Andile Ngcaba

Who is Andile Ngcaba?

Andile Abner Ngcaba is a South African businessman who has devoted most of his life and career to the field of technology, in particular communications.

Born on 12 June 1956, in Duncan Village, East London, Andile currently lives in Johannesburg.

He is chairman, founder and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners and is also the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, a subsidiary of the Dimension Data plc Group, which was recently acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)1. Through Convergence Partners, Andile is also involved in significant new communications infrastructure projects across Africa including Seacom which was ready for service on 23 July 2009, the first private sector satellite in Africa which was launched on 22 April 2011 and a recently announced new joint venture to bring high capacity, long-haul terrestrial fibre to South Africa.

Andile was previously an ANC activist in the fight against Apartheid, and thereafter the Director General of Communications in the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994. He left Government in 2003 to pursue a career in the private sector.