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Andile Abner Ngcaba is a South African businessman who has devoted most of his life and career to the field of technology, in particular communications. Born on 12 June 1956, in Duncan Village, East London (Eastern Cape Province), Ngcaba currently lives in Johannesburg. He is chairman, founder and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners and is also the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data〔http://www.dimensiondata.com/ Dimension Data〕 Middle East and Africa, a subsidiary of the Dimension Data plc Group, which was recently acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)1.〔("Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation." ), ''Nippon'', Japan, 24 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-24.〕 Through Convergence Partners, Ngcaba is also involved in significant new communications infrastructure projects across Africa including Seacom (the first undersea fibre optic cable system serving Africa's East Coast) which was ready for service on 23 July 2009, the first private sector satellite in Africa (Intelsat New Dawn) which was launched on 22 April 2011 and a recently announced new joint venture to bring high capacity, long-haul terrestrial fibre to South Africa (FibreCo). Ngcaba was previously an activist aligned with the African National Congress during the struggle against Apartheid, and thereafter the Director General of Communications in the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994. He left Government in 2003 to pursue a career in the private sector. ==Early life and education== Ngcaba's interest in technology dates back to his childhood, when he would accompany his father to work. His father spent 38 years working for the Post Office, 20 years of which he was a Postmaster. There Ngcaba met technicians and engineers and was exposed to what at the time was advanced communications technology at the Post Office, which at the time also ran South Africa's telecom networks (prior to being spun off into Telkom in the early 1990s). When he completed high school, Ngcaba enrolled at a technical college in Umtata before being hired as a bench technician by Philips in Johannesburg. There he worked with medical and telecom equipment and other scientific instrumentation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andile Ngcaba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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