South African retailer Steinhoff Africa Retail Ltd. said June 11 that it appointed Wendy Luhabe to be an independent nonexecutive director of the company, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Luhabe has 37 years of experience in the cosmetics and automotive sectors in Germany and the U.S., the company said. She was the founding chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.
Steinhoff Africa Retail is a listed subsidiary of Steinhoff International Holdings NV, whose former CEO, Markus Jooste, resigned after an investigation into accounting irregularities began in 2017.
