Telkom has announced that Serame Taukobong, the company's current CEO of the Telkom Consumer Business and a group executive committee member, has been appointed as its new group CEO, effective 1 October, 2021. Taukobong will take up the position on 1 July 2022. This appointment comes after Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko announced that he will stepping down on 30 June 2022. Taukobong joined Telkom on 1 June 2018 and has extensive experience in telecommunications having spent approximately 10 years at MTN where he held several senior roles which included chief operating officer and later CEO of MTN Ghana.