TechCentral's TCS+ is a business technology show that brings you interviews with leaders in South Africa's technology industry - and further afield. It showcases the latest products and services available to businesses large and small. In short, it offers in a window into what's possible. Episodes of TCS+ are sponsored.
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The TechCentral Show (TCS, for short) is a tech show produced by South Africa's leading technology news platform. It features interviews with newsmakers, ICT industry leaders and other interesting people.
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Sensible Nonsensical Talks What we do? Literally "Talk Cock Sing Song" it's in our name! New Episodes every Wednesday!
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Hey everyone! We Toastmasters from TCS Maitree Chennai Toastmasters Club, one of the well reputed experienced corporate clubs, here to take you through a delightful journey with lot of fascinating podcast episodes. Stay tuned for a lot of fun!!
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From the weirdos at “The Clueless Streamer”, comes a podcast that’s about video games. Join, Shadow and Xeno, as they discuss various topics surrounding the video game industry, as well as, gaming in their personal lives. Welcome all, to The Clueless Army. Shadow’s Twitch: twitch.tv/ShadowMcKeehan Xeno’s Twitch: twitch.tv/xenogaming2014 Email: jordanshattuck@yahoo.com
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New player in township fibre market offers 100Mbit/s for R9/day
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22:25South Africa has a new player chasing the township fibre broadband market: Wire-Wire Networks has deployed fibre to 15 800 homes in Thembisa (previously Tembisa), a sprawling township in central Gauteng. CEO JP Schmidtke joined the TechCentral Show earlier this week to share exclusive details about the company’s growth plans and to talk about the b…
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Shifting Microsoft Azure SQL into overdrive
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24:37Microsoft Azure SQL is a fully managed and scalable cloud database service – and its myriad benefits mean your company should be considering it if it isn’t already using it. To unpack this in more detail, Preegan Chetty, Microsoft Azure product manager at First Distribution, and Silicon Overdrive Microsoft business executive Jody Roberts join TechC…
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Zimi Charge CEO Michael Maas on electrifying SA's logistics fleets
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25:34South African logistics firm Bakers SA recently deployed the first electric trucks to its fleet of more than a thousand vehicles. Working with Stellenbosch-based EV charging and software company Zimi Charge, Bakers’ deployment points a potential future in South Africa in which planet-warming trucks are replaced with electric alternatives. Michael M…
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Deep impact: Dean Furman on the implications of China's DeepSeek
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48:30China’s DeepSeek rocked US technology stocks last month after the company appeared to have developed an artificial intelligence model akin to OpenAI’s most advanced ChatGPT models at a tiny fraction of the cost. Stocks like Nvidia, Google and Microsoft cratered on the news as it raised serious questions about whether the tens of billions – if not h…
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We test drive South Africa’s cheapest electric car
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34:24We strongly recommend watching the video version of this episode of TCS. -- Enviro Automotive has launched South Africa’s most affordable electric car yet, the Dayun S5 Mini SUV – and TechCentral has taken the vehicle for a test drive. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, we are joined by Environ Automotive executives Gideon Wolvaardt and Franc…
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'Activist CEO' Adam Craker on iqbusiness, the GNU and fixing Joburg
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35:56Adam Craker has strong views on what’s needed to turn around South Africa’s fortunes and fix its biggest city, Johannesburg, which has fallen into a state of disrepair. The CEO of iqbusiness, a digital integrator in the Reunert stable formed recently though the merger of IQbusiness and +OneX, is our guest in this episode of the TechCentral Show. Cr…
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Just how secure is your cloud database?
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12:17In the second episode of this series on migrating to Microsoft Azure SQL, the focus turns to what’s involved in moving from SQL Server to Azure SQL, and First Distribution’s Preegan Chetty returns to discuss the key priority of securing databases in the cloud. If you missed episode 1 in the series, you can find it here – or dive straight into this …
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Moving from SQL Server to Azure SQL – what you need to know
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14:34Is your company thinking about modernising its IT infrastructure? Is it planning to migrate from an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to the cloud-based Azure SQL Solution? Then this podcast is for you. In this two-part series, we delve into greater detail on what’s involved in a cloud database migration. First Distribution’s Microsoft Azur…
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Meet the team behind Matric Live, South Africa’s App of the Year
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27:14Matric Live is a study tool to help students in grades 10-12 supplement their in-class learning with additional exercises – and even get exam practice via a digital platform. And it recently won the FNB App of the Year award amid stiff competition from the likes of Checkers Sixty60 and TFG’s Bash. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, Matric Liv…
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Bolt doubling down on safety for riders and drivers
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13:23The operating environment in South Africa for ride-hailing services like Bolt is fraught with complexity, while the country’s crime problem only contributes to the challenge of getting passengers safely from A to B. This complexity is compounded by the nuances of operating in different areas. Municipal districts have different permitting requiremen…
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Springboks rugby deal: the tech plan behind the audacious bid
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49:25Well-known South African technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie is one of the key backers behind an audacious bid to buy a stake of up to 40% in the South African Rugby Union (Saru)-owned entity that owns the commercial rights to the Springboks brand. Masie, who chairs JSE-listed Altvest Capital – a key player in the consortium making the bid – joi…
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Reserve Bank’s big payments shake-up – an interview with Tim Masela
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50:22The South African Reserve Bank is working with its peers in the Southern African region to drive financial inclusion by digitising cash and making instant payments across borders an everyday reality. In this episode of the TechCentral Show (TCS), Tim Masela, head of the National Payments System department at the Reserve Bank – he has been with the …
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Beware the Toxic Cloud Trilogy – a discussion with Tenable
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22:47Companies moving to the cloud – and those already there – need to be aware of the Toxic Cloud Trilogy, three pitfalls in cloud computing that must be avoided. Bernard Montel, technical director at exposure management company Tenable for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, recently unpacked this for TechCentral’s audience in an episode of TCS+ (watc…
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Why your company needs network monitoring as a service
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33:02Trace Network Operations, founded in 2016, provides bespoke network solutions in network management and network monitoring. Company founder Darryl Theron saw a gap in the market for a company that provides leading solutions in this space, stemming from his many years of experience in the pan-African infrastructure market. This episode of TechCentra…
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Obsidian’s Muggie van Staden on the power of ITSM
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24:57Information technology service management (ITSM) is more than another buzzword. It’s a concept that helps organisations design and deliver IT services to customers and, when well executed, it can have a huge impact on productivity as well as customer and employee experience. But too often companies don’t do it right, leading to headaches and lost p…
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Datafree’s plan to make R1-billion/year from ‘free data’
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24:18Datafree Technologies, the company behind popular zero-rated messaging tool MoyaApp, has an ambitious plan to build a R1-billion/year business by tapping to the APN market provided by the mobile operators. In this episode of the TechCentral Show (TCS), Datafree chief commercial officer Kruben Pillay tells Duncan McLeod about the company’s plan to b…
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How to stop a data disaster – a discussion with Veeam
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43:17Veeam is helping organisations in South Africa and the rest of the African continent safeguard their most valuable asset: their data. In this episode of TechCentral’s TCS+, four senior executives from Veeam unpack the latest trends in data resilience and protection, and explore how African organisations can better protect themselves against a data …
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Inside Eswatini’s big fibre roll-out plans
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6:32Eswatini is on a mission to roll out high-speed fibre broadband infrastructure for its citizens. According to Themba Khumalo, MD of The Eswatini Posts & Telecommunications Corporation (EPTC), the landlocked territory will draw lessons from leaders in national fibre roll-out in other markets as it deploys infrastructure to the population. In this ep…
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What Google Cloud solutions mean for companies in Africa
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29:59In the final episode of a three-part interview series with TechCentral’s TCS+, Digicloud Africa executives unpack what Google Cloud’s solutions mean for end-user organisations in Africa. Digicloud Africa is Google Cloud’s enablement partner on the continent, and the company’s CEO, Gregory MacLennan, and head of technical operations Louis van Schalk…
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Pinnacle’s Jacque Visagie – AI will transform SA business
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26:38Pinnacle, one of South Africa’s leading technology distributors, is going all-in on AI. The company, which represents some of the leading brands in the artificial intelligence space, is working closely with its vendors and channel partners to help local companies embrace the potential of the technology and expand employee productivity. Jacques Visa…
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Binance on the role of cryptocurrencies in digitising money
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14:35The digitisation of money is helping drive financial inclusion and improve access to complex financial services in South Africa and the rest of the African continent. In this episode of TCS+, Hannes Wessels, GM for South Africa at Binance, explains the role cryptocurrencies are playing in the digitisation of cash as well as the potential that block…
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How to become a Google Cloud reseller in Africa
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23:30In the second part of a three-part interview series with TechCentral’s TCS+, Digicloud Africa executives unpack how African ICT companies can become reseller partners for Google Cloud in Africa. Digicloud is Google Cloud’s chosen enablement partner for Africa and works closely with the US technology giant to deliver its services across the continen…
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Introducing Digicloud, Google Cloud’s partner in Africa
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15:32Digicloud Africa has a big role to play in the African ICT ecosystem as Google Cloud’s enablement partner on the continent. Two of Digicloud’s top executives recently sat down for an interview with TechCentral’s TCS+ to unpack the business, its relationship with Google, and how it serves its reseller partners and their clients in adopting Google Cl…
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Arctic Wolf – weighing up in-house vs outsourced SOCs
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28:00In this episode of TCS+, TechCentral speaks with Jason Oehley and Andre Den Hond, regional sales manager and senior sales engineer, respectively, at Arctic Wolf, a company specialising in cybersecurity operations. They discuss the benefits of partnering with a cybersecurity provider versus building an in-house security operations centre (SOC). The …
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The story of Telviva, with David Meintjes and Rob Lith
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41:28The world of telephony might not be particularly sexy, but it is an industry that has changed fundamentally in the past 20 years. And David Meintjes and Rob Lith of Telviva, a South African company specialising in cloud-based unified communications solutions for businesses, has been at the forefront of the technology changes that have swept through…
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Andrew Middleton on the state of rooftop solar in South Africa
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27:57South Africa’s rooftop solar installation industry has a bright future and is on track for its second-best year on record, despite the suspension of load shedding in March. That’s according to Andrew Middleton, co-founder and CEO of GoSolr, one of South Africa’s largest rooftop solar installation companies, who spoke to TechCentral editor Duncan Mc…
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Sandile Dube on Equinix and South Africa’s data centre boom
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21:12Nasdaq-listed Equinix has completed construction of the first phase of a new data centre in Johannesburg, part of a R7.5-billion commitment to building cloud infrastructure in South Africa and the rest of the continent over the next five years. The company’s South African MD, Sandile Dube – a former country manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and…
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Lesaka’s Lincoln Mali on the fintech opportunity in South Africa
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22:16Lincoln Mali has been at the helm of Lesaka Technologies Southern Africa, a fintech with a sizeable footprint in Southern Africa’s informal markets, since 2021. One of his main tasks has been to turn the company’s finances around by reigning in business units that were haemorrhaging cash in the past. Lesaka’s latest set of financial results suggest…
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Switchcom and Huawei forge new alliance
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9:08Networking equipment wholesaler Switchcom Distribution has partnered with Huawei Technologies to bring new offerings to the South African market and elsewhere in Africa. In this episode of TCS+, Lynton Brits, national sales manager at Switchcom, and Tanki Lebatla, account manager at Huawei, tell TechCentral’s TCS+ business technology show about the…
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CYBER1 Solutions on choosing a managed security service provider
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48:52In this episode of TCS+, TechCentral speaks to CYBER1 Solutions executives Jayson O’Reilly, the company’s MD, and Akeel Sayed, head of its managed services division, about the benefits and challenges of using a managed security service provider (MSSP). The conversation starts by discussing the growing complexity of cybersecurity and the financial m…
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The Solly Malatsi interview - BEE, SOEs and Starlink
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43:00Communications minister Solly Malatsi, a DA MP and the first non-ANC politician to hold the key technology portfolio in the democratic era, has been in the job for three months – sufficient time to get a broad handle on the big issues. In this first interview with the TechCentral Show, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod asks Malatsi a range of questi…
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Hypa Fibre and its aspirations for the aspirational market
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8:34Hypa Fibre is a fibre internet service provider focused on underserved markets in South Africa’s townships. John Githinji, national head of sales at Hypa, which is a subsidiary of telecommunications provider Vox, tells TechCentral’s business technology show TCS+ that the company is using its presence in underserved markets to plug gaps beyond inter…
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Network Platforms' Warwick Ward-Cox – IP wrangler
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27:58Warwick Ward-Cox, chief technical officer at Network Platforms – a wholesale provider specialising in supporting internet service providers and IT managed service providers – is deeply immersed in the plumbing of the South African technology space, currently supporting over a 100 ISPs and MSPs. Ward-Cox, who has immersed himself in the world of tec…
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Donald Valoyi: South African on-demand e-commerce pioneer
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48:53Donald Valoyi saw the potential market for on-demand grocery delivery in South Africa early on, and his company Zulzi was a pioneer in the space. It even went on to help Shoprite Holdings launch the Checkers Sixty60 app. Zulzi was founded in 2013 as an “aggregator” of various shopping outlets to help consolidate online shopping for customers. Today…
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From gen AI to deepfakes – the latest infosec threats
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18:34Twice yearly, ESET publishes its Threat Report in which it unpacks the latest trends and developments in the world of information security. Adrian Stanford, group chief technology officer at ESET Southern Africa, is our guest in the latest episode of TechCentral’s TCS+, and he provides a succinct overview of the key trends identified in the latest …
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Bruce Mellado on the tech-led fight against air pollution in South Africa
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35:03South African scientists have launched a cost-effective air-quality monitoring system built using internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies. Bruce Mellado, professor of particle physics and director of the Institute for Collider Particle Physics at Wits University, is one of the key people behind the new initiative, which is aimed…
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TCS | Rebooting Cell C: Jorge Mendes sets out his strategic plan
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56:45Jorge Mendes has been in the hot seat at Cell C for just over a year, and the turnaround at the long-troubled mobile operator is starting to gain traction. In this episode of the TechCentral Show (TCS), Mendes sits down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod for a detailed interview in which he provides an update on what’s happened in the past year …
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Dominic Cull on why 'Fair Share' is a non-starter in South Africa
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26:45The big mobile network operators in South Africa “have never shown a willingness to … accommodate smaller players”, so the notion that they should be entitled to “Fair Share” is “difficult to swallow for smaller operators who have been at the end of their [unfair] business practices”. That’s the view of Dominic Cull, a leading specialist South Afri…
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Robert Jorge lifts the lid on Openserve's network
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36:47What does it take to build and maintain South Africa’s largest wholesale telecommunications network? Robert Jorge, chief network officer at Openserve, unpacks what is involved in this episode of TechCentral’s TCS+. In the latest in a five-part series of interviews with Openserve executives – you can find the other episodes in the series here – Jorg…
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How Betway parent Super Group profits from Workday
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28:49Super Group, the New York-listed parent of Betway and other online betting brands, has achieved significant gains in efficiency and productivity through its partnership with Workday, the cloud-based enterprise software company. The company has deployed Workday’s software, and Neil Greybe, its human resources information systems manager, tells TechC…
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Scott Gibson on his new role as Pragma CEO
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24:28Former Britehouse CEO Scott Gibson was recently appointed as chief executive of enterprise asset management company Pragma. He is the guest in this episode of the TechCentral Show (TCS). Gibson, who also previously headed Dimension Data’s (now NTT Data’s) global digital practice, tells TCS about his appointment and why he decided to join Pragma, wh…
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The past, present and future of Openserve, with CEO Althon Beukes
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37:11Openserve, South Africa’s biggest telecommunications infrastructure provider, has been through enormous changes in the nine years since it became a separate brand and a subsidiary of the Telkom Group in 2015. In the latest podcast in a five-part series of interviews with Openserve executives, the company’s CEO, Althon Beukes, tells TechCentral’s TC…
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EP9: SACHIN vs ROCKFELLER vs VIJAY
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7:11Ever wondered why successful people have same habits? Let's listen!Oleh toastmasterspodcast1
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All of us would have cried for something or the other. May be due to extreme emotions! But do you know, why we cry? Isn't it good to cry? Let's listen!Oleh toastmasterspodcast1
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ESP's Herman Maritz on Eskom's miraculous turnaround
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28:32Herman Maritz, one half of the pair that developed the ESP load shedding app (formerly known as EskomSePush), is grateful that Eskom may finally have load shedding licked – even if that means fewer people are using the app. Maritz, who returns to the TechCentral Show (TCS) – he was last a guest in 2021 – reflects on the past four-and-a-half months …
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Pushkar Gokhale on Openserve's digital strategy
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23:23Openserve chief digital and strategy officer Pushkar Gokhale is TechCentral’s guest in this episode of the TCS+ business technology show, where he unpacks the role of digital services on the Telkom subsidiary’s growth ambitions. Gokhale, who has worked for various telecommunications operators around the world, came to South Africa more than a decad…
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Angus Hay on Africa Data Centres' big Samrand expansion
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32:10In this episode of TechCentral’s business technology show TCS+, Africa Data Centres regional executive for South Africa Angus Hay discusses the significant upgrades taking place at the company’s Samrand facility in Gauteng. Africa Data Centres is in the midst of a major upgrade cycle at the facility known as JHB 2. The colocation facility, which is…
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How Openserve learnt to love 'open access'
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22:23In this first in a series of interviews with Openserve executives, TechCentral’s TCS+ speaks to the company’s chief commercial officer, Phila Dube, about its business model, how it works with partners and why it has embraced the concept of “open access”. Openserve, which is a subsidiary of the Telkom Group, is South Africa’s biggest telecommunicati…
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