{"id":61521,"date":"2014-06-27T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=61521"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:48:39","slug":"vodacom-ceo-buys-r3-5-million-in-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/61521\/vodacom-ceo-buys-r3-5-million-in-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom CEO buys R3.5 million in shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has spent R3.5 million to acquire 26,864 Vodacom shares at a price of R131.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Vodacom announced through SENS that it would be allocating over 164,000 of forfeitable shares to top executives, tied to company performance over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The shares are worth millions, and could see the Vodacom Group CEO taking home as much as R12.5 million in June 2017, under good performance conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Vodacom\u2019s long-term incentive plan, Joosub stands to be awarded additional performance shares with an on-target value of 50% of his guaranteed pay (R7 million).<\/p>\n<p>However, this is on condition that he invests in Vodacom shares to the value of 50% of his set salary.<\/p>\n<p>According to a SENS announcement on Friday (27 June), Joosub has now spent the required R3.5 million in acquiring a further 26,864 shares in the group.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest annual report, Vodacom recorded that Joosub\u2019s settled share options for the 2014 financial year totalled almost R12.9 million \u2013 a figure reported outside of his total salary of R12,98 million.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated value of all Joosub\u2019s unsettled share holdings (including restricted shares, bonus incentive schemes, and YeboYethu units) is valued at an estimated R46.6 million.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to When can Vodacom spy on you?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/59853\/when-can-vodacom-spy-on-you\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">When can Vodacom spy on you?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom in streaming talks with Spotify: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/59477\/vodacom-in-streaming-talks-with-spotify-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom in streaming talks with Spotify: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodafone, Vodacom target M-Pesa growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/58523\/vodafone-vodacom-target-m-pesa-growth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodafone, Vodacom target M-Pesa growth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom \u201cdata transfer\u201d ad misleading: ASA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/59331\/vodacom-data-transfer-ad-misleading-asa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom \u201cdata transfer\u201d ad misleading: ASA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has spent R3.5 million to acquire 26,864 Vodacom shares at a price of R131.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,3403,173,27],"class_list":["post-61521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-shameel-joosub","tag-shares","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61525,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61521\/revisions\/61525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}