IHS Holding Limited announced the appointment of Sandile Msimango as Vice President and CEO, IHS South Africa. Based in Johannesburg, Sandile will be leading IHS' South African operations reporting directly to Executive Vice President, Group Chief Operating Officer, William Saad. His appointment follows the announcement on November 17, 2021, of IHS' signed agreements to acquire 5,709 telecommunication towers in South Africa from Mobile Telephone Networks Proprietary Limited (“MTN”), one of the leading mobile telecommunications operators in South Africa.

Sandile has over twenty years' experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investing, corporate strategy implementation and execution. He is a former MTN Group M&A executive where he specifically served as Head of Infrastructure Investments and was instrumental in their towers' monetization strategy. He began his investment banking career with Deutsche Securities and later Goldman Sachs International.

Most recently, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of a strategic financial advisory consultancy and investment vehicle, Coombe Advisory, with offices in London and Dubai.