Driving Innovation through Digital Infrastructure and Platform Services
SENTECH is the premier wholesale and businessto-business provider of digital infrastructure and platform services, aligning with its mission of universal connectivity for digital inclusion. Our strategic business units and brands are dedicated to delivering operational efficiency and exceptional customer experiences. Sentech provides the following solutions:
Content Distribution Solutions
Leverage Sentech’s unparalleled Content Distribution Solutions for seamless broadcasting. With over 30 years of expertise, we ensure reliable access to TV and radio across multiple platforms. Our FREEVISION network, including DTH, DTT, FM Radio, and OTT, facilitates secure content delivery with multiplexing, encoding, and encryption services.
Benefit from our extensive network spanning 100+ sites nationwide, reaching over 14 million TV households and offering FM radio services to diverse communities. Experience universal access to digital broadcasting, even in remote areas, through our FREEVISION Direct-to-Home Satellite platform.
Connectivity
Sentech is committed to connecting households, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and communities across South Africa through a variety of means, including Satellite (VSAT), fixed wireless, and fibre optics. With plans to expand into 5G and cloud services, we’re actively involved in initiatives to connect 5.8 million households through open-access base stations and satellite connections.
Satellite Solutions
With over 30 years of experience in ground satellite operations, SENTECH boasts one of the largest teleports for broadcasting in the country.
We provide satellite capacity for broadcasting and broadband connectivity, along with telemetry services for data collection and transmission
from remote sources. Leveraging our expertise, we offer consultancy services on ground satellite operations.
Managed Infrastructure Business Services
Harness Sentech’s extensive infrastructure to bolster your network. With over 220 sites nationwide, our transmission towers offer unmatched coverage. Benefit from flexible leasing options, paying only for the services you need. Enjoy quick market access, bypassing the delays of site acquisition and construction.
Towers
With Sentech’s infrastructure, you can seamlessly connect your network, Repeater System, cellular base stations, or automatic information systems. Our transmission towers, strategically located across the nation, offer over 220 sites for expanding your networks, ensuring convenience and ease of access
Data Centres
With the High-Performance Computing and Data Processing Centre (HPCDPC), Sentech can provide access to surplus capacity in publicly funded data centres, enhancing our country’s data sovereignty.
Africa Business Services
Sentech is arguably the most recognised broadcasting signal distributor, not only in South Africa but also across the SADC and East Africa regions. Building on our reputation, we’re positioning ourselves to provide broadcast services and consultancy to African countries striving to establish themselves in the broadcasting sector. With satellite coverage extending to 100% of Sub-Saharan Africa, we’re facilitating content distribution and access across the region.
Furthermore, our partnerships with telcos beyond our borders underscore our commitment to investing in data centres and connectivity infrastructure for Africa’s digital inclusion.
Address: Sender Technology Park, Octave Street, Honeydew Postal: SENTECH, Private Bag X06, Honeydew, 2040
WhatsApp: 060 062 5458
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Call Centre: 0860 736 832
welcome note: RALF FLETCHER
CEO: Topco Media
Esteemed Innovators and Tech Leaders, Welcome to Sentech Africa Tech Week 2025, a pivotal gathering that shines a powerful spotlight on South Africa’s growing stature as a technology powerhouse on the continent.
As CEO of Topco Media, I am honoured to welcome you to a space where visionaries, disruptors, policymakers, and pioneers converge not just to share ideas, but to shape the digital destiny of South Africa and beyond. Our focus is clear: to accelerate South Africa’s role as a leader in African tech innovation. From fintech to AI, green tech to digital infrastructure, South African ingenuity is forging bold solutions to complex challenges and it’s being noticed on the global stage.
At Topco Media, we’ve championed innovation for over two decades, believing in the power of platforms like Africa Tech Week to elevate local talent, amplify impact, and ignite new opportunities. Partnering with Sentech for the fourth year, we are proud to create an environment where the brightest minds can collaborate to fast-track South Africa’s digital transformation.
The road ahead requires more than innovation it demands unity, urgency, and bold leadership. South Africa has all the ingredients to lead the next wave of tech growth on the continent: a dynamic youth population, a culture of resilience, and a hunger for progress. What’s needed now is connection between people, ideas, industries, and ecosystems.
Sentech Africa Tech Week 2025 is more than a conference. It is a call to action. A chance to build, learn, invest, and rise together.
Let us seize this moment to chart a bold course forward for South African tech. Let us collaborate, innovate, and create solutions that will echo across generations. Thank you for joining us. I hope you enjoy the conference and make new connections.
Ralf Fletcher CEO, Topco Media
The road ahead requires more than innovation it demands unity
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foreword: TEBOGO LESHOPE
CEO: Sentech
Sentech Africa Tech Week 2025, a dynamic platform where innovation ignites progress, and ideas evolve into lasting impact.
This moment is far more than a date on the calendar, it reflects who we are becoming as a continent. Across the region, we are witnessing the rise of a digitally enabled Africa, driven by the energy of young talent, the resilience of entrepreneurs, and the vision of leaders committed to long-term impact. We are not waiting for transformation, we are driving it.
At SENTECH, we are proud to stand at the forefront of this transformation. Our mission goes beyond technology as infrastructure, we see it as a powerful equaliser, a catalyst for inclusive growth and smarter communities. As we extend connectivity across South Africa and the continent, we are laying the foundations for a future where education, opportunity, and progress are accessible to all.
But access alone is not enough. True transformation requires meaningful participation. It means equipping people with digital skills, supporting SMMEs, and nurturing local innovation that thrives in both urban centres and remote communities. It means fostering ecosystems of opportunity, not just laying cables but building futures.
Our commitment to universal connectivity for digital inclusion is directly aligned with Africa’s Agenda 2063 – The Africa We Want: a continnt that is integrated, innovative, and interconnected. We believe the path to this vision lies in collaboration, with government, industry, academia, civil society, and entrepreneurs. Only together can we harness
the full power of technology to bridge the digital divide, grow smart cities, and create jobs for the next generation. Africa Tech Week is not just an event. It is a space to challenge the status quo, deepen partnerships, and ignite sustainable progress. It is a time to imagine boldly, act purposefully, and lead with vision.
As we look ahead, let’s embrace the responsibility to shape a digital landscape that uplifts, includes, and empowers. The future belongs to those who innovate, collaborate, and lead with purpose, and Africa is ready.
Thank you for being part of this journey. Together, let’s power Africa’s digital revolution.
Chief Executive Officer
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Hon. Solly Malatsi
Marius Venter
Dumisa Ngwenya
Head of Research and Innovation, Sentech
Yaw Dwomoh
CEO, The Adhive Group
Gerhard Fourie
Channel Sales Manager, Nutanix
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Meet the visionary speakers, tech disruptors, and industry leaders driving innovation, transformation, and impact across the continent and beyond.
Itumeleng Segaloe
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Sentech
Shannon Naicker
Chief Innovation Officer, The Adhive Group
Hannes Wessels
General Manager, Binance
Nomahlubi Ogoh
Chief Information Officer, Sentech
Tamu Dutuma
Head: Strategy & Transformation at Absa Regional Operations, Technology
Dr Patrick Narbel,
Steven Tshehla
Managed Infrastructure Business Portfolio Manager, Sentech
Muhammad Ali Bhikha
Managing Executive and Chief Information Officer, Absa Regional Operations
Andrew Middleton CTO, GoSolr
CEO, GoSolr
Terrance Naidoo
Chief Product Officer, LexisNexis
Maha Jouini
Vice President, Agence Francophone et Africaine de l’Intelligence Artificielle (AFRIA)
Rita Sibanda
Digital Transformation & CX Leader, Cadena Growth Partners
Akhil Boddu
Co-Founder & COO at Zaio Institute of Technology
Beverley Schafer
Director of Technology Law, DML Law
Co-Founder, Pula Management
Senior Associate, ENS Priyanka Raath
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Rishard Baderoon
Founder, SoSecure Group
Prof. Moses Azong Cho
Chief Scientist and Research Group Leader, CSIR
Bruce Mkhaliphi
Co-Founder & CEO, Fivvopay
Peter Mafagana
Acting CTO, Broadband Infraco
Dr Sarah Babb
Co-Founder and MD of Stimm
Vinesh Maharaj
Associate Director, PWC
Kobus Louw
Founder & CEO, Digemy
Chief Technology & Information Officer, Infrastructure SA Abdul Kader Baba
Dr Angus Hay
Regional Executive South Africa, Africa Data Centres
Personal Finance, Old Mutual Ajen Mothee
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Data and AI Specialist, Google Cloud Manav Daby
WiTech Africa
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Ziaad Suleman
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Tauriq Brown
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Ricardo Canovi
Director & Country Manager, Kocho
Ian Merrington
Group CEO, UVU
Shoeshoe Qhu
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Reza Suleman
Lead/ Digital & Innovations, Africa International Advisors
Matthew Leisching
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Ntando Sicam
Technology Delivery Lead, Accenture
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Vuyisa Qabaka
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Topco is a leading research and publishing company in South Africa that specialises in business-to-business content and events.
With over 20 years of experience, we evaluate 10 000 of the top companies annually through eight publications and 13 major events, recognising the most successful based on criteria such as empowerment, policies, growth, turnover and CSI. Our business-to-business focus area is unmatched by any other company in terms of experience and expertise.
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