South Africa: Tech Solutions Come to the Rescue After Cape Town University Fire

Using social media, Google forms and maps, hundreds of pledges of support from businesses were pulled together after fire

JOHANNESBURG - When South African tech entrepreneur Lisa Adams passed hundreds of students stranded on the roadside with suitcases after fire tore through their campus in Cape Town this week, she raced home to her laptop to help.

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