{"id":21850,"date":"2012-09-11T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T07:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T07:41:12","slug":"telkom-chairman-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/21850\/telkom-chairman-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom chairman steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lazarus Zim\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4784-Lazarus-Zim\">Lazarus Zim<\/a> will step down as chairman and director of <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1637-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> at the end of the company&#8217;s annual general meeting in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Lazarus Zim was appointed as a non-executive director for a three year period and as chairman for a one year period on 16 February 2011. He\u00a0was re-appointed as the chairman of the Telkom board of directors in February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He has served as CEO of the M-Net Channel, MD of M-Net SuperSport, CEO of MIH South Africa, MD of MTN International and executive director of the MTN Group (MTN), and chief executive of Anglo America SA Limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board thanks him for his valuable contribution to Telkom and wishes him well in the future,\u201d the telecommunications group said in a short statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom SA re-appoints Lazarus Zim as chairman\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/5714\/telkom-sa-re-appoints-lazarus-zim-as-chairman\/\"><strong>Telkom SA re-appoints Lazarus Zim as chairman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazarus Zim will step down as chairman and director of Telkom at the end of the company&#8217;s annual general meeting in October 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[1404,26,4087,1120,1197,65],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","category-trending","tag-anglo-america-sa","tag-headline","tag-lazarus-zim","tag-mtn-group","tag-supersport","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","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=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21854,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions\/21854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}