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Interview: GloBee CEO Felix Honigwachs
Interview: GloBee CEO Felix Honigwachs In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Felix Honigwachs, CEO of GloBee, a global cryptocurrency payment provider founded by South African cryptocurrency and blockchain expert Riccardo Spagni. The South African start-up, established in 2014, allows online merchants to accept payments through a…
Interview: Monero's Riccardo Spagni, aka 'fluffpony'
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, editor Duncan McLeod talks to Riccardo Spagni, lead maintainer of the monero cryptocurrency project, and Naveen Jain, his co-founder of a new consortium that’s building an open-source blockchain protocol for digital assets called Tari. In the podcast, Spagni, who grew up in Johannesburg…
Interview: SqwidNet acting CEO Phathizwe Malinga
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to SqwidNet acting CEO Phathizwe Malinga about the deployment of Internet of things (IoT) technologies in South Africa. Malinga, who took the reins at SqwidNet following the recent resignation of Reshaad Sha – who is joining Liquid Telecom South Africa…
Interview: Absa senior agricultural economist Wessel Lemmer
***We apologise for the poor audio quality of the call in this podcast.*** In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod speaks to Wessel Lemmer, senior agricultural economist at Absa, how about technology is transforming the agricultural sector in South Africa. Lemmer tells McLeod about how technology is needed…
Interview: MultiChoice CEO Calvo Mawela returns
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela returns to the show to discuss communications regulator Icasa’s inquiry into the pay-television industry and the future of the sector. In the podcast, Mawela describes the Icasa probe as “irrelevant”, arguing that the broadcasting industry has changed…
Interview: Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod sits down with Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub for a wide-ranging interview on the telecommunications industry in South Africa. In the podcast, Joosub tells TechCentral what he thinks about communications regulator Icasa's new regulations dealing with data…
Interview: Simon Dingle on crypto money
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Simon Dingle, former technology journalist, long-time podcaster, speaker and technologist, about his new book, In Math We Trust, about the world of cryptocurrencies. The book, available in bookstores around South Africa and on Amazon's Kindle, is a quick, three-hour…
Adrian Schofield and Leon Louw on the telecoms bill
ICT industry veteran Adrian Schofield, programme consultant at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals - and a past president of the organisation - has slammed the ANC’s policies on telecommunications, saying they are holding back the sector. Speaking at the Free Market Foundation on Tuesday, Schofield criticised the ruling party…
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…