{"id":242883,"date":"2018-05-07T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T09:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=242883"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T09:46:58","slug":"deon-liebenberg-is-leaving-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/242883\/deon-liebenberg-is-leaving-vodacom\/","title":{"rendered":"Deon Liebenberg is leaving Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Internet of Things managing executive Deon Liebenberg is leaving the company and plans to join a company in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Liebenberg is known for heading up BlackBerry in Africa during its boom, and making BlackBerry smartphones the premier brand in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He left BlackBerry to serve as Samsung managing director in 2012, and later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/54939-deon-liebenberg-joins-telkom-business.html\"><strong>headed up Telkom Business Mobile<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2013, Liebenberg moved to Vodacom as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/96627-deon-liebenberg-the-new-vice-president-of-vge-africa.html\"><strong>CEO of Vodacom Business Africa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and served as the Vodacom executive vice president for Africa until March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2016, Liebenberg took the position of managing executive for Internet of Things at Vodacom, which he held until his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom could not immediately answer questions about Liebenberg\u2019s departure, while Liebenberg said he will discuss the issue at a later stage.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/239181\/vodacom-hits-80-4g-coverage-in-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom hits 80% 4G coverage in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom Internet of Things managing executive Deon Liebenberg is leaving the company and plans to join a company in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":242885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242883","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\/242883","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=242883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242887,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242883\/revisions\/242887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}