Board of directors

Non-executive directors

  • Jabu Mabuza

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    Jabu Mabuza (57)

    Chairman (Independent)

    Chairman of the nominations committee.

    Effective Leadership Programme (Wharton Business School), Executive Development Programme (John E Anderson Graduate School of Management)

    Jabu joined our board as chairman and independent non-executive director in November 2012. He chairs our nominations committee and is a member of the remuneration committee. Jabu is currently also the executive chairman of Sphere Holdings, deputy chairman of Tsogo Sun Holdings and president of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). He is a director of ACE Insurance Limited, Eglin Investments No 44 (Pty) Ltd and Lexshell 553 Investments (Pty) Ltd. He has also been a member of the board of UNISA's Graduate School of Business since 1994.

    Jabu was previously the managing director of Southern Sun Gaming, group chief executive officer of Tsogo Sun and chairman of the board of South African Tourism.

  • Susan (Santie) Botha

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    Susan (Santie) Botha (50)

    (Independent)

    BEcon (Hons) (University of Stellenbosch)
    Chairman of the remuneration committee.

    Susan Botha was appointed to the Telkom Board in December 2012. She is currently the Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. She is also chairman of both Famous Brands Holdings Limited and Curro Holdings. She also serves on the Boards of Liberty Holdings and Tiger Brands Limited. Ms Botha was previously an executive director of MTN Group Limited (2003 to 2010) and ABSA Bank Limited (1996 to 2003). She has a Bachelor of Economics degree (Honours) from the University of Stellenbosch.

  • Graham Dempster

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    Graham Dempster (59)

    (Independent)

    CA(SA), CTA, AMP (Insead and Harvard Business School)

    Graham, who joined the Telkom board in December 2014, is a member of our risk committee. He is currently the chief operating officer of the Nedbank Group, having originally joined the group in 1980 in the Corporate Finance Division of UAL Merchant Bank, where he held the position of joint head of its Special Finance Division before being appointed head of Nedbank's International Division in 1998. He then assumed responsibility for Nedbank's Corporate Banking Division in 1999, became managing director of Nedbank Corporate in 2003 and has held his current position since August 2009.

  • Thembisa Dingaan

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    Thembisa Dingaan (42)

    (Independent)

    BProc, LLB (University of KwaZulu-Natal), LLM (Harvard), HDip Tax (Wits)

    Thembisa was appointed to the Telkom board in December 2014 and is a member of our audit and remuneration committees. She is currently a non-executive director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, a member of its audit, risk and finance committee and chairman of the bank's credit and investment committee. She is also a non-executive director of Mustek Limited, Imperial Holdings Limited, Sumitomo Rubber South Africa (Pty) Ltd and Absa Bank Limited. She is a trustee of Absa's pension fund. Thembisa's considerable legal experience includes being admitted to the New York State Bar.

  • Navin Kapila

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    Navin Kapila (60)

    (Independent)

    BA (Eng) (Economics) (Law)

    Navin has been a member of the Telkom board since February 2011. He is currently managing director of India for Inmarsat Plc, an industry leader and pioneer of mobile satellite communications.

    He is also a special adviser for emergency communications to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). His extensive telecommunications experience includes his role as a senior official in the Indian government's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and senior executive positions with ICO Global, a telecommunications company.

  • Itumeleng Kgaboesele

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    Itumeleng Kgaboesele (43)

    (Independent)

    CA(SA), Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (UCT)
    Chairman of the audit committee

    Itumeleng was appointed to the Telkom board in July 2011. In addition to chairing our audit committee he is a member of both the risk and investment and transactions committees. Co-founder and chief executive officer of Sphere Holdings, he is responsible for Sphere's strategic, operating and investment activities. Before forming Sphere in 2003 he gained investment banking experience in London and Johannesburg at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, where he was vice president of the Investment Banking Division. Itumeleng is the chairman of the Student Sponsorship Programme and a trustee of the African Leadership Academy.

  • Khanyisile Kweyama

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    Khanyisile Kweyama (51)

    (Independent)

    MSc (Management)
    Chairman of the social and ethics committee

    Khanyisile, who joined the Telkom board in December 2012, is also a member of our nominations committee. She is currently the chief executive officer of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). Khanyisile was previously an executive director of Anglo American South Africa and a member of the executive committee of Anglo American Platinum Limited. She held executive positions at Barloworld, Altech and BMW South Africa and is currently serving on the boards of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), Business Forum and the International Geology Forum.

  • Kholeka Mzondeki

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    Kholeka Mzondeki (47)

    (Independent)

    BCom, ACCA (UK), Dip Investment Management

    Kholeka, a chartered accountant, has been a member of the Telkom board since November 2012 and is also a member of the audit and remuneration committees. She currently sits on the boards of a number of JSE-listed companies, is a member of the ACCA Council and a member of the UN World Food Programme. Previously she held the roles of financial director and chief financial officer in various organisations including 3M South Africa. In addition to her extensive financial management and strategy experience she has experience in ICT transformational strategy formulation and implementation, using technology as a customer value proposition. In 2008 she was a finalist on Nedbank Business Woman of the Year.

  • Nunu Ntshingila

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    Nunu Ntshingila (51)

    (Independent)

    BA, MBA

    Nunu was appointed to the Telkom board in December 2014 and is a member of both its nominations and social and ethics committees. She is currently the chairman of Ogilvy & Mather. She started her career as a trainee account executive with the company and, after a spending three years at Nike, returned to Ogilvy in 1999. She became group chief executive officer in 2005 and was appointed chairman in 2012. She has gained extensive experience in marketing, strategy and advertising during her career with Ogilvy. She is also a member of the Old Mutual, V&A Waterfront and Transnet boards.

  • Fagmeedah Petersen-Lurie

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    Fagmeedah Petersen-Lurie (39)

    (Independent)

    BBusSc (Actuarial Science), PGDip (Management Practice), FASSA, FIA
    Chairman of the investment and transactions committee

    Fagmeedah, who joined the Telkom board in December 2012, is also a member of our risk committee. She is currently trustee of the Liberty Life Umbrella Fund, and an expert trustee on the Government Employees Pension Fund. She was previously acting chief investment officer of the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund and director: institutional business at Prudential Portfolio Managers.

  • Rex Tomlinson

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    Rex Tomlinson (52)

    (Independent)

    BCom (Economics), HDip Personnel Management, SEP (Stanford Business School)

    Rex was appointed to the Telkom board in December 2014 and is a member of both our audit and investment and transactions committees. He is currently lead independent director at Tsogo Sun and also serves as chairman of three unlisted companies. He joined Liberty Holdings in 2004, was appointed deputy chief executive in 2005, joined the Liberty board in 2006 and served on the board until his resignation in 2010. Before joining Liberty Rex held executive line management roles at Nampak and was a member of the Nampak board, having joined Nampak from Illovo Sugar, where he was human resources director.

  • Louis von Zeuner

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    Louis von Zeuner (54)

    (Independent)

    BCom (Economics)
    Chairman of the risk committee

    Louis has been a member of the Telkom board since December 2012. In addition to being chairman of the risk committee he is also a member of the audit and social and ethics committees. He currently serves as a non-executive director on a number of boards. He is also a member of the Eminent Persons Group on Transformation in Sport and the South African Rugby Players Association (SARPA) Development Trust and advises the LIV Foundation, which focuses on the upliftment of children. He had a long and distinguished career in banking, during which he gained extensive experience in risk management and mergers and acquisitions, and was deputy group chief executive of Absa from 2009 to 2012.

Executive directors

  • Sipho Maseko

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    Sipho Maseko (46)

    Group chief executive officer

    BA, LLB

    Sipho was appointed group chief executive officer of Telkom in April 2013. Before joining Telkom he was group chief operating officer and managing director of Vodacom, which he joined from BP Southern Africa, where he held various roles from 1997, including chief operating officer and chief executive officer. He is currently a non-executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprises and the Afrox board.

  • Deon Fredericks

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    Deon Fredericks (54)

    Chief financial officer

    CA(SA), BCompt (Hons), Honours in Business Management, ACMA (UK)

    Deon, who joined Telkom in 1993 as a senior manager in internal audit, was appointed chief financial officer in September 2014 having previously held the position of deputy to the chief financial officer and group executive of corporate finance accounting services. He is currently an advisory board member of Business Against Crime (Mpumalanga) and chairman of Trudon (Pty) Ltd. He was previously a non-executive director of Vodacom and chairman of the audit committee.

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