Dis-Chem's new CEO is spending hundreds of millions to reinvent South Africa's biggest pharmacy chain

Billionaires Africa | 11.06.2026 14:52
Rui Morais took over as chief executive of Dis-Chem Pharmacies in July 2023 and inherited a pharmacy empire built over 47 years by Ivan and Lynette Saltzman. His first major strategic decision was to start dismantling it. Not the business itself, but the model that built it.