HRW on Thursday urged SA to stop deporting Zimbabweans fleeing the humanitarian disaster in their country and grant them temporary shelter instead.
The New Zealand cricket team will tour Zimbabwe next year unless ordered not to by the government, NZ Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan said.
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Moves to isolate Zimbabwe cricket gathered momentum this week when the England and Wales Cricket Board began preliminary talks with India.
The England and Wales Cricket Board on Wednesday cancelled Zimbabwe’s tour of England next year.
British PM Gordon Brown has said he wants the Zimbabwe cricket team to be banned from touring England next year and from the 2009 T20 World Cup.
Cricket Zimbabwe has urged international cricket-playing nations to separate politics from sport, as pressure mounts to isolate Zimbabwe.
Cricket South Africa and English cricket players are taking to heart Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s call to isolate Zimbabwean cricket.