Rui Baltazar
Minister of Finance
In office
1978–1986
Preceded bySalamão Munguambe
Succeeded byAbdul Magid Osman
Minister of Justice
In office
1975–1978
Succeeded byTeodato Hunguana
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
1975–1992
Personal details
Born
Rui Baltazar dos Santos Alves

1933
Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique
Political partyFRELIMO
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

Rui Baltazar dos Santos Alves (born 1933) is a Mozambican lawyer, politician, and university professor who was an active supporter of FRELIMO during the Mozambican War of Independence.

Biography

Baltazar was born in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) to a Portuguese Mozambican family. During colonial rule, he used his position as an attorney to defend political prisoners of the Portuguese authorities, and upon independence was appointed the first Minister of Justice People's Republic of Mozambique. In 1975, he also helped draft the Constitution of the newly independent nation. In 1978, he was appointed Minister of Finance, a position he held until 1986. In April 1986, he became rector of Eduardo Mondlane University, where he taught human rights law. He was also a member of the Mozambique Parliament from 1975 to 1992 and was Mozambique's representative to the EEC-ACP assembly. He signed the Lomé Convention on behalf of Mozambique in 1986.[1]

In 1994, Baltazar was nominated as the Mozambican ambassador to Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and in 2002 became special advisor to the President of the SADC.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Darch, Colin (2018). Historical Dictionary of Mozambique. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 57. ISBN 1538111357.
  2. ↑ Abrahamsson, H. (2003). Understanding World Order and Structural Change: Poverty, Conflict and the Global Arena. Springer. ISBN 1403944059.


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