Shareholder activist Tracey Davies targets this week's Sasol, FirstRand AGMs

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Fireworks are likely when two of South Africa's top companies host shareholders at their annual general meetings this week. Tracey Davies, an environmental lawyer turned shareholder activist (LLB at UCT, LLM at NYU), intends peppering questions at the directors of Sasol (Wednesday) and FirstRand (Thursday). In the latest episode of Rational Radio the executive director of JustShare explains what she'll be asking the companies about, and why their responses thus far have been inadequate. Particularly Sasol, where the company's promise to cut 10% off pollution emitted at its Secunda plant is deemed unacceptably modest. - Alec Hogg
25 Nov 2019 10PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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