The video is called
Zimbabwe: The stolen ballot
Why has this video not ever been shown on local TV stations? And if it has, why has there been no vocal coverage of it, or word of mouth about it? I found this video at the kickmugabeout website. with the following explanation:
A GuardianFilms’ undercover video report revealing vote rigging by Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party filmed ‘in Mugabe’s face’ during last year’s presidential Zimbabwe election won best news programme of the year during last week’s Broadcast Awards held in London. Zimbabwe: The Stolen Ballots, a world exclusive posted on the guardian.co.uk website in July last year and also broadcast on BBC2’s Newsnight, showed a Mugabe supporter getting prison officers to fill in their postal ballots in his presence. The film was shot in Zimbabwe capital Harare’s central jail by prison officer Shepherd Yuda and smuggled out of the country by him. Yuda later fled the country with his family. This is believed to be the first time a UK newspaper has won a Broadcast award. GuardianFilms is the TV production arm of Guardian News & Media, which also publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk. Shepherd Yuda, the prison guard who filmed this video footage ‘in Mugabe’s face’ (rhetoric) has since fled Zimbabwe.
This is one of the best pieces of investigative citizen journalism that I have ever seen and it well deserves the awards it has received. The cost of the video? A man and his family had to flea Zimbabwe for their lives. This makes me sick to my stomach. Yet the SA government offers up quiet diplomacy. Tsk tsk tsk.
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February 3rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm
if there a team in this world that is on track for 2010 lt has to be mzansi,mzansi rocks,no doubt