{"id":15005,"date":"2025-11-11T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mercedes-benz-sa-ceo-designate-resigns-ahead-of-taking-office\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:23","slug":"mercedes-benz-sa-ceo-designate-resigns-ahead-of-taking-office","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mercedes-benz-sa-ceo-designate-resigns-ahead-of-taking-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz SA CEO-designate resigns ahead of taking office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Mercedes-Benz South Africa (SA) has announced that its Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-designate, Abey Kgotle, has resigned for personal reasons, less than a month before he was due to assume the role.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kgotle, who joined the company in 2017, was appointed in June to succeed Andreas Brand as the Chief Executive of the German luxury carmaker\u2019s South African operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He currently serves as the Executive Director for human resources and corporate affairs and will step down on November 30.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In its statement, the company said it respects Kgotle\u2019s decision but did not provide further details regarding his personal reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15006,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-15005","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kgotle joined the company in 2017, was appointed in June to succeed Andreas Brand.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kgotle joined the company in 2017, was appointed in June to succeed Andreas Brand.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19426,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15005\/revisions\/19426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}