The TENET Board has appointed Dr Peter Clayton as Chairperson of the Board for a five year term.

Dr Clayton holds a BSc and BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and Physics, and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science.  He worked in the software industry for a number of years before taking up an academic career at Rhodes University. 

He rose through the academic ranks to become Professor and Head of Computer Science, and head of the Telkom Centre of Excellence in Distributed Multimedia.  In 2008, he was appointed as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research & Innovation at Rhodes University.  He formally retired from that role in 2023, and is now an Emeritus Professor of the institution.  He has a distinguished record of service to the higher education and research sectors in South Africa, including service in a leadership role in a major university and on a number of national policy and advisory forums for Higher Education, Science and Technology, as well as the South African Qualifications Authority and the Board of the National Research Foundation.

Dr Clayton received a South African National Science and Technology Forum Award for Outstanding Contributions to Science, Engineering and Technology in 2002. He is also the holder of the Rhodes Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Research and Teaching Awards.  He serves on the boards of many entities in both the private and the nonprofit sectors and has previously served two terms as an elected director of the board of TENET, including a period as Deputy Chair of the board.

The Board records its deepest appreciation to the outgoing Chairperson, Dr Molapo Qhobela, whose distinguished leadership of the Board from 2017 to the present, rendered with wisdom and commitment, has been of the foremost importance in guiding the company through complex times and in advancing the purposes for which it was created.