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Bodyguards Shameel Joosub. Vodacom.com; Rawpixel; Currency

The moral hazard inside Joosub’s R7.3m security bill

Executive security has become a costly corporate norm, despite the rarity of CEO kidnappings

Vodacom Shameel Joosub remuneration. Rawpixel/Currency

Vodacom CEO’s R137m: 500 years of work for others

Vodacom is the first to disclose its pay gap under new rules – and first to show how to fudge the figures

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(Un)happy returns: inside the CEO pay debate

Do South Africa’s CEOs deliver value in line with the salaries they command? New research suggests that’s not always so

Bidcorp CEO Bernard Berson. bidcorpgroup.com

Meet Bernard Berson, one of the JSE’s highest-paid CEOs

Berson is making a killing thanks to long-term share incentives that were doled out during the Covid lows

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The gravy train economics of CEO pay 

If executive pay is meant to reward performance, why do so many CEOs earn more when their companies make less?

Woolies CEO Roy Bagattini with bags. Supplied / Rawpixel / Currency collage.

Packing his bags: behind Bagattini’s surprise departure 

The departure of Woolies’ well-paid CEO may have as much to do with a new chairman as it does frustration over a sluggish turnaround

Old Mutual’s Jurie Strydom. OldMutual.com

Behind Jurie Strydom’s R300m bonus

To fully understand Strydom’s potentially huge payout, you need to understand the trauma Old Mutual has endured over the past 25 years

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JSE CEOs: caviar pay, sardine results

A new report on 10 years of data for 65 of the JSE’s largest companies shows ‘no clear pattern’ between pay and profit performance

Fat cat salary scale. Rawpixel/Currency collage.

How rubber-necking execs gamed the JSE’s pay disclosure system

The past 23 years have seen an outlandish increase in executive pay, where what others earn is what really counts

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New ‘pay transparency’ rules before year-end

A revolutionary revamp of South Africa’s remuneration rules is coming. Are companies ready?

Clawback provisions. Spar

Spar fails to reclaim hefty bonuses from executives

For all its talk, Spar has proved unable to claw back the inappropriately generous remuneration paid to its former execs

Nampak CEO Phil Roux

Nampak’s rise from the ashes

The meeting was over and all but a few stragglers had headed off into the late afternoon Cape Town traffic. They included the CEO, the key controlling shareholder A2 Investment…

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Why South Africa’s retail bosses are coining it 

It’s ironic that Ian Moir’s near destruction of Woolworths may have helped to bump up the remuneration package paid to Shoprite’s Pieter Engelbrecht, as well as every other…

Companies Amendment Act

The Companies Amendment Act is a go, isn’t it? Maybe not

It’s happened again. Excitement, as well as much dread as President Cyril Ramaphosa signs off on another piece of controversial legislation. Then slowly comes the realisation…