Mohamed Shameel Joosub
CEO & Executive Director

Welcome to our annual results highlights for the financial year ending 31st of March 2026. Vodacom is a purpose-led company, and we are committed to connecting everyone for a better future. Our initiative seeks to empower people, protect the planet and maintain trust. We believe that inclusion starts with opportunity. Through our Code Like a Girl program, we have trained over 34,000 girls.

Our latest skills based initiative is called TechStart. It's a very ambitious program where we aim to upscale 1 million young people by 2027. To date, over 400,000 students have registered and engaged in the program. We've already certified 103,000 participants who have completed the program. We continue to actively pursue connectivity to bridge the digital divide.

To this end, we have added 3,000 4G sites and 6,200 5G sites in the year, including Safaricom. The consolidated group spend of CapEx is more than ZAR 23 billion this year, while the Safaricom spent ZAR 7.5 billion in Kenya and Ethiopia. We want to see people thrive, particularly the most vulnerable in society.

Our m-mama emergency health care program has already saved over 9,000 lives. In the DRC, we've trained women with disabilities as M-Pesa agents. To date, we have trained close to 1,600 women on this program, known as Je Suis Cap.

In Egypt, we progressed the Maaki program, which will empower 1 million rural women over the next 3 years. It is designed to foster digital and financial inclusion by equipping rural woman with skills and tools to utilize Vodafone cash services and engage in digital education.