BBC classical music presenter ‘not responsible for lack of permit’

During a subsequent court hearing, a magistrate is understood to have asked to
see Michael Bullivant, the director of the Bulawayo Music Academy, to ask
about Mr Trelawny’s lack of Temporary Employment Permit (TEP).

Bruce McDonald, one of the event’s organisers, said Mr Trelawny’s lack of
permit was simply an oversight, and that other performers from the UK had
them.

“Somebody slipped up I am afraid. I have discovered he should have had a
TEP,” he said. He said the magistrate had suggested it was “not
the responsibility” of Mr Trelawny to arrange the permit, but that of
the music academy.

Mr Trelawny, a frequent visitor to Zimbabwe, was acting as an unpaid narrator
for a performance of Song of the Carnivores, a British Council-funded
production which brought together over 500 children from 10 schools to
perform at the Bulawayo City Hall.

According to his friend Judith Todd, the daughter of former liberal Rhodesian
prime minister Sir Garfield Todd who visited him in hospital for his
birthday on Sunday, he was determined not to let his experience prevent him
from returning to the country.

“Petroc only had praise for everyone who he has been in contact with him
since he got to Bulawayo,” he said.

“He does not want to be deported as he wants to come back here again and
again.

“He was in good spirits and he is comfortable. He is in a single ward
with two very nice young policemen guarding him. He is being well treated.”

The court case has been adjourned for Mr Bullivant to return from a trip to
Victoria Falls.

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