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An unsung hero and eternal entrepreneur

His name is probably not familiar to readers who began their careers after 1987, but Werner Sievers is a pioneer of the South African ICT industry.

01 March 2011

Ask any employee of Dimension Data today who founded the company and you’ll probably get the company party line taken from the website: “Three young, ambitious South African men left the comfort of salaried jobs to start their own business.” That answer would be wrong, but the man whose brainchild the company was appears to bear no grudge against those who erased his name from the record books.

The truth is that Werner Sievers founded Dimension Data in 1982 – not 1983 as stated on the company’s website – and moved on in 1987, which is the year the firm was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. But this is not the story of Dimension Data. It’s the story of the man whose vision began it all.

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