A bit of a gripe here though; about the launch…. which I suspect cost a huge amount of money. (I’m not talking about the marketing of the launch which of course is always needed.) I’m talking about the large chunk of cash – probably hundreds of thousands of rands – that it took for the parties that were hosted at the launch.

There was one in Cape Town for the public launch of the business unit and one for staff in Johannesburg which came complete with elaborate sets, dancers, funky food, “pink drinks” and fun but useless gifts… All very nice and enjoyable for the few hundred people who pitched up, but my question here is; I thought that Telkom was on a huge savings / profit optimisation drive while trying not to get rid of staff members?

Surely this money could have been spent more wisely…. like on staff training, or even team-building for the new business units’ staff members? Maybe it’s time the corporates started economising the way the smaller businesses sometimes have to. It’s about a different kind of mindset to the usual big company think…