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Telkom employees donate R1.9m

Telkom employees, through The Giving Organisation Trust (TGO), have made contributions towards charitable organisations that the Telkom Group has matched rand for rand.

The Company today handed over a cheque for R1.9 million to the Trust. When Telkom's "Giving from the Heart" programme was launched some years ago, employees were given four causes to contribute towards.

The options given were to support children in need, education, the elderly or adults in need and sports development.

Telkom Foundation Head Sarah Mthintso says "children in need" has by far been the most popular choice by Telkom employees. "Therefore TGO was instructed to ensure that the larger portion of the R1.9 million should go to the children in need."

Employees have been making monthly donations and the Trust was recently engaged as a partner to this initiative, "Giving from the Heart". These contributions, ranging from R5 per staff member, from a company's payroll can make a significant difference to those in need.

TGO is an independent trust and a registered public benefit organisation. Ten of South Africa's well known charities have combined their navbar-brand power to work together through TGO to create sustainable sources of income for their work. Some of the charities are: the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (pursues excellence in research in the prevention and treatment of HIV, TB HIV and related infections), CHOC- Childhood Cancer Foundation (Creates a loving environment for children undergoing chemotherapy), Cotlands (Alleviating the suffering of children in distress in South Africa), CANSA- Cancer Association of South Africa (Offers a range of services to cancer patients and their families including counselling, support groups etc.), Ithemba Trust (assists intellectually disabled children) and the African Children's Feeding Scheme (ACFS), which provides 31 000 meals per day to poverty stricken children.

"The Trust challenges all companies big and small to join Telkom to also become a Payroll giver," says Francois Peenz, Chairman of TGO and CEO of CHOC.

Phindile Hlalele, Executive Director to ACFS commended Telkom and their staff for supporting the Payroll Giving Programme. She said this is in line with Archbishop Desmond Tutu's call to uplift societies and improve social challenges throughout South Africa.

Telkom's "Giving from the Heart" programme allows employees to make contributions financially as well as through giving time voluntarily, to organizations that work with communities.

"Telkom's mission statement talks to seamlessly connecting people to a better life. Initiatives of this nature allow employees to play an integral role to advancing this mission," says Mthintso.

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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.