Thus, the right to write freely in Mozambique was born with our independence. Before that the dark, heavy hand of censorship, fascist political control and Gestapo-type political police terrorized journalists and forced them to live in the colonial reign of fear. Fortunately, this situation has changed. Today Mozambique thrives under the four freedoms. The constitutional right to write freely with objectivity, criticize with responsibility, denounce wrongdoings with patriotism is also a result of the struggle of Mozambican journalists.
Censorship is gone and the heavy hand of government watchdogs ceased to exist.
Interestingly enough our State, our government share the same basic interests with the Mozambican journalists. Those interests are enshrined in the Constitution, guaranteed in the Law of the Press and promoted in the Government Policy and Strategies for the Press. Under these legislations, Mozambicans are free to create both print and electronic media. As a result, today Mozambique's media mosaic has been enriched with the birth of its private sector. The freedom to create new media organizations goes with the freedom of the journalists to write without limits imposed by the state.