Privately owned weekly, Zimbabwe Independent newspaper War veterans Flata Kavinga, editor of the The Midlands Observer. Freelance journalists Brian Hungwe and Frank Chikowore, Reuters, AFP,BBC,AP, France weekly to retract the story. The Financial Gazette had not done so by 29 February 2008 Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) seeks a High court order to bar The Independent which was about to disclose details relating to the organization’s directorgeneral Happyton Bonyongwe. In an affidavit supplied by Bonyongwe he said the story was ‘manifestly and palpably malicious and false” and therefore should not be published. War veterans in Matabeleland South Province ordered villagers in the area to remove satellite television receivers from their homes. The war veterans told the villagers that the dishes were misleading them into voting against Zanu PF. Most villagers in the area can only watch and listen to South African and Botswana television and radio stations because of poor transmission signals from the state controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. A liberation war veteran named as Diva threatened Kavinga and told him that there was a “programme of action” against him because his newspaper was proopposition as it wrote articles critical of the government. The war veteran told him to be careful or face the consequences. The Permanent Secretary for Information and Publicity George Charamba 20 March 2008 27 May 2008 29 May 2008 15 December 2008 44