Coding In Africa: An essential skill of the future

Coding promotes innovation for the future.

Coding is essential in South Africa as it helps with the innovation of new ideas. This is according to Lebo Miya, MD of Ekasi Code Club, a company that focuses on taking unemployed youth and turning them into employed junior developers.

"Coding is important for South Africa because it provides people with an opportunity to innovate and create new things which are unique to the South African context.

"From new tech businesses to social entrepreneurship solutions, coding really allows people to become masters of content, creating as well as consuming." Miya said.

"Access to opportunity is currently the biggest problem faced by local coders. Many people are hindered in their endeavours by either not having a reliable/up to specs devices to work on, or Internet capabilities being lacklustre. We also don't really provide enough educational material around code and the doors it can open."