{"id":211285,"date":"2017-11-16T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=211285"},"modified":"2018-02-23T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T11:33:15","slug":"multichoice-south-africa-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/211285\/multichoice-south-africa-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Multichoice South Africa appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvo Mawela has been appointed as CEO of Multichoice South Africa, Naspers has announced amid other changes to the leadership of its Video Entertainment business.<\/p>\n<p>Mawela will be responsible for Multichoice SA&#8217;s business and DStv media sales in the country, taking over from Mark Rayner, who will move to be the chief operating officer for Multichoice SA.<\/p>\n<p>He moves from his role as executive in charge of regulatory affairs and policy for video entertainment, with a strong background in engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Other appointments include Yolisa Phahle &#8211; current CEO of M-Net &#8211; who will move into the role of CEO of general entertainment; and Fahmeeda Surtee who will become the CEO of DStv&#8217;s media sales in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Christ Hitchings and Gideon Khobane will continue in their roles as overall CEO of media sales and CEO of Supersport, respectively, Naspers said.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Video Entertainment, Imtiaz Patel, said that the new leadership team will be strong players in the company&#8217;s next phase of growth, which will take on the challenges of technological shifts and other \u00a0regulatory and competitor challenges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/211266\/multichoice-could-go-the-way-of-kpmg-and-bell-pottinger-for-broadcasting-ann7-outa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Multichoice could go the way of KPMG and Bell Pottinger for broadcasting ANN7: Ou<\/strong>ta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvo Mawela has been appointed as CEO of Multichoice South Africa, Naspers has announced amid other changes to the leadership of its Video Entertainment business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211285","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227503,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211285\/revisions\/227503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}