{"id":13300,"date":"2012-08-08T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/mtn-could-buy-back-another-245-mln-in-shares-ceo\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:38","slug":"mtn-could-buy-back-another-245-mln-in-shares-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mtn-could-buy-back-another-245-mln-in-shares-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN could buy back another $245 mln in shares -CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group could buy<br \/>\nback another 2 billion rand ($245 million) worth of its own<br \/>\nshares in the next 12 months under its current share buyback<br \/>\nprogramme, the chief executive of the South African telecom<br \/>\ngroup said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sifiso Dabengwa told reporters the company has board<br \/>\napproval to buy back a total of 5 billion rand, under which it<br \/>\nhas already bought 3 billion rand worth of shares.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.1411 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura; writing by David Dolan;<br \/>\nEditing by Ed Stoddard)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group could buy back another 2 billion rand ($245 million) worth of its own shares in the next 12 months under its current share buyback programme, the chief executive of the South African telecom group said on Wednesday. Sifiso Dabengwa told reporters the company has board approval to buy [&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-13300","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\/13300","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=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}