Five Huawei-branded stores have been closed after an ugly dispute over non-payment allegedly amounting to millions of rand to a local partner of the Chinese consumer electronics giant. Nisaar Ally, owner of Fantastic 1 Mobile, which
Author: Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
In the penultimate episode of TalkCentral for 2017, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg delve into the week’s big technology news, including Amazon Web Services’ deal with Teraco. Also this week, they look at Asher Bohbot’s
In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Sonny Fisher, founder of the Forus Holdings, a company that hopes to reinvent the financial services industry using blockchain technology. The Forus Global Digital Exchange (Forus is pronounced
Telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna said on Tuesday that government does not want to destroy South Africa’s big telecoms operators, despite strong objections to draft legislation that the
Government has not given up on a plan to enforce network neutrality rules on South African operators, despite there being no reference to the controversial subject in the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill
Telecommunications operators, Internet service providers and other interested parties have been given a little more time to provide feedback on government’s planned radical changes to legislation governing the ICT sector. The proposed
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to the regional MD of Mimecast, Brandon Bekker. Many TechCentral podcast listeners will no doubt have heard of Mimecast, which specialises
Free Market Foundation executive director Leon Louw has skewered planned amendments to legislation that governs South Africa’s ICT sector, saying the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which will introduce a wholesale
The CEO of the State IT Agency received death threats after he initiated an organisation-wide crackdown on corruption. But Setumo Mohapi has vowed he will press on with plans to clean up the government agency
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to Setumo Mohapi, CEO of the State IT Agency, about the crackdown he is leading on corruption at the agency and his plans to transform it