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State media body calls for investigation of journalists' union, journalist

(MISA/IFEX) - Zimbabwe's state-controlled Media and Information Commission (MIC) says the government should probe the leadership of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) for what it described as its "anti-government propaganda" activities.

In an article published in the government-controlled "Sunday Mail" on 1 October 2006, MIC Executive Chairman Dr Tafataona Mahoso said the Commission had written to the Ministry of Information and Publicity requesting the government probe the ZUJ for joining the anti-Zimbabwe lobby.

Mahoso also singled out Nunurai Jena, ZUJ's provincial secretary in Mashonaland West Province, on allegations of stringing for the Voice of America's Studio 7 in Washington. The MIC said it had since written to the police to investigate Jena.

The MIC claimed that it had documents in its possession in which the ZUJ wrote to the Royal Netherlands Embassy and UNESCO requesting funds allegedly to advance its anti-Zimbabwe lobby activities.