TCS | 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+ | Boards are underestimating the cost of a cyberattack, says Arctic Wolf
In this episode of TCS+, brought to you by Arctic Wolf, Jason Oehley, the company's country sales manager, and Andre Den Hond, senior system...
TCS | Drones, AI and the future of warfare, with Milkor's Daniel du Plessis
Milkor’s advanced 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 ep...
TCS | 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...
Meet the CIO | Vodacom’s Mohamed Sami on the agentic future
Mohamed Sami, group chief information officer at Vodacom, says autonomous AI agents that resolve customer problems without handing them to a...
TCS | 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...
TCS | 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...
TCS | 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...
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...
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...