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Journalists thrown out of meeting

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Provincial governor, Oppar Muchinguri, threw out journalists from the private media from a land resettlement meeting on 19 July on grounds that the government officials were about to discuss sensitive issues, the Media Institute of Southern African (MISA) said in a media alert on Monday.

    Quoting reports in the ‘Daily News’, MISA said that Patrick Mwale from the ‘Daily News’ and Muchaneta Manyengavana from the ‘Financial Gazette’ were ordered out because what was about to be discussed was classified information. MISA added that journalists from state-controlled media - the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zimbabwe Inter Africa News Agency (ZIANA) - were however left to cover the meeting.

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