LETTER: Absa leadership questions

Did the incoming CEO know that the chair who hired him would leave before his own arrival?

Absa’s building in Sandton. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/BUSINESS DAY
Absa’s building in Sandton. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/BUSINESS DAY

Your editorial, “Absa’s struggle for normality” (May 15), refers.

The question that remains is whether the incoming CEO knew that the chair who hired him would leave before his own arrival and that he’d have to report to “an Absa lifer”. If not, one can only speculate what Kenny Fihla must be thinking now.

C Naegele

Johannesburg

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