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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87030, member: 27"]
Nearly a million rand is on the table as South Africa’s new coding showdown pushes young builders to turn cloud ideas into real products.

Code4Mzansi competition launch
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[*]The South African Department of Small Business Development teamed up with Huawei.
[*]The Code4Mzansi Developer Competition was announced on February 19, 2026.
[*]Initiative targets innovators, startups, and students tackling real problems.
[*]The University of Cape Town and other major campuses are backing it.
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Participation and contest structure
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[*]A total of 353 teams with 1,041 participants signed up.
[*]After online training, teams get three months to build projects.
[*]Judges will narrow entries to 20 before the online semi-finals.
[*]Final 10 squads pitch at a National Grand Finale.
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Prizes and leadership backing
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[*]Prize pool sits just under one million rand.
[*]Rex Lei said Huawei Cloud tools and APIs are fully accessible.
[*]Stella Tembisa Ndabeni stressed that youth and MSMEs must join the digital shift.
[*]Ndabeni pointed to Africa’s young population as economic fuel.
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Academic and innovation focus
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[*]Professor Benjamin Rosman from Wits University will help judge.
[*]Rosman wants South Africa to create tech, not just consume it.
[*]Organizers are pushing ethical and socially grounded solutions.
[*]The program aims to solve local problems with a global upside.
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