Botswana Deports Top Mugabe Spin-Doctor

It has emerged that Botswana President Ian Khama ordered the deportation of a communications expert who works for Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF last week, stepping up his country’s rejection of Mugabe’s controversial reelection in a one-man runoff last June. Sources say Ceasar Zvayi, a ZANU-PF operative who teaches media studies at the University of Botswana, and whose name appeared in an expanded US blacklist of Mugabe’s close associates, was arrested and deported alongside three other Zimbabweans. Botswana does not recognize Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s legitimate leader and has called for country’s suspension from all African organizations.[PE]