South Africa , where he went on to attend the University Of The Witwatersrand . 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. 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 . In 1989 he met his wife, a Norwegian lawyer. 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 , paying Cardoso's murderer by cheque; Mr Chissano was not charged with any crime. 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. REFERENCES
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