Her resignation follows a year of lobbying by business and, more recently, organised labour as the performance of the state logistics company plummeted under her watch.
Her resignation follows a year of lobbying by business and, more recently, organised labour, as the performance of the state logistics company plummeted under her watch.
Derby is believed to have negotiated a substantial settlement for her departure. Her annual salary was in the region of R8.5 million. In a statement issued earlier on Friday, organised labour added its voice to earlier calls by the Minerals Council and the Durban Chamber of Commerce for the removal of Derby and Mzimela."We are witnessing the collapse of Transnet because of endemic levels of corruption within it, the explosion of cable theft, years of neglect of infrastructure investments and skills development, and a management team that is woefully out of its depth that must now go.
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