{"id":26064,"date":"2012-11-08T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=26064"},"modified":"2012-11-08T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:34:33","slug":"liebenberg-quits-telkom-after-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/26064\/liebenberg-quits-telkom-after-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Liebenberg quits Telkom after 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0managing director at <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a> South Africa,\u00a0<a title=\"Deon Liebenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/5243-Deon-Liebenberg\">Deon Liebenberg<\/a>, has quit his post at <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1637-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> Mobile, a spokesperson at the group has said.<\/p>\n<p>Liebenberg is set to hop\u00a0across\u00a0to <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1639-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a>, starting in February, a Vodacom spokesperson said, however, it is not yet clear what his new title will be.<\/p>\n<p>Liebenberg served as the\u00a0head of Telkom Business Mobile, and was responsible for the strategy and execution of Telkom Business\u2019 mobile division.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Telkom Business, he was the MD at Samsung South Africa. Liebenberg also served as the vice president and managing director for Africa at Research In Motion (<a title=\"RIM\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1750-RIM-Research-In-Motion\">RIM<\/a>), country manager at Motorola South Africa and the executive head of sales at Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>Liebenberg is a highly-respected leader in the South African telecoms market, especially for his ability to grow small companies into large market players. Liebenberg is widely-credited with building BlackBerry into the dominant smartphone platform in South Africa and making it the one of the most desirable gadgets in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Group has seen a number of high profile executives leave the group in the past few weeks including CEO, <a title=\"Nombulelo Moholi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1667-Nombulelo-Pinky-Moholi\">Nombulelo Moholi<\/a>, and\u00a0chairperson\u00a0<a title=\"Lazarus Zim\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4784-Lazarus-Zim\">Lazarus Zim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom CEO to step down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/25788\/telkom-ceo-to-step-down\/\"><strong>Telkom CEO to step down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Deon Liebenberg joins Telkom Business Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/17898\/deon-liebenberg-joins-telkom-business-mobile\/\"><strong>Deon Liebenberg joins Telkom Business Mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Deon Liebenberg to head up Telkom Business Mobile?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/16135\/deon-liebenberg-to-head-up-telkom-business-mobile\/\"><strong>Deon Liebenberg to head up Telkom Business Mobile?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Deon Liebenberg the new Samsung MD\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/28708-deon-liebenberg-the-new-samsung-md.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deon Liebenberg the new Samsung MD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom fixed mobile bundles for business\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/15976\/telkom-fixed-mobile-bundles-for-business\/\"><strong>Telkom fixed mobile bundles for business<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung confident it will continue strong performance in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/5403\/samsung-confident-it-will-continue-strong-performance-in-sa\/\"><strong>Samsung confident it will continue strong performance in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former managing director at Samsung South Africa, Deon Liebenberg, has quit his post at Telkom, a spokesperson at the group has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,1324,26,4226,159,157,27],"class_list":["post-26064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-blackberry","tag-deon-liebenberg","tag-headline","tag-motorola-south-africa","tag-research-in-motion","tag-rim","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26064"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26069,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26064\/revisions\/26069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}