RON DERBY: Are local CEOs just BEE-ing used?

21 July 2019 - 00:09 By RON DERBY

When Anglo American was fending off the unwanted advances of the then Mick Davis-led Xstrata in the aftermath of the last global recession, it exposed the flaw of the South African CEO position in a company that is quite clearly being led from headquarters elsewhere...

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