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Réan van Niekerk Metacom has spent 25 years designing its own routers and running private networks for some of Africa's biggest retailers, without a cent of venture capital. In this episode of the TechCentral Show...
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TCS - The TechCentral Show
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The TechCentral Show (TCS, for short) is a tech show produced by South Africa's leading technology news platform. It features interviews with newsmakers, ICT industry leaders and other interesting people.
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What is TCS - The TechCentral Show about?
The TechCentral Show (TCS, for short) is a tech show produced by South Africa's leading technology news platform. It features interviews with newsmakers, ICT industry leaders and other interesting people.
Who hosts TCS - The TechCentral Show?
TCS - The TechCentral Show is hosted by TechCentral. The show has published 150 episodes to date.
What has TCS - The TechCentral Show covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Cape Town firm quietly connecting Eskom, Pep and 6 000 ATMs" (23 October 2026, 36 minutes), "Drones, AI and the future of warfare, with Milkor's Daniel du Plessis" (13 October 2026, 39 minutes), and "Norrsken22’s Lexi Novitske on how China is winning African tech" (1 October 2026, 29 minutes).
How often does TCS - The TechCentral Show publish?
TCS - The TechCentral Show publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 150 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on TCS - The TechCentral Show?
Booking probability for TCS - The TechCentral Show is 44%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. TCS - The TechCentral Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. TCS - The TechCentral Show's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 13, 202639 minS0Milkor's 380 drone is flying for a customer in the Middle East, but South Africa's own defence force has yet to buy one. In this episode of The TechCentral Show (TCS), Milkor vice-president for Africa Daniel du Plessis...
Oct 1, 202629 minS0Chinese companies have built their position in African technology one layer at a time – first phones and telecoms equipment, then fintech and now the AI models that local start-ups build on. American private capital...
Sep 29, 20261h 26mS0AI agents are no longer a thought experiment for security teams. They are breaking out of test environments, hacking real companies and, according to one of our guests, already going rogue inside large businesses. In...
TCS - The TechCentral Show
Octotel’s Trevor van Zyl on the fibre merger question
Sep 16, 202625 minOctotel CEO Trevor van Zyl joins the TechCentral Show to talk about where South Africa’s fibre market goes next – including a potential merger with MetroFibre Networx. Van Zyl told TechCentral that Octotel and...
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Aug 14, 202622 minS0Amazon’s Leo satellite constellation is coming to South Africa in 2027 through Herotel. TechCentral deputy editor Fanie van Rooyen speaks to Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha about Evry, the brand that will sell Amazon Leo to...
Aug 12, 202646 minS0Steven Boykey Sidley has been a chief technology officer at a Fortune 500 company, a private equity investor, a videogame designer, a jazz musician and, for the past four years, a professor of practice at the University...
Aug 7, 202646 minS0Specops Software’s Darren James explains why identity checks alone no longer stop determined attackers. Traditional approaches to access security no longer hold up in hybrid, cloud-first environments – and AI is...
Jul 31, 202643 minS0ADG’s Cliff de Wit on why the next management challenge is overseeing teams of autonomous software agents. Not long ago, organisations were experimenting with generative AI to draft e-mails, summarise documents and...
Jul 23, 202626 minS0Optasia will distribute more than US$6-billion in credit across its markets in 2026 – and it carries every cent of the default risk itself. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, CEO Salvador Anglada unpacks how the...
Jul 2, 202623 minS0Pick n Pay has switched on an AI shopping companion called Penny inside its asap! app, and in this episode of the TechCentral Show, retail executive for omnichannel Enrico Ferigolli takes editor Duncan McLeod through...
May 18, 202638 minS0South Africa has fewer than 400 public electric vehicle charging stations – up from zero just 15 years ago – and EV adoption remains stubbornly slow. Yet Charge, formerly known as Zero Carbon Charge, is betting big that...
May 4, 202637 minS0AI Diagnostics, a Cape Town-based med-tech company that has built an AI-powered stethoscope designed to detect tuberculosis, recently raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round. In this episode of the...
Apr 15, 202638 minS0The pace at which artificial intelligence is reshaping the threat landscape is outstripping the ability of most organisations to defend themselves, with shadow AI, synthetic identity attacks and a looming quantum...
Apr 7, 202653 minS0Award-winning South African film director Donovan Marsh has pivoted to artificial intelligence filmmaking and believes generative AI tools could fundamentally reshape how movies are made – and who gets to make them...
Apr 1, 202622 minS0MTN South Africa has launched Pi, a digital-only mobile operator that runs on MTN’s network but operates as a standalone brand, offering contract-free mobile and home 5G connectivity through a single app, with no call...
Mar 27, 202628 minS0The South African Post Office has been in business rescue – a form of bankruptcy protection – since July 2023. Business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons have made it clear to parliament that the...
Mar 5, 202640 minS0Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing how work gets done, it’s rewriting the rules of business. Organisations are scrambling to redefine processes and job descriptions, while employees are grappling with new tools...
Feb 10, 20261h 22mS0The fourth episode of TechCentral’s electric motoring show, Watts & Wheels, covers a packed news agenda, two vehicle reviews and an in-depth look at the 2026 South African Car of the Year semi-finalists. The episode...
Jan 20, 202630 minS0...This corrects an audio issue with the previous version... South Africa’s automotive industry is in a state of flux. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen unpacks the...
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