T2S2
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Deepfake audio is very real and very dangerous, with Check Point's Sergey Shykevich – T2S2
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is what you’re hearing really real? Deepfake videos have gotten a lot of attention (especially after it happened to Taylor Swift) but more troubling...
Wheeling and dealing with Open Access's Gerjo Hoffman – T2S2
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most important new technologies in our renewable energy future is one you've probably never heard of. Called wheeling, it is the way th...
Streaming over mobile is the new entertainment, with MTN’s Jason Probert – T2S2
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of South Africa's youth don’t watch a TV set. Why should they? They have a mobile entertainment console in their hands that can access the ...
Building rockets with Workday's Sayan Chakraborty –T2S2
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer on interplaneta...
How mobile video use is evolving, with MTN’s Jason Lobel – T2S2
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many millions, a mobile phone is their only computer and their only screen. Jason Lobel, MTN South Africa’s head of video, wants to get streamin...
PayShap should be free, says TymeBank CEO Coen Jonker – T2S2
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PayShap is the biggest thing to happen in banking in South Africa, if it is done right, says TymeBank’s co-founder and group CEO Coen Jonker. The ne...
Welcome to "Spotify for textbooks," with MTN's Jason Probert and Thabiet Allie – T2S2
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of buying expensive textbooks, which learners are stuck with, what if you could “rent” them? Calling it a "Spotify for textbooks,&quo...
Families that play together, stay together. Or why gaming matters – T2S2
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gaming is still a fundamental way us humans interact and hasn't always been on a high-tech console, MTN’s gaming geeks tell Stuff editor-in-chie...
Solving SA's power problems, with Hohm Energy's Matthew Cruise – T2S2
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Going solar” is the catch phrase of the year. Again. But how do you tell the shysters from the bone fide solar installers? And how do you get fin...
How SA is solving its own power problems, with Syntech and Gizzu – T2S2
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
South Africans are good at solving problems. With extreme load-shredding, we’ve started finding alternatives in true “n boer maak ‘n plan” sty...
Going solar's rewards and hazzards, with Elite Energy's Chris Liebenberg – T2S2
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With rolling blackouts hitting stage 6, insurance companies have stopped insuring against some Eskom-related claims. But, if your home solar system wa...
How payments have moved past the credit card, with Nedbank CIO Fred Swanepoel – T2S2
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Smartphones have taken over many other functions from other devices, including, most recently, most people’s wallets. Is the end of the credit card ...
How did a grocer become a bank? Shoprite financial services GM Jean Olivier – T2S2
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not only has Shoprite won the first round of the app delivery wars, its quietly been offering banking to its customers. How did a grocer evolve into s...
Identity is the new security perimeter – T2S2
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The newest frontier in the fight against cyber criminals is identity, Nedbank’s Vickus Meyer tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. As S...
Financial inclusion starts with being able to make payments, with Google’s Paul Mayanja and Nedbank’s Mutsa Chironga – T2S2
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 accelerated the way people use digital platforms to do the things we used to do in real life. As people upgraded their tech skills, it was al...
Why super apps are the way of the future, with Nedbank’s Vishal Maharaj and Moya.app’s Gour Lentell – T2S2
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Changing consumer behaviour and a lack of storage means people are turning to so-called super apps like Nedbank’s Avo and Moya.app. There apps provi...
The future of payments is contactless with Nedbank’s Chipo Mushwana and Pasa’s Ghita Erling – T2S2
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now that our smartphones have become the centre of our lives, the way we pay for things has completely changed. I was in New York in May and London in...
FedGroup's Grant Field on the little financial services engine that could – T2S2
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For a time, FedGroup's investment app was the top downloaded app in South Africa. When it launched it was a revolutionary way of investing in bee hive...
Author Michael Vlismas on writing Elon Musk’s new biography – T2S2
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did a bullied introverted Pretoria schoolboy become the world’s richest person and arguably humanity’s greatest change agent? Michael Vlismas,...
How Discovery Insure is making people better drivers and saving lives – T2S2
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After convincing South Africans to be healthier through its Vitality programme, Discovery took this shared-value incentivisation idea to car insurance...
TymeBank SA CEO Tauriq Keraan on the neo-bank's international expansion - T2S2
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Having successfully launched in South Africa, and with an imminent launch in the Philippines, TymeBank is looking for further international expansion....
Yoco CEO Katlego Maphai on growing a payments business in Africa – T2S2
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai launched Yoco with three friends in October 2015. From a year-long beta with 500 merchants, they are now adding 10,0...
GSMA's Max Cuvellier on fintech's remarkable rise in Africa – T2S2
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Cuvellier’s not-insubstantial day job is head of mobile for development for the GSMA. But that’s not what he’s talking to Stuff Studio’s e...
African fintechs raise $1bn in $2bn record year for startups – T2S2
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015 Disrupt Africa began publishing its annual African Tech Startups Funding Report. Since then says Disrupt co-founder Tom Jackson, African tech ...
Netstock CTO Barry Kukkuk on providing SMEs with data science to manage their inventories – T2S2
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Netstock.co is the biggest new thing you’ve never heard of. This innovative South African company, which was bought in 2020 to a US private equity f...
Tencent Africa CEO Brett Loubser on AI and art – T2S2
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“If I played you a track of music, could you tell if it was composed by a human or an artificial intelligence,” Tencent Africa CEO Brett Loubser a...
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub on M-Pesa and mobile money in Africa – T2S2
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2007 in the most unlikely of places, a new era began for how us humans performed one of our most important activities: making payments. Until...
Moya's Gour Lentell on his remarkable #datafree app and business model – T2S2
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moya is often mistakenly compared to WhatsApp, the mega messaging app, when the more apt comparison is super app WeChat. Although its CEO Gour Lentell...
How Eskom se Push became South Africa's most useful app – T2S2
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When two geeks tried to solve their own frustrations around rolling blackouts, they created a now-indispensable app called Eskom se Push. It now tells...
Legendary investor Ameya Upadhyay on “baking” African unicorns – T2S2
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As investments lead for Flourish in Africa, Ameya Upadhyay has been helping build African unicorns for a decade. His acumen is as impressive as his su...
Startup legend Erik Hersman on how BRCK and Moja are bringing free internet access to Africa – T2S2
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arguably the most important step in digital and financial inclusion is getting people online in the first place. The largest provider of free public w...
Sim Tshabalala, gentleman banker on Africa’s burgeoning fintech industry – T2S2
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sim Tshabalala is a modern-day Medici. Appearing like a conventional banker in his immaculate suit and tie, he's a deep-thinking man who understands t...
How Nigerian fintechs like Flutterwave and Lidya are flourishing – T2S2
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a valuation reportedly of $3bn, Nigeria's Flutterwave is one of the most successful – and inspiring – startups in Africa. Stuff Studios edito...
Standard Bank's Arno von Helden on how to Shyft digital banking – T2S2
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fintech app Shyft won a prestigious innovation award from global banking organisation Efma in Barcelona in 2016 before it even launched. The innovativ...
Naspers Foundry has invested $8.3m in innovative insuretech Naked – T2S2
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Naked's clever app took the insurance industry by storm when it launched, offering a fully digital way for consumers to insure their cars and homes. M...
Visa SA head Aldo Laubscher on how transactions are evolving to “plastic with a digital feel”
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Visa South Africa country manager Aldo Laubscher tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak that despite Covid and its effects, the last two ye...
Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter – "coal has no learning curve"
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andre de Ruyter is the most important businessman in South Africa today. If the Eskom CEO can’t deal with its debt, its notorious inefficiency, and ...
Shoprite innovation chief Neil Schreuder on how Checkers Sixty60 won the app delivery wars
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Checker's Sixty60 delivery app was the hands-down winner grocery delivery was of Covid. Even before lockdown, I was a regular, and very happy, user of...
Michael Jordaan on Bank Zero's launch
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deep insight into the plumbing of banking and no legacy business model enable the latest challenger bank to offer zero fees and other canny innovation...
Chris Anderson on TED
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Anderson runs TED, arguably one of the most interesting companies in the world. It's a global phenomenon, presenting interesting talks on a rang...