SABC crew ejected from Murerwa press briefing

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By Staff Reporter

HERBERT Murerwa, Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, on Thursday ejected a television news crew from the South African Broadcasting Corporation from his press briefing, reports said.

Murerwa had called the press conference to brief journalists on a recent visit by an International
Monetary Fund (IMF) mission.

Murerwa accused the SABC of
being hostile to Zimbabwe, the station reported Thursday night.

After briefing the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, Murerwa recalled the SABC crew, saying only that the IMF had expressed concern about spiralling inflation, property rights and continued low production in the agriculture sector.

Earlier, the IMF demanded Zimbabwe make good on a government pledge to stop farm invasions which had crippled commercial agriculture.

An IMF team held a meeting with senior government officials and the central bank in Harare before heading to Washington.

They will report back to the IMF board of governors who will decide the country's future membership of the body next month.

The SABC is one of the few foreign media organisations still allowed to report within Zimbabwe. Many other foreign journalists were either deported or criminalised under new media laws to force them to leave the country.
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