SA's Top Executives 2013 Jack Hammer | Page 29

In a handful of cases, companies choose to employ non-SA citizens either because of a scarcity of skills or as part of a deliberate strategy to appoint a leader with global expertise and perspective. N AT I O N A L I T Y Much has been said about how companies are employing foreigners into the top jobs, overlooking South Africans for these key leadership roles but the data shows that this is not the case – only a very small percentage of CEOs are not from South Africa.