{"id":879022,"date":"2026-10-08T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=879022"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:12:17","slug":"absa-director-resigns-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/879022\/absa-director-resigns-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa director resigns with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alpheus Mangale has resigned from his role as an independent non-executive director at Absa, effective 8 October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an announcement published on the Stock Exchange News Service (SENS), Absa said Mangale&#8217;s resignation was due to &#8220;personal reasons and future commitments.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Alpheus Mangale has resigned as an independent non-executive director to the Absa Group Board, effective 8 October 2026, due to personal reasons and future commitments,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executive joined the Absa Group board in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His resignation from the Absa board follows his placement on special leave from his role as CEO of Seacom, a submarine cable company, pending an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation was allegedly launched due to complaints about the management of the company, Remgro executive Pieter Uys <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/671318-seacom-ceo-under-investigation-placed-on-special-leave.html\">told MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangale has served as Seacom&#8217;s CEO since 2023 and held several executive positions prior to his appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes various roles at Dimension Data Group (now NTT), where he served as the company&#8217;s chief technology officer, chief operating officer, and client experience director across Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also served as the chief enterprise officer for MTN Business and as managing director of Cisco Systems in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangale notably served as the group chief engineering officer at Standard Bank, resigning from the position in 2022 after the company <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/447206-standard-bank-chief-engineer-resigns-following-major-outages.html\">experienced severe outages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpheus Mangale has resigned as an independent non-executive director of Absa, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":856691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"failed","_sma_x_autopost_error":"Instagram publishing failed: Instagram returned HTTP 400: Media ID is not available","_sma_x_post_id":"2108214101310587222","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2230566551097077","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[29,1959,39,499],"class_list":["post-879022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-absa","tag-alpheus-mangale","tag-seacom","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879022"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879047,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879022\/revisions\/879047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}