Transnet says indebted companies are behind the calls for its CEO’s removal

South Africa’s beleaguered state ports and rail company deepened its feud with the private sector, accusing business chambers of intimidation because they owe it money.

A September 12 letter from a business chamber in Durban, the site of Africa’s biggest container port, to the minister of public enterprises, called for Transnet’s CEO Portia Derby and her team to be removed because of the woeful state of the nation’s ports and freight rail service.