Meet the CIO | Chris Shortt on what a supermarket becomes
Chris Shortt, chief technology officer at Shoprite Group, says the work of the next five years is meeting the customer at their point of nee...
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Watts & Wheels | Rubicon’s EV charging network is profitable – and growing fast
The company runs 125 chargers and wants a thousand within five years, focused on urban hubs. -- Rubicon’s public charging network is profita...
Watts & Wheels | Why electric trucks are beating electric cars to South Africa
South Africa has still not crossed 1% of new vehicle sales going to electric vehicles, well short of the 5% mark at which adoption typically...
Winstone Jordaan on building a national EV charging network
Winstone Jordaan was building charging infrastructure before South Africa had electric cars to plug into it. GridCars began developing its b...
Watts & Wheels S1E8: ‘Tesla lands in Africa, just not here’
Episode 8 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral’s electric motoring show – opens with William Kelly on his soapbox, clipboard in hand, and a simpl...
TCS | 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...
Meet the CIO | Derek Wilcocks on how AI personalised Vitality
Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks on personalised Vitality, the limits of AI coding and why growth beats cost-cutting. Derek Wilcocks, grou...
TCS | 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+ | How AI is turning hardware into a subscription service
For most of business history, buying technology meant owning it. Capital was set aside, servers and laptops were hauled into the building al...
TCS+ | iStore Business on why Apple makes sense for SMEs
For small and medium enterprises, technology must do one thing above all else: get out of the way. Unlike large corporations with dedicated...
TCS | 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...
TCS+ | A smarter approach to cloud for South African businesses
South African businesses are spending millions on cloud – and many have very little to show for it. That is the uncomfortable starting point...
TCS | 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...
Everything you wanted to know about EVs but were afraid to ask
In the latest episode of Watts & Wheels with Wills, host William Kelly is joined in the studio by Greg Cress, automotive and e-mobility indu...
Watts & Wheels with Wills: The rands-and-cents case for electric trucks
Aeversa’s John Ford unpacks the rands-and-cents case for electric trucks in this first of a new interview series. TechCentral is proud to pr...
Watts & Wheels S1E7: 'Ferrari's EV breaks the internet'
Episode 7 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral's electric motoring show – opens with mock outrage: the South African Car of the Year results are...
TCS | 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...
TCS+ | How Tracker is turning vehicle data into business strategy
Vehicle tracking has come a long way from its origins as a stolen vehicle recovery tool. Today, the data generated by connected fleets – cov...
TCS+ | IBM Bob: an AI-powered ‘development partner’ for the enterprise
It’s been roughly 18 months since AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” – using natural language alongside AI tools to...
Watts & Wheels S1E6: ‘A flawless Alfa and a bakkie that divides’
Episode 6 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral’s electric motoring show – sees hosts William Kelly and Duncan McLeod wade into the most opaque co...