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Interview: Kwese Free TV's Zolile Ntukwana
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Econet Media group regulatory affairs executive Zolile Ntukwana about the new licensed free-to-air television provider Kwese Free TV, for which he is spokesman. Kwese Free TV was awarded a licence from communications regulator Icasa last week to launch a free-to-air terrestrial…
Interview: Standard Bank Group CIO Alpheus Mangale
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod speaks to Standard Bank Group chief information officer Alpheus Mangale about its big announcement on Wednesday that it has selected Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider. Standard Bank plans to shift various production workloads, including its customer-facing platforms, to the…
Interview: Seacom chief commercial officer Steve Briggs
In the second of a series of promoted podcasts with Seacom, TechCentral's Duncan McLeod talks to chief commercial officer Steve Briggs about how technology is reshaping society. The conversation touches the digital divide - especially in the South African context - and what can be done to address it. This…
Interview: ZimboCash's Philip Haslam
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod speaks to Philip Haslam, one of the people behind ZimboCash, a company that is building an alternative national currency for the troubled Zimbabwean economy. Built on a blockchain, the idea behind the cryptocurrency is to help ordinary Zimbabweans escape the clutches…
Interview: Ari Kahn speaks out on the 'please call me' saga
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod is joined by Ari Kahn, the former MTN contractor who invented and patented the "Callme" service while working at the mobile operator. Kahn, who Vodacom recently admitted came up with the idea on which its own "please call me" service…
Interview: BCX chief sales officer Werner Lindemann
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews newly appointed BCX chief sales officer Werner Lindemann about the challenges facing companies as they grapple with digital transformation and the move to cloud. Lindemann, a veteran of South Africa's ICT industry - he has worked for, among others, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers…
Interview: Seacom CEO Byron Clatterbuck
In the first of a series of promoted podcasts with Seacom, TechCentral's Duncan McLeod talks to CEO Byron Clatterbuck about the origin of the business, how he became involved, the launch of Seacom Business and where the company is going. Clatterbuck talks about the launch nine years ago of the…
Promoted | Exploring Huawei's network energy solutions, with Pinnacle
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews Huawei and Pinnacle executives on Huawei’s IT networking energy portfolio. Fred Saayman, Huawei Business Unit executive at Pinnacle, and John Davidson, senior product manager at Huawei, talk about the Chinese ICT giant’s range of product offerings in the networked energy space,…
Promoted | Exploring Huawei's IT solutions, with Pinnacle
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews Huawei and Pinnacle executives on Huawei's IT solutions portfolio, from servers to storage and everything in between. Fred Saayman, Huawei Business Unit executive at Pinnacle, and Morgan Malyon, executive product director in the South Africa enterprise solutions sales department at Huawei,…
Interview: VALR.com CEO Farzam Ehsani
Former Rand Merchant Bank blockchain lead Farzam Ehsani returns to the TechCentral podcast to talk about his latest venture, cryptocurrency exchange VALR.com. In the podcast, Ehsani explains why he left RMB to start VALR, what the start-up does, who it's targeted it and who's backing it. He explains why VALR…
Interview: Monero's Riccardo Spagni returns
Monero lead maintainer and Tari co-founder Riccardo Spagni returns to the TechCentral podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about the great cryptocurrency crash of 2018 and the importance of privacy in the digital age. In the podcast with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod, Spagni -- also known as "fluffypony" -- chats about…
Interview: Hello Group CEO Nadir Khamissa
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod sits down with Hello Group co-founder and CEO Nadir Khamissa for an update on the company's growth in the past few years and its ambitions in the financial services market. Founded about 13 years ago by Khamissa and his brother Shaazim, Hello…
Interview: What3words country manager Lyndsey Duff
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Lyndsey Duff, South Africa country manager at What3words, a company that has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique three-word address. The idea is that instead of having to share a long address…
The great e-tolls debate: Wayne Duvenage vs Coenie Vermaak
In this special episode of the podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod moderates a lively and fiery debate between Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) CEO Wayne Duvenage and Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) CEO Coenie Vermaak on Gauteng's e-tolls system. Listen as Duvenage attacks the system, explaining why he believes it has…
Interview: McAfee's Trevor Coetzee and DRS's Rob Brown
In this promoted* episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Rob Brown, CEO of cybersecurity specialists DRS, and Trevor Coetzee, regional director for sub-Saharan Africa at McAfee. In the discussion, Coetzee speaks about the history of McAfee, from its founding in 1987, to its acquisition in 2011 Intel (and its…
Interview: Former Nasa administrator Major-General Charles Bolden
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod interviews Major-General Charles Bolden, who served as the administrator of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) from 2009 until his retirement last year. Bolden, who is on a tour of South Africa this week, has taken part in…
Interview: Huawei Enterprise Group's Alex Du Min and Pinnacle's Fred Saayman
Promoted podcast | In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Alex Du Min, MD of the Huawei Enterprise Group in South Africa, and Fred Saayman, Pinnacle’s Huawei business unit executive. Du Min talks in detail about how Huawei got its start, expanded rapidly into new areas, its establishment…
Interview: Luno country manager Marius Reitz
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Luno South Africa country manager Marius Reitz. In the interview, they discuss the cryptocurrency market and where it’s going. Has the value of bitcoin bottomed? Where is it going next? Will it ever be a widely accepted transactional payment mechanism? And…
Interview: The Foschini Group CIO Brent Curry
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Brent Curry, chief information officer of The Foschini Group (TFG), about the launch of a new online marketplace called myTFGworld.com. In the interview, Curry explains why the retailer has decided to create a unified marketplace for its 22 brands and why…
Interview: Project Isizwe CEO Duduzile Mkhwanazi
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Project Isizwe CEO Duduzile Mkhwanazi on the non-profit's plans for rolling out free Wi-Fi in South Africa following the dissolution of the company's agreement with the City of Tshwane. Mkhwanazi, who joined Project Isizwe from the Democratic Alliance 19 months ago,…