Author: Duncan McLeod

South Africa’s largest online retailer, Naspers-controlled Takealot.com, is said to be planning a Gauteng customer collections centre located on the N1 bridge at New Road in Midrand.

Government will move with haste to ensure that spectrum suitable for building 5G wireless broadband networks is released to operators and has vowed to avoid repeating the delays in licensing spectrum for 4G.

South Africa can complete the migration from analogue to digital television within a year, provided government adopts a mix of satellite and terrestrial broadcasting, according to eMedia Holdings CEO Andre van der Veen.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Andre van der Veen, CEO of e.tv and Openview parent company eMedia Holdings on South Africa’s long-delayed digital terrestrial television migration project.

Less than a year after a severe data breach affected data centre provider Hetzner, the company has disclosed to its clients that their details may have been compromised in another “security incident”.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Shaun Dippnall, co-founder of the Explore Data Science Academy, on the launch of Explore 10X, a programme to develop new fintech businesses in South Africa.

Meet the CEO is a regular feature on TechCentral. Our latest interview in the series is with Réan van Niekerk, CEO of Metacom.

South Africa’s biggest videogaming expo kicked off at the TicketPro Dome in Johannesburg on Friday, and runs until Sunday. TechCentral visited the event. This is a selection of the best photos of what we saw.

This week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg bring you the TalkCentral podcast from the Rage expo taking place in Johannesburg this weekend.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews newly appointed EOH Holdings CEO Stephen van Coller on the group’s disappointing 2018 financial results and how he plans to turn the situation around.