Remgro-controlled fibre telecommunications company Dark Fibre Africa has appointed Heydon Hall as chief information officer. Hall, who has more than 20 years of IT leadership experience, joins DFA “at a time when we are going through extensive restructuring to become a leaner, more agile business”, said the company’s CEO, Andries Delport, in a statement on Monday....
Orange, France’s biggest telecommunications operator, said on Wednesday it would find a successor to its chairman and CEO Stephane Richard by 31 January after a Paris appeal court convicted him of complicity of misuse of public funds. Richard’s conviction is a big blow for the former high-ranking civil servant, who has always denied any wrongdoing. The...
Seacom has appointed Tejpal Bedi to the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Sales for the ENEA region, effective from 1 November 2021. According to Seacom Bedi has a wealth of experience in leading and driving high performing organisations within the telecommunications and ICT sectors in East Africa. Before joining Seacom, he was...
Dimension Data’s parent company NTT Ltd., a global technology and business solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Manelisa Mavuso as Managing Director (MD) of South African ISP MWeb effective 1 October. After nearly a year of planning its sale, Dimension Data recently made the decision not to sell MWeb at all and instead is focusing...
The Airtel Africa Group has announced the new appointment of Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya, as its Managing Director (MD) and CEO. Ogunsanya took the helm of the group as of 1 October 2021. This comes as former CEO, Raghu Mandava, who led Airtel Africa since 2016, was announced to be stepping down from the company’s board of directors...
The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of Kenya has confirmed the appointment of Kipronoh Ronoh as acting CEO of the East African country’s ICT Authority. Kenya’s ICT Authority was established in 2013 to rationalise and streamline the management of all the government’s ICT functions. The state corporation is involved in several duties such as enforcing...
Telkom has appointed Serame Taukobong as the group CEO designate to replace Sipho Maseko, who headed the JSE-listed telephony company for eight years. The company recently announced the departure of Maseko, saying he will step down as group CEO and executive director of Telkom and its subsidiaries on 30 June 2022. Today, Sello Moloko, Telkom chairperson, announced...
In agreement with its local partners and during the Board of directors meetings of its subsidiaries, Orange (www.Orange.com) has appointed the following CEOs for three of its subsidiaries in Africa and the Middle East: Patrick Benon (currently CEO of Orange Botswana) has been appointed CEO of Orange Cameroon, replacing Frédéric Debord – Board of directors meeting on July 13th 2021 Frédéric...
Sipho Maseko is stepping down as CEO of the partially state-owned telecommunications group Telkom after nine years in the job. He will depart on 30 June 2022. “The process to appoint a successor is well under way and a group CEO-designate will be announced in the not-too-distant future. Sipho would, for the remainder of his tenure,...
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) has confirmed the appointment of Martin Mushambadope as the Chief Executive Officer for its operations in South Sudan. “Martin is a seasoned, well-respected, experienced senior executive, and he is the right leader to oversee Liquid South Sudan’s corporate and business strategy. He will be responsible for delivering strategic and operational guidance...
