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BCX founder Isaac Mophatlane’s is a story of building up success from scratch
Whatever the reasons for his departure, it is sad to see BCX founder Isaac Mophatlane leave the corporate scene, especially following the well-documented acquisition of the company by Telkom. In my conversation with him on Power Perspective last week, I got a sense of someone who is passionate about what they do. Mophatlane’s love of computers led to him founding a business at age 12. He then steered it to become a giant in the information technology industry, turning over billions, spreading its wings across the continent and employing more than 9,000 people. It is a story of a business that started from nothing, with nothing — except the hard work of its passionate founders. It is a story that should inspire and indeed help propel the reindustrialisation of SA into the giant it should be in Africa. This is how SA could take the country’s economic trajectory out of its slumber and attend to the low levels of entrepreneurship bedevilling our economic landscape. What stands out about...
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