GOVT DEFENDS $500K US LOBBYING DEAL

Zimbabwe’s permanent secretary in the ministry of information Nick Mangwana has defended his government's US$500,000 deal with a United States-based lobby firm canvassing for the removal of targeted sanctions imposed on top Zanu PF officials to be removed by Washington. But human activists have criticised the deal as a waste of scarce resources in a country where more than 5 million people