by Thinus Ferreira

Another MultiChoice senior communications manager has jumped ship to rival Netflix, with Sbu Mpungose who quietly exited the Randburg-based pay-TV operator for a communications manager job at the Netflix video streaming service, based in Amsterdam.

Sbu Mpungose – a former South African magazine editor of Move!, BONA, True Love, and Cosmopolitan who morphed into a PR agency publicist – was at MultiChoice for just over a year since October 2020 as a senior manager for public relations where she oversaw PR, brand engagement and sponsorship before exiting in 2022.

Sbu Mpungose follows former MultiChoice communications manager for MultiChoice Africa, Mokgadi Seabi who also left MultiChoice to join Netflix as communications manager in Amsterdam for the sub-Saharan Africa region in January 2020.

Sbu Mpungose has now joined Netflix as a PR manager based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands from where she works with Marang Setshawelo – also from South Africa – as Netflix publicity director for Netflix originals for sub-Saharan Africa. 

Netflix in Amsterdam uses the Sandton-based Eclipse Communications PR agency repping Netflix for South Africa.

MultiChoice hasn’t notified the media that Sbu Mpungose is gone and is no longer a contact point for press.