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• TCS | Frogfoot sees bigger fibre deals coming

  October 8, 2026 · 41 min

  Frogfoot plans to keep buying smaller fibre network operators in South Africa’s suburbs as the market consolidates, but CEO Shane Chorley stopped short of ruling out a sale of the business. “I’d be ignorant to say that we would ignore any…

• Meet the CIO | Vodacom’s Mohamed Sami on the agentic future

  October 5, 2026 · 45 min

  Mohamed Sami, group chief information officer at Vodacom, says autonomous AI agents that resolve customer problems without handing them to a human are the next big shift in customer experience – and that it is closer than many…

• TCS | Norrsken22’s Lexi Novitske on how China is winning African tech

  October 1, 2026 · 29 min

  Chinese 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, meanwhile, is pulling…

• TCS | Dominic White and Adam Ely on AI agents going rogue

  September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

  AI 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 this episode of the…

• TCS | Octotel’s Trevor van Zyl on the fibre merger question

  September 16, 2026 · 25 min

  Octotel 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 MetroFibre Networx are…

• Meet the CIO | Chris Shortt on what a supermarket becomes

  September 9, 2026 · 44 min

  Chris Shortt, chief technology officer at Shoprite Group, says the work of the next five years is meeting the customer at their point of need, wherever that is – and that this does not mean the end of the store. Speaking on TechCentral’s…

• Watts & Wheels | Rubicon’s EV charging network is profitable – and growing fast

  September 8, 2026 · 25 min

  The company runs 125 chargers and wants a thousand within five years, focused on urban hubs. -- Rubicon’s public charging network is profitable and grew usage markedly in two months as fuel prices spiked, the company’s e-mobility head…

• Watts & Wheels | Why electric trucks are beating electric cars to South Africa

  September 3, 2026 · 31 min

  South Africa has still not crossed 1% of new vehicle sales going to electric vehicles, well short of the 5% mark at which adoption typically accelerates, The Electric Mission executive director Hiten Parmar told TechCentral’s Watts &…