BREAKING. Nolo Letele the new MultiChoice SA executive chairperson; Imtiaz Patel appointed as new group CEO.

MultiChoice just announced major executive level moves that sees Nolo Letele becoming the new executive chairperson of the MultiChoice SA board and the current SuperSport CEO Imtiaz Patel taking over as the new group CEO of MultiChoice SA. Both will take up their new positions on October 1, while Mandla Langa, the current MultiChoice SA chairperson is retiring from the board.

Nolo Letele who joined M-Net in 1990 has more than 20 years broadcasting experience in the pay TV industry and is widely respected in the South African television industry for his pay TV market insight and acumen. Likewise Imtiaz Patel (who joined SuperSport in 2000 and became CEO of SuperSport in March 2005) is widely regarded as intrinsically linked to the broadcasting brand's massive organic expansion throughout sub-Saharan African the past decade as an executive TV force.