BUSA CEO resigns

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Pretoria - Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) CEO Jerry Vilakazi has resigned.

"Vilakazi, CEO of BUSA since 2006, has formally conveyed his intention to resign from BUSA as CEO in order to pursue other personal interests," BUSA spokesperson Masego Lehihi said on Wednesday.

Vilakazi will leave BUSA at the end of May 2011.

Vilakazi, who is also a published poet, originally trained as a teacher at the University of Zululand. He has since gone on to hold the position of the Public Service Commissioner in 1999. He was also Director and Chief Director for Strategic Planning (Home Affairs); Deputy Director for Transformation (Dept of Public Service and Administration); Director for Commerce and Industry (SAICA), and served on the Board of the Water Research Commission.

Until the end of December 2005, he was the Managing Director of the Black Management Forum.