So, government is considering merging Broadband Infraco and Sentech. This makes little sense and suggests the ANC is so blinded by its ideological opposition to privatisation that it won’t make decisions that are patently in
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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.
We’re not doing the usual interview format in this episode of the TechCentral podcast, but rather bringing you a very important teleconference press call with SAP executive board member Adaire Fox-Martin, who will be jetting into South Africa on
The CSIR has been appointed to conduct a high-stakes audit to determine how much radio frequency spectrum should be reserved for government’s planned wholesale open-access network. Government
Corrie de Jager, a Pretoria-based lawyer, joins Duncan McLeod in this episode of the TechCentral podcast to talk about a ground-breaking invention that, he believes, will literally change the world. De Jager, with a team
SAP, the giant German maker of enterprise software, has found itself ensnared in a scandal involving the Guptas that risks spiralling out of its control. If it believes it is innocent of the serious allegations levelled against it
Liquid Telecom, the company that recently acquired South African telecommunications operator Neotel, said at the weekend that it has been successful in its new capital raising exercise, securing $700 (about R9.4bn) in a bond
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod is joined by Sun Circle Group MD Simon Robinson to chat about the upcoming Mediatech Africa show at the Dome, plus, of course, all the week’s technology news. In the podcast
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to ZA Central Registry CEO Lucky Masilela about the .africa geographic top-level domain. Masilela talks about the complex, years-long process involved
Cape Town has taken an early lead among South Africa’s three new geographic top-level domains (gTLDs), with Durban trailing in third place behind Johannesburg. The not-for-profit ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which was established
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Matthew Talbot, global CEO of BBM (you may know it better as BlackBerry Messenger). The service is now owned by Indonesia’s Creative