{"id":53492,"date":"2014-02-22T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53492"},"modified":"2014-02-22T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:35:44","slug":"naspers-ceo-koos-bekker-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/53492\/naspers-ceo-koos-bekker-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Naspers CEO Koos Bekker to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African e-commerce and media firm Naspers Ltd said on Saturday Chief Executive Koos Bekker would step down in April after 17 years of explosive growth that transformed a small publisher into an emerging markets giant.<\/p>\n<p>Bekker will be replaced by e-commerce chief Bob van Dijk, the Cape Town-based company said in a statement. After a year off, Bekker will return in April 2015 as chairman, Naspers said.<\/p>\n<p>He will remain on the board of Chinese Internet firm Tencent Holdings, which is more than 30 percent owned by Naspers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Naspers and Tencent<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Tencent lifts Naspers to record highs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/53219\/tencent-lifts-naspers-to-record-highs\/\"><strong>Tencent lifts Naspers to record highs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers revenue boosted by Tencent\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/50026\/naspers-revenue-boosted-by-tencent\/\"><strong>Naspers revenue boosted by Tencent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers to reach R1,300?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/48962\/naspers-to-reach-r1300\/\"><strong>Naspers to reach R1,300?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers Ltd said on Saturday Chief Executive Koos Bekker would step down in April after 17 years of explosive growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[7510,26,2511,107,6552],"class_list":["post-53492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-bob-van-dijk","tag-headline","tag-koos-bekker","tag-naspers","tag-ton-vosloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53495,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions\/53495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}