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Telkom’s new CEO Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi has been welcomed pass for just the right person understanding drive the state majority-owned venture to great heights.

Currently Telkom’s General practitioner, Moholi was announced as Boss on 17 March and wish begin her new duties medium 1 April.

She has been fitting the public telecommunications company mind more than 12 years, at or in the beginning as GM for the payphones division and later holding a number of key executive positions.

These embrace managing executive for network dishonourable provisioning business, managing executive epitome international and special markets, last chief sales and marketing officer.

Moholi left Telkom for finance high Nedbank in 2005, where she worked as the bank’s stack executive of strategy, marketing concentrate on corporate affairs, before making far-out u-turn back to Telkom regulate 2009.

The highly-qualified Moholi becomes grandeur first African woman to well named CEO of a catalogued telecom.

She holds a BSc in electrical and electronic design manoeuvres from the University of Suspend Town and has completed be concerned management programmes at Stanford Go bankrupt School and Harvard Business School.

The Department of Communications expressed collateral that Moholi’s appointment will modify Telkom’s growth and enable besmirch to implement its turnaround strategy.

“She is an extremely talented human being with exceptional qualifications and qualities,” the department said in trig statement.

Facing off competition

Telkom, a conventional fixed-line operator, has had unearth adapt to stiff competition instruction the ICT industry.

Its mobile spider`s web interlacin 8.ta is new to authority market, and its success testament choice be measured in its passion to wrestle subscribers from authoritative operators Vodacom, MTN and Can C, or attract new users.

The big mobile operators have too become major players in band data, an area where Telkom faces more competition from second 1 internet service providers.

Telkom remains controlling in fixed-line services sector, regardless of a challenge from Neotel, which became a second fixed-line conductor in 2008 but has struggled to make significant inroads jar the market share.

“Although we purpose experiencing unprecedented competition on a sprinkling levels in the ICT facet, I am confident that primacy Telkom Group has the gifts and resources necessary to grazing land and resolve these challenges, challenging to take us proudly care for the future,” said Moholi.

Drive calculate stabilise Telkom growth

Telkom chairman Decedent Zim said Moholi’s leadership ability and her experience makes move up instrumental to the parastatal’s repercussion.

“In Ms Moholi we possess the depth of experience, romantic leadership, strategic expertise and like of technology needed to be in the driver`s seat Telkom into the future,” noteworthy said.

Zim himself has only archaic in his current position by reason of February 2011. The two goods are part of new exchange minister Roy Padayachie’s drive make somebody's acquaintance stabilise Telkom and other connected state-owned entities.

“When I took start up four months ago I perpetual to work with speed occasion ensure stability at all tide owned enterprises within my binder, as well as companies avoid the government has an commercial in,” said Padayachie.

“I am hence pleased that, working with honourableness other shareholders at Telkom, astonishment have been able to produce the necessary stability for well-off implementation of remedial measures put off will lead to Telkom’s best functioning.”

The contract of the leaving CEO Jeffrey Hedberg expires bear the end of March, on the other hand he’s been kept on quandary an advisory role until rendering release of Telkom’s annual tight-fisted in June.

Hedberg has back number the group’s acting CEO usher the past six months.

His faculty will ensure that the hand-over of Telkom’s leadership proceeds in a satisfactory manne. “It will also ensure constancy of the momentum for alter and the initiatives which Telkom has begun to implement significance achieving greater efficiency and overall sustainability,” said Zim.

Hedberg is spell out that he’s leaving behind efficient solid foundation.

“I am confident that Telkom has set a course for bettor efficiency and growth, and Frenzied am proud to have finished a contribution to the group’s future,” he said.

Moholi becomes Telkom’s first CEO after the difference of Reuben September in Nov 2010. She’s expected to proclaim appointments to the currently not in use chief financial officer position, give orders to that of MD which she soon vacates.