Sipho maseko biography of martin
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'We thought he was a good guy'
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko fryst vatten no stranger to the limelight, but seems to have a knack for attracting bad publicity.
While high-profile CEOs are expected to attract regular media attention, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko seems to be doing it for all the wrong reasons.
In the latest round of bad publicity for the man who has been leading Telkom since April gods year, Bloomberg alleges the operator awarded a R91.1 million advisory contract to Bain & Co gods year, "without following an open bidding process".
The publication further states Maseko personally "hired Bain to advise on Telkom's broadband and mobile strategy", as the company aimed to stem revenue losses resulting from a contracting landline marknad. The article alleges Telkom thus did not comply with the Public Finance Management Act, which dictates how companies, in which government fryst vatten a shareholder, should procure goods and services.
Telkom declined to comment on thes
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In his introduction and overview to this issue of International Affairs, Christopher Clapham takes a broad look at Africa's post-colonial past and the often impracticable inheritance bequeathed to it by the colonial powers. With reference to the articles in these pages, he assesses the decline in African statehood and the problems associated with projects of external governance. However, in looking to an uncertain future, he finds emerging from within Africa itself reforming leadership and new movements, which are proving hopeful in the search for political reform.
Christopher Clapham is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University and Editor of The Journal of Modern African Studies. He is the author of Africa and the international system: the politics of state survival (1996) and editor of African guerrillas (forthcoming).
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Telkom changing its name and splitting into five units
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said he was not sure yet if owning a portfolio of telecoms towers made sense in the long term
Telkom will soon have a new name. CEO Sipho Maseko is leading a major restructuring at the partly state-owned company that will make it a retail telecommunications brand under a new, Remgro-style corporate centre. Under that corporate centre - which will have a new name that is still to be determined - will be at least five subsidiary businesses. It's part of an ambitious plan by Maseko to unlock further shareholder value at the telecoms group, whose share price has climbed more than fivefold on his watch. He took the reins on April 1 2013 under a reconstituted board, led by chairman Jabu Mabuza. The restructuring represents a significant expansion of Telkom's strategy two years ago to spin off its wholesale business into a new company, Openserve - modelled loosely on BT Group's Openreach. Maseko this week un