Author: Toby Shapshak

Toby Shapshak is editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff, a Forbes senior contributor and a columnist for the Financial Mail and Daily Maverick. He has been writing about technology and the internet for 28 years and his TED Global talk on innovation in Africa has over 1,5-million views. He has written about Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian in London. He was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans. He has been featured in the New York Times. GQ said he "has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."

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Chris Froome on his Tour de France chances

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The Tour de France is the hardest cycling race in the world – even if it has been sullied by the disgraced Lance Armstrong era of doping – and is the pinnacle of athletic achievement just to compete. High-tech equipment will get you only so far, then natural ability, stamina, teamwork and a passionate intensity to succeed are needed. This year’s favourite, Chris Froome, has all of these – as well as coming second and winning bronze in the time trial at the Olympics last year – and has spent his off-season in South Africa, honing his preparation. The humble,…

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Chris Froome aims to sweep clean at Tour de France

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A decade ago, Chris Froome was watching Lance Armstrong competing in the Tour de France from his boarding school, St Johns in Johannesburg, and dreamt of doing the same. “I was 17 and I was fixated on it. I was in awe of the ambience of the crowd and the mountains. I had that ‘Wow, I’d love to do that one day’ feeling. That was the pipe dream but I never really – until recently – thought it would come true,” he recently told the Guardian, about the first time he saw the much-maligned, doping scandal-tainted Tour de France. Froome,…

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