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.
South Africa’s wealthy Oppenheimer family is investing in the country’s technology sector. E Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in a venture capital fund run by Cape Town’s 4Di Capital. The Oppenheimer investment – the value is not being disclosed – will
Telkom has appointed Attila Vitai as MD of its mobile division, which includes Telkom Business Mobile and 8ta. The appointment is effective immediately. According to Telkom, Vitai “brings a wealth of experience with a successful 20-year track record of senior
Build it and they will come. That was the overwhelming message emanating from the first FTTH Council Africa conference in Cape Town this week. Speaker after speaker made the case – often cogently – for why any capacity that gets built will be used
Telkom now has sufficient directors on its board to elect a new chairman. This follows the appointment of Jabulane Mabuza and Kholeka Mzondeki as directors of the telecommunications operator. Telkom’s board was thrown
Communications minister Dina Pule’s technical adviser, Roy Kruger, said on Tuesday that selling 20% of Telkom’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp would have amounted to “giving away” a fifth of “our country’s asset” and was a “rubbish” deal. He also
Communications minister Dina Pule has moved quickly to distance herself from comments made by her technical adviser, Roy Kruger, at a telecommunications conference in Cape Town on Tuesdaym saying she “learnt with regret” of his remarks
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa run the real risk of missing an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline of June 2015 to complete migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. This will come at an opportunity cost
The South African government must be careful not to crowd out the private sector as it moves to increase the penetration of broadband services in the country. This is the warning from Dimension Data Africa and Convergence Partners chairman Andile Ngcaba, who was
When we reviewed Samsung’s first Galaxy Note a year ago, we wondered whether it was the best phone ever made or whether the Korean electronics giant was playing some sort of elaborate practical joke on its customers. The thing was just so big
Vodacom has lifted its interim dividend by 36,5% to R3,55/share on the back of a strong financial performance, particularly in its non-South African operations, in the six months ended 30 September 2012. Outside South Africa, Vodacom’s
