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Africa’s largest pay TV operator, MultiChoice, is announcing leadership changes.
The company has appointed Nyiko Shiburi as CEO of its SA operations, and Marc Jury as the new CEO of SuperSport, both effective December 1.
In a note to staff, the group’s CEO, Calvo Mawela, said that Shiburi, who has been the company’s regional director for Southern Africa for the past two and a half years, “has proven to be an extremely competent executive and has had than navigating the complexity of multiple territories and multiple businesses, each uniquely different and uniquely complex ”.
Mawela said that Shiburi, who began his MultiChoice career at DStv Mobile as a project manager in 2007, had been intimately involved in set-top box product development and understood broadcast technology.
“He skillfully dealt with macro issues such as economic collapse, drought that affected electricity supply, fiscal problems, currency devaluations, regulatory issues, the acquisition of new licenses, political and people challenges, and has shown resistance and agility “.
Shiburi will be replaced as regional director for South African markets by Fhulu Badugela, the group’s former chief human resources officer at MultiChoice Africa. Previously, she was COO at M-Net.
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