Ray

🇿🇦Patriot /Truth/ Family First/ Media & Creative Industry Expert / Chiefs and Man U 🫶

[Ray @RayNkwe]

💯 on point ❗️

[The Presidency 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA]

What does it take to advise the President?

For Adv. Nokukhanya Jele, Special Advisor to President @CyrilRamaphosa on Legal and International Affairs, it is about providing the information, insight and tools needed to support sound decision-making.

This Women’s Month, we honour the women whose expertise, leadership and dedication continue to make a difference in our country.

Hear more about her journey in law, international diplomacy and public service in the full episode of The Debrief with Qaanitah Hunter.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/6YWWvAayjB

#WomensMonth2026
#NokukhanyaJele

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@Janiellydosmarq Who’s the background music by?

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@Manu_Sisti @Marketing_Nerd_ Book, thank you for doing this

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@TommiPedruzzi Doc

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Damn🔥🔥😂

[Biafra War Room @BiafraWarRoom]

TRUTH TO BE TOLD, YOU ARE HATED BY NIGERIA TERR0RIST GOVERNMENT, THEY CANNOT COME SPEAK GOOD ABOUT US AS PEOPLE AND THAT IS THE REASON THAT YOU MUST BEHAVE YOURSELF. WE MUST UNITE AND PURSUE ONE GOAL BIAFRA #USBG

[ÓMÒÉLÉRÍNJÁRÉ @omoelerinjare]

Student In Desperate Situation Asks Court For A Helping Hand & The Judge Does This😌

[Tshepo Mekoa @tshepomekoa]

Sixteen years ago, I was having lunch in Bedfordview with two friends.

In the middle of that meal, I asked a simple question:

“Why do we have to drive this far just to enjoy a proper meal?”

At the time, I owned a small two-bedroom house in Daveyton.

And in that moment, something shifted.

Instead of complaining about the distance…
I decided to change the location of opportunity.

I went back home.

Demolished the two-bedroom house.

And built what would become Brima Café — an elegant restaurant in the heart of Daveyton.

Not because it was easy.
But because our community deserved quality.
Our people deserved experience.
And our township deserved excellence.

Brima Café was never just a restaurant.

It was a statement.

A statement that you don’t have to leave your community to enjoy beauty.
You can build it where you are.

From a question over lunch…
to a landmark in Daveyton.

#BrimaCafe #Daveyton #FromVisionToReality #TownshipExcellence #LegacyBuilding

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@Moshe_Meso It wasn’t banned 😂😂😂😂 there were complaints but wasn’t banned.

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Pheli bars 🔥🔥🔥

[25K THE PLUG™ 🔌 @TheReal_25K]

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Asante Mokhuoa @AsanteOnBoards]

MORE EXECUTIVES JUMP SHIP FROM STANDARD BANK TO ABSA

In March 2025, I published an article titled:

“BANKING CEO JUMPS SHIP – POWER MOVE OR CAREER SUICIDE AT 54?”

In that article, I laid out the full context, the risk, and the stakes of Kenny Fihla’s move from Standard Bank Group to Absa Group.

What is unfolding now does not require reinterpretation or embellishment.

It simply confirms that the framework was correct.

Since Kenny Fihla’s departure, the following executives have also jumped ship:

1. Zaid Moola
Former: Head of Global Markets and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), South Africa at Standard Bank
Appointed: Chief Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking at Absa

2. Musa Motloung
Former: Chief Risk Officer, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank
Appointed: Group Strategic Risk Officer at Absa

3. Avikaar Ramphal
Former: Portfolio Head of Strategy Enablement, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank
Appointed: Head of Strategic Risk at Absa

4. Clive Potter
Former: Head of Client Coverage, Corporate and Investment Banking, South Africa at Standard Bank
Appointed: Managing Executive for Client Coverage at Absa

5. Francisco Khoza
Former: Head of Legal at Standard Bank
Appointed: Deputy General Group Counsel at Absa

When I wrote that article, I was not reacting to headlines. I was tracing a pattern.

I began by making one thing clear. This was not a routine leadership transition. Senior executives move all the time, but they do not usually walk away from certainty, succession, and institutional gravity at the exact moment when power is most secure. This move disrupted assumptions precisely because it did not follow the script.

I then went further back. I reminded readers that Kenny Fihla’s career had never been defined by comfort or continuity. His defining moments had come in broken systems, in environments marked by instability, resistance, and pressure. From the public sector to banking, his credibility was built by stepping into dysfunction and restoring order, not by inheriting well-oiled machines.

Later that year, at our Graduation and Year-End Celebration with the Global Board Directors’ Programme graduates, I was privileged enough to ask him that very question. And the man himself answered why.

(Video attached.)

What is emerging now is not just a story of people moving, but of direction being set.

While Absa Group may be smaller than Standard Bank Group in sheer scale, the choices being made point to a bank that is becoming far more deliberate about where and how it grows. The emphasis on targeted African markets, disciplined expansion, and selective acquisitions suggests a strategy anchored in depth rather than sprawl. Recent transactions include the acquisition of Standard Chartered’s operations in Uganda and HSBC’s retail and business banking portfolio in Mauritius.

Since Kenny Fihla took the helm, Absa’s share price has risen by 41 percent, outperforming the FTSE/JSE Banks Index, which gained 25 percent over the same period. This rally has lifted the group’s market capitalisation to approximately R219 billion, or $13.4 billion.

Coupled with renewed market confidence and early signs of momentum, this feels less like a short-term rebound and more like the opening chapters of a longer institutional rebuild. Growth, in this context, is not being chased. It is being curated.

As 2026 unfolds, I wish Kenny Fihla and the team forming around him continued wisdom, courage, and steadiness in execution. Building institutions is slow, often thankless work. But when done well, it reshapes markets, careers, and confidence far beyond balance sheets.

More executives jump ship from Standard Bank to Absa...
is this signalling a shift in africa’s banking sector?

The work is underway.
The continent is watching.

#AskAsanteOnBoards

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@Cmphiwe_K Honestly

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@grok @nobleisawinner Thanks

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@nobleisawinner @grok Who’s the artist and the title of the song?

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@nobleisawinner @SuperGrok Who’s the artist and the title of the song?

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@borussia_jp @kougogo1270 Who is the song by please?