She says that her community members sometimes call her Miss Vodacom, because she represents the brand.
And Britain's Vodafone has recently made a substantial investment in Vodacom, a South African mobile operator.
But everyone was staying tight-lipped ahead of Vodacom's annual results, due on June 6th.
ECONOMIST: A surprise exit from Africa's most promising market
Vodacom stuck to south and central Africa, notably targeting literate but poor Tanzanians fond of text-messages and expanding in Mozambique.
The tourists' opening opponents are largely drawn from the Griquas, the winners of South Africa's second-tier domestic tournament the Vodacom Cup.
United have had two tough, physical games in the last week against Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in the Vodacom Challenge.
But this week Vodacom beat a hasty and not very dignified retreat.
ECONOMIST: A surprise exit from Africa's most promising market
Though the allegations may be impossible to prove, Vodacom fears any taint.
ECONOMIST: A surprise exit from Africa's most promising market
He did manage to record the first of his eight professional wins on home soil at the 2004 Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour.
Nontando Vena is a Vodacom promoter who spends a lot of time at a taxi rank in a township called Soshanguve, north of Johannesburg.
Deutsche Bank reckons that the firm is worth a whopping 96 billion rand, including its 50% stake in Vodacom, South Africa's biggest mobile-telephone company.
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The work is there thanks to VodaCom, a large wireless provider.
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On April 1st Vodacom, a large South African telecoms firm, proudly announced a five-year deal to manage Econet Wireless Nigeria, the west African country's second-largest mobile-network operator.
ECONOMIST: A surprise exit from Africa's most promising market
Both still earn most of their profits from South African sales: Vodacom boasts of continuing to sign up 400, 000 new home customers in a good month, though other customers are lost.
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M-PESA, technically a business unit of Vodafone, which holds the patent for the idea, is now being implemented in South Africa by Vodacom, where Lonie acts as executive head of its mobile payments business.
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