Author: Duncan McLeod

Reshaad Sha is leaving Liquid Telecom Group, where he has served as CEO of the South African subsidiary since 2018, to start his own venture in the field of artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com will hire 3 000 people in customer service in South Africa this year, the e-retailing and cloud computing giant said on Thursday.

In this podcast, TechCentral is joined by Alen Ribic, co-founder of SweepSouth, the on-demand home cleaning company that last year raised R30-million in a funding round from Naspers.

South Africa will further relax lockdown regulations, with cinemas allowed to re-open, subject to stringent rules, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised address on Wednesday.

Telkom warned on Monday that its full-year headline earnings per share will fall by as much as 70% as a collapsing fixed-voice business, fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and costs associated with job cuts hit hard.

Mike Sharman, founder of digital marketing agency Retroviral, joins TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod for a chat about MatchKit.io, a new website builder aimed at sports professionals.

South Africa’s biggest annual videogame expo, rAge, has been cancelled for 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s the first time the event has been canned in the 18 years it’s been running.

MultiChoice Group has decided to carry competing streaming television services on its upcoming Explora PVR because the broadcaster wants to position itself as a “super aggregator” of content.

In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Tamir Shklaz, founder of Insupply, an online marketplace built to help connect buyers and sellers of personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 crisis.

Despite a good performance in its ICT segment, Reunert experienced challenging trading conditions in the first half of its 2020 financial year, with its Electrical Engineering segment adversely impacted.