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Retired Chief Justice to probe editor's suspension
MISA-Zimbabwe
November 01, 2005

Retired Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay will chair an independent labour panel to determine the suspension of Dr Ibbo Mandaza, the founding chief executive and editor-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG).

Chief Justice Gubbay’s selection to chair the five-member panel follows High Court Judge Justice Bharat Patel’s ruling that an independent labour tribunal be established to look into Mandaza’s suspension by ZMNG board chairman Jonathan Kadzura.

Justice Patel made the ruling after Mandaza filed an urgent application seeking a High Court order nullifying his suspension arguing that it was illegal and unprocedural.

Mandaza alleges that his ouster is being engineered by the Central Intelligence Organisation following its acquisition of the majority shareholding stake in the publishing company through a company known as Unique World Investment.

ZMNG are the publishers of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror.

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