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Neotel

Won the second national operator licence and raised SA's largest BEE deal to date.

Apr 2002 - Dec 2003 | Johannesburg, South Africa | core

Co-founder

Co-founded Neotel by building a national fixed-line telecoms model described by British Telecom as operator standard, working with BEE leads to structure a 1.4m-beneficiary deal, raising R2bn in what was then SA's largest BEE deal, and helping win the licence against international operators.

R2bn · 2004BEE funding raised
1 400 000BEE beneficiaries
R6,5bn · 2017sold value