{"id":300232,"date":"2019-02-18T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=300232"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:14:37","slug":"come-forward-so-we-can-root-out-unethical-business-practices-eoh-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/300232\/come-forward-so-we-can-root-out-unethical-business-practices-eoh-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Come forward so we can root out unethical business practices: EOH CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EOH has published an announcement informing shareholders of developments in the media concerning the termination of its partnership with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>These developments include a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/296292-eoh-lost-microsoft-partnership-over-suspect-contract-with-defence-department-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a> that EOH was involved in a corrupt R120-million contract with the South African Department of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>After learning of the allegations, Microsoft reportedly hired Seattle law firm Perkins Coie to look into the situation \u2013 which advised the company to end its agreement with EOH.<\/p>\n<p>EOH was given notice by Microsoft on 12 February regarding the termination of Microsoft\u2019s Channel Partner Agreement with its subsidiary EOH Mthombo.<\/p>\n<p>EOH said that its law firm, ENS, is now examining all major contracts with the government to determine whether there is any substance to the allegations laid against it.<\/p>\n<p>EOH added that it would take swift action as it is given updates on the situation by ENS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis matter is now sub judice. ENS continue to give us regular updates and we are committed to swift and appropriate action,\u201d EOH said.<\/p>\n<p>EOH CEO Stephen Coller encouraged anyone with evidence of unethical business practices within the company to come forward so that the problems can be rooted out.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EOH-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300240\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EOH-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EOH-1.png 700w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EOH-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/300014\/eoh-chief-executive-pens-open-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EOH chief executive pens open letter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EOH has published an announcement informing shareholders of developments in the media concerning the termination of its partnership with Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13700],"tags":[1957,26],"class_list":["post-300232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","tag-eoh","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300232","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=300232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300242,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300232\/revisions\/300242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}