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Interview: Huge Group's James Herbst and Duarte da Silva
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to James Herbst and Duarte da Silva about the past, present and future of listed telecommunications company Huge Group. The CEO and chairman respectively, Herbst and Da Silva chat about the crisis that hit Huge Group when the bottom fell out of…
Interview: Kwesé Play CEO Ryan Solovei
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to Ryan Solovei, executive vice president of Econet Media and CEO of Kwesé Play, which is offering a new streaming media service to South African consumers. The offering, which consists of a Roku media box and accompanying services - which include Netflix…
Interview: Disruptive insurtech start-up Pineapple
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to the three co-founders of fintech start-up Pineapple, which has just raised R5.2m in funding to take its potentially disruptive "insurtech" solution to market. Marnus van Heerden, Ndabenhle Ngulube and Matthew Smith chat about how Pineapple…
Interview: Michael Jordaan, CEO, Montegray Capital
In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Michael Jordaan, founder and CEO of Montegray Capital. Jordaan, the former CEO of First National Bank, talks about his investments in South African technology start-ups and the tech start-up ecosystem in the country. In the interview, he chats about the plans for Rain…
Interview: HP chief technology officer Shane Wall
Thank you for listening the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Shane Wall, global chief technology officer at HP and director of HP Labs. Listen as Wall first talks to journalists about the future of technology, including its likely impact on Africa. He chats about the explosive…
Interview: Barclays Africa Group CIO Ashley Veasey
How is technology transforming the banking industry? In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Barclays Africa Group chief information and chief digital officer Ashley Veasey about how technology disruption is changing the face of banking. From the blockchain to artificial intelligence and mobile money to bot-driven apps and services, the…
Interview: HMD Global on the future of Nokia phones
Nokia is a brand that still has enormous cachet among South African consumers. In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Justin Maier and Patrick Henchie, vice-president and product head respectively at HMD Global in sub-Saharan Africa of the relaunch of the brand. HMD Global, a Finnish…
Interview: Russell Lamberti on how crypto money will change everything
Crypto money is going to change the world fundamentally. That's the word from Russell Lamberti, an economist and the head of ETM Macro Advisors, who believes the stage is set for a showdown between central banks - and nation-state governments - and the emerging world of distributed and anonymous cryptocurrencies…
Interview: ICT policy expert Charley Lewis
Thank you for downloading the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former lecturer and ICT policy and regulatory expert Charley Lewis on the ICT sector in South Africa and how it's developed over the past 23 years. Lewis, a former senior lecturer at the Link Centre at…
Interview: Jo'burg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada
City of Johannesburg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada joins TechCentral's Duncan McLeod in this episode of the podcast to chat about the plans to make Jo'burg a smart city. Dagada talks about the billing system crisis, how it happened and what the new, Democratic Alliance-led administration is doing to fix it…
Behind SA cryptocurrency start-up Project Ubu
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to two of the directors behind Project Ubu, a South African start-up that's working to combine the idea of a universal basic income with a blockchain-housed cryptocurrency. Project Ubu chief technology officer Steve Sidley (formerly CTO at Altech) and marketing…
Interview: Andy Brauer, SA inventor behind promising new fuel cell
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former Business Connexion chief technology officer Andy Brauer, who has struck out on his own with a new venture that is looking to build and commercialise a "reversible" hydrogen fuel cell that he believes could…
Interview: GetSmarter CEO Sam Paddock
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats via Skype to Sam Paddock, co-founder and CEO of GetSmarter, the Cape Town-based online education specialist that has just been acquired by Nasdaq-listed 2U in a deal valued at US$103m, or about R1.3bn. The deal, which closed two weeks ago,…
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…