B.B.C. team expelled
NZPA-Reuter Harare A South African-based 8.8. C. television team was asked yesterday to leave Zimbabwe as a result of a ban on foreign correspondents visiting southern African States from the white governed republic. 8.8. C. Television’s southern African correspondent, Philip Hayton, said that he and his cameraman, Francois Marais, and sound recordist, Maurice Odello, had been asked by the Zimbabwean authorities to leave the country as soon as possible. He said that they would leave for Johannesburg on the first flight today.
The team arrived at Harare on Friday to cover events in the troubled province of Matabeleland. They were refused work permits. Hayton, who has covered Zimbabwe from South Africa since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, said: “I am surprised and disappointed. I have done my utmost to report accurately.” The 8.8. C. men were the first to be denied access to a “frontline” African State after regional Information Ministers decided at the week-end that their area should be covered by international newsmen based in their countries and not in South Africa. ,
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