corporate governance
Hear no evil: JSE firms gag shareholders
More and more listed companies are banning shareholders from speaking at their AGMs, insisting instead on text-based communication. It’s a slap in the face for engagement and corporate accountability
23 February 2023 - 05:00
If you were planning to hold a meeting with friends or colleagues and wanted to ensure “reasonably effective” participation by everyone while also ensuring communication was concurrent, would you insist that they relied entirely on texting? And that they did so despite being able to communicate easily through the spoken word?
Probably not, unless you were up to something...
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