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ITWeb TV: SA suffers ‘complex dynamic’ of IT skills dearth, demand
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The software developer shortage, outdated policies and youth unemployment impede SA’s IT sector, says Cinga Nyangintsimbi, IT Personality 2024.

In this episode of ITWeb TV, we chat to Cinga Nyangintsimbi , MD and founder of Batsamayi Software Development , who was named the 2024 winner of the ICT sector’s coveted IT Personality of the Year Award in November. Nyangintsimbi discusses the growing IT skills gap, the lack of understanding of the technology landscape by policy makers, and youth unemployment as key challenges impeding South Africa’s ICT sector.

Nyangintsimbi established Port Elizabeth-based Batsamayi as a third-year project group during his time as a student at Nelson Mandela University in 2013, where he later became a student assistant and consequently started lecturing final year IT students. “The shortage of competent software engineers in South Africa has been a significant concern, with only an estimated 121 000 software engineers residing in the country, out of 26.8 million globally.

Batsamayi has experienced this challenge from a slightly different perspective, in that experienced engineers tend to prefer more established businesses and well-known brands, he added. “Having a majority of young people within the business and investing in tech skills has been a strategy that we’ve intentionally taken, based on survival and building the business. Part of building the skill is building the knowledge.

“There's also a large gap within policy-making – my experience has been that government policies more often than not fall behind the fast-paced release of technology and innovation, and we see that being prevalent a lot more within the ICT sector in particular.”

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