OBITUARY
Adieu to Donald Gordon — Mr Liberty
Donald Gordon, who has died at 89, was a giant of the SA business landscape in the mould of Anton Rupert and Raymond Ackerman
28 November 2019 - 03:00
Donald Gordon, who died last week aged 89, belonged to a generation of strong men of SA business, ranking alongside the likes of Anton Rupert and Raymond Ackerman. In the same way that Ackerman is associated with Pick n Pay and Rupert with Rembrandt, Gordon is closely identified with Liberty Life.
He was the executive chair and unchallenged boss of Liberty from 1957 to 1997. By the time he left the company, all his key lieutenants were themselves on the brink of retirement, so he brought in an outsider, Roy Andersen from the JSE, to take the reins...
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