Telkom’s Nzeku back in the fold?
Controversial former Telkom executive, Motlatsi Nzeku, may be set for a return to the telecoms industry having been paid R13-million by his former employer to go away, the Sunday Times Reported.
In February 2009 Telkom fired then chief of operations Nzeku, and publicly slated him for poor performance, becoming ‘extremely divisive’ and ‘defamation of Telkom and its leadership’.
However, following private arbitration proceedings, Nzeku was reinstated as the MD of Telkom International. He retired from this position last year.
However, internal memos leaked to Business Times by two Telkom employees suggested Nzeku was in formal talks with current Telkom CEO, Sipho Maseko, “which insiders say are ominous,” wrote the Sunday Paper.
Nzeku told Business Times he “had a meeting with Maseko” although it was “not about coming back to Telkom”.
Asked if the conversation was informal, he replied: “We are not friends.”
Maseko stated: “I know him socially, and in a loose way at that,” adding that Telkom did not offer the former employee a job.
“I haven’t met him since I joined Telkom seven months ago. And before I joined Telkom, I must have met him at most three or four times.”
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