"Keep the door open. We are a transparent organisation,” Zunaid Mayet says rather matter-of-factly to me during a meet-and-greet at EOH’s head office in Johannesburg a year ago. Mayet had just been appointed EOH CEO, replacing its founder, Asher Bohbot.

Bohbot’s departure was somewhat of a surprise. There were no indications that he was about to leave the company he founded within weeks of the announcement of his retirement.