New CEO for SAA

South African Airways has a new chief executive officer.
 Monwabisi Kalawe will fill the position of the national carrier's new permanent CEO and he takes over from Nico Bezuidenhout who has been acting CEO for the past few months.
Kalawe is currently the Country Managing Director of Compass Group South Africa, a food services company, as well as the CEO of Thebe Tourism Group.
His appointment comes after the board of directors of SAA suspended the national carrier's acting CEO, Vuyisile Kona, earlier this year. Kalawe is expected to take office in the next few weeks.

Air Uganda Names New CEO

 According to eturbonews, Air Uganda has appointed Cornwell Muleya as its new CEO. He joins Air Uganda from ALS Limited in Kenya, where he was chief executive of what was a growing aircraft leasing business for the past three years. Muleya is an engineer and chartered accountant by trade and spent the early part of his career in audit and financial consulting with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Muleya has extensive airline management experience, having worked as a CEO and CFO for several airlines in Africa, including Air Mauritius, Air Botswana, Air Tanzania and Zambezi Airlines.

Avis appoints new CEO

Following the resignation of Wayne Duvenage from his position as Chief Executive of Avis Rent a Car South Africa, Avis management has decided not to replace Duvenage, but to rather have the position absorbed by Keith Rankin, Chief Executive of Avis Rent a Car Southern Africa. Rankin, who was also instrumental in appointing Duvenage in 2006 to run the South African business, joined Avis back in 1998 and has held various positions within the group, before being appointed into the position of Chief Executive: Avis Rent a Car Southern Africa in 2004.