so they are not telling you that Zimbabwe refused them visa just like they do to others and zimbabwe authorities are playing the same ball Britain plays -Zimbabwe's ministry of internal affairs does not discuss indivial cases

they also refused The Sun newspaper journalist. the sun is having a field day. here my white workmates moan this is wrong when in fact it is so right. abouttime they felt the visa whipblkwhip

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england tried new get out clause so not to lose millions in fimes and suspension


England delay flight to Zimbabwe
England have cancelled their flight to Zimbabwe and will stay in South Africa while discussions take place over their controversial tour.
Cricket board officials have asked if the Zimbabwe government media block makes it acceptable to pull out.
Chairman David Morgan, in Harare trying to get the block reversed, ordered the team to stay in Johannesburg.
"We're doing everything in our power to get that ban overturned," said ECB spokesman Andrew Walpole.
"We're talking to the ICC, we're talking to the ZCU, and we will continue to talk to the Zimbabwe authorities as well in the morning."







This has caused great concern for us and come out of the blue
Ehsan Mani
ICC president
A five-match one-day series is due to start on Friday but England could decide to pull out of the tour on Thursday.
The Zimbabwe government has denied 13 of 36 applications for media accreditation, including those from the BBC, the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror and their Sunday versions.
International Cricket Council rules do not demand universal access for foreign media.
But ICC president Ehsan Mani hinted England could pull out without penalty.
He said any decision would come down to a vote by the leading cricket nations.
But he added that the counties making up the ICC executive board have "a huge amount of sympathy for the ECB (after) the way this matter has been handled by the government in Zimbabwe".
Mani told BBC Five Live no player could directly be punished for pulling out but stressed a decision on the tour was down to the ECB.







The ICC may look stupid but the ECB now look even more spineless
From Bernard


Richard Bevan, chairman of the Professional Cricketers Association, said politics was being brought into cricket and the players were now at the centre of it.
He told BBC Radio Five Live: "A ban on key organisations like the BBC, the Telegraph and The Times is obviously beginning to use the players as political pawns."
The Zimbabwean Charge d'Affaires has been summoned to the British foreign office and the British embassy in Harare is also making representations.
British foreign office minister Denis MacShane spoke of "deep concern that the government of Zimbabwe has denied access to British journalists". mad-moonie
Sports Minister Richard Caborn added his voice to the growing wave of criticism, saying: "It is totally unacceptable to ban English journalists from entering Zimbabwe." bighairlol
George Charamba, secretary to Zimbabwe's information minister, defended the stance.
"Bona fide media organisations in the UK have been cleared but those that are political have not," he said. ower
"This is a game of cricket, not politics."


Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/spo...nd/4037659.stm

Published: 2004/11/24 16:14:23 GMT

© BBC MMIV

My Granny arrived on the weekend. Said nobody cares in the slightest about cricket right now. Too much poverty to be watching that. Lots of Nigerians and Kenyans making lots of money in the cities she says and apparently thousands of Chinese people there now and increasingconfused3but anyway.

IMO the only reason Zimbabwe is in the news is because the journalists and the groups they were for are upset and have their knickers in a twist. They dont care one bit about the people suffering that they are bleating about now, they are just upset to be banned as the media. Swines, if it really mattered then surely Zimbabwe would have been in the papers before and not only when they have a friggin cricket game or a white farmer gets beaten up.

The hypocrisy of the British press has constantly underminned the plight of the people there and made them secondary to trivialities and nonsense when they are not being outright ignored.

blkclapblkclapowerblkclapblkclap@drunkmonkey well said

well..I only love it when black can whip these Britons arse..isnt it cool?..they used to think Zimbabwe is theor poodle like Kenya

Funny UK media isnt saying that their visa applications have been turned down

well done to the zimbabwe's immigration department

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