Dimension Data SA chairman Andile Ngcaba is quietly building a new type of telecommunications business under his Convergence Partners investment vehicle. From satellites to undersea cables
Browsing: Duncan McLeod
TalkCentral episode 34 is good to go. In this week’s pre-Easter long weekend special, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones talk about Telkom’s Jeffrey Hedberg to join Craig Venter’s Altech as group chief operating officer
SA and Africa have never had it so good. Almost every month brings news of some or other big broadband project. The latest, a plan to build a high-capacity cable between Brazil, SA and Angola, will bring terabits of new
TechCentral held its first pub quiz on Tuesday evening. The event, with Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou acting as quiz master for the evening, was a huge success. More than 80 geeks — and a few non-geeks
TechCentral has launched a new technology interview segment on the Tech@Work television show, broadcast every second Tuesday evening on channel 410 on DStv. In our first segment, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod talks to
The playground battle between Vodacom and Cell C over the latter’s new advertising campaign is a signal of something altogether more interesting than them throwing marketing dirt at each other: competition in
It’s Friday again, and that means it’s time for the latest episode of TalkCentral, the business technology podcast brought to you by the editors at TechCentral. In this week’s show, we look at former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig’s
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod has been named ICT Journalist of the Year at the second annual Telkom Classic Business journalism awards. McLeod won the award for a series of columns published on TechCentral and
On Sunday evening, DA political strategist Ryan Coetzee held a “town hall meeting” on Twitter. It went off rather well, and the party plans to host them weekly. It’s clear social media are becoming an important new electioneering
It’s April Fool’s Day, Paint the Town Red Day and National Cleavage Day, all rolled into one. Somehow we manage to weave all of these into this week’s episode 31 of TechCentral’s business technology podcast, TalkCentral