{"id":800962,"date":"2024-11-22T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=800962"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:05:44","slug":"multichoice-south-africa-boss-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/800962\/multichoice-south-africa-boss-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Multichoice South Africa boss resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Media group Multichoice has announced that Multichoice South Africa (MCSA) and Showmax chief executive Mark Jury has resigned, and will leave the group on 31 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jury has been at the group for ten years and has held key leadership roles at the company, including head of Supersport, MCSA and Showmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group said that Jury would continue to work at the company the next four months to ensure a seamless handover to his successor, Byron du Plessis, who will take over the role of MCSA CEO on 1 December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Du Plessis has been at Multichoice for 13 years and is currently the deputy chief financial officer for the group, working as CFO of Multichoice Corporate and MCSA before that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Du Plessis has been pivotal in driving strategic initiatives and partnerships, including the KingMakers, Comcast and Sanlam deals, as well as being instrumental in the ongoing Canal+ acquisition process,&#8221; Multichoice said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile this is a bittersweet moment for us as we bid farewell to Marc, we are confident in Byron\u2019s ability to build on this legacy and take MultiChoice South Africa to even greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/798989\/massive-loss-for-multichoice-2\/\">Massive loss for Multichoice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multichoice South Africa (MCSA) and Showmax chief executive Mark Jury has resigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":800967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800962","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=800962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800968,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800962\/revisions\/800968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}