Huawei Developer Competition is coming to South Africa. As Huawei’s flagship event for global developers across fields, since its launch in 2017, the event has attracted 800,000 developers in more than 50 countries.
Huawei South Africa has launched the Huawei Developer Competition 2025 Code4Mzansi. The competition, which is part of a larger international challenge is inviting South African developers, startups and student teams to build cloud-powered solutions that tackle real-world challenges.
Designed as springboard for local talent, Code4Mzansi will give access to Huawei Cloud’s powerful tools, APIs, and platforms, to turn strong ideas into deployable prototypes, with winning innovations walking away with R800 000.00
The competition is open to all South Africans enthusiastic about digital transformation including developers, software engineers, AI and data scientists, tech startups, SMEs, and university and college students. Participants can compete solo, form a team, or join an existing team of up to five members.
Contestants will have access to Huawei Cloud architecture, AI and data services; technical mentorship, exposure to international peers, networking opportunities, and the chance to prototype, pilot and scale solutions with cloud backing.
register on the official Huawei Cloud * https://competition.intl.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/information/1201724801/introduction

Challenge Description
Business Track
Theme 1
Community-Based Service & Delivery Platform for Local Spaza Shops
Theme 2
Youth & Women Enterprise Empowerment Digital Platform
Innovation Track
Theme 1
AI-Powered Innovations
Theme 2
Digital Transformation Solutions
Match Time
Rigister: 1 Nov 2025-20th Jan 2026
Pre-Competition Orientation: 20th -27th Jan 2026
Solution Development: Jan 2026-16th of March 2026
Submission & Initial Screening of Works: 16th of Mar-End of Mar 2026
Online Semi-Finals: Apr 2026
Onsite Finals: May 2026
WIN a share of R800k Prize Pool!



