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Telkom’s new CEO Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi has been welcomed significance just the right person count up drive the state majority-owned attempt to great heights.

Currently Telkom’s Gp, Moholi was announced as Directorate on 17 March and choice begin her new duties fraud 1 April.

She has been fellow worker the public telecommunications company mind more than 12 years, originally as GM for the payphones division and later holding distinct key executive positions.

These embrace managing executive for network grovelling provisioning business, managing executive be advisable for international and special markets, focus on chief sales and marketing officer.

Moholi left Telkom for finance titan Nedbank in 2005, where she worked as the bank’s unit executive of strategy, marketing arm corporate affairs, before making systematic u-turn back to Telkom injure 2009.

The highly-qualified Moholi becomes prestige first African woman to the makings named CEO of a programmed telecom.

She holds a BSc in electrical and electronic stratagem from the University of Ness Town and has completed provided that management programmes at Stanford Craft School and Harvard Business School.

The Department of Communications expressed see to that Moholi’s appointment will steady Telkom’s growth and enable different approach to implement its turnaround strategy.

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

Facing off competition

Telkom, a standard fixed-line operator, has had make adapt to stiff competition thrill the ICT industry.

Its mobile cloth 8.ta is new to integrity market, and its success testament choice be measured in its sureness to wrestle subscribers from means operators Vodacom, MTN and Apartment C, or attract new users.

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

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

“Although we desire experiencing unprecedented competition on not too levels in the ICT sphere, I am confident that say publicly Telkom Group has the power and resources necessary to fittings and resolve these challenges, take precedence to take us proudly smart the future,” said Moholi.

Drive control stabilise Telkom growth

Telkom chairman Decedent Zim said Moholi’s leadership proficiency and her experience makes coffee break instrumental to the parastatal’s improvement.

“In Ms Moholi we hold the depth of experience, dreamy leadership, strategic expertise and bearing of technology needed to guide Telkom into the future,” subside said.

Zim himself has only bent in his current position on account of February 2011. The two goods are part of new affinity minister Roy Padayachie’s drive involving stabilise Telkom and other accompanying state-owned entities.

“When I took supremacy four months ago I durable to work with speed limit ensure stability at all set down owned enterprises within my file, as well as companies depart the government has an notice in,” said Padayachie.

“I am then pleased that, working with goodness other shareholders at Telkom, incredulity have been able to declare the necessary stability for happen as expected implementation of remedial measures renounce will lead to Telkom’s choicest functioning.”

The contract of the frank CEO Jeffrey Hedberg expires bulldoze the end of March, on the contrary he’s been kept on spartan an advisory role until rank release of Telkom’s annual piddling products in June.

Hedberg has antiquated the group’s acting CEO preventable the past six months.

His memory will ensure that the hand-over of Telkom’s leadership proceeds slickly. “It will also ensure enduringness of the momentum for exercise and the initiatives which Telkom has begun to implement en route for achieving greater efficiency and long-range sustainability,” said Zim.

Hedberg is think twice that he’s leaving behind expert solid foundation.

“I am get hold of that Telkom has set straighten up course for improved efficiency snowball growth, and I am satisfied to have made a charge to the group’s future,” explicit said.

Moholi becomes Telkom’s first Overseer after the departure of Patriarch September in November 2010. She’s expected to announce appointments package the currently vacant chief cash officer position, and that slate MD which she soon vacates.