{"id":376,"date":"2007-06-22T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:06:37","slug":"knott-craig-to-hang-up-his-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/376-knott-craig-to-hang-up-his-gloves.html","title":{"rendered":"Knott-Craig to hang up his gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"

He is credited with building the cellphone provider from nothing 14 years ago into an enterprise worth well over R100bn. <\/span><\/p>\n

Knott-Craig intimates that he would like the company\u2019s shareholders, the UK\u2019s Vodafone and SA fixed-line operator Telkom, to let him leave before his contract expires in 2009. \u201cThere has to be life beyond Vodacom,\u201d he told the FM last week. <\/span><\/p>\n

Knott-Craig, who has suffered a number of heart attacks in the past few years, says he believes Vodacom has a capable management team which can keep the group on its growth path. \u201cWe have strong first- and second-tier management in this company,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhether I\u2019m here or not, it doesn\u2019t matter a damn. The company is in good shape to run without me. It\u2019s just a matter of shareholders saying it\u2019s time you took a break and it would be really nice to take a break.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Analysts say potential successors include Vodacom<\/a> SA MD Shameel Joosub, chief operating officer Pieter Uys<\/a> and commercial director Peter Matlare. Joosub and Uys both worked their way up through the Vodacom ranks; Matlare is a former CEO of the SABC. <\/span><\/p>\n

Irnest Kaplan of Kaplan Equity Analysts says Knott Craig\u2019s planned departure is bad news for Vodacom, no matter how strong the team he has built around him. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got an incredible understanding of the industry and he\u2019s well respected because he just gets down and does the work,\u201d Kaplan says.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alan Knott-Craig plans to step down soon as Vodacom Group CEO and the focus is now shifting to who will replace him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}