CEO of SAA calls it quits

24 April 2015 - 12:17 By REUTERS

The suspended chief executive of South Africa's state-owned airline SAA, Monwabisi Kalawe, stepped down with immediate effect on Friday. Kalawe, who was suspended two months ago on grounds of misconduct and mismanagement, would become the sixth chief executive to leave the company in the last six years.The airline could not be immediately reached for comment. Kalawe was suspended last year and faced a disciplinary hearing over allegations of gross misconduct, on-compliance with various critical policies and procedures as well as legislation, serious misconduct, delegation of authority policy, gross misrepresentation to the minister of public enterprises, and failure to act at all times in SAA's best interests...

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