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PRESS RELEASE Mthunzi Mdwaba has been appointed deputy chief executive of the Kelly Group and will join its board as an executive director. Mdwaba is currently the group CEO of Torque IT, which has been acquired by the Kelly Group. Mdwaba, who obtained a BA LLB at the University of the Witersrand, led Torque IT to a number of international and local awards and was IT personality of the year 2004/05. He is one of the vice-presidents of Business Unity South Africa and is the outgoing chairman of its transformation policy committee. Mdwaba is also the national chairman of the Black Information Technology Forum and holds a number of other directorships and trusteeships. JWT Johannesburg has appointed Danie van Aswegen as financial director. Van Aswegaen qualified as a charted accountant and has gained substantial financial and business experience in a wide range of industries, including the public sector, manufacturing and retail, before entering the advertising industry in 2001 when he joined Leo Burnett. “I worked closely with the management teams of the advertising and media brands within the Leo Burnett group and gained invaluable experience during my tenure,” he said. Ogilivy Cape Town has announced its new management structure. Rob Hill has been promoted to group managing partner of Ogilvy South Africa and will oversee Ogilvy Cape Town as well as all Cape- based subsidiaries, including Zoom Advertising, Added Value Group (AVG) and Coley Porter Bell. Levinsohn has made huge strides in the advertising industry in the past 11 years after graduating from UCT with a bachelor of business science (honours in finance) and completing a post-graduate diploma at the AAA School of Advertising. Eight of his 11 years were spent at the Jupiter Drawing room in Cape Town, were he worked his way up from account manager to starting the agency’s first strategic planning department. After spending time in London, Levinsohn returned to Jupiter Drawing Room as client service director and, in 2003 was appointed to the board. Anglo Platinum has appointed Kuseni Dlamini as non-executive director. Dlamini, a political and business commentator, is the head of Anglo American South Africa and a member of the executive committee of Anglo American. After graduating cum laude with a BA (honours) degree from Natal University in Durban, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he read for his MPhil degree. In MARCH 2008, Kuseni was named a young global leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF). During the same month, Miningx selected him as one of the top 100 most influential people in South Africa mining. For further information call Mthunzi Mdwaba, CEO Torque IT, Ends About Torque IT Torque IT, a 66% black-owned business, is made up of 3 divisions viz, Torque Technical Training, Torque Career Campus, and Torque Education Resources. As a specialist in education, Torque IT provides high-level technical and user training through Torque Technical Training, one of the largest Cisco Learning Solutions Partner (CLSP) in the emerging markets worldwide. Torque IT currently has branches in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Nairobi (Kenya) and Luanda (Angola), and provides training in over 22 countries in Africa through the Torque Education Resources division. Torque Technical Training is also a Microsoft Gold Partner (Learning Solutions), an Authorised SUN Education Centre, a Novell Gold Training Partner, a VMWare Authorised Training Centre and a CompTIA Gold Partner. Torque’s largest clientele concentration is 65-70% corporate, with blue chip clients in its top 20 including clients from verticals as disparate as the ICT sector, telecommunications, food & beverage and financial. Torque Career Campus provides customised training to school-leavers seeking skills in the ICT industry, with a specialist focus on Learnerships. For more information contact: |