The soul-destroying Twitter outages and more recent SEACOM broadband disruptions notwithstanding, the team at the AfricanTechRoundup.com has been extremely busy since we properly got 2016 on the go. So busy in fact, that my co-host, Tefo Mohapi, was unable to join me on the show this week due to an important work-related commitment. (Heads up… This week’s episode will be uncharacteristically short.)
Tefo was invited to be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Who Are We? (Africa) event to share some of the important learnings he and the team at iAfrikan are gleaning from the data they have so far collected through the Report Xenophobia initiative.
Following the depressing discussion we had last week around the on-going exploitation of children working in cobalt mines in the DRC— by leading tech producers like Apple, Sony and Samsung, it’s encouraging to see how technology, diligently harnessed, can truly help improve the quality of human life on the continent.
On a lighter note, I was interviewed by SABC Network’s Siphumelele Zondi and asked to talk about the simple steps we all can take to protect our social media accounts from malicious attacks. This followed the embarrassing posting of semi-nude pics via South African Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula’s Twitter account this past week— an event the minister wrote off to his account being hacked.
Do check out that interview below (start watching at 11:40mins):
Andile's Take 
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