South Africa

Nkosinathi Emmanuel “Nathi” Mthethwa is the Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa from the 26 May 2014. He is also a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC); member of the ANC National Working Committee (NWC) and an active member of King Dingiswayo branch… read more »

Kholeka Mzondeki was appointed to the board in November 2012. Kholeka Mzondeki is a UK-qualified chartered accountant and has served as financial director at various companies such as 3M and Masana Petroleum Solutions. Apart from her financial management and strategy experience, she has ICT transformational strategy formulation and implementation experience, using technology as a customer… read more »

Senzeni Zokwana Zokwana is the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the Republic of South Africa with effect from 26 May 2014. He is also chairperson of the South African Communist Party and a Member of Parliament. Mr Zokwana previously served as the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).He became involved in… read more »

Khanyisile Kweyama is currently the Chairman of Brand South Africa, Commissioner on the National Planning Commission (NPC). Prior to this, she was the CEO of BUSA and was the Executive Head of Human Resources at Anglo American Platinum Limited. She gained corporate experience in a number of international companies, including BMW, Altech and Barloworld Ltd, holding… read more »

Itumeleng Kgaboesele was appointed to the Telkom board in July 2011. Itumeleng Kgaboesele is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Sphere Holdings (Pty) Ltd, a leading mid-market investment holding and private equity company. Prior to founding Sphere in 2003, he spent several years in investment banking in London and Johannesburg and was vicepresident of… read more »

Navin Kapila was appointed to the board in February 2011. Navin Kapila has over 20 years’ experience in diverse fields including investment, business and product development, and relationship and alliance management. He also has in-depth telecommunications experience and was involved in policy formulation and market deregulation in India. He took on various roles at ICO… read more »

Graham Dempster was appointed to the Telkom board in December 2014. Graham Dempster is a chartered accountant by profession and has done advanced management programmes at Insead (1995) and Harvard Business School (2002). He is a business adviser and sits on the board of Imperial Holdings Ltd, Imperial Logistics (Pty) Ltd and Sanlam Capital. He… read more »

Susan Botha was appointed to the Board in December 2012. She is currently the chairman of both Curro Holdings Limited and Famous Brands Holdings. She serves on the Boards of Liberty Holdings, and Accenture Advisory Board. She was previously an executive director of MTN Group Limited (2003 to 2010) and ABSA Bank Limited (1996 to… read more »

Jabu Mabuza is a successful South African entreprenuer who is also chairman of the Eskom board. He won Business Leader of the Year Award. Jabu Mabuza was appointed to the board in November 2012. He is widely recognised as a successful entrepreneur. He is president of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), chairman of the Casino… read more »

Lunga joined Trudon (Pty) Ltd on the 1st of May 2018. He has experience in Financial Analysis, Digital Transformation, eCommerce, Sales and Marketing. He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise rooted in working with Blue Chip companies such as MTN, BP, Santam and Standard Bank where he held several senior and executive positions. Lunga… read more »

Lesiba joined Telkom as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gyro Group on the 13 November 2017. His previous experience includes property investment and development management, as well as property transactions and transaction advisory. He worked for the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) as the General Manager: Properties, Ernst & Young Africa as Sector Leader: Transaction Real… read more »

Melody was appointed to the role of Chief of Human Resources for the Telkom Group in March 2017 and is a member of the Group Executive Committee. She has a wealth of experience in Human Resources, both from within the industry and beyond. She joined Telkom from Cell C where she was the Chief HR… read more »

Serame Taukobong heads up Telkom’s Consumer unit, taking responsibility for both its mobile and fixed consumer businesses. Serame Taukobong has extensive experience in the field, having previously held senior leadership positions with General Electric Africa (GE) and MTN, where his last role was as CEO of MTN Ghana. While at GE, Serame was the company’s… read more »

Alphonzo Samuels was appointed chief executive officer of Openserve in October 2015 having joined Telkom in 1984. During his career with Telkom he has held senior positions in a number of different divisions including broadband technology, planning, engineering, operations, capital project management and human resources. Alphonzo Samuels also completed a nine-month assignment with SBC (AT&T)… read more »

Jonas Bogoshi was appointed Chief Executive Office for BCX in June 2018. Prior to this role he was the Chief Revenue Officer at BCX. He has more than 28 years’ experience in information and communication technology (ICT), and brings to BCX a deep knowledge and understanding of the industry, as well as a vast network… read more »