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A hitherto little-known independent film production company, Frontier Africa TV, released a film this week containing what it claimed was a confession of adultery by Pius Ncube, the former archbishop of Bulawayo. Zimbabwe's presidential and parliamentary elections take place today. Last July photographs of the archbishop, until then the most vocal and prominent domestic critic of President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical rule, appeared in newspapers in Zimbabwe and around the world. The photographs appeared to show the archbishop in compromising circumstances with a married woman. Pius Ncube subsequently resigned as archbishop. According to the film company the interview in which the confession was made took place last November, shortly before the former archbishop left Zimbabwe for Rome. In the film the former archbishop, 61, says: "It is true, I do admit that I did fail in keeping God's commandment with regard to adultery." In the footage, he also apologises to the people of Zimbabwe and commits himself to continuing the struggle for human rights in his country. Referring to the planting of cameras in the ceiling of his bedroom by government agents, he commented: "I knew they were after me, but I didn't expect it to reach that extent." Patrick Barth, a Director of Frontier Africa TV, told The Tablet that the film was broadcast only this week because of interest in Zimbabwe's elections. He said the company had been making a documentary on the archbishop last year when the scandal broke.  |
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