By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 02 Oct 2007
The "Father of African telecoms" is to be laid to rest on Thursday. Miko Alexsis Rwayitare, 65, died last week in Belgium from complications after "routine surgery" in a Brussels hospital.
He was the founder of Telecel International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from where he made the first mobile phone call from the continent.
Rwayitare will be remembered at a memorial service at his house, in Sandhurst, on Wednesday, where various tributes to him are to be performed.
He will be buried on Thursday in Fourways.
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