David Behr MTN Group has appointed David Behr as its group chief enterprise business officer with immediate effect. Behr will lead the JSE-listed telecommunications group’s integrated enterprise business unit following the recent consolidation of its converged solutions and group enterprise business units into a single structure. “This development follows strategic work initiated earlier this year to…
MTN chairman Mcebisi Jonas. MTN chairman Mcebisi Jonas, who was appointed by president Cyril Ramaphosa in April as South Africa’s special envoy to the US, has become the centre of a political storm within the Government of National Unity (GNU). Tensions escalated after the Democratic Alliance (DA) accused Ramaphosa of continuing to support Jonas in…
A sign outside MTN Group’s head office in Johannesburg. Image: TechCentral Shareholders in MTN Group’s long-running black empower scheme known as MTN Zakhele Futhi can look forward to a payout later this month – and a modest profit on their investment. The scheme, which is in the process of being unwound, will begin distributions to…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita marginally out-earned his counterpart, Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub, in the last year. This is in contrast to the previous financial year when Joosub was paid more. As shown in the table below, compiled by TechCentral, both CEOs earned similar guaranteed pay in their companies’ latest…
Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom Consumer. Telkom, South Africa’s third-biggest mobile operator, has set its sights on taking the competition to the Vodacom and MTN duopoly. This was the word yesterday from Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom Consumer, in an interview with ITWeb after the JSE-listed telecommunications company announced its annual financial results for the…
