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SAP's Adaire Fox-Martin on 'kickbacks' scandal
We’re departing from the usual interview format in this episode of the TechCentral podcast to bring you a very important teleconference press call with SAP executive board member Adaire Fox-Martin, who will be jetting into South Africa on Friday to deal with the scandal that has erupted around the German…
Interview: Corrie de Jager on SA firm's hydrogen breakthrough
Corrie de Jager, a Pretoria-based lawyer, joins Duncan McLeod in this episode of the TechCentral podcast to talk about a ground-breaking invention that, he believes, will literally change the world for the better. De Jager, with a team of scientists and other experts from Hydrox Holdings, have developed a “membrane-less”…
Interview: ZACR CEO Lucky Masilela on .africa
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to ZA Central Registry CEO Lucky Masilela about the .africa geographic top-level domain. Masilela talks about the complex, years-long process involved in launching the gTLD, including the legal battle with rival DotConnectAfrica in the US and…
Interview: BBM CEO Matthew Talbot
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Matthew Talbot, global CEO of BBM (you may know it better at BlackBerry Messenger). The service is now owned by Indonesia's Creative Media Works, under licence from Canada's BlackBerry, which has pivoted to an enterprise focus and away from…
DStv's Graeme Cumming on the future of TV
In this TechCentral podcast episode, Duncan McLeod chats to the head of digital media at MultiChoice, Graeme Cumming, about the future of television in South Africa. It’s a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion about how the TV landscape is changing not only in South Africa but worldwide and how MultiChoice, which…
Dawie Roodt on why crypto money will change the world
Many TechCentral readers will know the name Dawie Roodt. He is chief economist at the Efficient Group and undoubtedly one of South Africa’s leading economists. Roodt gave a fascinating presentation on Wednesday evening at the Free Market Foundation in Johannesburg, where he spoke on the subject of cryptocurrencies such as…
Interview: Civic CEO Vinny Lingham
South African Internet entrepreneur Vinny Lingham joins Duncan McLeod on Skype from San Francisco to chat about Civic, the new blockchain-based identity management service that allows users to protect and authorise the use of their identity in real time. Lingham, who is well known to South Africans for his involvement…
Interview: Microsoft SA's Clifford de Wit
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, we chat to Microsoft chief innovation officer Clifford de Wit about all things cloud, including the company's investment into two Azure data centres in South Africa. What does the investment actually mean for companies, and for the average Joe? Why is cloud computing…
Interview: Mustek CEO David Kan
TechCentral chats to a pioneer of the PC industry in South Africa, Mustek founder and CEO David Kan, about 30 years in business, the early days of the PC industry and how the sector has changed over the past three decades. Listen how the Taiwan-born Kan related the story of…
Interview: Rain CEO Duncan Simpson-Craib
iBurst and Broadlink parent Wireless Business Solutions is now called simply Rain. Its CEO, Duncan Simpson-Craib, sat down with TechCentral to talk about the name change, the national LTE-Advanced network the company is building, its partnership with Vodacom, migrating iBurst customers to the new network and what Rain will be…
Interview: MTN SA technology chief Giovanni Chiarelli
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, we chat to MTN South Africa chief technology and information officer Giovanni Chiarelli. It's a fascinating discussion about the technological challenges of running a modern mobile network. The discussion looks at MTN's huge network investment in recent years - in excess of R10bn/year…
Interview: Denel Spaceteq engineer Jonathan Lun
On this episode of the TechCentral podcast, we chat to South African space engineer Jonathan Lun about being named winner of Singularity University's Global Impact Challenge Southern Africa for 2017. As part of his prize, Lun will travel to the US, where he will interact with some of the world’s…
Interview: Kagiso Media's Vincent Maher
E-sports, or competitive videogaming, is rapidly emerging as a big business around the world, and South Africa is no exception. Vincent Maher, chief innovation officer at Kagiso Media, is at the coalface of developments in South Africa. Indeed, Kagiso Media has launched its own e-sports tournament called Mega8, which is…
Interview: Jon Tullett on Microsoft's big Azure investment in SA
In the wake of the significant news this week that Microsoft will open two Azure data centre facilities in South Africa, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Jon Tullett, research manager for IT services for Africa at Independent Data Corp, to chat about what the decision means for corporate…
Dominic White on the WannaCry ransomware
In this special episode of the TechCentral podcast, SensePost chief technology officer Dominic White, dialling in from London over Skype, chats to TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod about the WannaCry ransomware incident that has grabbed headlines around the world since late last week. White talks about who should be blamed for…
Interview: Corien Vermaak on the Cybercrimes Bill
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to Three6Five Academy director Corien Vermaak on the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill. It’s a really interesting – and really important – topic that is going to affect all organisations in South Africa, big and small. Listen as Vermaak walks through the origins…
Interview: Ronnie Apteker, magic maker
In this TechCentral podcast interview, Duncan McLeod chats to South African Internet pioneer, movie maker, investor and entrepreneur Ronnie Apteker about the (excellent) new South African film Beyond the River, which he helped produce. In a wide-ranging interview, hear Apteker chatting about the early days of the Internet in South…
Interview: Mars One candidate Adriana Marais
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Adriana Marais, one of the 100 people worldwide shortlisted by the Mars One project to travel to the Red Planet to establish a human colony. Marais stands a good chance of being one of the first people in history…
Interview: Vumatel CEO Niel Schoeman
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod talks to Vumatel CEO Niel Schoeman about the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market in South Africa. In the discussion, Schoeman chats about how the idea of Vumatel came about, the initial roll-out in Parkhurst and the rapid deployment of infrastructure across Johannesburg. Also in the…
Interview: Vox CEO Jacques du Toit
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod chats to Vox CEO Jacques to Toit about the company's R550m investment plan, announced recently. The money will be used mainly to expand subsidiary Frogfoot's fibre broadband footprint, but also to expand Vox's salesforce. In the podcast, McLeod asks…