{"id":357165,"date":"2019-11-26T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=357165"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:55:43","slug":"andries-delport-resigns-as-vodacom-chief-technology-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/357165\/andries-delport-resigns-as-vodacom-chief-technology-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Andries Delport resigns as Vodacom chief technology officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom CTO Andries Delport has resigned from Vodacom and is set to join CIVH to help oversee Remgro\u2019s telecommunication assets.<\/p>\n

Vodacom said Delport \u201chas resigned as Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to pursue external interests with effect from May 2020\u201d.<\/p>\n

Delport will also relinquish his role as director of Vodacom Tanzania Limited and director of VMSA (Mozambique).<\/p>\n

Delport held a number of senior positions at Vodacom since joining the company in June 1996. He was appointed CTO of Vodacom in November 2010.<\/p>\n

During his tenure at Vodacom, Delport played an important role in establishing network leadership across all five of Vodacom\u2019s operating countries.<\/p>\n

He was also integral to teams responsible for a number of firsts, including the launch of the first commercial 5G network in Africa in Lesotho.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndries has been a key member of the Vodacom family for the past 23 years and his contribution to the company has been immeasurable,\u201d said Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub.<\/p>\n

Vodacom said it will announce a successor for the Group CTO position in due course.<\/p>\n

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Vodacom CTO Andries Delport has resigned from Vodacom and is set to join CIVH to help oversee Remgro\u2019s telecommunication assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-357165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357165","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=357165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357169,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357165\/revisions\/357169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}