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Naspers tech fund is dead, what should replace it?

SUPPORTING START-UPS

More than 100 years ago a group of Afrikaner men met in Stellenbosch to form a publishing entity that would support their cause.

After many years of operating as a publishing company it made the transition to the technology sector.

As a publishing company it committed many sins for which it later apologised.

As part of an apology process the company committed to do good and correct some of the wrongs of the past.

When Phuti Mahanyele, the CEO of the company, announced the launch of a technology

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