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Daily Mirror legal battle intensifies
MISA-Zimbabwe
May 12, 2006

Dr Ibbo Mandaza, the chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG), has filed a High Court application for contempt of court charges against the company’s directors for allegedly failing to comply with a court order to reinstate him.

Mandaza was suspended as CEO in October 2006 last year following the takeover of his company by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). The High Court, however, ruled that he be reinstated.

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

In his application against directors Jonathan Kadzura, John Marangwanda, Charm Makuwane, Alexander Kanengoni and Thomas Meke, said the respondents should be imprisoned "until such a time that they comply with the order of this honourable court".

"There can be no question that all the respondents disobeyed a lawful order of this court. I understand that in law, this proves their wilful disobedience and inherent mala fides.

The underlying evil and manifest contrivance in all this is too strong to miss. It is consistent with the dominant and obsessive purpose of all the respondents and their not very undisclosed principals’ wishes to outmuscle me from an organisation that I founded – at zero cost to them," argued Mandaza.

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