TechCentral is excited We bring you an interview with Mike Rowley, a pioneer at Rhodes University who helped bring interuniversity email and later the internet to South Africa.
In this episode of TCS Legends, a podcast series featuring interviews with (and about) the key figures who have helped make South Africa's technology sector what it is today. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke with Lawrie about the field. Disruptive research at Rhodes University in the early days of the Internet.
In this episode, Rowley shares some great anecdotes from those days in Rhodes, and why the University of the Eastern Cape was able to achieve what its larger urban rivals couldn't, or wouldn't, at the height of apartheid. I'll tell you what.
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Rowley remembers many of his colleagues at Rhodes University at the time and the role they played in connecting South African universities to email and later the Internet.
Episodes 1 and 2 of TCS Legends featured renowned investor and businessman Duarte da Silva, who reminisced about some of the business leaders who helped build South Africa's technology industry. Episode 3 featured Hein Engelbrecht and Carlos Vizcarra and focused on the late Mustek founder David His Can. See them all here.
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