{"id":2519,"date":"2024-03-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.jcred.co.za\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2024-03-17T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:30:00","slug":"uncomfortable-conversation-with-thoriso-rangata-on-tech-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/2024\/03\/17\/uncomfortable-conversation-with-thoriso-rangata-on-tech-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Uncomfortable Conversation&#8221; with Thoriso Rangata on Tech Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this iAfrikan BYTES episode, Thoriso Rangata, Founder &amp; CEO of KTO Digital, delves into government procurement challenges: ineffective systems, slow payouts, and urgency issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Tech Terrain Talks: Uncomfortable Conversation with Thoriso Rangata\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4Cam6kurELyD9PX9mOvchd?si=QSIh1CLJRq2MfYWzHdpFrA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alliances are formed, obstacles are surmounted, and success stories are documented in the vibrant world of African tech entrepreneurship. In this episode of the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast series, Thoriso Rangate, the founder and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kto.co.za\/?ref=iafrikan.com\"><strong>CEO of KTO Digital<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0joins us. Thoriso describes how it can be difficult for African businesses, who are frequently referred to as &#8220;Tenderpreneurs,&#8221; to get into the corporate-as-client scenario. Thoriso discusses the methods and difficulties he encountered in building KTO Digital into a reputable supplier of business solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-button  root-eb-button-br7rj\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-button-br7rj\"><div class=\"eb-button-wrapper eb-button-alignment eb-button-br7rj\"><div class=\"eb-button\"><div class=\"eb-button-inner-wrapper\"><a class=\"eb-button-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/iafrikan.com\/iafrikanbytes48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See Full Article<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this iAfrikan BYTES episode, Thoriso Rangata, Founder &amp; CEO of KTO Digital, delves into government procurement challenges: ineffective systems, slow payouts, and urgency issues. Alliances are formed, obstacles are surmounted, and success stories are documented in the vibrant world of African tech entrepreneurship. In this episode of the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast series, Thoriso Rangate, the founder and\u00a0CEO of KTO Digital,\u00a0joins us. Thoriso describes how it can be difficult for African businesses, who are frequently referred to as &#8220;Tenderpreneurs,&#8221; to get into the corporate-as-client scenario. Thoriso discusses the methods and difficulties he encountered in building KTO Digital into a reputable supplier of business solutions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-cred.co.za\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}