Board of Directors

Jabulane Albert Mabuza

Chairman of the Board

Mr Jabulane Albert Mabuza was appointed to the board on 14 November 2012. He obtained executive skills by attending several courses namely, Effective Leadership Program from Wharton School from University of Pennsylvania and the Executive Development Program: Financial Statement Analysis from the John E Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously an MD of Southern Sun Gaming, GCEO of Tsogo Sun and has served as a Chairman of the Board of South African Tourism.

Currently, Mr Mabuza is the Deputy Chairman: of Tsogo Sun Holdings and the President of the Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). He also serves on the boards of ACE Insurance Ltd, Eglin Investments No. 44 (Pty) Ltd, Hyprop Investments Limited, Kuncedzana Investment Holdings, Lexshell 627 Investments (Pty) Ltd and other boards.

Sipho Maseko

Years of service at Telkom: 0
BA, LLB (Law)
Chief Executive Officer

Sipho Maseko was appointed the Group Chief Executive Officer and as an executive director of Telkom on 1 April 2013. He was the Group Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director at Vodacom since 2011. Prior to joining Vodacom, Sipho was the Chief Executive Officer of BP Southern Africa (Pty) Limited from 2008 to 2012 and the Chief Operating Officer in 2007. He also served in various positions at BP since 1997. Sipho is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Board of the Centre for Development & Enterprise since 2009 and of Afrox Board since 2012. He served as Chairman of the Board of SAPREF from July 2010 to August 2011.

Jacques H Schindehütte

CA (SA), BCom (Hons), Higher Diploma in Taxation
Chief Financial Officer

Mr Schindehütte was appointed Chief Financial Officer on 1 August 2011. Prior to joining Telkom, Mr Schindehütte was the Group Financial Director of the Absa Group from 2005 to 2010 and Group Executive Finance and Secretariat Since 1999. He also served as General Finance Manager of Transnet Limited, Chief Marketing and Financial Manager at Portnet (now National Ports Authority) and Financial Advisor at SA Transport Services. Mr Schindehütte has vast board experience, serving as a Director of a number of companies such as Absa Life Assurance, Abvest Asset Management and Absa Short-term Insurance. He also served as Chairman of the Market Risk Committee and Investment committee and as member of various other committees.

Itumeleng Kgaboesele

CA (SA), BCom, Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting
Independent non-executive directors

Itumeleng was appointed to the Telkom Board from the 1st of July 2011. He is the CEO and Co-founder of Sphere Holdings (Pty) Limited. Prior to founding Sphere, he spent several years in investment banking in London and Johannesburg and was Vice President – Investment Banking at Citi. He is a Trustee of the Student Sponsorship Programme and past President of the South African Chapter of Entrepreneurs Organisation. Itumeleng also served as director and member of the Audit Committee of Ethos Private Equity.

Mr Kgaboesele is a Chartered Accountant (SA). He holds a BCom as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town.

Brahm du Plessis

Independent non-executive director

He was appointed to the Board from December 2004. A practising advocate at the Johannesburg Bar since 1987, Advocate Du Plessis, who holds BA and LLB degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and an LLM degree from the University of London, has also served as a member of the Johannesburg Bar Council.

Kholeka Mzondeki

Non-executive director

Ms Kholeka Mzondeki was appointed to the board on 14 November 2012. She is a Chartered Certified Accountant, having obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Botswana and a Diploma in Investment Management from the University of Johannesburg. She is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom. Previously CFO of Mintek and Masana Petroleum Solutions.

Ms Mzondeki's other board memberships and audit committee positions are Reunert Limited, Sentula Mining Limited and Bauba Platinum Limited.

Jeff Molobela

Non-executive director

He was appointed as chairman of the Telkom Board from November 2009 to 15 February 2011. Subsequently he was re-appointed as a non-executive director from 15 February 2011. He holds a BSc (Eng) Honours degree from Imperial College (London University) and an MBA from Imperial College Business School (London University). He has extensive experience in financial services, property, information and telecommunications technology (ICT) and has served on numerous company boards He was appointed as chairman of the Telkom Board from November 2009 to 15 February 2011. Subsequently he was re-appointed as a non-executive director from 15 February 2011. He holds a BSc (Eng) Honours degree from Imperial College (London University) and an MBA from Imperial College Business School (London University). He has extensive experience in financial services, property, information and telecommunications technology (ICT) and has served on numerous company boards. and board committees and consulted to Denel and Armscor. He has served on the Boards of Africon Engineering Limited, Transnet, Primegro Limited, CBS Properties Limited, Growthpoint Properties Limited, Decillion Limited and Cashbuild Limited. He currently serves on the boards of N3TC Limited and a number of private companies.

Navin Kapila

Non-executive director

He has been appointed to the Board from 1 February 2011. He was educated at India's Punjab University. He is a seasoned professional who has, for the past 20 years, gained vast experience in diverse fields including investment, business and product development and relationship and alliance management. He has in-depth telecommunications experience and was involved in policy formulation and market deregulation in India. He was the Vice President of Corporate Development at ICO Global Communications (London), and has also served as Vice President of Government Affairs and Director of Business Development in the same company.

Leslie Maasdorp

Non-executive member of the board

Mr. Leslie Maasdorp was appointed to the board on 16 November 2012. He is President for Southern Africa at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In addition to his extensive experience over the past 10 years as a senior investment banker in South Africa, he has served in various capacities in Government, including as Deputy Director General of the Department of Public Enterprises and was a former Special Adviser to the Minister of Labour in 1994. His previous Board experience includes serving as a non-executive director of Absa Group, Johnnic and he is a former Chairman of TCTA. His banking experience includes serving as International Adviser to Goldman Sachs International and Vice Chairman of Absa Capital. Maasdorp is the current Chairman of Advtech, a JSE listed company and leading provider of private education in South Africa. He has resigned with immediate effect from the Board of Cell C where he has served as an independent non-executive director for the past 4 years.

He holds a BA degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and a M.Sc degree in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Clive A Fynn

Independent non-executive director

Dr Fynn was appointed to the Board on the 13th December 2012. He holds a PhD (Entrepreneurship) from the University of Pretoria, an M. Phil from the University of the Western Cape and an MBA degree from the University of Sheffield, UK.

He is the Managing Director and Senior Vice President (Global Alliances) of CFIT (Pty) Ltd, an IT forensics and Transactional Advisory services company. He is also an Honorary Professor and, PhD and Masters' External Examiner to several international ICT schools.

Dr. Fynn was previously the Managing Director of Cisco Systems and Chairman of Cisco Systems Capital (South Africa) and, an Executive Director of Siemens Business Services.

He is a board member of several South African industrial companies and plays an active role in various ICT policy committees.

Susan Botha

Independent non-executive director

Ms Susan Botha was appointed to the Board on the 13th December 2012. She obtained Bachelor of Economics Honours from the University of Stellenbosch. She is currently the Chancellor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and was previously an Executive Director of MTN Group Limited and Absa Bank Limited.

Ms Botha is currently the Chairman of Curro Holdings Limited. Other board memberships include Tiger Brands Limited, Imperial Holdings Limited and Famous Brands Limited.

Khanyisile Kweyama

Independent non-executive director

Ms Khanyisile Kweyama was appointed to the Board on the 13th December 2012. She obtained a Master's degree in Management from the University of Witwatersrand. She is currently Head of Anglo American Southern Africa Limited and previously the Executive Head, Human Resources at Anglo American Platinum Limited and Group Executive, Global Human Resources at Barloworld Limited.

Ms Kweyama is Vice President of the Chamber of Mines and a Non-Executive director of Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore. She is a Trustee of the Walter Sisulu University Foundation and also Commissioner on the Commission for Employment Equity.

Louis Leon Von Zeuner

Independent non-executive director

Mr Louis Leon von Zeuner was appointed to the Board on the 13th December 2012. He obtained a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Stellenbosch and also completed several international training programmes. He held the position of Deputy Group chief Executive of the Absa Group till his recent retirement. He completed 32 years of service at the Absa Group and served on several subsidiary boards of the Group. He will remain a non executive director of the Absa group and was also recently appointed as a non executive director of the Edcon Group.

Ms Fagmeedah Petersen

Independent non-executive director

Ms Fagmeedah Petersen was appointed to the Board on the 13th December 2012. She has a Bachelor of Business Science (Actuarial Science) from the University of Cape Town and is a fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa. Currently, she is an Investment Expert Trustee of the Government Employee Pension Fund and Acting Chief Investment Officer of Eskom Pension and Provident Fund.

Ms Petersen was previously a specialist trustee of Lifestyle Retirement Annuity and Preserver Suite of Funds. She was also the principal consultant and valuator at Alexander Forbes Financial Services and Sanlam Employee Benefits.