INDEPENDENT Media, the largest publisher of English language titles in South Africa, made at least four people in its management ranks redundant over the weekend.Business Day has reliably learnt that Western Cape managing editor Martine Barker was escorted out of the group’s Cape Town offices on Friday and that outspoken Cape Times executive editor Tony Weaver has been made redundant.Packages were given to Western Cape circulation manager Graham Shaw and Gauteng counterpart Pierre Joubert. They have already left. This comes on top of the resignations, and immediate departures of The Star editor Makhudu Sefara and of The Mercury editor Philani Mgwaba late last month.Former Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois was formally dismissed last week after being found guilty in a company internal disciplinary hearing. She has taken her case to the Labour Court.In Mr Weaver, Independent will lose an award-winning journalist.Mr Sefara was crowned editor of the year in the Standard Bank Sikuvile Awar...
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