Júlio Eduardo Zamith Carrilho (Pemba, 26 June 1946 – Maputo, 5 December 2021)[1][2] was a Mozambican politician, long-time member of FRELIMO, as well as a university professor and author.
[2] He lived briefly in Sweden, where he fled to escape the Portuguese secret police PIDE, then returning to Maputo in September 1974, at the age of 28.
[5] As the Minister of Public Works and Housing, he was responsible for overseeing the implementation in 1976 of FRELIMO's decision to nationalize all rental units in all Mozambican cities.
[6] Initially targeting only the apartment buildings within the colonial urban core of cities, known as 'cidade de cimento' (the cement city), the decision was interpreted by the population as extending also to all rental units, including those in 'subúrbios' (loosely translated as 'the suburbs'), the areas where the vast majority of the African population lived in colonial times.
Júlio Carrilho taught at the Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning of Eduardo Mondlane University since 1993 until his retirement.