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8 March 2012

Telkom welcomes its graduates

Telkom today announced the Company has employed 130 graduates who completed their final year of study in 2011 on Telkom bursaries. Some graduates will continue their studies as they pursue their Honours degrees. While others will continue their studies even further to obtain their Masters degrees through the Telkom Centre of Excellence programme.

Telkom welcomes the range of new skills that these graduates bring into the company with a range of qualifications that span Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and IT, Marketing and Accounting.

The Company has already placed 45 graduates in permanent positions, while 85 students have been employed on a one year contract with the aim of facilitating permanent placements.

"Telkom prides itself in facilitating the studies of these students and also in equipping them with essential and practical work experience as they launch into their respective careers," explains Mr Thami Msubo, Chief of Human Resources at Telkom.

Telkom bursaries continue to facilitate the studies of 213 active students currently in the second year of study and onwards; of which 138 final year students can look forward to employment at Telkom in 2013. Another 55 students have begun the first year of study in 2012.

The Telkom bursaries awarded to these students covers registration fees, tuition fees, accommodation, meals as well as books and computer allowances.

Post graduate bursars are encouraged to continue their studies and research via the Telkom Centres of Excellence programme. This programme is a collaborative programme between Telkom, academia, the telecommunications industry and government to promote research in communication technology and associated sciences. Sixteen Centres of Excellence have been established across the country, at various universities, making it the largest coordinated research effort in ICT in South Africa. To date the programme has produced approximately 2400 Doctoral and Masters level graduates.

Last year, 53 Telkom bursars conducted their research at the various Centres of Excellence. This year, 28 of these students completed their research and have been employed at Telkom. Currently, 40 Telkom bursars are conducting their research at the sixteen Centres of Excellence across the country.

"Telkom remains committed to developing ICT skills in South Africa, both in the bursaries we award and through the Telkom Centre of Excellence programme. Furthermore we believe that the job opportunities afforded to our graduates supports the national agenda of job creation and employment," concludes Telkom Group CEO Ms Nombulelo Moholi.

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ABOUT TELKOM:

Telkom is a leading communications services provider in South Africa. We had consolidated operating revenue of R16.8 billion and normalised profit after tax of R1, 683 million for the period ended 30 September 2015. Total assets amounted to R41.9 billion and equity attributable to the owners of Telkom to R23.5 billion as of 30 September 2015. The group generated normalised free cash flow of R1.4 billion for the period ended 30 September 2015.

As of 30 September 2015, we had approximately 3.3 million telephone access lines in service and 1,030,441 ports connected via MSAN access. We offer business, residential and payphone customers a wide range of services and products, including:

  • fixed-line retail voice services using PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines, including ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) lines, and the sale of subscription based value-added voice services and calling plans;
  • fixed-line customer premises equipment rental and sales services both voice and data needs and these include PABX, Computers, Routers, Modems, Telephone handsets and other ancillary equipment;
  • interconnection services, including terminating and transiting traffic from South African mobile operators, as well as from international operators and transiting traffic from mobile to international destinations;
  • fixed-line data services, including domestic and international data transmission services, such as point-to-point leased lines, ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) services, packet-based services, managed data networking services and internet access and related information technology services;
  • Data Centre Operations includes e-commerce, application service provider, hosting, data storage, e-mail and security services;
  • W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), a 3G next generation network, including fixed voice services, data services and nomadic voice services;
  • mobile communication services, including voice services, data services and handset sales through our mobile navbar-brand called Telkom Mobile;
  •  information and communication services including cloud services, infrastructure services, workspace services, global service integration management and hardware and network equipment sales locally, in seven African countries, the UK and Dubai through Business Connexion Group; and
  • other services including directory services, through Trudon (Pty) Ltd, wireless data services, through Swiftnet (Pty) Ltd.

Convergence is one of our key strategic initiatives in building a sustainable future for Telkom.  We will lead the provision of converged services in South Africa in support of our mission statement: Seamlessly connecting people to a better life.