Field notes
An operator writes up one problem and how the team solved it. Short, specific, reusable.
About
NexTechSA is a technology platform for South African practitioners. Not analysts. Not resellers. The people who carry the work.
South African technology coverage falls into two buckets. Global headlines rewritten for a local audience, or vendor announcements printed as news. Neither tells you how the work gets done here.
Meanwhile the actual expertise sits quiet. The engineer who kept a national platform up through load shedding. The team who rebuilt a control room after a breach. The architect who made a distributed network hold across five countries on a thin budget.
Those people have more to teach a young South African engineer than any keynote from abroad. NexTechSA exists to publish them.
Every piece answers one question. What would you tell a peer over coffee, with the marketing team out of the room.
Founder
Thirty three years in enterprise security, AI video analytics and infrastructure programmes. Consulting and Development Director at Excellion Group.
He has spent his career on the delivery side of large technology programmes across South Africa and the region, which is where the idea for NexTechSA came from. The best stories he heard never left the site.
What we publish
An operator writes up one problem and how the team solved it. Short, specific, reusable.
Long conversations with people running significant South African systems. Edited for clarity, never for comfort.
A technology, a deployment or a failure taken apart in public so the next team avoids the same cost.
Arguments about where South African technology should go next, with the reasoning shown.
Write for us
If you have run something demanding in South African technology, we want it on the record. Send a paragraph on what you would write about.