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Over the next five years, Teraco will partner with SABEN to support the national drive to end bandwidth poverty among South Africa’s schools and public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. Jan Hnizdo, CEO at Teraco, says the grant will help facilitate the changing landscape of education in South Africa. Digital infrastructure initiatives, including remote learning and educational streaming, will become more efficient and easier to implement. “The Teraco Connect Foundation sees the grant as an investment in the future of this country at a time when all sectors are facing significant challenges. As a leading data centre infrastructure provider, we are proud to invest in education, one of the most important cornerstones to secure the future growth and development of South Africa,” he says. SABEN is a non-profit company serving school networks and the TVET sectors in South Africa. It is purpose-built to solve the digital requirements of these sectors. Hnizdo says the Teraco Connect Foundation grant will enable these educational institutions to access content directly and also assist in laying essential foundations for future digital strategies. “To enable digital transformation, SABEN’s need for direct access to a rich ecosystem of content and cloud providers can be realised, enabling efficient connections to education cloud services, streaming, and remote learning possibilities.” #### Teraco Connect Foundation grant Helga van Wyk, Project Lead at SABEN, says the Teraco Connect Foundation grant enables SABEN to solve its digital requirements. “We are now better equipped to improve the transformative potential of each institution in this rapidly evolving digital age with Teraco’s generous support. The preparedness of all colleges is a top priority and SABEN, in its capacity, needs to be able to support this digital transformation adequately.” Technically, the grant provides SABEN with a physical presence in Teraco data centres in Durban, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, and gives the schools and colleges direct network access to Platform Teraco, where the institutions will benefit from highly secure and direct interconnection to Africa’s largest digital ecosystem. Platform Teraco allows for the configuration of scalable interconnections to all the major cloud onramps, 250 network providers (including carriers, terrestrial fibre, satellite connectivity and submarine cables), 50 global content providers, 130 IT service providers, 130 enterprises and financial services providers and access to several Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) at NAPAfrica and INX. Garth Scholtz, SABEN general manager, says there has been a renewed focus on post-school education, in particular the TVETs which, over the past three years, has also become an increasing priority for government. “It is thus vital for SABEN to do all we can to support all endeavours, and to put systems and structures in place to level the playing field for all South Africans. Collaboration with industry is key, and the grant from Teraco will greatly assist us in meeting the evolving digital requirements of all the institutions.” He says South Africa’s skills shortage cannot be addressed unless our education system produces a labour force with the right skills to meet the industry’s demand. Additionally, Scholtz believes that poverty and inequality can never be genuinely eliminated unless the next generation of previously disadvantaged citizens are economically empowered. “It is here that the role of all of these educational institutions will play a significant role and, as SABEN, we need to ensure that this journey is not only supported but enabled.” ### Related Reading ### Recent - [NAPAfrica and ZANOG enhance community-driven interconnection in Cape Town’s growing digital ecosystem](https://www.teraco.co.za/news/napafrica-and-zanog-enhance-community-driven-interconnection-in-cape-town-growing-digital-ecosystem/) - [Teraco expands executive management team](https://www.teraco.co.za/news/teraco-expands-executive-management-team/) - [Teraco announces CT1 data centre expansion in Rondebosch, Cape Town](https://www.teraco.co.za/news/teraco-announces-ct1-data-centre-expansion-in-rondebosch-cape-town/) - [NAPAfrica and Teraco ACX growing Africa’s digital community as NAPAfrica hits 6Tbps](https://www.teraco.co.za/news/napafrica-and-teraco-acx-growing-africas-digital-community-as-napafrica-hits-6tbps/) - [Teraco completes CT2 data centre expansion, increasing Cape Town’s hyperscale capacity to 50MW](https://www.teraco.co.za/news/teraco-completes-ct2-data-centre-expansion/) ### Subscribe to our Newsletter Sign up for our newsletter and get the latest news and updates from Teraco. 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