{"id":13672,"date":"2010-07-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-11T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:00:00","slug":"sentech-acting-ceo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/13672-sentech-acting-ceo-resigns.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech acting CEO resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech has been the problem child of the local telecoms space &ndash; not only for its poor performance but also for wasting some of the most valuable spectrum available in the wireless telecommunications arena.<\/p>\n<p>Government has stepped in to try and save the embattled state owned telecoms operator after a <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/11382-Shake-Sentech.html\">task team report stated that Sentech<\/a> was &#8220;rudderless, inadequately funded and misdirected&#8221; and was an unsustainable business.<\/p>\n<p>While the report did not explicitly recommend axing its chief executive officer and board, former <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/11958.html\">Sentech CEO Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane resigned<\/a> earlier this year, long before the end of her contract in September.&nbsp; Numerous changes to the Sentech board were also made.<\/p>\n<p>Sentech&rsquo;s Chief Operating Officer <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/11964-Acting-Sentech-CEO-announced.html\">Beverly Ngwenya was named as Sentech&rsquo;s new acting CEO<\/a> in March, but less than four months later Ngwenya resigned amidst allegations ranging from gross negligence to reckless spending.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times reported today that Ngwenya resigned this week after &ldquo;disciplinary charges &#8211; ranging from gross negligence to reckless spending &#8211; against her and the parastatal&#8217;s chief financial officer, Mohammed Cassim&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report Cassim will fight the charges in a hearing which starts tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/248928-Sentech-acting-CEO-Beverly-Ngwenya-resigns\">Sentech CEO resigns<\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverly Ngwenya, Sentech\u2019s acting CEO, has resigned after disciplinary charges against her and the parastatal\u2019s CFO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}