【非洲科技·南非】Why South Africa’s tech employers want skills beyond degrees

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 In South Africa’s tech ecosystem, a university degree might get your CV read, but a working app gets you hired. With graduate unemployment at 12.4% and critical developer shortages, tech employers are making a firm pivot: Don’t tell me what you studied, show me what you built. In this feature, PHATHISANI MOYO explores how students, private colleges, and tech giants are rewriting the rules of job readiness. From building full-stack platforms on campus to landing roles at AWS before graduation, d

Before Amogelang Chaane landed his first job at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the global digital infrastructure giant, he was already doing the work.

He was coding, shipping projects, and building software wherever he could. At Richfield, a higher-education institution, he developed a full-stack application. He joined a technology startup as an unpaid intern,  entered hackathons, worked on personal projects, and taught himself skills outside the lecture hall.

The degree was on its way, but Chaane was not waiting for graduation day. “I realised early on that having the qualification wasn’t enough. I had to build things and put myself in situations where I could prove what I was capable of,” he told TechCabal in an interview on Tuesday. 

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来源：TechCabal Africa (https://techcabal.com/)
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