The dismissal of three former senior executives of Kidrogen‚ which runs the City of Cape Town’s MyCiTi bus service, was justified due to their dishonesty, the Labour Court in Cape Town has ruled. The court found that the former executives — BG Ncube‚ Andre Erasmus and Christy Prins — had acted dishonestly by manually altering their employment contracts to increase their annual and monthly total costs to company. Ncube‚ Erasmus and Prins are former Cape Town taxi operators and were employed by Kidrogen‚ a company that was started by taxi operators and is running the City of Cape Town’s MyCiTi integrated rapid transport services. In terms of an agreement between the city and the taxi bosses, operators who relinquished their vehicle licences in exchange for equity in the company would be hired as top management. The three were appointed to senior executive positions: Ncube as CEO‚ Erasmus as CFO and Prins as COO. Contracts altered Their contracts stipulated the annual package for each...
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