{"id":69188,"date":"2013-01-24T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69188"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T11:09:43","slug":"telkom-and-doc-at-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/69188-telkom-and-doc-at-davos.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom and DoC at Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications minister <a title=\"Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210235-Dina-Pule\">Dina Pule<\/a> and <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> chairperson <a title=\"Jabu Mabuza\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/483188-Jabulane-Albert-Mabuza\">Jabu Mabuza<\/a> are both attending the <a title=\"World Economic Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/479352-World-Economic-Forum\">World Economic Forum<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland despite the hefty price tag associated with the event.<\/p>\n<p>Pule and Mabuza joined numerous South Africans, who work in the economic and finance sectors, at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Moneyweb reported that delegates at this year\u2019s World Economic Forum should be prepared to pay around R358,400 to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa has sent its largest delegation this year &#8211; 126 representatives accompanied by nine ministers, placing the country sixth in terms of the number of ministers attending,\u201d Moneyweb reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From Moneyweb<\/p>\n<p>The South African delegation<\/p>\n<p>So, which politicians and business people from South Africa will be spending the big bucks and perhaps maxing out the expense accounts?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Brown \u2013 CEO of the Nedbank Group<\/li>\n<li>Stephan van Collier \u2013 CEO of Absa Corporate, Investment, and Wealth Management in Africa<\/li>\n<li>Rob Davies \u2013 Minister of Trade and Industry<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Dlamini \u2013 CEO of the Development Bank of Southern Africa<\/li>\n<li>Pravin Gordhan \u2013 Minister of Finance<\/li>\n<li>Adrian Gore \u2013 CEO of Discovery<\/li>\n<li>Jabu Mabuza \u2013 Chairman of Telkom<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Manuel \u2013 Minister in the Presidency in charge of the National Planning Commission<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Maponya \u2013 Chairman of the board of Trustees for Brand South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Paul Matthew \u2013 Director of North Star Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Tito Mboweni \u2013 Chairman of AngloGold Ashanti<\/li>\n<li>Brian Molefe \u2013 CEO of Transnet<\/li>\n<li>Nicky Newton-King \u2013 CEO of the JSE<\/li>\n<li>Nelisiwe Oliphant \u2013 Minister of Labour<\/li>\n<li>Dina Pule \u2013 Minister of Communications<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Qhena \u2013 CEO of the IDC<\/li>\n<li>Fani Titt \u2013 Chairman of Investec<\/li>\n<li>President Jacob Zuma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Department of Communications articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"\u201cSpecial leave\u201d for DoC director general\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/68996-special-leave-for-doc-director-general.html\"><strong>\u201cSpecial leave\u201d for DoC director general<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pule called out in DG performance dispute\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/26006\/pule-called-out-in-dg-performance-dispute\/\"><strong>Pule called out in DG performance dispute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/25929\/telkom-not-lacking-policy-direction-pule\/\"><strong>Telkom not lacking policy direction: Pule<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom shareholder PIC calls for stability\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/25874\/telkom-shareholder-pic-calls-for-stability\/\"><strong>Telkom shareholder PIC calls for stability<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s communications sector is well represented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, despite the hefty price tag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36766,"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":[6002,35,17032],"class_list":["post-69188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-jabu-mabuza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69228,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188\/revisions\/69228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}