BTO CEO resigns
Sharon Mathala | Wednesday August 24, 2016 16:15
Dithebe made this announcement on Monday at an emergency staff meeting at the BTO offices. Dithebe resigns after only a year in office. He acted for a year before he assumed the leadership role.
Dithebe is the second CEO of the tourism organisation after the departure of the founding CEO, Myra Sekgororoane back in December 2013. Sekgororoane, a tourism industry veteran who rebranded the then Botswana Tourism Board (BTB), had served the organisation for eight years. Reached for reasons why he resigned out of the blue, Dithebe refused to comment directing all enquiries to the Public Relations Unit. “All official comments run through the Public Relations Office. They will answer to any of your questions as they normally do,” he said. Reached for comment, BTO’s Gillian Blackbeared confirmed the CEO’s sudden resignation but could not go into details indicating that the matter is “internal”.
“Dithebe will be leaving BTO. He resigned on his own accord this Monday as it is within his contract to do so if he so wishes,” she said, adding that Dithebe’s resignation has officially been accepted. Dithebe will officially leave office after serving three months notice as his contract stipulates.