The Cape Town firm quietly connecting Eskom, Pep and 6 000 ATMs
Réan van Niekerk Metacom has spent 25 years designing its own routers and running private networks for some of Africa's biggest retailers, w...
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TCS - The TechCentral Show
TCS - The TechCentral Show, previously TC|Daily, is a tech show produced by South Africa's premier business technology news website. It features interviews with newsmakers, ICT industry lead...
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Drones, AI and the future of warfare, with Milkor's Daniel du Plessis
Milkor's 380 drone is flying for a customer in the Middle East, but South Africa's own defence force has yet to buy one. In this episode of...
Frogfoot sees bigger fibre deals coming
Frogfoot plans to keep buying smaller fibre network operators in South Africa’s suburbs as the market consolidates, but CEO Shane Chorley st...
Norrsken22’s Lexi Novitske on how China is winning African tech
Chinese companies have built their position in African technology one layer at a time – first phones and telecoms equipment, then fintech an...
Dominic White and Adam Ely on AI agents going rogue
AI agents are no longer a thought experiment for security teams. They are breaking out of test environments, hacking real companies and, acc...
Octotel’s Trevor van Zyl on the fibre merger question
Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl joins the TechCentral Show to talk about where South Africa’s fibre market goes next – including a potential merg...
Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha on beating Starlink to South Africa
Amazon’s Leo satellite constellation is coming to South Africa in 2027 through Herotel. TechCentral deputy editor Fanie van Rooyen speaks to...
Money just became native to the internet - Steven Boykey Sidley
Steven Boykey Sidley has been a chief technology officer at a Fortune 500 company, a private equity investor, a videogame designer, a jazz m...
TCS+ | Specops' Darren James on continuous trust in an AI world
Specops Software’s Darren James explains why identity checks alone no longer stop determined attackers. Traditional approaches to access sec...
TCS+ | Why South African workers must become supervisors of digital labour
ADG’s Cliff de Wit on why the next management challenge is overseeing teams of autonomous software agents. Not long ago, organisations were...
Icasa's rules skip the real bottleneck: ACT
Communications regulator Icasa’s draft rapid deployment regulations – a critical intervention for the sector – risk failing unless the regul...
How Optasia lends billions to people banks can’t see
Optasia is on target to distribute more than US$6-billion in credit across its markets in 2026 – and it carries every cent of the default ri...
Pick n Pay’s Enrico Ferigolli on Penny, the AI that shops for you
Pick n Pay has switched on an AI shopping companion called Penny inside its asap! app, and in this episode of the TechCentral Show, retail e...
Charge’s R1.8-billion bet on an off-grid EV future
South Africa has fewer than 400 public electric vehicle charging stations – up from zero just 15 years ago – and EV adoption remains stubbor...
TCS | The Cape Town start-up listening for TB with AI
AI Diagnostics, a Cape Town-based med-tech company that has built an AI-powered stethoscope designed to detect tuberculosis, recently raised...
Werner Lindemann on how AI is rewriting the infosec rulebook
The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend them...
Donovan Marsh on AI and the future of filmmaking
Award-winning South African film director Donovan Marsh has pivoted to artificial intelligence filmmaking and believes generative AI tools c...
MTN’s Divyesh Joshi on the strategy behind Pi
MTN South Africa has launched Pi, a digital-only mobile operator that runs on MTN’s network but operates as a standalone brand, offering con...
Anoosh Rooplal on the Post Office’s last stand
The South African Post Office has been in business rescue – a form of bankruptcy protection – since July 2023. Business rescue practitioners...
Sink or swim? Antony Makins on how AI is rewriting the rules of work
Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how work gets done, it’s rewriting the rules of business. Organisations are scrambling to redefi...