Gathering up Wisps to build a Hero

Alan Knott-Craig jnr is nothing if not ambitious. The man behind the Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi scheme in Pretoria and the former boss of Mxit and iBurst wants to build "the Capitec of telecoms" as he seeks to consolidate South Africa's hundreds of small wireless internet service providers (Wisps). With the backing of heavy hitters such as former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and Rand Merchant Bank CEO Mike Pfaff, Knott-Craig has raised funding to help HeroTel, his new company, establis...