Is 23 year Riaz Moola South Africa's Steve Jobs?

13 March 2016 - 02:00
By BONGANI MTHETHWA

As a teenager he helped his high school IT teachers learn the sophisticated programming language behind file-sharing service Dropbox. Such was his level of skill, that some called him South Africa's very own Steve Jobs.Now his tech start-up, Hyperion Development, has become the largest trainer of that language, called Python, in South Africa - and he also helps the Python Software Foundation in the US and UK to manage its African community of coders.

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