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Let's Talk Data

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Let’s Talk Data is a platform where Lebogang aims to empower professionals and enthusiasts by simplifying complex data concepts, sharing industry insights, and fostering a community passionate about the impact of data in decision making and innovation.Solid Gold Podcasts #BeHeard Economics
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  • Leading Through Complexity Without Losing Yourself | Nomonde White

    Leading Through Complexity Without Losing Yourself | Nomonde White
    May 29 2026
    What does it actually cost to lead at scale? Not the version you see on LinkedIn; the real one. The loneliness. The pressure to perform strength even when you're breaking. The feedback that forces you to look at yourself honestly.

    Nomonde White is a multi-award-winning technology executive serving as Managing Executive and Chief Information Officer for Group Compliance at Absa Group, where she leads enterprise-wide technology strategy across compliance and regulatory platforms in a complex, multi-jurisdictional banking environment. Previously CIO at Bidvest Bank, she was recognised nationally for strategic leadership and high-performance team building, earning multiple top honours at the 2024 CIO South Africa Awards. Beyond her corporate mandate, she serves as Chairperson of Wired4Women, championing the advancement of women in technology leadership.

    In this conversation, she talks about what digital transformation actually means when it's measured by whether it changes someone's life. She talks about AI without the hype or the fear. She talks about what psychological safety really looks like; and what silence in a room tells you when it isn't.
    And she talks about the things leadership conversations usually avoid. The sacrifice. The loneliness. The moment a team member's tears made her recalibrate everything. Why no is a full sentence. And what it means to lead without losing yourself.

    Leading Through Complexity Without Losing Yourself. Nomonde White on leadership, vulnerability, and what matters most.
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    53 mins
  • Privacy, Power, and Accountability| Amenda Makhetha-Sebake on Privacy, Trust, and the Gap Between Law and Reality

    Privacy, Power, and Accountability| Amenda Makhetha-Sebake on Privacy, Trust, and the Gap Between Law and Reality
    Apr 29 2026
    Your personal data is sitting inside institutions you trust; banks, telecoms, technology companies, being processed, protected, and in some cases misused, in ways most people never see and rarely question.

    Amenda has spent her career being the person responsible for what happens to it. A former litigator who found her way into data privacy before most organisations knew they needed it, she has built privacy functions from scratch across telematics, telecommunications, and financial services and today leads data privacy at one of South Africa's most significant financial institutions.

    In this conversation, she is candid about where most South African organisations really are on POPIA compliance and it is not where they say they are. She talks about the difference between cybersecurity and data protection that even senior professionals confuse, what privacy by design actually looks like inside a data engineering team, and why the growing economy of buying and selling personal data is something the regulator is struggling to contain.

    She also asks the question that sits underneath all of it: in an age of generative AI, where your information is already out there in ways you cannot reverse, is privacy still something any of us can genuinely control? Or has it become, as she puts it, a facade?

    This is not a compliance conversation. It is a conversation about power, who holds your information, who benefits from it, and who is actually accountable when something goes wrong.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Data, Land, and Justice | Faith Burn on Building Agriculture That Works for Everyone

    Data, Land, and Justice | Faith Burn on Building Agriculture That Works for Everyone
    Apr 21 2026
    What does it mean to build an agricultural system that is not just more efficient; but more just?

    In this episode of Let's Talk Data, Lebogang Langa sits down with Faith Burn, Chief Technology and Operations Officer at the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa. Faith has led technology across some of South Africa's most complex organisations - Eskom, Novartis, Tsebo, and now Land Bank. In this conversation, she speaks candidly about the digital divide facing rural farmers, the ethics of agricultural data ownership, and what it would take for South Africa to move from talking about inclusion to actually building it.
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    48 mins
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