Ray Smuts
AS THE spicy goulash simmered merrily away, a symbolic culinary send-off for outgoing Cape Town port services manager Malcolm Green, few were aware that he had turned down at the eleventh hour a high-profile position with SAB International in Hungary - this after having accepted the appointment.
I am not going to Budapest any more, Green told this astonished correspondent shortly before 120 Portnet-invited guests were to sit down to his African-theme farewell dinner last Friday evening.
Instead, he revealed he had accepted a position as managing director of Woolworths subsidiary Universal Products Networks (UPN) - a company handling the total supply chain for the retail group - only 12 days before he was to have assumed duty at SAB International headquarters.
At his farewell, complete with Xhosa praise singer, Green was presented with a set of luggage by Portnet. We thought he was going to travel, said the group's Cape Town corporate affairs manager Lunga Mangqu.
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