Ghost Gatsby Starter - A South African Geek Culture

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Moses Mhlwana

Born on the 1st of January 1999 and raised by his grandmother till the age of 6, Moses moved to Gauteng to live with his uncle in 2006, that's the year he was introduced to a PC. He then gained love and found the art and beauty of a it. Did his high school grades at Bokgoni technical secondary school, located in the city of Tshwane. Motivated by the movie 'the social network' to gain interest in the world of ICT. Then a company by the name of introduced me to the world of artificial intelligenc

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Mukondli Dumela

Mukondli Dumela is also known as Sneidon. The Software Development and Multimedia graduate from the University of Pretoria student came up with the idea of creating the dictionary after he found it difficult to get Xitsonga words on Google and other search engines while doing a research project. > For Xitsonga speakers & others who want to learn: There are only 3 Mobile apps for learning the Xitsonga language, culture, and history (AFAWK). Download here -> - Xitsonga Dictionary; Xitsonga For

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Pertunia Tladi

Pertunia grew up in Polokwane, Limpopo and graduated with a Bcom(IT) degree from the University of the Free State in Bloemdivein.Currently a Technical Engineer at SQS Group. > IT brains get together for hackathon to build skills: https://t.co/mhGZtX9xqV pic.twitter.com/D1w73Lr0ER [https://t.co/D1w73Lr0ER] — Sowetan LIVE (@SowetanLIVE) May 23, 2018 [https://twitter.com/SowetanLIVE/status/999285574442856448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] During her 3 years in the software development space her primary fo

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Tyler Maclachlan

Tyler is one of the winners of the AB InBev Hack the World Johannesburg competition. He is hard working and has the ability to think on his feet and turn anything he touches into something innovative. In short he, is Lunar Web Development (Pty) Ltd's programming God! > Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success * Swami Sivananda Dear South African Geeks: Work hard and never stop learning. Your greatest obstacle will always be your own self-dou

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Sandiso Ncube

An Entrepreneur & Business Analyst with experience across Business Analysis, Technology Solution Consulting, Project Management, Small Business Advisory, Training & Development and Commercial Property Maintenance. He is passionate about people, technology, finance & entrepreneurship. > No problem can withstand the consistent power of thought. * Voltaire Dear South African Geeks: We are the generation that is going to build Africa's hightech Unicorns. Get up, get going, the world awaits. Co

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Gift Nxumalo

Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in May 2017, Gift worked as a SAPS junior commissioner for two years where he specialized in crime prevention and investigation. Gift did actuarial research for ASABA where he derived donor equity fund models for financial inclusion in southern Africa. He helped to promote awareness and involvement in initiatives for financial inclusion that are relevant to the actuarial profession such as data analytics for SAMF and IMO mentoring. Gift lectured Advanced M

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Kim Mukenge

Arnaud Mukenge Kim Chulu Amina is an entrepreneur in technology & a lecturer in User Experience & Graphic Design. Founder of Kimard Studio, in 2014, which focuses on consulting in Gamification, User Experience design and build internal game products for education as well as entertainment. Arnaud was born in the DRC, completed his Cum Laude degree in South Africa in Multimedia, specializing in Gamification for educational content. He has won a few competitions including the Nasa Space Apps Chall

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Gary Odendaal

Thinker of Deep Thoughts at Lunar Web Development (Pty) Ltd - Coffee addict, beer and wine connoisseur, gamer and lover of all things Tech. Gary grew up in East London and started his career out as a Data Capturer. He quickly worked his way in to a position as a Data Analyst and relocated to Johannesburg in 2012. He then continued to work with SQL as an integrity analyst and report writer until 2015. In 2016, he took a break and went to work in Dubai but my passion for I.T brought him back. In

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Josiah Thobejane

Josiah Thobejane is a 19-year old young man whose main interest is technology. As of 2018 he is a second year Software Development student at Rosebank College. > Front Seat Gang!! 😁😁 The Taxi Math app is now available on Google Play!!, check it out here: https://t.co/aX6hJI0T3Q Save yourself that 15 minutes stress, confusion and all the "I should have waited for another taxi" 😭😭🤒#TaxiMathapp [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TaxiMathapp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #SAFTUstrike [https://tw

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Hlulani Baloyi

Hlulani Baloyi is a Digital analyst(Full stack developer),working for a consulting firm. She graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2014 with a Diploma in Information and Communication Technology (majoring on Technical applications). Joined Geekulcha and soon realized that there is a gap between males and females in the ICT sector. She started doing research and came across Girl Rising. She is now the ambassador for this global initiative and helps teach women how to code and h

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Mabu Manaileng

Mabu Manaileng was born and raised at a village called Ga-Masemola in the Sekhukhune district of Limpopo. He obtained his M.Sc. in computer science focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) from University of Limpopo — Turfloop Campus. Mabu is a full time geek who is either coding, reading books or watching MOOCs. He enjoys reading non-fiction, biographies and history - citing Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari as one of his favourite reads. > DataWizards wow at ITWeb Security Summit hackathon #SS18H

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Geekulcha On Open Data

They say "Data is the new oil" in this smart growing world. Data is truly an important aspect of life helping us to plan, decide, inform and unlock new opportunities. The possibilities are endless as far data data is concerned and the most important thing is to have the know-how. Since 2015, Geekulcha had joined efforts with various organizations such as OpenUp (previously Code4SA), The Innovation Hub, Northern Cape Dept. of Economic Development and others. Events and challenges like the Respon