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TCS - The TechCentral Show — 142 episodes

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Pick n Pay’s Enrico Ferigolli on Penny, the AI that shops for you

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Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook

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Donovan Marsh on AI and the future of filmmaking

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MTN’s Divyesh Joshi on the strategy behind Pi

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Anoosh Rooplal on the Post Office’s last stand

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Sink or swim? Antony Makins on how AI is rewriting the rules of work

7

Watts & Wheels S1E4: ‘We drive an electric Uber’

8

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita on competition, AI and the future of mobile

9

Dominic Cull on fixing South Africa’s ICT policy bottlenecks

10

BMW CEO Peter van Binsbergen on the future of South Africa’s automotive industry

11

Why Altron is building an AI factory

12

The company building a ‘living computer’ with human cells

13

Why South Africans are starting to spend crypto, not just trade it

14

Takealot CEO Frederik Zietsman on township growth, EVs and the future of online retail

15

Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system

16

PayInc CEO Stephen Linnell on South Africa's payments revolution

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From lockdown idea to global player: The Invigilator bags $11-million funding

18

Barney Harmse on building Paratus Group – and working with Starlink

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Maziv goes massive: CEO Dietlof Mare on Vumatel’s big roll-out plans

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The story behind Nedbank’s R1.65-billion iKhokha deal

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Alan Knott-Craig unveils Fibertime’s big bet on township fibre

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Pick n Pay’s Enrico Ferigolli on building asap! and taking on Shoprite

23

Britehouse MBO: Graham Parker on what’s next for software firm

24

Connecting Saffas – Renier Lombard on The Lekker Network

25

TCS | South Africa’s Sociable wants to make social media social again

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Tech, townships and tenacity: Spar’s plan to win with Spar2U

27

Nomvuyiso Batyi on Starlink, BEE reform and spectrum

28

Sentiv, and the story behind the buyout of Altron Nexus

29

Signal restored: Unpacking the Blue Label and Cell C turnaround

30

Tertius Zitzke on 4Sight’s big turnaround

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Reserve Bank fintech head Lyle Horsley on the G20 TechSprint

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Dalene Steyn on Capitec’s ambitious mobile gameplan

33

Kiaan Pillay on fintech start-up Stitch and its R1-billion funding round

34

How Covid sparked a corporate tug-of-war over Adapt IT

35

From fibre to clean tech: Khudu Pitje on New GX Capital’s next chapter

36

TCS | How South Africa's Milkor became a global player in drone innovation

37

Discovery Bank CEO Hylton Kallner on tech, AI and the future of banking

38

TCS | Across South Africa in an EV: how one man did it before charging stations

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Why the CompCom wants Google to pay up

40

New player in township fibre market offers 100Mbit/s for R9/day

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Zimi Charge CEO Michael Maas on electrifying SA's logistics fleets

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Deep impact: Dean Furman on the implications of China's DeepSeek

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We test drive South Africa’s cheapest electric car

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'Activist CEO' Adam Craker on iqbusiness, the GNU and fixing Joburg

45

Meet the team behind Matric Live, South Africa’s App of the Year

46

Springboks rugby deal: the tech plan behind the audacious bid

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Reserve Bank’s big payments shake-up – an interview with Tim Masela

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Datafree’s plan to make R1-billion/year from ‘free data’

49

The story of Telviva, with David Meintjes and Rob Lith

50

Andrew Middleton on the state of rooftop solar in South Africa

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Sandile Dube on Equinix and South Africa’s data centre boom

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Lesaka’s Lincoln Mali on the fintech opportunity in South Africa

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The Solly Malatsi interview - BEE, SOEs and Starlink

54

Donald Valoyi: South African on-demand e-commerce pioneer

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Bruce Mellado on the tech-led fight against air pollution in South Africa

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TCS | Rebooting Cell C: Jorge Mendes sets out his strategic plan

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Dominic Cull on why 'Fair Share' is a non-starter in South Africa

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Scott Gibson on his new role as Pragma CEO

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ESP's Herman Maritz on Eskom's miraculous turnaround

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The Ronnie Apteker interview - his life in Ukraine

61

The Volvo EX30 electric car, reviewed by an owner

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Nomvuyiso Batyi on what needs fixing in SA telecoms

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Andy Higgins on the outlook for online shopping in South Africa

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VezoPay on new South African-made payment ring

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Kartik Mistry on Standard Bank Connect and SA's MVNO industry

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Dean Furman on who is winning the AI race

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MultiChoice declares war on piracy - the man leading the fight

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MTN's Bradwin Roper on PayShap - and the future of mobile money

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Meet the CHIPendales - South Africa's biohacker duo

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From Namibian start-up to regional powerhouse: the rapid rise of Paratus

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The internet revolution happening in Olievenhoutbosch

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Pretoria firm Hydrox Holdings in global hydrogen ‘breakthrough’

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TechCentral announces TCS Legends

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Datacentrix CEO Ahmed Mahomed on the Convergence Partners deal

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Pheello Maboea on Kena Health winning App of the Year

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TCS | Starlink in South Africa – separating fact from fiction

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TCS | GG Alcock on the digitisation of the township economy

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Revix founder Sean Sanders on the creation of Altify

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OneCart CEO Aidan Johnson on SA's on-demand shopping boom

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How ShotSpotter is fighting gun crime in Cape Town

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Mesh.trade's Connie Bloem on the future of finance

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Rahul Jain on Peach Payments’ big funding round

83

The Information Regulator bares its teeth - an interview with Pansy Tlakula

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The Levy brothers on the future of Blue Label and Cell C

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Sumeshin Naidoo on Sigfox and the future of IoT in South Africa

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Joel Bronkowski on Paystack's big expansion plans

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TCS | Superbalist founders on their new venture, Bash

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Takealot Group CEO Mamongae Mahlare on the outlook for e-commerce

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Volvo MD Greg Maruszewski: SA is ready for EVs

90

Bryan Hattingh on what’s required of leaders in 2023

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Andile Ngcaba on his go-global investment plans

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TCS | Bayobab CEO Frédéric Schepens on wiring up Africa

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Serame Taukobong on where to next for Telkom

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Altron’s Collin Govender on South Africa’s challenge of leadership

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Bongani Mabaso's plan to fix the State IT Agency

96

Patrick Henchie on the past, present and future of Nokia phones

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Everlectric CEO Ndia Magadagela on Woolies' big EV push

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Werner Kapp unpacks his strategy for Altron

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Amped: Maurice van Heerden on building Planetworld

100

Quintus de Beer on MTN's plan to win at wholesale

101

Muggie van Staden: Linux fans should learn to trust Microsoft

102

Calvin Collett on the launch of Melon Mobile, SA's latest MVNO

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MetroFibre CEO on the township broadband opportunity

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Kalon's Clive Butkow on the state of the VC nation

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Pargo CEO Lars Veul on the changing shape of e-commerce logistics

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Michele Gamberini on the criminal assault on MTN's base stations

107

Yugen Naidoo on Lenovo and the future of the PC

108

Mastercard’s Robert Brine on the fast changing world of payments

109

The inside story of toco, the Stellenbosch-born digital currency

110

How Naked got covered - Alex Thomson unpacks huge funding round

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Brandon Doyle on Convergence Partners’ big new infrastructure fund

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Pinnacle’s Tim Humphreys-Davies on the state of the IT nation

113

Inside AfriForum's plan to deploy modular nuclear reactors in SA

114

Rob Godlonton on his plans for +OneX - and what went wrong at EOH

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Alan Dickson on why Reunert is thriving

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A R3-million TV, and everything else coming from Samsung

117

Uncapped fibre for R5/day - Isizwe's big gambit

118

Stephen van Coller on what's really happening at EOH

119

This South African app wants to help fix your city

120

Unpacking the FTX disaster, with OVEX’s Jon Ovadia

121

Mteto Nyati on investing, IT and South Africa's future

122

Russell Southwood on the African telecoms revolution

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This start-up wants to save you from Eskom

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Michael Markovitz: ‘My five years on the SABC board’

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TV white spaces - the current state of play, with Keith Pitout

126

Vumatel's audacious plan to take fibre to everyone

127

Netstar CTO Cliff de Wit on IoT, AI and astrophotography

128

What's next for Showmax, with MultiChoice's Barry Dubovsky

129

MultiChoice CEO on 4K, DStv Glass and the future of pay TV

130

How MoyaApp is taking on WhatsApp, and winning

131

Alviva Holdings: champagne results, a planned delisting and 'Pierre pressure'

132

Q-KON’s Dawie de Wet on big changes sweeping the satellite industry

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Saving Cell C: an interview with Douglas Craigie Stevenson

134

Jonas Bogoshi on what's next for BCX - and IT in South Africa

135

Behind the Sasol Solar Challenge, with owner Rob Walker

136

Massmart’s big e-commerce play – the inside story

137

Simon Dingle on the ZARP rand stablecoin, the Merge and more

138

GridCars, and the race to build South Africa’s EV charging network

139

PayShap: The fintech revolution coming to SA’s payments system

140

Andy Higgins and the amazing story behind Bob Group

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Mercedes-Benz CEO Mark Raine: 50% of our car sales in SA will be EVs by 2026

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'Biggest event ever in crypto': Revix CEO on the 'Merge'