Transaction Capital, which has lost more than half of its value in two days, has found itself on the defensive trying to explain why its CEO sold off a substantial block of his shareholding just months before the company issued a dreary trading statement showing its key division SA Taxi was in a morass.

CEO David Hurwitz’s family trust in December 2022 sold R50m of the group’s stock in three tranches, dumping 1.6-million shares, or 40% of his holding in the company...

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