39 years in tech, one hard lesson: Lungi Sangqu on why buying software won’t fix broken processes

Thirty-nine years ago, Lungi Sangqu wrote her first lines of code. Nearly four decades later—after shaping digital systems across 49 African countries in banking, rail, logistics, and higher education—her most profound lesson has nothing to do with software. For this week’s Coffee With… , PHATHISANI MOYO sits down with the founder and CEO of Africa Digital Success to discuss why millions in enterprise tech spending go to waste, why C-suites must stop delegating strategy solely to IT departments, and what these years in computing teach us about AI and the human element of work.
In 1987, Lungi Sangqu discovered computer science and became captivated by its capacity to solve complex pro...