GOVERNMENT is contemplating action against the Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA) for "dramatizing" the deportation of South African Afro-pop group, Freshlyground, despite being aware that their application for work permits had been rejected.
Chief immigration officer, Clemence Masango, told a Parliamentary committee on Foreign Affairs that HIFA organisers were told way before the event started not to bring Freshlyground into the country but they (HIFA) "but they decided to defy for unknown reason".
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