{"id":1050,"date":"2008-06-22T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2008-06-22T21:01:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T20:01:44","slug":"supa-mandiwanzira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/supa-mandiwanzira\/","title":{"rendered":"Supa Mandiwanzira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1051\" href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/06\/supa-mandiwanzira\/aljazeera\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright frame size-medium wp-image-1051\" title=\"Al Jazeera logo\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/aljazeera.png\" alt=\"Al Jazeera logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/aljazeera.png 120w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/aljazeera-83x125.png 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">C<\/span>ity alum and <strong>Al Jazeera English<\/strong> Zimbabwe correspondent <strong>Supa Mandiwanzira<\/strong> has gained something of a reputation as a <strong>ZANU-PF<\/strong> propagandist. He starred in a recent edition of <em><strong>Private Eye<\/strong><\/em> (1210).<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks perhaps to the curse of Gnome, <a href=\"http:\/\/zimbabwemetro.com\/2008\/06\/22\/al-jazeera-kicked-out-of-zimbabwe\/\" target=\"_blank\">a report suggests<\/a> he is about to be cut adrift by Doha:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Jazeera has been denied permission to operate in Zimbabwe, a source in the Ministry of Information and Publicity told Metro.<\/p>\n<p>Its Harare bureau will be moved to Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the government was not happy with its plans to fire its correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira who is being accused of not being objective.<\/p>\n<p>Last year before joining Al Jazeera Mandiwanzira was fired from SABC News, South Africa\u2019s State broadcaster for his alleged involvement in a ZANU-PF and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sting operation against Roman Catholic prelate Bishop Pius Ncube.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can watch his report of the &#8216;million man march&#8217; from November, 2007, below:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kL4xswSaWVA&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kL4xswSaWVA&amp;hl=en\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City alum and Al Jazeera English Zimbabwe correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira has gained something of a reputation as a ZANU-PF propagandist. He starred in a recent edition of Private Eye (1210). Now, thanks perhaps to the curse of Gnome, a report suggests he is about to be cut adrift by Doha:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}