African Bank’s glass ceiling has shattered its public image
Basani Maluleke’s quick departure looks like a successful black leader was ushered out by a board that couldn’t even implement a transition plan — assuming one actually existed
A little over five years ago, as the US election campaign pitting Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump reached fever pitch, Clinton was confronted with a simple yet instrumental question: “Secretary Clinton, do you believe you deserve to be president because you are a woman?” Without missing a beat she responded: “I believe that the next American president should be chosen on merit. And one of my merits is that I am a woman.”
The relevance of this statement in the middle of a ground-breaking campaign that saw Clinton get closer to the US presidency than any woman has ever managed to do, is that it touched on one of the last remaining social frontiers of our age: the glass ceiling. ..
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