Convergence Partners Group supports South Africa’s Square Kilome

Convergence Partners Group supports South Africa’s Square Kilome

Convergence Partners’ investee companies FibreCo and Seacom have provided support to the South African SKA Team (working under the guidance of the National Research Foundation and the Department of Science & Technology) in its bid for South African to host the SKA. The SKA team prepared and submitted their final bid on 15 September 2011. Convergence Partners extends its congratulations to these parties on achieving this milestone and hopes for a successful outcome to this project of significant national importance for South Africa and indeed the whole Southern African region. A bid decision is expected to be taken at the end of the first quarter of 2012.

The full text of the press release is in the attached

http://africa.tmcnet.com/news/2011/09/16/5783233.htm