Cancer claims DiData director

Dimension Data SA director Coert Vorster died at the weekend after a three-month struggle with brain cancer.

Vorster, executive director of application services, joined Dimension Data in 2002.

Prior to this, he was MD of T-Systems, formerly debis, where he managed the merger of Denel Informatics, Cenit and debis into one outsourcing company.

He has also been head of IBM Global Services SA, MD of Spicer Professional Services and has held directorships at Infomet SA and Rubico.

Outside of work, Vorster was known as a sports lover and a keen cyclist.

He is survived by his wife and three children.