(MISA/IFEX) – On 21 June 2000, some twenty assailants attacked a car carrying four foreign media workers at a farm in southern Zimbabwe, in full view of Commonwealth election observers, reports the online publication “Electronic Mail & Guardian”. The four media workers – Beatrice Khadige of Agence France-Presse, Sharon Chetty of the “Sowetan” (South Africa), […]
(MISA/IFEX) – On 21 June 2000, some twenty assailants attacked a car carrying four foreign media workers at a farm in southern Zimbabwe, in full view of Commonwealth election observers, reports the online publication “Electronic Mail & Guardian”.
The four media workers – Beatrice Khadige of Agence France-Presse, Sharon Chetty of the “Sowetan” (South Africa), Guy Oliver of e-TV (South Africa) and his camera operater, Brian Ramapulana – escaped unharmed, but their rented car had its windows smashed.
The attackers, dressed in orange worksuits, with one wearing a ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party t-shirt, attacked the car with stones and knobkerries after an opposition Movement for Democratic Change team distributed campaign leaflets at the farm, named England. Two Commonwealth observers – one from Papua New Guinea and another from Canada – witnessed the attack at this rural farming district, about 120 kilometres south of the capital, Harare.
