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Young workers drive South Africa's video games industry


South Africa has a small but thriving video games industry, helped by plenty of young workers.

A study by Tshimologong, a technology development hub linked to the University of the Witwatersrand, identified closer to 60 active studios, but most of of these were very small and only made up of one or two people. “Though on the surface things may seem to be moving slowly right now, when a lot of these new projects, teams, and companies reveal themselves, there is going to be a massive wave of South African content in the industry.” “These days we’ve got a truly diverse cross section of South Africa coming to the event, all ages, races, and genders,” says rAge project director, Michael James.

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