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DeMbare coach assaults ZBC crew

26 Feb, 2016
MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert                                                                                                         […]

MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert                                                                                                                                            26 February 2016

DeMbare coach assaults ZBC crew

Dynamos FC head coach Paulo Jorge Silva on 25 February 2016 attacked two Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) journalists Vivian Bangamu and Francis Nyamutsama who were covering the team’s training sessions at Prince Edward School in Harare .

According to media reports, Silva manhandled camerperson Bangamu and sprained her wrist demanding she deletes footage she had captured in her camera.

Silva later phoned the ZBC crew apologising adding that he thought they were from NewsDay.

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