It’s the biggest liability on the South African tech balance sheet – and it keeps compounding.
Author: Jannie van Zyl
Jannie van Zyl
Jannie van Zyl is an electronics engineer with more than 30 years of experience in ICT and a long record of reading the industry’s shifts early. At Vodacom he was instrumental in the launch of 3G, 4G and 5G in South Africa, and, in the last three years, has worked to bring low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity to the country.
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