'Chickens coming home to roost.' Sasol's AGM collapses amid tension over green targets

Sasol’s clash with large institutional shareholders is no closer to a resolution after a much-anticipated annual general meeting ended in shambles.

Sasol shareholders were due to vote on its climate report on Friday, and the company would likely have faced tough questions from stakeholders. Instead, Sasol cancelled the AGM after the protestors continued to disrupt the CEO's speech.

After almost an hour of technical difficulties with its live-streaming AGM, Fleetwood Grobler, the outgoing CEO of Sasol, had only been talking for a few minutes about how deeply one of the country's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases cares about people and the planet before he was interrupted by a dozen protestors.