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Dr Happy Sithole is the Centre Manager for the South African cyberinfrastructure (CI) system, NICIS since 2019. This involves the three main entities of the CI, CHPC, SANReN and DIRISA.

Sithole spent 12 years as the Director of CHPC. He completed his PhD in materials science. He has applied high-performance computing to solve problems in mining industries and nuclear power plant designs, such as at his time at the PBMR.  Sithole also sits on the steering committees of HPC meetings in Germany, Russia, Singapore and Poland. He was the Chairperson of the ICT Committee of the National Library Board and is currently a board member at the Centre for Nuclear Safety (CNSS) at the National Nuclear Regulator. Dr. Sithole also chairs NITheCS.