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Interview: Carlos Rey-Moreno on connecting SA's rural poor
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to Carlos Rey-Moreno of the Association for Progressive Communications about the work he and his team have done to help deliver cheap telecommunications services to the rural people of Mankosi and surrounding areas in the Eastern…
Interview: Pinnacle CEO Tim Humphreys-Davies
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, TechCentral’s 100th, Duncan McLeod speaks to Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Aviva Holdings subsidiary Pinnacle, about the state of IT distribution in South Africa. In the podcast, Humphreys-Davies talks about the distribution industry and Pinnacle’s place in it as well…
Interview: Root's Louw Hopley and MMI's Jonathan Stewart
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod chats to Louw Hopley, CEO of fintech start-up Root, and Jonathan Stewart, head of Exponential Ventures at MMI Holdings, about Root’s fintech platforms, including its programmable bank card and its new insuretech product, Root Insurance…
Interview: Seaborn Networks COO Andy Bax
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Andy Bax, chief operating officer of Seaborn Networks, the company planning to build the first direct subsea cable between South Africa and Brazil. Called SABR - and pronounced "sabre" - the cable will have a design capacity of up…
Interview: Lepsta co-founder and CEO Sithembiso Khumalo
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Sithembiso Khumalo, CEO of the start-up Lepsta, which is developing a blockchain-based version control and code syncing service that helps developers spend more time coding and less time managing code by automating their code management…
Media call with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday evening South African time spoke to reporters around the world, including TechCentral, about a crisis that’s been building since revelations last month that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed data on millions of Facebook users. Legislators and policy makers are now calling for…
Interview: Roger Hislop on TV white-spaces spectrum
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod talks to Internet Solutions senior research engineer Roger Hislop about television white-spaces (TVWS) spectrum and how the technology could be used to connect the unconnected. In the podcast, Hislop explains what TVWS is, how it works and why it could be…
Interview: Zunaid Mayet on EOH's 12 months of hell
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews EOH CEO Zunaid Mayet via Skype on the JSE-listed group's interim financial results for the six months to 31 January 2018. In the podcast, McLeod asks Mayet about EOH's governance and whether it has needed strengthening…
EOH was caught up in state capture 'war': Asher Bohbot
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. We take a break from our normal interview style in this podcast to bring you an extraordinary presentation delivered by Asher Bohbot, the former CEO of EOH -- and now its nonexecutive chairman -- at the company's interim results presentation in Johannesburg…
Bob van Dijk on why Naspers sold 2% of Tencent
Late on Friday, Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk and chief financial officer Basil Sgourdos spoke to analysts about the group's decision to sell 2% of its stake in Chinese Internet giant Tencent. Van Dijk explained the rationale for the sale and what the JSE-listed Internet and media group intends to…
Interview: DStoq co-founder Craig Mc Gregor
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod is joined via an Internet call by Craig Mc Gregor, co-founder of DStoq, a new, global, blockchain-based stock exchange, which will be launched in the coming months. DStoq plans to use the blockchain to create a much…
Interview: Zapper head of retail Colin Fleming
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Colin Fleming, head of retail at Zapper, the mobile payments specialist. Fleming talks about his career in technology retail, including his career at Massmart and what brought him to Durban-based Zapper. He talks about how Zapper…
Interview: Black's Surie Ramasary returns
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, CEO for content at Cell C division Black Surie Ramasary returns to the show to talk about how the video entertainment platform has progressed since its launch four months ago. Ramasary talks about what Black has learnt since launch,…
Spotify launched in SA: the press conference
Spotify, the world's biggest streaming music company, made its debut in South Africa on Tuesday. It's the first entry into Africa for the streaming giant, with the service costing R59.99/month for a single-user subscription. A family plan is likely to be introduced later. The company held a press conference in…
Interview: Why Cell C supports the Woan
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to Cell C chief strategy officer Robert Pasley and chief legal officer Graham Mackinnon about the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill and why the mobile operator is strongly supportive of a plan by the government to create…
Interview: BCX CEO Ian Russell
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod sits down with BCX CEO Ian Russell to talk about the company’s strategy following Telkom’s R2.7bn acquisition of the IT services provider. Russell talks about the opportunities and challenges facing players in the IT services market in South Africa, how the…
SAP on the findings of its Gupta 'kickbacks' probe
German business software giant SAP admitted on Thursday that it had made payments to Gupta-linked companies and uncovered irregularities in the “management of third parties” and adherence to its compliance processes. The Walldorf-headquartered company said it has now finalised an investigation into contracts with Eskom and Transnet and found no…
Interview: Nasa's Jim Adams on aliens, life on Mars and the SKA
Thanks for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to former Nasa deputy chief technologist Jim Adams about everything from the Square Kilometre Array to the search for alien life. In the podcast, Adams - who is in South Africa to instil excitement in schoolchildren to…
Interview: Vox CEO Jacques du Toit
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Vox CEO Jacques du Toit returns to the show to talk about the company's plans for 2018. Du Toit unpacks Vox's fibre roll-out projects, explaining why the company is particularly interested in targeting smaller towns across South Africa. He…
Interview: Deloitte's Mark Casey on the future of technology
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Mark Casey, Africa leader of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at consulting firm Deloitte, about a new report from the company looking at its predictions for the TMT space in 2018 and beyond…