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Thebe’s Vusi Khanyile savours highlights as he steps down
Business Day asks Vusi Khanyile and incoming CEO Sizwe Mncwango what Thebe’s milestones have been
While Stephen Koseff gave his swan song at Investec’s results presentation this week, another business leader is preparing to stand down after 26 years at the organisation he created: Thebe Corporation’s founder Vusi Khanyile. Business Day asked Khanyile and incoming CEO Sizwe Mncwango what Thebe’s standout achievements had been? VUSI KHANYILE (VK): We started in July 1992, and in August or September a team of two people started squatting in my office, and we started working on a project of establishing an airline — and that airline was formally launched in 1994 — SA Express. We’re lyrical about it because it played an important role in our development — it also gave us confidence that we could put together a project of that nature. And it did give us the commercial impact we were looking for as a company. I would also say the achievement of the company is that it survived me. More seriously, when Thebe started, there wasn’t a company in the South African corporate market that was c...
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