The first annual Carlos Cardoso Memorial lecture was held at Wits University today as part of the 2012 Power Reporting- The African Investigative Journalism Conference. Cardoso an alumni of Wits University was deported by the South African Government in 1974 because of his support for the Frelimo government in Mozambique.
There he became a leading journalistm however while investigating a massive fraud at the country's largest bank- implicating leading political figures and their families, Cardoso was assassinated in the streets of Maputo on 22 November 2000.
This year the memorial lecture was delivered by Advocate Pansy Tlakula who is an advocate of the high court of South Africa and a Wits alumnus. In July 2005 she was appointed as a member of the African Commission for Human and People's Rights- where she holds the position of Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa.
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