Masiyiwa personally pitched the sale to investors, according to reports

The company made the two big announcements last week

The company says the new buy is a hidden gem

And plans to expand the site further

It's not the first time the data center has been attacked

The cloud giant has opened its first African data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg to make Azure Cloud locally available.

Will start construction of a facility in Johannesburg next month

Services will be available by the end of this year

Senior IT experts will discuss the cloud and data center landscape in Africa, on 24 July at DCD>Africa in the Hilton Sandton in Johannesburg, 

Pan-African data center operators and technology innovators reveal how to operate data centers in extreme conditions, in Johannesburg on 24 July 2018 

Doubling the technical space in Johannesburg, Cape Town facilities 

The Johannesburg facility will become the first Nexcenter location in Africa

No word on whether they were opportunists or saboteurs 

Reward offered for information on what could have been an inside job or intentional sabotage

Giving the company half of the continent’s power supply capacity 

Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 will be delivered from data centers in South Africa

More colocation space for a rapidly growing market

Move supports IPv6, IPv4 network growth in southern Africa

Infrastructure in Johannesburg could increase cloud uptake across the continent