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Minister Solly Malatsi sits down with Lebogang Langa to talk about what governing a digital economy actually requires, when the technology moves faster than the frameworks built to contain it, and the infrastructure it runs on is largely owned elsewhere. The conversation moves through the National AI Policy withdrawal and…

What does it actually cost to lead at scale? Not the version you see on LinkedIn; the real one. The loneliness. The pressure to perform strength even when you're breaking. The feedback that forces you to look at yourself honestly. Nomonde White is a multi-award-winning technology executive serving as Managing…

Your personal data is sitting inside institutions you trust; banks, telecoms, technology companies, being processed, protected, and in some cases misused, in ways most people never see and rarely question. Amenda has spent her career being the person responsible for what happens to it. A former litigator who found her…

What does it mean to build an agricultural system that is not just more efficient; but more just? In this episode of Let's Talk Data, Lebogang Langa sits down with Faith Burn, Chief Technology and Operations Officer at the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa. Faith has led…

Most banks are still tinkering at the edges. Bank Zero bet everything on building differently. Behind that bet is a technology leader who has spent decades learning not just how to build systems, but how to build the judgment to know which system to build. Gita Daya is CIO of…