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Undercover Zimbabwe film wins award



An undercover film shot in Zimbabwe by Shepherd Yuda, a prison officer, and smuggled out of the country has won the best news programme category in the Broadcast Awards announced last night. The film followed the story of vote rigging during the 2008 election,
Zimbabwe: The Stolen Ballots, a world exclusive broken on the guardian.co.uk website in July last year and also broadcast on BBC2's Newsnight, showed a Mugabe supporter getting prison officers to fill in their postal ballots in his presence. The film was shot in Zimbabwe capital Harare's central jail by prison officer Shepherd Yuda and smuggled out of the country by him. Yuda later fled the country with his family. This is believed to be the first time a UK newspaper has won a Broadcast award. link