{"id":4494,"date":"2008-07-15T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-15T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T14:29:00","slug":"telkom-still-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/4494-telkom-still-in-talks.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom still in talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African fixed line operator Telkom said on Tuesday that talks with an Mvelaphanda-led consortium regarding a bid for its entire shareholding were still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said last month that it received a letter from a consortium interested in making an offer for all of Telkom, conditional on it spinning off its entire stake in Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium is made up of politician-turned-businessman Tokyo Sexwale&#8217;s Mvelaphanda Holdings, New York-listed Och-Ziff Capital Management LLC and other strategic backers.<\/p>\n<p>Independently, talks regarding the sale of a portion of Telkom&#8217;s stake in Vodacom to UK-based Vodafone Group, subject to Telkom unbundling its remaining stake in Vodacom to Telkom shareholders, were also still on, Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=127184\"><strong>Telkom talks discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom, Vodafone and Mvelaphanda talks still on <\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}