Phoebe Nakabazzi fired as MultiChoice Uganda marketing manager after tawdry extra-marital office affair with boss Charles Hamya who finally decided to quit.

 Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi

Media in Uganda are reporting that Phoebe Nakabazzi, MultiChoice Uganda's marketing manager has been fired, following an embarrassing sex scandal after the MultiChoice office extra-marital affair was exposed between her and her boss, Charles Hamya, by his angry wife.

Charles Hamya finally decided to quit earlier this month and will be gone by the end of March.

Albert Ngabirano has now apparently been appointed in the position of head of marketing for MultiChoice Uganda. Albert Nga previously served as GOtv marketing manager and has worked at MultiChoice Uganda for over 6 years.

Phoebe Nakabazzi is out of her position, as is Charles Hamya, following the shocking disclosure by Charles Hamya's wife, the long-suffering Crusid Matovu in July 2018, when she sent an email, circulated to all MultiChoice Uganda staffers of her husband's trashy behaviour and illicit office romance with a fellow MultiChoice staffer working under him.

Crusid Matovu in an email detailed Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi's extra-marital affair and their secret hotel trysts that she said "shouldn't be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for".

Crusid Matovu said the MultiChoice Uganda top executives have "proven that they do not value marriage or work ethics. This level of unprofessionalism should not be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for and for that matter I no longer want to be associated with both parties".

The MultiChoice Africa sex scandal forced Charles Hamya to first take leave in August 2018.

Then MultiChoice staffers started wondering why MultiChoice allows extra-marital affairs between bosses and co-workers apparently without consequences when Charles Hamya returned in October 2018 as if nothing happened.

At the beginning of this month the controversial and shamed MultiChoice Uganda boss finally decided to quit following apparent pressure from MultiChoice Africa leadership. He will be leaving MultiChoice Uganda on 31 March 2019 as general manager.

BREAKING. Charles Hamya finally quits as MultiChoice Uganda boss after torrid workplace extra-marital sex scandal.

The controversial and shamed MultiChoice Uganda boss, Charles Hamya, has finally decided to quit following the shocking sex scandal that engulfed him and DStv Uganda marketing manager Phoebe Nakabazzi after his sad and upset wife exposed their torrid MultiChoice Uganda workplace extra-marital affair toall staffers in an email.

Following pressure from MultiChoice Africa leadership, Charles Hamya  - who was initially reluctant to resign - decided to quit and will be leaving MultiChoice Uganda at 31 March 2019.

It follows after Charles Hamya's sex scandal that damaged not just MultiChoice Africa, MultiChoice Uganda and DStv Uganda but also the morale of staffers working at MultiChoice and wondering why MultiChoice would allow a person to continue to work as the leader without repercussions whilst creating an untenable working environment.

In an email to all MultiChoice Uganda staffers, Charles Hamya, tried to put a positive spin on his imminent departure, starting off by saying he will be celebrating "22 years of service at MultiChoice Uganda" but not saying a word about the nasty details of cheating on his wife, Crusid Matovu, that has now derailed his career.

"I will, effective 31 March 2019, step down from my current position as general manager," Charles Hamya, who owns share in the company, wrote staffers.

"It has been my singular honour and privilege to have worked with each and every one of you over the years," writes Charles Hamya - who of course enjoyed special privilege working closely with Phoebe Nakabazzi.

In late-July Charles Hamya took unexpected leave following the expose of his extra-marital affair to all MultiChoice Uganda workers, with Willem Hattingh who took over as acting MultiChoice Uganda general manager.

It came after his wife, Crusid Matovu, in an email to MultiChoice Uganda staffers, revealed the pain, heartache and frustration of Charles Hamya's torrid affair with the DStv Uganda marketing manager.

Crusid Matovu in an email detailed Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi's extra-marital affair and their secret hotel trysts that she said "shouldn't be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for".

Crusid Matovu said the MultiChoice Uganda top executives have "proven that they do not value marriage or work ethics. This level of unprofessionalism should not be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for and for that matter I no longer want to be associated with both parties".

In ongoing MultiChoice sex scandal DStv staffers are wondering if it's okay to have an extra-marital affair at the office without apparent consequences as DStv Uganda boss Charles Hamya returns to the office where his marketing manager lover Phoebe Nakabazzi works.

Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi

A MultiChoice sex scandal in Africa keeps unfolding as the married MultiChoice Uganda general manager Charles Hamya is back at the office according to DStv Uganda staffers - the place where the MultiChoice Uganda marketing manager Phoebe Nakabazzi works who and who he has been having an extra-marital affair with.

Staffers at Naspers' pay-TV arm in the African country are wondering if it is okay to have an extra-marital affair at the office, as well as what message it is sending not just inside MultiChoice but to the corporate world and the TV industry in Uganda, and Africa, at large.

In late-July a MultiChoice sex scandal saw Charles Hamya take abrupt leave after his long-suffering wife, Crusid Matovu, in an email to MultiChoice Uganda staffers, revealed the pain, heartache and frustration of Charles Hamya's torrid affair with the DStv Uganda marketing manager.

Crusid Matovu in an email detailed Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi's extra-marital affair and their secret hotel trysts that she said "shouldn't be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for".

Crusid Matovu said the MultiChoice Uganda top executives have "proven that they do not value marriage or work ethics. This level of unprofessionalism should not be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for and for that matter I no longer want to be associated with both parties".

Charles Hamya went on abrupt leave "to attend to a family issue that found its way to the work place".

Willem Hattingh took over as acting MultiChoice Uganda general manager while Charles Hamya went to try and sort out his personal life and relationships at home and at work after the nasty private details that spilled into the public eye and inside MultiChoice Uganda's corporate corridors.

Phoebe Nakabazzi apparently stayed at work but kept a low profile while Albert Nga did the public appearances as DStv Uganda marketing manager, for instance when M-Net launched its new Pearl Magic channel on DStv at a press event earlier this month.

DStv Uganda staffers are however now buzzing that Charles Hamya is back at work with Phoebe Nakabazzi - apparently without any consequences or shame - and wondering how a boss can have a multichoice of romantic entanglements with different women, including one working for him.

DStv staffers are speaking out about how MultiChoice allegedly warned them not to talk to the public about the Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi sex scandal. "Our bosses are now fully back in office," said a MultiChoice Uganda sales representative to an Uganda gossip site.

Charles Hamya reportedly didn't respond to emails sent to him and Tina Wamala, MultiChoice Uganda publicist reportedly couldn't be reached for comment.

MultiChoice sex scandal sees DStv Uganda general manager, Charles Hamya take leave as wife slams his torrid affair with DStv marketing manager Phoebe Nakabazzi, and details their secret hotel trysts that 'shouldn't be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for'.

Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi

A MultiChoice sex scandal that has engulfed MultiChoice Uganda has seen Charles Hamya, general manager of Naspers' pay-TV operation in the African country, go on leave for a month after his wife exposed his torrid extra-marital affair with MultiChoice Uganda marketing manager Phoebe Nakabazzi to DStv Uganda staffers in an email.

Willem Hattingh is now taking over as acting MultiChoice Uganda general manager while Charles Hamya is on leave for a month to try and sort out his personal life and relationships at home and at work after the nasty private details spilled into MultiChoice Uganda's corporate corridors.

Since Charles Hamya has been unable to properly manage his personal life, it's raising serious corporate management and reputation questions at MultiChoice Uganda and whether Charles Hamya can return as DStv Uganda boss.

If he returns - and if Phoebe Nakabazzi remains in her position as the marketing manager responsible for MultiChoice Uganda's public image - it will raise questions about what kind of message MultiChoice will be sending to not just DStv staffers and customers but the broader public if  people with this type of tarnished reputations remain in their leadership roles.

Charles Hamya's trashy affair, brought into the workplace by his estranged wife, has dragged the MultiChoice Africa operation in the country into scandal, damaging the company's image with the public and DStv subscribers who know MultiChoice as a pay-TV service and not as a place where the boss has a multichoice of romantic entanglement with different women.

On Thursday Charles Hamya's angry and clearly frustrated wife, Crusid Matovu, sent an email to MultiChoice Uganda workers, exposing the torrid, secret and ongoing affair between her husband, Charles Hamya, and Phoebe Nakabazzi, both working together but also having an illicit romantic affair at MultiChoice Uganda headquarters in Kampala.

Crusid Matovu said she wants DStv staffers, subscribers and the public to know that Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi - described by some of her former colleagues as a "corporate climber" - have been carrying on an extra-marital affair, including things like a secret tryst in a Dubai hotel, the Hyatt Regency in Dubai Creek.

According to Crusid, Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi "started having an affair shortly after Nakabazzi joined the company" in 2015 - something that Crusid tried to fight when she discovered her philandering husband's ways. She however failed.

According to insiders Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi apparently attended all MultiChoice Africa "out-of-country trainings" together.

Crusid Matovu who met Charles Hamya in 2011 and got married in May 2016 after a 5-year relationship, said she wants to "bring to light the unethical actions of two of your employees who also happen to be in leadership positions within the company".

Crusid Matovu discovered that Charles Hamya is having an affair with MultiChoice Uganda's marketing manager Phoebe Nakabazzi behind her back, telling DStv Uganda staffers that "After multiple attempts to resolve this matter privately, this affair has continued against our marital vows."

Crusid also slammed Phoebe Nakabazzi, telling her DStv Uganda colleagues that her affair "continued to disrespect my marriage despite many attempts to cease her mistress-like behaviours with Charles. Her most recent act of devaluing my marriage was on a recent trip she took to Dubai with Charles two weeks ago".

Charles Hamya and Phoebe Nakabazzi "stayed at Hyatt Regency in Dubai Creek and later checked into Towers Rotana apartments" for a multiple day Dubai stay, wrote Crusid, showing an email from Charles Hamya informing the hotel to check Phoebe Nakabazzi in and to charge the room to his personal credit card where he would also be checking in later.

Crusid Matovu says the MultiChoice Uganda top executives have "proven that they do not value marriage or work ethics. This level of unprofessionalism should not be what MultiChoice Uganda stands for and for that matter I no longer want to be associated with both parties".

Charles Hamya is now gone and taking leave for a month "to attend to a family issue that found its way to the work place".

With the MultiChoice Uganda extra-marital affair exposed in public, TVwithThinus asked MultiChoice Africa for comment.

"MultiChoice is not able to comment on the recent correspondence regarding the conduct of MultiChoice Ugandan employees.  These matters are outside of the business operations and pertain to the personal and private lives of employees," said MultiChoice Africa.

"MultiChoice’s culture and values establish the high levels of professionalism and integrity embodied in its code of conduct. Should evidence show that these are not being maintained, our internal processes and procedures will be applied."

Neither Charles Hamya nor Phoebe Nakabazzi could be reached for comment.

MultiChoice Uganda boss Charles Hamya not fired says MultiChoice Africa, as DStv Uganda's call centre is outsourced with staffers axed.

MultiChoice Africa has slammed reports that he has been fired as fabrication, saying MultiChoice Uganda boss Charles Hamya has not been let go and is on sabbatical leave.

Reports surfaced the past week that Charles Hamya is out and that as Multichoice Uganda's long-serving general manager, he was asked to step down for at least 6 months for an internal investigation into allegations of serious mismanagement to be completed.

Apparently 80 other MultiChoice staffers have also been fired but another report pegs it at 50 staffers who got axed.

This is basically due to a decision by MultiChoice to outsource its DStv call centre to ISon BPO Uganda, something that according to MultiChoice Uganda spokesperson Tina Wamala was done "after careful consideration and assessment of our call centre".

"Affected staff were engaged early enough to be aware of the transition," says MultiChoice Uganda, saying the outsourcing of MultiChoice Uganda's call centre "would allow us to be more efficient and improve customer service".

Willem Hattingh from South Africa is currently serving as MultiChoice Uganda acting general manager.

MultiChoice Africa in response to a media enquiry tells TVwithThinus that "Charles Hamya has not been fired by MultiChoice Uganda – he is on sabbatical leave – he recently appeared at a press conference with the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) over a much more serious matter taking place in Uganda over the licensing of all pay TV operators in the country – in his role of general manager MultiChoice Uganda and a representative of the Media Owners of Uganda Association".

MultiChoice Uganda joins growing list of African countries where MultiChoice is cutting the price of monthly DStv subscription fees.

MultiChoice Uganda is cutting the price of DStv Uganda subscriptions from 1 November 2017, following the lead of a growing number of African countries including Kenya, Zambia and Ghana where DStv already started to slash prices since August this year.

While DStv subscribers in South Africa have not seen any downward price adjustment to monthly subscription fees, DStv Uganda is now also lowering subscription fees across all its DStv bouquets from 1 November, saying it recognises that consumers are struggling.

MultiChoice Uganda's announcement of a price reduction comes a week after new pay-TV rival, Econet Media's Kwesé TV, officially launched in the Uganda market on 17 October.

The dramatic price reduction sees MultiChoice Uganda dropping monthly subscription fees in Uganda Shilling between 2.5% to a whopping 13.16%, with the price decrease getting bigger from the top to the lower-tiered bouquets.

Interestingly, Econet Media's Kwesé TV - although meant for any pay-TV consumer - is specifically aimed at the lower pay-TV market segment, which is where DStv Uganda has now announced the biggest price cuts.

DStv Premium is dropping 2.52% to Ugx 280,000, DStv Compact Plus is dropping 5.61% to Ugx 180,000, DStv Compact is dropping 5.43% to Ugx 115,000, DStv Family is dropping 10.11% to Ugx 60,000 and DStv Access is dropping 13.16% to Ugx 33,000.

"We recognise that our customers are living in tough economic times and want to reward them for their ongoing loyalty and support," says Charles Hamya, MultiChoice Uganda's general manager in announcing the DStv price cut for the country.

Making the announcement at a press conference at MultiChoice Uganda's office in Kololo, Uganda, Charles Hamya said "We want to do our part by adjusting the price of our DStv packages through making them more affordable while adding more value at the same time."

"The majority of our input costs are in US dollars and we hope we won't experience any further currency devaluations or other unexpected increases in costs for the remainder of the year. We will continue to review pricing from time to time, taking into account the economic conditions of our operations."

DStv Uganda subscribers will see their monthly subscription fees drop from 1 November. 

In addition DStv Uganda subscribers on the DStv Compact and DStv Compact Plus bouquets will get to see all of the SuperSport channels available to the top-tiered DStv Premium subscription for the first week of 2018.

DStv Access and DStv Family subscribers will get to see all of the SuperSport channels available to DStv Compact subscribers for the first week of 2018.

MultiChoice can't rule out a 2nd price hike in 2015 for DStv subscribers in South Africa due to weak rand; 'hope environment stabilise'.

MultiChoice can't rule out a second price hike for DStv subscribers in South Africa in 2015 due to the weakening rand while MultiChoice just announced that it is increasing prices by another 25% in Uganda and 15% in Kenya due to weakening currencies.

DStv subscribers in Uganda and Kenya are fuming since MultiChoice announced another dramatic price increase for the satellite pay-TV operator's customers in these African countries.

When news leaked in mid-August that MultiChoice in Uganda will increase prices again this year, the pay-TV operator denied it and said its only a "discussion document" - only to announce on Wednesday a dramatic increase of 25%. Since the beginning of the year Uganda's currency has already fell by 32% against the dollar.

MultiChoice Uganda's general manager Charles Hamya says the country's weak economy, especially the falling Uganda shilling is to blame for the DStv price increase and that MultiChoice absorbed losses for several months but can't anymore.

"The revisions are necessary in order to cater for the continuous depreciation of the Shilling against the dollar which has negatively impacted our business - whose input costs such as programming, infrastructure and satellite fees are mainly dollar-based," said Charles Hamya.

"We held off passing on the cost of the depreciation by absorbing the losses for several months, however, this is not a sustainable business strategy; we find ourselves with no alternative but to revise our price rates upwards," said Charles Hamya.

In Kenya news of yet another price hike since the one that happened on 1 April, swiftly led to uproar under DStv subscribers, where the depreciation of the Kenyan shilling against the American dollar is also blamed for the new increase of around 15% from October.

Subscribers across Africa are also fuming after MultiChoice moved the English Premier League (EPL) from a lower SuperSport channel two months ago to a more expensive DStv package.

MultiChoice in Kenya told DStv subscribers that "for months MultiChoice has held off passing through this price increase to DStv subscribers and has absorbed the foreign exchange losses."

"However, it is no longer possible to avoid a price adjustment on DStv subscriptions. The increase is necessitated by foreign exchange rate changes  - similar to other imported services where costs are originated in US dollars."

The increase in Uganda and Kenya - and the reason - is a big warning sign for South Africa.

In response to a media enquiry and asking if DStv subscriptions will increase again in 2015 or whether MultiChoice can rule out more than one price hike per year, MultiChoice in South Africa tells TV with Thinus that it can't rule out a second price increase this year and is hoping that the environment regarding the rand's depreciation against the dollar "will stabilise".

At the end of August the South African rand hit an all-time low against the dollar - mostly over growing concern of the world's number two economy: China.

"We review our prices based on a variety of factors including currency movements and constantly monitor the situation," says MultiChoice. "We hope the environment will stabilise and there will be no need to review the subscription prices".