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14 October 2009

Charlotte Mokoena appointed as CEO of Telkom Management Services

Current Telkom Chief of Human Resources, Charlotte Mokoena, will assume a fresh challenge within the Telkom Group as from 1 November 2009 - that of Chief Executive Officer of Telkom Management Services (TMS).

TMS, structured under the Telkom International Business Unit, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Telkom Group and was created to focus on the needs of African organisations, from corporations and government agencies to telecommunications operators.

Mokoena has been with Telkom for seven years, having previously served as Group Executive for the Telkom Centre for Learning and the Group Executive of Human Resources.

"Human Resource Management enables business to make quick quality decisions about its people. Since TMS is all about the ability to translate human capital into operational and strategic execution, I see my new role as being a natural progression from my former one," said Mokoena.

She added: "Besides being one of the best fixed-line operators on the continent, the Company’s transition from a parastatal towards privatisation and corporatisation that was – until recently – dual-listed, has equipped Telkom with a deep reservoir of intellectual capital and experience."

In general, with fixed-line being the backbone of most telecommunications’ infrastructure, as well as Telkom's strategic refocusing towards wireless and fixed-mobile technologies, Mokoena stated that Telkom was making its unrivalled expertise available to the African continent and the world via TMS.

"All of Telkom’s many achievements are the result of our intellectual capital. This is an asset that must be harnessed to optimally exploit the evolution of technology to the benefit of the continent," she emphasised.

Thami Msimango, Managing Director of Telkom International, stated that Mokoena’s insight into Telkom's intellectual capital, coupled with her solid grasp of the local and African ICT environment, makes her the ideal candidate for her new role, especially as the Company focused on its core strategy of maintaining and growing its market share in South Africa while building a significant footprint in Africa.

He added that Mokoena will be South African-based but that her role was "a Pan-African one".

Created in 2008, TMS incorporates teams that focus on the ICT business in many fields, fixed line and wireless networks, revenue assurance and fraud management, management services procurement, facilities and services management, account management, commercial (legal and finance), programme and project management, logistics and asset management as well as various support teams that are experts in their respective fields.

Telkom Group CEO, Reuben September, will shortly make further announcements pertaining to the position vacated by Mokoena.

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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.

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  • 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.

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