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    Naspers Appointed First Female CEO

    Posted On 06 Jul 2019
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
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    By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –

    New CEO of Naspers South Africa, Phuthi Mahamyele Dabengwa
    Photo Credit: Naspers

    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Naspers a valuable company in Africa has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer for its South Africa Unit and made history in the process.

    Phuthi Mahanyele – Dabengwa (48), takes on the role and becomes the company’s first female and first black Chief Executive. Her appointment follows a long male chauvinistic white CEO’s. Mahanyele – Dabengwa will lead its daily business activities and also manage the company’s long held desire to make successful tech investment bets in Africa.

    Naspers’ investment pedigree is defined by a $ 32 million investment in Chinese internet giant Tencent in 2011 for a stake which is now valued at over $ 100 billion, it has notably struggled with making the right bets on tech companies in Africa. The company which has significant ventures investments in India in recent years, have committed to investing up to $ 1 billion there, this year.

    Mahanyele – Dabengwa will now lead Naspers’ drive for major African tech start up win with a $ 314 million fund announced last October. She will also oversee Naspers Labs, a social impact and skills acquisition initiative for South Africa’s unemployed youth. Mahanyele – Dabengwa will report to Bob van Dijk, Group CEO of Naspers.

    The Newly appointed CEO of Naspers, Primary tasks will likely involve managing the transition as Naspers prepares to list its international assets on Euronext, the European Stock Exchange based in Amsterdam. When listed in September, Prosus (as the new company has been named) will likely be the largest listed consumer internet group in the Europe by asset value, Naspers says.

    Naspers has also chosen to spin- off multi choice Group, its video entertainment arm, and list it as a separate entity on the Johannesburg stock exchange. Prosus listing in Europe also promises access to a larger capital pool and possibly achieve the company’s’ goal of narrowing the margin between Naspers’ market value and the value of its Tencent stake.

    In listing its international assets outside the South Africa and a result decreasing its dominance of the Johannesburg stock exchange, there may be some political fallout for Nasp.

    Mahanyele – Dabengwa has “significant investor and board experience” she’ will also win laurels of a long business relationship with President Cyril Ramaphosa. She has previously been Chief Executive of Shanduka Group; an investment company founded by Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and also, has held key board positions at the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and mobile operator Vodacom Group.

    The appointment of a black woman to a significant unit of the business is a far cry from Naspers’ past as an early supporter of Apartheid.

    For New Africa Business News Abdul Rahman Suagibu Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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