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	South Africa: Sabc Backs off on 'Sting' By Sarah Hudleston allAfrica September 13, 2007 http://allafrica.com/stories/200709130209.html THE SABC has distanced itself from its Harare correspondent, Supa Mandiwanzira, who has been implicated in an alleged campaign to discredit a fierce critic of President Robert Mugabe, Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube. Ncube, who resigned on Tuesday, has been embroiled in a sex scandal involving an adulterous affair which was allegedly caught on tape. A trust set up to support the embattled cleric, the APN Solidarity Trust, wrote to Snuki Zik alala at the SABC saying that through Mandiwanzira's involvement in the so-called sting operation, the South African state broadcaster was perpetuating injustices in Zimbabwe. Ncube resigned on Tuesday, saying it was to spare the church further attacks by the government. Kaizer Kganyago, spokesman for the SABC, yesterday distanced the broadcaster from Mandiwanzira who, according to sources in Harare, is closely connected to the ruling Zanu (PF) hierarchy. Kganyago said the SABC was setting up its own bureau in Harare with its own staff.
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