{"id":136719,"date":"2016-09-15T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=136719"},"modified":"2016-09-15T00:23:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:23:24","slug":"vodacom-scores-r5-billion-government-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/136719\/vodacom-scores-r5-billion-government-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom scores R5 billion government contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has won a contract with the South African government valued at R5 billion, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-14\/vodafone-south-africa-said-to-win-350-million-state-contract\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Treasury is looking to cut costs, and the tender is to supply up to 1.3 million government employees for four years \u2013 starting on 15 September.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom CEO Shameel\u00a0Joosub said\u00a0Vodacom was honoured by the Treasury\u2019s decision to appoint it\u00a0as a partner to government, but did not divulge details of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur substantial investment in infrastructure and innovative capability will now be at the disposal of the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Treasury will save money and ensure the government has a reliable telecoms supplier, stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/132968\/vodacom-bee-scheme-lists-on-the-jse\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vodacom BEE scheme lists on the JSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/127201\/vodacom-ceos-pay-hits-r22-million\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vodacom CEO\u2019s pay hits R22 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/123661\/vodacom-reports-profit-and-customer-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vodacom reports profit and customer growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has won a contract with the South African government valued at R5 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":108095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,27],"class_list":["post-136719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136721,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136719\/revisions\/136721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}