Background Information

I was born in Venda which is located in Limpompo Province. I started school at Maungani Primary School. In 1998 we moved to Johannesburg, where I attended Discovery primary School. My junior Schooling career has been a successful one and a turning point in my life. I proceeded to Florida Park High School situated in Roodepoort. This is where my interest in computer started as I enjoyed programming and fiddling with computers.

After high School I started by doing MCAD(Microsoft certified application developer) at ITintellect in Bryanston. In 2007 I started my Degree at Rhodes University (Bachelor of Business Science). In 2009 I completed a triple major(Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematical Statistics). I am currently doing computer Science honours as part of my 4th year.

Computer Science Honours Modules

• Security
• Enterprise Java
• Artificial Intelligence
• Human Computer Interaction
• Distributed & Parallel processing
• Real Time multimedia

Acknowledgements

Firstly I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Alfredo Terzoli and Mr Mosiuoa Tsietsi. Thanking Professor Alfredo for all the structural and high-level support to my research.I would also like to thank Mosiuoa for all the assistance he gave me throughout the year. I cannot recall how many times I went to his office saying, “but this thing just does not work”.

I acknowledge the support of the convergence group. Thanking Mathe Maema for her outstanding support to my work. Shange, Zelalem, Walter, Erasmus, Grace, and Gerhold have been fantastic research group members for brainstorming ideas

Acknowledgements This research would have not been possible without the financial support. The financial assistance from the Allan Gray Rhodes Prestigious Scholarship towards this research is hereby acknowledged.