{"id":12134,"date":"2012-07-05T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-1-ceo-of-s-africas-vodacom-to-step-down\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T10:14:35","slug":"update-1-ceo-of-s-africas-vodacom-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-ceo-of-s-africas-vodacom-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-CEO of S.Africa&#8217;s Vodacom to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 5<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Vodacom<br \/>\n said on Thursday chief executive Pieter Uys would leave<br \/>\nthe company in March next year and be replaced by Shameel<br \/>\nJoosub.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joosub is currently the chief executive of Vodafone Spain<br \/>\nand his appointment would take effect from Sept. 1 this year to<br \/>\nensure a smooth transition, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Uys, who has served as Vodacom&#8217;s CEO for four years, joined<br \/>\nthe company almost 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s now time for change and I will leave Vodacom confident<br \/>\nthat the business will prosper under Shameel&#8217;s leadership,&#8221; Uys<br \/>\nsaid in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joosub had previously worked as managing director of Vodacom<br \/>\nSouth Africa and as a director from 2000 to 2010 before<br \/>\ntransferring to Vodafone Spain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vodacom, the biggest mobile operator in South Africa, also<br \/>\nsaid in June that the managing director of its South African<br \/>\noperations had stepped down. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Vodacom said on Thursday chief executive Pieter Uys would leave the company in March next year and be replaced by Shameel Joosub. Joosub is currently the chief executive of Vodafone Spain and his appointment would take effect from Sept. 1 this year to ensure a smooth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}