Billionaire Strive Masiyiwa joined South Africa's president at Google's first Africa cloud summit as the continent races to catch the AI wave

Billionaires Africa | 02.07.2026 18:17
Strive Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean billionaire founder of Econet Group, joined South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Google Senior Vice President James Manyika at the inaugural Google Cloud Summit in Africa, held at the Sandton Convention Centre on July 1, 2026, as one of the continent's most high-profile gatherings of technology leaders, policymakers and business executives around the theme of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.