Private company

Vodacom

South African telecommunications company

Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 130 million customers across Africa. From its roots in South Africa, Vodacom has grown its operations to include networks in Egypt, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, and Lesotho, and provides business services to customers in over 32 African countries, including Nigeria, Zambia, Angola, Kenya, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Cameroon.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 16, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded1
  • Tickeron Johannesburg Stock Exchange1
  • Industrytelecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersMidrand1
  • Founded inJohannesburg1
  • Websitewww.vodacom.com
  • Legal formpublic company1
  • Listed onJohannesburg Stock Exchange (VOD)1

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Vodacom house, Ibadan
Photo: Eukoha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Vodacom Group Limited is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 130 million customers across Africa.2

The story

Founded by Alan Knott-Craig and Telkom in 1994, in Johannesburg.1

Leadership

Who has led Vodacom, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • landline telephone
  • mobile telephony

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

  • Vodacom Congo
  • Vodacom Lesotho
  • Vodacom Moçambique
  • Vodacom Tanzania
  • Vodafone Egypt

Also owns

  • Safaricom 35%
  • Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia 6.2%

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

Vodacom employees by year17.7K in 2019+48% since 2015
02.0K4.0K6.0K8.0K2015: 5.2K5.2K20152016: 5.0K5.0K2016−4%2018: 7.6K7.6K2018+51%2019: 7.7K7.7K2019+3%
  • 20197,7461
  • 20187,5541
  • 20165,0091
  • 20155,2281

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 201990.1B ZAR1

Timeline

  1. 1994Founded Founded in Johannesburg1

Sources

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