Telkom Foundation
Telkom Foundation is headed by Sarah Mthintso
Qualification(s) : BA Social Work (Hon), Post graduate certificate in organizational Design & Strategic Management.
Sarah Mthintso is a qualified social worker and has extensive experience in government, business and NGO sectors. Sarah has worked with a number of NGOs in community development. She has also worked in government as a director responsible for training and development of employees. She has also worked with a number of businesses in a consulting capacity, mainly around people centred issues. She joined Telkom in November 2008 as an Executive responsible for Stakeholder Relations, a role that further exposed her to the importance of working with different stakeholders towards contributing to the improvement of lives amongst others. Sarah has a passion for working with people and making a meaningful difference in communities.
The Trustees of Telkom Foundation consist of four Telkom Executives and three external Trustees persons. These members may be revised from time to time as deemed necessary by the Board of Trustees.
As they currently stand, the Trustee members are:
Appointed as Trustee on the Telkom Foundation Board of Trustees on: 06 February 2006
Qualification(s) : BProc, LLB and LLM. Higher Diploma in Company Law.
Ouma joined Telkom SA Limited as Group Executive for Regulatory and Public Policy in February 2006. In November 2007 she was promoted to Chief of Corporate Governance. In this capacity she is responsible for ensuring overall compliance of Telkom with governance requirements. Ouma is very active in community projects and offers free legal advice to those communities. She is admitted as an Attorney and an Advocate in the supreme Court of South Africa.
Qualification(s) : BSc (Business Administration) and MBA
Managing Executive: Small & Medium Business Services with Telkom SA Limited. Before Telkom Thami was a director of Fedics Botswana & Lesotho. He has vast management experience since he finished his internship with the IBM Corporation and worked as Marketing Executive with New South Africa Management (Pty) Limited, Industry Development specialist with Chemonics International Consulting, Manager of Enterprise Initiatives with the Community Bank and Divisional Sales Manager of New Age Beverages / Pepsi.
Qualification(s) : BCom, Certificate of theory in Accountancy, Higher Diploma in Financial management, CA(SA)
Makole was the Portfolio Manager, Infrastructure and Development Assets at Old Mutual Investment Group SA since 2004. She serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Women Investment Portfolio Holdings. She also serves as non executive Director on the Board of Rainprop (Pty) Limited, Sethekgo (Pty) Limited, Matola Gas Company (Mozambique), Bloemfontein Correctional Concessions (Pty) Limited and Kelvin Power Station. Makole is passionate about making a difference in people's lives.
Qualification(s) : Masters in Business Leadership
Chairman of the Foundation's finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee. He currently holds the position of Executive, Shared Services under Group Finance at Telkom SA Limited and is tasked with establishing a multifunctional Shared Services Centre for the company. He held the position in the Internal Audit where he served as Senior Manager responsible primarily for the Company's revenue audit. Iqbal has extensive experience in the financial, informational technology and commercial facets thereof.
Qualification(s) : BA (Unisa) Higher Education Diploma, Honours BA (Unisa) Master of Arts
Sister Letta is serving in private practice providing counselling once a week and running workshops on Stress Management and Wellness Programmes at the University of Pretoria. She previously served as Clinical psychologist for South Afrifcan Police Services and have vast experience in providing therapy and counselling.
Qualification(s) : BCom Honour, CA (SA)
Rebone holds a number of other Board positions including the Board of Hyperbola Investments (Pty) Limited and Hyperbola ventures (Pty) Limited. She is also highly committed to corporate social investment and is one of the founders and directors of Reikantse Botihale, a foundation which focuses on education through the provision of additional lessons to high school students and a bursary scheme for higher education for good performing students. Rebone also has interest in a number of businesses. She is an ambitious, determined individual who is passionate about life and embraces every opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.
Qualification(s) : A degree in finance and marketing from Rhodes
Manelisa was appointed Managing Director: Consumer Services & Retail in 2009. Prior to that, he was an Account Director, Deputy MD for the Cape business and Group Business Director at Ogilvy. He has also worked as Marketing Manager at Levi Strauss. Manelisa became the Head of Marketing in August 2005 for retail banking at Nedbank. He was subsequently appointed as Divisional Director for Marketing for the Retail Division. He has overseen the increased profile of Nedbank retails product propositions in the market and has improved product sales and general relevance of Nedbank in the total market.
