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Rael Lissoos sits in his office in Yeoville, downtown Johannesburg, and dreams. He dreams of emerging technologies, business opportunities and South Africa’s changing social landscape. But mostly, he dreams of township communities.

It was in the sprawling urban settlement of Orange Farm, a few kilometres south of Johannesburg, that Lissoos shot to prominence four years ago. At the vanguard of a campaign to deliver low-cost telecommunications services to South Africa’s