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Canal + has wasted no time in increasing its participation in Multichoice. Photo: Gallo Images
Pay TV operator MultiChoice has appointed Nyiko Shiburi as the new CEO of its South African operations and has made other key changes to its executive team.
Shiburi will assume his new role on December 1 and Fhulufhelo Badugela will assume Shiburi’s current role as Multichoice’s regional director for South Africa.
“Nyiko is an extremely experienced leader and has successfully navigated the complexity of multiple territories and businesses, working with deeply trained teams within the organization, as well as a multitude of stakeholders in our ecosystem,” said MultiChoice Group CEO, Calvo Mawela, in a statement. on Friday.
Shiburi started his career at Multichoice 10 years ago and has held various positions in the group, including senior transmission engineering manager, group general manager for the transmission technology division and COO for South Africa.
Shiburi’s appointment is part of the group’s move to consolidate its business and is part of other leadership changes that will see Clement O’Reilly take over from Badugela as Group Personnel Director, while Simon Camerer moves to Chief Operating Officer, South Africa Region, Client Director.
SuperSport CEO Gideon Khobane will be MultiChoice’s new group executive for general entertainment and will be replaced by Marc Jury at SuperSport. M-Net will also see a change when its CEO, Nkateko Mabaso, takes on the role of group executive for programming.
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