/ 9 June 2008

Vodacom CEO to step down in September

Vodacom chief executive officer Alan Knott-Craig said on Monday he would step down by the end of September.

”I will step down at the end of September,” Knott-Craig told Reuters. ”The appointment of the CEO is a shareholder matter and I don’t have a say in that.”

”I am not leaving the country or the sector, just the company,” said Knott-Craig.

”It’s been a brilliant 15 years and I enjoyed it tremendously,” he added, saying he had worked with some extraordinary people along the way.

”I will do my photography which I enjoy very much indeed,” he said.

Vodacom is jointly owned by Vodafone and South Africa’s largest fixed-line telecoms operator Telkom. – Reuters, I-Net Bridge