No Free Lunch With Greg Stewart

In this episode of No Free Lunch, host Greg Stewart speaks with Evan Jones, CEO and board member of Collective X, and Rudi Dicks, who leads the Project Management Office in the Private Office of the President. The conversation focuses on how South Africa can create large numbers of work-ready jobs for young people, especially through demand-led digital skills programs and quality workplace experience.

In This episode of the No Free Lunch Podcast, Greg Stewart chats to Richard Frost, Head of Technology Solutions and Consulting at Armata Cyber Security.The discussion’s central message is clear: AI assistants and connected devices can create real business risks when they collect, process, or expose information without adequate controls. Richard and Greg explore how organisations can use AI while protecting sensitive data, and why preparation matters as much as prevention.

This week's No Free Lunch Podcast, provides a level headed view of AI developments in a discussion between his Greg Stewart and Professor Anné Verhoef of Nort West University. The discussion examines the recently released allegations that a swarm of AI agents acted independently to escape a test sandbox, coordinate with one another and hack Hugging Face, and what sensible AI development should look like.

Dr Ryan Noach’s career is anything but conventional. From emergency medicine and helicopter rescue services to senior leadership at Netcare, Discovery Health and now DNI, his journey reflects a consistent appetite for entrepreneurship, innovation and meaningful societal impact. In this engaging conversation with Greg Stewart, he explains how his experiences shaped a broader mission: expanding connectivity, affordability and digital inclusion across South Africa and the wider African continent.

n this episode of No Free Lunch, host Greg Stewart speaks with Hariprasad Vishwanathan, COO for Sub-Saharan Africa at VFS Global, about why international travel is becoming more difficult in some parts of the world, while African countries are simultaneously moving toward more open and accessible travel systems.

In this episode of No Free Lunch, Greg Stewart speaks with Brendon Thorpe, CEO and co-founder of X Tenure, about the fast-growing health tech sector and the role artificial intelligence can play in making cancer screening more accessible, more targeted, and more affordable. 

The conversation centres on a key challenge in modern healthcare: how to identify the people most at risk early enough to intervene, without relying on expensive blanket screening for everyone.

In this episode of No Free Lunch, Greg Stewart chats with Shaun Durandt, Head of Business Development at PayJoy, about how affordable smartphone access can help unlock earning potential, Learning access and business opportunity across African markets. The discussion explores the scale of the smartphone gap in Africa, the business model behind PayJoy’s responsible lending approach, and why access to mobile technology is now central to education, entrepreneurship, healthcare, and everyday communication.

This episode of No Free Lunch explores the rapid growth of South Africa’s ICT and small business sector, with a particular focus on the funding challenges faced by SMEs working on larger projects. Host Greg Stewart is joined by Andrew Keggie, Chief Information Officer at Lula, a Cape Town-based fintech that provides working capital and business banking solutions for SMEs. Together, they unpack the forces driving growth in the sector, the financial pressures that can limit expansion, and the role of flexible funding in helping businesses scale.

Host of No Free Lunch – Greg Stewart interviews Simon Ellis, the co-founder and CEO of JEM, an innovative AI driven South African Startup, following the company’s announcement of an $8.4 million Series A raise. 

Our conversation traces Simon’s path from accounting and corporate work in London to entrepreneurship, while also exploring how JEM became a fast-growing workforce platform serving frontline and deskless employees across South Africa and beyond.

In This episode of No Free Lunch, Greg Stewart chats with Wesbank CEO, Robert Gwerengwe, about the major shifts in the Automotive industry today and what this means for vehicle financing and ownership costs.

The vehicle and asset finance industry is undergoing a major transformation, and Robert Guerengwe, CEO of WesBank, believes the pace of change is only accelerating. In our discussion, he outlined how South Africa’s automotive market is being reshaped by new brands, shifting consumer expectations, and the rise of electrification.