{"id":94753,"date":"2014-01-14T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=94753"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:40:19","slug":"vodacom-vs-vodacom-who-is-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/94753-vodacom-vs-vodacom-who-is-lying.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom vs Vodacom: who is lying?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 14 June 2012 Vodacom announced that Sipho Maseko<\/strong><\/a>, MD of Vodacom SA and COO of the Vodacom Group<\/a>, decided to leave the company to pursue other interests. This news surprised the market as the resignation came only nine months after Maseko joined Vodacom.<\/p>\n

Maseko has since joined Telkom<\/a> as of 1 April 2013 as Group CEO at Telkom.<\/p>\n

At the time the \u2018immediate effect\u2019 resignation sparked rumours that Maseko was asked to depart because of performance issues, but Vodacom chief officer of corporate affairs, Maya Makanjee rubbished these rumours<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Makanjee said at the time that the Vodacom board was actually surprised by Maseko\u2019s sudden resignation, and that they unsuccessfully tried to convince Maseko to stay on for longer or to serve out his contract term.<\/p>\n

Makanjee said that Maseko had to depart with \u2018immediate effect\u2019 to pursue other interests. However, she could not say what made the \u2018other interest\u2019 so pressing that Maseko could not stay on for a while longer to assist with the transition.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg has now published information<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about Maseko’s departure which casts doubt on Vodacom\u2019s initial claims.<\/p>\n

According to a Bloomberg report, based on four people with knowledge of Maseko\u2019s departure, his resignation followed complaints about his conduct on a U.S. business trip designed to reward sales agents.<\/p>\n

Maseko told Bloomberg that \u201cI\u2019m not at liberty to say the reasons why I left Vodacom and what the settlement between myself and Vodacom was\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite this new information Vodacom said that it stands by its previous statement that Maseko’s resignation came as a surprise. Vodacom also maintained that it tried to convince Maseko to stay.<\/p>\n

This means that Vodacom’s official statement is in direct conflict with the Bloomberg report, which cites people with knowledge about the event who most likely work at Vodacom.<\/p>\n

Statement from Telkom<\/h3>\n

Telkom said that Maseko\u2019s departure from Vodacom followed a mutual settlement agreement between himself and Vodacom, which was outlined in a statement issued by Vodacom at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaseko is bound by the confidential provisions of the settlement and is not at liberty to discuss it with third parties,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Group CEO at Telkom, Mr Maseko is currently focussed on turning the Company around and achieving its full potential to the benefit of all its stakeholders, and will not be distracted from this task.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Sipho Maseko<\/h3>\n

Sipho Maseko the new Telkom CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sipho Maseko the new Vodacom SA MD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent Bloomberg report has cast serious doubt over Vodacom\u2019s previous comments regarding Sipho Maseko\u2019s departure from the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":91361,"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":[35,23147,279,41],"class_list":["post-94753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-maya-makanjee","tag-sipho-maseko","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753"}],"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=94753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94803,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94753\/revisions\/94803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}