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Thabo Ntai

Born in 1987 in Lesotho, Thabo now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He got involved in the web industry two months after matriculating in 2004. He started off working for a local Internet Service Provider called Datacom in a two-man web division. He started off creating massive custom social sites in niche categories, but has since moved to more basic Wordpress and Joomla-orientated work.Two years later he joined Intelserv which is a multimedia and premium news website, and a year later he moved to Public Eye newspaper as a Web Developer.Thabo currently works for The New Age online as a Senior Web Developer and one of his career highlights was when he got an SA Web Award for www.publiceyenews.com.

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