Kagiso Tiso Holdings

17/10/2022

Recent article on Kagiso Tiso Holdings in Enterprise Africa

Leading investment holdings company, Kagiso Tiso Holdings, is providing its investee companies with everything needed to make a difference in the communities in which they operate. Investing for the long-term, this is an organisation creating sustainable value for shareholders. Group CEO Paballo Mak...

19/07/2022

In 2009, then Kagiso Trust Investments hosted a Heritage Day event hosting students from the Kagiso Trust Eric Molobi Scholarship Programme and City Year students. Don Mattera was invited to regale the students with his words of wisdom and poetry. A special event that will always stay in our memories.

09/06/2022

Congrats to the East Coast Radio team - it's going to be great!

31/12/2021

“The contribution the Arch made to our group is immeasurable. His vision and foresight has helped us to evolve into the organisation we are today. Now with significant interests across a variety of sectors, we commit to ensuring that his legacy lives on.” CEO Paballo Makosholo

The Kagiso Trust (KT/the Trust), Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), and its group of companies honours the role of Archbishop Desmond Tutu in its creation and growth.

26/12/2021

On this Day of Goodwill, we are saddened to hear of the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. While the world joins in the commemoration of his lifetime achievements, as a founding member of our broader group of companies, we offer our sincere condolences to all of the Arch's family and friends. His loss will be sorely felt. May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.

06/09/2021

**Kagiso Media announces new appointments to drive market growth**
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Kagiso Media has announced key leadership appointments within its radio division following some tweaks to its structure. Management says they are designed to add further value to its audiences, commercial partners, and platforms.

The changes see the repositioning of its industry-leading digital content team into a specialist Audience Acquisition unit, with a significant emphasis on audience research via the establishment of a new research role, and more co-ordination of its news content via a central News Editor role.

“Kagiso Media Radio brands Jacaranda FM and East Coast Radio have been the most consistent and best performing digital platforms in the radio industry, and last year our investment into a Data Management Platform (DMP) gave us even more ability to both understand our audiences and connect to them. We’ve taken the opportunity to take all this capacity to the next level as we refine some of our existing departments and bring in some fresh blood,” says Kagiso Media Chief Executive of Radio, Nick Grubb.

Research consultant specialist Melissa McNally joins the team in September as the group's Research and Analytics Manager.

McNally has an extensive research career that spans over 15 years. She began her career in social research, before progressing into market research with a focus on brand health and media studies.
She has spent the last few years heading up a research team in the broadcasting industry, where she was responsible for primary research across multiple radio stations as well as commercial research.

Earlier this year, McNally was elected to the board of the Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC). Some of her career highlights include playing a role in the design of the new RAMS (currency) and working on the South African Infinite Dial study.

“I love working in the radio and broadcasting environment because it is fast-paced. There is never a dull moment and you're always surrounded by passionate people. Also knowing that the work I do has an impact in terms of what the listener experiences is rewarding. I always tell people that it is a privilege to be the voice of the listener,” McNally says.

She adds that she is excited to be joining the Kagiso Media family.

“I'm looking forward to working with incredibly strong brands/stations that are so deeply entrenched in the lives of their listeners, as well as in the communities that they reach.”

Another big movement in leadership is the appointment of Anthea Carstens as Audience Acquisition Manager.

Carstens has worked in the digital media industry for 20 years. She joined Kagiso Media in 2012 and has worked on various publishing products over the years. Carstens most recently worked as a Content and Data Strategist for Kagiso Media brands - East Coast Radio (ECR) and Jacaranda FM.

She will continue to work closely with the stations to grow their current audiences.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the numbers and how we can use content and statistics to increase audience participation and engagement, making this role a natural fit. I’m looking forward to working closely with the stations to develop a sustainable acquisition strategy that is able to evolve and keep up with new trends and technology,” Carstens says.

Kagiso Media is also pleased to announce that Marius van der Walt has been appointed Group News Editor for both Jacaranda FM and ECR. Van der Walt joined Jacaranda FM as a weekend freelancer in 2007 and worked his way up to news editor. He says he is thrilled to be adding ECR to his portfolio.

“I grew up in KwaZulu-Natal listening to ECR, so it’s a homecoming of sorts. I am looking forward to working on a bigger canvass, where we can get the two newsrooms to work together to create a better product.”

“Anthea and Marius have been tremendously valuable in our digital and news operations, respectively, and we look forward to them building on these successes as they each step into new and expanded roles. Melissa brings us new and exciting capacity in audience understanding and analytics, and these insights will help us drive benefit for our programmers and content people, as well as for our advertisers,” Grubb concludes.

19/11/2020

Getting to know KTH's CEO - Paballo Makosholo

Guest: Paballo Makosholo | CEO at Kagiso Tiso Holdings

11/11/2020

Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH) says it has full confidence in its prospects for further growth following the exit of Tiso Blackstar Group (TBG).

11/11/2020

A new chapter for KTH

Kagiso Tiso Holdings (“KTH”) is on track for the next phase of its growth trajectory. Following the announcement of the exit of Tiso Blackstar Group (“TBG”), KTH, a pre-eminent black controlled investment holding company with a range of quality assets across multiple sectors, is well-positioned to actively pursue its strategy of being an investment partner of choice.

TBG’s exit from the shareholding structure comes at a time where KTH will be entering its tenth year of operation. Formed from the merger of Kagiso Trust Investments and Tiso Group in July 2011, the combining of two like-minded entities with sound values and principles has seen KTH evolve into a formidable investment champion with a broad investment scope.

The TBG exit was achieved through multiple inter-connected steps, one of which was the acquisition by Tiso Investment Holdings (“TIH”) of TBG's shares in KTH. As part of the transaction, KTH also sold its shares in KTH Africa Investments to TIH Mauritius Holdings. In addition, TIH sold its shares in KTH to Kagiso Capital and KTH repurchased the remaining shares held by TIH which was the last step used to exit TBG.

Fidelity Bank Ghana is held through KTH Africa Investments and as a result of the sale of KTH's shares in KTH Africa Investments described above, KTH will relinquish its stake in the asset. The Bank of Ghana has approved the transaction. The divestment of TBG’s 20.01% stake in KTH is in line with its stated strategy.

TBG has consistently provided valuable strategic guidance and direction for the business. KTH Group CEO, Paballo Makosholo says, “The contribution that TBG has made to KTH, through Nkululeko Sowazi, David Adomakoh and Andrew Bonamour, has been invaluable. While the merger dates back to 2011, the close relationship between the two companies has endured for much longer. Our corporate histories are irrevocably intertwined and will continue to be the legacy on which KTH is founded. On behalf of the Board of KTH, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude for the crucial role that TBG has played in the evolvement of the company.”

Nkululeko Sowazi, past KTH Chairman remarked, “The exit from KTH has enabled TBG to significantly deliver on its strategic imperatives and growth plans into the future. As a black-owned and managed investment company, KTH has consistently delivered on its role of being a shareholder of reference in its underlying investments. TBG’s exit will in no way detract from this mandate and I am convinced that the company will continue to go from strength to strength”.

02/06/2020

21/01/2020

Kagiso Tiso Holdings (“KTH”) is pleased to announce the appointments of Paballo Makosholo as Chief Executive Officer and Tshepo Setshedi as Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect.

Paballo previously served as a non-executive director of KTH since its inception in 2011 and chaired the Investment Committee. He joins KTH from Kagiso Capital where he was the Chief Operating Officer and has in excess of 12 years’ experience at executive and board level. He currently serves as a director of FirstRand Limited. As a Chartered Accountant, he also holds an MComm South African and International Tax from the University of Johannesburg and did an International Executive Development Program with Columbia Business School.

“We are fortunate to have someone of Paballo’s calibre and experience step up to lead KTH,” said Nkululeko Sowazi, Chairman of KTH. “We are at a critical moment and we need renewed leadership to successfully implement our strategy and take advantage of the market opportunities ahead. Furthermore, as a member of KTH board of directors since 2011, Paballo has a solid understanding of our products, markets and espouses the KTH values.”

Tshepo served as Chief Financial Officer of Kagiso Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of KTH. He was previously an executive at Kagiso Trust Investments (“KTI”) and KTH Finance and Investment divisions. Prior to joining KTI, he worked for Eskom Treasury and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is currently Chairman of various group companies and a non-executive director on other boards including Kaya FM, Heart FM and Gagasi FM. Tshepo is a Chartered Accountant with in excess of 15 years’ experience in finance.

Nkululeko Sowazi said “Tshepo’s deep knowledge of KTH as well as his financial acumen make him highly qualified to take on the CFO role. His appointment also ensures continuity given his previous role in KTH and Kagiso Media which is one of the significant assets in our portfolio.”

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Kagiso Tiso Holdings
KTH is an investment holding company which, through its legacy companies Kagiso Trust Investments and Tiso Group, boasts a track record of investment performance and creating long term sustainable shareholder value. KTH currently has a portfolio of investments comprising market leading companies across key sectors.


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