{"id":7151,"date":"2012-03-02T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2012-03-02T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:51:25","slug":"gijima-coo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/7151\/gijima-coo-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Gijima COO resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT company Gijima Group (GIJ) on Friday (March 2, 2012), announced the resignation of its chief operating officer and executive director, Debbie Zwane-Chikura, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The group said Zwane-Chikura had left the company to pursue other interests.<\/p>\n<p>As an interim measure, the operating divisions of the company will report to CEO, Jonas Bogoshi.<\/p>\n<p>Gijima also announced the appointment of Mark Bussin as a non-executive director to the board with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Bussin is an expert in remuneration matters with a wealth of experience and has been serving as a member of the company&#8217;s remuneration and nomination committee since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Gijima\u00a0pointed to an improvement in its cash balance to R199 million, from R86 million before.<\/p>\n<p>The group returned to profit, reporting diluted headline earnings per share of 3.11 cents for the six month ended December 2011 after a loss of 28.13 cents a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue increased by 7.5% to 1.337 billion, with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation reflecting an 83.5% at R78.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gijima Group (GIJ) on Friday announced the resignation of its chief operating officer and executive director, Debbie Zwane-Chikura, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,641,767,1834],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-gijima","tag-ict","tag-jonas-bogoshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}