Tony Weaver leaves Cape Times

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• Grubstreet: Tony Weaver and the Cape Times part ways... Tony Weaver, who has had a long and distinguished career at the Cape Times ended his service there this week after a 'three-week battle in a disciplinary hearing that saw him charged with "disrespect and insolence"... "The hearing came after Weaver questioned in a news conference the deputy editor's decision to crop a Pick n Pay logo from a photograph about a crime scene in a shopping mall', reports Grubstreet.

  Weaver is just the latest in a long list of senior staff who have left Independent.

  See also: "Atmosphere of fear" at Independent Newspapers as Weaver awaits hearing...

• The Citizen: Chester Missing, Steve Hofmeyr in court today... Comedian and ventriloquist Conrad Koch will be in the Randburg Magistrate's Court today to oppose Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr's interim protection order against him.
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