Microsoft’s seven-year roll-out of R472M to assist black-owned software companies to become globally competitive will be a great boost for the chosen few. Whether it will greatly benefit the teeming masses out in the townships is debatable. As the majority of the black owners and employees of these high-tech companies are very likely to have come through the traditional white schooling system, their pale ex-schoolmates may well be left wondering where their venture capital “angels” are flying.