Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub is a South African businessman and head of

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, a South African mobile communications company with over 55 million customers, since March 2013.

Biography

Joosub was born in

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. Joosub has a Bachelor of Accounting Science degree from the

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, and a

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degree from the

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. Before Joosub became CEO of Vodacom, he spent eighteen months as head of

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. He was mentored by Alan Knott-Craig, the founder of Vodacom, who was later the CEO of rival operator Cell C. Joosub is a board member of

and

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, positions he has held since 2012 and 2017, respectively.

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