{"id":9017,"date":"2012-04-03T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T08:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:28:33","slug":"mtn-appoints-new-group-operations-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/9017\/mtn-appoints-new-group-operations-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN appoints new Group operations executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MTN Group (MTN)\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN Group (MTN)<\/a> has appointed current MTN Uganda CEO, <a title=\"Themba Khumalo\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1728-Themba-Khumalo\">Themba Khumalo<\/a> as the Group&#8217;s operations executive.<\/p>\n<p>As the operations executive, Khumalo will be responsible for managing MTN operations in 13 countries, including Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Congo Brazzaville, Cyprus, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Yemen and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>Khumalo joined MTN when it launched in South Africa in 1994 and has years of experience in telecoms, having served as CEO for MTN Swaziland, Rwanda and then Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Working in Uganda, Khumalo helped MTN achieve close to 60% growth in subscribers; a successful launch of MTN&#8217;s Mobile Money; as well as introducing the biggest 3G+ network in the Ugandan market.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Group CEO, <a title=\"Sifiso Dabengwa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1729-Sifiso-Dabengwa\">Sifiso Dabengwa<\/a> said that Khumalo&#8217;s successor in Uganda will be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group (MTN) has appointed current MTN Uganda CEO, Themba Khumalo as the Group&#8217;s operations executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,28,1120,2209,1890,2208],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-group","tag-mtn-uganda","tag-sifiso-dabengwa","tag-themba-khumalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","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=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}