PPC’s Game of Thrones: Disturbing goings-on at SA’s cement giant
As the cement company battles for survival, it has now emerged it agreed to pay its former finance director a monthly ‘consultancy’ fee of R321,499.95 for just 40 hours of work a month. Are PPC shareholders getting a raw deal?
28 January 2021 - 05:00
SA cement giant PPC was once a blue-chip darling of the JSE — a "must-have" stock in every local investment portfolio. Not too long ago PPC produced roughly one in three bags of cement in the country, while its status as one of the biggest cement-makers in Africa lent it a prestige that superseded its humble origins, as De Eerste Cement Fabrieken Beperkt, back in 1892.
In recent years, however, things have started to go badly awry...
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