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Telkom kicks off nationwide Mandela Day campaign

Telkom and its employees in all nine provinces across South Africa have embarked on a campaign to lend a hand of support to various charities in honour of Mandela Day.

In aid of this week long campaign Telkom rallied 670 employees to volunteer their time to assist in activities such as painting, cleaning, gardening and renovation at the following organisations:

• Kgatelopele Community Home in Polokwane in the Limpopo Province
• The MTS Ancillary Health Care Service in Rustenburg in the North West province
• Galeshewe Association for the care of the Aged and Disabled in Kimberly in the Northern Cape
• We Care in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape
• The Zululand Hospice Association in Empangeni, Kwazulu-Natal
• The Soshanguve Self Help Association of People with Disability in Pretoria, Gauteng
• The Siyabonga Life Skills Centre for the Mentally Disabled in Soweto, Gauteng
• Child Welfare in Bloemfontein in the Free State
• Ethafeni Day Care in Cape Town in the Western Cape
• Obrigado Home Community Based Care in bushbuck Ridge, Mpumalanga
• Zanele Mtshali disability Home in Carltonville, Gauteng

Telkom will also donate a laptop, a mobile WiFi device and top up internet connectivity for 24 months to each organisation.

Head of the Telkom Foundation, Ms Sarah Mthintso says, "The spirit of volunteerism seems to be infectious amongst employees and we are all so excited to be participating in these various initiatives."

"All of the organisations that we will be assisting are already beneficiaries of the Telkom Foundation Social Development Programme. Our hope is that by consolidating our efforts in each of these organisations that we will have a more meaningful impact on our partnership," adds Ms Mthintso.

Telkom has also partnered with the SABC and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to launch a phone-in service that allows the public to leave messages for Madiba in their home languages.

The lines can be used for birthday wishes, Mandela Day commitments as well as ongoing support for the recovery of his health. All the SABC radio stations will have access to the messages and will air their selections on different programmes. All messages left by the public will be made available to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory for safekeeping and archiving.

Callers from Telkom landline and mobile services will be able to call in and leave their messages for free – however callers from other networks will pay standard fees.

The local dial in details for the various languages follows:

Afrikaans	080 033 3802
English	080 033 3803
isiNdebele	080 033 3804
San (XKfm) Afrikaans	080 033 3805
Sepedi	080 033 3806
Sesotho	080 033 3807
siSwati	080 033 3808
Xitsonga	080 033 3809
Setswana	080 033 3810
Tshivenda	080 033 3811
isiXhosa	080 033 3812
isiZulu	080 033 3813

"Telkom joins all of South Africa in expressing gratitude to Madiba for his immeasurable role in bringing peace, hope and reconciliation to our nation. Let us all strive to follow his example and carry his legacy into the future," concluded Ms Mthintso.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Telkom Park, The Apex 92 Oak Avenue Technopark Highveld Centurion

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.